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Episode 215 As we move into the dog days of summer and try to keep social distancing and wearing masks, the Big Scary Show continues to bring you all the news, information and entertainment you’ve come to expect. Hang in there for a few more weeks and maybe, just maybe, the weather will start turning cooler and our minds will definitely be turning towards Halloween. Storm will be ranting on about unsolved mysteries and more in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim shares with us burial practices in Romania.  Badger brings you the latest information in Deadline News. The Haunt-Strumentalist Jerry Vayne spins a trio of rockin’ tunes to keep you moving during build season.  And Vyshter continues his countdown on ‘The Horror of it All’. Speaking of build season, the Roundtable of Terror talks to three home haunters about how they get ready for the Halloween season. It’s an interesting conversation that even sends Meathook Jim strolling down memory lane.  If you’re already checking out t

Episode 214 As we enter into July and anxiously keep our fingers crossed about haunt season 2020, the Big Scary Show is keeping you up to date on everything. Badger brings you the latest in Deadline News, Storm rants about haunts canceling their seasons this year in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim talks about burial practices in Germany, and Jerry Vayne brings us a trio of tunes to keep you mind on Halloween as you keep building, painting, clearing out, and readying your haunts for Fall. Vysther continues his countdown with part 3 of “The Horror of it All”, and there’s a brand new Gruesome Giveaway for July. Let’s see if YOU can be a winner this month. The Roundtable of Terror talks with three new haunt owners going into their second year of ownership in what looks to be a very interesting season. If you’ve ever considered opening a haunted attraction, this would be a good Roundtable to tune into. All this, plus so much more. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice just b

As Summer approaches, the (g)hosts are gathered around the Roundtable of Terror, deep in the dungeons of the Big Scary Show studio, where we have offered up seats to the three 20+ year veterans of the haunt industry.  John Denley, Ricky Dick, and Cliff Martin join us to share stories, overcoming hardships, and doing what it takes to run a lasting haunted attraction. Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants on, in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim looks at Scottish Funeral Rites in Between the Corpses, The Hauntstrumentalist spins the spooky tunes, and Vysther is back with Part 2 of the Horror of it All. And Now you can find us on many more podcast outlets, Including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and even on Amazon Alexa We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to… The Big Scary Show   Featured Music: Audio Zombie – Apparition Demented ar Gogo – Welcome Back to Insanity Hall Dr. Frankenfingers – An Unholy Citadel

Episode 212 As we continue to hunker down and ride out the pandemic, as well as dealing with nationwide protests and rioting, is there ANY good news that a haunter can look forward to? The answer is absolutely “YES”. Last weekend the Salt Lake Fear Factory in Salt Lake City, UT ran it’s ‘Halfway to Halloween event and many people in the industry are waiting to find out how it went. Owners Heidi and Rob Dunfield and manager Spencer Terry sit down with the 4 (g)hosts at the Roundtable of Terror to discuss what went right and what…didn’t If you’re a haunt owner, you NEED to listen to this very important conversation. Badger is reading the latest in Deadline News (including the loss of a haunt legend). Storm is ranting about haunted castles and wolves in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim is talking about burial practices in Ireland, and the Haunt-Strumetallist Jerry Vayne spins some VERY cool tunes to keep your spirits up. Vysther’s back with the Haunted Vista, and there

Episode 211 World Goth Day was May 22nd, and the (g)Hosts dimmed the lights, threw a black tablecloth over the Roundtable of Terror, and invited a quintet of goths to share the goth subculture, how it influences the Haunted Attraction Industry, and some the culture’s practice.  Join Valtinen Kari, Amanda Revenge, Meghan Kochersperger, Caitlin Gleason, and Jeremy Reid on this decidedly gloomy ROT. Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants about Chad and Karen, in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim talks about Shakespearean funeral practices, while the Haunt-strumentalist spins the spooky tunes.  Vysther is off for the episode , but he promises to be back in two weeks. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to ………….. The Big Scary Show   Featured Music: Shadow’s Symphony – Beneath The Dark Verse 13 – The Souls That  Wander Virgil – Midnight   

Episode 210 As some states start to ease the Covid restrictions, the (g)Hosts are doing the right thing, staying home, staying healthy, and production more content for our awesome listeners! The Roundtable of Terror is all about the correlation between Heavy Metal and Horror, as we offer up virtual chairs to our guests, Ace Von Johnson of LA Guns,  Gereg Grimm of the Rhythm Coffin, and Scotty Scurvy of The Graveyard Boulevard.  We are also joined by special correspondent Vysther, and this ROT gives examples of why Horror and Metal go together so well. Badger and Meathook Jim also have an interview Unkle Pigors of Toxic Toons. Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants about scary creatures, in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim’s Between the Corpses is about changes in burial practices from The Black Plague(pandemic, anyone?) to the 20th century.  Jerry spins some spooky metal tunes, and Vysther’s Haunted Visa is a look back at Black Sabbath, Born Again. We hid the body, but you will become

Episode 209 It was 8 years ago on Friday the 13th of April, 2012, that the Big Scary Show went online, and for the 4 (g)hosts, things have never been the same. We’ve traveled the country (and Canada) seeing some amazing haunts, meeting some amazing people, and covering some amazing conventions. And we’re just getting started. Now during this time of uncertainty, we’re here to bring you important information about what’s going on in the haunt industry. But first…we celebrate. Storm discusses an innovative new way to celebrate Halloween 2020 in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim continues to discuss burial practices Between the Corpses. Badger reads the latest in Deadline News. Jerry Vayne spins the haunt tunes you know and love to keep Halloween in your mind. And Vysther reminisces on growing up in the Chicago haunt scene all those years ago. Speaking of Vysther, he and special correspondent Sylvia Vile (and even Mrs. Storm) join the 4 (g)hosts on the Roundtable of Terror as we look bac

Episode 208 While we’re all stuck in quarantine and hoping things improve soon, the Big Scary Show is there to keep you up to date, hopefully entertained, and most of all to remind you that the Halloween and haunt season IS coming…eventually. Badger reads you the latest in Deadline News, Storm rants in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim continues his series Between the Corpses, Jerry Vayne brings you some spooky tunes to lift your spirits, and Vysther’s Haunted Vista looks once again into the past. There’s also a Gruesome Giveaway for April and the chance to win a great prize. The Roundtable of Terror talks to 4 vendors affected greatly by the cancellation of Transworld 2020. Their stories are ones you need to hear. Please get out there and support ALL the vendors as best you can. We’re all in this together, and we as an industry need to take care of one another. We hid the body, but you’ll be an accomplice just by listening to…the BIG SCARY SHOW Featured music Grave Robber

New BIG SCARY SHOW – Episode 207 – Transworld, MHC, and the 13 Questions of DOOM As the world continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, Transworld has understandably been postponed until 2021 and the dates for the Midwest Haunters Convention have been moved back as well. As rumors still swirl about as to what to do and what’s next, we go straight to the source with Rich Bianco of Transworld who gives us the latest information about TW, MHC, and the NEW Transworld Virtual Reality website. Hopefully this will clear up many of the questions that haunters and vendors have had. Badger will bring you the latest in Deadline News, Storm will be ranting in a Haunt Minute about a VERY timely topic (you know what it is already), Meathook Jim talks about burial practices in Between the Corpses, and the Haunt-Strumetalist Jerry Vayne spins some appropriate tunes given what’s going on in the world. Vysther brings you his thoughts about “Monster Kids”. Plus, so much more. The Roundtab

Episode 206 Transworld may be postponed, but that doesn’t mean the Big Scary Show isn’t preparing for the haunt season. After all it’s only SEVEN MONTHS AWAY. Before you start to panic, take a deep breath, relax, and tune into the latest episode of the Big Scary Show. Badger will bring you the latest in Deadline News, Storm will be ranting in a Haunt Minute about a VERY timely topic, Meathook Jim brings you another Between the Corpses, and the Haunt-Strumetalist Jerry Vayne brings the rockin’ tunes to keep you in the mood, even though you’re not heading to St Louis (for the moment.) The Roundtable of Terror speaks with the one and only Dick Terhune, the ‘Voice From Hell,’ about making sure the advertising you put out there for your haunt is working for you in the best way possible. He knows what works and what doesn’t so if you own a haunt, you NEED to listen to this roundtable. Vysther brings you his retrospective on Ozzy Osbourne and there just might be a Grue

Episode 205 The Roundtable of Terror brings us a trio of Independent Filmmakers, and we get a bit of insight into the film making process.  Jaysen Buterin, Vanessa Wright, and Patrick Rea share their experiences in making an indy horror film. Badger visited the Oddities and Curiosities Expo, and brings us a 6 pack of interviews from the strange and bizarre. The Hauntstrumentalist spins a trio of spooky tunes from: Jet Noir – Let Us Prey Audio Zombie – Apparition Halloween – Her Ghost Comes Out to Play Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants on, in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim brings you unusual funeral practices from Colonial New England, while Vysther is back with a piece on the Sci-Fi classic, War of the Worlds. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to……. The Big Scary Show

Episode 204 February may be known as the month of love, but here at the Big Scary Show we love to visit conventions to bring you all the latest haunt information. Wicked Wendy brings us the last of our HAuNTcon 2020 coverage from New Orleans, and Badger is on the road in Atlanta talking to four separate haunts in Georgia as well as Joe Moe from Days of the Dead about their convention and his special opportunity to all you writers out there. Storm is ranting in a haunt minute. Meathook Jim brings you another topic Between the Corpses. Badger reads all the latest in Deadline News. Jerry Vayne spins a trio of spooky tunes to fire you up for Valentine’s Day. Vysther is back with a segment on the new Dracula TV series. Do we have a Gruesome Giveaway winner for February? Tune in to find out. Our Roundtable of Terror is all about Transworld as we bring in a couple of veteran vendors, a first-time vendor, and a first-time attendee to talk about what to expect at the biggest Halloween trade show of the year. And

Episode 203 has quite the international flair to it as our Roundtable of Terror goes overseas for our guests as we talk to haunters in England, The Netherlands, and Hong Kong. It’s a fascinating look into how different cultures celebrate Halloween and how it’s not considered an ‘American holiday’ anymore. Badger and Wicked Wendy were down in New Orleans for HauntCon and talk to many, many haunt owners, vendors, convention organizers, actors, and more. If you missed it this year, you can feel what it was like, (And maybe kick yourself for missing all the fun.) Remember, Hauntcon moves to Dallas, TX for 2021. Storm rants about a particular mascot in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim is talking about silicone masks Between the Corpses, Badger reads the latest in Deadline News, Jerry Vayne brings you another trio of spooky tunes as we count down towards our 8th anniversary. We gave Vyshter the night off for this episode, and there just might be a Gruesome Giveaway for the month of February. You

Episode 202 As the Chill of January has it’s icy clutches on us, we look forward to February, and the bloody hearts of Valentine’s Day. And who better to celebrate Valentine’s Day with, than Vampires! The 4 (g) hosts offer up chairs at the Roundtable of Terror to Alexis Ayrie Jones of the Tyler Area Vampire Ball, Ellie Oldfield with the Valentine’d Vampire Ball in Kittaning, PA., John Brannaka of the band Graven Image is putting on the Heavy Metal Slamboree in Bath, NY, and Rebeca Rose of the Lincoln, NE Vampire’s Ball Badge brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants, in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim discusses his favorite subject, Fear, and Vysther brings us a tribute to the late Neil Peart.  The Haunstrumentalist, Jerry Vayne rounds out the show with a trio of Spooky Tunes. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to…….. THE BIG SCARY SHOW!   Featured Music: Psychocharger – Channel 13 w/Unkle Pigors of Toxic Tunes 13 Pagan

BIG SCARY SHOW – EPISODE 201 – FreakShow! They say hindsight is 2020, but the Big Scary Show kicks off 2020 looking forward by refusing to slow down even after the holidays. It’s a new month, a new year, and new decade, and we’re eager to bring you all the latest that the haunt industry has to offer. Badger keeps you up to date with all the latest news, plus an interview with Joe Moe of the Days of the Dead conventions. As a bonus; he brings you an EXCLUSIVE offer for all you horror writers out there. Storm brings us a rant about flu shots and how they affect your haunt. Meathook Jim puts us Between the Corpses. Jerry Vayne spins us a trio of tunes by Jimmy Psycho and PsychoCharger. Vysther’s Haunted Vista is all about AC/DC. There may even be a Gruesome Giveaway regarding AC/DC. Want to win a great prize from Screamline Studios? Keep listening. The Roundtable of Terror will thrill, chill, and amaze you as we bring you a pair of sideshow performers from none other than Coney Isla

It’s hard to comprehend but the Big Scary Show has reached Episode 200. Hard to fathom that when we started this mad experiment in 2012 that it would last so long, but yet here we are still plugging away. Since it’s the end of the year (and the decade) we’ve decided to bring you a few clips of some segments that we liked, forgotten about, or some that have never aired until now. Listen for (Super) Special Correspondent Tater, Nicodemus the Podcasting Cat, Elevator Confessions, Danny Trejo, The Sasquatch Circus, and much, much more. Thank you to ALL the friends and fans of the show who have kept us going all these years. Badger reads Deadline news, Storm is ranting in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim is bringing you another Between the Corpses, Jerry Vayne has put together FIVE Christmas songs from Midnight Syndicate, Vysther has another Haunted Vista, we might have a GG winner, and you might even hear some special holiday messages from the (g)hosts. The Roundtable of Terror is all about HAuNTcon

Merry Krampusnacht everyone! Everyone here at the Big Scary Show is celebrating the legend of the old Christmas Devil who punishes naughty children. We’ve invited several guests from Krampus Societies in Virginia, New Jersey, and Texas to join us at the Roundtable of Terror to talk about their various events and how Der Krampus is taking a major foothold in American culture. Badger has a chance(?) encounter with Meathook Jim at a wrestling event and talks to him about his ‘other’ podcast, Wrestlehorror, as well as delivering the latest news (LOTS of Krampus-related stuff). Meathook Jim talks about Scrooge in Between the Corpses, Storm rants about the current Peloton commercial in a Haunt Minute, and The Haunt-Strumetallist Jerry Vayne spins us the spooky tunes. In addition, Vysther gives us his Haunted Vista and there might even be a Gruesome Giveaway question hidden in this show. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice just by listening to….THE BIG SCARY SHOW! Featured Musi

October is in the rearview, Thanksgiving is around the corner, and Christmas is on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have spooky stuff to talk about! The Roundtable of Terror is about Christmas Haunts, as we chat with Travis Boling of American Horrorplex and Josh Smith of Stillwell Manor. Badger brings us interviews from the Legendary Haunt Tour, Including Ben Armstrong, Jeremy Kenly, Heather Peters, John Laflamboy, Ed and Marsha Edmunds and Shannon Hopps. The usual segments are here with Badger’s Deadline News, Storm’s Haunt Minute, and Meathook Jim’s Between the Corpses, while the Haunt Rocker spins the spooky tunes We hid the body, and you will become an accomplice, just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW Featured Music: Transylvania Transport Co. – Suture Island Virgil – Lair of the Unknown Wednesday 13 – What the Night Brings  

And……just like that, POOF, the haunt season is over.  As many of us lament the end of the fun, the Big Scary Show tries to lighten the mood. The Roundtable of Terror is a reflection of the season, as the four (g)hosts sit down at the with special correspondents Eric Vysther and Sylvia Vile, as we look back and share some stories from the halloween season. Badger brings up interviews with Eddie McLauren and Sweet Dreams Scare House, as well as the latest Deadline News, Storm has an EXTREME rant, in a Haunt Minute, Meathook Jim has a few words to sick people putting razor blades in candy, on Between the Corpses, Vysther talks about the I Was aTeenage Monster Movies, while the Haunstrumentalist spins the spooky tunes We dug up the body, and we are looking for a fresh corpse to bury in it’s place. Featured Music: Creature Feature – American Gothic Jerry Vayne – Empty Inside Red Crow Design – Body Freezer

Episode 196 The Big Weekend for us haunter is here!  Badger brings us inteviews with Crazy Bob Turner, Lake Hickory Haunts, Relentless, and Midnight Syndicate. Speaking of Midnight Syndicate, the Hauntstumentalist is spinning a trio of their music, including: Welcome to the Carnival The Haunted Nursery Born of the Night The Roundtable of Terror brings a Gravestone  expert and one of the Gravestone Girls, Brenda”Petunia” Sullivan.  An interesting talk where we find out the meaning of some headstones and the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery Badger has the latest Deadline News, Storm rants about blue pumpkins, Meathook Jim talks about Halloween TV specials and Vysther has part 2 of his Halloween Hootinany We hid the body, and you will become an accomplice, just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW!