Back to reflecting on the podcast. I really love the theme and how the crew made the podcast believable especially the host's voice was so fitting. The host, G. M. Danielson led the show well and I am happy that they also used the right spooky background music.
The podcast or maybe I could say a storytelling that I listened to has the same writer for all three stories and his name is James Dermond. On this episode, three of the stories are The Drowned Man, Grandfather's Cane and Returned to Dust. Even by reading the title you could get the scary vibes right. The first story, The Drowned Man is about two young women who went for a trip at a house near by a lake. One of them, April got a dream about the lake. In the dream, she went and swam at the lake and suddenly she felt something dragged her down and kept on pulling her down. She woke up and saw a man figure staring at her. She could see that the man is bloated. She quickly got down her bed and knelt beside her bed. She prayed for the figure to go away. In another dream, her friend, Jessica was drowning and screaming for help. One man appeared and went into the water to save her. He saved her, but then he was exhausted and gasping for air. He asked for her help. It felt so real but she learnt that it was just a nightmare. The next day, everything went as usual at the house, Jessica went for a swim at the lake and April also had her own activity inside the house. When Jessica returned, she tried to tell something to April but decided to tell her tomorrow morning since April looked so tired. The next morning, April felt weird that Jessica did not knock her door for breakfast. She went to Jessica's room to find her dead body drenched in water.
The next story, Grandfather's Cane tells about Megan who just lost her grandfather, Blint. At the funeral, almost all family members gathered to send and see grandpa for the last time. The church is an old church that contained a lot of old sculptures with Gothic cathedral. Grandma was the last person who stayed with him saying that she will miss him. Grandfather Blint has a tall and big figure opposite to grandma who got a small figure. They went outside and Megan saw an old man just across the road and he was looking down. He got slump shoulder and he was wearing a dark formal attire. He then gazed directly to Megan, making eye contact with a terror look. Right after Megan realized that the old man is her grandfather, he disappeared. Everyone gathered at grandma's that night. They had chats on a few topics until they finally talked about Megan's accommodation since she will enter a college soon. Her mom suggested Megan to just stay with grandma as the college is near to house and she can avoid all sorts of bad influence at the hostel. Megan finally lived with grandma and one day as she was helping grandma arranging some old stuffs, she found a cane. It was grandfather's cane. That night, as she was about to sleep, she heard a sound of footstep with a cane climbing the stairs. The footstep passed by grandma's room and stop in front of her room. It tried to open the doorknob but luckily Megan already locked the door. Anddd to be continue haha.
Interesting isn't it? The story managed in making some of my body hairs stood ahah.
Listening to the podcast made me learnt a lot of things. I learnt that planning is a must, from what story you are going to make and what objective that you want to achieve from the podcast. A clear goal makes your podcast has more focus and the listeners can surely feel it too. You also have to be a well organized person. Your podcast has to have an attractive opening, a great content and a sweet ending. That is all for this week.
