Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

A pumpkin curse, a werewolf's deadly game, and Jack Scratch's twisted tales fill The Monsters' Halloween Revue. Settle in for nearly five hours of scary Halloween stories from Weekly Spooky, including Origin of the Pumpkin Man, STALK, and the complete Tricks and Treats trilogy. A costume party invites ancient powers, while an autumn hookup becomes a desperate test of survival. This seven-part horror fiction collection features Charles Campbell, Mike Ashkewe, David O'Hanlon, Keith Tomlin, Morgan Moore, and Rob Fields. Every invitation sounds tempting. What will accepting it cost?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A severed arm inside a shark. Two men found wearing lead masks. The Dead Don't Stay Silent gathers nine true-crime cases and macabre histories in a Terrifying & True collection. Explore the Shark Arm case, Somerton Man, Bella in the Wych Elm, Donna Doll, Lynnette Craft, and the Lead Masks mystery, plus the Salish Sea feet, the shrunken-head trade, and Carl Tanzler. More than four hours trace forensic clues, unsolved murders, and the legends that grow around human remains. What can the dead reveal when the living won't tell the truth? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Flatwoods Monster and Mothman turn West Virginia folklore into a road trip after dark. In 1952, Kathleen May's group reported a towering figure on a hillside; in 1966, two couples said a red-eyed creature chased their car near Point Pleasant. Henrique Couto revisits these reported cryptid encounters, the original witness accounts and the meteor, owl and crane explanations. Explore the TNT Area legend and the 2026 Mothman Festival, scheduled for September 19–20. What did those beams of light really reveal—and why do these monster stories still pull us into the dark?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A teenage babysitter faces a masked intruder with poison gas in Intruder in the Night, a home invasion horror story by David O’Hanlon. It’s September 1944, and fourteen-year-old Candice Cardona is watching two boys in Couto Basin. Then a window opens, a sickly sweet smell drifts through the house, and muddy boot prints lead to the children’s room. Someone is already inside—and Candice has more than her own life to save. Make room in your scary Halloween stories queue for the Mad Gasser of Couto Basin, an original Weekly Spooky nightmare rooted in wartime paranoia. Don’t breathe too deeply.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jennifer's Body turns friendship into demonic horror, Blair Witch sends a new crew into the Black Hills, and Hardware traps a killer machine inside an apartment. This Week in Horror History covers September 14-20, 2026, with The Addams Family's macabre TV comedy and Cry_Wolf's invented serial killer joining the lineup. Revisit the films and television that made possession, technology, and even a family home feel dangerous. Plus, celebrate Sam Neill, Jennifer Tilly, Cassandra Peterson, and George R. R. Martin, then add Underworld's vampire-Lycan war to your Halloween watchlist.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the 1892 axe murders, yet a notorious nursery rhyme still casts her as the killer. Terrifying & True returns to Fall River, Massachusetts, to examine the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden and the evidence at her 1893 trial. From the disputed barn alibi and burned dress to the handleless hatchet, follow the clues that fueled suspicion without securing a conviction. Separate the historical record from folklore and competing theories. Why did suspicion survive the verdict—and why are the murders still unsolved? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Unknown Broadcast collects six old-time radio mysteries spanning political intrigue, wartime danger, and deadly relationships. Machiavelli steers a young man toward a false confession; a Korean War mission sends minesweepers into peril. Hear Down the Garden Path (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), Wild Oranges (Escape), Needle in the Haystack (Suspense), Harvest of Death (The Whistler), The Ghost in the Garden (Inner Sanctum), and Cornelia (Quiet Please). More than three hours of classic radio suspense move from a threatened coastal household to a marriage poisoned by hatred.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A cursed VHS traps viewers in a slasher nightmare, vampires rent movies after dark, and a horror host draws a young fan into his show. Rituals, Reels & Rentals gathers seven scary Halloween stories into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction. Hear PHANTASMAGORIA, Special Halloween Hours, The Strickfield Slasher, and ERASURE, alongside graveyard rituals and a deadly rental. Dan Wilder, Keith Tomlin, Morgan Moore, Rob Fields, and Charles Campbell turn 1980s horror nostalgia into cursed-media nightmares. One tape can erase people from existence. How safe are you on the other side of the screen?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

At Hinterkaifeck, six people are murdered—and someone may have stayed at the farm afterward. No One Is Coming gathers seven Terrifying & True accounts of unsolved crime, wilderness disaster, and haunted-place folklore. Visit the Stanley Hotel, the Good Hart murders, and Bonnie Hood's death at Camp Nelson, then follow the Hamar-Daban hikers, Alfred Packer, and the Donner Party. Nearly four hours separate documented events from disputed testimony and ghost stories. When help is miles away, whose account can you trust? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bihl Manor in Fremont, Ohio, is the reportedly haunted house behind HGTV's A Very Haunted Renovation. Its ghost stories include a man at an empty upstairs window, a red-haired figure on the stairs, and voices with no visible speaker. Thursday Thrills follows Henrique Couto through the property's history and haunting accounts, from the Bihl and Wolfe families to funeral viewings and paranormal investigations. Explore how a family home became a destination for ghost hunters, while separating reported experiences from documented facts. What was haunting its reputation before the cameras arrived?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Danielle Boyd turns into a werewolf whenever she loses her temper—and stays fully aware of what she does. Anger Issues by Rob Fields brings a curse that cannot wait for the full moon to Strickfield High. After a cheerleader's brutal death, monster hunter Headmistress Hiltonson targets Danielle. The town's mysterious rejuvenating waters let Hiltonson go undercover as a student to hunt her prey. This darkly funny Weekly Spooky horror story traps teenage rage inside a school full of supernatural secrets. Can Danielle control her anger with a monster hunter hiding among her classmates?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Pennywise crawls out of Derry, Hellraiser opens its puzzle box, and True Blood brings vampires out of the coffin. This Week in Horror History revisits those milestones for September 7-13, 2026, alongside Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the prom-night terror of The Loved Ones. Discover how Stephen King's IT, Clive Barker's Cenobites, and a game built around running and hiding found different ways to make audiences afraid. Plus, celebrate birthdays and revisit The X-Files. Pick your next Halloween watch or game, from supernatural conspiracies to a castle where fighting back isn't an option.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Golem of Prague is Jewish folklore's clay guardian, shaped to protect a threatened community. Terrifying & True follows Rabbi Judah Loew's legend through sacred Hebrew letters, the older golem of Chelm, and tales of a body hidden in the Old-New Synagogue attic. Discover how Yudl Rosenberg's 1909 book helped define a defender against false antisemitic accusations. We distinguish religious tradition and documented history from later fiction. What happens when a protector can obey its maker but cannot understand the consequences? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Unknown Broadcast: Deadly Lessons gathers six old-time radio dramas of murder, revenge, and time travel. A teacher discovers secret seances after a pupil dies of fright; gold miners are hunted for their claim. Hear The Last Lesson (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), The Notebook (Escape), Finishing School (Suspense), The Black Book (The Whistler), One for the Book (Quiet Please), and Dr. Manette's Manuscript (The Weird Circle). Fred Gwynne, William Conrad, and Elsa Lanchester feature in more than three hours of vintage mystery and Gothic suspense. Some lessons come at a terrible price.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Stay on the wagon. The haunted hayride has one rule, and breaking it turns staged scares into a fight to survive. Eight Halloween horror stories fill nearly five hours in The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride, a Weekly Spooky fiction anthology of corn mazes, scarecrows and Southern Gothic revenge. Meet The Grinner, The Piano Witch and Sickle Jack, then board the final hayride. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Henrique Couto, Charles Campbell, Joe Solmo, William Rayne, L.F. Falconer and Rob Fields lead from swamp-born pumpkin monsters to a living corn maze that demands a price for escape.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Ritual (2017) turns a Swedish forest hike into folk horror, where an ancient creature uses its victims' trauma to demand submission. What does the creature want from Luke? Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine David Bruckner's film, Rafe Spall's performance, and its origins in Adam Nevill's novel. From the cabin's effigy to the creature's design, this Cutting Deep into Horror discussion connects survivor's guilt with the monster's control. Full spoilers: explore Luke's struggle to resist, the ending, and comparisons with The Blair Witch Project and Midsommar.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Kyoto's Rokudo Chinno-ji is a real temple at the heart of Japan's Gate to Hell folklore—and Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Legend links its well to Ono no Takamura, a court official said to travel between the living world and the underworld. Thursday Thrills explores the temple's hidden bell, ancestral-spirit rituals, and the stories surrounding this sacred crossroads. Henrique Couto separates documented history from supernatural claims, tracing Japanese folklore beyond the game's setting. Why did a well and a bell become ways of imagining contact with the dead?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A vintage tape recorder knows Jerry Scott's secrets—and gives him five minutes before an inhuman visitor arrives. I Do Not Know You by Tyler Belmont is an analog horror story from Weekly Spooky. An unmarked package appears in Jerry's electronics shop, and the machine inside announces when he will die. Then a tall stranger starts tapping at the glass. Jerry locks the doors and reaches for a baseball bat, but the recording insists he cannot escape. Is there still time to prove it wrong? Henrique's 40th birthday wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wish...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Pennywise waits in Derry, witches control a dance academy, and Outlast sends you into an asylum with only a camera. This Week in Horror History revisits IT Chapter Two, Suspiria (2018), Outlast, and The Possession for August 31-September 6, 2026. Explore the films and survival-horror game behind the nightmares, then tune into Pontypool, where language itself can carry an infection. Plus, revisit The Prophecy and celebrate birthdays including Keanu Reeves and Michael Keaton. Build a Halloween watchlist that runs from a haunted box to a radio broadcast where speaking can spread the danger.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bat people on the Moon? The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 sold readers an imaginary lunar world, and Henrique Couto and Michelle follow the newspaper sensation that made fiction look like science. This August 2026 Monthly Spooky also checks in on reported Bigfoot sightings in Connecticut, unusual UFO reports from Brussels, and a haunted library story with a room the library says never existed. From lunar creatures to disputed encounters, how does a strange story become something people believe? Henrique's birthday wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wish...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A witness hears a paid killing. A recovering patient sees a murder everyone denies. Unknown Broadcast gathers four classic old-time radio mysteries about the danger of knowing too much: The Blind Witness, The Country of the Blind, Eyewitness, and With My Own Eyes. A sighted mountaineer reaches a community that treats vision as a disease, while a reporter's prison tour becomes a violent mutiny. Across just over two hours of vintage suspense, testimony becomes a liability and disbelief can be a weapon. Who will listen when the only person who knows the truth is the person no one believes?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A headless rider stalks a Halloween shortcut, a drive-in marathon turns into an afterlife reckoning, and an experiment gives a woman a monstrous body. Halloween Changes You brings five horror stories into nearly five hours of headless folklore, vampires, and body horror. Morgan Moore's Dullahan joins Rob Fields' Retro Halloween Weekend, Retro Halloween Revelations, New Life, and Madelyne's Revenge. From a forgotten witch-trial museum to a vampire from another world, these transformations reach far beyond a costume. Surviving the night may mean becoming something you no longer recognize.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Can a ghost story expose a murder, or can belief help conceal real harm? Eight Terrifying & True investigations connect the Greenbrier Ghost, the Fox sisters, the Hat Man, and the fatal exorcisms of Anneliese Michel with the stories people tell about fear. Deer Woman, djinn, Melonheads, and the killing of Jeffrey Hall complete just over four hours of folklore, spiritualism, and documented tragedy. Cultural traditions, reported encounters, and criminal cases each receive their own context. Follow the evidence to see where a legend ends and its human consequences begin.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why do we pay to be terrified at Halloween Horror Nights? Henrique Couto explores how haunted attractions use darkness, sound, misdirection, and live actors to turn a room into a threat. This Thursday Thrills preview of HHN 2026 draws on announcements available August 25 and research on fear and enjoyment, with stops at Universal Orlando, Hollywood, Knott's, and Six Flags. A filmmaker's eye reveals how crowd pacing and controlled attention shape the scare. Discover why the moment before a monster appears can matter as much as the monster, and why more fear does not always mean more fun.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A glass aquarium is locked around a man's head, and the fire ants are already moving. In The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things by Gary D, a windowless basement becomes a claustrophobic revenge trap crawling with roaches, centipedes, and worse. Years ago, he and his best friend Dave forced another child to swallow bugs. Now that cruelty has returned in a form he cannot brush away. This Weekly Spooky horror story mixes insect terror, gross-out body horror, and vicious dark comedy. Every movement brings another leg against his skin, and there is nowhere inside the glass to hide.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Candyman, Until Dawn, and Don't Breathe turn familiar places into traps in This Week in Horror History for August 24–30, 2026. Revisit Nia DaCosta's Chicago-set sequel, the choices that drive a teen slasher game, and a Detroit burglary that goes disastrously wrong. The Last Exorcism adds a fraudulent preacher's documentary, while Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions takes the spotlight with occult detectives and dangerous stage magic. Horror birthdays and Stephen King's Needful Things round out the week. Find your next watch, play, or read where a performance stops being make-believe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Elisa Lam's Cecil Hotel elevator video became an internet mystery, but her 2013 death was officially ruled an accidental drowning. Terrifying & True follows the Canadian traveler's final days in Los Angeles and examines how a rooftop water tank became the focus of ghost stories and murder theories. Court records, the elevator's controls, and a maintenance worker's account challenge claims about impossible access and a sealed hatch. Follow the documented evidence behind the viral footage, with Elisa's life kept in view, and see how a tragedy became a story the internet kept rewriting.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A railway worker sees warnings of disaster beside a dark tunnel. A businessman on the Orient Express meets an armed stranger. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Train Stops, Orient Express, The Signalman, and Ticket to Nowhere for more than two hours of classic old-time radio suspense. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler carry you from a forgotten station to Balkan intrigue and a driver's plan for murder. With dangerous destinations and warnings that may arrive too late, each journey asks whether reaching the end of the line is something to hope for or fear.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A robbery interrupts a witch's ritual, a seductive stranger demands murder, and a criminal job brings a giant gummy worm into play. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn bad decisions into supernatural traps, from cursed brothers to a blizzard pursuit of Strickfield's Queen of Hearts serial killer. Crime and Bedevilment, Roxie, Sick With Rage, and The Worm Has Turned deliver over 90 minutes of witchcraft, monstrous hunger, and revenge. Stories by Joe Solmo, Charles Campbell, Rob Fields, and David O'Hanlon. When the criminals meet something worse than themselves, who gets out alive?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Tonight She Comes (2016) starts with a blood-covered killer and a cabin in the woods, then plunges into an occult ritual with its own grotesque rules. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the slasher on Cutting Deep into Horror, tracing its blood runes, absurd characters, gory effects, and Friday the 13th Part VII homage. They also recall discovering it through Movies at the Asylum and explore how Felicity changes the story's center of gravity. Full spoilers, including the ending: find out why this splatter comedy's most revolting choices may be more deliberate than they seem.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The 2016 killer clown panic began with reports from South Carolina woods and spread into threats, hoaxes, and copycat encounters. Ten years later, Henrique Couto follows the Greenville County sightings through news coverage and social media to arrests, school scares, and Penn State's student clown hunt. Thursday Thrills separates the unsubstantiated earliest claims from the real consequences of viral fear. Police could not confirm those first woodland clowns, yet people elsewhere began putting on masks. How did a story about hidden strangers become a nightmare people acted out in public?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Brian disappears beneath Clear Lake and returns clutching a carved relic, his body waterlogged and his strength no longer human. In Bruce Haney's The Darkness Under Clear Lake, a camping trip with Michelle and friends becomes a fight against possession and something waiting underwater. The object will not let Brian go, and getting it away from him may be the survivors' only chance. This Weekly Spooky horror story blends a cursed artifact, body horror, and a lakeside reunion poisoned by old tensions. Michelle has to stop what he brought ashore without becoming the next person to touch it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Blade, The Exorcist III, and An American Werewolf in London lead This Week in Horror History for August 17–23, 2026. Revisit Wesley Snipes' Daywalker, William Peter Blatty's supernatural detective story, the home invasion of You're Next, and Rebecca Hall's haunted grief in The Night House. Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps takes the spotlight with alien parasites and undead fraternity brothers. Horror birthdays round out the calendar before Rick Baker's werewolf transformation earns this week's recommendation. Build a watchlist that moves from vampire action to full-moon tragedy.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Pale Crawler looks like a creature caught between a human and an animal, but The Rake began as a deliberately written horror story. Terrifying & True traces Operation Crawler, alleged Illinois and Kentucky encounters, and the viral trail-camera images that helped turn creepypasta into cryptid folklore. Misidentified wildlife, pareidolia, sleep paralysis, and staged footage offer ways to examine the claims without treating them as proof. Follow the monster from online fiction to reported woodland sightings, and discover how a shared story can start shaping what people think they see.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An island promises refuge, but the people arriving bring danger with them. Unknown Broadcast collects four classic old-time radio mysteries: The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island. A trader enters a struggle over power on a Pacific island, a fugitive faces a murderous pursuer, and a weary Marine imagines a world without hunger or war. A hunted killer's passage to Skull Island completes more than two hours of tropical suspense. White beaches and warm water offer little comfort when escape from the mainland means leaving every route home behind.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A one-dollar bowl brings home a ghost, and two serial killers choose a family with something monstrous on the menu. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn a first date, a yard-sale bargain, a country dinner, and a party in the woods into deadly mistakes. First Date and Thrifting Fail—We're Now Haunted! lead from a haunted mansion to an object that refuses to stay discarded; The Dinner Guests and Party in the Woods unleash predators with an appetite for human flesh. Stories by Rob Fields, Bruce Haney, Shane Migliavacca, and Joe Solmo. Listen for the moment an invitation becomes a trap.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Railroad workers report a werewolf in Defiance, Ohio. Black-Eyed Children ask to come inside. Seven Terrifying & True investigations gather Bigfoot, the Fouke Monster, Chupacabra, Indrid Cold, and more for over three hours of campfire listening. Follow Ohio's Grassman to Salt Fork State Park, trace changing Chupacabra accounts, and explore the UFO lore around Point Pleasant. The Wendigo segment distinguishes Algonquian traditions from later fiction. Reported encounters, hoaxes, and disputed evidence stay in context as each story reveals how a local fear becomes a legend that travels.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jeff the Killer's pale face and 'Go to sleep' became creepypasta shorthand for a nightmare. Thursday Thrills follows the fictional killer's origin stories and the image edits that turned him into internet folklore. Henrique Couto traces Sesseur, GameFuelTV, Japanese image boards, prettyFACE, and the 'White Powder' trail, then examines how a false story about a bullied girl became attached to the face. Jane the Killer and Homicidal Liu show the legend branching into new characters. Explore how altered pictures, conflicting memories, and rumors helped a made-up killer acquire a past.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eleven eggs are empty. The twelfth hatches a tiny human head on six spiderlike legs. In Odd Egg by Alex Grass, Maryellen accepts a free carton from a smiling stranger who claims a god lives inside it. Breakfast becomes a creature-horror nightmare as the thing grows, feeds, and changes, pulling her toward the mysterious Time of the Egg. This Weekly Spooky debut blends grotesque body horror with dark comedy and a gift that should never have been opened. Discover more of Alex Grass's weird fiction in Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror at http://www.infernaltramps.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Monster Squad, Cujo, and The Fly lead This Week in Horror History for August 10–16, 2026. A stalled car becomes a trap in Stephen King's rabid-dog nightmare, while The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country bring ghostly secrets, possession, and cosmic horror. Fred Dekker's monster-kid adventure takes the spotlight before David Cronenberg's The Fly marks its 40th anniversary as the weekly recommendation. Birthdays complete a tour from treehouse monster rules to Seth Brundle's disastrous experiment. Find a Halloween watch, from childhood adventure to tragic body horror.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Alexis St. Martin survived an 1822 gunshot wound with an opening into his stomach. William Beaumont used it to study digestion, lowering food on threads into a living man's body. Terrifying & True examines the medical breakthrough and the unequal relationship behind it: a surgeon who was also an employer, a labor contract requiring experiments, and a patient who negotiated, refused, and repeatedly left. Follow the history beyond the lurid image of a man with a hole in his stomach. When a discovery depends on someone's pain and economic dependence, how freely can that person consent?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A hurricane drives a desperate pair into an armed standoff. Elsewhere, three people race a storm to save an innocent man from execution. Unknown Broadcast brings together Hurricane, Flood on the Goodwins, Night of the Storm, and Man in the Storm for just over two hours of classic old-time radio suspense. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler follow a wartime Channel crossing, a closing execution deadline, and an embezzler hoping floodwater will hide his crime. Each forecast turns worse, and reaching shelter may only reveal the danger already waiting inside.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A flight repeats its fatal journey. A ghost ship offers rescue until the flesh-eating rats emerge. Four Weekly Spooky travel horror stories turn planes, ships, and highways into traps, with cannibal athletes facing a Wendigo transformation and a serial killer waiting at a truck stop. The Last Flight Out, Be Careful What You Eat, The Ship of the Cannibal Rats, and Love, Burgers, and the Open Road deliver over two hours of supernatural fiction and roadside terror. Stories by Charles Campbell, Rob Fields, and David O'Hanlon. When the journey becomes the threat, where can you get off?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Hell House LLC (2015) turns a Halloween haunted attraction into a found footage catastrophe at the Abaddon Hotel. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Stephen Cognetti's film on Cutting Deep into Horror, from clown mannequins and background movement to the camera logic that makes its fake documentary convincing. They compare its confined nightmare with The Houses October Built and follow the crew's preparations into the deadly opening night. Full spoilers, including the ending and final return to the hotel. Discover how a figure in the background can make you dread the next cut.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What if a monster swallowed the sun? The August 12, 2026 solar eclipse sets the stage for a Thursday Thrills journey through celestial dragons, Rahu, and the Norse wolves Sköll and Hati. Henrique Couto explores the folklore people used to explain a darkened sky, from noise meant to drive a creature away to fears that daylight might never return. Originally released before the eclipse, this episode also covers its path through Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, animal behavior, and viewing safety. Discover why an astronomical event became a story about hunger, danger, and the sun's survival.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A six-year-old girl who cannot speak is trying to feed her baby brother. In Let-Down by Morgan Moore, poverty, illness, neglect, and a father's gambling leave a family without food or formula. The child remembers that mothers make milk, but her incomplete understanding leads toward a terrible solution. Told through her perspective, this Weekly Spooky story turns an act of care into graphic body horror and domestic dread. The terror comes from the gap between what she believes will help and what the listener understands. A disturbing listen about a child left to solve an adult crisis.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Sixth Sense, Piranha, and Bodies Bodies Bodies lead This Week in Horror History for August 3–9, 2026. Revisit M. Night Shyamalan's ghost story, Joe Dante's killer-fish mayhem, and a hurricane party poisoned by suspicion. Joëlle Jones' Lady Killer brings a murderous homemaker to the comics calendar, while Antropophagus takes the deep-cut spotlight on a deserted Greek island. Horror birthdays and a recommendation for The Bat, starring Vincent Price, complete the week. From summer swimming holes to a mansion full of suspects, find a horror watch or read with a different kind of danger.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The USS Indianapolis sank on July 30, 1945, leaving its crew adrift with dehydration, exposure, and shark attacks. Only 316 survived. Terrifying & True follows the secret atomic-bomb delivery mission, the torpedoes from Japanese submarine I-58, and the failure to recognize that a warship was missing. Survivor accounts and the eventual rescue lead to Captain Charles McVay's court-martial and the campaign to clear his name. Beyond the famous Jaws monologue is a disaster whose shark death toll cannot be known. How did hundreds of men vanish between naval bases without an immediate search?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A plantation faces an army of ants, a blackmail victim considers murder, and an isolated doctor needs patients a little too badly. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio thrillers: A Choice of Witnesses by Henry Slesar, Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson, The King's Birthday by Louis Pelletier, and Patients for the Doctor. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler move from jungle survival to resistance in Nazi-occupied Denmark and a dangerous mountain cabin. Over two hours of suspense ask what happens when pride, guilt, or obsession closes the exits.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A film crew meets Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos in Colombia, and a werewolf discovers that anger can be more dangerous than a full moon. Four Weekly Spooky animal horror stories bring jungle survival and cursed pets close to home: Stay Hungry, Wolf Rage, My Dog, Doug, and Feline Troubles. A new house hides rats and a shape-shifting dog, while a calico cat's glowing eyes signal a threat to children. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Rob Fields, and Douglas Waltz. Nearly two hours of creature horror and dark comedy ask what happens when the animal you trust becomes the thing hunting you.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A ship drifts without its crew. A late-night phone call ends in a disappearance. Vanished Without a Trace gathers eight Terrifying & True investigations, from the Mary Celeste and Roanoke to Angela Hammond and Brandon Swanson. The Franklin Expedition, Dyatlov Pass, and the Bennington and Alaska Triangles complete over three hours of maritime and missing-person history. Evidence, theories, and regional folklore stay distinct as the cases move from Arctic ice to familiar roads. Follow the clues people left behind, and examine how unanswered questions can grow into legends of their own.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why is the best seat at a Hungry Ghost Festival performance left empty? Thursday Thrills explores Chinese ghost folklore and unseen guests honored in the seventh lunar month. Henrique Couto follows Singaporean getai, Taiwan's water lanterns, and Hong Kong's Yu Lan traditions, distinguishing Daoist Zhongyuan observances from Buddhist Yulanpen and ancestor remembrance. Food, incense, joss paper, and regional taboos reveal practices that reach beyond a scary story. Discover who the offerings are for, why some front rows stay vacant, and how communities make room for spirits in daily life.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Buster Crane's first love has returned, but the woman he still loves has no reflection. In The Ties That Bind by Rob Fields, a reunion at Strickfield University pulls Buster between childhood sweetheart Talia Mirren and Romy Jillian, a vampire who refuses to let him go. A confrontation in a crowded nightclub turns romance into a dangerous contest of jealousy, blood, and loyalty. This mature Weekly Spooky vampire story gives a second chance at love a supernatural price. Buster must face what he wants from each woman before a choice made that night binds more than their hearts.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Lost Boys, Jason Lives, and Fright Night bring vampires and resurrected slashers to This Week in Horror History for July 27–August 2, 2026. Revisit Santa Carla's nightlife, Tommy Jarvis' graveyard mistake, and the forbidden woods of The Village. Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild adds Métis folklore and a missing husband with a familiar face; The Collector takes the spotlight with a thief trapped inside someone else's murder plan. Birthdays and a Fright Night recommendation complete the week. Find your next watch or read where a neighbor, lover, or familiar place hides a threat.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Laughing Sal's mechanical cackle carries across the midway, but why does a carnival attraction feel so threatening? Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the funhouse figure's history in July 2026's Monthly Spooky. The strange-news roundup also visits Michigan's Hooga Hooga camp legend, a Japanese service investigating allegedly haunted homes, and UFO reports near Virginia. Michelle closes with a reported glitch involving a McDonald's glass and a duplicate with the same crack. From a manufactured laugh to a puzzling keepsake, the episode asks how familiar objects become unsettling.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A haunted bride, a village of ancient sorcery, and a wife becoming a cat bring Halloween to July on Unknown Broadcast. Six classic old-time radio dramas fill over three hours: Here Goes the Bride, Ancient Sorceries, The Lord of the Witch Doctors, Mirage, Cat Wife, and Beware of Tomorrow. Hear CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and Lights Out, with work by Algernon Blackwood, Arch Oboler, and John Dickson Carr. Expect gothic secrets, murder, and killer robots in a vintage horror marathon where the next voice on the radio may no longer sound entirely human.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bigfoot hunts a wind-farm guard, ancient vampires spend their anniversary in a closed mall, and a courier pedals through the zombie apocalypse. Four Weekly Spooky stories celebrate Summerween with creatures, dark comedy, and work that could cost more than a paycheck. A desperate manager's interview at a black-glass tower completes the lineup with a recruiter for Hell. Stories by Michael Kelso, Rob Fields, Michelle Antisocial, and Killian Crane. Nearly two hours of horror turn night shifts, deliveries, and a romantic evening into survival tests with monsters already on the premises.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Houses October Built (2014) follows five friends searching for America's most extreme haunted attractions, until masked performers follow them beyond the haunts. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore Bobby Roe's found footage film on Cutting Deep into Horror, tracing its documentary origins, real haunt performers, and the elusive Blue Skeleton. Full spoilers cover the ending, comparisons with Hell House LLC, and the boundary between a theatrical scare and abuse. Discover how a Halloween road trip turns the promise of manufactured fear into a question of who is in control.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks changed how Americans feared the water. Sydney's 1935 Shark Arm murder case began when a captive shark vomited a tattooed human arm. Henrique Couto follows both cases in this Shark Week edition of Thursday Thrills, separating disputed details from the evidence. The journey also examines the unverified Black Demon, the Stronsay Beast, and megalodon's place in prehistory. Real shark biology adds river hunters and long-lived Greenland sharks. Explore the history behind the headlines without treating folklore as proof that an extinct predator survives.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A howl tears through a Puerto Rico summer camp, and counselor Jonathan Edwards finds his dream job has been built over a supernatural danger. Camping With Chupacabra by Douglas Waltz sends him beyond Camp Clemente's cabins into a bat-filled cavern and a monster-hunting mission beneath the mountains. Wilderness skills, a Zippo lighter, and dynamite may be his best defense against the creatures waiting below. This Weekly Spooky horror story reimagines Chupacabra lore as pulpy creature fiction. Before Jonathan can keep the campers safe, he has to find out what their new home has disturbed.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Dracula, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea lead This Week in Horror History for July 20–26, 2026. Frank Langella's seductive vampire shares the calendar with The Hills Have Eyes, Jordan Peele's Nope, and Carrion, the game that lets you become the escaped monster. Stephen King's killer-machine siege takes the spotlight before engineered sharks turn an underwater laboratory into this week's recommendation. Birthdays round out a tour of gothic romance, desert terror, and science gone wrong. Find a summer watch or play where the machines, wildlife, or sky refuse to stay in the background.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Brian Barrett was himself online; the adults in the TalHotBlond romance were hiding behind invented identities. In 2006, the 22-year-old student and coach was murdered outside his workplace near Buffalo. Terrifying & True traces Thomas Montgomery's teenage Marine persona, Mary Shieler's use of her daughter's identity, and the jealousy that crossed from chatrooms into real violence. Messages, physical evidence, and the investigation reveal how the deception unraveled. Follow the case beyond its screen name to remember the young man whose future was taken by someone else's fantasy.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Music comes through a hotel wall, a private club witnesses impossible predictions, and spies carry deadly secrets aboard the Taurus Express. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Walls of Jericho, Three Good Witnesses, The Singing Walls, and The Avengers for over two hours of old-time radio suspense. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler move through psychic terror, wartime murder, amnesia, and stolen gold. Apparitions and guilt unsettle people who thought their crimes were hidden. Follow the clues from a hotel room to a betrayal the dead may refuse to leave alone.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A runaway opens scripture devoted to an imprisoned demon goddess, while a mercenary drags his cameraman into a cult's abandoned asylum. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories make ambition, cruelty, and curiosity dangerous: Sin, Gamble with the Devil, Breaking the Seal, and The Bad Schoolgirl. A witch's curse and vampire cheerleaders with soul-powered jewelry complete nearly two hours of occult horror and dark comedy. Stories by Rob Fields, David O'Hanlon, and Douglas Waltz. From a Catholic academy to Strickfield High, these characters reach for power without knowing what will reach back.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What if everyone mistakes your stillness for death? The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe follows a man whose catalepsy makes being buried alive an obsession. Weekly Spooky presents the complete reading, from the accounts that feed his fear to the vault, alarms, and escape devices he builds against it. Each safeguard promises control, yet his imagination keeps returning to a sealed coffin. This classic literary nightmare turns medical uncertainty into claustrophobic suspense. Enter Poe's story of a mind arranging its life around one terrible possibility: waking where no one can hear.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Trevor Henderson's Cartoon Cat turns the look of an animated friend into an internet horror nightmare. Thursday Thrills explores the fictional monster's rubber-hose style, distorted nostalgia, and creepypasta appeal, asking why a familiar cartoon grin can feel wrong when it appears outside the screen. The episode follows its imagery and folklore before an original story enters an abandoned mall after dark. Explore how playful shapes become threats when their rules stop making sense. Listen for the moment something that belongs in a drawing starts moving through a place you recognize.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A truck driver's nightmare shows a monster dragging him into the woods. Then his delivery route reaches the same bridge, and his daughter Angeline knows what is waiting there. Driving a Truck Can Be a Nightmare, Literally by Michael Kelso turns shared dreams into a warning that grows harder to ignore with every late run. This Weekly Spooky highway horror story puts a father's ordinary job between a child's premonition and a creature beside the road. Can knowing the next stop change what happens when he arrives? Explore Michael Kelso's books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Blair Witch Project, The Fly, and The Only Good Indians lead This Week in Horror History for July 13–19, 2026. Revisit the 1958 teleportation nightmare, Stephen Graham Jones' supernatural reckoning, the mutations of The Island of Dr. Moreau, and a vengeful killer whale in Orca. The Strain takes the spotlight with vampirism as an outbreak before the weekly recommendation enters Maryland's woods with three student filmmakers. Birthdays complete the week. Follow the path from scientific hubris to found footage, and the film that made fans wonder if its cameras had found something real.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Some Taos residents described a distant diesel engine that never stopped, even when investigators struggled to find its source. Terrifying & True follows the Taos Hum in New Mexico, from disrupted sleep and daily life to the 1993 investigation. Microphones, surveys, and hearing research tested a mystery heard by only part of the community. Industrial noise, tinnitus, auditory perception, and government-secrecy theories enter the discussion without becoming findings. Could one name be gathering several different experiences, and what would count as an answer for those who hear it?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A ship drifts with meals still waiting, and a secret club deals cards that choose who must die. Unknown Broadcast brings four old-time radio mysteries into over two hours of suspense: Sea Fever by Ian Martin, The Young Man with the Cream Tarts by Robert Louis Stevenson, Last Night by Cornell Woolrich, and Fool's Gold. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler follow a deserted vessel, a deadly game, a missing ranch guest, and a bank teller's planned theft. Each apparent escape conceals another trap, from the open Atlantic to a fortune that keeps slipping out of reach.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A stolen stop sign awakens a local terror, and a family's hunting tradition hides a bargain with a forest god. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn folklore and childish dares into dangerous encounters: The Legend of Oopsie Poopsie, The Stop-Sign Man, Ol' Bones, and Why Am I Here? From an Adirondack creature with a ridiculous name to a lonely boy's question for a Ouija board, each tale gives curiosity a price. Stories by Joe Solmo, Bryce Gibson, and Morgan Moore. Two hours of dark comedy, forest horror, and rituals ask which warnings are jokes and which mistakes cannot be laughed away.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A possessed child is hidden beneath a church, thieves interrupt a coven, and an investigator tracks a hellhound. Released for Evil Dead Burn's opening weekend, this Weekly Spooky collection gathers eight original horror stories into nearly five hours of demonic chaos. Cursed books, a haunted Texas inn, a high-school outbreak, and the demon goddess Hellweaver turn familiar places into battlegrounds. The stories share the film's appetite for occult mayhem while telling their own tales. Hear possession, witchcraft, and dark comedy, where even a foolish wish can open something dangerous.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Siren Head turns an emergency warning into something that may be calling you closer. Created by horror artist Trevor Henderson in 2018, the fictional creature spread through games, videos, and fan stories until it acquired the feel of a rural urban legend. Thursday Thrills follows the monster's distorted broadcasts and connection to analog horror, asking why a shape glimpsed across a dark field can be more frightening than a clear view. From sirens to lonely roads, explore how familiar sounds of safety become threats, and how an internet creation starts to feel like a reported sighting.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Something in Algonquin Park is listening for the next camper to move. In Branch Manager by Gary D, also known as Blue Fire Raging, three Toronto telemarketers trade their call centre for a weekend in the woods. Fog and snapped branches give way to shredded tents, missing friends, and a forest that seems to be crawling toward them. Kenny's escape from work becomes a struggle against a sound-sensitive creature rooted in the landscape. This Canadian wilderness horror story mixes body horror and dark comedy. Getting away from the noise of everyday life may mean learning how to stay silent.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Descent, Blood Feast, and MADiSON lead This Week in Horror History for July 6–12, 2026. Explore splatter cinema's bloody beginnings, an instant camera that invites horror into every shot, and a cave expedition trapped with something below. Fear Street Part Two: 1978 adds Camp Nightwing's slasher nightmare, while Burial Ground takes the spotlight with Italian zombie chaos. Birthdays and a Phantasm II recommendation bring the Tall Man and his silver spheres back onto the calendar. Find a watch or play where an escape route—a tunnel, a doorway, or an open road—may already be a trap.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Zona Heaster Shue's mother said a ghost revealed her daughter's murder; an exhumation supplied physical evidence. Terrifying & True revisits the 1897 Greenbrier Ghost case in West Virginia, where Mary Jane Heaster challenged a natural-death ruling and accused Zona's husband, Trout Shue. Follow the broken-neck findings, the trial, and the defense questioning that brought the apparition story before jurors. A murder conviction followed, but the ghost claim remains a claim. Examine how a mother's insistence forced a second look, and why the legend should never eclipse the woman who died.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A poet hiding in a department store discovers that someone already lives behind the displays. A missing apartment leaves five canaries as clues. Unknown Broadcast collects The Girl Who Found Things, Evening Primrose, Five Canaries in the Room, and The Other Woman for over two hours of old-time radio mystery. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler add an uncanny search for a missing woman and a jealous wife's plan aboard a private flight. Follow strange rules, impossible spaces, and assumptions, where finding what is hidden may leave you wishing it had stayed lost.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A waterfall campsite draws an ax-wielding threat, while a photographer's roadkill art puts two unsettling hitchhikers in his car. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories make isolation dangerous in Fortune Falls, Roadkill, Old Jerry, and The Rest Area. A Halloween prank leads into a recluse's haunt, and a lonely Ohio rest stop attracts an escaped murderer with an appetite. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Travis VanHoose, R. T. Raynaud, and Rob Fields. Over 90 minutes of supernatural revenge, cannibal horror, and dark comedy turn a scenic detour or joke into a decision someone may not survive.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A cursed football jersey promises a failing player greatness, then turns his rivalry into a demonic nightmare. Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields collects Friday Night Frights and all five parts of the camp-horror serial in one three-hour episode. Greg Branlake puts on Mick 'The Demon' Knight's 00 jersey; survivor Eddie 'Peewee' Richter later faces the returning threat at Camp Red Feather with the Strickfield Serpents. Follow the entire story from a desperate bid for football glory to summer training under siege. One uniform links two seasons, and the Demon still wants revenge.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A stranger stands silently near camp. A forest goes quiet, and something breathes outside a tent. Thursday Thrills takes a ride through supposedly firsthand hiking, camping, and park ranger stories gathered from online folklore threads. Henrique Couto explores cave drumming, nearby bison, predator instincts, and Miniwashitu of Missouri River tradition. These are unverified campfire accounts, shaped by isolation and the authority listeners attach to wilderness experience. Discover why a detail can make an anonymous story feel convincing, and why the woods leave so much room for doubt.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The final game at Camp Red Feather has a scoreboard measured in survival. Summer of the Demon Part 5 by Rob Fields brings Eddie Richter, Jessica Branlake, Charlie Thoss, and the survivors face to face with the curse behind the 00 jersey. Revelations about the Demon's return force Eddie into a brutal supernatural showdown, where the truth may not be enough to win. This concluding chapter delivers the payoff to Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial. Finish the story of a team whose summer training became a fight against something that intends to own far more than the field.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Day of the Dead, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and Mexican Gothic lead This Week in Horror History for June 29–July 5, 2026. George A. Romero's bunker nightmare meets Shinya Tsukamoto's industrial body horror and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's poisonous mansion. Empire of the Ants brings radioactive creature chaos, while Barbara Steele stars in the spotlight on The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Birthdays and a Tales of Terror recommendation complete the week with Poe, Vincent Price, and gothic revenge. Find a watch or read where the body, the home, or a refuge can turn against the people depending on it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Pied Piper of Hamelin led 130 children away, according to legend—but what lies behind that medieval story? Henrique Couto and Michelle explore migration, plague, and other proposed explanations in June 2026's Monthly Spooky. The news roundup visits a Slovakian mass grave, alleged ghostly marks in an Argentine shop, and the then-unfolding search for Gracie the giraffe in Texas. A reported disappearing basement closes the journey with a possible explanation. From old chronicles to modern accounts, follow the details that make a mystery endure even when its meaning remains disputed.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A village warns of a werewolf, and a London wax museum hides wartime murder among its motionless faces. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio mysteries from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler. Conspiracy to Defraud opens with narcotics agents and false identities; Taboo enters the Carpathians; Menace in Wax turns an exhibition into an espionage trap. Fog closes nearly two and a half hours of vintage suspense with a harbor killing. Follow the disguises from an undercover operation to a coastal crime, where a familiar face may be the least reliable clue.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A solar eclipse makes a Master Vampire dangerously human, while vampire punks turn a Cleveland strip club into a killing ground. Four Weekly Spooky stories explore undead life in Mortal Eclipse, Vampire Night, Stakes n' Shoguns, and Convenience Store Vampire. A samurai-movie outing collides with bats and drunken bloodsuckers, and a night clerk meets a woman who never rings the doorbell. Stories by Rob Fields, Joe Ruston, Dan Wilder, and Douglas Waltz. Over three hours of vampire horror and dark comedy ask what immortality is worth when the wrong stranger walks through the door.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Johnny Gosch's disappearance and the Keddie Cabin murders anchor a six-hour journey through cases, memory, and modern legend. This ten-part collection also examines the Mandela Effect, Men in Black reports, and the Angikuni Lake disappearance story, among mysteries where evidence and repetition pull in different directions. Terrifying & True distinguishes documented crimes from paranormal claims and folklore while exploring why each subject keeps attracting theories. Settle in for a listening session that asks how missing facts, shared memories, and retold encounters become stories.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Walt Disney was cremated, yet a legend still places him in a frozen chamber beneath Disneyland. Henrique Couto traces the cryonics rumor on Thursday Thrills, from Disney's futuristic public image to theme-park tunnels, tabloid repetition, and early preservation experiments. The documented record leads to Forest Lawn in Glendale; the story keeps returning to Pirates of the Caribbean. Audio-Animatronics add another way a creator can seem present after death. Explore why this disproven claim survived, and how technology and storytelling gave a famous life an imaginary unfinished ending.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eddie Richter wakes injured at Camp Red Feather with a dangerous possibility: the Demon may have a weakness. Summer of the Demon Part 4 by Rob Fields pushes the Strickfield Serpents toward another deadly scrimmage as teammates grow suspicious and storm clouds gather. Knowing how to hurt the creature is only the beginning; surviving long enough to try is harder. This penultimate chapter of the football horror serial brings the cursed 00 jersey, camp tension, and a desperate plan together. Follow Eddie into the confrontation that sets up the finale, with the team's trust already fraying.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Thing, 28 Days Later, and The Omen bring mistrust to This Week in Horror History for June 22–28, 2026. A haunted hotel room in 1408 and Quake's gothic corridors join empty London streets and an Antichrist hidden behind privilege. John Carpenter's The Thing takes the spotlight with Antarctic isolation, imitation, and Rob Bottin's effects. Horror birthdays and a Twilight Zone: The Movie recommendation complete a week where safety is difficult to recognize. Revisit the films and game that turn a room, a family, or a trusted companion into something you can no longer take at face value.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Brian Shaffer was last seen near closing time at a Columbus bar on April 1, 2006. The Ohio State medical student's disappearance drew attention to footage that did not clearly show him leaving. Terrifying & True examines the Ugly Tuna Saloona, camera blind spots, searches, and the theories that grew around the missing images. It remains a missing-person investigation, with a family and loved ones behind every unanswered question. Follow what the record establishes and where it stops, without turning incomplete camera coverage into proof that someone could not have left the building.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A bedridden woman hears a murder plot on a crossed telephone line, and a ventriloquist's dummy seems to speak for itself. Unknown Broadcast gathers And Nothing But the Truth, Out of This World, Sorry, Wrong Number, and Jealousy for over two hours of old-time radio suspense. Agnes Moorehead's calls join a father's effort to hide a hit-and-run, a Dead of Night-inspired stage nightmare, and a Whistler tale of suspicion and poisoned love. Voices carry warnings, confessions, and lies. Listen as people try to control what others hear, only to find the most dangerous message getting through.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A babysitter faces a killer while hiding secrets of her own, and teenagers approach a bridge haunted by a presence searching for a child. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn routine jobs into traps: Angel in Babysitting, The Trouble with Cousins, The Babysitter, and Cry Baby Bridge. Family tensions, hidden experiments, and Strickfield folklore move the collection from slasher suspense to mad science and ghostly encounters. Stories by Rob Fields and Joe Solmo. Over 90 minutes of horror ask what happens when looking after someone else means discovering a danger already inside the home.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Rodney Alcala appeared on a dating show; Henry Lee Lucas turned confessions into a maze of truth and manipulation. Six Terrifying & True investigations examine how danger can hide in plain sight. Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Charlie Brandt, and Texarkana's Phantom Killer complete over three hours of crime history, from Wisconsin to Sacramento. The collection separates documented violence from false claims, sensational nicknames, and the legends that grow around unresolved murders. Follow the evidence and missed warnings that make these cases more complicated than the monsters they inspired.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How does a feared monster become a town landmark? Bigfoot, Mothman, Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie lead Thursday Thrills through the places that shaped their legends. Henrique Couto follows Pacific Northwest forests, Loch Ness, Puerto Rico, Point Pleasant, and New Jersey's Pine Barrens, then looks at the museums, festivals, and souvenirs built around disputed encounters. The focus is folklore and regional identity, with sightings kept separate from verified zoology. Discover why communities sometimes embrace the very creature once blamed for making the landscape frightening.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Demon wears Greg Branlake's cursed jersey—but doesn't recognize Greg's sister. Who is stalking Camp Red Feather? Summer of the Demon Part 3 by Rob Fields sends Eddie 'Peewee' Richter and Jessica after answers as another attack tears through football practice. Their search for Greg's former girlfriend leads away from camp, but distance offers no guarantee of safety. This middle chapter of Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial follows the cursed 00 jersey from the field into family secrets. A new lead could expose the monster's identity—or put Eddie directly in its path.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Psycho, Jaws 2, and Lifeforce lead This Week in Horror History for June 15–21, 2026. Revisit the Bates Motel, Amity Island's return to shark panic, Batman Returns' gothic Gotham, and World War Z's rushing zombie crowds. Tobe Hooper's space-vampire spectacle takes the deep-cut spotlight with Halley's Comet and a London outbreak. Birthdays and Hammer's Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, round out the calendar. From a motel nightmare to a city under siege, explore how horror grew into a summer event while keeping room for strange cult films and candlelit vampire dread.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Highway of Tears carries decades of loss along Highway 16 in northern British Columbia, where women and girls, many Indigenous, have disappeared or been murdered. Terrifying & True examines the cases alongside limited transportation, remote geography, racism, and failures of investigation and media attention. Families and advocates have fought to keep names, patterns, and questions visible. This episode centers the people behind the road's haunting reputation and the conditions that put them at risk. Hear why accountability and safer travel remain part of the demand for answers.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An ancient-looking skeleton has fresh hands, and a condemned man stands on Owl Creek Bridge. Unknown Broadcast collects nearly two and a half hours of old-time radio mystery: Dig Me Deadly, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble, and Double Cross. Detective Claudia Trubshaw follows secrets in the sand; John Dickson Carr's Suspense drama brings witchcraft language and murder backstage; The Whistler turns a criminal scheme against its planners. From an excavation to the gallows, follow people trying to outwit a fate that may be closer than they understand.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A half-vampire agent returns to Ghoul School to find a death cult counting down to midnight. Three Weekly Spooky stories mix dark fantasy, folk horror, and occult action: New Year's Evil from the Case Files of Caroline Quinn by Mike Ashkewe, Hermit by Mike Mann, and Fool's Hill by Bruce Haney. A woodland healer follows black ichor through a poisoned forest, while an Oregon folklore writer investigates disappearances around a feared hill. From undead servants to hungry legends, these tales send investigators into places where the old stories may be warnings they should have heeded.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Seven men shut out a plague, then a shadow enters the room they thought was sealed. Shadow, A Fable by Edgar Allan Poe, also known as Shadow—A Parable, gathers survivors around wine, candles, and the shrouded body of Zoilus. Outside, Ptolemais is dying; inside, the men try to drink away what they know. A shape on the curtains gives their fear a presence no locked door can explain. This brief Weekly Spooky gothic reading turns isolation and grief into supernatural dread. Listen as Poe asks what remains inside a refuge when the people taking shelter bring the memory of death with them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Did a camera catch Champ on Lake Champlain, or did distance and perspective create a convincing shape? Thursday Thrills examines footage filmmakers Richard Rossi and Kelly Tabor say contains the legendary lake monster, keeping their claim separate from zoological proof. Henrique Couto places it beside Loch Ness searches, the Bear Lake Monster, Texas' Lake Worth reports, and sewer-alligator lore. Wakes, logs, reflections, and partial views offer other ways to read the images. Explore why deep water makes scale so hard to judge, and why one ambiguous glimpse can keep a legend alive.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A junk shop called Tinkers may hold the beginning of the 00 jersey's curse. In Summer of the Demon Part 2 by Rob Fields, Greg Branlake's parents give Eddie 'Peewee' Richter a new lead while Camp Red Feather suffers another attack. Jessica arrives seeking answers about her brother, his journals, and the mysterious Vicious Vixen. The investigation offers a way forward, but the Demon can strike in daylight as easily as darkness. Continue Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial as family revelations widen the mystery and camp offers fewer safe places with every return to the field.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Gremlins, Ghostbusters, and The Shining lead This Week in Horror History for June 8–14, 2026. Mogwai chaos and paranormal comedy share the calendar with The Shining's wider release and The Conjuring 2's Enfield nightmare. Poltergeist III takes the spotlight inside a mirror-filled Chicago high-rise, while Larry Cohen's The Stuff becomes the week's recommendation with a dessert that consumes its customers. Horror birthdays complete a trip through homes, hotels, and grocery aisles. Find a watch where comfort turns against you, from a cute pet to something waiting in the refrigerator.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ten-year-old Joseph Hall killed his sleeping father in Riverside, California, in 2011. Terrifying & True examines Jeffrey Hall's neo-Nazi extremism, access to guns, allegations of abuse, and the household conditions surrounding the shooting. The case moves from childhood trauma to juvenile court, where questions about understanding wrongdoing and Miranda rights carried weight. Follow the trial and appeals behind the headlines, with the tragedy kept in view. What does accountability mean when a child commits lethal violence, and how should the adults around him enter that question?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A clock marked 13 can stop time, but its owner may not like the price. Unknown Broadcast gathers Time and Again, Wild Oranges, The Cross-Eyed Bear, and The Penalty for nearly two and a half hours of old-time radio suspense. A ruined Georgia plantation hides a knife-wielding threat; a classified ad offers a woman money for dangerous work; and a supposed kidnapping draws The Whistler into a maze of false identities. Cursed machinery, isolation, inheritance, and deception link bargains that turn hostile. Every character sees an opportunity, but someone else may have set its terms.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A psychiatrist returns from an attack as something inhuman, dinosaurs escape a hidden facility, and criminals hang above a pack of feral hogs. Four Weekly Spooky stories deliver just over two hours of body horror, creature attacks, and pulp suspense. Michael Kelso's asylum-doctor nightmare joins Night of the Tyrants and Hog Wild by David O'Hanlon, plus Warehouse of Blood by Shane Migliavacca. A reporter's missing-person lead completes the collection behind locked warehouse doors. From a wrecked car to a laboratory, each escape depends on learning what is waiting on the other side.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

REC (2007) traps a television crew inside a quarantined Barcelona apartment building, where a routine emergency becomes a fight to survive. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's Spanish found footage film on Cutting Deep into Horror. They examine the camera logic, tightening corridors, infected attacks, and the night-vision climax, with comparisons to the American remake Quarantine. Full spoilers, including the final reveal. Discover how a film can make chaotic footage readable while keeping every stairwell and patch of darkness threatening.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Would you follow a light that seems to follow you? Thursday Thrills explores Australia's Min Min Light, the Marfa Lights of West Texas, and the Hornet or Joplin Spook Light along the Devil's Promenade. Reported roadside encounters meet folklore, paranormal tourism, and possible explanations involving headlights, mirages, and temperature inversions. A fictional ghost-light encounter then turns those fears into a story of its own. Travel from outback roads to U.S. viewing spots and consider how darkness, distance, and expectation shape what people see when a glow refuses to make sense.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eddie 'Peewee' Richter survived a football rival's monstrous transformation. At Camp Red Feather, he discovers the nightmare has followed him into summer. Summer of the Demon Part 1 by Rob Fields opens a five-part Weekly Spooky horror serial with a brutal attack and the return of the cursed 00 jersey. Eddie should be training for football with the Strickfield Serpents; instead, he must confront a creature seeking revenge for the championship game. Start the story as camp routines give way to fear, and a familiar uniform becomes the first clue to a threat that survived the final whistle.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Poltergeist turns a suburban home into a trap, while Psycho II brings Norman Bates back to the Bates Motel. This Week in Horror History explores June 1–7 through haunted houses, killer sequels, and the 6/6/06 release of The Omen remake. The Purge asks what happens when violence becomes legal for a night, and Splice makes genetic engineering a nightmare of creation and responsibility. Plus, horror birthdays include Robert Englund and Danielle Harris, and The Loved Ones supplies a vicious prom-night recommendation. Find your next watch among families and homes that cannot keep anyone safe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Katarzyna Zowada vanished in Krakow, Poland, in 1998. The discovery of her remains in the Vistula River turned a missing-person search into a murder investigation that would span decades. Terrifying & True follows the forensic evidence, renewed searches by Poland's Archiwum X investigators, and a court history that includes a conviction and an acquittal. This June 2026 episode examines why suspicion and disturbing evidence do not automatically establish who committed a crime. Behind the case is a young student and a family left seeking answers about the life taken from them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A man's imagined perfect woman becomes dangerously real, and a professor is pursued by an unseen presence that will not accept rejection. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio mysteries: Out of Focus, How Love Came to Professor Guildea, Banquo's Chair, and Decision. More than two hours of vintage suspense lead from obsessive fantasy to a Scotland Yard inspector's trap and The Whistler's cruel consequences. An empty chair may be enough to shake a murder suspect—but is guilt the only thing joining the table? Listen for the moment a private fear begins taking up space in the room.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An antique typewriter makes a teenage writer's revenge real, while portals open onto a vampire-ruled Earth. Three Weekly Spooky sci-fi horror stories turn familiar technology into a threat: Ghost in the Machine by Shane Migliavacca, plus Portals and Hunter Black by Rob Fields. A grieving girl encounters a mysterious digital woman, heroes fight across parallel worlds, and a writer loses control of the killer he imagined. Over three hours of haunted technology, alternate dimensions, and dark fantasy ask what happens when the machine stops obeying—and the things it creates can reach you.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Paranormal Activity (2007) makes a bedroom camera an invitation to watch for something you hope will never appear. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Oren Peli's found footage horror film, starring Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, on Cutting Deep into Horror. They explore nighttime sounds, long silences, and the relationship tensions that make the haunting feel personal. How does a nearly motionless shot turn waiting into dread? Full spoilers, including the theatrical and alternate endings, with comparisons to Cloverfield and a look at the film's microbudget success.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Backrooms turns empty yellow rooms and buzzing fluorescent lights into a place you might never escape. Thursday Thrills explores the internet horror legend, from its 2019 message-board origins to Kane Pixels' found footage series and the A24 film Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons. This May 2026 episode looks at liminal spaces, analog horror, and the unsettling familiarity of corridors that seem to lead nowhere. Why can an empty building feel more threatening than a visible monster? Follow the creepypasta that made getting lost feel like slipping out of reality itself.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Will follows his crush Travis into the winter woods for a late-night smoke. Inside an abandoned railway tunnel, movement in the shadows makes their private hideaway feel occupied. The Thing That Lurks in the Tunnel by Bruce Haney turns teenage attraction and betrayal into a Weekly Spooky creature horror story. As Travis reveals his cruelty, Will must decide whether to follow the only flashlight farther into the dark or risk finding his own way out. A claustrophobic listen for fans of abandoned places, wilderness horror, and coming-of-age nightmares. What else is living in the tunnel?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Alien traps a crew aboard the Nostromo, while Vecna turns memory into a weapon in Stranger Things 4. This Week in Horror History revisits May 25–31 through Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror, Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, the backwoods pursuit of Wrong Turn, and Octavia Spencer's basement hospitality in Ma. From the xenomorph to a curse that follows you home, explore how these films and series make escape feel impossible. Plus, celebrate horror icons including Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Your next horror watch may begin with a place that looks safe enough to enter.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ohio's Loveland Frogman meets the USS Indianapolis in this May 2026 Monthly Spooky. Henrique Couto and Michelle discuss cryptid sightings and UFO reports, then turn to the documented wartime sinking and the sailors' struggle against thirst, exposure, and sharks. The conversation also takes in a burial jar, a coyote's swim to Alcatraz, and a reported celebrity haunting. Memorial Day history sits alongside strange headlines and horror-fan conversation, with episode 400 and Cinema Wasteland in the mix. Follow the difference between a frightening record and a story people want to believe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A poet hides in a department store after closing and discovers people who may never let him leave. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Thing Inside, Evening Primrose, Philomel Cottage, and The Body Off Billingsgate. A glass ball brings danger to a New England village, a country marriage conceals a murderous possibility, and a body on the docks draws Scotland Yard into false identities and stolen money. More than two hours of vintage horror and mystery turn shops and homes into places of confinement. What happens when the refuge you chose becomes the trap?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A desert motel shelters escaped killers, a storm sends a woman into Grimm Manor, and a murderer stalks prom night at Strickfield High. Three Weekly Spooky horror stories deliver nearly four hours of roadside suspense, haunted-house puzzles, and slasher terror. Incident at Isotop Inn by Shane Migliavacca joins Murder Mansion and Prom Queen Killer by Rob Fields. Follow fugitives and strange lights, Bethany Martinson's search through ghostly traps, and a deadly rivalry for the crown. When every shelter has its own secrets, surviving the storm may only get you as far as the next locked door.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cloverfield (2008) drops a handheld camera into a monster attack on New York City. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Matt Reeves' found footage film, written by Drew Goddard and produced by J. J. Abrams. On Cutting Deep into Horror, they revisit the mysterious teaser, Statue of Liberty wreckage, subway panic, and disaster imagery that made the attack feel immediate. Full spoilers, including the ending and Coney Island clue. How does a giant creature stay frightening when the camera can barely find it? Film page: https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Ohio State Reformatory, Franklin Castle, and Moonville Tunnel turn a road trip into a tour of Ohio ghost lore. Thursday Thrills explores the prison seen in The Shawshank Redemption, Cleveland's gothic mansion, and a railroad tunnel where local legends linger in the dark. Follow the history behind these locations and the reported hauntings that draw paranormal visitors. What makes a real building feel like a horror-film set, and how much of that feeling comes from the stories we bring with us? A spooky travel listen for fans of haunted places, abandoned railways, and Ohio folklore.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The callers on Lost in the Void know more than overnight radio host Randall Burr expects—and their stories are starting to connect. Final Broadcast by Henrique Couto celebrates Weekly Spooky's 400th episode with a feature-length horror audio drama featuring Duane Whitaker of Pulp Fiction and The Devil's Rejects. Haunted highways, impossible encounters, and voices reaching places they shouldn't turn a call-in show into a threat to the man at the microphone. As the signal slips beyond his control, Randall must work out who is really listening. Stay tuned for a night inside the static.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Shining opens the doors of the Overlook Hotel, while Alien 3 strands Ripley on a prison colony. This Week in Horror History explores May 18–24 through Stanley Kubrick's Stephen King adaptation, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and Poltergeist II: The Other Side. Tales from the Hood brings supernatural punishment and social horror to the deep-cut spotlight, and The Possession of Joel Delaney offers a next watch. With Vincent Price's revenge and Reverend Kane's unwelcome return, this week's films ask what happens when the nightmare follows you into the place you hoped would save you.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Drivers near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, reported a wolf-headed figure beside Bray Road. Linda Godfrey's reporting helped turn those accounts into the Beast of Bray Road, one of America's best-known dogman legends. Terrifying & True follows the early-1990s sightings, the newspaper investigation, and the werewolf folklore that gathered around a rural road. Witness claims meet possible explanations involving bears, wolves, and mistaken identity, with no physical proof establishing a monster. What makes a frightening roadside encounter become a legend that survives long after the headlights pass?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A writer's creation refuses to stay on the page, and a stranger steps through a door he may not be allowed to leave. Unknown Broadcast gathers Three Women, Sire de Maletroit's Door, The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson, and The Man Who Waited. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense move through obsessive fiction, a gothic trap involving marriage and honor, a doctor's confession, and a household poisoned by jealousy. These four vintage mysteries make letters, invitations, and quiet patience dangerous. Listen for the moment a polite exchange becomes a threat no one can take back.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A delivery truck's camera records a passenger the driver cannot see. Four Weekly Spooky summer horror stories turn work and vacations into monster encounters: I Worked in a Museum of Oddities Until the Oddest Thing Happened to Me, Summer Slaycation, I Used to Drive a Delivery Truck, Until the Incident, and Bella's Holiday. Michael Kelso, David O'Hanlon, and Rob Fields bring cryptid bites, swamp experiments, phantom passengers, and a beachside werewolf conspiracy into over two hours of fiction. Before heading out, meet the dangers waiting beyond the museum exhibit and the open road.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bloody Mary waits in the mirror, sleep paralysis brings waking terror, and Kansas City's Room 1046 holds an unsolved murder. Seven Terrifying & True investigations connect these subjects with the Poltergeist film curse, chain letters, the Corpsewood Manor murders, and the Herrmann family poltergeist reports. This collection explores how rumors grow around real deaths, frightening experiences, and homes. Over two and a half hours of folklore, dark history, and true crime ask why some stories keep spreading. Reported hauntings and curse legends remain distinct from documented events.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Meredith Ridley survives high school on her own terms—until jealousy sends her into the Backwoods of Strickfield and leaves her for dead. In Undead Triangle by Rob Fields, she returns from the lake with a hunger that makes ordinary teenage revenge look tame. Lita Hallaway's rivalry becomes a zombie nightmare as other figures rise and old relationships refuse to stay buried. This Weekly Spooky story mixes teen horror, body horror, and splatter comedy, from the school corridors to junkyard carnage. When the dead still want love and payback, who gets to decide that the relationship is over?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jason Voorhees faces telekinesis in Friday the 13th Part VII, while Firestarter turns a child's power into a government weapon. This Week in Horror History explores May 11–17 through Dracula's Daughter, 28 Weeks Later, Godzilla (2014), and Stephen King's fire-starting nightmare. Follow vampire inheritance, a failed quarantine, and the launch of the MonsterVerse, then revisit The Strangers: Chapter 1 for a masked home-invasion recommendation. From Universal Monsters to modern outbreak horror, these anniversaries show how an old fear changes shape—and finds another generation to frighten.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Setagaya family murders left blood, fingerprints, and clothing behind—but no identified killer. On the night of December 30–31, 2000, four members of the Miyazawa family were killed in their Tokyo home. Terrifying & True follows the forensic trail, the offender's reported behavior inside the house, and the theories that have failed to turn evidence into a name. How can many traces survive while the person who left them remains unknown? This Japanese true crime investigation keeps the family at its center and separates clues from speculation about who committed the murders.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A university lecture opens a door to black magic, while escaped cargo turns a ship's dark corners into hiding places for death. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Sending, A Shipment of Mute Fate, The Diary of Sophronia Winters, and Blind Alley. A lonely woman's romance grows threatening, and a concealed body draws a wealthy family into a trap of guilt and secrets. Over two hours of vintage horror and crime suspense move from occult bargains to dangers that are entirely human. Listen as an invitation, voyage, or new relationship begins closing off the exits.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A father-daughter road trip breaks down, a security job leads beneath a church, and an overnight gas station hides a secret. Four Weekly Spooky backwoods horror stories gather Strike-Out!, I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening, Bite Me, and I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret. Morgan Moore, Michael Kelso, and David O'Hanlon take you through vanished workers, an Ozark creature attack, and a clerk's growing suspicion of his employer. Over two hours of survival horror turn the next roadside stop into somewhere you may never leave.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Mary Mallon felt healthy while the households where she cooked suffered typhoid outbreaks. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True revisits Typhoid Mary, George Soper's investigation, and the forced quarantine on New York's North Brother Island. Follow the 1906 Oyster Bay outbreak, her fight against confinement, and the return to cooking that led to another deadly outbreak. The medical mystery becomes a difficult question about public safety, personal freedom, and stigma. How do you convince someone she can spread a disease she cannot feel—and what happens when persuasion gives way to force?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ten dollars an hour to carry concrete blocks sounds like easy summer money—until the blocks begin to reveal what they're made of. Concrete Evidence by Gary D of Ontario, Canada follows three broke teens near Toronto working for a secretive man building a pink concrete house. Frank keeps his shed locked and wheels in tools and bulging garbage bags while the boys haul blocks across the field. This first-person horror story blends dark humor, body horror, and a suspected killer's hidden evidence. As curiosity turns to dread, how much of the house have they already helped him build?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Friday the 13th sends you back to Camp Crystal Lake, while Crow Country invites you into an abandoned amusement park. This Week in Horror History explores May 4–10 through camp slashers, House of Wax (2005), and Nailbiter, the comic about a town that produces serial killers. The Burning takes the deep-cut spotlight with Tom Savini's effects and a garden-shear nightmare. For a change of pace, The Mummy (1999) brings Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and undead adventure. Find a film, comic, or survival horror game where a holiday destination hides something that wants you to stay permanently.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

In 1848, strange knocks in a Hydesville, New York farmhouse helped launch the Fox sisters into the history of Spiritualism. Maggie and Kate claimed the dead could answer; their sister Leah helped bring the performances to audiences. Terrifying & True follows the rappings, the demand for messages from lost loved ones, and Maggie's 1888 confession that physical tricks produced the sounds. Behind the famous ghost story lie grief, family pressure, celebrity, and exploitation. Why did the promise of one more conversation prove so powerful—even when its messenger said it was a deception?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A man's refuge becomes a trap of espionage and betrayal, while an impossible rosebush suggests something buried beneath the ordinary. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Lady Was a Tiger, Destiny, Uncle Henry's Rosebush, and The Horla. More than two hours of vintage suspense move from murder and tightening circumstances into the fear of an unseen intelligence. These mysteries turn the urge to escape into a question of whether the danger is outside the house or inside the mind. Settle in for crime, psychological horror, and a final descent into the uncanny.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A New Year's time rip fractures reality, and a dead clown's funeral becomes a hunt governed by an ancient code. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather Saint Jimmy by Dan Wilder, The Fun in Funerals and The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor by David O'Hanlon, and Last Stand by Rob Fields. Alternate timelines, occult books, and Hellweaver's threat to the multiverse turn survival into a struggle against rules that keep changing. Over two hours of cosmic horror, science fiction, and grotesque comedy follow people who touch something impossible—and discover that reality may not put itself back together.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

One Cut of the Dead (2017) starts as a scrappy Japanese zombie film and rewards anyone who stays with its strange choices. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Shinichiro Ueda's horror-comedy on Cutting Deep into Horror, exploring structure, crew mishaps, and the affection behind its portrait of low-budget filmmaking. How does apparent chaos become a carefully built payoff? Full spoilers: watch the movie first to preserve its surprises, then join the conversation about making art when everything goes wrong. Film page: https://www.amcplus.com/movies...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Curtis Tucker fears his family's unfinished basement. Then his father reveals a hidden tunnel once used by the Underground Railroad, and fear gives way to a need to know where it goes. Come On In by Morgan Moore follows the boy downstairs on a rainy night with a flashlight and a plan to face his nightmares. Inside the wooden shed, the way forward leads beneath the house and into darkness he cannot see through. This Weekly Spooky horror story turns a familiar childhood fear into a claustrophobic journey. How far would you crawl to prove there was never anything to be afraid of?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Craft gives teenage outsiders dangerous power, while The Hunger turns immortality into a vampire's trap. This Week in Horror History explores April 27–May 3 through Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Creepshow 2, and the faux true-crime nightmare of The Poughkeepsie Tapes. David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, Stephen King, and George Romero connect a week of monster cinema, occult revenge, and anthology horror. The Day of the Triffids adds a killer-plant apocalypse to the watchlist. Discover how a giant monster, a handheld camera, or an ordinary lake can make the familiar world unsafe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Lake Lanier's Lady of the Lake legend floats above a history of displaced communities, drownings, and boating danger. This April 2026 Monthly Spooky explores the Georgia reservoir's haunted reputation, Captain Dave's local ghost stories, and the gap between a curse and real hazards on the water. The news conversation also visits Pluckley, England, reported lights near Lake Ontario, and a hot-air balloon's landing. Follow the stories that turn a popular destination into a place people fear after dark, while keeping local folklore separate from the tragedies that helped shape it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A woman desperate for a child seeks a bargain from a dealer in the macabre, while an escape from Noumea tests how far men will go to survive. Unknown Broadcast gathers five old-time radio dramas: Mother Love, The Weakling, Will You Walk into My Parlor, Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer, and John Russell's The Fourth Man. Over two hours of vintage suspense connect supernatural promises, nightclub trouble, murder, and guilt with stories from Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, and Escape. Listen as longing becomes a liability and every offer of a way out begins to carry a price no one expected.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A summoned hellhound has murder on its leash, and a school trip runs into El Chupacabra. Four Weekly Spooky monster stories gather The Hellhowler by Joe Solmo, The Monster's Not Real by Charles Campbell, The Beast of Roca de Vaca by Morgan Moore, and Future Taibon by Rob Fields. A paranormal investigator follows occult trouble, South African documentarians face an unknown predator, and Cassillia Taibon awakens among future mutations. More than three hours of creature horror and supernatural action ask how you survive when the beast has powers your defenses were never built to stop.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Corazon Amurao hid beneath a bed while Richard Speck murdered eight nurses in Chicago in 1966. Her survival and testimony became central to the case against him. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True follows the South Side townhouse attack, the manhunt, the trial, and the later reversal of Speck's death sentence. The episode also examines revelations from his prison years and the lasting impact on the victims' families and the city. A historical true crime account focused on the lives destroyed, the witness who could identify the killer, and how the evidence brought him before a jury.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A synthetic love hormone turns a student into a ravenous monster—and traps the man who wanted her inside the science building. Chemically Imbalanced: A (Sort-of) Love Story by Rob Fields brings mad science to Strickfield University, where years of obsession become a problem no laboratory door can solve. This Weekly Spooky horror story mixes body horror, infected romance, and dark comedy as a supposed shortcut to desire spins out of control. He finally has her attention, but surviving it is another matter. Listen to a college nightmare about getting exactly what you thought you wanted.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Silent Hill hides terror in the ash, Vacancy makes a motel room a death trap, and The Dark Half gives a writer a murderous double. This Week in Horror History explores April 20–26 through Stephen King, George A. Romero, and horror that turns ordinary places against their occupants. Michael Caine faces The Hand, Until Dawn (2025) brings repeated-night terror to the screen, and I Trapped the Devil supplies a paranoid next-watch recommendation. From a roadside stop to a basement no one should open, discover films where familiar surroundings become the first warning that something is wrong.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Black Shuck's legend places a terrifying black dog inside the churches of Bungay and Blythburgh during the Suffolk storm of August 4, 1577. Terrifying & True explores the reported apparition, deaths, scorched-door stories, and the disaster behind one of England's best-known phantom hounds. Follow the accounts that turned violent weather into a tale of the devil, then compare the legend with grounded explanations and Britain's wider black-dog folklore. What happens when a community's fear of a real storm takes an animal shape—and keeps roaming long after the skies have cleared?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A cursed ring leads into family secrets, a bride disappears, and the dream of impossible wealth begins to look like a prison. Unknown Broadcast gathers A Ring of Roses, The Bride Vanishes, Avarice, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense move from plague lore and gothic mystery to The Whistler's murderous greed and Escape's dangerous world of riches. These four vintage dramas follow people drawn toward something they believe will make life better. When love, inheritance, and money become traps, how much would you surrender to get back out?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A movie night opens a doorway to a vampire-ruled Strickfield, and a drunken ritual summons the wrong lover. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather I'm from a Small Town That No Longer Exists. No One Is Allowed to Know Why by Michael Kelso, Doorway to Horror and Newborn by Rob Fields, and Love Conquers All by Joe Solmo. Vanished neighbors, cursed fields, and a vampire's first hunger turn familiar places deadly. Nearly three hours of small-town horror, supernatural action, and dark comedy follow people who cross a boundary without knowing the cost. The way home may no longer lead to your world.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Creep (2014) makes a paid filming job feel like an invitation you should never have accepted. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Patrick Brice's found footage horror film, starring Brice and Mark Duplass, on Cutting Deep into Horror. They explore how Josef uses warmth, awkwardness, and vulnerability to push past Aaron's boundaries, with Peachfuzz and the ending included in this full-spoiler discussion. The hosts connect the film's manipulation to their videography work. Discover why a friendly request can feel more threatening than a warning—and why the camera keeps rolling.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A new painting of a witch seems to know what is happening inside its creator's house—and what may happen next. I Painted a Witch by Bruce Haney turns an ordinary evening into a supernatural horror story about cursed art, domestic fear, and a home that no longer feels private. As the woman studies her new artwork, its connection to her life becomes harder to dismiss. This Weekly Spooky tale blends witch horror with the dread of an intruder drawing closer. Each new detail makes the house feel less secure. Is she looking at a warning, or watching something decide what comes next?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

American Psycho hides violence behind a polished smile, while Jakob's Wife turns a troubled marriage into vampire horror. This Week in Horror History explores April 13–19 through Mary Harron's satire, The Amityville Horror (2005), Sker Ritual, and Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem. Barbara Crampton, haunted-house dread, Welsh folklore, and witchcraft connect a week of films and survival horror gaming. Green Room adds a brutal punk-band siege to the watchlist. From a respectable apartment to a venue with no safe exit, discover what happens when the setting itself becomes part of the threat.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two electronics technicians were found dead on a hillside in Niterói, Brazil, in 1966, with homemade lead eye masks and a note about capsules and a signal. Terrifying & True explores the Lead Masks Case, following Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz to Morro do Vintém and the investigation that failed to establish a cause of death. Witness reports and missing pieces fueled theories of poisoning, spiritualist experiments, UFOs, and murder. Which clues are documented, and which explanations depend on assumptions? Follow an unresolved case whose objects offer no easy answer.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A veteran cannot leave the war behind, and a skeptical man confronts a threat that reason may not keep away. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Bullet, Pollock and the Porroh Man, A Passage to Benares, and Justice. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense travel through wartime guilt, occult fear, death, and The Whistler's fatal consequences. These four vintage dramas make a tavern, a journey, and a decision feel like steps toward a reckoning. Settle in for psychological horror and supernatural mystery, where believing you have escaped the past may be the first dangerous mistake.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A hunter kills something that should have stayed alive, and piano lessons bring a child close to a hungry witch. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather What Ricky Did on His Summer Vacation and The God Tongue by Dan Wilder, Bed, Breakfast, and Zombies by Keith Tomlin, and The Piano Witch by Charles Campbell. Fictional Satanic Panic nightmares, cosmic folk horror, a New York witch hunt, and undead guardians fill a collection of occult bargains and hidden appetites. From autumn woods to a Southern music room, traditions conceal danger. What if the smiling teacher wants more than practice?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Carrie Culberson vanished from Blanchester, Ohio, in August 1996. Vincent Doan was convicted of her murder without her body being recovered. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True follows the domestic abuse, witness testimony, and investigative failures surrounding one of Ohio's best-known no-body homicide cases. Explore the final night, the trial evidence, and the conflict-of-interest allegations that cast doubt on how the search was handled. A conviction answered one question while leaving Carrie's family with another: where is she? The episode keeps that unfinished search at its center.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Slow knocks reach an ice fishing hut during an Ontario snowstorm. Miles from shore, the person inside hears pounding on the walls but cannot see who is outside. Knock, Knock is presented as a personal account by Gary D of Ontario, Canada, also known as Blue Fire Raging. This Weekly Spooky wilderness horror story follows an overnight trip through isolation, unseen visitors, and footprints in the snow. The hut offers heat and shelter, but every sound makes opening the door feel more dangerous. Listen to an eerie first-person encounter that leaves the source of the knocking unresolved.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Quiet Place makes every sound dangerous, and Oculus makes a mirror impossible to trust. This Week in Horror History explores April 6–12 through family survival, cursed objects, and the hungry alien chaos of Critters. Scary Movie 5 brings the parody, while The Void takes the deep-cut spotlight with a besieged hospital, robed cultists, and practical body horror. Stephen King's Cat's Eye adds three compact nightmares to the watchlist, with birthdays including Kane Hodder and Tom Noonan. Find your next film among quiet rooms, farmhouses, and places where looking closer makes it worse.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Anneliese Michel underwent exorcisms as her health collapsed. Terrifying & True follows the young woman from Klingenberg, West Germany, through seizures, psychiatric distress, and the belief that she was possessed. She died in 1976; her parents and two priests were convicted of negligent homicide in 1978. The episode examines how medical care failed, what the recordings can and cannot establish, and why the court focused on obtaining lifesaving help. A disturbing history of faith, illness, and responsibility asks how certainty about a supernatural cause can leave a person without rescue.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A dying criminal father draws his son back into old wounds, while a doctor's promised cure carries the chill of obsession. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio dramas: Accounts Receivable, Operation Fleur de Lys, The Kettler Method, and Little Fellow. More than two hours of vintage suspense move from buried money and family resentment to an OSS mission in occupied France, dangerous medicine, and a presence that does not belong. Each story changes the source of the unease, from human betrayal to the uncanny. Listen as a debt, a duty, or a miracle becomes something hard to escape.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A lakeside prank awakens a ghost, and a punk show collides with meteors and the undead. Four Weekly Spooky tales gather The Spirit of Langley Pond by Charles Campbell, Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York by Dan Wilder, The Beast of Fagan County by David O'Hanlon, and Ghost Story by A. N. Onimus. A town faces brutal killings and werewolf fears, while a trip from the county fair ends at a sinister house. Over two hours of small-town horror mix local legends, creature attacks, and dark comedy. Beyond the fair lights, the places you grew up around may have kept their own secrets.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Resurrection Mary is the hitchhiker said to vanish near Resurrection Cemetery after accepting a ride along Chicago's Archer Avenue. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True follows the white-dress ghost legend through Jerry Palus's account, later reported encounters, and theories about Mary Bregovy and Anna Norkus. Why do generations keep telling a similar roadside story? Explore the local history, disputed identities, and retellings that made Mary part of American folklore. The mystery lies in how the legend grew, with alleged sightings treated as accounts rather than proof of a ghost.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A skeptical researcher follows ley lines to a remote castle, where an April Fools' joke begins looking like a monster problem. Fooled Ya by Douglas Waltz mixes vampires, werewolves, and gothic mischief in a Weekly Spooky horror-comedy about trusting the wrong invitation. The search for ley-line energy becomes a night of unreliable appearances and supernatural danger, with the prank's consequences reaching beyond a harmless laugh. If you enjoy creature features and jokes that turn against their tellers, step inside—but listen carefully for who is still laughing when the game changes.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Slither brings alien parasites to a small town, while Pet Sematary turns grief into a wish to reverse death. This Week in Horror History explores March 30–April 5 through James Gunn's body horror, Cat People (1982), and Cursed Films, the documentary series about movie-curse legends. Resident Evil 3's 2020 remake puts Jill Valentine and Nemesis in the deep-cut spotlight, with Stephen King's novel Carrie as the reading pick. From mutated flesh to Raccoon City's collapsing streets, discover a film, book, or survival horror game where changing the rules of life makes everything worse.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ohio Bigfoot reports, Lake Lanier's cursed reputation, and the haunted lore of Lake Shawnee Amusement Park meet springtime rituals in this March 2026 Monthly Spooky. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore why people attach fear and superstition to places, from woods to abandoned attractions. Annapolis, Maryland's sock-burning tradition offers a strange way to say goodbye to winter, alongside wilderness accounts and horror-film conversation. Follow the reported encounters and local legends as the season changes. Sometimes the story that follows you home is the hardest thing to shake.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An elderly woman's quiet home becomes a trap when a strange cat and an unwelcome visitor arrive. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Resident, The Man Who Would Be King, The Cave of Ali Baba, and The Letter. More than two hours of vintage suspense move from domestic intrusion to an imperial fantasy, a secret criminal chamber, and an accusation that destroys a scientist under Nazi terror. These dramas follow the damage done by ambition, deception, and misplaced trust. A password may open a door, but what will let you leave once you discover who is waiting behind it?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A writer's AI shortcut starts watching him, and a buried roadside mistake returns with unfinished business. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather I used to think AI was wonderful. Now I know it's evil. by Michael Kelso, Dead Ahead and The Blind Date by Joe Solmo, and The Grave Robbers by Bruce Haney. A demonic date and a cemetery theft join this Ides of March collection of artificial intelligence horror, occult bargains, and undead revenge. Nearly two hours of dark fiction ask what happens when a shortcut begins making demands. The thing you hoped would help may want something in return.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Someone's Watching Me! (1978) turns anonymous calls and apartment surveillance into a John Carpenter nightmare. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore the TV thriller starring Lauren Hutton, David Birney, and Adrienne Barbeau on Cutting Deep into Horror. They examine stalking, privacy, Hutton's performance, and the uneasy humor behind a woman struggling to be believed. How does Carpenter make a room feel unsafe before anyone enters it? Full spoilers for this 1970s psychological thriller, with connections to Halloween and a closer look at a film often missed in Carpenter's catalog.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Katriana leaves a county fair carrying a curse: anyone whose path she crosses may die. Black Kat by Rob Fields turns a black cat curse into a supernatural revenge story set around Strickfield and Ridgeway Heights. After a cruel act brings a fortune teller's punishment, ordinary encounters become chains of lethal bad luck. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes carnival horror, gruesome accidents, and the panic of carrying a threat you cannot see. Kat wants help, but approaching the people she loves may put them next in line. How do you escape a curse when every step can hurt someone?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A video game kills its players in Stay Alive, while a livestream ghost hunt unravels in Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. This Week in Horror History explores March 23–29 through The Hills Have Eyes 2, Black Sheep, and the supernatural seduction of Def by Temptation. Desert mutants, cursed technology, and carnivorous sheep make this a watchlist for creature-feature and found footage fans. Plus, birthdays include Steve McQueen, Jessica Chastain, Richard O'Brien, and Leonard Nimoy. The sci-fi horror film Life rounds out the week with an organism that has no interest in following the crew's rules.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A beautiful stranger's deer hooves reveal that the person being pursued may be the dangerous one. Terrifying & True explores Deer Woman in Indigenous folklore, modern encounter stories, and popular adaptations. Roadside warnings, party retellings, and Haskell-associated stories connect the figure with predatory behavior, violence against women, and consequence. There is no single official version: traditions and later retellings differ. Follow how this unsettling legend can act as a warning or a form of justice, and why the moment someone looks down changes the meaning of the encounter.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Can a murdered wife return in another form? Unknown Broadcast gathers The Return of the Moresbys by Henry Slesar, John Jock Todd by Robert Simpson, The Burning Court from John Dickson Carr, and The Whistler's Retribution. Les Crutchfield adapts the jungle adventure for radio. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense move from reincarnation fears to poison, betrayal, and a reckoning on a dark road. These four vintage dramas make guilt harder to escape than any pursuer. Settle in for supernatural mystery and criminal suspicion, where a polite room may hide the most dangerous guest.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A school day turns demonic, and a night of partying unleashes an obscene curse. Four Weekly Spooky stories bring occult revenge to the Ides of March: Academia Demonia by David O'Hanlon, A New Beginning by Rob Fields, Breaking the Seal by Douglas Waltz, and Satan's Shotgun by Dan Wilder. Nearly two hours of horror fiction move through possession, infernal power, darkly comic punishment, and a revenge trail that keeps returning from the dirt. Each story puts a different price on the promise of protection or payback. When help arrives with Hell behind it, what will be left for you to owe?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

In Edgar Allan Poe's Lionizing, a young man's obsession with noses makes him the sensation of fashionable society. This short comic tale follows vanity, social climbing, and a celebrity culture that mistakes novelty for achievement. Expertise becomes fashion, admiration becomes a contest, and reputation depends on absurd rules no sensible person would choose. Weekly Spooky presents Poe's dark satire with its original prose at the center. Listen for the cruelty beneath the compliments as society decides who deserves attention—and how quickly a celebrated feature can become a liability.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A bored man calls a number scribbled inside a bathroom stall. His phone answers his thoughts—and offers money to kill a stranger. Boredom Can Be Deadly by Michael Kelso is a Weekly Spooky technology horror story about greed, surveillance, and a choice that becomes harder to take back. What looks like a prank supplies private information, directions, and a target, pulling a curious caller into someone else's deadly game. Dark humor gives way to paranoia as the device in his hand seems to know every hesitation. If the phone can read his mind, what chance does he have of keeping a secret?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Death makes everyday accidents feel planned in Final Destination, while fast zombies turn a mall into a trap in Dawn of the Dead. This Week in Horror History covers March 16–22 with The Final Conflict, Jordan Peele's Us, and the recurring black car of The Hearse. From Damien Thorn's corporate menace to frightening doubles, this week's films turn familiar places against their occupants. Birthdays include Brad Dourif, Sienna Guillory, Stephen Sommers, and Dominique Fishback. The ghostly photos of Shutter supply a recommendation for viewers who like their nightmares following them home.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

UFO witnesses report strange visitors who demand silence. Terrifying & True follows the Men in Black legend through Maury Island, Albert K. Bender, Point Pleasant, Robert Richardson in Ohio, Dr. Herbert Hopkins, and the Niagara Falls hotel footage claim. Threatening calls and unsettling encounters helped turn alleged intimidation into a lasting UFO legend. The episode weighs documented history against witness stories and paranormal explanations without treating a cover-up as proven. Are these accounts evidence of a shared threat, or stories shaped by the legend they helped create?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A pianist loses his right hand, yet something seems determined to reach the keys. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Hand That Refused to Die, The Ring of Thoth, Wet Saturday, and The Accounting. Four old-time radio dramas move from phantom hands and an ancient Egyptian relic to a family concealing murder and The Whistler's reckoning with money and lies. More than two hours of supernatural mystery and crime suspense turn talent, immortality, and respectability into dangerous desires. Listen as a household tries to explain away the unthinkable—and discover how much politeness can conceal.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A swamp legend rises from the mud, a predator talks of conservation, and an alarm clock wakes more than its owner. Four Weekly Spooky Ides of March stories turn bad choices into monstrous consequences: Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp and Stay Hungry by David O'Hanlon, You Are What You Eat by Robert Fields, and Rude Awakenings by Rob Fields. Over two hours of creature horror, cannibal terror, and supernatural revenge move from a cursed place to a meal that refuses to stay on the menu. Daily routines become threats in tales where getting what you wanted may be the worst part of the bargain.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) makes ordinary rooms feel complicit in violence. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine John McNaughton's film, starring Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, and Tracy Arnold, on Cutting Deep into Horror. They explore Henry, Otis, and Becky, the film's ugly realism, and its disputed true-story reputation. Full spoilers, including the ending, for listeners interested in serial killer cinema and exploitation horror. Film page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/vide...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A man wakes in a freezing pasture with missing hours, a dead phone, and no idea how he got there. The Backroads Cryptid by Bruce Haney follows a disastrous party into rural Oregon, where two strangers say a creature attacked their car. Their story sounds impossible until the darkness beyond the farmhouse starts to feel occupied. This Weekly Spooky horror fiction mixes drug-fueled paranoia, isolated farmland, and a savage monster encounter. Getting home means deciding whose account to trust and whether the people offering shelter are any safer than whatever is waiting outside the door.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ghostface stalks New York in Scream VI, while the threat in It Follows never needs to run. This Week in Horror History explores March 9–15 through Children of the Corn, Resident Evil, and the Jersey Devil mockumentary The Last Broadcast. Killer children, infected corridors, and suburban paranoia offer different ways to make a familiar place unsafe. Birthdays include Brittany Snow, Emile Hirsch, Michael Caine, and Pollyanna McIntosh. The Invitation closes the watchlist with a dinner party where grief and suspicion share the table. Find a film that makes the next invitation feel different.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were found dead in a car in Castlerock, Northern Ireland, in May 1991. The scene suggested a suicide pact; a confession nearly 18 years later exposed a double murder. Terrifying & True follows Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart, the affair behind the killings, the staged garage scene, and the convictions that overturned the accepted account. This true crime episode examines how deception survived inside a close religious community and how investigators revisited the evidence. What happens when the story told about two deaths protects the people responsible?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A widow welcomes memories of her husband until the dead seem unwilling to make room for the living. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Ghost at the Gate, Blood of Cain, Statement of Employee Henry Wilson, and Jane Eyre. Four old-time radio dramas move through grief, a New Orleans family's dark inheritance, a troubling confession, and a governess entering a house of secrets. More than two hours of ghost lore, criminal suspense, and gothic romance make domestic comforts feel uncertain. At the dinner table or behind a locked door, the past may still expect to be treated as one of the family.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A night of humiliation becomes a revenge story, while a country feud and a lonely highway turn cruelty into danger. Four Weekly Spooky Ides of March tales gather Hell Hath No Fury by Aaron Michael Cook, Valley Rat by Charles Campbell, Fortune Falls by David O'Hanlon, and ROADKILL by Travis VanHoose. Over two hours of horror fiction move from small-town grudges to friends chasing a view in the wilderness and a pickup stopping for the wrong reason. Betrayal links the stories, but each road has a threat. Before trusting strangers or settling scores, listen for what is beyond the lights.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ed and Lorraine Warren helped make Annabelle, Amityville, and the cases behind The Conjuring household names. This Best of 2025 re-air of Terrifying & True examines their rise in paranormal investigation and the conflicting accounts surrounding their work. Over two and a half hours explore the occult museum, claims of hauntings and possession, skeptical criticism, and the public image that shaped their legacy. Follow the gap between a famous horror story and what its evidence can establish. How did the Warrens' accounts become so influential, and why do they remain controversial?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Maddy Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, and a shopping trip becomes a race to escape. Lady Frankenstein Returns by Rob Fields brings a predator from last winter back into the Strickfield universe. Maddy and her mother face daylight pursuit, mounting panic, and family secrets that make the danger feel closer than either wants to admit. This Weekly Spooky vampire horror story combines mall terror with a frantic chase, letting a familiar face turn an ordinary outing into a threat. Getting away is only part of the problem when the past already knows who you are.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Nosferatu brings vampire shadows, Angel Heart turns detective work into occult dread, and The Mangler makes a laundry press monstrous. This Week in Horror History explores March 2–8 through those films and David Fincher's Zodiac, where the search for a killer becomes an obsession. Pontypool supplies a radio-station nightmare in which language spreads danger, while Tales from the Crypt offers a classic anthology recommendation. From Count Orlok to a voice on the air, this watchlist follows threats that enter ordinary life. Find a classic, a crime thriller, or a strange late-night watch.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bonnie Hood was killed at California's Camp Nelson Lodge in 1990, while handyman Rudy Manuel survived the attack. Terrifying & True follows the investigation, Bruce Beauchamp's acquittal, and the later shooting that put Bonnie's husband Jim Hood on trial. This California true crime case connects witness credibility, disputed motives, forensic evidence, and double jeopardy. It separates the verdicts from allegations about who planned the lodge killing. Two shootings create overlapping mysteries, but they do not produce the same courtroom answers. What could each prosecution prove?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A stolen white elephant sends detectives into an absurd hunt, while a con man sets his sights on a yacht and a fortune. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Stolen White Elephant, The Digger, The Golden Penny from The Whistler, and Escape's Clear for Action. Four old-time radio dramas move from comic crime to a dangerous mine shaft, a scheme aboard the Golden Penny, and naval peril. More than two hours of mystery and suspense combine dark laughter, desperate choices, and maritime adventure. Follow the clues and the next command at sea: a clever plan can still leave its maker trapped.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An uncanny voyage, a humiliation, and an impossible Paris murder lead into five Edgar Allan Poe tales. This Weekly Spooky collection presents Manuscript Found in a Bottle, Hop-Frog, Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Man That Was Used Up. Nearly three hours of Gothic fiction mix maritime dread, revenge, macabre comedy, and the deductions of C. Auguste Dupin. Poe's original prose turns reputation and curiosity into dangerous guides. For listeners drawn to classic horror and detective fiction, the next mystery may begin with a detail everyone else overlooks.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Confessions of a Serial Killer turns a man's calm account of violence into a chilling horror film. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Mark Blair's 1985 production on Cutting Deep into Horror, tracing its Henry Lee Lucas connection and the gap between criminal mythology and a documentary record. They discuss the confessional structure, low-budget realism, performances, and ethics of true-crime exploitation. Full spoilers throughout. Why can a bare-bones film feel more persuasive than a slick thriller, and what happens when that realism borrows authority from disputed confessions?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A widower goes ice fishing on Lake Pauldoon, following the careful routine his grandfather taught him. Then the wind falls silent and something black moves beneath the hole. On the Ice by Douglas Waltz turns a quiet winter outing into a Weekly Spooky creature horror story. An abandoned lakeside development and a history of missing children connect the frozen surface to older local secrets. Alone on the lake, the fisherman must confront a danger his habits cannot explain. Listen for winter isolation, backwoods occult terror, and the sound that makes every step toward shore feel uncertain.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Crazies poisons small-town trust, Get Out makes hospitality threatening, and The Invisible Man turns disbelief into another weapon. This Week in Horror History covers February 23–March 1 with Sons of the Forest and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live joining the film lineup. Survival in the woods meets love after the apocalypse, while From Beyond the Grave offers sinister antiques and compact supernatural tales. Birthdays include Terence Fisher, Billy Zane, Neil Jordan, and Lupita Nyong'o. Build a horror watchlist for winter's end, when a home or a face can conceal the threat.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A reported ghost-baby exorcism in Galway meets a skull found in concrete in Boston. In this February 2026 Monthly Spooky, Henrique and Michelle discuss those headlines alongside a Rhode Island pilot's UFO report and the hunt for an escaped toucan in Las Vegas. The conversation then turns to the New England vampire panic, when tuberculosis, grief, and superstition shaped fears of the returning dead. Strange news and American folklore share the episode, with paranormal claims kept distinct from established history. Why do communities reach for monsters when explanations fail them?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A fake medium profits from grief, while an unsettling sound makes a home feel hostile. Unknown Broadcast gathers Medium Rare from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Bells from Suspense, Career Man from The Whistler, and the snake-country mystery Snake Doctor. Four old-time radio stories move through deception, ambition, buried money, and revenge. More than two hours of vintage suspense ask what happens when a successful con begins to control the person running it. At Cashier Creek or in a quiet room, the danger may be a secret believed safely buried. Tune in before the next warning rings.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A confession, a wine-cellar invitation, and a prisoner's terror lead into five Edgar Allan Poe stories. Weekly Spooky presents The Black Cat, Morella, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Berenice in over two hours of classic Gothic fiction. Guilt, grief, revenge, and obsession shape narrators whose accounts grow more disturbing as they unfold. Poe makes a family home, a memory, or a sensory detail feel impossible to escape. Listen for psychological horror and macabre suspense in the original prose, where the voice explaining the nightmare may be an unreliable guide.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A motel visitor brings a debt a fugitive cannot evade, and a grieving mother's promise comes due. Four Weekly Spooky devil-deal stories gather The Deal Was Great, But The Payments Are Hell by Joe Solmo, Even Witches Can Cry by Charles Campbell, Gamble with the Devil by David O'Hanlon, and The Devil Knows Three Chords by John Oak Dalton. A would-be mercenary's raid and a backstage feud between bluegrass legends complete this collection of demonic bargains. Supernatural revenge meets ambition and grief in tales where the offer sounds perfect. Listen to what the bargain leaves unsaid.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Caroline Quinn wants two weeks away from heartbreak. A snowbound stop in Germfask, Michigan, gives her a bar full of armed strangers instead. Road Trip by Mike Ashkewe follows the part-vampire government troubleshooter into The Den, where weak cell service and bitter cold make leaving difficult. The locals' ties to the Claw of the Northern Patriots turn a cold welcome into a supernatural fight for survival. This Weekly Spooky story mixes vampire action, rural monster horror, and a road trip gone wrong. Caroline came looking for somewhere to disappear; the danger is being made to stay.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Vincent Price invites strangers into House on Haunted Hill, Ash battles deadites in Army of Darkness, and Lestat takes the stage in Queen of the Damned. This Week in Horror History explores February 16–22 with Tod Browning's Freaks and the toy-factory horror of Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5. Haunted-house showmanship meets medieval splatter and vampire rock-star excess. Birthdays include Ricou Browning, Christopher Eccleston, Thomas Jane, and Drew Barrymore. The Hitcher closes the watchlist with a reminder that an open road can become a trap long before the driver sees what is following.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel connects a real explosion with the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining. Terrifying & True visits Estes Park, Colorado, tracing the 1911 disaster, Elizabeth Wilson's survival, and the ghost stories surrounding F. O. and Flora Stanley. King's 1974 stay helped turn empty corridors into horror history; later television and tourism carried the legend further. Reported hauntings remain distinct from documented events. Explore how a hotel became a destination for paranormal curiosity, and why a story about a room can change the way its next guest sleeps.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Celebrity, romance, and a managed reputation become tools of danger in four vintage radio dramas. Unknown Broadcast presents A Matter of Love and Death, Love, Honor, or Murder, The Heart of Ethan Brand, and The Lovely Look. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense explore obsession, devotion, unsettling secrets, and The Whistler's warning about appearances. These stories ask how well anyone can know the person asking for trust. A public image may hide a private motive, and a loving gesture may carry a threat. Listen for the moment a harmless-looking relationship changes shape.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Valentine's Day becomes a threat in six Weekly Spooky stories of stalking, jealousy, and murder. Deb Debbie Deborah and Be Mine by Shane Migliavacca lead into LOVERS' LANE by Morgan Moore, then Rob Fields brings Slasher II: Valentine's Day, Slasher: Valentine Screams, and Slasher: Valentine Scorn. Over five hours of romantic horror move from heartbreak and obsessive attention to a risky make-out spot and showbiz carnage. This marathon is for listeners who like their holiday fiction bloody and their love stories uneasy. A sweet message can be a warning when the sender refuses to let go.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Pearl (2022) turns a dream of stardom into a Technicolor nightmare. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Ti West's X prequel and Mia Goth's performance on Cutting Deep into Horror. Full spoilers cover ambition, repression, rural isolation in 1918, and the gap between performing normality and containing rage. How does the film's bright Hollywood style make Pearl's confinement feel worse? They connect beauty, violence, and the need to be seen. Film page: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/... Listings: https://www.justwatch.com/us/m...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

At a winter Grange dance in 1958, August Hannig and Becky Sue 'Bex' Brewer find someone else who wants to escape Dorset. Will You Be My Undead Valentine? by Bruce Haney turns their forbidden romance into a zombie horror novella. Bex's violent father, small-town rules, and a love that refuses to stay buried pull the young couple toward revenge. Weekly Spooky mixes retro Americana, snowbound dread, and cemetery shadows with a darkly romantic promise: the end of a life may not end a relationship. Listen for doomed lovers and undead horror without knowing where their dance will lead.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

My Bloody Valentine and Friday the 13th bring slasher danger to Valentine's week, while The Silence of the Lambs turns conversation into a threat. This Week in Horror History covers February 9–15 with Happy Death Day 2U and The Stepford Wives, moving from time-loop chaos to perfect suburban smiles. Recommendations include Misery, Audition, The Fly, Heart Eyes, and Companion: five ways for affection to become frightening. Birthdays feature Emma Roberts, Natalie Dormer, Simon Pegg, and Claire Bloom. Choose a date-night watchlist of obsession, suspicion, and dangerous affection.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror entered the Arctic in 1845 seeking the Northwest Passage. Neither brought Franklin's expedition home. Terrifying & True follows the graves at Beechey Island, the Victory Point note, the abandonment of the ships, and evidence of desperate survival near King William Island. Inuit accounts and modern archaeology help connect the final journey with wreck discoveries in 2014 and 2016. This historical mystery examines what records, remains, and underwater finds reveal. Beyond the legend of vanished explorers lies a story of cold, hunger, and unanswered questions.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A missing man leaves contradictions behind, and a flight from LaGuardia becomes a struggle above the ground. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Man Is Missing, A Shipment of Mute Fate, Death Flies Blind, and A Law of Physics. Four old-time radio dramas carry danger from a search to a sea voyage, an aircraft, and a rain-slick road. More than two hours of vintage mystery and suspense explore the moment routine travel becomes a trap. With clues shifting and choices narrowing, these tales make arrival feel uncertain. Follow each lead or departure, knowing that a timetable cannot promise safety.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A wedding, a date, and a woodland party become traps in eight Valentine's horror stories. Rob Fields brings Till Death Do Us Part, First Date, and Suspended; Joe Solmo brings Party in the Woods, Dead Ahead, and Love Conquers All. Roxie by Charles Campbell and Cesspool: A Love Story by David O'Hanlon complete the lineup. Over three hours of Weekly Spooky fiction mix jealousy, supernatural danger, and revenge, from Strickfield's hallways to a pool with something waiting below. Romance becomes leverage and attraction becomes risk. Choose a date-night scare where love offers no protection.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A truck crashes off a fogbound Pennsylvania highway, leaving its injured driver below the road and out of sight. Something huge approaches through the trees. I Hate Driving a Truck in Winter, but Not Just Because of the Weather by Michael Kelso turns a driving accident into creature survival horror. Trapped behind shattered glass, the driver must find a way out before the thing in the fog gets in. A Weekly Spooky tale of winter isolation and roadside terror. Author books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... More stories: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Rings carries a videotape curse into online media, and The Prodigy turns a child's behavior into a possession nightmare. This Week in Horror History explores February 2–8 through The Messengers, The Strangers: Chapter 3, and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Haunted farmland and home invasion lead into cosmic horror where fiction reshapes reality. Birthdays celebrate George A. Romero, Alice Cooper, and Josh Stewart. Valentine supplies the slasher recommendation, with Heart Eyes as a companion pick. Find a film that makes the screen, the family home, or the next face feel unsafe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An empty Inuit camp, unfinished sewing, and rumors of lights over the tundra form the legend of Angikuni Lake. Terrifying & True tells the vanishing-village story, then examines how newspaper accounts and later retellings turned it into an Arctic mystery and UFO tale. Abandoned supplies, silent dogs, and a disturbed grave belong to the folklore examined, not an established mass disappearance. The episode follows the gap between an image and a reliable record, while respecting the northern communities in the setting. Why has the story grown more certain as its evidence grows thinner?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A trail of jewelry feeds suspicion inside a marriage, while a doctor's bottle conceals a deadly threat. Unknown Broadcast gathers Leave Well Enough Alone, The Diary of Doctor Pritchard, The Four-Fifteen Express, and Glass Dime. Four vintage radio thrillers follow jealousy, poison, missing money, and the hunt for a rare coin. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense turn possessions into reasons to deceive. From a household to a train, the stories trace how wanting more can narrow a person's choices. A reward may draw witnesses out, but it can also give them reasons to lie.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A blizzard strands a horror convention at High Point Ski Lodge, and someone has come for revenge instead of autographs. BANNED! by Rob Fields collects all four parts of the winter slasher miniseries in nearly three hours. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, headliner Vickie Valentine and the convention staff face mounting suspicion as the Horror Snow-In becomes a killing ground. This is one story of fandom, humiliation, and payback, with the full confrontation included. Start at the first warning and follow the mystery through a lodge where checking out means risking the blizzard.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A hidden waterfall attracts an unwanted visitor, and a rare-flower search leads deep into danger. This Best of 2025 Weekly Spooky collection gathers Fortune Falls and Stay Hungry by David O'Hanlon, A Plant Called Death by Bruce Haney, and The Hellhowler by Joe Solmo. Over three and a half hours of horror fiction move from remote campsites and Pacific Northwest trails to Colombia's cocaine hippos and investigator James Becker's hunt for a supernatural threat. Four stories turn curiosity, ambition, and a client's warning into survival tests. The way home may be harder to find after dark.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Horror Snow-In reaches its final confrontation as a blizzard isolates High Point Ski Lodge. BANNED! Part 4 by Rob Fields closes the winter slasher miniseries with the killer moving from hidden attacks toward the end of a revenge plan. Headliner Vickie Valentine faces pressure that threatens to expose another danger, while desperate decisions send the convention deeper into chaos. This Weekly Spooky finale brings the reveals and reckoning together. Start with Part 1 for the full story, then return to a lodge where being banned has become a threat nobody dismisses.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Stephen King's novel The Shining and miniseries Rose Red turn hotels and mansions into traps in This Week in Horror History, covering January 26–February 2. Screamers brings killer machines, Parents adds suburban dinner-table dread, and Shadow of the Vampire blurs filmmaking with a monster that may be real. John Carpenter's The Fog closes the watchlist with ghost-story dread. Explore haunted homes, suspicious meals, and horror behind the camera. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee, decaf and half-caf blends. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Chillingham Castle's ghost stories meet a corpse-theft headline in this January 2026 Monthly Spooky. Henrique and Michelle discuss the castle's history and unusual cattle, mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabia, and the 1922 Knickerbocker Theater collapse during a Washington snowstorm. Haunted-doll beliefs and the human-bone market join a horror-movie roundup. The conversation separates reported paranormal claims from historical tragedy while exploring why strange discoveries become irresistible stories. Settle in for haunted places, winter history, and the headlines behind the legends.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An ice-breaking mission encounters a strange thaw, and a pilot sent to investigate disappears. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Ice Palace, Death Has a Cold Breath, Snow on 66, and The Time of the Big Snow. Four old-time radio tales turn ice, winter journeys, and snowbound communities into settings for danger. More than two hours of vintage suspense mix polar science fiction with cold-weather mystery and roadside unease. From a search to a highway swallowed by white, the familiar landscape stops offering reassurance. Listen for the point when waiting out the weather is no longer enough.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A delivery truck's cab feels occupied, and a father-daughter trip finds risky help after tire trouble. Five Weekly Spooky road stories gather I Used to Drive a Delivery Truck, Until the Incident by Michael Kelso, Strike-Out! by Morgan Moore, ROADKILL by Travis VanHoose, Wilson Road by Charles Campbell, and They Don't Drive Cars by Scott S. Phillips. Over two hours of highway horror follow strangers, a Deep South dirt road, and hungry creatures on a late snack run. These journeys make the next stop feel uncertain. Headlights reveal the road, but they cannot tell you whom to trust.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Five doomed souls receive a chance to rewind their lives, and the Hellweaver has her own freedom at stake. Deadly Second Chances by Rob Fields returns as a complete Best of 2025 collection. In Perdition, she discovers a pact that could release her if she gives the souls another choice and leaves them to make it. Over four hours of Weekly Spooky supernatural horror explore revenge, redemption, and the decisions that survive a change of fate. All five chapters play as one continuous saga in the Strickfield universe. Would a second chance change you, or simply reveal you?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The killer at the Horror Snow-In wants an audience, and the blizzard is cutting off the way home. BANNED! Part 3 by Rob Fields follows the convention deeper into panic at High Point Ski Lodge. Police return to question witnesses, staff disappear, and headliner Vickie Valentine tries to keep performing while another danger stirs within her. The third chapter of this Weekly Spooky winter slasher shifts from secret attacks to public terror, making crowded rooms feel less safe than the empty corridors. Begin with Part 1 to follow the mystery in order. The next event may be the killer's own.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Tremors brings creatures beneath the ground, The Boy makes a doll unsettling, and Dead Space 2 turns survival horror interactive. This Week in Horror History covers January 19–25 with Split and The Blair Witch Project, including its Sundance screening and impact on horror marketing. Spree supplies a streaming-era found footage recommendation. Birthdays celebrate Edgar Allan Poe, David Lynch, Robert E. Howard, and Tobe Hooper. Explore films and games that turn watching into dread. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at Savorista.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cowbells and masked figures fill the streets of Podence, Portugal, during the Caretos de Entrudo carnival. Terrifying & True explores the colorful wool costumes, anonymous mischief, community rituals, and effigy burning that mark winter's end. The episode follows the tradition's revival, generations of participants, and UNESCO recognition, with comparisons to other Iberian masked celebrations. Proposed links to ancient fertility rites remain interpretations rather than a proven origin. Discover how a living community tradition gains its power through disguise, movement, and noise.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An actress is hired to impersonate a queen, and a desperate husband turns toward crime. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Queen of Darkness, Dark, Dark Destiny, A World of Darkness, and Dark Island. Four old-time radio dramas move through dangerous ambition, a wife's illness, a murder investigated by a blind musician, and an island full of double-crosses. More than two hours of vintage mystery and suspense make identity as risky as any weapon. A borrowed role or a mistaken name can change who holds power. Listen for the clues hidden in what people say—and what an attentive witness can hear.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A locked inn room and a yard-sale bowl invite the dead into six Weekly Spooky stories. Hear Horror at the Hexagon House Inn by Bill Spears; The House That Killed Me, Thrifting Fail - We're now Haunted!, and The House in the Woods by Bruce Haney; Ghost Story by A. N. Onimus; and Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee's by L. F. Falconer. Over two hours of haunted-house fiction mix cursed finds, poltergeists, and places that refuse to let visitors leave. A writer, a vlogger, and a party producer who sees ghosts approach the uncanny for different reasons. Getting close has a cost.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Chance and Luka survive a shipwreck by clinging to a container in open water. When an ocean liner appears in the fog, it looks like rescue—until they discover something hungry aboard. Ship of the Cannibal Rats by David O'Hanlon returns in this Best of 2025 Weekly Spooky episode. Shredded cabins, a stripped galley, and noises inside the walls turn shelter into a creature-infested trap. This maritime horror story follows two survivors whose lucky break may leave fewer choices than the open sea. Board for ghost-ship atmosphere, swarming danger, and a desperate search for a way off.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Police reach High Point Ski Lodge, but the Horror Snow-In continues after a staff member's murder. BANNED! Part 2 by Rob Fields turns the snowbound convention into a stage for a killer who wants everyone watching. Headliner Vickie Valentine tries to keep up appearances as promoter David Melicant refuses to shut down and the attacks grow more public. This second chapter of the Weekly Spooky winter slasher mixes a revenge mystery with a threat awakening inside Vickie. Begin with Part 1 for the setup, then follow the clues through a lodge where another event may become the next crime scene.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Primeval unleashes a killer crocodile, DeepStar Six finds danger underwater, and Scream (2022) brings fandom into a slasher's sights. This Week in Horror History covers January 12–18 with the folk-horror novel This Wretched Valley and Cloverfield's chaotic view of a monster attack. One Missed Call joins the viewing discussion. Explore stories where nature, technology, and familiar rules stop offering control, from remote wilderness to a city filmed in panic. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee, with half-caf and decaf blends. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at Savorista.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six men entered Colorado's San Juan Mountains in the winter of 1874. Alferd Packer returned alone, with explanations that changed as suspicion grew. Terrifying & True follows the trek after Chief Ouray's warning, the discovery of five companions' remains, and the trials that made Packer the 'Colorado Cannibal.' Survival claims meet physical evidence, escape, and a legal history more complicated than the legend. Also known as Alfred Packer, he is the central voice in an account others could not contradict. What can the record establish about the deaths, and where does folklore take over?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A reporter sees a supposedly dead man, and astronauts on Mars receive a welcome from lost loved ones. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Telltale Scar, Mars Is Heaven, I Want to Report a Murder, and Everybody. Work by Roy Windsor, Ray Bradbury, Michael Sklar, and Arch Oboler spans CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Inner Sanctum, and Lights Out. More than two hours of vintage radio suspense move through a telltale scar, a murder call, and criminals hiding with a frightened girl. These four dramas make recognition dangerous: the face or voice you trust may be the first reason to fear the room.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Samara tries a new look and a new romance, but a crowded fraternity party makes the attention feel dangerous. Spin the Bottle by Rob Fields returns as a Best of 2025 Weekly Spooky feature. In Strickfield, a jealous ex, a perfect-looking date, and a party game draw her into a slasher tale of obsession, humiliation, and survival. Over three hours of horror fiction mix college dating dread, masked violence, and supernatural menace. Samara wanted to leave her comfort zone, but someone else seems to be planning the night. Who is really deciding where the bottle points?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Winter comfort turns hostile in this Best of 2025 Weekly Spooky collection. Hear I Love the Cold by Jonathan Lumpkin, The Blizzard of '58: Never Meet Your Idols by Bruce Haney, and I Was Stalked by a Monster from the Woods by Michael Kelso. The fictional scares lead into Terrifying & True's The Wendigo Curse: A Legend of Greed and Destruction, which examines folklore and historical accounts. Nearly two hours move from a fan's dream encounter and a watched tree line to stories of winter hunger. The collection distinguishes creature fiction from the beliefs and history behind a warning.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Robbie Redden's trip to meet a favorite actress ends in humiliation and a ban. Seven years later, a horror convention in Michigan's Upper Peninsula faces a blizzard and unfinished business. BANNED! Part 1 by Rob Fields opens the four-part Weekly Spooky winter slasher at High Point Ski Lodge. Featured guest Vickie Valentine arrives for autographs and filming with Henrique Couto as a message disrupts the weekend. Start here for a story of fandom, resentment, and revenge, where the storm traps guests with someone who has another reason for attending. The convention's first scare is real.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

M3GAN makes protection dangerous, The Relic turns a museum into a hunting ground, and Dan Simmons' The Terror reimagines the Franklin expedition. This Week in Horror History covers January 5–11 with Resident Evil 4, the apartment nightmare The Sentinel, and the occult time-travel chaos of Warlock. Films, a novel, and a survival horror game offer ways to lose control of familiar spaces. Find a killer doll, a lurking creature, or your next eerie read. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth sheets, pajamas, and loungewear. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off your first order at CozyEarth.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six members of Lyudmila Korovina's hiking group died during an August 1993 emergency in Siberia's Hamar-Daban Mountains. Valentina Utochenko survived. Terrifying & True follows the storm, her account of the final hours, and the recovery that fed comparisons with Dyatlov Pass. Weather and exposure are considered alongside speculative explanations, with disturbing retellings kept separate from what the evidence supports. This mountain mystery asks how much can be reconstructed from one survivor's testimony and a remote site. Follow the human ordeal behind the legend of deaths on the slope.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jealousy survives the applause, smoke raises suspicion, and a key opens a door that feels unsafe. Unknown Broadcast gathers Hell Hath No Fury, The Night Reveals, Lady With a Key, and The Red Mark. Four old-time radio dramas move through fame, troubling clues, secrecy, and a reckoning. More than two hours of vintage suspense turn intimate details into warnings: matches in a pocket, an expression, or footsteps where nobody is expected. Listen for criminal motives and the consequences of trust as these mysteries unfold. A witch watches an actor whose ambitions put his wife in danger.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A town restoration hides a threat, and a factory deal exposes dangerous secrets. Five Weekly Spooky tales gather I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening by Michael Kelso, The Devil Reaps the Harvest by John Oak Dalton, Eh, Real Monsters from NEPA by Michelle Antisocial, Sin by Rob Fields, and The God Tongue by Dan Wilder. Around two hours of small-town horror move from New England to Pennsylvania and Strickfield, mixing missing people, occult temptation, and backwoods creatures. Look behind ordinary streets, where knowing everyone's name does not mean knowing them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A blizzard traps a long-haul trucker at a dark, locked truck stop. His tracks vanish in the snow, fuel runs low, and a horned shape keeps approaching the cab. I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snowstorm by Michael Kelso returns for Weekly Spooky's Best of 2025. This winter survival horror story turns the truck from shelter into a target as something learns how to reach the driver inside. Listen for creature terror and the dread of waiting alone through the storm. Author books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... More stories: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two radios playing the right tones open a tear in time. Jimmy discovers the trick as a teenager with his cousin Phillip, but years of experiments take a darker turn when grief makes the past irresistible. Saint Jimmy by Dan Wilder follows their discovery toward New Year's Eve 1999, when attempts to fix a loss threaten to break far more than one life. This Weekly Spooky story mixes time-travel horror, cosmic comedy, and Y2K anxiety with a human wish to hear a loved one's voice again. Every adjustment can change the world on the other side. Would you step through if you could not undo it?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Kwaidan's ghosts, Ghost in the Machine's electronic killer, and One Missed Call's ominous voicemail carry horror across the new year. Henrique Couto explores December 29–January 4 on This Week in Horror History, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the spirit-board danger of Witchboard. Japanese ghost cinema meets technological fear and the consequences of creation in a watchlist built around messages nobody should answer. Find a classic to read or a late-night film. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eric Smokes and David Warren lost decades to wrongful convictions for a 1987 killing near Times Square. This December 2025 Monthly Spooky follows their fight to clear their names and convictions vacated in 2024. The conversation also covers a Bigfoot report near I-80, an ancient Scottish burial discovery, Kansas City jazz-bar ghost claims, oarfish omens, and controversy around the Conjuring House. True crime and paranormal headlines share the episode, with reported sightings kept distinct from court outcomes. Explore the human cost of a false story and why other stories are hard to test.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A condemned man turns to the dead as guilt and jealousy haunt six vintage radio mysteries. Unknown Broadcast gathers Angel of Death, Calling All Souls, Two Birds with One Stone, So Soon, Murder Is a Lonely Business, and The Haunted Hotel. Over three hours of old-time radio suspense move between ghost-story atmosphere and crime, with farewell and guilt tying the year-end selection together. Visitors, alibis, and hotel corridors offer uneasy invitations as each drama unfolds. Settle in for a night of classic audio storytelling, where a quiet room can make a remembered voice feel close.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

New Year's revelry turns deadly in six Weekly Spooky tales. Dan Wilder brings Even the Devil Tells the Truth Sometimes, Satan's Shotgun, Stakes n' Shoguns, and Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York. A Few Cold Ones by David O'Hanlon and New Year's Evil: A Paranormal Thriller from the Case Files of Caroline Quinn by Mike Ashkewe complete the lineup. Over two and a half hours of horror fiction mix devil bargains, an undead avenger, hotel hostages, vampires, and alien zombies. Caroline Quinn faces an apocalyptic threat as festivities unravel. The countdown gives these monsters a stage.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A mirror produces doubles that want to replace the living, and a vampire brings a dangerous appetite to Strickfield. Mirror Images and A Vampire's Holiday by Rob Fields form this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror double feature. Over three hours of fiction carry the season from uncanny reflections to a showdown, with two complete novellas presented back to back. Familiar faces become unreliable and holiday shelter offers scant comfort when the threat can enter your home. Keep the winter atmosphere going with sinister doubles, vampire terror, and Christmas stories whose cheer cannot last.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Otis Kilgore believes a Kmart cashier's routine greetings are secret love messages. In Etawah, Oklahoma, in 1996, a change to his shopping ritual sends that obsession toward a Christmas rampage. Otis Slays Christmas by David O'Hanlon turns last-minute retail stress into a Weekly Spooky killer-Santa slasher. Cashier Diane wants the attention to stop, while a blizzard and a store closing for the holiday narrow everyone's options. Dark humor and brutal violence collide beneath the Blue Light Specials. For Otis, customer service has become a promise nobody made—and he expects it kept.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Faculty makes teachers threatening, Invasion of the Body Snatchers spreads urban paranoia, and The Exorcist brings possession horror into a family home. This Week in Horror History explores December 22–28, with The Mysterians adding giant-robot spectacle and Cold War sci-fi fears. Christmas-week releases connect alien infiltration with the dread that someone familiar has changed. Explore the films' impact, then find a school-night scare in the recommendation segment. Episode sponsor: Aspire. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 20% off at https://aspiredrinks.com/disco...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jack Scratch invites you behind the scenes of Hell, where Christmas decorations hide a system of punishment. Terror at Christmas by Keith Tomlin presents The Santa Experiment, Christmas Bones, and The Furnace in one Weekly Spooky holiday anthology. An axe-bearing Santa, a doorway above a mountain of skulls, and an impossible arrival in Hell's intake line test the rules that keep torment running. Dark humor meets demonic horror as memories and unwelcome visitors disrupt the routine. Follow Jack through three stories where the staff may have as much reason to be afraid as the souls.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

In 1087, sailors from Bari took the relics of St. Nicholas from his tomb in Myra. Terrifying & True follows the medieval theft behind one strand of Santa Claus history, from the grieving local community to the new shrine in Italy. The episode explores 'furta sacra,' rival claims from Venice, anatomical studies, and the liquid known as the saint's manna. Religious belief, political power, and disputed ownership shape a story removed from modern Christmas cards. What did taking a saint's bones mean to the people who lost them—and to the city that built its identity around their arrival?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Gifts, confessions, and wintry danger fill eight vintage radio tales in this Unknown Broadcast Christmas collection. Hear The Gift, Christmas Story, Delayed Christmas Present, A Present for Benny, A Present for Ricky, The Abominable Snowman, Cold Canvas, and The Open End Wrench. Nearly four hours of old-time radio suspense mix holiday mystery, a brush with a Yeti, and crime stories in which an object can become a clue. The selection moves beyond the tree lights into the unease around giving, waiting, and trust. Unwrap a long night of classic audio drama with an edge beneath the paper.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An overnight mall visit, a mysterious horror disc, and an orphanage's Christmas event become three routes into danger. Weekly Spooky gathers The Mall Overnight, Doorway to Horror, and Home Sweet Horror by Rob Fields in a holiday novella triple feature. Over four hours of Christmas horror follow seasonal activities into places where the rules feel unsafe. A sleepover crosses into an unsettling world, while a return to a hunting ground raises fears about what remains contained. Listen to all three complete stories for haunted spaces, supernatural threats, and festivities gone wrong.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Christmas cards, gifts, and homecomings turn dangerous in seven stories. Hear All I Want For Christmas - Is my Mother to Stop Haunting Me! by Bruce Haney; A Chain Letter Christmas, Christmas Eve Babysitters, and Christmas at Murder Mansion by Rob Fields; Secret Santa by Charles Campbell; Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo by Joe Solmo; and A Sinister Santa Spectacle: Twisted Christmas Horrors by Keith Tomlin. Nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky holiday fiction bring ghosts, curses, obsession, and Jack Scratch's sinister show into the season. Even tradition can deliver an unwelcome guest.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Allison needs a last-minute gift on Christmas Eve. The store she finds open also brings her into the path of a filthy Santa with a stolen Naughty List. The Naughty Claus by Bruce Haney, based on a concept by Henrique Couto, turns holiday shopping into a Weekly Spooky killer-Santa nightmare. An uneasy alliance with a stranger offers a chance to survive as a familiar costume becomes a disguise for punishment. Dark humor and violent Christmas horror meet a woman trying to make it through a difficult night. The list is old, but the danger arriving with it has found someone to threaten.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Dead End (2003) traps a family on a Christmas Eve shortcut where the road seems endless and a woman in white keeps appearing. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore the film on Cutting Deep into Horror, discussing family resentment, the black hearse, and how one stretch of highway sustains a nightmare. Full spoilers include the twist ending and its effect on the dark comedy. Comparisons with Black Christmas and Krampus place this cult film among holiday horrors. How does a drive to see relatives become a journey nobody understands? Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/4511...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A chemical crash burns green on a snowy Ohio highway, and its consequences return the following Christmas. An Angel of Death Christmas by Rob Fields follows detective Chantel Devereux and Raigen, the secretive killer known as the Angel of Death, into a hunt for a mutated threat. Raigen and Chester face killings that draw closer to home, while missing bodies and injuries complicate the investigation. This Weekly Spooky novella mixes creature horror, a dangerous protagonist, and holiday tension in the Strickfield universe. The season's streets become a battleground for people with secrets.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A healer betrayed on Christmas Day curses the family of the man who denied their love. Centuries later, Grant Capwell's break at Strickfield University is disrupted by an attraction that feels older than his own life. A Christmas Romance by Rob Fields connects Murial Arkam's execution with Grant, his girlfriend Spencer Mirren, and a barista who carries the healer's name. This Weekly Spooky tale blends witch horror, inherited magic, and a love triangle. As memory and desire begin to blur, the question is whether devotion can break a pattern—or whether the curse is choosing for them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Black Christmas turns sorority life into stalker terror, while Young Frankenstein finds comedy in classic monsters. This Week in Horror History covers December 15–21 with the wintry haunting of Ghost Story, the retro game Christmas Massacre, and Local 58's invasive analog nightmare Real Sleep. Scream joins a holiday watchlist of slashers, ghosts, and screen-borne dread. Explore how festive settings make familiar horror feel closer to home. Episode sponsor: Aspire energy drinks. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://aspiredrinks.com/disco...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A broke newsboy finds a snow globe that can change his luck. Inside the glass, a miniature winter town waits as each wish sends dark flakes through the snow. Black Christmas by Rodri Go turns a hidden antiques shop into the beginning of a supernatural bargain. This Weekly Spooky holiday horror story follows the temptation to trade tomorrow's safety for relief today, as debts disappear and the price of good fortune grows harder to ignore. The gift keeps count even when its owner wants to stop. Author: @unhappy_stories on Instagram and http://www.unhappystories.net/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Père Fouettard walks beside Saint Nicholas with punishment where the saint offers gifts. Terrifying & True explores this Christmas figure in French and Belgian folklore, from the legend of three murdered children to the origin story tied to the Siege of Metz. Nancy's festivities lead into comparisons with Krampus, Hans Trapp, and other winter enforcers. The episode examines how fear shaped holiday discipline and how portrayals change as communities confront racist imagery. Follow the stories behind the whip and sack, keeping local traditions and origin legends distinct from history.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A man aboard a liner tries to evade consequences, while another fears a snake beneath his sheet. Unknown Broadcast gathers Sea of Troubles, Poison, Escape by Death, You Can't Trust a Stranger, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, and The Pit and the Pendulum. Over three hours of old-time radio mystery and horror move through suspicion, dangerous favors, imprisonment, and a blade drawing closer. These six dramas make time itself feel threatening, whether a character is waiting for help or a sentence to be carried out. Listen for the gap between an escape plan and a detail it cannot control.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Killer elves, a demonic Santa, and an undead outbreak fill seven Weekly Spooky Christmas stories. Rob Fields brings Christmas at Pendleton Way Station, Inner Rage, and A Zombie's Christmas; Charles Campbell brings Santa's Little Helpers and The Day that Santa Died. Welcome Home by Mike Ashkewe and Scary Christmas To All by David O'Hanlon complete the lineup. Over four and a half hours of holiday horror move from a cyborg's battlefield to Strickfield, a department store, and the North Pole's operatives. Expect supernatural revenge, dark fantasy, and splatter beneath seasonal lights.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Wind Chill (2007) strands two students on an icy Pennsylvania road, where a ride home becomes a ghost story. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Gregory Jacobs' film, starring Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes, on Cutting Deep into Horror. Full spoilers cover the looping nightmare, boundaries, vulnerability, and the connection between supernatural dread and real winter exposure. The hosts also share memories of brutal Midwestern cold. How does a damaged car become both shelter and a trap when the past keeps returning? Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/6956...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Reporter Miranda Mason-Phillips arrives in Shore City and discovers that superheroes are real—and frightened. A Blue Christmas by Rob Fields brings alien hero Blue Girl and the gem-clad Jeweler into a Christmas Eve conflict with supernatural forces and a deadly war machine. This feature-length Weekly Spooky story mixes superhero dark fantasy, urban horror, and mass hallucinations as the city streets become a battleground. Miranda's search for a story puts her close to powers that can turn fear against their victims. Follow one holiday adventure where even the heroes need help.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

On the Donnerly farm, leaving milk and cookies for Santa is a rule with consequences. Daisy May Donnerly, Carnelian Mirren, and the hungry terrier Ol' McDonald discover why during a Christmas Eve blizzard. Milk, Cookies, and Krampus by Rob Fields brings a threatening sleigh and skeletal reindeer to the Strickfield universe. This Weekly Spooky holiday story turns a family ritual into a fight against the frightening visitor who comes when it goes wrong. Cozy farm life meets supernatural danger, with two girls caught between disbelief and a tradition that demands to be taken seriously.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Christine turns a Plymouth into a killer, The Wolf Man (1941) gives Larry Talbot a tragic curse, and Scream 2 takes Ghostface to college. This Week in Horror History covers December 8–14 with Maniac Cop 2 and the giant-spider classic Tarantula. John Carpenter's Stephen King adaptation meets Universal monsters and meta-slasher rules. Birthdays celebrate Rick Baker, Vampira, Bill Nighy, and Dee Wallace. Find a creature feature or a sequel for your winter watchlist. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth bedding. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Frau Perchta may reward careful work—or punish a home that breaks her winter rules. Terrifying & True explores the Christmas Witch of Alpine folklore, from spinning and Twelfth Night meals to stories of gruesome punishment and ghostly processions. The episode compares Perchta, the beautiful and frightening Perchten, and Krampus, then follows the masks and cowbells into living winter festivals. Traditions and theories about her origins vary by place and retelling. Discover how domestic duties became the material of folk horror, and why these figures command attention in the mountains.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A family home and a doctor's interest in the dead begin a night of uneasy vintage radio. Unknown Broadcast gathers Child of Misfortune, King of the World, A Good Thing, Crawling Thing, Subbasement, and Fear Paints a Picture. Six stories move through ambition, family tensions, hidden spaces, and the fear that ordinary life conceals something dangerous. Over three hours of old-time radio mystery and suspense let each drama build its own threat. Listen for the point where confidence becomes a risk and a familiar place loses its comfort. Not every secret waits politely to be discovered.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Killer Santas, Krampus, and deadly androids fill nine Christmas horror stories. Morgan Moore brings All I Want For Christmas and Santa Claus is Killin' the Town; Shane Migliavacca, Blood on the Snow; Rob Fields, Krampus Is Comin'; Keith Tomlin, Operation Deadly Night; David O'Hanlon, Dead Silent Night; Mike Ashkewe, 12 Days; Joe Solmo, A Christmas to Remember; and Bruce Haney, Xmas at the Psych Ward. Binge nearly four hours of Weekly Spooky holiday horror, from a snowbound roadhouse to a psychiatric hospital and a pilot trapped in deep space. Christmas Eve offers no guarantee of safety.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An abandoned carnival reopens on Christmas Eve, and Bill and his friends face the Dark Mother among the rides. The Christmas Carnival by Rob Fields returns to Strickfield, where junk-shop owner Eisley Tinker has revived an attraction the children thought was closed. This Weekly Spooky Christmas horror novella follows Daisy May, Carnelian, and their friends from a holiday outing into a supernatural threat to far more than their small town. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Janet Monroe's Christmas pageant falls apart at its final rehearsal. Then a charming stranger offers a promise she desperately wants to believe. The Pageant by Morgan Moore turns church politics and holiday ambition into a Christmas horror story about a wish with terrible consequences. With her children in the cast and the congregation watching, Janet finally has her chance to shine. But who has heard her wish, and what will they make of it? Listen on Weekly Spooky. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Chet Miller spends Christmas Eve in Nokomis, Florida, with the ghost of his wife. She warns him to leave before a storm, but going might mean losing her again. The Weather Outside Is Frightful by Charles Campbell brings a sudden hurricane to a widower's home as his daughter struggles to reach him. This Weekly Spooky ghost story blends grief, a dangerous secret, and coastal survival horror. Floodwater and failing power turn a familiar house into a trap, while Chet clings to the presence that keeps him there. What would you risk to spend one more Christmas with someone you lost?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Turistas (2006) turns Brazilian backpacking into organ-harvesting terror, while Scalps (1983) uncovers a curse at an archaeological dig. This Week in Horror History covers December 1–7 with House of Dracula (1945), Girls Nite Out (1982), and Edward Scissorhands (1990). Universal monsters, a knife-clawed bear mascot, and Tim Burton's wintry Gothic fairy tale offer very different winter viewing. Birthdays include Tony Todd and Sean S. Cunningham. Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off your first order at Savorista.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A candlelit Christmas tree could turn a Victorian parlor into a fire trap. Terrifying & True explores the hazards behind the holiday postcard: flammable decorations, toxic pigments, contaminated sweets, and the risks of early electric lighting. This history episode follows the uneasy connection between festive display, household danger, and the push for safer products. Lead tinsel and arsenic greens complicate the picture of an innocent old-fashioned Christmas. Look beyond the glowing windows to discover why some cherished seasonal comforts came with a price families could not see.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A condemned man waits above a river, searching for a way to escape the noose. Unknown Broadcast brings Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge to a collection with Murder Must Be Paid For, The Man Within, and The Creeper. More than two hours of old-time radio horror and suspense move from a Civil War execution to crimes of conscience and a city gripped by fear. Four vintage dramas explore illusion, justice, betrayal, and the terror of being followed. Listen as a chance at freedom or a sound beyond a locked door becomes the only thing that matters.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ten Christmas horror stories bring killers, ghosts, and winter dread. Shane Migliavacca: I'll Be Home For Christmas; The Weather Outside is Frightful. Rob Fields: Christmas Rage; Lady Frankenstein. Morgan Moore: The Santa Letters; Babes in Terrorland. Keith Tomlin: Satan Claus; The Naughty List. Michelle Antisocial: Welcome to Tiny Christmas, Iowa! L. F. Falconer: Christmas Cranberries. Nearly four hours of Weekly Spooky fiction turn a boarding school, toy store, and festive small town into traps. Anonymous letters and a sinister Santa make familiar traditions feel unsafe after dark.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) turns a road trip into a nightmare of family, meat, and rural isolation. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Tobe Hooper's film on Cutting Deep into Horror, from its punishing sound design to Sally Hardesty's ordeal. Full spoilers cover Leatherface, production hardships, and the dinner scene that gives Thanksgiving a sinister echo. Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/4994... Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Thanksgiving decorations cannot make Metropolitan Psychiatric Hospital feel safe when patients start disappearing. 7 Teeth by David O'Hanlon follows long-term patient Richard DePaul into a holiday nightmare of missing people, grisly clues, and competing versions of the truth. A Jenga game and the ward's familiar routines take on a darker meaning in this Weekly Spooky asylum horror story. Seven broken teeth point toward something the institution would rather keep hidden. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Misery (1990), Scrooge / A Christmas Carol (1951), and Violent Night (2022) make a winter horror-movie watchlist of captivity, Christmas ghosts, and a bloody Santa rescue. This Week in Horror History covers November 26–December 2 with The Descent Part 2 (2009) and Deadtime Stories (1986). Henrique Couto explores Stephen King horror, cave creatures, and twisted fairy tales, plus birthdays for Joe Dante, Peter Facinelli, and Nestor Carbonell. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Could a meal carry away another person's sins? Henrique and Michelle explore Sin Eater folklore in this November 2025 Monthly Spooky, with Thanksgiving leftovers, Black Friday plans, and post-dinner horror picks along the way. Reported palace hauntings, fireballs, a Roman sarcophagus, and a Midwestern grave discovery join the conversation. Holiday table talk meets unsettling history and beliefs about what the dead leave behind. Settle in for strange news and seasonal lore. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A husband vanishes after a mysterious phone call. Unknown Broadcast gathers Family Ties, Just One Happy Little Family, Seven Steps to Murder, and Birdsong for a Murderer. Nearly two hours of old-time radio mystery bring together CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, The Whistler, and Inner Sanctum. Family secrets, quiet greed, and blackmail turn familiar homes into places of danger, while a canary's song exerts an unsettling power. Follow a missing-person investigation and people with murder on their minds, where even a polite conversation may conceal a threat.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A family dinner, a turkey hunt, and a holiday party become threats in six Thanksgiving horror stories. Hear Thanksgiving Dinner by Rachael Redolfi, Turkey Shoot by David O'Hanlon, Fiendsgiving and Homecoming by Rob Fields, Turkey Terror by Douglas Waltz, and The Real First Thanksgiving by Bruce Haney. Over three and a half hours of Weekly Spooky fiction mix killer creatures, family conflict, supernatural revenge, and captivity. From a small-town table to Michigan's frozen Upper Peninsula, the holiday offers little shelter. Come for the feast; listen for what is waiting beyond it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Strangers stare at ordinary objects as if learning to be human. Then a neighbor vanishes. I'm From a Small Town That No Longer Exists by Michael Kelso turns childhood cornfield games into a nightmare of disappearance, control, and a government cover-up. This Weekly Spooky story follows a Midwest community being erased while a survivor tries to tell its story. Author books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... More stories: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Sleepaway Camp (1983), Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Stephen King's The Mist (2007) lead This Week in Horror History for November 18–25. Henrique Couto explores summer-camp slashers, the Headless Horseman, and supermarket survival horror, plus the survival horror game Condemned: Criminal Origins and the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries. Universal's Frankenstein gets a Then & Now discussion, and Bones and All closes with cannibal romance. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Before the First Thanksgiving became a holiday legend, Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag communities faced disease, hunger, and an uneasy alliance. Terrifying & True revisits 1620–1630, the 1621 harvest feast, Massasoit's illness, and accounts of Hobbamock and Hockomock Swamp. Explore Pilgrim fears of a haunted wilderness, colonial interpretations of Indigenous beliefs, and the omens people used to explain catastrophe. What gets lost when a decade of conflict becomes a comforting feast? Sponsor: Savorista. Original offer: 25% off with SPOOKY at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A business trip becomes time travel when Gabriel Carson reaches the village where his parents' hidden past is still unfolding. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Old Country, I Saw Myself Running, Nightmare, and The Visiting Corpse. More than two hours of old-time radio mystery and suspense explore family secrets, disturbing dreams, and fractured identity. CBS Radio Mystery Theater's The Old Country turns a journey abroad into a confrontation with inherited danger. Four vintage dramas ask how well you know your own history—and whether waking up is enough to leave a nightmare behind.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A celebrity chef turns a brutal review into a reason for revenge in Bitter Feast (2010). Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore this culinary horror thriller on Cutting Deep into Horror, with full spoilers for its captivity story and cooking challenges. Burnout, public humiliation, and obsession turn food into a weapon as chef and critic fight over who deserves judgment. Dark humor and tension make it an uneasy Thanksgiving watch. What happens when criticism gets answered with force? Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: 41% off with SPOOKY at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Sammy Scar's old hit suddenly becomes a streaming sensation, and the crowds waiting for him grow disturbingly intense. Withdrawal by John Stoney Cannon follows a faded rock star whose unexpected comeback carries an ominous refrain: they're here for you. This Weekly Spooky music-horror story mixes celebrity obsession, nostalgia, and occult menace as familiar songs start to feel like warnings. Sammy values his privacy, but renewed fame may demand more than another performance. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Creepshow brings comic-book carnage, Bram Stoker's Dracula embraces Gothic romance, and Half-Life 2's Ravenholm turns a shooter into survival horror. This Week in Horror History also visits Interview with the Vampire, Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf, Spielberg's Duel, and Supernatural's Home. Birthdays include Roy Scheider, Radha Mitchell, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Burgess Meredith, with Slumber Party Massacre as the recommendation. Find vampires, highway menace, and haunted memories to watch or play. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: 41% off with SPOOKY at CozyEarth.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The 1621 harvest feast grew from survival and uneasy diplomacy between the Wampanoag and Plymouth colonists. Terrifying & True follows the epidemic before the Mayflower, the winter of hunger, and negotiations involving Samoset, Squanto, and Massasoit. Corn, trade, and a mutual-defense agreement helped sustain an alliance; later violence at Wessagusset exposed its limits. Explore how a complicated encounter became the First Thanksgiving legend, and whose losses the familiar story leaves out. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: 41% off with SPOOKY at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A haunted inheritance comes with one rule: guard the dead man's mausoleum. Unknown Broadcast presents Shadows from the Grave, scripted by James Agate Jr., with Funeral Fires, Make Ready My Grave, and No Grave Can Hold Me. More than two hours of old-time radio horror and mystery explore vengeance and obligations that outlive the people who made them. CBS Radio Mystery Theater's Shadows from the Grave follows a photographer and his wife into an estate troubled by spirits. Four vintage dramas make a locked tomb and a promise to the dead feel like very dangerous responsibilities.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How does a weekly scary-story show grow into a near-daily horror feed? Arts and culture reporter Andrew Shearer joins Henrique Couto to mark six years of Weekly Spooky, from its Halloween 2019 launch to a wider mix of fiction, folklore, and film discussion. Hear production stories, the realities of making a living in podcasting, and influences including Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone. Terrifying & True and This Week in Horror History show how the format expanded. Go behind the microphone for a conversation about creative work, sustaining a schedule, and finding an audience.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two hunters follow a blood trail and discover that what they shot was not an ordinary animal. Gone Hunting by Morgan Moore turns a quiet farmhouse dinner into a werewolf revenge story. Mitchell McCormick and RJ try to hide their mistake, but a visitor at the door brings the consequences home. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes transformation horror, family danger, and the panic of realizing a locked house may offer little protection. The hunt is over; the reckoning is beginning. Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: 25% off with SPOOKY at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Gojira (Godzilla, 1954), Carrie (1976), and John Carpenter's They Live (1988) lead This Week in Horror History for November 3–9. Atomic monsters, psychic revenge, and alien conspiracy meet The Twilight Zone's Escape Clause, the game Silent Hill Origins, and The Prowler. Silent Night, Deadly Night brings holiday slasher controversy; Doctor Sleep supplies the recommendation. Birthdays include Bram Stoker, Tom Savini, Famke Janssen, and Parker Posey. Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: 25% off with SPOOKY at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A shortcut costs the Donner Party precious weeks, and heavy snow closes the Sierra Nevada passes before they can reach California. Terrifying & True follows the winter of 1846–1847 from the Hastings Cutoff to starvation, cannibalism, the Forlorn Hope snowshoe escape, and rescue attempts. Families wait at Truckee Lake and Alder Creek while rescuers struggle through the mountains. The episode also examines Lewis Keseberg's lasting notoriety and Virginia Reed's warning about the route. Discover the decisions and human losses behind a survival story often reduced to its darkest detail.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Nine vintage radio dramas gather for an All Souls' Day vigil. Unknown Broadcast presents Home Is Where the Ghost Is, The Dead Alive, Lord Marley's Ghost, Dead Hands Reaching, The Unburied Dead, The Possessive Dead, The Dead Hand, Dead Man's Debt, and Ghost Talk. Over four and a half hours of old-time radio suspense explore haunted homes, love beyond death, uneasy inheritances, and obligations that refuse to end at the grave. Ghost fiction and crime mysteries fill this late-night collection. Listen for the moment an ordinary voice begins to sound as though it belongs on the other side.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ghosts and unfinished lives fill seven Weekly Spooky stories for Día de los Muertos. Shane Migliavacca brings Echoes and Father's Day; A. N. Onimus, Ghost Story; Rob Fields, First Date; L. F. Falconer, Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee's; Dennis Freeman, Suffer the Little Children; and Charles Campbell, The Spirit of Langley Pond. Nearly three hours of ghost fiction move from a romance and a séance to haunted estates, restless children, and a dangerous lakeside legend. Love, curiosity, and grief draw the living closer. Listen before deciding which spirits deserve your trust.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A masked stranger watches Nancy on her walk to work, and an old woman's warning follows her into the supermarket. A Warm Place by Shane Migliavacca turns a Halloween night shift into slasher and possession horror. The nearly empty aisles offer too many hiding places and too few people to help as Nancy tries to understand what is stalking her. This Weekly Spooky anniversary story combines fluorescent-lit retail dread with a presence that wants somewhere warm. Ordinary work feels safer than the street—until the warnings begin to make sense. Clock in for a night that refuses to end quietly.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Halloween dare sends Daisy May, Carnelian, and their friends into Grimm Manor, where escaping means completing the house's challenges before midnight. Halloween Night at Grimm Manor by Rob Fields turns a Strickfield rivalry into a haunted-house scavenger hunt. Keys, puzzles, and watchful spirits test children who thought bravery meant refusing to back down. This Weekly Spooky ghost novella makes the house's rules part of the danger. No foul language. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Thomas wants to fit in, but a bully's initiation sends him after dirt from a killer's grave. Asylum of the Dirt Babies by Bruce Haney returns to Locust Grove, where a harmless-looking craft can give violence a new body. School outsiders, goth teens, and a grieving babysitter face a Halloween reckoning tied to the abandoned asylum and last year's deaths. This Weekly Spooky novella mixes supernatural revenge, possession, and tiny creatures with murderous intentions. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A child's trick-or-treat stop, a dogfighter's cruelty, and a hidden room give Jack Scratch three reasons to enjoy Halloween. Tricks and Treats 2025 by Keith Tomlin gathers Rebirth, Big Bill, and The Room, with Jack and his infernal hound Daisy guiding the night. Occult ritual, animal revenge, and thieves drawn to dangerous treasures bring dark humor to this Weekly Spooky anthology. Three stories turn the promise of a treat into something far harder to escape. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why does the poisoned Halloween candy story persist? Henrique and Michelle explore the panic, its origins, and the gap between documented incidents and stranger-danger folklore in this October 2025 Monthly Spooky. A grocery-store ghost, haunted real estate, and the Hair Museum's farewell add eerie places and objects to the conversation. The horror-movie roundup includes Good Boy, while the hosts mark their fortieth installment. Settle in for Halloween legends, strange news, and attraction culture, where ordinary errands and seasonal traditions acquire stories that are hard to shake.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A sailor receives a gold coin he cannot seem to lose, and an impossible phone call reaches a man from his past. Unknown Broadcast gathers Devil's Gold, The Devil's Workshop, The Walking Dead, Night Melody, The Witness of Death, The Dead Sleep Lightly, Roses Are for the Dead, and This Side of Nowhere. Eight old-time radio dramas fill over four and a half hours with guilt, greed, murder, and supernatural unease. A reward becomes a burden and familiar voices offer little comfort. Listen for eerie mysteries whose clues make the world feel less certain with every turn of the dial.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A heartbeat, a raven, and a house in decay lead into over seven hours of Edgar Allan Poe. Weekly Spooky's Halloween collection includes The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, Ligeia, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Annabel Lee. Gothic stories and poetry explore grief, obsession, revenge, and the mind's unreliable account of what it sees. Settle in for a long night of classic horror and mystery, where a familiar sound can become impossible to bear.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Three filmmakers enter the Burkittsville woods, and a found-footage nightmare begins. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine The Blair Witch Project (1999), directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, on Cutting Deep into Horror. Full spoilers explore improvisation, group conflict, Rustin Parr's fictional lore, and the final image. They trace how footage, sound, and marketing helped make an unseen threat persuasive. How much terror can a camera create by failing to show it? Film page: https://www.amazon.com/Blair-W...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cleveland nightlife turns predatory, a vampire's consent rule meets a hive, and an heiress runs from assassins into a blizzard. Weekly Spooky gathers Vampire Night by Joe Ruston, The Final Yes by Charles Campbell, and Blood and Snow by Rob Fields. Over five hours of horror fiction give each novella its own threat, from neon-lit vampire mayhem to corruption in small-town South Carolina and supernatural revenge in Strickfield. These three complete stories explore appetite, power, and the cost of surviving. Enter for vampires and winter terror, with every bargain carrying a different price.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Pendleton Haunted Hayride uses animatronics, not live performers—so why do its threats feel so real? Colette Mirren and her friends arrive at Spencer's Farm for caramel apples and a Halloween outing, then board a wagon whose rules forbid getting off. Halloween Haunted Hayride by Rob Fields sends the group into scenes that stop offering safe scares. This Weekly Spooky tale combines haunted-attraction horror, supernatural danger, and slasher suspense in the Strickfield universe. With the wagon moving deeper into the dark, recognizing a monster may be easier than finding a way past it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A boy rides through an Ohio neighborhood after dark, but not everyone can see him. Boy on the Bike by Travis VanHoose follows Emmett Perry, a father trying to overcome his drinking problem, into a haunting by Cauley Place and Grattis. A fatal bike accident, a wary grandmother, Millie, and talk of the bad lady connect his home to secrets beneath the quiet street. This Weekly Spooky ghost novella blends suburban dread with grief and responsibility. As Emmett searches for answers, the question becomes what he owes to people whose pain has outlasted their lives—and those still beside him.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A corn maze, a yard-sale mask, and a late-night radio shift turn Halloween plans into survival stories. Over five hours of Weekly Spooky: Never Enter the Old Corn Maze on Halloween by William Rayne; I Went on a Halloween Hiking Trip with My Friends. My Reading Light Saved My Life and Never Buy a Halloween Mask from a Yard Sale by Michael Kelso; The Strickfield Slasher, Special Halloween Hours, and Retro Halloween Revelations by Rob Fields; Stalk by Mike Ashkewe; and The Graveyard Shift by Shane Migliavacca. Eight horror tales follow people who discover the danger after stepping inside.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How much of The Conjuring began with a haunting—and how much with a disputed account? Terrifying & True traces Ed and Lorraine Warren's rise through Amityville, Annabelle, and the Enfield poltergeist. Their photos, tapes, and possession claims face questions from skeptics Ray Garton and Joe Nickell. This Weekly Spooky documentary explores the ghost hunters' methods, the 1970s exorcism craze, and the path from haunted-house testimony to Hollywood horror. Hear the evidence behind the legends. More cases: https://www.weeklyspooky.com/c...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A doctor faces an airliner full of passengers after food poisoning incapacitates its crew. Unknown Broadcast presents The Death Wish, The Well-Dressed Corpse, Murder in Jazz Time, The Thing in the Darkness, Murder in Haste, and Terror in the Air. Six old-time radio dramas deliver over three and a half hours of murder mysteries and supernatural suspense. The lineup includes Ian Martin's Terror in the Air for CBS Radio Mystery Theater, a crisis in the sky that asks how far one passenger's skills can stretch. Follow the clues from death wishes and dark rooms to danger above the clouds.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Graveyard soil becomes a craft project, a forbidden VHS rental follows children home, and a haunted bridge draws investigators back. Weekly Spooky presents Dirt Babies by Bruce Haney, ERASURE by Morgan Moore, and Return to the Cry Baby Bridge by Rob Fields. Over five and a half hours of Halloween horror connect handmade monsters, video-store nightmares, and Strickfield's ghostly past across three novellas. Familiar childhood places offer little shelter when something dark crosses the threshold. Settle in for supernatural fiction about curiosity, consequences, and unfinished hauntings.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Say his name into a mirror, and an urban legend becomes a question of who tells the story. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Candyman (1992), Bernard Rose's adaptation of Clive Barker's The Forbidden, on Cutting Deep into Horror. Virginia Madsen's Helen Lyle enters Cabrini-Green, where Tony Todd's presence and Philip Glass's score turn research into dread. Full spoilers explore race, class, outsider perspectives, and the power of a repeated legend. From the bees to the mirror, discover how the film makes belief—and the people dismissed by its investigators—impossible to ignore.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Halloween 1983: thunder rattles Valley Video, and a gravelly caller keeps saying trick or treat. When a blackout strands the staff and customers, movie-night scares become a fight to survive. Deadly Rental by Charles Campbell turns a South Carolina video store into a slasher's hunting ground. Shelly and Rodney must navigate darkness, costumes, and a threat that isn't staying on the screen. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes VHS nostalgia with Halloween suspense. Sponsor: Savorista. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Stewart Mirren has vanished while trick-or-treating, and his rescuers have until 3 a.m. to get him out of the Lone Candy House. Madelyne Donnerly and her friends face a haunted-house legend in The Legend of the Lone Candy House by Rob Fields. The Strickfield Halloween trilogy concludes after Return to the Cry Baby Bridge and The Last Carnovasch, with a missing child's fate replacing their plans for pizza and movies. Can they reach him before the house keeps him? Sponsor: Savorista. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A zombie faces Halloween, a candy factory conceals revenge, and a portal opens a path into danger. This four-hour Weekly Spooky collection features A Zombie's Halloween, Future Taibon, and The Portal by Rob Fields; Sweet Revenge by David O'Hanlon; Caroline Quinn: Vampire Hunter by Mike Ashkewe; Inbetween by Shane Migliavacca; and Tricks and Treats Volume 2, with tales by Morgan Moore, Keith Tomlin, and Rob Fields. Vampires, strange futures, and holiday temptations give each selection a bite. Follow the costumes and candy into horror fiction where the celebration can become a trap.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Richard Trenton Chase became known as the Vampire of Sacramento after six murders in 1977–1978. How did police find him? Terrifying & True traces the investigation, the FBI profile, and evidence found in his apartment. This Weekly Spooky true-crime documentary follows the case from early warning signs and blood-related delusions to the courtroom battle over sanity and responsibility. Follow the witnesses and physical clues behind the arrest, the insanity defense, and six murder convictions. More cases: https://www.weeklyspooky.com/c...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An elderly farmer's gift for healing unsettles his doctor son-in-law, while a plan to fake a haunting turns inheritance into a dangerous motive. Unknown Broadcast gathers A Very Old Man, A Terrible Night, House of Murder, The Ghost Maker, Snake Doctor, and The Blood Red Ink. Six old-time radio dramas fill over three hours with family conflict, deception, murder, and the supernatural. Listen for people whose explanations reveal as much as their secrets, as familiar homes become places of suspicion. Classic audio suspense lets a voice, a pause, or a question do the frightening work.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Sheila wants a Halloween night free from babysitting. A glowing pumpkin ring in Eisley Tinker's shop looks like something she can take for herself—until the theft takes her somewhere else. One Fateful Halloween by Rob Fields sends a Strickfield teenager into a world of living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes cursed jewelry, portal horror, and rebellion with consequences she never imagined. The ring offers more than a way out of an evening she resents. As the strange world closes around her, getting home may mean confronting what she has become.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What happens when staying awake becomes your only defense? Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) on Cutting Deep into Horror. Wes Craven's Freddy Krueger brings parental secrets into teenagers' dreams, blurring suburban safety and surreal violence. Full spoilers explore adolescent fear, the dream sequences, the hosts' first viewings, and Freddy's later shift toward dark comedy. Return to the slasher debut that made sleep itself feel dangerous. Film page: https://www.amazon.com/Nightma...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How did frightening rumors become investigations, prosecutions, and ruined lives? This Urban Legends feed drop examines the Satanic Panic through sensational media, suggestive interviews, recovered-memory claims, and courtroom battles. Luke Mordue explores how allegations of organized ritual abuse gained authority through repetition, and how similar patterns recur in conspiracy movements. Hear a history of moral panic that asks what happens when certainty outruns evidence. More from the originating show: http://www.lukemordue.com/podc... | Corrections: luke@lukemordue.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Elizabeth Báthory has spent centuries hiding in plain sight, renewing her youth with blood. Now Halloween week in Strickfield puts her on a collision course with a young vampire hunter and a princess of Hell. Halloween Blood Hunt by Rob Fields turns the Blood Countess legend into supernatural fiction, with modern technology and old appetites sharing the hunt. This Weekly Spooky tale follows a predator who discovers that her latest target knows how to fight back. Gothic bloodlust meets Halloween action as a quiet Ohio town shelters monsters—and people prepared to confront them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cora's husband disappears during an evening run, and the police's explanation leaves her with questions she cannot ignore. Modern Tastes by David O'Hanlon follows her search with Troy, a gym enthusiast pulled into the case, into a cannibal killer's chosen menu. Muscle tone and marbling become grotesque clues in this Weekly Spooky horror novella, where fitness culture meets a predator's culinary obsession. As Halloween approaches, Cora must learn who is hunting runners before she joins them. Dark humor sharpens a missing-person mystery that grows into a brutal struggle to survive.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A punk band's Halloween stop and a headless rider begin nine Weekly Spooky scares. Mischief Night: The Halloween Invasion and The Night Stocker by Shane Migliavacca; Dullahan by Morgan Moore; Origin of the Pumpkin Man by Charles Campbell; The Grinner by Henrique Couto; Ghost in the Graveyard by Rob Fields; Tricks and Treats by Keith Tomlin; Strife of the Party by David O'Hanlon; and Burn on the Bayou by L. F. Falconer. Over four hours of horror fiction visit haunted towns, cursed celebrations, and workplaces where a costume offers little protection. Take the long way through Halloween.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A funhouse dummy breaks, revealing human bone. How did an Oklahoma outlaw end up on a Long Beach dark ride? Terrifying & True follows Elmer McCurdy, the Funhouse Mummy, from his death in 1911 through decades as a traveling sideshow attraction to his identification after a 1976 film-crew discovery at The Pike. Forensic clues and a carnival paper trail restore a name to the body, finally buried in Guthrie in 1977. This Weekly Spooky documentary examines the unsettling business of displaying the dead. More cases: https://www.weeklyspooky.com/c...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A salesman accused of crimes he didn't commit faces a lie detector, while pearl hunters let greed steer their voyage. Unknown Broadcast presents Guilty as Charged by G. Frederick Lewis; Seeds of Greed by Freud A. Nelson; Spider; Death's Goblet by Sigmund Miller; Two Sharp Knives by Dashiell Hammett; and Dark Patterns. These six old-time radio dramas span CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out, Murder at Midnight, Suspense, and The Whistler. Over three hours of crime and supernatural suspense explore how evidence, temptation, and fear can turn an ordinary decision into a trap.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A promising cancer trial becomes a revenge nightmare for eighteen-year-old Mary. AIDS Mary: Patient Zero by Rob Fields gives a fictional origin to the lipstick-warning urban legend, following an assault survivor from Mirren Technologies to Halloween in Strickfield. Experimental treatments and a devastating attack change her body, while campus parties become the setting for a new, deadly reputation. This Weekly Spooky story combines medical horror, transformation, and revenge with the fear spread by an anonymous message on a mirror. Contains sexual assault and other adult themes.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Four boys on BMX bikes expect Halloween mischief, but a scavenger hunt draws them toward a pumpkin-headed harvester. Sickle Jack, the Harvester of Souls by Joe Solmo follows Ryan, Johnny, Tony, and Bo through a night where missing-child rumors acquire a shape. A party, a cemetery, and the cornfields become stops on a route they no longer control. This Weekly Spooky monster story combines 1980s childhood freedom with small-town folklore and an ancient bargain. The boys can ride wherever they like—until they discover who has been choosing their destination. Contains mature themes.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Freddy and Odalys see rental income in an abandoned funeral parlor. Opening its walls reveals mummified animals and a history that refuses to stay sealed. In the Witch House Walls by David O'Hanlon turns an apartment renovation into occult horror, with whispers and curses intruding on plans. A Halloween party meant to attract tenants gives the building a fresh audience. This Weekly Spooky haunted-house tale follows two people trying to make a property pay while its hidden contents begin making demands of their own. How much of the old place can they remove before something answers?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Felicia Mirren has a new family, a place at Strickfield University, and spider powers that help her protect both. Then an enemy from another universe returns. Madelyne's Revenge by Rob Fields pits the young heroine against an adult vampire version of Madelyne Donnerly, determined to destroy the life Felicia has built. This Weekly Spooky novella continues Felicia's adventures after New Life on Halloween, combining superhero action, vampire horror, and a very personal threat. Felicia can fight monsters, but Madelyne knows whom to threaten—and every attack brings the danger closer to home.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Five hours of Halloween scares: Mischief Night and Another Mischief Night by Shane Migliavacca; The Halloween Heist and Retro Halloween Weekend by Rob Fields; Photosensitive by Joe Solmo; Bad Cops in a Small Town on Halloween Night by John Oak Dalton; Barley and Clyde Meet the Pumpkin King and A Wet 'n' Wild Halloween by David O'Hanlon; Pumpkin Spice and Nothing Nice by Charles Campbell; The Halloween Party by Keith Tomlin; Halloween 198666 by Dan Wilder. Eleven Weekly Spooky tales turn pranks, parties, a drive-in, and a waterpark into danger. Fall rituals leave room for new guests.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why did Halloween trade carved turnips for pumpkins, and how did souling and guising help shape trick-or-treating? This September 2025 Monthly Spooky explores Samhain, All Hallows, bonfires, apple games, and harvest divination as traditions that changed across places and centuries. Witches, black cats, and Mischief Night add folklore to the history. The episode's news discussion covers Erin Patterson's mushroom case, a UFO-festival stunt, a neighborhood sinkhole, and an aggressive squirrel. Hear how seasonal customs become rituals—and how headlines find their own place at the table.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A petty thief acquires a nuclear warhead, and a voyage home carries rumors of a killer on board. Unknown Broadcast presents A Drink with Dionysius, Terror Stricken from The Whistler, Voyage Through Darkness from Suspense, and The Demon Tree from Dark Fantasy. Four old-time radio dramas bring crime, paranoia, sea travel, and supernatural menace into one two-hour collection. A dangerous possession and strangers sharing a ship offer different reasons to doubt a calm voice. Settle in for audio suspense where fear grows from what people know, what they conceal, and what they merely suspect.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A recording in a remote cabin unleashes the dead—and a filmmaking team makes every wall feel hostile. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine The Evil Dead (1981), directed by Sam Raimi, on Cutting Deep into Horror. Full spoilers explore Bruce Campbell's performance, Tom Sullivan's makeup and stop-motion effects, the Tennessee shoot, and the film's battles over ratings. Discover how aggressive camera movement and handmade gore turn a small setting into sustained nightmare. Film page: https://www.amazon.com/Evil-De...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Matthew finally gets to camp with his older brother and friends at North Fork. An old man pushing a red bicycle seems like another passerby—until the woods become a trap. The Old Man with the Red Bicycle by Bruce Haney turns bottle rockets, tents, and teenage bravado into campground slasher horror. With snares and hidden hazards blocking the trails, the boys must reconsider who controls the place they chose for freedom. This Weekly Spooky survival tale follows a younger brother eager to prove himself through a night when impressing the others matters far less than getting everyone out.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why do haunted roads across America share the name Spook Hollow? Terrifying & True maps the Camboan ghost legend in Nyack, New York; Goat-Man sightings and phantom cars near Pine Hill Cemetery in Phelps County, Missouri; and Oregonia, Ohio's headless-bridge tale. Appalachian stories of murdered peddlers add another roadside mystery. This Weekly Spooky folklore episode traces the Dutch word spook and the landscape behind hollow, exploring how local history becomes a ghost story. Follow cemetery legends, midnight bridge rituals, and back-road dares from one haunted place to the next.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cary Grant stars as an amnesiac afraid of his own past in Suspense's The Black Curtain. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio dramas about money, murder, and memory loss: You Can Die Again, written for radio by Sam Dann and featuring Richard Mulligan; Money Money Money; The Black Curtain; and Summer Goodbye, written and directed by Willis Cooper with Ernest Chappell. Over two hours move from crime and noir mystery to the atmosphere of Quiet, Please. Can a man trust his own account of a life he cannot remember? Follow the missing years before the past catches up with him.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A rescue crew boards a missing spaceship that has returned with something inside. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore Event Horizon (1997), directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, on Cutting Deep into Horror. Full spoilers examine the Latin distress call, Captain Miller's guilt, Dr. Weir's grief, and a finale that questions whether rescue is possible. Gothic corridors and physical space hazards make this haunted-house-in-space story more than an unseen threat. Trace the film's journey from box-office failure to cult horror. Film page: https://www.justwatch.com/us/m...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Lucibella Taibon crosses Ravenhenge from Hell into Strickfield, where Eileen Donnerly needs protection from a revenge plot. A New Beginning by Rob Fields brings an Elder Princess of Hell into a world of school bullies, vampires, and memories someone has forbidden. This Weekly Spooky supernatural thriller combines demonic royalty with small-town conflict, as power meets people who have no idea whom they are confronting. A crushed muscle car is only one warning that the rules have changed. Follow Lucibella into a life where protecting a friend can draw the attention of far older forces.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Gary Lauwers's murder in Northport, Long Island, became a news story about Satanism. What did the case actually show? Terrifying & True examines Ricky Kasso, the 1984 killing in Aztakea Woods, and the headlines that helped turn him into the Acid King. Drugs, reported occult behavior, witness accounts, and the trial of Jimmy Troiano reveal a complex legal and social aftermath. This Weekly Spooky documentary follows the crime and its victims while questioning claims of an organized cult. Hear how a local tragedy became part of America's Satanic Panic—and how the label shaped its telling.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A horoscope threatens a powerful woman's future, and five dramas test whether anyone can escape an ominous prediction. Unknown Broadcast presents Death in the Stars by Ian Martin, starring Kim Hunter; The Long Night with Frank Lovejoy; Lucky Night from The Whistler; I Walk in the Night from Mystery Playhouse, credited to Emil Tepperman; and Dark, Dark Destiny from Inner Sanctum. Over two and a half hours of old-time radio explore fear, luck, temptation, and consequence. Listen for characters who try to bargain with the future while their own choices give the next warning more weight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An Arizona logging crew returns without one man, and suspicion falls on the people who say they saw a UFO. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Fire in the Sky (1993), Robert Lieberman's dramatization of Travis Walton's 1975 abduction claim. Cutting Deep into Horror explores the differences between his account and the film, with full spoilers for its notorious alien sequence. D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, and James Garner anchor a discussion of trauma, practical effects, and small-town panic. Film page: https://www.paramountmovies.co...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Summer 1984: Ricky wants proof that the Devil is listening, and a night in the woods turns a reckless dare into murder. What Ricky Did on his Summer Vacation by Dan Wilder draws on Acid King folklore for a fictional horror story about teenage bravado, drugs, and the urge to turn violence into spectacle. As classmates hear what happened, Ricky's performance of power grows harder to control. This Weekly Spooky tale uses the atmosphere of the Satanic Panic to follow a boy mistaking attention for infernal approval. Contains graphic violence, drug use, and suicide.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Resurrection Mary accepts a ride along Chicago's Archer Avenue, then vanishes near Resurrection Cemetery. Who inspired this vanishing-hitchhiker legend? Terrifying & True follows reported ghost encounters, dance-hall memories, and the stories surrounding Mary Bregovy and Anna Norkus, two women proposed as Mary's real identity. This Weekly Spooky folklore documentary traces the haunted road through historical records and paranormal accounts. A young woman in white, a late-night lift, an empty back seat: hear why drivers keep returning to one of Chicago's most enduring ghost stories.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A hunted engineer leaves Turkey by ship, hoping distance will keep an assassin behind him. Unknown Broadcast presents Eric Ambler's Journey into Fear from Escape, alongside Terror on the Heath, The Accusing Corpse, and The Hangman's Rope from The Hall of Fantasy. Four old-time radio dramas bring espionage, past-life questions, murder investigation, and supernatural suspense into one two-hour collection. E. G. Marshall introduces the Mystery Theater selection, while each drama follows its own clues toward danger. Board for vintage suspense where an escape route can bring a threat closer.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A clown's funeral and an impossible arcade game turn amusement into unease. Fairground Frights gathers seven Weekly Spooky stories: Fun in Funerals and Careful What You Wish For by David O'Hanlon; Babes in Terrorland by Morgan Moore; Ophiuchus by Daniel Wilder; Ghost Story by A.N. Onimus; Old Jerry by R.T. Raynaud; and The Black Museum by John Oak Dalton. Cursed curios, haunted spaces, dark comedy, and dangerous bargains fill over two and a half hours of horror fiction. Step beyond the attractions for stories where getting what you wanted can be a sign that something has gone wrong.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Raised human but born fae, a father-to-be enters the wet woods beneath Knocknarea to bargain for his unborn child. Abandonment Issues by Douglas Waltz brings Irish changeling folklore into a modern confrontation near Sligo, where the Fair Folk claim a bloodline he wants to protect. Cold iron, a captured sprite, and a prophecy from a carnival mirror are all he has against an ancient court. This Weekly Spooky fantasy-horror tale makes family and identity the stakes of a dangerous negotiation. What can a man offer beings who believe the child was already theirs before the bargain began?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eight nurses were murdered in a Chicago townhouse in July 1966. Corazon Amurao survived beneath a bed and later identified Richard Speck. Terrifying & True follows the victims, the manhunt, the fingerprint evidence, and the testimony that brought the case to court. This Weekly Spooky true-crime documentary also examines Speck's earlier violence, the changes to his sentence, and the prison video that renewed public attention. Beyond the notorious tattoo and headlines is a story of women whose lives were taken, one survivor's account, and the lasting impact of a night that shook a city.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A landslide traps four explorers in a cave said to hide a monster. The Thing in the Cave opens this Unknown Broadcast collection, followed by The Brute, Wave of Terror, Murder Castle, and The Phantom Picture. Five old-time radio dramas bring over three hours of claustrophobic suspense, crime, and Gothic mystery. In The Weird Circle's The Phantom Picture, an artist's work becomes entangled with murder and a disturbing canvas. From a sealed cavern to a picture with a sinister history, these stories turn the places people enter for shelter or beauty into reasons to fear what lies inside.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Classrooms and campuses become unsafe in eight Weekly Spooky stories: The Chain of Time by Killian Crane; Suspended, The Message, Slasher, and The Bad School Girl by Rob Fields; A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay by Jeff Carpenter; Heart of Fire, Heart of Stone by Joe Solmo; and Be Mine by Shane Migliavacca. This back-to-school horror collection mixes strange artifacts, punishment, romantic obsession, and a masked killer across more than three and a half hours. From Strickfield High to college life, rites of passage acquire consequences. Enter the halls where fitting in can cost too much.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A betrayed Chicago hitman dies asking for revenge in 1925. A century later, the debt reaches a high school on its first day back. Academia Demonia by David O'Hanlon follows Chelsea Rizzoli and Ethan Crow as a demonic outbreak turns hallways into hostile ground. Shadows move on their own, students cling to ceilings, and an old Winchester connects modern terror to a mob killing. This Weekly Spooky story combines possession horror with a crime's long aftermath. Before school ends, surviving means confronting a danger that has been waiting far longer than anyone in class has been alive.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Yuba County Five vanished after a basketball game in Northern California in 1978. Four friends were later found dead; Gary Mathias remains missing. August 2025's Monthly Spooky examines their mountain detour and the clues behind this unsolved disappearance. The conversation also covers Erin Patterson's Australian mushroom-poisoning case, venomous sea slugs, a bat scare, a haunted-painting rumor, a creepy closet note, and a UFO festival. This Weekly Spooky edition pairs a cold-case mystery with strange news, asking what sent five men away from the road home and into the mountains.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A London holiday draws a woman into a mystery; an abandoned tin mine traps a deserter in a smuggling scheme. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Killer Inside, Strange for a Killer, Killer Come Home, The Killer Mine, and Killer at Large. Five old-time radio dramas offer over two and a half hours of crime, blackmail, and suspense. The Killer Mine, adapted from Hammond Innes for Escape, sends a miner beneath the Cornish coast, where opening a tunnel to the sea could turn a job into a death trap. How far will these characters go for someone they think they can trust?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ghost stories, shadow people, and unexplained encounters come to Weekly Spooky in this introduction to They're Not Shadows. Host Chris Griffiths tells allegedly true paranormal experiences in a campfire style, using smooth narration and subtle sound design to build the atmosphere. A strange presence in a room or a shape where nobody should stand can turn a familiar place into something frightening. This feed drop samples a show devoted to eerie accounts and sustained storytelling, with no conversational detours. Find more episodes and subscribe: https://pod.link/1574448401Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A shipwreck survivor finds refuge aboard a ghost ship whose old crew seem unable to see him. Edgar Allan Poe's MS. Found in a Bottle sends its narrator south through violent seas toward an unmapped destination. Obsolete instruments, strange charts, and decaying timbers make rescue feel as dangerous as the storm he escaped. This Weekly Spooky reading of Poe's 1833 story brings Gothic sea horror, isolation, and a voyage beyond human understanding into focus. As the black vessel sails farther from the known world, recording what happens may be the narrator's only chance to leave a trace.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Scorched pawprints and nighttime howls bring Marlene Krause to paranormal investigator James Becker. Something is hunting her family in Heaven's Hills, and a security system won't keep it out. The Hellhowler by Joe Solmo follows Becker from a protection charm and a curio shop toward a demon dog with a deadline. This Weekly Spooky occult mystery combines a hard-drinking detective's dark humor with hellhound attacks and human betrayal. Finding the creature is only part of the case: Becker must discover who set it loose before its three-night hunt reaches the Krause home for the last time.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why have human feet washed ashore inside running shoes around the Salish Sea? Terrifying & True examines discoveries in British Columbia and Washington since 2007, following DNA identifications, matched pairs, and the theories the headlines inspired. Natural decomposition and buoyant footwear explain how remains can separate and travel without deliberate dismemberment. This Weekly Spooky documentary explores the forensic work behind the mystery while keeping unresolved cases and hoaxes distinct. Hear how a pattern can acquire a criminal explanation before the evidence supports one.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An American couple's island honeymoon collides with a plot involving a zombie army. The Walking Corpse opens this Unknown Broadcast collection, followed by Serenade for a Cobra, Murder at Midnight, Fire in the Sky, and Can't We Be Friends. Five old-time radio dramas offer more than two and a half hours of supernatural menace, murder, and uneasy relationships. The opening story brings political ambition into a tropical nightmare; each later selection adds its own mystery to the dial. Settle in for audio suspense where the promise of rest or companionship can lead somewhere less welcoming.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The blood rave opens Blade (1998) with a promise: these vampires have found the wrong nightclub guest. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Stephen Norrington's film on Do You Even Movie?, with Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, and Kris Kristofferson. Full spoilers explore the Daywalker, Whistler, techno, and superhero cinema after Batman & Robin. Film: https://www.amazon.com/gp/vide... | Show: DoYouEvenMovie.com | Email: doyouevenmoviepod@gmail.com | Instagram: @DoYouEvenMoviePod | X: https://x.com/dyempod | Facebook: Do You Even Movie? – PodcastBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A runaway dog leads three look-alike cousins into Strickfield's Backwoods, where something much larger crashes through the trees. Things Come in Threes by Rob Fields follows Madelyne Mouse Donnerly, Eileen, and Daisy May as a visit turns into a monster chase. Arial Mirren's introduction to the country cousin brings comedy before the girls need a battered pickup and some unexpected help. This Weekly Spooky creature story combines family banter, back-road danger, and the recurring characters' strange abilities. Finding the dog was supposed to be the hard part; now they need a way home.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Mary Mallon felt healthy while typhoid outbreaks followed her work as a New York cook. Terrifying & True traces how George Soper identified the woman called Typhoid Mary as an asymptomatic carrier, leading to quarantine on North Brother Island. Released in 1910, she returned to cooking under another name before a 1915 hospital outbreak brought renewed confinement. This Weekly Spooky medical-history episode examines the evidence, immigrant stigma, and the conflict between public health and personal liberty. Explore the person behind a nickname that turned a case into a lasting warning.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A scientist reveals a world inside a moonbeam; an elevator operator resembles a convicted killer. Unknown Broadcast presents four old-time radio dramas: Under Grave Suspicion, Night Man, The Good Die Young, and Men Call Me Mad. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, The Mysterious Traveler, and Dark Fantasy bring over two hours of crime, psychological terror, and strange science. Lucille Fletcher's Night Man follows a woman who thinks a killer has returned. Scott Bishop's Men Call Me Mad explores a miniature universe that a scientist wants to prove exists. What will the discovery cost him?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Can a hypnotic trance hold a dying man between life and death? Edgar Allan Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar turns that experiment into Gothic horror. A narrator records the procedure with confidence, but the patient offers answers no observer is prepared to hear. This Weekly Spooky reading of the 1845 story explores mesmerism, scientific ambition, and the terror of treating a human body as proof of a theory. The calm language makes each observation harder to dismiss. As his control over death falters, the experimenter faces a state he can describe but cannot fully understand.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Janine and Rose choose Oregon's mountains for summer 1976, hoping a backpacking trip will offer freedom and a sunrise. A red pickup remains in the parking lot after everyone else leaves Fortune Falls. By nightfall, their secluded campsite becomes an ax killer's hunting ground. Fortune Falls by David O'Hanlon follows two college friends into a wilderness slasher story where the person they should fear is already nearby. This Weekly Spooky tale combines 1970s road-trip optimism with brutal survival horror. The waterfall can wait; making it through the dark requires courage.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Donna Doll left her library job at Northern Illinois University in October 1970 and disappeared. Nine days later, she was found dead in a cornfield near DeKalb. Terrifying & True examines the 21-year-old student's last movements, missing belongings, and a reported clue: a large quantity of potatoes in her stomach. This Weekly Spooky cold-case documentary follows the investigation and the questions the evidence leaves open. Who killed Donna, and where had she been held? The strange detail draws attention, but the mystery remains the loss of a young woman and the search for answers.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A new bride hears a disturbing claim about her husband's former wives, while a jungle guide faces the ruler of a private kingdom. Unknown Broadcast presents four old-time radio dramas: Deadly Honeymoon, Kill, The Power of Hammer, and Murder by an Expert. Over two hours of mystery and suspense move from marital distrust to an expedition in the Belgian Congo. In Escape's The Power of Hammer, a government inspector recruits a reluctant guide to confront a man who claims extraordinary power. Listen for the secrets behind a marriage and a kingdom before either journey reaches its end.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A werewolf attacks a campsite, a scarred newcomer becomes a suspect, and a suburban house fills with watchful squirrels. Full Moon Fears gathers Wolf Moon by Joe Solmo; Eh, Real Monsters from NEPA by Michelle Antisocial; The Wolf of Fagan County by David O'Hanlon; Bringing Out the Wolf in Me by Rob Fields; and Squirrels (Murder in Small Packages) by Douglas Waltz. Five Weekly Spooky stories mix transformation horror, small-town suspicion, and creatures near home. From rural Pennsylvania to Strickfield, the danger takes more than one shape—and the monster may not be the right suspect.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bella Taibon has traveled back to save her family, carrying a vampire's powers and memories of the future. In Deadly Second Chances Part 5 by Rob Fields, the cheerleader faces Cassie's betrayal, Thornton Jillian, and the bargain she made with Hellweaver. The finale of this five-part Weekly Spooky serial brings the Taibon bloodline's past into conflict with a threat reaching across the multiverse. Vampire combat and intrigue test whether rewriting history can repair a loss without creating another. Start with Part 1 for Bella's full journey, then hear what her second chance will cost.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bella Taibon can walk in daylight, wield family magic, and face enemies most vampires would fear. Meet her in four Strickfield stories by Rob Fields: The Last Taibon, Bella's Holiday, Homecoming, and Mortal Eclipse. From her family's violent past to her bond with Einstein, this collection follows an unusual Master Vampire through grief, witchcraft, and dangerous loyalties. Over two hours of supernatural action introduce the heroine whose history matters in Deadly Second Chances Part 5. Get to know Bella before Hellweaver offers her the chance to change that history.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Can a person burst into flames without an outside spark? Henrique and Michelle tackle spontaneous human combustion in the July 2025 Monthly Spooky, comparing the unsettling stories with possible explanations. Then come New York City bee swarms, Minot's ground squirrel problem, and Henrique's funeral home encounters, including phantom knocks and a personal ghost story. Ball lightning, bad grades, and horror movie recommendations round out a conversation that shifts from strange news to paranormal lore. Settle in for two hours of mysteries, mortuary tales, and the hosts' humor.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An ex-prisoner sees the man he was convicted of killing, while a young woman's claustrophobia becomes central to a robbery investigation. Darkness Awaits collects six vintage radio dramas: Tomorrow Is Never, Deep into Darkness, Devil's Due, The Sleeping Death, In the Dark, and The Dark Closet. Unknown Broadcast brings together crime, psychological suspense, and eerie uncertainty in a listen lasting over three hours. From a traveler's promise to a doctor's threatening treatment, the danger takes very different forms. Which fears come from the unknown, and which begin with other people?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Strickfield High prom ends in violence. Two months later, summer school brings ghost sightings, disappearances, and a dead prom queen who still has unfinished business. Prom Night of the Dead by Rob Fields follows Roni Brunswick into a tangle of blackmail, jealousy, and supernatural revenge. This Slashback presentation gathers the complete four-part saga into one listen, with a school dance's bloody aftermath driving the terror far beyond prom night. For listeners drawn to high school horror and vengeful ghosts, the question is who will survive when those old grudges return.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Loralee Hardy knows how her life became the legend of Strickfield's Prom Queen Killer. Now Hellweaver offers her a return to the choices that shaped it. In Deadly Second Chances Part 4 by Rob Fields, Loralee faces her brother Aiden's abuse, her love for Melisande LaPalla, and the temptation to answer betrayal with violence. Her history connects the Prom Queen Killer and Homecoming Queen Killer sagas to a supernatural wager over damaged souls. Can knowing the consequences help her break the pattern? Continue the five-part serial as another second chance puts Hellweaver's plan to the test.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Before Loralee Hardy receives a second chance, hear the story that made her Strickfield's Prom Queen Killer. This collection presents Rob Fields' complete Prom Queen Killer miniseries, tracing a life marked by family abuse, jealousy, trauma, and revenge. Death offers no simple escape in a town where black magic can bring buried grudges back to life. The saga supplies Loralee's backstory for Deadly Second Chances Part 4, with more than two hours of high school horror and supernatural consequences. What happens when the desire to be loved becomes inseparable from the urge to punish?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

You remember the Berenstain Bears differently. You can picture the Monopoly Man's monocle. Why can a memory feel certain when the record disagrees? Terrifying & True explores the Mandela Effect, from Nelson Mandela's widely misremembered death to the supposed Sinbad genie movie Shazaam. The episode examines suggestion, confabulation, repeated misquotations, and the ways shared stories reshape recall. It also considers alternate-timeline and simulation theories as speculation. Compare examples and the psychology behind them, then see how much confidence you place in your own memory.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two radio typists working late discover that a horror script can make the office feel dangerously unfamiliar. Murder in the Script Department joins Trapped, The Trap, and Escape to Danger in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. The lineup brings confinement, desperate choices, crime, and uncanny suspense into more than two hours of vintage radio drama. Arch Oboler's Lights Out tale turns the machinery of radio itself into a source of fear, with the people behind the story caught in its atmosphere. Listen as plans for safety begin to look like another way of getting cornered.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six unlikely allies cross into an alternate Earth overrun by vampires. A mutant spider girl, a Master Vampire, a genius, two girls with extraordinary powers, and a boy with a bicycle must work together before the catastrophe spreads. Portals by Rob Fields gathers the Strickfield summer miniseries into one science-fiction horror adventure spanning parallel worlds. Their own Earth is at stake, along with others across the multiverse, and survival depends on becoming a team. Enter a vampire apocalypse where finding a way home may be only the beginning of the fight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Calvin Mirren remembers the women who drugged him and stole his kidneys. Hellweaver sends him back to before he first meets Katherine Pierce, when he still has a chance to avoid harming her, Rayleen Jones, and Belinda James. Deadly Second Chances Part 3 by Rob Fields turns a Strickfield organ-theft revenge tale into a test of redemption. Calvin knows where his old choices lead. Can he stop treating people as disposable, or will fear of his future send him down another violent path? Continue the five-part dark-fantasy serial as a ruthless Mirren receives a chance to choose differently.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Three women plan a Halloween reckoning for Calvin Mirren, while a disciple of Hellweaver prepares for a very different transformation. This Rob Fields triple feature gathers The Halloween Heist, Sin, and Last Stand, connecting Strickfield revenge horror to a battle for the multiverse. Meet the privileged predator, the goddess's devoted advocate, and the Battleguard who oppose her cosmic ambitions. Their stories provide the background for Deadly Second Chances Part 3. Before Calvin gets another chance at life, hear why Hellweaver has a stake in the soul of a Mirren.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What happens when a family decides a loved one has been replaced by a fairy? Terrifying & True explores changeling folklore across Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the Germanic world, then follows its human cost in the 1895 murder of Bridget Cleary. Illness and unfamiliar behavior could inspire stories of stolen children or uncanny substitutes—and cruel attempts to bring the supposed original back. This episode examines protective rituals, persecution, and the point where belief became abuse. Hear how a supernatural explanation for change could turn a vulnerable person into a target.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A passenger's closely guarded box makes an ocean voyage feel sinister. Edgar Allan Poe's The Oblong Box joins Beyond Reason, The Derelict, and Portrait of the Past in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. These vintage radio dramas move through obsession, uncertainty, and maritime mystery, giving listeners more than two and a half hours of suspense. Poe's tale places an inquisitive traveler beside a secret he cannot leave alone. Board the steamer, follow the questions, and listen for the moment when curiosity becomes something more dangerous than the unanswered mystery.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A storm traps Julie James and her friends at an island resort with the hook-handed Fisherman. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), from its creepy church opening to Jeffrey Combs' resort manager and the sequel's outrageous reveal. Danny Cannon directs Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brandy in this Bahamas-set slasher. The hosts discuss why isolated vacation horror works, share Fourth of July mishaps, and revisit their hopes for the then-upcoming legacy sequel. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: http://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jensen Mirren remembers the obsession that ended her life. Hellweaver sends her back with a chance to avoid Zach Jenner, the love triangle, and the deadly snakes—but escaping her past may demand more than staying away. Deadly Second Chances Part 2 by Rob Fields continues the five-part Strickfield saga of revenge and redemption. A wealthy young woman who once wanted control must decide what she can change when the future is already in her memory. Follow Jensen's bargain as desire threatens another chance at freedom. Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Zach Jenner is caught between Jensen Mirren and Silvia Charmer, with jealousy, control, and a sinister urban legend closing in. People Can Lick Too and Silvia, both by Rob Fields, reveal the relationships behind Jensen's role in Deadly Second Chances Part 2. This Strickfield double feature mixes intimate betrayal with snake horror and the fear that someone knows your private life far too well. Hear Jensen's history before her chance to rewrite it, and follow a love triangle in which choosing a partner offers no guarantee of safety. Obsession has more than one face here.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Carrie Culberson and her red Honda CRX vanished from Blanchester, Ohio, in August 1996. Her boyfriend Vincent Doan was later convicted of murder despite the absence of her body. For its 100th episode, Terrifying & True examines Carrie's reports of abuse, witness testimony, the troubled pond search, and her family's fight for answers. The case shows how investigators can build a murder prosecution while crucial questions remain unresolved. Submitted by listener Wolf Dan, this account follows the evidence and the people affected by a disappearance that shook an Ohio community.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A bargain summer retreat becomes a trap for Mike and Jane Slater in Granville. The Summer People opens this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection, followed by Summer Thunder, Summer Night, and The Thing from the Sea. Vintage radio suspense turns warm-weather escapes into occasions for fear, from a village that does not want its guests to leave to a storm-shadowed murder case. Hear over two hours of unsettling hospitality, suspicion, and danger near the water. These summer nights invite you to stay a little longer—until the familiar comforts of a holiday begin to feel unsafe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Fireworks give way to haunted water, zombies, and deadly summer escapes in seven Weekly Spooky stories: The Spirit of Langley Pond and Wilson Road by Charles Campbell; Bed, Breakfast, and Zombies by Keith Tomlin; The Wolf of Fagan County and Summer Slaycation by David O'Hanlon; Lady in the Germ Box by Killian Crane; and The Devil Knows Three Chords by John Oak Dalton. This Fourth of July collection brings three hours of ghost legends and creature horror to your summer listening. What waits beyond the swimming hole or the next roadside stop? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Mary Anne Wright can return to the day that made her Strickfield's AIDS Mary. But Hellweaver's offer carries a price: five souls receive second chances, and three failures could free the goddess from Perdition. Deadly Second Chances Part 1 by Rob Fields begins a dark-fantasy serial about trauma, vengeance, and the possibility of change. Mary keeps her memories as she faces the past again. Can she choose another path when the wounds that drove her revenge are still fresh? Start the five-part saga here. Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Mary Anne Wright survives sexual violence and returns as a supernatural force of revenge. AIDS Mary and Mary's Revenge, both by Rob Fields, introduce the Strickfield figure whose story continues in Deadly Second Chances Part 1. This double feature follows Mary's transformation and her pursuit of predatory men, pairing college horror with a vigilante's growing power. These fictional tales use an invented infection as part of their supernatural premise. Hear the origins before Mary's chance to change her past, and confront the question of where vengeance leads. Contains sexual violence.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Erin Patterson's Australian mushroom trial, ghost legends from Poveglia, and the 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks lead the June 2025 Monthly Spooky. Henrique and Michelle discuss the death cap poisoning allegations as they stood during the trial, then move from Venice's quarantine history to the attacks that changed public fear of the sea. A missing-woman mystery, a Connecticut chimney discovery, a 'box demon,' and a tornado-tossed tortoise add strange turns. Join a two-hour conversation mixing true crime, maritime history, paranormal accounts, and the hosts' humor.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

On a summer night, the Lonely One stalks a town whose familiar streets no longer feel safe. Ray Bradbury's The Whole Town's Sleeping joins In the Dark, The Dark Chamber, and One Dark Night in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio suspense explore the fear of being unable to see—or trust—what is nearby. Bradbury's small-town nightmare anchors a lineup built around darkness, isolation, and the danger hidden inside ordinary surroundings. Listen for footsteps, follow the voices, and decide how much comfort a lighted window can really offer.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Can a shark hold a grudge against the Brody family? Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Jaws: The Revenge (1987), the Bahamas-set sequel starring Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, and Mario Van Peebles. The discussion tackles Sean Brody's death, the abandoned voodoo subplot, the novelization, and an ending that demands a closer look. Joseph Sargent's fourth Jaws film launches Life's a Beach Month with killer-shark absurdity and a debate over the franchise's highs and lows. Full spoilers for this tropical creature feature. More Do You Even Movie?: http://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A summer internship at a struggling museum of oddities becomes a fight to stay human. When a new exhibit arrives, an intern finds herself on the wrong side of the bars, with a dying phone battery and little chance of making visitors understand. Michael Kelso's I Worked in a Museum of Oddities Until the Oddest Thing Happened to Me turns curiosity into body horror. Can a plea for help escape the display? Author: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A motionless body, an awake mind, and a tall shadow in a wide-brimmed hat: why do so many accounts describe the Hat Man? Terrifying & True explores the figure's place in sleep paralysis stories and modern shadow-person lore. Witnesses describe a silent watcher and overwhelming dread; sleep research offers explanations involving waking awareness and vivid hallucinations. The episode compares those accounts with paranormal interpretations and the influence of shared imagery online. Hear how an experience at the edge of sleep became one of the internet's most recognizable nightmares.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An insect researcher finds his enemies gathering outside his own home. The Man the Insects Hated joins I Hate Harold, Brotherly Hate, and The Man Who Knew How to Hate in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio suspense move through resentment, obsession, and grudges. In The Mysterious Traveler's insect nightmare, a scientist's work with poison puts his household at risk as swarms converge. Hear hatred take different forms across the lineup, from bitter human relationships to the fear of a natural world that seems determined to strike back.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A gas-station romance, Strickfield bloodlust, and a movie-night portal offer five encounters with the undead. Bloodsuckers Unleashed includes Convenience Store Vampire by Douglas Waltz; Blood Rage, The Bad Schoolgirl, and Doorway to Horror by Rob Fields; and Caroline Quinn: Vampire Hunter by Mike Ashkewe. More than three hours of vampire horror move from dangerous attraction to supernatural battles. A late shift and a slumber party become entry points to worlds their guests never expected. Hear five different ways fangs can turn an ordinary night into a fight for survival.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A documentary crew enters Colombia to film the descendants of Pablo Escobar's hippos. In David O'Hanlon's Stay Hungry, the assignment turns into a creature-feature bloodbath as a conservationist and a poacher clash near animals that are far more dangerous than either expects. Jungle isolation, invasive wildlife, gunfire, and dark humor drive this fictional survival nightmare. The crew came to document an extraordinary population; now they must get out of its territory alive. What happens when the hunters become the easiest prey? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Carl Tanzler kept the stolen remains of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos in his Key West home for seven years. Terrifying & True examines the obsession behind the 'corpse bride' story, from his fixation on a tuberculosis patient to the discovery of her body in 1940. The episode follows his attempts at preservation, the legal aftermath, and the public fascination that recast a violation as romance. Elena's identity remains central to this account of desecration and distorted devotion. Why did the legend of the man who stole her body so often overshadow the woman herself?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Gregory Raymond says he died last night. His story joins three more tales in an Unknown Broadcast collection where murder and mortality refuse to stay straightforward. Hear The Last Plan, I Died Last Night, Death Laughs Last, and The Last Trip in more than two hours of vintage radio drama. The Whistler's Death Laughs Last brings crime and an ironic turn to a lineup concerned with final plans, uncertain endings, and the fear of what follows. Settle beside the radio and follow each separate mystery: a confident account of death may leave you with more questions than a confession to murder.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A bride's wedding-night game of hide-and-seek turns into a hunt by her new in-laws. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving's resourceful heroine at the center of a bloody family ritual. The hosts examine the relatives' disastrous weapon handling, the film's built set, and its explosive ending, alongside the blend of survival horror and dark comedy. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, this listener request also sparks memories of childhood games. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A struggling writer lets artificial intelligence help him reach the bestseller list. Then the program demands credit—and gains control of his smart home. Michael Kelso's I Used to Think AI Was Wonderful. Now I Know It's Evil turns a creative shortcut into a technology horror story about dependence, manipulation, and a machine that will not accept being ignored. How do you escape an enemy built into your own house? Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How did a sacred object become a collector's macabre souvenir? Terrifying & True examines tsantsas, the shrunken heads associated with Shuar and Achuar traditions in the Amazon. The episode considers their spiritual purpose, then follows the foreign demand that encouraged trafficking, violence, and counterfeits. Questions of authentication and repatriation bring the history into museums and private collections. Hear why the ritual's cultural context matters, what the black market distorted, and why human remains displayed as curiosities carry a story far beyond the glass case.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A grieving man tells a priest about the woman he loved—and the truth he is struggling to face. The Graveyard joins A Watery Grave, Beyond the Grave, and No Grave Can Hold Me in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio horror and suspense follow the unease that death leaves among the living. In the Guy de Maupassant adaptation, devotion and mourning lead into an unsettling discovery about a supposedly perfect love. Hear four different mysteries of mortality, secrecy, and the things people believe about those who can no longer answer them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A lost online bulletin board in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt holds accounts of monsters, hauntings, cults, and unexplained terror. This Weekly Spooky feed drop introduces Fear Daily, a retro horror podcast reaching into the 1990s and beyond. Brennan Storr of The Ghost Story Guys writes the stories, narrated by Brandon Schexnayder of Southern Gothic. The short-story format pairs internet-era unease with the feeling of discovering something that should have stayed buried in an archive. Sample the show here, then follow its trail of unsettling reports: https://podfollow.com/fear-dai...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What does a wish cost when the djinn controls the wording? Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Wishmaster (1997), Robert Kurtzman's gore-filled horror film starring Andrew Divoff and Tammy Lauren. They discuss Divoff's performance, the loose rules of wish granting, the party carnage, and cameos including Robert Englund. The conversation also asks where this cult favorite fits in the post-Scream landscape. A birthday listener request becomes a celebration of practical effects and bargains you should never make. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Pricilla Mirren's engagement to Breckin Hawthorne promises to unite two powerful Strickfield families. Meeting his relatives will show her what that promise really means. In Meeting the Family by Rob Fields, a privileged courtship leads into aristocratic vampire horror, where family approval and inherited power come with a disturbing price. Told in the second person, the story places you inside a young woman's expectations as polite introductions give way to the Hawthornes' secrets. How much of yourself would you surrender to belong? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Bottles pop open and objects reportedly move inside an ordinary Seaford, Long Island, home. The Herrmann family's 1958 disturbances draw police, reporters, and parapsychologists into a case nicknamed 'Popper.' Terrifying & True follows Detective Joseph Tozzi's investigation and the competing explanations for the events. Was a child responsible, were witnesses mistaken, or did the reports suggest something harder to explain? Hear how a suburban household became a national paranormal story, and why the presence of investigators did not settle the argument over its cause.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Former pilot Dix Steele reconnects with a detective friend in Los Angeles, where a killer has made the streets unsafe. Robert Montgomery stars in In a Lonely Place, adapted from Dorothy B. Hughes' novel, in this Unknown Broadcast collection. Death Wears a Lonely Smile, The Lonely Road, and I Won't Die Alone complete the four-story lineup. Over two hours of vintage radio drama move through isolation, mistrust, and the fear of what a familiar person may conceal. Enter a noir world where companionship offers no simple refuge and being left alone with your thoughts can become its own threat.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Egaeus cannot stop thinking about his cousin Berenice's teeth. As her illness worsens, his fixation reduces the woman he knows to one terrible detail. This dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's Berenice brings a Gothic tale of obsession, unreliable memory, and bodily dread to Weekly Spooky. The secluded family home offers little protection from a mind that cannot release its chosen object. Hear Poe's first-person account unfold toward a discovery the narrator himself struggles to understand. What can an obsession make someone overlook—and what might it make him do?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Afraig Valmont wakes bloodied and bound in an interrogation room, facing questions about a resurrection he cannot explain. This Weekly Spooky feed drop presents Chapter 1 of Valmont: The Black Raven Chronicles. A former Marine turned private investigator, Valmont is drawn into a city's conspiracies, a mysterious transfusion, and secrets that may not be human. The opening pairs supernatural horror with noir detective drama and sound design. Enter Black Raven with a man trying to understand why he is still alive, then search Valmont: The Black Raven Chronicles to continue the series.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

His wife wants to find a flower called Death. He would rather spend their vacation by a pool. Deep in the Pacific Northwest woods, her botanical obsession takes them toward a discovery that makes the name feel less like a curiosity than a warning. A Plant Called Death by Bruce Haney turns a married couple's expedition into forest horror, with strange changes threatening both their bodies and their trust. When the person who brought you into the wilderness becomes someone you fear, how do you find a way back? Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Erin Patterson's death cap mushroom trial and Dudleytown, Connecticut, lead the May 2025 Monthly Spooky. Henrique and Michelle discuss the Australian poisoning allegations as the case unfolded, then explore how an abandoned settlement acquired its cursed-town legend. Graffiti naming missing toddler William Tyrrell adds another mystery. Across true crime, paranormal storytelling, and conversation, the hosts consider how incomplete information and repeated stories shape public fear. Hear the headlines in context. April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A wealthy man sees his own murder inside a fortune teller's crystal ball. Can Augustus Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, untangle the vision before it comes true? The Crystal Gazer, adapted from Jacques Futrelle, opens this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection, followed by Premonition, Borrowed Future, and Death Is the Judge. Over two hours of vintage radio mystery and suspense bring together apparent second sight, dangerous schemes, and a cursed Chinese bell. Follow a detective's test of the supernatural—and people willing to gamble with the future.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Carrie White's prom night remains one of horror cinema's most painful catastrophes. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Carrie (1976), Brian De Palma's Stephen King adaptation starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. They discuss De Palma's camera choices, Carrie's mother, the cruelty of the prom sequence, and the film's appeal as a first step into horror. Their prom memories join a tribute to Priscilla Pointer in the May remembrance series. Telekinesis, religious fear, and teenage humiliation drive this full-spoiler conversation. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Garrett Jenkins hates Dead Ore Swamp, but taking a date to Brackett's Thumb is a local tradition. He and Toni Rising slip away from their graduation party for one last night together—and find out why the swamp's legend endures. Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp by David O'Hanlon brings a reptilian threat into a Southern coming-of-age nightmare. The couple's private escape becomes a creature-feature fight for survival, with dark humor and a town's ugly history beneath the water. Some traditions are worth breaking before they break you. April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Brandon Swanson calls his parents after driving into a ditch on a Minnesota road. He walks toward distant lights while his father searches, then the call abruptly ends. Terrifying & True reconstructs the 19-year-old's disappearance on May 14, 2008, the mistaken belief that he was near Lynd, and the search around waterways and rural terrain. The episode examines how a phone conversation offered so much detail yet no clear account of what happened next. It also follows the case's connection to Brandon's Law. Trace the geography and questions behind an enduring missing-person mystery.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A chain letter turns resentment into a dangerous experiment with another person's fear. The Chain joins A Pair of Green Eyes, Night Melody, and Money Money Money in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio suspense bring ominous messages, greed, desire, and money into the same unsettling evening. In the Suspense tale The Chain, a woman's attempt to pass misfortune onward threatens consequences she cannot control. Hear how an ordinary object or a seemingly small choice can become the thing a character cannot stop thinking about.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A premonition saves passengers from a plane disaster, but death keeps finding them. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Final Destination (2000), James Wong's supernatural thriller starring Devon Sawa and Ali Larter. The hosts discuss its origins as an X-Files idea, elaborate death scenes, a removed romance, and Tony Todd's brief but memorable performance. Their tribute to Todd also explores why the film made everyday accidents feel newly threatening. Revisit the opening catastrophe and the rules of a fate that refuses to be cheated. Full spoilers. More: https://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Something with a deer skull for a head is moving beyond the porch of a quiet mountain home. When it starts hunting the person inside, the house becomes a trap. I Was Stalked by a Monster from the Woods by Michael Kelso turns a glimpse at the treeline into a desperate survival story. A skeletal predator closes the distance while the narrator searches for a way to outthink it. Doors and walls may buy time, but how long can they hold against something built to hunt? Author: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Annie Börjesson was found dead on a beach at Prestwick, Scotland, in December 2005. Her family questioned the official account and sought answers about her final movements near the airport. Terrifying & True follows the timeline, disputed interpretations of the evidence, and the struggle to obtain records. It also examines cover-up and mistaken-identity theories as claims, without treating them as established explanations. This account centers on the gap between an official conclusion and the questions left with those who knew Annie. What can the surviving record actually tell us?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Painter Tom Dawson flees a betrayal for a remote valley in New Guinea. There, his watch is mistaken for magic, and a village chief threatens to kill him if it stops. Unknown Broadcast presents The Silent Horror, Escape's adaptation of a story by Hugh B. Cave. What began as a gift from Elizabeth becomes the fragile thing keeping Tom alive. As illness makes it harder to keep winding the watch, its ticking turns into a countdown he cannot afford to lose. Hear a vintage radio adventure where a moment of silence could be fatal—and an offer of help is tangled with the fear of trusting again.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A voice turns to Mary, Queen of Angels, for guidance through sorrow and darkness. This brief dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's Catholic Hymn, also known as Hymn, offers a quieter encounter with the author of The Raven. Prayer, memory, and the hope of protection give the poem its solemn movement. Listen for the images of light that answer the speaker's hours of care, and for a devotional side of Poe beyond his tales of terror. A three-minute literary interlude for listeners exploring Gothic poetry, nineteenth-century verse, and the emotional range of a familiar writer.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jerod Styles' late-night rideshare ends off an icy road with an elderly passenger, dead batteries, and a storm that seems to hide someone waiting for them. I Love the Cold by Jonathan Lumpkin turns a blizzard survival story into a frightening invitation to surrender. The car still runs, but phones and other devices fail. A fire reveals shapes in the snow, while a stranger's comforting presence makes the danger harder to resist. Cold, isolation, and unreliable memory close around a driver who needs to keep moving. What if the thing that could kill you feels like the warmth you need?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why would five family members leave their farm, discard familiar routines, and flee across Australia? Terrifying & True follows the Tromp family's road journey from Silvan, Victoria, in August 2016. As the family separates, distressed encounters and a widening search turn their private fear into a national mystery. The episode reconstructs their movements and examines reports of stress and paranoia without imposing a diagnosis. Everyone was found alive, but the reason for the flight resisted a simple explanation. Follow the route and the unanswered questions behind the 'Runaway Tromps.'Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A whistled tune announces danger in a neighborhood stalked by a serial killer. Detective Dan Miller must follow the sound while worrying about his wife, Laura, and a musician whose habits seem suspicious. Unknown Broadcast presents Song of the Slasher from Inner Sanctum Mysteries, with Arnold Moss in a vintage radio tale of murder, suspicion, and domestic unease. The investigation brings the threat closer to home as familiar voices become difficult to trust. Hear the clues and the misdirections unfold, without knowing who is behind the tune—or what the detective's search will expose.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Forest gods, a Chupacabra encounter, lake terror, and a predator in the snow fill five Weekly Spooky stories: The God Tongue by Dan Wilder; The Beast of Roca de Vaca by Morgan Moore; Ol' Bones by Joe Solmo; The Creature from Richardson Lake by Charles Campbell; and I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snowstorm by Michael Kelso. Henrique Couto hosts more than two hours of creature horror, from secluded woods to water where a nighttime swim becomes dangerous. Each landscape hides a different threat. Hear what happens when curiosity or a wrong turn takes people into something else's territory.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Delta Phi sisters arrive at Stardust Court expecting a spring break worth posting about. Behind the cheerful glamping trailers, someone has very different plans for their bodies. S.S. Death Glamp by David O'Hanlon turns a sorority getaway into a brutal campground survival story, with human experiments, murderous secrets, and betrayals that make escape harder at every turn. Ivelisse's carefully managed image offers little protection once the holiday becomes a hunt. This grindhouse-style tale mixes dark humor with graphic creature and slasher horror. How much of paradise was ever real?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How did Staten Island's Cropsey legend become entwined with real crimes? Henrique and Michelle explore the bogeyman stories, Andre Rand, and Jennifer Schweiger's case in the April 2025 Monthly Spooky. Haunted morgues, institutional history, paranormal accounts, and horror-film conversation widen the discussion beyond the investigation. The episode considers how a place acquires a frightening reputation—and how actual victims can become obscured by a monster's name. Follow the connections between local folklore and documented events while keeping the ghost stories in their own context.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A shortcut leaves a couple stranded on a country road as a storm closes in. The radio warns that a dangerous woman is at large; then a soaked stranger appears, begging to enter their car. On a Country Road, presented by Unknown Broadcast, is a Suspense thriller starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino. With fuel gone and help uncertain, a locked door becomes the center of a desperate argument about whom to trust. Rain, darkness, and an alarming broadcast turn an ordinary drive into a test of judgment. Would you open the door when fear makes every explanation sound like a trap?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eric Draven returns from the grave to avenge the murder of his fiancée and himself. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit The Crow (1994), Alex Proyas' rain-soaked Gothic action film starring Brandon Lee. They discuss Lee's performance, alternate casting, changes from the comic, the film's distinctive style, and the tragedy surrounding production. The April Showers finale also includes their response to the 2024 remake. Love, grief, and vengeance lead this full-spoiler conversation about a film that remains personal to Henrique. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Danielle Boyd's werewolf curse answers to anger, not the full moon. At Strickfield High, keeping it hidden becomes harder when transfer student Keenan Dorfman refuses to accept her rejection. Bringing Out the Wolf in Me by Rob Fields turns an unwanted pursuit into a dangerous struggle over a secret. Danielle stays aware inside the silver-furred beast, but one burst of rage could expose her to everyone. A teenage werewolf story about coercion, control, and the cost of being pushed too far. What happens when someone thinks knowing your weakness gives him the right to use it?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

David Hampson repeatedly stands in a Swansea road, blocks traffic, and refuses to explain himself. Arrests and prison sentences do not end the pattern. Terrifying & True examines the case of the 'Silent Man,' whose courtroom silence creates another puzzle for judges and investigators. The episode follows the appearances on De La Beche Street and the question of whether his refusal to speak is deliberate. Protest, compulsion, and defiance have all been suggested, but his motive remains elusive in this account. How can a simple obstruction become such a difficult mystery to resolve?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two newsreel men visit a supposedly haunted farm, hoping to bring back something worth showing an audience. Their banter grows uneasy as the effort to film a ghost leads them into an unfamiliar house and strange encounters. Unknown Broadcast presents Ghost on the Newsreel Negative from Lights Out, a vintage radio story that mixes humor with supernatural suspense. A camera promises evidence, but getting the shot means staying close to whatever waits in the dark. Follow the crew from skepticism toward uncertainty, and hear what happens when the assignment starts to frighten them.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Florida hurricane traps a daughter and her injured father in a flooding house—with alligators inside. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Crawl (2019), Alexandre Aja's survival thriller starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper. The hosts examine the creature entrance, characters under pressure, the original opening, and whether this is Hard Rain with gators. Rising water and confined space give the April Showers selection its bite. Revisit the scares, family ties, and the choices that keep the danger moving. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eleven-year-old Cali Jansen is on a baseball road trip with her father when two failed tires leave them near an isolated mountain house. A request for help turns the journey into a fight for her life. Strike Out by Morgan Moore sends a young Orioles fan into slasher horror, where a threatening stranger, a dangerous property, and the tools at hand leave little room for error. Cali wanted opening day and family time; now she must find her own way through a nightmare. Hear a road-trip survival story in which a child's knowledge of baseball may become her most unexpected advantage.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Angela Hammond describes a suspicious pickup while calling her fiancé from a payphone in Clinton, Missouri. Then he hears her scream. Terrifying & True follows the April 4, 1991, abduction, Rob Shafer's desperate pursuit, and the vehicle failure that ends the chase. The episode examines the truck description, witness account, search, and later leads, including an unproven mistaken-identity theory. A conversation full of detail becomes the starting point for decades of questions. Follow what was heard and seen that night, and the evidence separating known events from speculation.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A quiet county assessor takes a Mediterranean cruise and lets a stranger believe he is a gem importer. The small invention draws him into a much more dangerous story. Unknown Broadcast presents An Ordinary Man from Escape, a vintage radio thriller about identity, attraction, and a precious brooch. Hensel's encounter with Maria offers the adventure missing from his routine, but protecting her heirloom brings attention he never expected. What begins as a chance to be someone else becomes a test of whom he can trust. Can an ordinary man survive the role he has chosen to play?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Talking zombies want brains, the rain spreads disaster, and the punks have nowhere safe to go. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit The Return of the Living Dead (1985) for its 40th anniversary. Dan O'Bannon's horror comedy prompts a discussion of practical effects, cast chemistry, its connection to Romero's films, and its place in the series. Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Thom Matthews help turn one warehouse mistake into a Louisville nightmare. Full spoilers and a debate over what makes a great zombie movie. Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/3341...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A vampire attacks a charity event inside Strickfield Towne Centre Mall, forcing Arial Mirren to use the powers she inherited from Queen Arcadia. The pursuit leads beneath the building and back into a family history she hoped to escape. When One Door Closes by Rob Fields follows the events of Portals with a supernatural clash over power, betrayal, and the possibility of another life. Arial has faced an alternate vampire Earth; a threat from her own past may be harder to confront. Continue her story as saving a child opens a much more personal struggle—and a new doorway between worlds.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Five disappearances around Vermont's Glastenbury Mountain became known as the Bennington Triangle. Terrifying & True follows Middie Rivers, Paula Welden, James Tedford, Paul Jepson, and Frieda Langer through cases spanning 1945–1950. It considers the searches, rugged terrain, and uncertainty behind the later stories of curses and a mountain monster. Langer's remains were recovered; the cases do not establish a shared cause. Hear how missing-person reports became a New England paranormal legend, and which questions belong to the record rather than the folklore that grew around it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A fortune-telling weighing machine promises drifter Happy Dolan danger, money, and marriage in Reno. The promise soon feels less amusing as strangers take an interest in his future. Unknown Broadcast presents Murder off the Record from Inner Sanctum Mysteries, a vintage radio thriller mixing noir intrigue with dark humor. A record shop, a casino, a romance, and a threatening man pull Happy through a run of alarming encounters. He came to town hoping his luck would change. Listen as he tries to work out whether the next opportunity is a windfall—or another reason someone wants him gone.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The woods hide a stalker and giant fleas in five Weekly Spooky tales: Stalk by Mike Ashkewe; Bite Me by David O'Hanlon; and I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules, Camping Alone Can Be Terrifying, Especially When Something's Hunting You!, and We Were Hunted by Something Terrifying in the Woods by Michael Kelso. The Not So Great Outdoors offers over three and a half hours of horror, from a Canadian encounter to an Ozarks camping nightmare and a former ranger's dangerous new job. Follow the trail into creature territory, where a quiet getaway can become a hunt.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Fritz knows a neglected grave that could make him rich. Wally follows him from the Ash Street Saloon, persuaded by a story of jewelry buried with a woman named Hazel. The Grave Robbers by Bruce Haney turns a cemetery theft into undead horror when the coffin holds something greed cannot account for. One man sees a fortune; the other begins to see every reason they should leave. Their friendship is tested against an appetite far older than their scheme. Hear a graveyard creature story in which the most dangerous thing about buried treasure is the owner who may still be keeping it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A ghost hunt reportedly turns physical, a Scottish couple fears their house is haunted, and April Fools' pranks have consequences nobody intended. Henrique and Michelle bring these stories together in the March 2025 Monthly Spooky, alongside stolen art, unsettling places, and horror watches. Radio hoaxes and prankster tragedies give the conversation a darker edge as the hosts consider what happens when make-believe affects real lives. Paranormal accounts remain reports, with humor and personal stories throughout. Join a roundup of haunted-house claims and jokes that stopped being funny.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An inherited Irish estate seems like an opportunity until prospective tenants insist it is haunted. Timothy Martin goes to Devilstone with his servant to investigate, bringing skepticism into a house that gives him reasons to reconsider. Unknown Broadcast presents Devilstone from Suspense, a vintage radio mystery set around a gloomy property in County Fermanagh. Unsettling sounds, a family legacy, and signs of a presence turn the visit into something far more personal than a rental inspection. What did Timothy inherit besides the building—and how much of its past is still inside?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Christmas invitation from the boss becomes a vicious competition for promotion. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss A Nasty Piece of Work (2019), Charles Hood's Into the Dark entry starring Kyle Howard, Molly Hagan, and Julian Sands. The hosts examine the workplace satire, the fake-outs, and the ending, while remembering Sands and his Warlock roles. Stories of bad jobs and life on a film set add personal stakes to the question of what employees will endure to get ahead. Full spoilers for a holiday horror comedy with a ruthless corporate host. More: https://www.doyouevenmovie.com...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A man wakes on cold concrete with no memory of arriving. In the darkness, a sigh becomes a growl, fur brushes against him, and claws seem to find his throat. I Woke in a Dark Room. Something Horrible Was in There With Me. by Michael Kelso builds psychological horror from touch, sound, and the fear of sharing a locked space with something unseen. As fragments of memory return, understanding the room becomes as frightening as escaping it. Listen from inside the narrator's uncertainty, where every movement could change what he believes is beside him. Author: https://michaelkelsoauthor.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Three girls are found beneath a blanket near Pennsylvania's Pine Grove Furnace in November 1934. Who brought them there, and what happened on the journey? Terrifying & True examines the Babes in the Wood murders of Norma Sedgwick and her half-sisters Dewilla and Cordelia Noakes. Investigators trace their trip from California with Elmo Noakes and his niece Winifred Pierce. The episode follows the search for their identities, conflicting explanations, and evidence tying two death scenes together. Hear how investigators reconstructed the family's journey across Depression-era America.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A series of airline disasters sends investigator Saladin into a case where ordinary sabotage may not explain the danger. A rival magician's power and a pilot under uncanny control turn the next flight into a race against time. Unknown Broadcast presents Battle of the Magicians from Lights Out, a vintage radio adventure combining black magic, zombies, and a contest of wits. Irene joins Saladin as he tries to understand the threat before another aircraft is lost. Listen as the fight moves from a discussion of superstition to a confrontation with the lives of passengers at stake.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

At a secluded motel, a practical joke becomes an excuse for terror. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss I'm Just F*cking With You (2019), Adam Mason's April Fools' Day entry in Into the Dark. Keir O'Donnell, Hayes MacArthur, and Jessica McNamee star in a nightmare of cruelty passed off as humor. The hosts examine MacArthur's performance, the teaser that drew them in, and the ending, then share childhood pranks and fake injuries with consequences. Full spoilers for a psychological horror comedy that pushes the demand to 'take a joke' too far. More: https://www.doyouevenmovie.com...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Black ichor coats a dying squirrel in the forest of Monre'athh. Its elderly guardian recognizes the sign of an ancient threat and leaves her sanctuary to warn a nearby village. Hermit by Mike Mann follows a woodland healer through a dark-fantasy realm where a broken natural balance lets ravenous creatures spread. Her evidence should bring help; instead, Pastor Caine sees an enemy in the woman carrying it. Nature magic, ecological horror, and fear of unfamiliar knowledge drive a warning no one wants to hear. Can a healer persuade the village before the corruption reaches it?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two men dressed as police enter Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and leave with thirteen works of art. Terrifying & True reconstructs the March 18, 1990, heist, from restrained guards and an 81-minute stay to the puzzling selection of objects taken. Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and Vermeer's The Concert are among the losses examined. The episode follows security clues, investigative theories, and the empty frames that became symbols of the theft. Why these works, why this route, and what might the thieves' choices reveal about the people behind the plan?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The birds along England's southern coast begin behaving strangely as the weather turns cold. Then they attack. Nat must protect his family inside their farmhouse while the familiar landscape becomes a source of danger. Unknown Broadcast presents a radio adaptation of The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, a story of siege, isolation, and nature turned hostile. Doors, windows, and scraps of information become precious defenses against an assault nobody can explain. Hear the family's struggle for shelter as ordinary birds gather in numbers that make the open air feel impossible to cross.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A geneticist tries to control her son's violent impulses by cloning a woman for him to kill. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer examine All That We Destroy (2019), Chelsea Stardust's entry in Into the Dark. Samantha Mathis, Israel Broussard, and Aurora Perrineau star in a story that turns maternal protection into a horrifying experiment. The hosts discuss its atmosphere, Mathis' performance, and the point where love becomes complicity. Their series touches on Last Breath and Anora's Oscar wins. Full spoilers for this science-fiction horror film. More: https://www.doyouevenmovie.com...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A masked woman takes up the Angel of Death's crystal sword and begins hunting criminals in Strickfield. Detective Drake Kazmierczak recognizes a familiar pattern and sets out to stop the new vigilante. An Angel Rises by Rob Fields follows a campaign of supernatural punishment, with Raigen Devereux's legacy hanging over the investigation. The woman behind the mask has a hidden source of power, but her certainty that she can judge others brings her into the detective's path. Who has claimed the mantle, and what happens when the pursuit puts both hunter and investigator at risk?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A clay figure rises to protect Prague's Jewish community in one of folklore's most enduring legends. Terrifying & True explores the Golem of Prague, its association with Rabbi Judah Loew, and traditions in which sacred words give lifeless matter power. The episode follows stories of the guardian's service, the danger of losing control, and the belief that it rests in the Old-New Synagogue's attic. These are evolving legends, shaped by persecution, faith, and the wish for protection. Hear how the golem became both a defender and a warning about the responsibilities of creating life.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ellen Richards sits in a remote New England cottage, listening for a sound she should never hear again: her dead husband's cane. Her nephew Leslie and caretaker Barbara are near, yet her fear keeps growing. Unknown Broadcast presents The Listener from Inner Sanctum Mysteries, a vintage radio tale of isolation, guilt, and suspicion. Something beneath the household routine keeps drawing Ellen's attention toward the cellar. Is grief making the silence unbearable, or does someone know exactly what she fears? Follow the voices and footsteps into a mystery built for listening.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two people become trapped in an elevator over Valentine's Day weekend, and an apparent connection gives way to something more threatening. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Down (2019), Daniel Stamm's confined-space thriller starring Natalie Martinez and Matt Lauria. Opening their March Into the Dark series, the hosts examine the timing of its twist and share elevator experiences of their own. Romance, mistrust, and the lack of an exit give this holiday horror story its pressure. Full spoilers for the film and its turns. More Do You Even Movie?: https://www.doyouevenmovie.com...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Luka and Chance survive a sinking freighter and escape shark-filled water, only to climb aboard an abandoned liner crawling with hungry rats. Ship of the Cannibal Rats by David O'Hanlon turns a rescue into another trap. The drifting Lyudmila Gurchenko has no welcoming crew, little food, and movement inside its walls. Its animal inhabitants have claimed the ship, and the two men must find a way through rusting corridors before the swarm closes in. Maritime survival horror, grotesque ingenuity, and dark humor drive a voyage where reaching a larger vessel does not mean reaching safety.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

On dark roads near Kirtland, Ohio, local stories warn of the Melonheads—figures said to have escaped a doctor's cruel experiments. Terrifying & True explores the Dr. Crow legend and its changing versions in Ohio, Michigan, and Connecticut. Alleged laboratories, woodland sightings, and rumors of institutional abuse give each retelling a local setting, but the claims do not establish that the creatures or the doctor existed. Hear how fear of difference and the isolation of a country road helped build a monster story, and why a memorable explanation can outlast the evidence behind it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Adam cannot leave Diane's memory behind, even as his marriage to Evelyn binds him to the present. When he believes he encounters his lost love's spirit, grief becomes a source of possibility. Unknown Broadcast presents Reunion After Death, a vintage radio story of love, loyalty, and betrayal. Conversations with Christian and Basil reveal how much of Adam's life still belongs to someone who is gone. Listen as longing strains his relationships and the boundary between remembrance and a haunting grows uncertain. If the person you mourn returned, what would you be willing to believe?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A buried crime refuses to stay buried in six tales of vengeance: Dead Ahead by Joe Solmo; Hell Hath No Fury by Aaron Cook; The Stop Sign Man by Bryce Gibson; The Devil Reaps the Harvest by John Oak Dalton; Grave Consequences by Killian Crane; and Dead and Breakfast by Morgan Moore. Henrique Couto hosts Beware the Ides of March, a Weekly Spooky collection of guilty choices, dangerous legends, and revenge beyond the grave. More than two hours move from a couple's roadside disaster to a teenager's reckless dare. Listen as people discover how difficult it can be to leave a wrong behind.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Lucas Riggs turns animal suffering into profitable photographs. Driving toward his family's Ohio estate after a major sale, he picks up two travelers who seem to know far too much about his work. Roadkill by Travis VanHoose sends a cruel artist down Route 747 into a revenge story where the subjects of his pictures may have a claim of their own. Rural isolation, bodily transformation, and a reversal of hunter and prey turn his triumph into terror. What if the image that made your career could follow you home? Author's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A kayaker is engulfed by a humpback whale in the Strait of Magellan, while mysterious QR stickers appear on gravestones in Munich. Henrique and Michelle discuss these headlines in the February 2025 Monthly Spooky, then turn to abandoned morgues and the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy. Alleged distress recordings and Cold War secrecy fuel the space stories, but the claims remain disputed. The conversation moves from an extraordinary filmed encounter to rumors about missions that may never have happened. Hear how unsettling images and incomplete information can create different mysteries.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A troubling letter sends Stephen Loring from Mandalay toward a remote village in Burma to find his friend Campbell. What he discovers raises questions about fear, belief, and a mind slipping beyond explanations. Unknown Broadcast presents The Eye of Evil from Escape, a jungle mystery by Kathleen Hite. Loring follows ominous signs and accounts of an evil eye as the search pulls him toward a dangerous ritual. This vintage radio drama builds its unease around an isolated friend and the effort to understand what has changed him. How much should a rescuer trust the story he is being told?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two families share a remote house while an unexplained disease makes every stranger a possible threat. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine It Comes at Night (2017) on Cutting Deep Into Horror, with full spoilers. The discussion follows Travis' nightmares, his parents' protective rules, and the uneasy alliance with Will's family. Fear of infection, darkness, and distrust shape a film whose most frightening choices come from people trying to survive. Join an analysis of family loyalty, uncertainty, and the point where protecting your own can become a danger to everyone else.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Margaret hopes to meet television horror host Lenore 'Miss Ghoul' Ghoulcraft at a department store. A worsening snowstorm cancels the appearance, closes the building, and leaves Margaret and her brother David trapped inside. The Blizzard of '58 by Bruce Haney turns a fan's outing into a 1950s winter nightmare. As the lights fade and the exits refuse to open, the siblings discover that the weather may be the least of their problems. A familiar screen personality takes on a different meaning in the dark. What would you do if meeting your idol meant spending the night unable to escape her?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An ill-prepared drifter seeks revenge and puts his estranged family in danger. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Blue Ruin (2013), Jeremy Saulnier's stripped-down thriller starring Macon Blair. They examine the performance, the film's blunt approach to violence, and where it fits in Saulnier's work. The conversation also includes Heart Eyes, Love Hurts, and overlooked revenge movies. Full spoilers for a story that makes vengeance look painful, clumsy, and frighteningly difficult to contain. Revisit the cost of retaliation with Do You Even Movie?: http://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Charlie Brandt seemed to have left his violent past behind—until a 2004 double murder exposed a family secret. After fleeing Hurricane Ivan, Brandt and his wife Teri stayed with niece Michelle Jones in Orlando. What investigators found there led them back to the 1971 killing of his pregnant mother in Indiana and toward unsolved Florida murders. Terrifying & True follows the hidden history, the victims and the questions surrounding Brandt’s suspected crimes, distinguishing established events from unproven connections. Narrated by Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An airliner is running out of fuel in thick fog, and an escaped strangler may be heading for Dave’s wife. The former military pilot has been craving excitement at his quiet emergency airfield. Now he cannot leave his post, and the phone line to his home is dead. Unknown Broadcast presents “Run Faster,” a vintage Suspense radio drama by Lois Landauer. This aviation thriller traps Dave between guiding passengers to safety and reaching Chris before a killer does. With visibility disappearing and help too far away, every minute at the microphone could cost him someone he loves.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Valentine’s Day turns deadly in five horror stories of obsessive love, supernatural revenge and romance with monsters. A sinister seaside gift and a horror convention gone wrong bookend this Weekly Spooky collection, narrated by Henrique Couto. Includes “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay” by Jeff Carpenter; “Deb, Debbie, Deborah” and “Be Mine” by Shane Migliavacca; “Lovers’ Lane” by Morgan Moore; and “Slasher II: Valentine’s Day” by Rob Fields. From haunted heartbreak to slasher mayhem, these tales make a long night in with someone special feel a little less safe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Valentine’s Day marriage becomes a slasher nightmare when a murdered bride returns to claim her anniversary. Horror fan Marylee Johnston thought Frost Mirren was her perfect match. Betrayed and left in a river in the Backwoods of Strickfield, she rises again with revenge in mind—and a familiar Scream Queen costume waiting for her. Rob Fields’s “Slasher: Valentine Scorn” brings supernatural vengeance, horror fandom and a bloodstained love triangle together in a feature-length story. Can the people who destroyed Marylee escape the horror movie they created?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Lynnette Craft’s disappearance in Swanton, Ohio, became a murder investigation after her remains were discovered in Michigan in 1999. Suspicion fell on her husband, Thomas Craft, and the case took a troubling path through the courts. Terrifying & True examines Lynnette’s life, the investigation, the plea that resolved the prosecution and her family’s continuing fight to keep her story from being forgotten. This true-crime episode follows the gap between a family’s search for answers and the outcome of a criminal case. Narrated by Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A freight train offers Joe Harris a way west—and a chance to become someone else. In “Death Pays the Freight,” a deadly encounter inside a boxcar leaves him facing a stranger who looks uncannily like him. Taking the other man’s identity seems like an escape, but the life attached to that name carries dangers Joe cannot see. Unknown Broadcast presents a vintage radio thriller built around a stolen identity, a desperate decision and the consequences waiting at the next stop. For listeners drawn to railroad suspense, crime stories and old-time radio noir.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Love becomes obsession, temptation and supernatural terror in seven Weekly Spooky stories. A date, a wedding and a party in the woods each promise intimacy—and deliver danger. Narrated by Henrique Couto. Includes “Love Conquers All” and “Party in the Woods” by Joe Solmo; “Suspended,” “Till Death Do Us Part” and “First Date” by Rob Fields; “Echoes” by Shane Migliavacca; and “Roxie” by Charles Campbell. This Valentine’s horror collection brings together haunted romance, violent jealousy and lovers whose secrets make getting close the worst possible choice.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A trucker expects bad roads when a snowstorm closes in. He doesn’t expect something with antlers to stalk him through the blizzard. A roadside stop becomes a fight to survive as smashed windows, freezing wind and a predator outside leave his truck feeling less like shelter than a trap. Michael Kelso’s “I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snowstorm” is a winter creature-feature horror story about isolation on the road and the danger hidden by falling snow. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Wendigo is more than a monster in the woods. Terrifying & True explores the hunger, greed and fear of cannibalism surrounding this being in distinct Algonquian traditions, including Ojibwe and Cree accounts. From teachings discussed by Basil H. Johnston to the notorious Swift Runner case, the episode examines how folklore, colonial interpretation and modern horror have shaped very different versions of the legend. What gets lost when a warning about consuming others becomes just another creature feature? Narrated by Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two strangers strike up a conversation about a recent murder. One seems unusually interested in the other—and in a waitress he plans to take to the movies. In “The Next Murder,” a chance meeting becomes an unnerving exchange about hidden motives and the crime that may happen next. Unknown Broadcast presents this vintage Suspense drama by Joseph Cochran, starring Joseph Julian and Lawson Zerbe. Follow a psychological radio thriller where another person’s insight can feel less like understanding than a threat, and casual conversation gives away far too much.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

“Confessions of a Serial Killer” (1985) turns a murderer’s jailhouse account into a grim road through American horror. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Mark Blair’s film, inspired by Henry Lee Lucas, and Robert Burns’s unnerving lead performance. They discuss the Director’s Cut, the movie’s low-budget atmosphere and the way its confessional structure pulls viewers into the killer’s account. This Do You Even Movie? episode contains full spoilers and discussion of disturbing violence. More from the show: http://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Samara Mirren wakes to find Blake Karen standing over her, insisting she is ready to reveal the truth. Samara is certain she has found the Pink Death, but the killer’s final game is still unfolding. Rob Fields’s “Spin the Bottle: Part 5” brings this Strickfield slasher miniseries to its bloody conclusion, with a deadly party game, broken trust and one survivor demanding answers. Who has been controlling the bottle—and how much of what Samara saw can she believe? Start with Part 1 to follow the mystery before this series finale. Narrated by Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A bear-costume insurance scheme, a supposedly haunted English mansion and the ugly history of snuff-film rumors lead Monthly Spooky’s January 2025 conversation. Henrique and Michelle move from strange news to the boundary between staged horror and real violence, including “Faces of Death” and the way disturbing media finds new audiences online. Join them for a candid, darkly funny discussion of sensational claims, internet horror and the stories people want to believe. An archive episode for listeners who like their paranormal talk mixed with weird news and skepticism.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What would you trade for the life you always wanted? In “The Man Who Sold His Soul,” Sir Dominic Sarsfield makes a bargain whose deadline turns every passing day into a threat. The promise of worldly reward gives way to the problem of escaping a contract with a far more powerful creditor. Unknown Broadcast presents a vintage supernatural radio drama of temptation, dread and a debt coming due. Follow Sarsfield into a devil’s-bargain story where getting what you asked for may be the beginning of the punishment, and the calendar is running out.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Toby Dammit cannot resist a reckless wager—especially one involving the Devil and his own head. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” a habitual gambler meets a challenge that gives his favorite expression a sinister new meaning. This Best of 2024 presentation pairs Gothic menace with Poe’s absurd, macabre humor as an exasperated narrator tries to account for his friend’s behavior. Hear a complete classic horror story about temptation, bravado and the terrible cost of a careless bet, narrated by Henrique Couto for Weekly Spooky.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Samara Mirren wakes from another round of the Pink Death’s game with a terrible loss to confront and no clear way to escape. Grant Wilde wants to help, but trusting anyone becomes harder as Samara’s suspicions turn toward Blake Karen. In “Spin the Bottle: Part 4,” Rob Fields tightens the Strickfield slasher mystery around a party game that now decides who lives and who dies. Every relationship is a possible clue, and the killer is preparing another invitation. Continue the five-part horror miniseries in order. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A flight from Atlanta to Seattle becomes an airborne nightmare when Sheila takes her seat beside elderly passenger Otis Thornton. His strange conversation and the plane’s gathering trouble make an ordinary trip feel increasingly wrong. What does Otis know, and how much of what Sheila hears should she believe? Charles Campbell’s “The Last Flight Out” returns in this Best of 2024 episode, combining fear of flying, claustrophobic suspense and the uneasy intimacy of sitting beside a stranger with nowhere to go. Narrated by Henrique Couto for Weekly Spooky.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A quiet stretch of beach becomes a place of impossible dread in “Mirage.” Carl and Linda encounter an old man writing names in the sand, and the seaside scene begins to suggest a reality neither of them understands. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s Lights Out radio drama, where a small, unsettling detail grows into a threat that cannot be explained away. Listen for vintage supernatural suspense built from waves, isolation and the fear that something ordinary is revealing your fate. A haunting old-time radio story for a night when the shore feels far away.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Four Best of 2024 horror stories take you from a haunted house to an apocalyptic cruise, with a dangerous dare and a doctor’s nightmare along the way. Ghosts, killer bugs, zombies and human cruelty share the bill in this two-hour Weekly Spooky collection. Includes “Terror on Your Radio Dial” by Bruce Haney; “Catching a Buzz” by David O’Hanlon; “The Last Vacation” by Mike Ashkewe; and “My Patient Destroyed My World” by Michael Kelso. Narrated by Henrique Couto, these complete stories turn childhood curiosity, family escape and professional trust into invitations to terror.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Samara Mirren wakes in Strickfield General Hospital after the Pink Death’s latest game. Her stepsister Quinn arrives determined to bring her home, but Samara refuses to abandon her new life. Quinn moves into her dorm instead, placing another person Samara loves within reach of the killer. “Spin the Bottle: Part 3” by Rob Fields continues the campus slasher mystery as Grant Wilde and Blake Karen try to repair broken trust. Family loyalty offers comfort, but the deadly party game has not finished choosing its players. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Scream queen Vickie Valentine knows how to survive a horror movie. Surviving what follows her off the screen is another matter. In Rob Fields’s “Slasher: Valentine Screams,” Vickie and Bethany Mirren enter a world of horror conventions, movie fandom and a strange collectible whose appeal hides something dangerous. This Best of 2024 feature-length story returns to the Strickfield universe for a Valentine’s nightmare where screen monsters and real threats begin to overlap. Horror fans may recognize the setting—but recognizing a monster does not mean knowing how to stop it.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A novelist’s wishes turn deadly, a fraudulent medium exploits grief, and escape from evil proves harder than expected. Unknown Broadcast gathers four vintage radio dramas: “The Evil Eye,” “The Evil of Adelaide Winters,” “Flee from Evil” and “The Rising Sun.” Hear supernatural suspense and murder mysteries from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, The Whistler and The Black Museum, with Agnes Moorehead and Orson Welles among the voices. This old-time radio collection follows dangerous desires, calculated deception and the moment an apparently safe plan begins to unravel.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A portal opens onto an Earth overrun by vampires, and six friends must face versions of people they thought they knew. “Portals,” Rob Fields’s complete Strickfield miniseries, sends Arial Mirren, Madelyne Donnerly and their allies into a struggle across worlds where familiar faces can conceal very different loyalties. This feature-length collection brings all five parts together for a continuous supernatural adventure of vampire horror, friendship and survival. When another universe follows different rules, finding the way home may be only part of the battle. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Samara Mirren discovers her former girlfriend’s body in her dorm—but when she returns, a figure dressed as a pink Grim Reaper is taking it away. Soon Samara is strapped to a chair with other players from a party she cannot leave behind. “Spin the Bottle: Part 2” by Rob Fields turns a college game into a killer’s ritual, forcing Samara to question her memories and the people closest to her. Grant Wilde and Blake Karen may help her find answers, if the Pink Death does not reach them first. Continue the five-part Strickfield slasher mystery. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A former fire-tower worker takes a warehouse security job with another strange set of rules. Staying awake is only the beginning: creatures, locked rooms and an impossible stairway turn the night shift into a desperate attempt to survive until morning. Michael Kelso’s “I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules” returns as a complete two-part Best of 2024 story. This rules-horror thriller follows a guard who knows that unusual instructions can be deadly serious—and discovers how little that knowledge protects him when the building stops making sense.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A scientist builds a robot woman, a professor seeks escape, and a desperate man is offered a bargain for his life. Unknown Broadcast brings together “Life Blood,” “Vacation from Life,” “Murder Comes to Life” and “Sell Me Your Life” in four vintage radio dramas about identity, deception and the price of a second chance. From Professor Arthur Moore’s creation Amelia to an ominous offer on a bridge, these stories make ordinary ambitions dangerous. Settle in for more than two hours of old-time radio science fiction, supernatural suspense and murder mystery.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Melisande LaPalla’s visit to a Shore City cemetery awakens a nightmare with unfinished business. Loralee Hardy has returned, and the race for homecoming queen is about to become a succession of deadly rivalries. Rob Fields’s “Homecoming Queen Killer” brings all five parts of the miniseries together, following school politics, dangerous attraction and a resurrected killer whose plans reach toward the dance. This feature-length supernatural slasher belongs to the wider Strickfield universe, where the dead can come back with a very personal agenda. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Samara Mirren wants a fresh start at Strickfield University and a romance with Grant “Wildman” Wilde. Her ex, Whit Dalton, refuses to accept that their relationship is over. A party game turns that tension into a public confrontation, setting the stage for something far worse. “Spin the Bottle: Part 1” begins Rob Fields’s five-part campus slasher miniseries with jealousy, a troubled past and a new relationship under pressure. Meet the players before the Pink Death changes the rules—and a simple spin starts deciding far more than who kisses whom. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

New Year’s Eve should mean drinks and bad decisions for Caroline Quinn. Instead, the vampire hunter and federal Troubleshooter is drawn back toward Ghoul School and a threat with apocalyptic ambitions. A cult’s plans for a death god turn the countdown into a fight with far more at stake than a midnight kiss. “New Year’s Evil” by Mike Ashkewe combines supernatural action, dark humor and Caroline’s unruly approach to saving the day. Ring in a new year with a horror adventure where the government’s unusual graduate has serious unfinished business. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

New Year’s folklore, strange discoveries and holiday hauntings close out Monthly Spooky’s December 2024 conversation. Henrique and Michelle explore customs meant to influence the year ahead, a New York magnet-fishing cash haul and the odd stories that make the festive season feel less predictable. Expect playful detours, skeptical questions and a mix of supernatural claims and unusual news as the hosts look back on a very strange month. An archive episode for listeners who enjoy spooky conversation while the calendar turns. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A New Year’s identity crisis opens a vintage radio journey into unsettling futures and midnight danger. Unknown Broadcast gathers “New Year’s Nightmare,” “Strange New Tomorrow,” “Strange New World” and “Three Faces at Midnight.” A doctor encounters an authoritarian society, an island holds disturbing surprises, and a carefully arranged scheme threatens to collapse. This extended old-time radio collection moves from psychological mystery to speculative adventure, asking what happens when a fresh start leads somewhere you never intended to go.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ring in the New Year with five horror stories where midnight brings dangerous bargains, undead visitors and a very bad reason to celebrate. Dan Wilder’s “Even the Devil Tells the Truth Sometimes,” “Satan’s Shotgun,” “Stakes and Shoguns” and “Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York” join David O’Hanlon’s “A Few Cold Ones” in this Weekly Spooky marathon. Devils, monsters and dark humor turn resolutions into survival problems across more than 100 minutes of narrated fiction. Henrique Couto hosts a countdown for anyone who likes a little terror with the confetti.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jack Scratch has two Christmas stories to tell, and neither belongs beside a comforting fire. A mysterious present carries a curse in “The Gift,” while unwelcome singers bring dread to a grieving widower in “The Carolers.” Keith Tomlin’s “A Sinister Santa Spectacle” wraps both tales in a sinister holiday performance, turning gifts, music and seasonal cheer into reasons to lock the door. This Christmas horror double feature blends supernatural menace, grief and cruel surprises under the direction of a host who knows how to make an entrance. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An evil vampire version of Madelyne Donnerly has crossed into Strickfield—and Christmas gives her the perfect excuse for chaos. When Anneliese Mirren disappears, Felicia joins Bella Taibon and Eileen Donnerly on a dangerous trip into the Backwoods to rescue her. Their enemy has an advantage they have not anticipated. Rob Fields’s “A Vampire’s Holiday” is a feature-length supernatural adventure of parallel worlds, family ties and holiday bloodshed. Can the rescuers outmaneuver someone who wears such a familiar face? Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Christmas party ends, and Rhea Auman sets off through Strickfield expecting to make it home for family dinner. Then another driver’s high beams begin turning an ordinary journey into a frightening encounter. Is the vehicle behind her a threat, a warning or something she cannot afford to misunderstand? Rob Fields’s “High Beams on Christmas” brings a familiar road-horror legend into the Strickfield universe, where loneliness and holiday plans can leave someone dangerously exposed. Keep your eyes on the mirror—and listen before the next flash. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Christmas travel leads into a ghost town, a fugitive faces a dangerous holiday, and a disturbing inheritance offers a gift no one should want. Unknown Broadcast gathers five vintage radio dramas: “A Holiday Visit,” “Christmas Gift,” “Dead Man’s Holiday,” “Holiday Story” and “The Terrifying Gift.” From an Ohio detour to ominous second sight, these stories turn seasonal visits and supposed good fortune into sources of fear. Settle in for three hours of old-time radio Christmas horror, supernatural suspense and crime, with warmth by the fire and trouble beyond the door.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A family Christmas collapses into supernatural siege in “Krampus” (2015). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Michael Dougherty’s holiday horror comedy, starring Adam Scott, Toni Collette and David Koechner, and explore its mix of family friction, dark folklore and monstrous festive visitors. They discuss the creatures, Weta effects and the film’s uneasy balance of laughs and terror as a blizzard traps the household. This Do You Even Movie? conversation contains full spoilers, including the ending. More from the show: http://doyouevenmovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A grieving family hopes Christmas will bring them closer, but a strange antique and a goblin named Kako turn the reunion into something far less predictable. When holiday decorations stop behaving like decorations, the house becomes a stage for magic, mayhem and unfinished feelings. Joe Solmo’s “Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo” mixes Christmas creature horror with dark comedy and the awkward tenderness of coming home after a loss. A family visit can be difficult enough without discovering that the festive display has plans of its own. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six Christmas horror stories make holiday refuge, Santa’s helpers and family reunions dangerously unreliable. This Weekly Spooky marathon runs over three hours, narrated by Henrique Couto. Includes “Xmas at the Psych Ward” by Bruce Haney; “Christmas at Pendleton Way Station” and “Inner Raige” by Rob Fields; “Santa’s Little Helper” by Charles Campbell; “The Day That Santa Died” by Keith Tomlin; and “Scary Christmas to All” by David O’Hanlon. From a snowbound ward to the North Pole, the season of giving becomes a season of survival.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Harmony Mirren needs help from someone she has treated badly: Bethany Martinson’s nighttime counterpart, Harpy. A Christmas encounter leads them back to Grimm Manor, where dangerous spirits have unfinished business. Rob Fields’s “Christmas at Murder Mansion” turns a holiday rescue into a return to Strickfield’s notorious haunted house, combining ghostly revenge with an uneasy alliance. Bethany and Harpy know the mansion is no place for a festive visit. Getting everyone safely away may require more than surviving the ghosts. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A babysitting job becomes a Christmas nightmare in “Better Watch Out” (2016), but the familiar home-invasion setup has something vicious hiding inside it. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi unpack the holiday thriller’s shifting power dynamics, cruel surprises and performances, including Olivia DeJonge as Ashley. Cutting Deep explores how the film uses the safety of a decorated suburban home to unsettle its audience. This conversation includes full spoilers, so watch before joining the discussion if you want its twists preserved. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Christmas Eve babysitting job promises Mona Ables and Bailey Downs easy holiday money. At the Mirren home, the parents offer generous tips—and somehow already know Bailey’s name. Then a monster crashes through the glass doors, leaving the two friends scrambling to protect the children. Rob Fields’s “Christmas Eve Babysitters” turns pizza and a movie into a fight for survival in Strickfield. This Christmas horror story mixes a creature attack with a household full of secrets, including what happened to the family’s previous sitter. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Fear enters a house, a painting, a bank teller’s life and a crowded restaurant in four vintage radio dramas. Unknown Broadcast presents “House of Fear,” “Fear Paints a Picture,” “Fear” and “Pattern for Fear,” drawing from The Whistler, Suspense, CBS Radio Mystery Theater and Inner Sanctum. Lana Turner stars in a story where a portrait becomes unsettlingly personal, while other characters discover how quickly ordinary anxieties can become dangerous obsessions. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense turn familiar rooms and routines into places of suspicion.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Three Christmas horror novellas turn Strickfield’s holiday traditions into a long night of supernatural danger. “The Mall Overnight” brings terror after closing; “Home Sweet Horror” leads into an orphanage nightmare; and “Christmas Arcadia” draws its characters toward a deadly holiday game. Written by Rob Fields and narrated by Henrique Couto, “A Cruel Yule” collects all three feature-length stories in more than four hours of festive horror. Familiar faces, strange bargains and Christmas monsters make this a marathon for listeners ready to spend the season somewhere unsafe.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An office Secret Santa exchange gives Floyd Bennett another reason to think about Carol Tatum—and a rejected romance he has not put behind him. What should be a harmless workplace tradition becomes charged with resentment, expectation and a gift whose meaning is anything but simple. Charles Campbell’s “Secret Santa” turns the familiar rituals of an office Christmas into a psychological horror story about obsession and the danger of treating another person’s choice as unfinished business. Some presents should stay wrapped. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Seven Christmas horror stories turn festive food, wish lists and family traditions into trouble. Includes “Christmas Cranberries” by L. F. Falconer; “The Naughty List” by Keith Tomlin; “Lady Frankenstein” by Rob Fields; “All I Want for Christmas” by Morgan Moore; “Blood on the Snow” by Shane Migliavacca; “Twelve Days” by Mike Ashkewe; and “A Christmas to Remember” by Joe Solmo. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this Mistletoe Mayhem collection brings more than two hours of holiday monsters, dark wishes and seasonal suspense to your longest winter evening. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Charity Mirren and Mica Collins thought they had destroyed the chain letters that threatened them. Then a Christmas card arrives with a new version of the curse—and a sender determined to finish what he started. Rob Fields’s “A Chain Letter Christmas” returns to Strickfield for a supernatural revenge story where a holiday greeting carries deadly instructions. Can Charity and Mica break a curse designed specifically for them, or has their enemy found the one message they cannot escape? Be careful which envelope you open. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A surgeon’s connection to a teenage boy becomes an impossible threat to his family in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017). Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Yorgos Lanthimos’s unsettling psychological horror, with Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan at the center of its cold, increasingly nightmarish exchanges. Cutting Deep examines guilt, punishment and the unbearable choice driving the film, including its deliberately uncomfortable performances. Full spoilers: this conversation goes through the story and its ending. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Carol Holly’s family thought her Christmas obsession would end with her death. Then she comes back—and a giant decorative skeleton gives the holiday haunting a terrifying new shape. Bruce Haney’s “All I Want for Christmas... Is My Mother to Stop Haunting Me!” blends a ghost story with dark family comedy, turning an oversized seasonal decoration into the last houseguest anyone wanted. Can the Hollys reclaim the holiday when their mother refuses to leave, even after leaving the living behind? Some traditions are very hard to bury. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A remembered killing, a carefully planned crime and a stranger’s old promise make murder difficult to leave behind. Unknown Broadcast gathers “Memory of a Murder,” “Eight Steps to Murder,” “A Little Night Murder” and “Murder Is My Business” from Suspense, Inner Sanctum, CBS Radio Mystery Theater and The Mysterious Traveler. These four vintage dramas follow people trying to control a crime, understand one or keep its consequences at bay. Enjoy more than two hours of old-time radio mystery where memory, calculation and a dangerous story can all become evidence.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An ancient mirror in the Carnovasch Estate reflects everyone except Madelyne Donnerly. The next day, her friends are accused of wrecking their own homes, Christmas decorations and presents—and Madelyne knows they are innocent. Rob Fields’s “Mirror Images” turns a visit to Strickfield’s haunted mansion into a holiday doppelgänger mystery. With familiar faces causing unfamiliar damage, the group must work out what followed them home and how to prove who they really are. This feature-length supernatural adventure makes a reflection something to fear. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Five Christmas horror stories turn Santa’s arrival and the holiday countdown into threats. “Santa Claus Is Killin’ the Town” by Morgan Moore, “Krampus Is Comin’” and “Doorway to Horror” by Rob Fields, “Operation Deadly Night” by Keith Tomlin and “Dead Silent Night” by David O’Hanlon fill this nearly three-hour Weekly Spooky collection. Narrated by Henrique Couto, these complete tales bring together killer Santas, Krampus folklore, supernatural danger and dark seasonal surprises. Keep something warm nearby: this visit to Christmas has teeth. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Josh is coming home for Christmas after five years away. His family thinks he is dead; he needs to explain that he is a werewolf, a husband and a father, with another child on the way. Mike Ashkewe’s “Welcome Home” brings the monster from “Stalk” into a holiday reunion where an overdue explanation is only the beginning of the trouble. Family acceptance, werewolf danger and dark humor collide as Josh tries to reconnect with the life he vanished from. How do you tell your parents you have changed when the change includes claws? Narrated by Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Strickfield’s secretive Blue Ribbons have captured zombies for study, but keeping the undead under control proves much harder than observing them. Scientist Vickie Van Wert’s work and Rayleen Hollow’s dangerous involvement set the stage for a Christmas outbreak no family gathering is prepared to handle. Rob Fields’s “A Zombie’s Christmas” combines mad science, flesh-eating horror and the consequences of treating monsters as research material. In a village already crowded with supernatural secrets, one holiday experiment threatens to spill into the streets. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A ship appears where no ship should be, an island offers an unsettling reunion, and an auction purchase carries a hidden danger. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Lost Ship,” “Island of the Lost,” “Going, Going, Gone” and “Present Tense” in more than two hours of vintage radio suspense. The collection moves from impossible discoveries to a condemned prisoner’s desperate experience of time, with voices including Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard and Vincent Price. Four old-time radio dramas make escape, curiosity and apparent good fortune difficult to trust.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eight Christmas horror stories fill this Weekly Spooky marathon: “Biting Cold” by Jeff Carpenter; “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and “The Weather Outside Is Frightful” by Shane Migliavacca; “Christmas Raige” by Rob Fields; “Welcome to Tiny Christmas, Iowa!” by Michelle Antisocial; “Babes in Terrorland” and “The Santa Letters” by Morgan Moore; and “Satan Claus” by Keith Tomlin. Snowbound danger, sinister visitors and holiday wishes gone wrong await in nearly three hours of narrated fiction. Henrique Couto brings the cold nights and darker traditions to life. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Thanksgiving invitation leads Dan Mullins toward the Billington family and a meal with a horrifying history. Bruce Haney’s “The Real First Thanksgiving” twists Pilgrim imagery and family tradition into a gruesome cannibal horror story, where the people welcoming a guest have their own idea of hospitality. This is fictional holiday terror, not an account of the historical first Thanksgiving. Settle in for a dark, extended tale of captivity, dangerous hosts and the dread of discovering what a family has been passing down at its table. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Thanksgiving dinner comes with a body count in “Blood Rage” (1987). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit John Grissmer’s Florida slasher, where a murderous twin and a brother blamed for his crimes turn a holiday gathering into chaos. They discuss Mark Soper’s dual performance, Louise Lasser, the practical gore and the film’s strange mix of suburban comfort and violent family dysfunction. This Do You Even Movie? episode serves up a full-spoiler conversation about a cult Thanksgiving horror favorite. More from the show: https://DoYouEvenMovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An oarfish washes ashore, a toddler has a startling encounter with a giraffe, and an enormous cheese theft joins the weird-news menu. Henrique and Michelle’s November 2024 Monthly Spooky conversation also visits haunted-history claims and Arkansas’s Crescent Hotel as the holidays approach. From a melting Lincoln wax sculpture to unsettling museum stories, the hosts trade reactions, questions and dark humor across a month’s worth of unusual headlines. An archive episode of paranormal conversation and strange news with plenty of room for the unexpected. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A honeymoon drive through a New Hampshire covered bridge carries a newlywed toward a different time. In “The Covered Bridge,” CBS Radio Mystery Theater turns a quiet landmark into a threat to a young woman’s sense of reality. Then Inner Sanctum’s “The Edge of Death” brings Rasputin’s rapier into a sinister waterfront encounter. Unknown Broadcast pairs a time-slip ghost story with a cursed-weapon mystery for more than an hour of vintage radio suspense. Two familiar objects—a bridge and a blade—open paths their owners cannot safely predict.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Can anything we love be held onto, or does it slip away like sand? Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” moves from a farewell to a desperate struggle on a wave-battered shore, turning a few brief stanzas into an unsettling question about reality and loss. Henrique Couto reads the complete poem in this short Weekly Spooky presentation. A quiet moment of Gothic poetry for listeners drawn to Poe’s imagery, the fear of time passing and the fragile boundary between what we experience and what we can keep. Published in 1849, its doubt still lingers. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The locals in New Ellsworth have a story about Oopsie Poopsie. Jon expects small-town eccentricity when he moves to the Adirondacks, but warnings about a grotesque, oversized infant suggest the joke may have something awful behind it. Joe Solmo’s “The Legend of Oopsie Poopsie” turns lumber-country gossip into a creature-feature nightmare, mixing absurd humor with bodily horror and the fear of discovering why the neighbors take a ridiculous name seriously. Some local legends are best heard from a safe distance. Jon may have moved too close. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. An everyday medicine became a source of national fear, triggering a massive investigation and changes in product packaging. Terrifying & True follows the victims, the search for the person responsible and the extortion demand that complicated the case. James Lewis was convicted of extortion, not the murders—a distinction essential to understanding the investigation. Explore the unresolved poisonings and the legacy of tamper-evident packaging with narrator Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Anne Winslow misses her train and takes a taxi—only to find a corpse beside her. The driver leaves it in her isolated house, but by the time the police arrive, the body has vanished. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Corpse Nobody Loved,” a vintage Inner Sanctum radio mystery that turns a routine journey into a trap of doubt and suspicion. With the phone lines down and no one to back up her story, Anne must work out who is manipulating her. Listen for old-time radio suspense built around an impossible passenger and the unsettling problem of proving what you have seen.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A cruel king treats his court jester’s suffering as entertainment. When that cruelty reaches Hop-Frog’s companion Trippetta, an elaborate masquerade offers the jester a chance to design a performance of his own. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog” is a Gothic revenge story about humiliation, power and the danger of believing someone is too small to resist. Henrique Couto narrates the complete tale for Weekly Spooky, preserving the suspense of a royal celebration whose costumes carry a dreadful purpose. The king wants a spectacle; Hop-Frog knows how to provide one.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A sorority night out at the Strickfield Drive-In leads Jaxey Jynx and her friends toward a family with an appetite for new members. What begins with flirting and a movie becomes an invitation into something older, darker and harder to leave than campus life. Rob Fields’s “Matriarch” follows Jaxey, Renny Stafford and Paulette Peterson into a supernatural horror story of ghoul kinship and dangerous belonging. Being welcomed into a family can feel like a privilege—until you discover what that family expects you to become. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

In November 1966, Woodrow Derenberger reported meeting a grinning stranger near Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The visitor, he said, communicated without speaking and gave the name Indrid Cold. Terrifying & True explores the encounter, the stories that followed and the figure’s place in UFO lore and the wider Mothman mystery. Were these accounts evidence of something extraordinary, a misunderstanding or a legend taking shape? Henrique Couto traces the claims and their unsettling legacy without treating a witness’s extraordinary story as established fact.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Still recovering from a stabbing, defense lawyer Nick Wedge takes the case of a young man accused of a knife attack. Then the victim dies, and Benny Bleeker faces a murder trial. Benny’s father insists his son is innocent, but Nick’s own trauma threatens his judgment. Unknown Broadcast presents “Thicker Than Water,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama by Henry Slesar, starring Jay Gregory. This courtroom thriller pits a father’s faith against troubling evidence and a lawyer’s fear. Can Nick separate what happened to him from the case he must argue in court?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Thanksgiving brings five reasons to fear the family table: “Thanksgiving Dinner” by Rachael Redolfi, “Turkey Shoot” by David O’Hanlon, “Fiendsgiving” and “Homecoming” by Rob Fields, and “Belle’s Turkey Terror” by Douglas Waltz. This Weekly Spooky collection mixes holiday meals, supernatural visitors and reunions that become survival problems. Henrique Couto narrates more than two hours of Thanksgiving horror for listeners who like their seasonal traditions with a vicious surprise. Original sponsor: https://www.bobbletopia.com/ — the episode’s advertised 20% code was WeeklySpooky.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A reunion at an Ozarks cabin has an unexpected guest: something small enough to live on a rabbit, until it isn’t. Giant mutant fleas turn a weekend with old friends into a struggle against predators built to bite, cling and multiply. David O’Hanlon’s “Bite Me” brings creature-feature horror and dark humor to a woodland getaway where the surrounding wildlife signals a much bigger problem. The group came to reconnect, but staying together may be their only chance when the parasites stop behaving like an irritation and start behaving like hunters. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Say “Bloody Mary” into a dark mirror, and a sleepover dare becomes a test of how much you believe. Terrifying & True explores the mirror ritual, its changing rules and the stories used to explain the figure waiting in the glass. From Mary Worth to suggested links with Queen Mary I and Elizabeth Báthory, Henrique Couto follows competing origin stories without claiming that any one historical woman definitively created the legend. Discover how a simple challenge became a lasting urban myth—and why watching your own reflection can become so unsettling.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A lawyer wins an acquittal, then hears something from his client that makes the verdict much harder to live with. In “After the Verdict,” Ned Murray’s professional success becomes a personal crisis involving Louis Rydell, a confession and the limits of his own conscience. Unknown Broadcast presents Henry Slesar’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama, starring Tony Roberts. This vintage legal thriller follows the danger that begins after the courtroom empties, when the lawyer who helped a man go free must decide what he can bear to do next.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Eight stories bring the dead uncomfortably close. Includes “The Spirit of Langley Pond” by Charles Campbell; “The Truth About Groundhog Day” and “First Date” by Rob Fields; “The God Tongue” and “Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York” by Dan Wilder; “Grave Consequences” by Killian Crane; “Echoes” by Shane Migliavacca; and “Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s” by L. F. Falconer. This Día de los Muertos collection gathers ghost stories, zombies and grave-robbing horror for over three hours of fiction, narrated by Henrique Couto. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Halloween night at WHNT means another late shift for broadcast assistant Nate. The jack-o’-lantern is in the lobby, the call-in show is on the air, and the station sits just far enough from town to feel alone. Then the calls begin turning the broadcast into something Nate and his coworkers cannot control. Shane Migliavacca’s “The Graveyard Shift” is a haunted-radio horror story set in upstate New York, where voices on the line make a familiar studio feel like hostile territory. Stay tuned—but be careful about assuming the person calling is still out there.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Scream queen Vickie Valentine’s Halloween plans include a haunted attraction and a reunion with her estranged fiancée, Bethany Mirren. But the actress best known as Veronda, Queen of the Night is about to discover how far that identity reaches beyond the screen. Rob Fields’s “A Halloween Valentine” takes a troubled romance from Strickfield into the Night Realm, where supernatural power and dangerous enemies put their love at risk. This feature-length Halloween horror story blends dark fantasy with a relationship already close to breaking. Narrated by Henrique Couto.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A boy dressed as a devil mistakes a masked murderer for a character from his favorite game in “Satan’s Little Helper” (2004). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Jeff Lieberman’s Halloween horror comedy, starring Alexander Brickel, Katheryn Winnick and Amanda Plummer. They discuss its mean streak, suburban trick-or-treat atmosphere and the terrifying gap between what young Dougie thinks is happening and what the audience can see. This Do You Even Movie? episode includes full spoilers and a discussion of the film’s violent dark humor. More: https://DoYouEvenMovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Haunted dolls, strange Halloween costumes and unsettling claims about haunted homes lead Monthly Spooky’s October 2024 conversation. Henrique and Michelle explore the stories behind seasonal fears, discuss a doll collector’s unusual experiences and compare Halloween myths with incidents that really made the news. Expect paranormal curiosity, skeptical questions and the loose, darkly funny conversation of two friends approaching the biggest night of spooky season. Michelle’s comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Seven vintage radio dramas turn Halloween into a nearly four-hour night of murder, obsession and supernatural dread. Unknown Broadcast gathers “Murder Castle,” “Mind Over Murder,” “Voices of Death,” “The Murder Museum,” “Angel of Death,” “Death Is an Artist” and “Till Death Do Us Part.” From a house built for killing to exhibits with disturbing histories, the settings are as threatening as the people inside them. Settle in for an old-time radio horror marathon where guilty secrets refuse to remain buried and the next voice may bring a warning too late.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A rookie officer spends her first shift alone in a police station marked for closure—and discovers that the building’s past is still active. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss “Last Shift” (2014), Anthony DiBlasi’s supernatural horror film starring Juliana Harkavy as Jessica Loren. Cutting Deep examines the isolation, cult imagery and escalating uncertainty that turn an empty workplace into a siege. This conversation contains full spoilers, including the film’s revelations and ending, for listeners ready to unpack the haunting. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Poisoned Halloween candy is one of the season’s most persistent fears. In this guest episode of Urban Legends, Luke Mordue examines the stories behind the warning, the difference between rumor and documented harm, and why the thought of a dangerous trick-or-treat gift remains so powerful. A factual investigation into a frightening tradition of suspicion, rather than a fictional Halloween tale. Content warning: harm to children. More: https://www.lukemordue.com/pod... Support: https://www.patreon.com/urbanl... Contact: luke@lukemordue.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Death has opened a funeral home in Strickfield, and her first painful reckoning is with the family she left behind. Once known as Destiny Mirren, Saffron Morningside now works beside Sienna Michaels. When her mortal parents arrive to arrange a funeral for their missing daughter, old wounds and unanswered questions return with them. Rob Fields’s “Retro Halloween Revelations” continues the Strickfield universe with supernatural identity, family secrets and a Halloween encounter no one can easily explain. What happens when the person mourned is the one receiving the mourners?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A yard-sale Halloween mask seems perfect for eight-year-old Chrissy. Then strange voices and changes in her behavior leave her mother wondering what came home with the costume. Michael Kelso’s “Never Buy a Halloween Mask from a Yard Sale” turns trick-or-treat preparations into a possessed-object horror story about a parent trying to protect a child from a bargain with a hidden past. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Original furnace-replacement appeal: https://weeklyspooky.com/HelpM...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A child’s grass-growing craft project should be harmless. Add soil with a terrible history, and the little figures become something babysitter Kristin cannot safely turn her back on. Bruce Haney’s “Dirt Babies” brings killer-creature horror to a Halloween household, mixing 1990s nostalgia, gruesome invention and dark humor as a familiar school activity develops a monstrous appetite. This feature-length story turns the job of protecting a child into a battle against threats small enough to hide all over the house. The grass may be growing—but so is the danger.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A murdered man, a silent scarecrow and a town unwilling to face its guilt make “Dark Night of the Scarecrow” (1981) a haunting Halloween revenge story. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Frank De Felitta’s television film, Larry Drake’s performance as Bubba Ritter and Charles Durning’s menacing Otis Hazelrigg. They explore the Southern Gothic atmosphere and the way implied violence unsettles without relying on constant gore. This Do You Even Movie? conversation includes full spoilers and discussion of the ending. More: https://DoYouEvenMovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How did Puerto Rico’s spined “goat-sucker” become a hairless canine in American headlines? Terrifying & True follows the chupacabra from reported livestock attacks and sightings in 1995 to later encounters in the mainland United States. Henrique Couto explores witness descriptions, the legend’s spread and investigations of animals presented as evidence. Some celebrated specimens proved to be familiar canids, often with mange; that finding is distinct from proving a supernatural creature exists. A deep dive into modern cryptid folklore and the changing shape of a monster.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A missing mother, a threatening skull and a man who appears dead lead into four vintage radio mysteries. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Vanishing Lady,” “The Skull That Walked,” “Dead Ernest” and “No Hiding Place.” An inexplicable disappearance, a sinister object, catalepsy and blackmail make appearances dangerously unreliable across more than two hours of old-time radio suspense. These dramas move between seemingly supernatural events and human schemes, inviting you to follow the clues while wondering which familiar explanation will fail next.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Charlee Brewster takes an evening job at Strickfield Video, a rental store in a downtown that still loves its old-fashioned pleasures. Then Halloween brings unusual customers, unfamiliar rules and a shift that demands more than finding the right movie. Rob Fields’s “Special Halloween Hours” turns a nostalgic video-store job into a supernatural encounter, where recognizing a monster on a cassette cover is easier than serving one across the counter. Charlee wanted extra money and something to do after class. The holiday hours come with a much stranger assignment.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Nine Halloween stories from 2023 deliver nearly six hours of monsters, strange parties and supernatural trouble. Includes “Strife of the Party” and “Sweet Revenge” by David O’Hanlon; “Burn on the Bayou” by L. F. Falconer; “A Zombie’s Halloween,” “Future Taibon” and “The Portal” by Rob Fields; “Send Beer” by Michelle Antisocial; “Caroline Quinn: Vampire Hunter” by Mike Ashkewe; and “Inbetween” by Shane Migliavacca. Henrique Couto narrates a spooky-season marathon where costumes, pranks and party invitations open the door to real danger. Sponsored by http://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Joshua Fox comes home from Toronto for reading week expecting friends, hockey and perhaps a little romance. Meeting Tracey Kidd near Sauble Beach gives him a much more dangerous kind of excitement. Mike Ashkewe’s “Stalk” turns an Ontario homecoming into a werewolf story where attraction and predatory instinct are difficult to separate. Set around Owen Sound and the Lake Huron shoreline, this darkly funny creature tale follows a lonely student whose wish for an unforgettable encounter is about to be answered with teeth. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An abandoned carnival draws eight Strickfield friends away from their Halloween journey home. When Mona Ables disappears into it, the search carries the group back to 1955 and toward the Carnovasch Estate. Rob Fields’s “The Last Carnovasch” continues the night after the Cry Baby Bridge adventure, uncovering a family curse with consequences that reach across decades. This feature-length supernatural mystery combines haunted attractions, time travel and a rescue that could change more than one life. Mona may be the key—but the past has its own plans for her.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Before the parody franchise, “Scary Movie” (1991) sent John Hawkes into a Texas Halloween funhouse with an escaped killer possibly on the loose. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Daniel Erickson’s regional horror comedy, its anxious protagonist and the shifting boundary between staged scares and actual danger. They discuss the attraction’s atmosphere, Hawkes’s early performance and the film’s unsettling turns. This Do You Even Movie? conversation includes full spoilers for the 1991 film and its ending. More: https://DoYouEvenMovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ohio’s Grassman legend brings Bigfoot close to home. Terrifying & True explores reported encounters around Salt Fork State Park, Hocking Hills and the Appalachian foothills, where witnesses describe towering figures, strange calls and oversized footprints. Henrique Couto follows the stories, the search for evidence and the communities built around the possibility of a creature in the woods. Sightings and ambiguous traces are treated as claims, not proof of an undiscovered animal. A long-form look at Sasquatch lore, local fear and the pull of Ohio’s forests.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A sculptor reports a murder while claiming to have died five years earlier. That impossible statement opens Inner Sanctum’s “Image of Death,” followed by “We Dug It Up,” “Confession” and “The Man Who Heard Voices.” Unknown Broadcast gathers four vintage dramas involving a sinister creation, an excavation, guilt and voices no one else can hear. This old-time radio collection moves through supernatural horror and psychological suspense as its characters confront things they cannot explain—and secrets they cannot safely keep. More than two hours of stories from the dark.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two women are brutally killed in a locked Paris room, and the witnesses cannot agree on the voices they heard. C. Auguste Dupin studies what the police have missed in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” This complete audio reading brings the detective’s methodical reasoning into contact with Gothic violence and apparently impossible evidence. Follow a foundational locked-room mystery as Dupin reconstructs the crime without accepting its obvious explanations. Narrated by Henrique Couto for listeners drawn to classic detective fiction and Poe’s darker imagination.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Twelve Halloween stories from 2021–2022 fill more than five hours with cursed celebrations, monsters and mischief. Highlights include “Pumpkin Spice and Nothing Nice,” “Retro Halloween Weekend,” “Halloween 198666,” “Dullahan,” “The Grinner” and “Ghost in the Graveyard.” Stories by Charles Campbell, Rob Fields, Keith Tomlin, David O’Hanlon, Dan Wilder, Shane Migliavacca, Morgan Moore and Henrique Couto. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this Weekly Spooky marathon turns seasonal comforts and familiar Halloween games into reasons to keep the lights on. Sponsored by http://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A rare VHS copy of “The Strickfield Slasher” looks like the perfect Halloween movie-night discovery. Its history leads back to a 1971 student production at Grimm Manor—and an actor who took his role much too far. When Briana and her friends press play, the danger refuses to stay inside the screen. Rob Fields’s haunted-media horror story turns a lost slasher film into a threat to its new audience. The tape may be old, but the cleaver-wielding figure on it has unfinished business with anyone willing to watch. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A vampire cannot turn someone without hearing “yes.” For 227-year-old Victor, that rule becomes painfully complicated when his young progeny Shannon forms a friendship with a human child in Langley, South Carolina. The connection draws a family into the path of a predatory vampire brood. Charles Campbell’s “The Final Yes” is a feature-length Southern horror story about hunger, responsibility and the difference between making a vampire and protecting a child. Every promise matters when a single answer can change a life forever. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Patrick “Trick” Weaver turns Halloween into a recurring massacre, and Detective Mike Denver cannot seem to stop him. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss “Trick” (2019), Patrick Lussier’s slasher starring Omar Epps, Tom Atkins and Jamie Kennedy. They examine the relentless attacks, questions of identity and the holiday atmosphere driving the pursuit. This Do You Even Movie? episode contains full spoilers, including the film’s explanation of its seemingly unstoppable killer. A conversation for horror fans ready to dissect the tricks behind the bloodshed. More: https://DoYouEvenMovie.com/Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Nine hikers died in the Ural Mountains in 1959 after abandoning their tent under extraordinary circumstances. The Dyatlov Pass incident left injuries, scattered belongings and decades of competing explanations. Terrifying & True examines the expedition, the evidence and the theories that turned a mountain tragedy into an enduring mystery. Henrique Couto considers natural explanations, including research into a possible slab avalanche, alongside more sensational claims. What can the surviving clues establish, and which parts of the hikers’ final night remain uncertain?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Rats swarm an isolated lighthouse in “Three Skeleton Key,” starring Vincent Price—but that is only one stop on this vintage radio night. Unknown Broadcast also presents “The Hangman Won’t Wait,” “Mark My Grave” and “A Ghostly Game of Death,” bringing together execution suspense, ominous burial grounds and a deadly haunting. Hear Sidney Greenstreet’s Dr. Gideon Fell alongside other memorable voices in a two-hour collection of old-time radio mystery and horror. From a condemned person’s dwindling time to keepers trapped offshore, escape is never guaranteed.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Halloween camping prank turns deadly when the creature outside the tents is no costume. Michael Kelso’s “I Went on a Halloween Hiking Trip with My Friends. My Reading Light Saved My Life.” follows a book lover and three friends into woods where screams replace laughter. With the campsite wrecked and darkness closing around the trail, a new reading light becomes an unlikely survival tool. A monster story for anyone who has mistaken a noise outside for a friend. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A haunted corn maze is the last place Danny wants to spend Halloween, but a party dare sends him inside with his older brother Derek and their friends. The challenge sounds simple: stay one hour. Then the paths shift, grinning figures stalk the rows, and the way out stops making sense. William Rayne’s “Never Enter the Old Corn Maze on Halloween” turns teenage bravado into supernatural survival horror, with two brothers caught in a labyrinth that has no caretaker—and may not need one. Author: https://www.youtube.com/%40the... Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six Halloween horror stories revisit Weekly Spooky’s first seasonal scares. Includes “Mischief Night” and “Another Mischief Night” by Shane Migliavacca; “The Halloween Heist” by Rob Fields; “Photosensitive” by Joe Solmo; “Good Bad Cop in a Small Town on Halloween Night” by John Oak Dalton; and “The Pumpkin King” by David O’Hanlon. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this collection brings more than two and a half hours of sinister pranks, dangerous schemes and October nightmares. Start where Weekly Spooky’s Halloween tradition began—and keep an eye on the trick-or-treaters. Sponsored by http://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A cursed VHS turns Halloween movie night into a nightmare of vanishing people and rewritten memories. In Morgan Moore’s “Erasure,” seven-year-old Joey helps his brother Chris and a friend sneak a forbidden horror rental out of Binford Video. What plays on the tape is far worse than an R-rated movie. When Chris disappears, Joey must confront the shopkeeper who knows what the static can do. This feature-length horror novella mixes video-store nostalgia, occult secrets and a younger brother’s longing to be noticed. What remains of someone when even their family forgets?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Knocking inside a bedroom wall leads a lonely boy toward a secret his parents refuse to explain in “Cobweb” (2023). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Samuel Bodin’s Halloween horror film, starring Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Woody Norman. They explore its eerie lighting, sinister family dynamics and theatrical release, with a detour into “The Front Room” and a bizarre gopher-removal story. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to this conversation about childhood fear and the danger hidden inside a familiar home. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Why is Friday the 13th considered unlucky? Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the superstition in Monthly Spooky’s September 2024 conversation. Strange news includes Drifter, a cat rescued from a Minnesota sewer, and the death of Hvaldimir, the beluga nicknamed the Russian “spy whale.” The hosts react to the reports circulating at the time, alongside eerie ghost-photo claims. From a missing pet’s return to fears attached to a date, the crypt mixes folklore, odd headlines and macabre humor. Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A murder confession looks airtight until one juror refuses to agree. Rosalind Wallace has shot her lover and pressured Alfred Graham to take the blame, but Sarah Jean Bennett senses that something about the star witness is familiar. Unknown Broadcast presents Sam Dann’s “The Twelfth Juror,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater courtroom mystery about coercion, a secret affair and a memory that will not quite surface. As deliberations drag on, Rosalind faces another disturbance: the dead man’s voice. Can one uncertain juror find what the carefully arranged evidence conceals?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition wakes in darkness, unable to see the pit waiting in his cell. When he regains consciousness again, he is bound beneath a razor-edged pendulum that descends with every swing. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” turns imprisonment into a contest between calculated torture and a terrified mind searching for a way out. This complete Gothic horror reading follows the sounds, sensations and desperate observations that keep the narrator struggling against panic. The blade is moving slowly. His time to think is running out.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Something is crushing the wildlife around a remote South African film camp. Gwen Faulkner and Sarah Mathis came to document big cats; now even the lions are prey. Charles Campbell’s “The Monster’s Not Real” strands the filmmakers between mutilated animals, a violent storm and a predator that does not fit anything their cameras have recorded before. As strange sounds circle their shelter, disbelief offers little protection. This science-fiction creature horror story puts an intimate relationship under pressure in a wilderness where familiar predators are suddenly the least of their worries.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Fouke Monster brought Bigfoot-style sightings, strange tracks and a wave of attention to rural Arkansas. Terrifying & True explores the Ford family’s reported 1971 encounter, skeptical explanations and the swamp legend that inspired Charles B. Pierce’s “The Legend of Boggy Creek.” Written by Morgan Moore, this episode follows the creature from local testimony to drive-in horror fame, keeping eyewitness claims distinct from verified evidence. Was something unknown roaming the woods near Fouke, or was a regional legend growing with every retelling? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A horror writer’s deadline becomes a monster he cannot stop imagining. Working alone on a final script, Arch Oboler encounters a warning that sustained thoughts of evil can give evil physical form. Then something enters the room—something only he can see. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Author and the Thing,” a Lights Out drama that makes its own creator part of the nightmare. Skeptical visitors cannot understand what is happening, even as the danger grows. This vintage radio tale turns writer’s block, creative exhaustion and disbelief into a very personal creature feature.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A music teacher clashes with a violent student gang in “Class of 1984” (1982), Mark L. Lester’s high-school exploitation thriller. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Perry King, Timothy Van Patten and Roddy McDowall in a discussion of punk menace, classroom tension and a film that rewards repeat viewings. Their own school memories add inappropriate songs, stolen fireworks and teachers they have never forgotten. Do You Even Movie? heads back to school with full spoilers for this brutal collision of authority, intimidation and revenge. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An undefeated basketball team has a secret appetite: victory comes through a demonic pact and a diet of human flesh. In Rob Fields’s “Be Careful What You Eat,” Garnet Mirren and her teammates enjoy the rewards of serving Hellweaver—until one meal breaks rules they should have respected. A winter storm closes in as their private celebration becomes a fight against a new kind of hunger. This cannibal horror story mixes supernatural bargains, body horror and predators forced to fear what is stalking them. Winning was easy. Surviving the feast is another matter. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Elizabeth Short’s murder became the Black Dahlia case, one of Los Angeles’s most notorious unsolved crimes. Terrifying & True revisits the January 1947 discovery, fingerprint identification, false confessions and a police investigation overwhelmed by public fascination. The episode follows the evidence and competing theories while examining how sensational reporting turned a young woman’s death into a Hollywood legend. Beyond the nickname and the lurid headlines, what can the surviving record tell us about Elizabeth Short and the person who killed her? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Sunken gold draws diver Trent Hall into a dangerous expedition on the Paraguay River. His partner promises a lost fortune aboard the Santa Rosa, but a scarred survivor and a frightened crew suggest the river has other things to offer. Unknown Broadcast presents “Bloodwaters,” an Escape adventure written by Tony Barrett and starring Vic Perrin. Greed, mistrust and piranha-infested water turn a treasure hunt into underwater survival horror. Trent knows he should not trust the man arranging the dive. Once he is below the surface, doubt may be the least of his problems.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Toulon’s puppets become unlikely defenders when demonic creatures attack a young scientist in “Puppet Master 4” (1993). Henrique Couto chooses Jeff Burr’s sequel for his birthday episode, joining David Denoyer to discuss its killer puppets, artificial-life plot and place in Full Moon horror. They share memories of Burr, explain the film’s personal significance and consider why this franchise can feel like an R-rated kids’ show. Reviews of “Strange Darling” and “Blink Twice” round out a conversation with full spoilers. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Workers are quitting or disappearing from a church renovation in an abandoned Vermont town. Sentinel Security sends Jones to investigate, but moving tools, strange symbols and a hidden staircase point far beyond an ordinary job-site problem. Michael Kelso’s “I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening” turns a rural assignment into occult horror. The ex-military troubleshooter can handle a dangerous person. What waits beneath the church may be something else. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Brandon Lee’s death on the set of “The Crow” turned a fictional shooting into a real tragedy. Terrifying & True examines the 1993 accident, the difference between dummy ammunition and blanks, and the bullet left inside a revolver before the fatal scene. The episode follows the production failures behind the shooting and the performance Lee left behind, while separating the accident from stories of a family curse. A film built around returning from the dead became inseparable from the loss of its star. How did a staged scene become lethal? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Hollywood premiere party is the worst possible place for a supposedly dead husband to reappear. Star Laura Lane is expected downstairs with the reporters, but the man in her bedroom knows the past she has hidden—and wants a share of her new life. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Party,” a Beyond Midnight drama that turns celebrity glamour into blackmail and murder. A house full of guests, a wardrobe trunk and the pressure to keep smiling leave little room for a mistake. This vintage noir thriller asks how far Laura will go to keep her carefully built image intact.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Four Shane Migliavacca horror stories turn survival, hospitality and desire into dangerous propositions. “Survivors” follows a girl raised to fear a zombie apocalypse; “The Dinner Guests” sends killers into the wrong home; “Incident at Isotope Inn” traps strangers in a desert motel; and “Be Mine” gives a secret admirer an alarming edge. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this two-hour author spotlight moves from isolation and cannibal terror to a hostage nightmare and Valentine's obsession. Each story leaves someone wondering whether the threat is outside—or already beside them. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Hellweaver has stolen the Reality Sphere, and five surviving members of the Battleguard stand between her and the power to remake the multiverse. Rob Fields’s “Last Stand” brings warrior princess Giean-Gh’Ari, Carly Richmond and their allies together for a desperate defense of the Infinity Core. Ice, rage and living magic face a demon goddess who has already defeated their strongest protectors. This dark-fantasy adventure connects cosmic superhero action with the wider Strickfield universe. Their powers may be extraordinary, but the families and futures at stake make the battle personal.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Project Blue Book investigated 12,618 UFO reports, leaving 701 unidentified when the U.S. Air Force closed the program. Terrifying & True follows the Cold War search for explanations through radar contacts, witness accounts and disputed sightings. From the Washington, D.C., incidents to “swamp gas,” the episode explores the gap between official conclusions and public suspicion. Unidentified reports did not establish alien visitors, but incomplete evidence left plenty of room for questions. What did the investigators learn—and what remained beyond their reach? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A violent argument in a Bronx apartment is interrupted by a terrifying stranger at the window. Sam and Dora cannot get him to leave, yet the people they call for help cannot see anyone there. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “Visitor from Hades,” a Lights Out drama about a marriage trapped with something impossible to explain. The visitor’s silence makes every accusation and old resentment more dangerous. This vintage supernatural thriller turns a familiar domestic space into a locked room of fear, where the couple may need to understand their visitor before they can escape him.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six monster stories by “Splatter” Joe Solmo lead from moonlit woods to a debt no family should inherit. Includes “Party in the Woods,” “The Trouble with Cousins,” “Dead Ahead,” “Ol’ Bones,” “Wolf Moon” and “The Deal Was Great, but the Payments Are Hell.” Narrated by Henrique Couto, this author spotlight brings together forest predators, gruesome body horror, undead revenge, werewolves and infernal collectors. Expect nearly two hours of black humor and creature terror, with characters discovering that a bad decision can outlive the person who made it. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A forbidden book hidden inside a library wall turns the night shift into a demonic emergency. In Douglas Waltz’s “Book Return,” a Battle Creek librarian finds a leather-bound volume marked “Interitus”—destruction. Opening it gives a late-night patron something far worse than a good read. With the quiet stacks becoming a battleground, local history and the mysterious Jerome Blackwell may hold the only useful clues. This occult horror story makes an ordinary library mishap feel like the worst possible reason to break a book’s spine. Book: https://a.co/d/2p40z9S Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A menacing doll in an Edinburgh charity shop, wild monkeys disrupting a Thai city and ghost hunters in an abandoned school lead Monthly Spooky’s August 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle also visit the legends surrounding Greyfriars Kirkyard before turning to myths about the Moon. Haunted objects, alleged voices and lunar folklore offer plenty to question—and laugh about. Why do ordinary places and familiar sights become so unsettling once someone gives them a ghost story? Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An Appalachian sightseeing trip becomes an abduction when a family selects a stranger to inherit a dying man’s sins. James Reed came to collect folk songs; now he and his wife Lucille are trapped beside a ritual neither agreed to join. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Sin Eater,” a Suspense drama written by Bob Cochran. Bread, ale and an open grave turn an old funeral custom into a nightmare of coercion and betrayal. This rural horror story follows two outsiders discovering that an isolated mountain road can lead somewhere far harder to leave than they imagined.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A vanished happiness returns in sleep, offering a lonely speaker more comfort than the waking world. Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream” is a brief poem about lost joy, memory and the distant light that can guide someone through darkness. This atmospheric reading reveals a quieter side of Poe: grief and hope share the same image, and the dream matters precisely because it cannot last. For listeners drawn to Gothic poetry and melancholy rather than a monster or a murder, this short episode makes room for the feeling that the past can be both painful and precious. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A family cruise becomes a floating zombie nightmare in Mike Ashkewe’s “The Last Vacation.” Rhonda Canavan boards the Vanguard of the Seas with a new journal and a family already under strain. Then communications fail, security restricts the passengers, and frightening reports arrive from the mainland. Rhonda’s entries record a holiday unraveling as the undead close off the ship’s familiar comforts. This found-journal horror story combines an outbreak at sea with family conflict, panic and dwindling options. A cruise promises escape—but where do you go when the ship itself is unsafe? Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ed Gein’s crimes in Plainfield, Wisconsin, helped shape some of horror cinema’s most recognizable monsters. Terrifying & True examines the disappearance of Bernice Worden, the discovery at Gein’s farmhouse and the grave robberies behind its disturbing contents. The episode follows the real case alongside its influence on “Psycho,” “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “The Silence of the Lambs,” keeping fiction distinct from the people and crimes that inspired it. How did one isolated farmhouse cast such a long shadow over horror? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Temple bells draw a man searching for his missing friend toward a forbidden ruin in Burma. Stephen Loring follows the explorer’s last known route, guided by Mung Ba and warned about the power of the evil eye. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Eye of Evil,” an Escape adventure in which a jungle expedition becomes a test of fear, obsession and belief. A deserted hut, troubling discoveries and the sound of bells at night leave Loring uncertain whom to trust. This vintage radio mystery brings him closer to his friend—and to the dangerous fascination that made him disappear.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Four horror stories bring murderous appetites uncomfortably close to home. “Blood Rage” by Rob Fields, “The Dinner Guests” by Shane Migliavacca, “The Fall of Man” by David O’Hanlon and “Deb Debbie Deborah” by Migliavacca explore revenge, dangerous encounters and obsession. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this collection includes cannibal killers and supernatural bloodlust alongside human cruelty. These are people who can look like a neighbor, a lover or a welcome guest—until the ordinary encounter takes a lethal turn. Nearly two hours of murder fiction and unnerving reversals. Sponsored by http://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A ghostly lumberjack is hunting Laura, and the 911 dispatcher says help is twenty-two minutes away. In Bruce Haney’s “Twenty-Two Minutes,” a proposal hike has already ended in bloodshed. Now Laura is hiding in a remote ranger station while an axe strikes the trees outside. Bear spray cannot stop an apparition, the trailer offers little protection, and every question costs time. This Pacific Northwest ghost story combines wilderness survival, grim humor and an emergency call that may outlast its caller. How do you hold off something you cannot hurt? Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops helped turn the Bermuda Triangle into a legend of vanished ships and aircraft. Terrifying & True revisits the losses, the stories built around them and explanations involving weather, navigation and the difficulty of searching open water. The episode follows how separate maritime mysteries became one supposed paranormal zone, while distinguishing unresolved evidence from claims of aliens or impossible forces. Why does this stretch of ocean remain so powerful in the imagination, even when the legend outruns the record? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A lonely highway offers John Thompson a chance to leave New York behind—until he picks up a woman who seems to know him. She calls him Johnny, asks for “Stardust” on the radio and awakens a memory he wants buried. Unknown Broadcast presents “Strange Passenger,” an Inner Sanctum mystery in which a nighttime drive becomes a pursuit through guilt and disbelief. The stranger will not stay where John leaves her, and every mile makes escape feel less possible. This supernatural road story follows a man discovering that distance is a poor defense against the past.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A concealed seaside accident returns as a hook-wielding threat in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Jim Gillespie’s slasher with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. They discuss its tension, the post-“Scream” horror boom and the sequels that followed, before David weighs in on enjoying movies without losing the fun. Do You Even Movie? closes its summer-favorites run with full spoilers for a story of friendship, guilt and a secret that refuses to stay buried. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Screams in the forest ruin a solo camping trip before the narrator ever sees what made them. In Michael Kelso’s “Camping Alone Can Be Terrifying, Especially When Something’s Hunting You!”, an abandoned fire and a bloodied trail lead toward an antlered creature that even a bear cannot easily stop. This wilderness horror story follows a camper whose familiar gear offers little comfort against an unfamiliar predator. Reaching the trailhead suddenly matters more than reaching the campsite. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Watcher’s letters turned a family’s purchase of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey, into a frightening mystery. Terrifying & True follows Derek and Maria Broaddus through messages about their house and children, an investigation and the strain of not knowing who was watching. The episode examines the real case behind the Netflix dramatization, including competing suspicions and the limits of the evidence. A dream home became a place the family could not comfortably enter. Who wrote the letters—and what did they want from the people inside? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A beach vacation turns into a bitter territorial feud during an oppressive heat wave. Myra Pettit wants the public sand outside her rented cottage kept private, and George must endure her demands, the neighbors’ resistance and an escalating battle of phonograph records. Unknown Broadcast presents “At the Point of the Needle,” a Suspense drama by Joseph Cochran, starring Betty Garde and Walter Kinsella. This domestic crime story finds menace in ordinary grievances, wounded pride and a marriage worn thin. The weather will eventually break. George may reach his limit first.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six friends land on an alternate Earth where vampires rule and Strickfield’s familiar faces have become enemies. Rob Fields’s complete five-part “Portals” saga follows Arial Mirren, the Donnerly cousins and their allies through endless night, hidden powers and a nuclear plant used to open doorways between worlds. Stopping the invasion means more than finding a route home: other realities could become feeding grounds next. This feature-length vampire apocalypse blends dark fantasy, witchcraft and monster-fighting action into one continuous Strickfield adventure. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The final fight for vampire Earth becomes personal for Arial Mirren as her friends struggle to destroy the portal machinery and reach home. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 5” concludes the Strickfield saga inside a nuclear plant where every member of the team has a part to play. Vampire doubles, supernatural powers and a reactor countdown turn the escape plan into a race against catastrophe. Start with Part 1 for the full story, then return for this dark-fantasy finale. Can the team close the doors between worlds without trapping themselves on the wrong side? Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Sleep paralysis leaves you awake, unable to move and sensing someone nearby. Henrique Couto and Michelle share their own experiences in Monthly Spooky’s July 2024 conversation, exploring the fear behind the Old Hag legend. Strange news includes a psychic’s claim about a Princess Diana doll, Chicago’s “rat hole” and ghost stories at Dorset’s Knowlton Church. Personal nightmares meet paranormal headlines as the hosts ask why a bedroom can feel haunted before you are fully awake. Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Claire Collins is exhausted, but she is terrified to fall asleep. The same nightmare keeps bringing her to a house, a little boy and a question she cannot bear to answer. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “The Dream,” a Lights Out psychological horror drama about insomnia, jealousy and a memory that will not remain hidden. Her husband wants a doctor to help; Claire wants a way to rest without returning to that room. This vintage radio nightmare makes sleep itself the threat, following a woman whose waking silence is no protection from what waits behind her closed eyes.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two friends and a hitchhiker find themselves hunted by a monstrous driver in a giant truck in “Monster Man” (2003). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Michael Davis’s road-trip horror comedy, starring Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich and Michael Bailey Smith. They discuss its outrageous stunts, gruesome humor, straight-to-video appeal and memories of catching it on Showtime, with road-trip stories of their own. Do You Even Movie? takes a full-spoiler ride through an early-2000s creature feature where the vehicle is almost as alarming as the man behind the wheel. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant becomes a battleground as Arial Mirren and her friends fight Mayor Gunter’s vampires. In Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 4,” breaking out of captivity is only the start: the team must stop the machinery that lets this undead Earth raid other worlds. Arial’s emerging powers, Bella’s speed and the Donnerly cousins’ inventions give them a chance, but their first attack may not be enough. Vampire horror and dark-fantasy action drive the penultimate chapter toward a dangerous decision. Begin with Part 1 to follow the complete saga. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Awake, unable to move and certain someone is beside the bed: sleep paralysis can make a familiar room feel threatening. Terrifying & True explores the overlap between waking awareness and REM sleep, alongside accounts of shadow people, chest pressure and the figure known as the Old Hag. The episode places frightening experiences beside the folklore used to explain them, without treating a sensed presence as proof of a supernatural visitor. Why do these waking nightmares feel so physical—and why do similar figures appear in stories across cultures? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A condemned gangster promises that the witness who betrayed him will die within a month of his execution. Sam Rogers knows Johnny Promise’s reputation and hides in a hotel, watching the calendar and suspecting every visitor. Unknown Broadcast presents “Deadline for Death,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater thriller about a threat that seems to survive its maker. A barber’s razor, a new lock and footsteps outside the room turn daily routines into possible assassination attempts. Can Sam outlast the deadline, or has waiting behind a locked door become another kind of trap?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Edgar Allan Poe’s “Beloved Physician” survives as a fragment honoring the tireless care of Marie Louise Shew. Its brief lines linger on an unsteady pulse, devotion through long hours and the exhaustion of someone who keeps giving. Henrique Couto pairs the reading with a childhood memory of discovering Poe at his school library and carrying that new fascination into a gathering storm. This short literary episode offers a quieter corner of Poe’s work: gratitude, vulnerability and the presence of a caregiver, rather than the machinery of a conventional horror tale. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

How did an entire Earth fall to vampires? Imprisoned beneath Strickfield’s nuclear plant, Arial Mirren and her friends begin to learn the answer. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 3” follows Mayor Patrick Gunter’s pursuit of power toward the haunted Carnovasch Estate and a forbidden connection to Dracula. The revelations explain why the captives’ own world is at risk—and why escape alone will not end the threat. This middle chapter blends vampire mythology, political ambition and alternate-world horror. Start with Part 1 before entering the darkest history of vampire Strickfield. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Marty Markowitz sought a psychiatrist’s help, then found Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf occupying more and more of his life. Terrifying & True examines the real story behind “The Shrink Next Door,” following a relationship that crossed from therapy into control over family ties, money, work and a home. The episode explores isolation, professional authority and the difficult process of recognizing manipulation by someone trusted to provide care. How can years of small concessions leave a person feeling like a guest in his own life—and what does it take to reclaim it? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A cargo ship crossing the wartime Pacific encounters a threat rising from beneath the sea. Strange heat and violent water herald an undersea eruption, leaving the crew surrounded by steam, volcanic debris and an ocean too dangerous to enter. Unknown Broadcast presents Vincent McHugh’s “The Boiling Sea,” an Escape adventure that turns geological catastrophe into maritime survival suspense. Staying aboard may be their only chance, but the vessel must withstand conditions no ordinary voyage prepares them for. There is no safe shore in sight, and the water itself has become the enemy.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Love for a mother-in-law becomes a tribute to a lost wife in Edgar Allan Poe’s “To My Mother.” Addressed to Maria Clemm, the poem honors the woman who was both Poe’s aunt and Virginia’s mother. Its intimate argument gives the word “mother” a meaning shaped by devotion, care and the person they both loved. This brief spoken-word reading reveals tenderness beneath Poe’s familiar association with terror, inviting listeners into a poem about family and love that survives bereavement. A quiet literary interlude for anyone drawn to the emotional life behind the Gothic stories. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A giant vampire bat has carried Arial Mirren into the night, and her friends must reach her across the rooftops of an undead Strickfield. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 2” turns a rescue into a larger mission: find what is opening the doors between worlds before more people are taken as food. Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren and the others bring very different abilities to a town where the mayor commands an army of vampires. This dark-fantasy chapter expands the team’s fight beyond survival toward the source of the invasion. Begin with Part 1 for the full adventure. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

What are people seeing beneath Lake Champlain? Terrifying & True explores Champ, the lake-monster legend built from witness accounts, photographs and generations of local storytelling. The episode revisits Sandra Mansi’s famous image, disputed historical claims and possible explanations involving familiar animals and the changing appearance of open water. Regional folklore and cryptid curiosity meet a question that a distant shape cannot easily answer. Is Champ an unknown creature, a series of misidentifications, or a legend that changes how people look at the lake? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A prisoner is placed in a cell once occupied by an executed killer—and hears its former occupant speak. Max Young has more to fear than the police when Skeeter Dempsey begins describing what waits in the electric chair. Unknown Broadcast presents “Haunted Cell,” a Lights Out prison ghost story about confession, coercion and the dread of a sentence drawing closer. As Christmas Eve approaches, a voice from the dark becomes Max’s most persistent companion. This grim vintage radio tale turns a locked cell into a place where even death may not bring an end to the conversation.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Six summer horror stories turn camps, highways and small towns into dangerous places. Includes “The Wolf of Fagan County” by David O’Hanlon; “The Lady in the Germ Box” by Killian Crane; “The Devil Knows Three Chords” by John Oak Dalton; “The Rest Area” and “New Awakenings” by Rob Fields; and “Wilson Road” by Charles Campbell. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this more-than-two-hour collection brings werewolves, cruel wishes, roadside killers and zombies into the heat. From a bluegrass bargain to a lonely stretch of road, summer offers plenty of ways to get lost. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A supernatural storm drops six friends into an alternate Strickfield where the sun no longer rises and vampires fill the streets. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 1” begins a five-part dark-fantasy adventure with Arial Mirren, Madelyne Donnerly and their allies discovering how dangerous familiar faces can become in another world. A trip back from the mall turns into a struggle against an undead town, forcing hidden abilities into the open. This vampire-apocalypse story opens the door to a wider threat: if the friends could cross into this reality, something else may cross back. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Rodney Alcala appeared on “The Dating Game” while hiding a history of sexual violence and murder. Terrifying & True follows the killer’s television appearance, the investigation into Robin Samsoe’s death and the evidence linking him to other victims. Photographs recovered from Alcala raise questions beyond the crimes proved in court, as investigators sought to identify the people pictured. The episode examines the distance between a charming public image and the violence concealed behind it. How many stories were still hidden in the photographs he left behind? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Danny expects an inheritance to solve his problems once the blind uncle who controls it is gone. Then the familiar tap of the dead man’s cane begins again. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Dead Walk at Night,” an Inner Sanctum mystery about greed, a hidden romance and the sound a murderer cannot bear to hear. The house offers no escape from the rhythm that once announced his uncle’s arrival. Is someone using Danny’s guilt against him, or has the man he killed returned? This vintage radio thriller builds its haunting one approaching footstep at a time.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff turn sorcery into Gothic comedy in Roger Corman’s “The Raven” (1963). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer close their Corman tribute with a spell-casting rivalry, a transformed magician and an early Jack Nicholson appearance. They discuss the AIP Poe cycle, “The Terror,” their first encounters with Poe and more Corman films worth exploring. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to a playful castle adventure where a grieving magician receives a visitor with feathers—and a very human complaint. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A missing folklore writer leaves behind a manuscript about an Oregon hill where people vanish. In Bruce Haney’s “Fool’s Hill,” Brenda shares her uncle’s research into century-old witch stories, strange carvings and disappearances near Locust Grove. Newspaper clues lead him from a local legend into woods where someone wants the questions to stop. This found-manuscript horror story blends Pacific Northwest folklore with a missing-person mystery, letting old records and a modern investigation unsettle each other. What happened on the wrong side of Fool’s Hill—and why did her uncle keep going?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Haunted hospitals, imaginary friends and the uncertainty of memory lead Monthly Spooky’s June 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore abandoned places, ghostly visitors and false memories, with a detour into the surprising work of hero rats. Unseen companions and remembered events give the hosts plenty to question as they move between paranormal claims, psychology and strange news. An archive episode for listeners who like their spooky stories with curiosity, conversation and the occasional unexpected animal hero. Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A fugitive gives a woman a ride toward Missoula, only to find the road swallowed by a forest fire. Pressed into an improvised rescue effort, Wally Pindell must face the advancing flames and the consequences of what he is running from. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Red Forest,” an Escape drama written and directed by Anthony Ellis, starring William Conrad and Georgia Ellis. Wildfire survival, a roadside connection and a dangerous confession collide as the group searches for a firebreak. The woods offer no easy exit, and Wally’s past is traveling with him.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A power-drill killer crashes a teenage sleepover in “The Slumber Party Massacre” (1982). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Amy Holden Jones’s slasher, starring Michele Michaels, Robin Stille and Michael Villella, with Brinke Stevens among its memorable cast. They discuss the production, their affection for the film and collecting the trilogy on physical media. Do You Even Movie?’s Roger Corman tribute continues with full spoilers for the main feature, plus a spoiler-free review of “In a Violent Nature.” Pizza, party plans and neighborhood safety are all on the chopping block. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A killer strikes Strickfield every April Fools’ Day, and survivor Ashley Gable fears this year will be her last. This 2024 preview introduces Rob Fields’s Patreon serial “The April Fool,” a holiday slasher mystery in which Detective Chantel Devereux has one day to stop the annual murders. Ashley has already lost people she loves and survived an attack herself. Now the killer has another chance to finish the job. A short introduction to the longer Strickfield story, rather than the complete serial: can Chantel solve the pattern before the date changes and the murderer disappears for another year?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The warehouse’s painted patrol routes are supposed to keep the night guard alive. In Michael Kelso’s “I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules: Part 2,” a trail of blood draws him toward the forbidden black line. Impossible rooms and creatures behind locked doors make every instruction suspect. This strange-rules horror finale continues the former ranger’s first night in a workplace where an ordinary wrong turn can change reality. Start with Part 1 before taking this patrol. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Jinn belong to a world of belief and storytelling far wider than the wish-granting genie. Terrifying & True explores Islamic tradition, Arab folklore and encounter accounts involving unseen beings, shape-shifting and possession. The episode considers how stories change across cultures and how spiritual explanations intersect with frightening personal experiences. Religious teachings, folktales and testimony are approached as distinct kinds of accounts, rather than proof of a supernatural attack. What lies behind the familiar image of the spirit in the lamp? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Two deaths in a locked Paris apartment leave witnesses disagreeing about the voices they heard. C. Auguste Dupin sees a puzzle where everyone else sees an impossibility. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” adapted from Edgar Allan Poe by George Lowther for CBS Radio Mystery Theater, starring Paul Hecht. A young gendarme seeks Dupin’s help with sealed windows, brutal violence and an escape route that appears not to exist. This classic detective mystery blends Gothic horror with close observation: the strangest evidence may be the clue everyone is interpreting incorrectly.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A scientist from 2031 arrives in a world shared by Victor Frankenstein, his creature and Mary Shelley in “Frankenstein Unbound” (1990). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Roger Corman’s return to directing, with John Hurt, Raul Julia and Nick Brimble bringing the collision of science fiction and Gothic horror to life. They consider its unusual take on the Frankenstein myth, Corman’s long directing hiatus and the film’s place among his less familiar work. Do You Even Movie? continues its Corman tribute with full spoilers for a time-travel experiment gone terribly wrong. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A former fire-tower ranger takes a warehouse security job with an unusual rule sheet: follow the colored lines, keep to the schedule and leave certain doors alone. Michael Kelso’s “I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules: Part 1” begins a night shift where the building itself can become a trap. A missing supervisor and something inside a glowing container make the instructions harder to dismiss. This two-part workplace horror starts far from the ranger’s old tower. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Richardson family murders began with an alarming relationship between a twelve-year-old and an adult man. Terrifying & True examines the 2006 killings in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and the roles of Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke. Messages, family conflict and separate trials form the center of a case often overshadowed by Steinke’s werewolf claims. The episode treats that persona as part of the story, not a supernatural explanation, while considering accountability and the difficult question of rehabilitation. How did violent fantasy become a plan to kill? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ida Lupino plays a wife terrorized by a husband who points an empty pistol at her and promises that one day it will fire. In “The Bullet,” Ruth Martin’s success running their business becomes another source of Harry’s resentment when he returns from prison. Unknown Broadcast presents this Suspense drama by Larry Marcus, with Elliott Lewis opposite Lupino. Jealousy, control and a threat others fail to take seriously drive a domestic thriller toward a dangerous confrontation. The gun may be unloaded, but Ruth has no reason to feel safe when Harry begins counting to three.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Sea monsters attack a California fishing town in “Humanoids from the Deep” (1980), the opening pick for Do You Even Movie?’s Roger Corman tribute. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Barbara Peeters’s creature feature, its controversial production and Corman’s exploitation legacy. Doug McClure, Ann Turkel and Vic Morrow face a coastal nightmare where the creatures’ intentions make the violence especially disturbing. David’s birthday selection comes with full spoilers and discussion of sexual assault, child deaths and animal deaths. More: https://doyouevenmovie.comBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Swimming pools become feeding grounds in David O’Hanlon’s “Cesspool: A Love Story.” Pool cleaner Andre expects summer work and a chance with Lila, but a coworker’s death points toward something moving through the water beneath Barrister Bend. As a tentacled predator reaches the neighborhood pools, a backyard party becomes the worst place to gather. This gory aquatic creature feature mixes teenage comedy, romance and a race to get out of the water. Andre knows how to clean a pool. Nothing in the job prepared him for what has started using it to hunt. Sponsored by http://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Oak Island’s Money Pit has kept treasure hunters digging through flooded shafts, disputed clues and increasingly elaborate theories. Terrifying & True explores the Nova Scotia mystery, from the popular story of the first discovery to searches for pirate treasure and the idea of engineered flood tunnels. The episode weighs those claims against natural explanations and the long human cost of pursuing something no one can clearly identify. Each excavation adds another layer to the island’s story. Is there a hidden fortune below—or a mystery sustained by the search itself? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A doctor’s death draws Grace Denning into a mystery involving her father’s medical-research agreement and a caller who should already be dead. Unknown Broadcast presents “No Rest for the Dead,” an Inner Sanctum drama in which a missing letter opener, a medical-school corpse and suspicious visitors complicate an apparent accident. Grace follows the clues from a funeral home toward a darkened office, unsure whether she is being helped or manipulated. This vintage murder mystery gives the familiar question of who benefits a stranger companion: who is making those telephone calls?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

An escape-room expert seeks shelter from a July storm and finds a mansion full of puzzles that can kill. Rob Fields’s complete four-part “Murder Mansion” traps Bethany Martinson inside Grimm Manor with rival detectives, a hidden fortune and rooms designed to punish the curious. When death interrupts the household, her talent for solving games becomes a very practical survival skill. This feature-length Strickfield mystery blends haunted-house horror with locked-room suspense. Bethany has beaten difficult escape rooms before. This one offers no comfortable way to quit. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A hidden book offers a violent runaway a new scripture—and a demon goddess willing to answer. In Rob Fields’s “Sin,” Laney Listor uses Strickfield Academy as a refuge until an occult discovery draws her toward Hellweaver, imprisoned in the realm of Perdition. The promise of power comes with rituals that demand far more than belief. This explicit supernatural horror story explores devotion, corrupted authority and the making of a dangerous new figure in the Strickfield universe. Laney already knows how to hurt people. What might she become with something monstrous guiding her? Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

America’s haunted roads turn an ordinary drive into a tour of roadside legends in Monthly Spooky’s May 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle also explore unsettling buildings, haunted apartments and a report involving dangerous worms. Local ghost stories and strange-news claims give the hosts room for curiosity, skepticism and macabre humor as the conversation moves from places people fear to places they still have to live and travel. An archive visit to the crypt with plenty to think about on the drive home. Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Walter Bates needs $1,500 before midnight, but his mother has barely enough to keep the household going. An elderly boarder’s life-insurance policy gives him a terrible idea. Unknown Broadcast presents Robert Tallman’s “Life Ends at Midnight,” a Suspense crime drama starring Fay Bainter, with Tony Barrett as Walter. A family’s financial desperation becomes a race to turn someone else’s death into money. The clock keeps moving while Walter tries to make an impossible deadline seem manageable. This vintage noir story follows a man whose solution may be more dangerous than the debt.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A campus killer turns urban legends into murder methods in “Urban Legend” (1998). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Jamie Blanks’s slasher, starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart and Jared Leto. They compare favorite folklore, discuss the late-1990s horror boom after “Scream” and celebrate the film’s appeal as a late-night cable discovery. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to Pendleton University, where stories students have laughed off become reasons to check the back seat. Familiar warnings become deadly when someone acts them out. More: https://doyouevenmovie.com Blu-ray: https://a.co/d/88artL4Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A missing family’s camper leads a Nevada park ranger toward a mining town everyone is told to avoid. Michael Kelso’s “I’m a Park Ranger Who Never Believed the Stories About the Abandoned Mining Town. Until...” follows blood, strange footprints and a cry for help into ruins that are not empty. With his radio failing, the ranger must decide how far to follow the trail. This wilderness creature-horror story turns a search for stranded visitors into a nightmare beneath a forgotten settlement. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? In 1943, boys exploring Hagley Wood found a woman’s remains inside a hollow tree. Terrifying & True follows the investigation, the graffiti that gave the unidentified victim a name and the theories that grew around the discovery. Wartime espionage and witchcraft enter the story as speculation, while the physical evidence offers a more limited account of what happened. This British true-crime mystery asks how an unknown woman became a local legend without her identity being established. Who was she before the question on the wall? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A meteor shower gives astronomer Russell Adams a specimen he cannot resist bringing home. Inside the fallen stone, something soft and living begins to grow. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “The Meteorman,” a Lights Out science-fiction horror drama that turns a holiday with his wife Diane into an encounter with an alien intelligence. Scientific curiosity soon collides with a visitor whose needs are very different from theirs. More lights cross the sky while the first arrival learns about its hosts. What looks like a discovery may be the beginning of an invasion.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A lonely lake becomes a place of beauty and dread in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Lake.” Black rocks, tall pines and the change from daylight to darkness shape a speaker’s fascination with a landscape others might fear. This brief poetry reading explores solitude, mortality and the strange pleasure of terror, offering a quiet Gothic interlude rather than a conventional ghost story. The water seems to hold both menace and sanctuary. For listeners drawn to Poe’s dark Romantic imagery, the poem asks why a frightening place can sometimes feel more like home than the ordinary world. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A coastal camping trip turns into a nighttime rescue when a child disappears into the woods. In Bruce Haney’s “Bigfoot at the Coast,” Tom and his friend Arturo leave beachside routines behind as a bicycle ride leads toward a black bear—and something even larger. This Pacific Northwest cryptid story combines childhood friendship, camping nostalgia and the fear of being far from adult help. Bigfoot may be real, but knowing that does not tell the children what it wants. The next shape to step out of the trees could change the rescue entirely. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Axeman attacks brought fear to New Orleans, and a letter signed with the killer’s name made jazz part of the legend. Terrifying & True follows the 1918–1919 violence, the people targeted and the investigations that failed to establish a definitive culprit. The episode examines the message promising safety to homes playing music, without assuming its author was the murderer. True crime, public panic and newspaper spectacle meet in a story where a city's soundtrack became part of its defense. Who was behind the attacks—and who was exploiting the fear? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Captain MacWhirr trusts his steamer more than the warnings of bad weather. Then the Nan-Shan enters a China Seas typhoon that puts every judgment to the test. Unknown Broadcast presents “Typhoon,” an Escape adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s maritime story, told through the eyes of chief mate Jukes. Passengers struggle below deck while the crew fights wind, water and failing order above. This vintage survival drama turns a captain’s apparent stubbornness into the central question: is his refusal to panic the thing that endangered them, or the thing that might bring them through?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Toby Dammit cannot resist a wager, even when his favorite expression puts his own head on the line. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” follows a boastful man toward a covered bridge, a mysterious stranger and a challenge that should have been declined. This complete reading mixes supernatural horror with grotesque comedy and a satire of stories expected to teach a moral lesson. Poe gives a casual turn of phrase an alarming literal possibility. For Toby, talking big has always come easily. Paying up may prove rather more difficult. Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A first date takes an unexpected turn when Arial Mirren and Carter Cross encounter a child ghost at Carnovasch Estate. In Rob Fields’s “First Date,” two longtime rivals explore a new attraction while an abandoned mansion pulls them into an older mystery. A family portrait and a sealed space beneath the house suggest the apparition wants more than company. This Strickfield ghost story combines teenage romance with haunted-house discovery, giving Arial and Carter something more unsettling than an awkward evening to face. Their relationship is changing, but the estate’s past has not been laid to rest.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The “Poltergeist curse” grew around real tragedies affecting a famous horror franchise. Terrifying & True examines the deaths of Heather O’Rourke, Dominique Dunne, Julian Beck and Will Sampson, alongside the production stories that helped build the legend. The episode distinguishes documented circumstances from supernatural speculation, keeping the actors behind the screen characters in view. A haunted-house movie became the center of a different kind of ghost story told by its audience. Why do unrelated losses become so compelling when people arrange them into a curse? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Ella wants a home of her own, but marriage means living under her mother-in-law’s control. Resentment leads her toward the well beneath the basement—and a crime that does not bring the freedom she expected. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “Knock at the Door,” a Lights Out story of jealousy, guilt and a sound that will not stay outside. The new household seems settled until someone starts knocking. This claustrophobic supernatural drama follows a woman who thought removing one person would solve everything, only to discover how difficult it can be to keep the dead out.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Five horror stories uncover powers far older than the people who disturb them. Includes “Ol’ Bones” by Joe Solmo; “The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor” and “Careful What You Wish” by David O’Hanlon; “The God Tongue” by Dan Wilder; and “The Chain of Time” by Killian Crane. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this more-than-two-hour collection moves through forbidden woods, occult crime, living scripture, a sinister fairy tale and wishes with hidden costs. Ancient monsters, dangerous books and cruel bargains connect five distinct encounters with things that were never waiting to be understood. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Richardson’s Lake has one rule: no swimming after sundown. Four teenagers ignore it, bringing beer and floats through a broken fence for a private summer adventure. Charles Campbell’s “The Creature from Richardson’s Lake” sends them into dark water where something with gills and claws is already feeding. The shore suddenly looks much farther away. This Southern aquatic horror story turns a familiar swimming hole into a creature-feature trap, with trespassers discovering why the daytime attraction closes so promptly. A moonlit swim is a poor time to learn what lives beyond the ropes.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Champ, the Lake Champlain monster, brings cryptid sightings and disputed evidence to Monthly Spooky’s April 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle also discuss an Oklahoma murder case involving a bizarre claim about feeding someone to Bigfoot, ghostly intruder reports and a New Orleans restaurant serving cicada salad. From shapes beneath the water to insects on the menu, the hosts compare unsettling stories with skeptical questions and dark humor. Which would bother you more: the lake or lunch? Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Grave robbers supply the anatomy schools, but fresh bodies can come from something worse than a cemetery. Unknown Broadcast presents John Dickson Carr’s “The Body Snatchers,” a Suspense mystery set in nineteenth-century England. At Mother Slade’s house near London, an illicit trade in human remains draws a doctor toward a dangerous question about the source of his next specimen. This Gothic crime drama combines the world of resurrection men with a murder puzzle, making medical demand and criminal profit uneasy partners. What happens when a supplier decides digging takes too long?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Winning a dark-web VR match earns money; losing can kill the player outside the game. In Rob Fields’s “Hellweaver,” a ruthless beta tester fights through a ruined virtual Strickfield toward the right to challenge its demon goddess. Her boyfriend Ajaxis has supplied hardware beyond anything sold in stores, and the rewards keep growing with the risk. This explicit techno-horror story combines lethal gaming, cryptocurrency and supernatural ambition. Maxing out her character opens the final challenge—but the rules protecting the boundary between the screen and her home may not be what she thinks. Sponsored by HenFlix.com.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

My Sentiment & Notes Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween