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Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

From Tenderfoot TV, the creators of the cult-favorite horror podcast, Radio Rental…

Rattled & Shook is a weekly, spooky “variety show”. With a combination of creepiness, comic relief, and nostalgia, Rattled & Shook delivers chilling stories with vintage radio show flair. Host Meredith Stedman presents a curated collection of haunting episodes, featuring new themes each week. There’s guests, games, music, and the main course: true scary stories sent in by real people.

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Rattled & Shook

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!

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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).
 
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real life ghost stories (feat. emma ozenbrook)

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."

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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).
 
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brews & boos (feat. bitch beer)

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.

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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).
 
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a very meredith & aprile christmas

We're still on hiatus but here's an oldie-but-a-goodie to tide you over...

Episode 43: Hosts Meredith and Aprile tune into several ghost stories, submitted by listeners, featuring decidedly UNfriendly entities…

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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 Mike Badgely (She Looks Exactly Like Me), Miguel A. (Cowboy Boots) and Paul Brown (The Right Location).
 
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ICYMI... ghosts of cowboys & girlfriends past

We're still on hiatus but here's an oldie-but-a-goodie to tide you over...
Episode 44: Hosts Aprile and Meredith tune into several stories about doppelgängers and seeing yourself outside of yourself… you know, normal stuff.
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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 Dacey Else (Library Doppelgänger) and Gudrun Ebbinghoff (Doppelgänger Girlfriend).
 
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ICYMI... seeing double

Episode 65: The theme is True Crime. Host Meredith tunes into a couple of chilling, crime-related stories. For our guest segment, Meredith is joined by journalist Maggie Freleng to introduce the new podcast, "Up and Vanished Weekly".

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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 Darrell Bowman (T.B.'s Gun) and Caroline Beagles (Ghost Crime Scene).
 
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bears vs. men (introducing: up and vanished weekly)

Episode 66: Settle in, folks. Meredith sits down to read you a long bedtime story. This one is set, well, ON set. You'll see what we mean. Enjoy.

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Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman

Original artwork by Puppyteeth
Intro voicework by Miles Agee
Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set

Thank you to @marie_catoinette for sharing her story with us all.
 
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(long) bedtime story: the castle of cornwall

Episode 67: The theme is Hotels. Host Meredith tunes into a couple of true accounts of hotel-related haunts. For our guest segment, Meredith is joined by Jill Mercer of The Nickle Tree (TikTok) to recount her own chilling story set at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans.

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Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman
Guest: Jill Mercer @thenickletree

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 Laura Lockwood (Room 217).
 
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hotel, motel, room 217

Episode 68: The theme is Basements. Host, Meredith, tunes into a couple of true scary stories, all set in those horrifying underground house addendums known as basements. For our guest segment, Meredith is joined by Mo, to recount her own chilling story... Get ready for some nightmare visuals.

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Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman
Guest: Mo @VikingBarbecue (TikTok)

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 Jon Riley (Haunted House in Bend).
 
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basement dwellers

Episode 69: The theme is farmhouses-- haunted ones, that is. Settle in while host, Meredith, reads a couple of true scary stories, complements of a couple of unlucky listeners. This episode is kinda "Moo meets Boo".

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Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman

Original artwork by Puppyteeth
Intro voicework by Miles Agee
Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set

Special thanks to Chantal DeGroote (Apple Knolls) and Cassie C. (Dead Birds)!
 
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(long) bedtime story: haunted farmhouses

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

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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).
 
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snatchable (feat. maggie freleng)

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