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Episode 75 Well here it is, early March and the countdown to Transworld is in full swing.  In 2 short weeks, Pro Haunters from all over the country will converge on St. Louis for the mother of all haunter trade shows, the Halloween and Attractions Show. Seated with the (g)Hosts at the Roundtable of Terror are Bobby Arel of Decimated Designs and Alex Lohman of When Hinges Creak, and they give us the details on what to expect from them at Transworld. The Unknown Scare-Actor chats with Kristi Ray and Joe Stauffer about there new indie film, Pieces of Talent, a dark love story with a unique and twisted antagonist. Eric Vysther returns to talk about the 13th floor entertainment group and gives us his opinions on the Chicago attraction. Badger brings us an interview with Haunt X in Reno Nevada, and Deadline News. Storm rants on about the haunt creative process, in a Haunt Minute, and the Unknown Scare-Actor asks you to Face your Fears, while Jerry Vayne spins the tunes to keep you in the haunting mood. We hid the b

Episode 74 – Hauntcon 2015 Its all about HauntCon. Badger is a busy beaver as the primary voice of the show, and he brings us a slew of interviews from HauntCon 2015 in Baton Rouge, LA. All that is HauntCon, starts with Leonard Pickel, the Godfather of Haunting, and continues with a who’s who in the industry: Tombstone Factory, Von Charon, Worped Studios,  VFX Puppets, and Gantom, as the the vendor list goes on and on. Badger talks about Mardi Gras with Wicked Wendy, and has interviews with Dick Terhune, Derek Vitas, Dr Terror Eyes and other haunt industry notables. Storm rants on about Haunted Attractions, and how to scare better, in a Haunt Minute, the Unknown Scare-Actor brings a Face Your Fears that makes you use the sense of hearing, and The Haunt-Strementalist spins the spooky tunes to keep you in the mood.   We Hid the Body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to: THE BIG SCARY SHOW!!   Featured Music: Psycho Charger – I Eat the Dead Dr FrankenFingers –

Episode 73 Valentines day is a week away, but that doesn’t mean the little creep cupid isn’t buzzing around in his diaper. Badger has a 65mph chat with Ed Roberts of the West Coast Coast Haunters Convention, and he gets the who what when where and why for WCHC 2015.  The four (g)hosts welcome our newest sponsor, Necrotic Creations, to the Roundtable of Terror, and we find out why they got started, what they have to offer and why pro haunters and home haunters alike should check them out. A new Gruesome Giveaway question means the answer lurks somewhere with our show (hopefully NOT in Cupid’s diaper) Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, while Storm rants on about Banana Spiders, in a Haunt Minute. The Unknown Scare-Actor faced thanotophobia, and pays homage to a great friend and business partner, the late Jason Henry, and the Haunt-strementalist delves into the bottomless pool of creepy music to spin the tunes. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to THE

Episode 72 Well, as we slip into the latter part of January, its time to talk conventions and trade shows.  Badger and Eric Vysther have a chat with Jen Braverman, to get all the information about the upcoming Transworld 2015.  The Roundtable of Terror continues the Transworld talk with Larry Kirchner, and he gives us some insight on some happenings of his own on the tradeshow floor. Conspicuous by his absence is the Unknown Scare-Actor, who is on sabbatical, but fear not, he still finds time for Face Your Fears! Badger brings you all the latest Deadline News, Storm sounds like he has been sucking too much helium, in a Haunt Minute, Eric Vysther brings you the Confessions of a first time Haunt Actor, and Jerry Vayne, as always, spins the horror related tunes.   We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to…. THE BIG SCARY SHOW!   featured music: The Memphis Morticians – Halloween Socks Little Miss Stakes – Drag Queen Dracula Graveyard Boulevard – Me

Episode 71 Another year is upon us!  On the Roundtable of Terror, the (g) hosts reflect on some of the highlights of 2014, along with Special Correspondent Eric Vysther and Super Special, Double Secret Probation Correspondent Tater. Moving into convention season, Badger has a sit down with Leonard Pickle, about the who what when where for HauntCon 2015. Badger brings us Deadline News, and announces out new RoT sponsor, Necrotic Creations. Storm rants on, in a Haunt Minute. The Unknown Scare-Actor brings up some fears for haunt owners, the first Gruesome Giveaway question of 2015 is revealed and the answer is somewhere in the show. Finally, the ‘Haunt-strementalist” Jerry Vayne spins the tunes, including an exclusive from Wednesday 13 We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW   Featured Music: Army of the Dead – Grave Robber Come out and Plague – Wednesday 13 10/31 – The B Movie Monsters

Episode 70 Well, once again the holiday (2nd to Halloween) is upon us.  Some of us got coal in our stockings, others got neat Halloween stuff, and the rest of us probably suffered the wrath of the Krampus. Badger has a fireside chat with Hector Turner and brings us the latest Deadline News. Storm rants on about something so obvious, we seem to forget. It will all make sense, in a Haunt Minute.  The Unknown Scare-Actor makes you face your fears in an updated recording of his timeless classic, “Twas the Fright Before Xmas”.  Jerry “DJ Spooky” spins some extra tunes for the holiday season. Finally, the Rountable of Terror talks Christmas Haunts, and the potential for other Holiday Haunts throughout the year with Allen Hopps of Dark Hour and Jim Millspaugh of Scream Acres Ct. We hid the body, but you will become and accomplice, just by Listening to The BIG SCARY SHOW Featured Music: Jerry Vayne – From All of Us to All of You King Diamond – No presents for Christmas Michael Gai

Episode 69 – From Head to Tail It may be the middle of Christmas Season, but the Big Scary Show will always bring you the Halloween and Haunt goodness that makes this season take a back seat to all that is spooky and scary.  The newest Gruesome Giveaway question give you a chance at an awesome Meat Mangler prop from Screamline Studios! On the Roundtable of Terror, we talk with the owners of Scream Acres Ct. in Covington, Ky.  Ryan Thierauf has partnered with our own Unknown Scare-Actor to bring the haunt to the next level.  Future segments will be produced, chronicling the trials and tribulations of being a haunt owner. Badger uses a gravediggers spade, and unearths an interview with Camden Toy, and brings us Deadline News. Special correspondent Eric Vysther brings us a segment on Metal and Haunting. Storm rants on in a Haunt Minute and The Haunt Rocker spins the spooky tunes. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW!   Featured Music: GWAR – The

Episode 68 As we get through the post Halloween depression, and gorge ourselves on the cooked flesh of a turkey, pig, or animal (or human) of your choice, the 4 (g) hosts and two special correspondents reflect on the 2014 haunt season, and what they look forward to in 2015. Badger chats with Roy Wooley and Tommy Pietch from Face Off, while they were putting their skills to work at Netherworld. Badger also keeps us up to date on Deadline News, Storm rants on in a Haunt Minute, the Unknown Scare-Actor talks about what’s scary about the upcoming Christmas season, and the Haunt-strementalist spins the spooky tunes. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to- THE BIG SCARY SHOW   featured music: Baron Misuraca – As We Embrace Coffin Caddies – Zombies Ate My Neighbors Ragdolls – Beautiful Homicide

Episode 67 So Haunt Season is over and most of us are suffering PHD(Post Halloween Depression) or PHP (post Halloween Plague), but fear not!  the Big Scary Show will carry you through the tough times.  We have so many interviews this show that there in no room for the Roundtable of Terror, but it will be back next episode.  Badger and Storm were at Legendary Haunt Tour 2014, and had some sit down time with Ben Armstrong, Brett Molitor, Haunted Overload, Corwyn 13th Gate, Honeymoon Couple, Tim Dunn, Kevin Alvey, and Michael Accomondo.  Jerry Vayne gets some inteviews in from Vegas, with 31 Haunts in 31 Days, Freakling Brothers Trilogy of Terror, and Hotel Fear. While the boys were out getting interviews, The Unknown Scare-Actor was busy in business dealings and is now co-owner of Scream Acres Ct. in Covington, KY, partnering with Ryan Thierauf.  Next Season will be a terror filled one. Storm rants on in a Haunt Minute, the Unknown Scare-Actor babbles in Face Your Fears, Badger keeps us up to date in Deadline N

Episode 66 its Halloween Haunters!!  Ghostbusters in the house as Badger talks to Ernie Hudson from the icon film on the 30th anniversary, the Unknown Scare-Actor chats with the Western Kentucky Ghostbusters and Badger gets the latest on the Carolina Ghostbusters. Deadline News has a new sponsor, Storm rants as only he can, Jerry spins the Halloween Tunes, and the Unknown Scare-Actor deals with Samhainophobia. The Boys chat with Chris Kullestrom on her world tour of haunted attractions and the USA ends up in the middle of nowhere We hid the Body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to The Big Scary Show!!

Episode 65 Be Forwarned, the Intro may scare you!!  While most of us are working this season, Badger still manages to get out there and load up this episode with interviews from Darkness Pines, Ghostly Manor, Mad World and Hills Have Eyes.  While the Unknown Scare-Actor and M.A.U.L. are terrorizing Indy Scream Park, he still manages a Face Your Fears, while Storm rants like only he can. Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, and the Haunt-strementalist, as always, spins the Halloween and Haunt related songs, and we may a the latest winner of the Gruesome Giveaway, sponsored by Screamline Studios. Remember, we warned you about the intro, and it’s not our fault if your ears bleed!!   We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, Just by listening to…THE BIG SCARY SHOW!!   Featured Music: Rainbow Flavored Nightmares – Audio Zombie Grave Robber Blues – Bloody Jug Band Darkness Falls – A Gathering of Darkness  

Episode 64 Well, October is here, and we ventured to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio for Midnight Syndicate Live, Legacy of Shadows.  If you have the opportunity to go before Nov. 1 , we highly recommend it.  This was an amazing production and the do not disappoint. A must see for any Midnight Syndicate Fan.  Badger and the Unknown Scare-Actor sit down with Ed Douglas and Gavin Goska to chat about the production, future plans and we finally have proof that Gavin is indeed real! Badger chats with Transworld’s Jen Braverman and gets the latest information on Legendary Haunt Tour, which is heading to New England this year.  Storm rants on about sexy Halloween Costumes from his cell phone, and Face Your Fears is all about making haunt patrons face their fears. The Roundtable of Terror talks with Erin of Don’t Be a Monster??  Actually a great campaign to help stop bullying of all kinds, and how this is done with their mascot Frank. Finally, in honor of Midnight Syndicate Live, the haunt-strementalist spi

Episode 63 Badger, The Unknown Scare- Actor, and Wicked Wendy descended upon ScareFest in Lexington, Ky last week and came away with a bunch of interviews. On this show Badger chats with Dustin Pari, The USA learns why Kris Williams got into the ghost hunting business, and what some of her future projects may entail.  Wicked Wendy catches up with Grant Wilson, and finds out what he’s been up to since we last chatted with him last year. The Roundtable of Terror introduces our latest special correspondent, Eric Vysther, and we find out a bit more of this enigmatic haunter, as well as introduce his first segment. Badger brings us the latest Deadline News and a potential Gruesome Giveaway winner, Storm rants on in a Haunt Minute, and the Unknown Scare-Actor(Actress??) addresses the recent gender identity conflicts.  The “Haunt-strementalist” spins the spooky tunes as haunt season gets into full swing We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to The BIG SCARY SHOW &nbs

Episode 62 For some haunts, the scaring fun begins this weekend.  Badger has a chat with fan favorite Sal Lizard, the Vampire Santa, and apparently he had to do something to get this interview.  Ask Badger about his Sal Lizard button!  The Unknown Scare-Actor went under the knife recently, allegedly for hernia repair, but was it something else?  his voice sounds a little….off. Midnight Syndicate will be playing LIVE for the first time ever and Badger gets the scoop from Brian Edwards at Cedar Point, about the long awaited show, and some of us will see if Gavin actually exists.  The Big Scary Show will be covering this epic show later this month. Badger keeps his finger on the ever failing pulse of the haunt industry in Deadline News. Storm Rants on , Jerry spins the tunes,  and The Unknown Scare-Actress dissects fear (????) The Roundtable of Terror covers a topic we have been threatening to do for 2 years….Movies.  After this roundtable, you can send Badger nasty messages to badger@bigscaryshow.co

Episode 61 August is flying by, September is rushing up like a Zombie from 28 Days Later, and Haunt Season is lurking around the corner. We pay homage to an announcing legend in Deadline News.  Badger sneaks up on Jim O’Rear, haunt and and film actor, and tries to get inside his head. Leonard Pickel stops by the studio to chat about anything Halloween and reveals the location for HauntCon 2015. We may have a new Gruesome Giveaway winner, if he can answer the quizmeister’s question correctly. For the second year in a row, The Roundtable of Terror is the setting for the 13 questions of DOOM! Storm digs up a new Haunt Minute, the Unknown Scare-Actor trepidatiously reveals a fear most married people have, and Jerry Vayne reaches into the song tomb for the songs to get the old haunt blood flowing. We hid the body, but you will be an accomplice…..just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW!!   Featured Music: Haunts – Sam Haynes Fairvale Funeral Parlor – Shadow’s Symphony The He

Episode 60 Season is rapidly approaching, and the 4 (g)hosts will sit down with several haunt owners and set designers as they try to get into their heads and find out the thought processes involved in creating a haunt and either changing scenes or an entire theme every year. Badger visited MonsterCon 2014 and catches up with the First Jason, Ari Lehman, as well as Todd Patton of Conooga. Darkness Pines, Mad World and a chat with Dave Harlequin of MonsterCon round out the interviews. With August upon us, a new Gruesome Giveaway answer is hidden somewhere in the show. Badger brings us Deadline News, and we honor a fallen haunter.  Storm rants on in a Haunt Minute, the Unknown Scare-Actor makes you Face your Fears, and the “Haunt-stramentalist” spins the tunes. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW   Featured Music: Dead by Dawn – Creep-a-zoids Evil Dead – Silent Horror Cathedral’s Shadow – Throne of Anguish  

Episode 59 Haunt Music in many styles creeps up behind you in this 3 way grudgematch.  It’s “Psychobilly” vs. “Haunted Heavy Metal” vs. “The Ethermuse”.  Badger gets up in the face of the Recently Deceased, Transylvania Transport Co. The Skeleton Beats, and the Creepazoids, as he made his way thru all the pin up girls at the Heavy Rebel Weekender. 3 of the  (g) hosts sit down with musicians Virgil Franklin. Scary Larry, and our own Haunt-stramentalist, Jerry Vayne, and discuss various styles of haunt music and how they can be applied in a haunt, from ambient to pulse pounding. Since music play a vital role in the overall feeling of a scene or room, this is a don’t miss roundtable. Beware of random Tater-isms!! Badger brings us up to date with the latest Deadline News,  Storm Rants on, in a Haunt Minute, and I think someone misplaced his record before Face Your Fears, and finally Jerry is doing double duty and spinning horror related tunes We hid the body, but yo

Episode 58 It’s the middle of July, and here’s a wakeup call. Season is only 2 months away Some of you just went “OH S#!T”. Badger takes a trip to Scares that Care Weekend, and finds out that even haunters have a heart, as he speaks to the founder, Joe Ripple, and finds out more about this horror themed charity, and how they have become “Good Ambassadors of Horror”. Speaking of horror, the lucky Badger sits down for a chat with the “Queen B” of horror herself, the one and only Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Listen closely because the answer to this month’s Gruesome Giveaway is hidden within….. The four (g)hosts sit at the Roundtable of Terror and offer their own takes on being an actor in the industry. Storm’s Haunt Minute shows a correlation between Potato Salad and “Lightning in a Bottle” ?!?!, while the Unknown Scare-Actor faces his fear and gives some sage advice when it comes to owning a hearse. Badger brings us all the latest Deadline News, and the “Haunt-strumentalist” Jerry Vayne figures out a way to s

Episode 57 – Build season begins   MHC 2014 is in the books and for many haunts, the build season has begun. Storm is on location at TerrorCon, Rhode Island, and he has creepy conversations with Derek Garcia, from Face Off season 3, and Bob and Lauren of Ghoulie Manor. The (g)hosts and Wicked Wendy reminisce on MHC, Virus 308, and look forward to the haunt season. Badger brings you the latest Deadline News; Storm rants about making your haunt a prequel or sequel?  The Unknown Scare-Actor brings the fears of build season to life, and the “Haunt-strumentalist” spins the spooky tunes   We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice just by listening to THE BIG SCARY SHOW!     Featured Music: An Unholy Citadel – Dr. Frankenfingers Hall of Portraits – Michael Hedstrom The Haunting of the Crowley House – Shadow’s Symphony

We are back from MHC , and here with the Midwest Haunter’s Convention Recap!  While there were some changes to the show, overall it still had the same feel it’s always had.  The Pre-show bus tour was off the hook, with many types of moonshine.  The Haunt-strementalist Jerry Virus, I mean Vayne, turned out to be patient Zero and infected the entire BSS crew over the weekend, but we still got our fun in..if you toured the Scare-a-torium on Friday Night, you may have come face to face with a “Pretty Princess”  (Badger), a maniacal dentist (Unknown Scare-Actor) or the Electro-Shock Doctor ( Jerry Vayne)  Storm refused to reveal his costume, so you will have to decide which clown or maniac he was. Face your Fears discusses how to scare (or entertain) your fellow haunters, Badger brings us the latest Deadline news, Storm rants on, In  Haunt Minute and Patient Zero spins the tunes. We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice just by listening to the Big Scary Show!!!   Episode 56