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Aaron Mahnke · 814 episodes with transcripts

The award-winning podcast (also a TV show & book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events, and unusual places that fill the pages of history. Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.

Spoken has transcripts of 814 Lore episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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Lore 317: Smoke and Mirrors

October 19, 2026

Aaron Mahnke (0:12)

Halloween is right around the corner, and for most people, that means a rewatch of all the cozy seasonal favorites. Practical magic, over the garden wall, beetle juice, and of course, maybe the most quintessential Halloween nostalgia flick of all, Hocus Pocus.

Of course, the term Hocus Pocus far predates the Sanderson Sisters and their 1993 release. Like Abracadabra and Open Sesame, Hocus Pocus falls under the category of magic words that all of us just somehow seem to know. But have you ever wondered where those magic words come from? Well, as it turns out, stage…

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