Series 2 of the found footage horror podcast Broken Veil builds and improves on the first season with a focus on the audio uncanny. Arguably my positive reaction to Broken Veil, verging now on fanboyish, is because this is media made for people exactly like me, by people rather like me. Creators Joel Morris and Will Maclean are children of the so-called ‘haunted generation’ who seem to have spent their adult lives chasing the thrill of reading The Unexplained magazine, of hearing local legends in the school playground, and catching glimpses of grainy ghost stories on late night TV. The problem with real life creepy stories is that eventually you run out of good ones. Just look at the hit podcast and TV show Uncanny which, after a dazzling start, has been scraping the barrel for a couple of years now. Enter Morris and Maclean with a valiant effort to make up some brand new faux genuine eerie mythology. Their efforts are so deft that, at times, I had to pause the podcast and ask myself:…
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