Rattled & Shook

Episode 64: Meredith and Aprile reunite for the holidays! It's a Christmas miracle. Here's a review of the top stories we featured on Rattled & Shook in 2024, per all of your input. Aprile and Meredith also discuss the horror-thriller movies they watched this year. Have a spooky holiday season. <3 Updates: For personal life/health reasons, Aprile will be stepping back from mic, for the time being. Rattled & Shook will be taking a holiday break, as we reset for the new year, and the show will return with some fun changes. Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Hosts: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman & Aprile Ruha (!!!) Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Meredith Stedman (Tesla), Aprile Ruha (White Nightgowns), Paul Brown (Stone Tablet) and Nathan Hadden (Kanab). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 63: Meredith is joined by the multi-talented "beer personality" Caroline King from the Bitch Beer podcast. Together, they listen to a couple of spooky stories whilst sampling themed beers. Cheers y'all. Beers: Southern Tier's Pumpking, Creature Comfort's Koko Buni, Monday Night Brewing's Death Raptor Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Special thank you to Lucie Tiger @lucietigermusic for reading her dad's story "Fingal Island." Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Caroline King @bitchbeerofficial Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Miles Agee (Pile of Leaves). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 62: Meredith is joined by the lovely Emma Ozenbrook from the Real Life Ghost Stories podcast. Emma tells her own (can you believe it) real-life-ghost-story taking place at an old Irish asylum. Chills. Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Emma Ozenbrook @reallifeghoststories Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Sean Nerny (Smirking Ghost). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 61: Meredith is joined by jack-of-all-trades, Matt Frederick, one of the hosts of the podcast, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know. Together they discuss time as a physical structure, tea brands, the C-word, and very old donkeys. Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Special thanks to Court, our second storyteller, for their true & trippy story! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Matt Frederick @conspiracystuffshow / @mattfrederick_iheart Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Meredith Stedman (Tea Room Glitch). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 60: Happy Thanksgiving! This true, listener-submitted horror story includes a Thanksgiving night with a dark visitor. Maybe check out your family demons before inviting your new boyfriend home this holiday. Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 59: Meredith is joined by Maggie Freleng, host of the podcast, "Wrongful Conviction" for a couple of stories about real life CREEPS! They also debate: would you rather see a ghost or an alien? (Let us know.) And we reveal a few simple tips and tricks for how you too can get a pulitzer prize. Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Thanks to Catherine and our second storyteller for sending in their harrowing stories. <3 Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Maggie Freleng @maggiefreleng Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Meredith Stedman (Black Truck). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 58: Meredith is joined by Rodney Barnes, host of the podcast, "Run, Fool!" for a couple of stories about ghosts and grief... and a discussion about all things horror. Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Rodney Barnes @therodneybarnes Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Alex Furness (Crows) and Laura Lockwood (Photo Album). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 57: We're talking creatures and cryptids today with Laurah Norton (The Fall Line, One Strange Thing). Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Laurah Norton @laythemtorest Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set Both storytellers in this episode are the people that experienced these stories! Special thanks to Robert (Maryland Wolfman) and Brandon (Manhunt)! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 56: Ayyy Beatty's back as a guest host. In this episode, Meredith and Beatty discuss scary, cryptiddy monsters, sleep paralysis, and halloween costumes, as they compete for who has fewer friends. Happy Halloween, slags. Special thank you to John for the story, Brainer Bridge! Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Beatty Smith @beattysmith Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 55: On this episode, Meredith is joined by former juggler and good friend from back home in New Orleans, Katherine Ellis (aka Concordia Shawarma McGraw from KCRW's "Important Things of Great Importance"). Together they discuss juggling and various spooky and unsettling stories sent in from their beautiful home city/state. Special thank you to Candi Kaine for the story, Card Shuffling! Go check out her TikTok page, @candikaine (The Pretty Spooky Show)! Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Host(s): Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman Guest: Katherine Ellis @imkatherineellis Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Caroline Beagles (Scrabble) and Meredith Stedman (Pillowcase Mask). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 54: On this episode, host Meredith is joined by guest Payne Lindsey to tune into and discuss some eerie ALieN StOriEs. Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Meredith Stedman (Humboldt County UFOs). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 53: On this episode, Meredith plays a couple of stories set at haunted attractions. She's also joined by two real-life zombies (and friends) Tristen Bankston and Cameron Tagge, to talk about the life of a scare actor behind the seasons. Also Youtuber Craig Benzine (WheezyWaiter) pops in to talk about his new haunted-house-slasher movie "Haunt Season" from Epic Pictures, out on digital now! And we begin a new segment we like to call: Meet-Spook. Please send in your creepiest meet-cutes for a chance to be featured, ya freaks. Note: Aprile is still on a hosting break! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Robyn Unger (Pushed By a Ghost) and Laura Lockwood (Lake Shawnee). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 52: On this episode, host Meredith is joined by her good friend (hopefully?) and fellow writer & creepy-gothic-enthusiast, Beatty Smith. The stories are themed accordingly-- mostly creepy, gothy, vibey stories, based in the UK. Pretty scary innit? Okay, we'll stop saying that now. Note: The lovely & illustriouous Aprile is still on a break, but she'll be baaack. :) Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Philip Mullany & Jack Chapman (Downside Abbey), Jordan Blair (Desecrated Well) and Nikki Levitt (Taken Away by Kind Strangers). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 51: Welcome back to Rattled & Shook!! This episode is themed in honor of BAGMAN, a new horror movie starring Sam Claflin, hitting theaters on September 27. Rattled & Shook host Meredith Stedman tunes into several stories that are "Bagman-themed," drawing on childhood fears. ANNND we welcome special guest, Sam Claflin himself. Note: Aprile is still on a break, but she'll be baaack. Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Jocelyn Moore (Stick Figure) and Miles Agee (Footsteps). For ad-free listening, subscribe to Tenderfoot+ at tenderfoot.tv/plus To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rattled & Shook returns with all new episodes on September 26th. Join us weekly for more creepy stories, just in time for spooky season. :) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 50: BEDTIME STORIES (MINI-SERIES) As part of our summer mini-series, Rattled & Shook host Meredith reads a true, listener-submitted scary story about a girl who has an unsettling encounter with a man in a parking lot... never a great start to any story... Shout-out to Molly for the story! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 49: BEDTIME STORIES (MINI-SERIES) As part of our summer mini-series, Rattled & Shook host Meredith reads a true, listener-submitted scary story about a young couple that finds their retro, dream home... with perhaps a little too much connection to the past... Shout-out to Ashley for the story! Check out Rattled & Shook's instagram for her photo evidence. :) Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 48: BEDTIME STORIES (MINI-SERIES) As part of our summer mini-series, Rattled & Shook host Aprile reads a true, listener-submitted scary story about a woman who has a terrifying experience during her late-night lock-up duties... Shout-out to Gwen for the story! Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 47: BEDTIME STORIES (MINI-SERIES) As part of our summer mini-series, Rattled & Shook host Meredith reads a true, listener-submitted scary story-- a cautionary tale to all you Tesla drivers out there. And it begs the question: are our smart cars maybe a little too intuitive for our own good... Shout-out to Taylor C. for the story! Check out Rattled & Shook's instagram for her photo evidence. :) Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 46: Hosts Aprile and Meredith tune into several stories that might make you rethink venturing into the great outdoors this summer... and yes, it's our Season Finale and we're going on hiatus, but DO NOT FEAR. We will be back soon enough with regular episodes. PLUS we will be dropping a special summer series on the feed as well :) Follow us for more @rattledandshook or send us a message from rattledandshook.com Original artwork by Puppyteeth Intro voicework by Miles Agee Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set This episode features voicework by Aprile Ruha (Nightwalk), Meredith Stedman (Rollerblading), and Miles Agee (Massachusetts Woods). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices