The Mystery Hour (Nighty Night) - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Love this podcast and Rabia‘s amazing reading voice and no pretense presentation. Started listening with her other fantastic podcast “The Hidden Djinn“ and she continues the tradition with fun, educational, imaginative and stories that have you hyperaware of every strange sound that happens your way. Super Enjoyable!

Love Rabia and everything she’s narrated, worked on, contributed to, etc. and her voice is lovely! Mystery Hour is no exception. The stories on her latest endeavor are always fresh, interesting and sometimes quite creepy. The ‘fact is stranger than fiction’ segment at the end is a perfect way to tie off each episode.

However, while I don’t necessarily mind the ads I am a bit disappointed in their placement amid the episode. Rabia is often mid-sentence when an ad break disrupts at the most random times. This does not bother me enough to give less than 5 stars, but would love if the editors could find a more sensible part of the story.

Every time this show auto-plays from my podcast feed, it’s such a nice break from my usual news listening. Great story selections, great narration, and really awesome backing music. Several episodes have made a lasting impression now, so I’m going back through the archive to listen to ones I’ve missed!

Stories are great, but the ads interrupt mid sentence which ruins the entire experience. If ads were only be at the beginning and end I would easily give 5 stars.

After 2023, the stories drift away from original stories based off of true crime events, instead becoming just another audiobook podcast for old horror tales. I much preferred the original stories to ones that I’ve read and heard over and over again.

I was sooo excited when I heard that Rabia was coming back with a new season of Nighty Night until it was revealed that she would just be reading old stories written by other writers and not her own like before. I was very disappointed and haven’t tuned back in, but I’m not giving up and am still holding out hope for some original stories to make a return sometime soon!

I liked the first couple episodes but now I’m onto the third and fourth and I am somewhat even struggling to understand what she’s talking about because of all the big words. Everything she says is a word out of the dictionary that no one uses on a daily basis, which makes it very difficult to understand exactly what’s going on in the story