Lighthouse Horror Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I discovered this podcast two days ago and I’ve been listening to episode after episode ever since. It’s superior to many of the weird/horror podcasts I’ve been listening to for years. No annoying introductions; he just dives into the stories. No advertisements. High quality writing and narration.

I love everything about this podcast. The narrator is fantastic. His style isn’t reading, but its sharing an experience. I especially like the “Rules” stories. But what makes these horror stories most unique is that the main characters are victorious. I become involved with each one and I want them to win. Never a disappointment.

When I’m awake at 3 am and need a good story, I often turn to Lighthouse Horror. And if I have fully caught up, then I can go back and re-listen to stories from several years back. That’s an accomplishment, and a gift for us listeners!

I stumbled on the you tube video stories while at work. Was a long one. Lol 3.5 hours. Let me just say.. I felt it was too short. I was hooked within the first 10 minutes. lol. Well thought out stories and some freaky twists along the way. I’ve moved to the podcasts for work. Lol YouTube at home. Keep up the good work

Previously 5stars with engaging ideas, storylines, creepy places and monsters. You felt a real sense of dread that all of the newer content is lacking.

Now:
Used to be my 2nd favorite podcast because of the consistently long stories (50-over an hour) but recently it's changed to pushing out more content instead of focusing on the quality. Like taking a #2, you shouldn't have to push push push. But that's what it's transformed into and it's sad.

The newer stories are too short to even remember. They begin and then abruptly end, and it's too jarring to be enjoyable— whereas before, was immersive and entertaining.

For a listener to get the mood, a feel for the characters, care for the characters or world we're plopped into—is important. Arguably everything. And recently all we get is exposition info dump instead of staying in the story and figuring out some things ourselves.

The newer content feels like it was made for an audience of idiots. This isn't a video platform where you gotta shove out all the info in a minute. Podcast listeners actually have attention spans and we want long stories to listen to while doing other things.

Main recent downsides:
•Too short to bother with anymore.
•Extreme tonality shifts between short episodes —which wasn't as bad when they were longer and you had time to sit with everything before moving on.
•Not memorable (again the lazy writing and shortness is a double whammy)

UPDATE: 12/29/23; This podcast continues to entertain with some of the best stories, and being a single cast member podcast the story teller is among the excellent readers, his voice inflections are excellent bar none, my absolute go to podcast, as many of the so called podcast fall behind and die! No sleep used to be great but have gone to easy no ending stories, because you don’t have to write anything good and just put out garbage IMHO! or the podcast that give you a great first season then become an orphan begging for money. This podcast on the other hand provides great stories, and they just keep coming, an excellent podcast to aid financially and motivated! One of the top if not the best podcast of 2023! UPDATE; 8/22/23: This fellow can really, really tell a story, I’m not into single reader/ story teller podcast, I’m a fan of full cast horror podcasts. This fellow and the stories are just phenomenal, and read/ told soooooooo well, I’m riveted to the podcast! Reader, has an excellent voice, clear modulation, make’s listening an enjoyable experience. Good spooky stories! Plus I love Lighthouses!