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''[[http://theblacktapespodcast.com/ The Black Tapes]]'' is a scripted podcast, following the exploits of journalist [[AgentMulder Alex Reagan]] as she talks with and researches the exploits of [[AgentScully Dr. Richard Strand]], an avid paranormal researcher and skeptic, on the handful of cases he has yet to debunk. The information on these cases are held in a series of black VHS cases, hence the podcast title, ''The Black Tapes.''

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''[[http://theblacktapespodcast.com/ The Black Tapes]]'' (2015-2017) is a scripted podcast, following the exploits of journalist [[AgentMulder Alex Reagan]] as she talks with and researches the exploits of [[AgentScully Dr. Richard Strand]], an avid paranormal researcher and skeptic, on the handful of cases he has yet to debunk. The information on these cases are held in a series of black VHS cases, hence the podcast title, ''The Black Tapes.''
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Critical Research Failure is a disambiguation page


* CriticalResearchFailure: One ghost hunter InUniverse notably claims to have run into Lovecraftian entities. Remembering the hunter's reaction to any skepticism of ghost hunting, Alex kindly doesn't point out that Creator/HPLovecraft wrote fiction.

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* AdultFear:
** In the first two episodes Alex looks into the case of Robert Torres, who has video evidence suggesting a shadowy apparition followed him throughout his life. After interviewing him, Alex and Strand find out that it's seemingly been passed onto his son.
** Season two's first and second episodes involve supernatural happenings surrounding young children. And in the second episode [[spoiler: it seems like the family housekeeper--whom the family has known for years--was in on it, and performed dark rituals involving the child. She also kills herself as soon as this is discovered.]]
** [[spoiler: It seems that the Order of the Cenophus has a lot of people doing this to kids.]]

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* AdultFear:
** In the first two episodes Alex looks into the case of Robert Torres, who has video evidence suggesting a shadowy apparition followed him throughout his life. After interviewing him, Alex and Strand find out that it's seemingly been passed onto his son.
** Season two's first and second episodes involve supernatural happenings surrounding young children. And in the second episode [[spoiler: it seems like the family housekeeper--whom the family has known for years--was in on it, and performed dark rituals involving the child. She also kills herself as soon as this is discovered.]]
** [[spoiler: It seems that the Order of the Cenophus has a lot of people doing this to kids.]]



* WholePlotReference: The format of the show is rather blatantly modeled after Podcast/{{Serial}}, right down to having similar transitional music.

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* WholePlotReference: The format of the show is rather blatantly modeled after Podcast/{{Serial}}, right down to having similar transitional music.music.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** In the first two episodes Alex looks into the case of Robert Torres, who has video evidence suggesting a shadowy apparition followed him throughout his life. After interviewing him, Alex and Strand find out that it's seemingly been passed onto his son.
** Season two's first and second episodes involve supernatural happenings surrounding young children. And in the second episode [[spoiler: it seems like the family housekeeper--whom the family has known for years--was in on it, and performed dark rituals involving the child. She also kills herself as soon as this is discovered.]]
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Also, they produce another podcast in the [[SharedUniverse same universe]] called Podcast/{{Tanis}}, starring Nic Silver, one of Alex's coworkers, as well as ''Podcast/{{Rabbits}}''.

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Also, they produce another podcast in the [[SharedUniverse same universe]] called Podcast/{{Tanis}}, ''Podcast/{{Tanis}}'', starring Nic Silver, one of Alex's coworkers, as well as ''Podcast/{{Rabbits}}''.
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Also, they produce another podcast in the [[SharedUniverse same universe]] called Podcast/{{Tanis}}, starring Nic Silver, one of Alex's coworkers.

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Also, they produce another podcast in the [[SharedUniverse same universe]] called Podcast/{{Tanis}}, starring Nic Silver, one of Alex's coworkers.
coworkers, as well as ''Podcast/{{Rabbits}}''.
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In preparation for making TANIS into Tanis


Also, they produce another podcast in the [[SharedUniverse same universe]] called Podcast/{{TANIS}}, starring Nic Silver, one of Alex's coworkers.

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Also, they produce another podcast in the [[SharedUniverse same universe]] called Podcast/{{TANIS}}, Podcast/{{Tanis}}, starring Nic Silver, one of Alex's coworkers.
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* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:The Helvetian]] - a memorable and potentially supernatural new villain - only appears in the small handful of episodes that comprise the third season: the series' end up until this point.

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