S6 E10 | The Midnight Game - Halloween Special 2023

I Want To Believe: Season 7

I Want to Believe the Podcast – S6 E10 | The Midnight Game - Halloween Special 2023 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Opening song:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Midnight by Ice-T Closing song: In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett

Clips throughout: Sam Golbach | Hai Kuu | Kaylena Orr

Ay! Welcome to the 2023 Halloween Special of the I Want to Believe podcast!

There are a lot of paranormal games that people have played in order to experience a ghost, demon or just to have some spooky fun. Halloween is typically when a lot of these games are played and some say they do nothing more than work up an active imagination. However, others have claimed devastating effects. People have said that they’ve been scared so badly that they were never the same again. Some even claimed that they were haunted horribly for years after trying one of the paranormal games. More rare stories involve possession, disappearances and death.

There are quite a few paranormal games to play such as Dry Bones, The Closet Game, Three Kings, and one you probably remember from your childhood, Bloody Mary. They all come with varying degrees of difficulty and rules but the game in question on this night, is really quite simple.

Despite this, the Midnight Game is claimed to be one of the more dangerous ones you can play.

It first started to make the internet rounds of 4chan and Reddit around the early 2010s. There was talk of it having some kind of pagan origin, but like many creepy pastas, specific origins are hard to come by.

By playing the game, you summon the Midnight Man, who is a demon of unknown origin and is said to stalk you throughout your home for 3 hours and 33 minutes, which is the length of the game. As you walk around your home with a lit candle, it is said that you can tell when the demon is near by hearing whispers, feeling cold spots and seeing shadows.

Should your candle go out… the Midnight Man will find you and will remove your organs one by one, devouring them as you die.

Tonight, join me as I play the Midnight Game. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

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