“When I was a kid, I was afraid of, well…everything,” Jeremy Haun says in the teaser trailer for his new horror-themed video podcast series, “Curious Haunts.”
He lists some of the things that scared him, and then adds, “But I was also curious.” And now he’s setting out to explore some of those things, including haunted and abandoned places.
Sound familiar?
On some levels I can relate. Not much scares me, but a couple of things frighten me.
“Wait. What’s the difference?” you may be asking.
I was never scared of the dark, clowns, dolls, spiders, etc., but until I was 38, needles scared me. Cancer cured that.
However, I’ve been frightened plenty of times. As in the jump scare kind of frightened like when someone sneaks up on you unexpectedly…or pops out at you with a chainsaw at a Halloween haunted house. (Insert shiver here. And not that I’m scared of masks, per se, but you could add them to the list of things that make me uneasy.)
Yet, I’ve also been intrigued and curious about all things dark side: true crime, horror, the paranormal. To the point I’ve set out in search of them to experience them for myself. (Hence, this site.)
So I totally can relate to Jeremy Haun and what he’s doing with his new series. Let’s check it out.
About Curious Haunts
Haun invites viewers to accompany him on his travels. He’ll explore abandoned spaces, spooky bars and restaurants, locations that inspired horror genre favorites, oddities shops, and delightfully weird corners of the cities he visits.
In addition to travel segments, “Curious Haunts” will regularly feature Haun sharing his favorite cocktail recipes in his Coroner Bar. (Great name, right? I think it’s a play on “corner bar.” I’m sort of disappointed no one’s opened a horror-theme bar by that name.)
Anyway, in addition to travels and cocktails, Haun will also unveil favorite mementos from his cabinet of curiosities, and he’ll review horror-related films, television shows, and books in his Odditorium.
The inaugural episode features part one of his “The Shining Excursion,” inspired by Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick’s respective horror masterpieces.
Future episodes will include special guests and travel segments from Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago. New episodes will release every two weeks on Tuesdays on YouTube.
About Jeremy Haun
Jeremy Haun is the co-creator of The Beauty, which is currently being adapted into a prestige television series by Ryan Murphy for FX. It will star Evan Peters, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Hall, and Isabella Rossellini.
Haun is also the co-founder of Ignition Press, a new comic book and graphic novel publisher debuting later this year, which is producing “Curious Haunts” alongside Haun.
Haun has worked with virtually every major publisher in the comic book industry in his 20+ year professional career, including Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM! Studios, and many more, contributing to franchises including Batman, Captain America, Constantine, The Darkness, and Spawn.
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Did anything scare you as a kid? If so, what?
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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Haun sounds busy and multi-talented. I’m amazed! Yes, things scared me in my childhood … to the point where I can no longer revisit those events without being horrified. So I leave them in the past and press forward.
My grandmother use to tell me there was a bogeyman upstairs when it was dark out. I wouldn’t go upstairs to bed unless someone came with me. But now im on one floor now.
I already follow Jason Hawes and his friend on their hunts, and the Project Fear crew, among others. This sounds interesting.