Voices, trapped in objects from Spain's past.
When the sun goes down, these voices tell their stories.
Stories of blood.
A history-horror audio drama like you've never heard before.
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What is Spanish Sundown?
Can you hear the voices?
They are trapped in objects from Spain’s past. A centuries-old door knocker that witnessed a beheading. A murderous revolver hidden under the floor tile of a theater. A centuries-old castle stone pissed on by a madman.
When the sun goes down, if you touch these objects, the voices tell their story.
Stories of Celtic warriors high on shrooms, mad bulls, gold-toothed bandoleers in hidden caves, Nazi collaborators, penis-shrinking witches, adulterous kings…
Everyday people stumble across these objects: a mountain farmer forced by the housing crisis to sell his land, a hospital nurse hell-bent on meting out vigilante justice, a traumatized Afghan war veteran, an American immigrant to Madrid…
Join these characters and discover the horrific blood stories of Spain’s past.
Discover the horror…that lies inside your own mind.
Spanish Sundown is the result of years of ongoing historical research. An original audio drama production, it features the authentic sounds of Spain recorded on-site. Close your eyes and travel here with your mind.
Listen to the voices.
Episodes drop every other Tuesday.
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WARNING: Be advised that Spanish Sundown is a horror podcast that rips the cover off the darkest sides of the human condition. It contains violence, abuse and other similar adult themes. Consider before listening.
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I’m Samuel Mattern. Born in Portland, OR (USA), I crafted my first audio drama at the age of five with nothing more than a cassette tape recorder and a handful of my father’s tools that I ruined for my under-the-bed foley studio.
It was a time travel story.
Fast-forward: for the past 20 years, I’ve split my residence between Spain and North Africa, still telling stories (but breaking fewer tools).
Nowadays, I’m a professional voice artist and creator of the Spanish-language political documentary podcast Fundamental, featured on Spanish National Radio.
With a communication background in politics and culture, I am also specialized as a bicultural translator in screenplay translation and development for some of the top industry players in Europe and the US. Check out my personal website if you would like to know more about my other work.
I keep telling stories because I never want to stop travelling through time.
