Tag: crime podcast

The First-Ever Halloween Podcast Playlist Creeps onto Spotify

October 28, 2019

Are you obsessed with paranormal activity and the occult? Or maybe it’s just the changing of the leaves and appearance of jack-o’-lanterns that puts you in the mood for scary stories? Wherever you fall, Spotify’s first-ever Halloween podcast playlist is here to help you embrace the spooky side of the holiday.

Curated by Max Cutler, founder and managing director of Parcast at Spotify, this playlist is guaranteed to leave you quaking in your boots. Explore ghastly tales from the Salem Witch Trials to urban legend, The Slenderman, and more as you prepare for All Hollows’ Eve.

“Halloween is the ultimate time of the year for skin crawling tales. Everyone has a favorite scary story and a horror movie classic that they come back to year after year, but now we’re giving Spotify users an exciting new way to experience their favorite haunting tales with a new podcast playlist created just for Halloween,” Cutler says. “Once you strip the visuals, listening to podcasts can become more intimate and we are all about crafting spooky audio stories for our listeners.”

Max Cutler, founder and managing director of Parcast at Spotify

And listeners just can’t get enough. In fact, spooky podcast listening increased by 138.5% between October 2018 and October 2019. Topping the list? Last Podcast on the Left, And That’s Why We Drink, Morbid: A True Crime Podcast, The NoSleep Podcast, and Lore. 

People also love to tune in to Parcast titles Today in True Crime and Serial Killers for their dose of spooky stories. Ready to send chills up your spine? Check out Spotify’s Halloween podcast playlist, below. 

Discover a Decades-Old Murder in ‘Fausto,’ the First True Crime Spotify Original Podcast for Mexico and Latin America

October 22, 2019

In December of 1991, a family was mysteriously murdered in Ecatepec, Mexico. The event drew the media’s attention to the town—one that would soon be notorious for its high rates of crime and serial killings. Now, the world can tune in to hear how the case eventually unraveled on Fausto, the first true crime Spotify original podcast for Mexico and Latin America. 

Fausto—the name the local police gave to the file that contained murder cases—is the third original Spotify production for Mexico after Tlatelolco: La Plaza en Movimiento and NRDWARE. The eight-episode Spanish language series is based on a year-long investigation. Each installment recreates the events for listeners through testimonies from real people involved with the case.

One of those people is Agent Fabian Roldán. The multiple homicide at the heart of the story was the biggest case in his 40-year law enforcement career. On Fausto, he gives his first-person account of how the crime was solved.

Narrating the shocking tale is Mexican actor Damián Alcázar, who has been in more than 60 films, been nominated for 30 international awards, and received more than 25 awards throughout his career. You might recognize him for portraying Colombian drug lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela on the Netflix series Narcos.