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Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Official Podcast

By: Nickelodeon Podcasts
Narrated by: Jeremy Ray Taylor, Mason Versaw
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Episodes
  • Trailer
    Aug 24 2023
    This original podcast releases September 28, 2023! Follow now for all episodes to show in your Library then.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • The Tale of the Last Hide and Seek
    Sep 28 2023
    Four kids take their Hide and Seek game to an abandoned factory, where the urban legend about the Night Watchman MAY be more than just a story.
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    16 mins
  • The Tale of the Haunted Holiday
    Sep 28 2023
    Mark and Kat go on a family trip with their dad, where they discover that they are not the only ones in the vacation house they rented.
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    16 mins

About Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon, now in its 44th year, is the number one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location-based experiences, publishing, and feature films. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon is a part of Paramount’s (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA) global portfolio of multimedia entertainment brands.

About Nickelodeon Podcasts

Nickelodeon Podcasts feature the network’s most beloved franchises, such as PAW Patrol, Dora the Explorer, The Loud House, and Avatar: The Last Airbender, among other familiar fan favorites. From scripted and unscripted originals to audio thrillers, game shows, musical adventures, companion series, nostalgia, and more—these multi-platform audio experiences entertain kids of all ages (and kids at heart)!

About the Performer

Jeremy Ray Taylor is an American actor, producer, director, and podcaster who found his passion for acting at the age of eight. He is best known for his lead roles as Ben in the hit film It and Sonny in Goosebumps 2: Slappy’s Revenge. His most recent projects include Big Sky and Senior Year.
Jeremy is from Bluff City, TN. Born to parents Michael and Tracy Taylor and the youngest of the family, Jeremy grew up in East Tennessee, where he learned a strong work ethic on the family farm.
Jeremy has the unique ability to successfully transition from drama to comedy, as seen in his movie Senior Year.
He loves stretching himself and pushing his acting skills to the next level with every opportunity that comes his way.

About the Performer

Mason Versaw is a performer from Ashtabula, Ohio. He can currently be seen in a series regular role opposite Lana Condor in the Netflix miniseries Boo, Bitch as well as in a supporting lead role in the feature film Sex Appeal (Hulu/American High). Mason also had a heavily recurring guest role on the Gossip Girl reboot (The CW). Previously, he appeared in a large co-star guest role on Blue Bloods (CBS) and had a supporting role in Lin-Manuel Miranda's tick, tick... BOOM!, playing a young Jonathan Larson. Commercially, he can be seen in major spots for Instagram and Apple. He trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute and is also an incredible singer. In addition to acting, Mason is an all-star basketball player.

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Reminds me of watching it as a kid

Love it for the nostalgia, good for kids during car rides especially during spooky season.

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I need more!!!!!!

I loved this show growing up and loved this podcast as much! Can't wait to hear more!!!

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Excellent and Over Far Too Soon

I loved AYAD as a kid. I was there EVERY Saturday night for SNICK.

I remember with GREAT fondness listening to the stories of Sardo (NO Mister, accent on the "DOH"). The kid getting trapped in the pinball machine-arcade was right up my proverbial alley.

With the invention of streaming, I was able to introduce the show to my kids, who also loved it. They were young enough at the time that they even got a little freaked out and we had to go on hiatus, but now, at ten, they're back in again.

So when I found this podcast, I immediately downloaded it. We listened to it one rainy day on a short road trip to go to (of all things) a retro video game festival.

Well, we enjoyed it quite a bit. The season was short and took us the length of a drive from Salem, OR to Eugene, OR. The stories were -wildly- varied, from creepy supernatural to just...weird and off-putting. But the performances, though a bit over-the-top at times, were fitting in with the whole aesthetic of teens/pre-teens trying to scare each other with stories. The framing bit, of the kid doing his own podcast with his brother interfering, helped break a lot of the "oh my god, this is actually happening and is scary" potential, which made it a possible for even younger listeners to enjoy.

The stories themselves were fun. Imaginative, if a little derivative, but pretty much what you'd expect from the franchise if you watched as a kid, like I did. One genuinely creeped me out, one had an incredibly ridiculous ending...which became amazing after the narrator decided to present an entirely different ending! That made me and my kids laugh at how it went from shocking to hilarious. The final episode of the season was disturbing in all the right ways, and really fits the "gore-love" that my kids are in, without being actually too graphic.

All in all, an incredible series and I really hope another one is produced and distributed. Well worth the listen!

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how similar

I'm surprised how similar it is to the original show for the most part. sent me down nostalgia lane. 💖

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Great!

A true throwback to the original series that captures the spirit of the show while balancing the perfect amount of 90’s cheese and light horror. Bring on Season Two.

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the stories

I love how it feels like I'm back in the 90s watching it on TV again

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Throwback

I can’t wait until we get more! It really brings me back (though I wish we were called the midnight society).

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Awesome

Amazing scary great old school horror stories need more got to have more to good

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Flashback

This was good!!!! They didn't skip a beat with the keeping of the vibe of the show. Looking forward to more shows.

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Love it!

So much fun! Reminds me of the show I watched as a kid- hope there’s more to come!

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