Maple Street Murder combines my love of mystery, horror, and dramatic true crime media all in one! I knew I wanted to create something spooky for this assignment, so I utilized ChatGPT (for the very first time! In order to save brain space for the meatier aspects of this assignment) to generate a short “Unsolved Murders” reminiscent script, and Maple Street Murder was born. The overall vision for this podcast would be to follow this particular (fictional) case alluded to in the narration.
Since I recruited my boyfriend for the audio narration, both of our names are on the title card with the idea that we would be hosting together. We used my closet as our sound booth to record the audio narration portion. I found the PERFECT “The X-Files” vibe music to accompany the narration (I gasped at how well they went together!) I was also able to find a spooky/ethereal forest ambience audio that complemented the other two audios well. I then added a couple fades, as well as a podcast filter for his voice. I am overall very happy with how this turned out!
Sources:
Audio-
- X Man by 1000 Handz, licensed CC BY 4.0
- “horror forest NL 1209 PM 240531_0730” by klankbeeld found on freesound.org, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- “Maple Street Murder narration” by Zach K., licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.
Script-
- OpenAI. (2026). ChatGPT (February 15 version). [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
