Mortimer "Morty" Mistwell
Storyteller · Host
A friendly Victorian ghost who has been telling stories by candlelight for about a hundred and fifty years. He insists every tale is "absolutely true, more or less."
Ghost stories, after dark
Trick or Treating After Dark is a spooky-fun storytelling channel for all ages. Morty and Hazel host from a creaky old parlor, Bones hides behind the desk, and Pip reports from the places nobody else wants to visit. Every hour a brand-new ghost story joins the live channel, and every night there is a longer episode about one real haunted place somewhere in the world.
How it's made
The hourly ghost stories are made up, just for fun: the towns, people and spirits in them are invented. The nightly episodes are about real places, and they are researched: each episode page links the pages its history and legends came from, and a person reviews and approves every nightly episode before it airs. Legends are told as legends, not as proof that anything is haunted.
Read how an episode is made, and how to report a mistake.
The live channel
The live channel plays every story from the last day on one shared schedule, so everyone watching sees the same thing at the same moment. Each one plays once, in order, before the list starts again, and a brand-new story always jumps near the front. The watching count is the real number of open live players, nothing more. There is no chat, no ads and no analytics scripts.
The hosts
Hazel Hollowbrook
Haunt Historian · Host
A young witch and the show’s haunt historian. She digs through old newspapers, maps and records so the real places on the show come with real history.
The desk
Every episode pairs an anchor with a second voice, picked per story: the other anchor or one of the regulars on the desk.
Bartholomew "Bones" McGee
Professional Scaredy-Cat
A skeleton who is, somehow, scared of everything. He hides behind the desk during the good parts and always asks the question the audience is thinking.
Pip Pumpkinpatch
Field Reporter
The show’s jack-o’-lantern field reporter. Pip goes to the creaky places so nobody else has to, and glows a little brighter whenever something goes bump.
Sources and credits
- Research and photos: each nightly episode page links the pages it was researched from. Photos shown in an episode are credited on screen and on its page, and belong to their owners.
- Production: scripts, voices and artwork are credited on How it's made.
- Type: Oswald and Inter (SIL Open Font License).
- Hosting: Cloudflare Workers, R2 and D1.
Not affiliated with the places it visits
Trick or Treating After Dark is an independent storytelling project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any place, person or organisation its episodes mention. Place names and trademarks belong to their owners. If you visit a place from the show, please respect private property and local rules.