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Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie

Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie

He’s skeptical. She’s spooky. Together they explore the unknown, unsolved, unbelievable, and just plain weird.

With a shared passion for history and the truth, Sean & Carrie realized they could bring their different perspectives to the world of crime, the paranormal, and the inexplicable.

Sean’s sharp eye on the logical and Carrie’s open mind to the unexplainable combine in every episode for an informative hour with a lighter touch.

Recent Episodes

Oct. 31, 2024

Ep. 192: Vermont Hauntings, Legends and Strangeness

To wrap up the spooky season here on the show (though, let's be honest, that never really ends around these parts) we're taking a trip to beautiful Vermont, where the skiing is top-notch, the leaf-peeping is absolutely beaut…
Oct. 24, 2024

Ep. 191: Weather Control

A topical storm washes over the podcast this week as we wade into the controversy and conspiracy around weather modification. As conversation online takes a turn for the unhinged in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, …
Oct. 17, 2024

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Spooky Flicks and Halloween Party Invites

In this pre-Halloween special edition of "Spooky Chat," Sean and Carrie run down announcements ranging from the mundane to the life-changing before discussing the flicks we've been watching this Halloween, and the best and w…
Oct. 10, 2024

Ep. 190: Halloween Urban Legends - Teens in Trouble

Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting into some famous urban legends. This year is no different - and now, along …
Oct. 3, 2024

Ep. 189: Legends of the New Jersey Pine Barrens - Ghosts, the Jersey Devil and Pirate Treasure

The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anything but legends. Join us on a tour of Jersey's Pinelands and all the cree…
Sept. 26, 2024

Ep. 188: The OceanGate Disaster

On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titan submersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, busine…
Sept. 19, 2024

Ep. 187: Son of Sam, Pt. 2 - Son of Hope

Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders! Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David Berkowitz committed in the summer of 1977, before covering Berkowitz's tumultuous…
Sept. 12, 2024

Ep. 186: Son of Sam, Pt. 1 - The Chubby Behemoth

Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic for one frantic year. From July 1976 to July 1977, David Berkowitz embarked …