Before Bengali horror audio belonged to YouTube, it belonged to a radio slot: Friday, one minute before midnight, Radio Foorti. Bhoot FM, the Daily Star's second article among this site's winners, built a generation's Friday nights out of listener stories, emailed in, phoned in, read aloud by RJ Russell with the lights effectively off. The show ran from 2010 to 2019. Our catalogue of 439 Bengali audio stories holds 11 Bhoot FM episodes, and they are worth counting precisely because so few survive in any one place.
What our 11 records show
| Fact from the records | Count |
|---|---|
| Episodes catalogued | 11 |
| On YouTube today | 10 |
| Dated 2011-2012 (the show's early FM years) | 5 |
| Live episode dated 25 October 2019 | 1 |
| Format | Listener stories, read by RJ Russell |
The dates tell the afterlife. The dated records cluster in 2011 and 2012, the years listeners recorded the broadcasts and uploaded them; the single 2019 live episode is the show's late revival shape, streamed rather than broadcast. Everything else in our Bhoot FM row is silence, which is the honest state of FM horror archives: the show was heard by a city and kept by almost nobody.
Why it still matters to the shelf
Bhoot FM invented the format the rest of our catalogue industrialized: ordinary people, first-person hauntings, a host who believes you just enough. Sunday Suspense dramatizes literature; Bhoot FM dramatized the audience. The bhoot-named series that followed it in our records, Bhoot.com and Bhoot Studio at 13 stories each, work the same caller-story seam on YouTube. If you are new to it, start with the dated 2011 episodes in our catalogue, poor audio and all; the hiss is part of the document. And if an episode keeps you up, the Horror Story Poster Maker makes the poster for the night, which is the modern version of telling the story again at school the next morning.
Sources: ShunoGolpo story catalogue, 439 records verified September 2026. Show history (Radio Foorti, Fridays 11:59 PM, 2010-2019) as reported by The Daily Star, Bhoot FM: Defining late-night Friday nostalgia for a generation.