After listening to\nmore episodes from ‘The Black Tapes’ podcast, I heard about many more\ninteresting ghost stories, and noticed some continued patterns from the first\nepisodes. I’ve been interested in the different stories and cases since I like\ncrime, murder and ghost stories so I enjoy listening to more episodes of the\npodcast. Each episode begins the same with the intro song, which I find myself\nstarting to sing a long at the beginning to each time. Then a clip plays of a\nphone call with Dr. Strand, since this season focuses on the Black Tapes of Dr.\nStand’s. Then the host, Reagan starts introducing the podcast, but before the\nmain introduction there is an intro where she messes up and makes jokes, and\nsays something along the lines of ‘don\u2019t put that in’ but keeps the same fake\nintro clip every time which I enjoy since she messes up and laughs about it and\nit keeps the podcast more real, and I can definitely relate from when I did\npodcast recording. Lastly, she gives an actual intro for herself and the season and about what is to\ncome in the episode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each episode focuses\non a different case, some about ghosts, exorcism, paranormal activity, murder,\nand a few others, so each one is very different. Of the ones I most recently\nlistened to, I really enjoyed one where they interview a Simon Reese, who was\nconvicted for the murder of his parents. He has some issues going on with\ncommunicating, so when being interviewed he taps one for yes and two for no.\nHowever, when asked certain question he doesn\u2019t respond, or will respond with\nno and yes, like in regards to being there when his parents died. This\ninterviewer adds suspense since you can hear the change in his tone of voice as\nhe starts to feel overwhelmed with the answers he is getting from Simon. I enjoyed this particular episode since I\nthink the story is very interesting, Simon is a unique character, and there is\na lot of suspense, and I encourage you to listen to find out more! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve noticed that\nsimilarly to the intro and intro music, the transition music\/sounds are always\nthe same. I think this is an important feature of the podcast since in this\nspecific podcast, the way the stories are told you do not always not what is\ntrue or not, so this music that plays in between is like a reminder signal to\nthe audience to reflect. It being the same sound every time is like a mental\nclue for the listener to step back, and reflect on the information given, and\nto think about how true everything is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stories in these podcasts are told in a way with many clips to make the stories much more compelling. During the interviews Reagan conducts, you can hear the different tones and inflections of those being interviewed when telling their stories, which add realness.\u00a0 The podcast is very intriguing since with some of the editing, we hear a clip of an interview or a noise track like for paranormal activity, and then Reagan cuts in and says something like we will get back to that later, or gives background before going into the full story. Altogether the podcast has been great so far, and although every episode is different, I can tell they all go together and I like the setup, and I am excited to listen to more and see what season 2 will have in store!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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