The Scarecast

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A nighttime story with a happy ending is what we were used to as kids, but as we grow older, we realize the world is not such a happy place after all. MaddMike, a popular horror story narrator that originated on YouTube, started a podcast, The Scarecast, to tackle the real horrific experiences of people all across the world. From crazy encounters meeting people on Craigslist, creepy pizza deliveries in the middle of nowhere, to individuals encountering evil spirits that follow them wherever they go, this podcast doesn’t have many happy endings, but rather, tales that will terrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat. With over a hundred episodes, this podcast will surely take you for a ride.

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  • cecil_11
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  • riahnmolls
    👍🏽
    no complaints. I really enjoy this podcast! I do, however, miss the longer stories. I also would love to see more fiction/reddit stories again!
  • Reddy2roc
    So good and to the point.
    I listen to this podcast every day and night I think it’s my favorite type of lullaby podcast. lol great podcast though seriously. Thanks for sharing your
  • victoriaskittle
    That voice!
    I could listen to this all the time. The episode with his cousin is the best. I hope she comes back!
  • jocro23
    BEST scary story podcast I’ve found!
    Thanks to Madd Mike, I haven’t been able to sit through a whole episode of ANY other scary story podcast, because none compare to this man’s voice. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten goosebumps listening to these! My favorite would have to be “someone else is living my life,” or the “new Target” one! But they are all SO good. I love binging them in the car or while I’m grooming at work. Keep it up, Mike! YOU DA BEST.
  • David so am an SSH at
    I LUV THIS
    First the guys voice is awesome 👏 it makes the whole story more interesting and creepy and he gets the best stories my fav one is probably mr Jim but there is so many others I seriously LOVE please make more podcasts sooon
  • not a nutter
    Love it
    I love the captivating stories and the narrator’s voice. Good find to add to my library!
  • GabbyT04
    Great podcast
    I love Mike as a narrator, this is a great listen. The bad reviews must have been on crack, don’t listen to them. Keeps me intrigued every time I listen.
  • Jenn481222
    Listening
    To episode 131 a story about Santa Clarita toward Palmdale. I’m in Newhall(Santa Clarita) as I type. I live in Palmdale. I can’t tell you how many stories I have about these canyon roads. 2 years of commuting so many different canyon roads. I believe the story teller 100%
  • Ella S. Stone
    Entertaining!
    I enjoy this podcast. It’s becoming a standby for me to frequent when I want something to listen to while I’m working. The content is scary enough without giving me nightmares. Keep up the awesome work, Mike! Thank you for your great content.
  • gameboy43146
    Best scary podcast
    I love how scary it is and how it gives me chills and has me looking over my shoulder every 5 seconds it is just a good podcast whatsoever highly recommend it
  • lostproductivity
    Intelligently creepy & deep
    Despondently brilliant and awesomely narrated. I don’t know what _____ & uptights are trashing you but the emotional heaviness and fear you put into everything is awesome, someone experiencing the story without overacting. I gave another, pompously, droningly catty horror podcast a try and coming to this is like splashing into an oasis. Your voice goes well through everything in a lively way compared to the other narrator just getting cattier in the good parts. No need to change. If some of the things someone sniped about are your upbringing, be proud. You sound talented and dedicated to me.
  • clailuj
    Great show
    Great example of an average person working hard and making a podcast. Keep up the good work!
  • Stryker1144
    Unbearable delivery
    The monotone drop at the end of every sentence just like YouTubers is absolutely unbearable. Was really hoping to find a podcast more like THEORIES OF THE THIRD KIND and this is NOT it
  • SuperchickMG
    SOOOOO MANY GRAMMATICAL ERRORS!!!
    First of all, who ever read the 2nd & 4th story in #79 - PLEASE NEVER LET HIM READ AGAIN!!!! He was HORRIBLE!!! It was hard to understand what he was even saying - & it had nothing to do with him being British - it was the cadence that he read it with. It was like a terrible off-key tune. Or like nails scratching on a chalkboard. I canNOT stress enough how very HORRIBLE HE WAS!!! Also, maybe it’s just me, but ….. Michael ….. I think that if you are going to be a podcaster, you should learn how to speak / read properly. There are SO MANY grammatical errors throughout, that I cannot list them all. {There are several in just about EVERY story.} But … here are a few that are truly annoying: Mispronouncing of words {paste-ure instead of pasture, celine instead of saline, defer instead of differ, ana-moored instead of enamored, etc - in the 1st story of se6 ep 2, you somehow read ‘cackling hAels’ instead of what the author wrote, which was ‘clacking high heels’ - NO IDEA what happened there.🤦} / Putting extra es/ed sounds at the end of plural / past tense words, ie: lists-es, guests-es, liked-ed, told-ed, etc. {For goodness’ sake - GUESTSES IS NOT! A!! WORD, SWEETIE!!!!!} / Re-reading the same line twice, & not even realizing it {or skipping words or a line entirely} / Your reading cadence is off - for example, you pause in weird places. Lol it almost sounds like Captain Kirk talked on Star Trek sometimes. I'm sorry, & I'm not trying to be mean, but if you are an adult, & if English is your first language, then you should know better than to still speak this way - ESPECIALLY if you are going to do it publicly. Honestly, it's not hard to speak properly. It is embarrassing to us & you know exactly what I mean. Most of the stories are interesting & some are even scary; but the grammatical errors & mispronunciations ruin it sometimes. ps ~ I can’t even consider contributing to your Patreon until you read without the mispronunciations & grammatical mistakes & I’m probably not the only one.
  • mamaV gives thumbs up
    Hard to listen to
    Interesting stories but the sound of the narrator’s voice is awful
  • Jazzyjazz79
    I love Creepy things
    I love all things that go bump In the night … my bed time stories … sound asleep 👻😴
  • MaddieS01
    Favorite Spooky Podcast!
    I love listening to this at work. Keeps me entertained while i work!
  • G00gles
    Q
    Amazing narration. Gives me chills every-time
  • Meg364
    Love It!
    I’ve listened to every episode and always look forward to your new stuff. I have really enjoyed the stories you have written yourself as well as the ones from others. I really hope you put out more material. I understand that you have a job and that this isn’t full time for you, but I really love the show! It makes my drive to work and from so much better! Thank you!
  • Jason H from Virginia
    This was a fun podcast until it got political
    I always loved listening to this podcast and before that when he was on YouTube but now that it’s getting lefty political about drag shows with a clearly fake story, I’ll just find another podcast to this one to listen to.
  • harveycleaves
    DISAPPOINTED
    I always LOVED this podcast and couldn’t wait to listen. Lately it’s been so inconsistent. One or 2 a month! Makes me want to delete it from my subscribed podcasts. If u take time off great just let your listeners know. Then when new content came out it was entirely different than the last stuff released. Much shorter episodes with stories that made no sense and no real ending. Idk where these stories come from but I’d suggest going back to what you put out a couple years ago. It always made me excited to listen to the next episode. Now I skip over it and if can’t find anything else to listen to or only have a 10-15 min drive I’ll turn it on, but honestly most times I end up turning it off. Truly disappointed
  • tmd200
    Love!!
    Really enjoy this podcast. I love the narrator’s voice and the way he reads the stories.
  • Jhopp2313
    Fantastic little podcast
    Love the narrator’s voice. Great podcast with great stories, it certainly helps me get through my long work days.
  • tiffanyanne90
    Best Scary Stories Podcast
    I’ve been a listener since this was on YouTube. All the episodes are awesome, and narrated great! The production is always good too, he puts a lot of effort into this podcast. Even the collaborations are good too! I listen to this on road trips, while at work, and when I’m cooking or cleaning. It’s a great listen every time. Especially the Disńey content!!
  • feyc_1211
    Obsessed
    The stories are so scary and creepy! Exactly, what I’ve been looking for ❤️ I’ve tried a few podcast that are “scary” but weren’t at all like bodychills such a waste of time, now this one is amazing!!!
  • Wheres the beach
    Season 6!
    I truly am enjoying this season. You just keep getting better and better with your story. My favorite spooky podcast. Keep it up Mike!
  • julianm99
    Amazing
    Love the podcast! I love the ghost and spooky encounters people come on and tell about their experience and I love how you have your episodes set up! Keep it up bro
  • Amazing, yet terrifying
    Great stories!!!
    The stories are creepy and send me chills down my spine, and I think the best part about that podcast is the stories are finally scary! I’d always hear dumb stories like from a camp fire, but I finally hear actually good scary stories from this podcast! Keep up the good work, and have a good day.
  • Sowrdmand
    The scare cast
    These stories are perfect for me. I really enjoy the episodes. Keep in making them!
  • FortekMusic
    Unique stories!
    It doesn’t just give you run of the mill ghost stories it has all kinds of things that scare people.
  • nita pug
    Scary movies the grandma and the lady that saw something on a roof
    I really enjoy that short story I was so in these cause I do not watch scary movies so here and it wasn’t that scary but it was reallyBut I enjoyed it very much thank you
  • lovelyjasmin
    THE BEST!
    💛💛
  • nic--olas
    ♾% bingeworthy
    Dude your voice is terrifying and amazing! The only way I can listen to this, is when I know there are people in the house and I’m not alone. 😎Love this podcast SO much. Keep em’ coming!
  • Maverick546890
    Great Podcast needs to look for story’s elsewhere
    This is an amazing podcast dude does great voice acting on his own. Only problem I have is he overlaps a lot of story’s with another podcast I listen to with much higher production quality and sounds like higher budget. While I don’t have a problem with the lower budget on this podcast I love the stories. But for the episodes you overlap with the other podcast I usually listen to them on the other podcast just because they do it quite better. So I end up not listening to a bunch of your episodes because to be honest you guys share a LOT of episodes. So it would be awesome if maybe you started getting stories elsewhere so I’m able to fully support you and listen to more episodes.
  • Supajazz22
    Love His Style
    One of my favorite podcasts to listen to. Recently found it so I started listening to it beginning to end. Kinda funny how he had a country accent at the beginning of the show and now doesn’t in the more recent episodios🤣
  • Ronny2424
    I miss the old stories.
    Mike you are very talented. I am a normal 38 year old father, I don’t listen to many podcasts I am not social media or YouTube. I like sports, etc. My point is I really enjoy listening to your podcast, it’s the best I’ve found, and I hope you don’t stop doing it. You have a great voice, and you tell a great story.
  • stubby. jr.
    True Love
    I absolutely love this podcast. It is the best.
  • aushni
    Love this show!
    I love listening to episodes as soon as they come out and can’t stop listening start to finish
  • KrisWolfe
    The best
    Best podcast ever I can’t find another that can even compare. I look forward to new episodes all the time. I’m so happy to have found this podcast. I’ve listened to it for years. I have listened to every episode available on here. I only wish there was more.
  • diana 1229
    great stories
    i just found this podcast and after 3 stories, i’m hooked. i found myself stopping mid-task in suspense and horror waiting to see what would happen. i guess i’ll be busy for a while - binge listening to 160 episodes!
  • ASH7729
    Amazing podcast!
    I’ve been listening to this podcast for at least 6 years or so, and I’ve never had a chance to write a review or let Mike know how much I LOVE this podcast! I’m usually a scaredy cat when it comes to horror, so I listen to it during the day! Lol! I love Mike’s calming yet spooky way of telling these stories. I love the little details in the background like, the unsettling music, voices, and creepy sounds! Please keep up the amazing work!
  • nico✨LAS✨
    10/10 would binge again!
    Mad Mikes voice is absolutely scary and I find it amazing how he can scare anyone so easily. I’m listening to this while drawing and it gives me so much inspo. Definitely recommend this podcast. 🧑🏽‍🍳👌🏽love this
  • eminem or m and m
    Tatakae
    When I was a kid, I would imagine scary stuff in bed and just hide under the sheets. I missed those days, now I’m doing it again because of this podcast. It feels so great to be scared again
  • Nofxch1ck
    Enjoy this podcast
    A new favorite!
  • Creativlyinsane
    Thank you!
    Most podcast get on my nerves… either too much talking or annoying voices. This is one I’m really enjoying, I listen everyday at work. Keep it up!!
  • King miner651
    Very nice
    Magnifique! 10/10 chefs kiss! Mwa!
  • Ayyotayylo
    Highly recommend!!
    Just came across this podcast, so glad I found it. You’re spooky, you get right into the tales, and keep my attention. Thanks for what you do! I have a bunch of binging to do. 😊
  • Daughtrybug
    Awful and unoriginal
    Since I’m all caught up on all of my other horror pods etc. I’ve been trying to find new pods. This narrator has horrific pronunciation. Cello, pronounced SELL-O … I’ve skipped through years of the show hoping it who’d get better. It didn’t. It would be different if it was an occasional mistake but it multiple mistakes per episode and not all of them are “subTell” (SUBTLE). You can hear these same stories told correctly on other pods.
  • Maddie my son
    Love it
    I really really love your story’s I always listen to them and color while I draw and stuff
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