Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season
Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales. Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening.
Episodes
Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman
Unknown Broadcast boards four old-time radio train mysteries where every timetable points toward danger. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler send us through a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a supernatural railway warning, and one very expensive ride to nowhere. Your ticket is already punched. Please do not ask who is sitting in the empty com
4 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves & Supernatural Monsters
Four scary stories unleash serial killers, witchcraft, a werewolf curse, supernatural seduction, and a gigantic killer gummy worm. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with occult rituals, crime horror, murder mysteries, supernatural monsters, body horror, and dark comedy.Two criminal brothers follow a wealthy woman home expecting an easy rob
Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016): Blood Rituals & Body Horror
Tonight She Comes (2016) is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher for horror fans building their Halloween watchlists—a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare that mutates into occult body horror, splatter comedy, and resurrection horror. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the outrageous independent horror film that has stayed with them for a decade a
Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban Legends | Thursday Thrills
Ten years after the 2016 killer clown panic, Weekly Spooky’s Thursday Thrills returns to the creepy clown sightings that began near Fleetwood Manor Apartments in Greenville County, South Carolina. In August 2016, children and residents reported clowns in the woods—mysterious figures allegedly displaying money, flashing green lights or lasers, making strange noises, and trying to persuade children
The Darkness Under Clear Lake: A Sunken Relic Possesses a Missing Swimmer
Brian vanishes beneath Clear Lake and returns hours later clutching a carved relic—waterlogged, impossibly strong, and violently changed. Brian and Michelle plan a quiet end-of-summer camping trip, only to find Michelle’s former best friends Kristin, Hailey, and Bella in the neighboring site. Old tensions soften into drinking, swimming, and one last celebration before school resumes. Then Brian di
This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf
Blade, The Exorcist III, An American Werewolf in London, You’re Next, The Night House, and Night of the Creeps lead this August 17–23 horror-history guide. The release-date calendar revisits William Peter Blatty’s rain-soaked supernatural detective story The Exorcist III, Rebecca Hall’s haunted grief in The Night House, Wesley Snipes’ debut as Marvel’s vampire-hunting Daywalker in Blade, and the m
Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake Became a Cryptid Legend
The Pale Crawler is a modern cryptid legend and Halloween Favorite tied to The Rake, a creepypasta deliberately created online in 2005. What began as an anonymous forum experiment soon became a wave of alleged humanoid sightings, viral trail-camera images, Reddit stories and YouTube horror. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we trace Operation Crawler and the birth of The Rake creepypasta,
Unknown Broadcast | No Boat Comes Back: Classic OTR Mystery
Unknown Broadcast sails beyond the last reliable chart for four classic OTR tales of island horror, radio mystery, and tropical suspense. The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island promise refuge, fortune, or paradise—and collect a different price from every visitor. The beaches are white, the water is warm, and the boats all seem to be pointed the wrong way.
4 Scary Stories | Haunted House, Cursed Object, Serial Killers & Cannibal Monsters
Four scary stories unleash a haunted house, a cursed yard-sale object, escaped serial killers, and flesh-eating cannibal monsters. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with ghost stories, paranormal activity, haunted objects, home-invasion horror, supernatural creatures, and terrifying encounters in the woods. A first date leads two Strickfie
Cryptids Around the Campfire: Werewolf, Bigfoot, Chupacabra & Wendigo | Halloween Marathon
Seven Terrifying & True investigations gather werewolves, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, the Fouke Monster, Black-Eyed Children, Indrid Cold, and the Wendigo for a Halloween cryptid marathon. The journey begins in Defiance, Ohio, where railroad workers and residents reported a wolf-like figure in 1972. It then enters the modern legend of Black-Eyed Children asking to be invited inside and the Arkansas s
Jeff the Killer: Creepypasta Supernatural Folklore Uncovered | Thursday Thrills
Jeff the Killer is one of the internet's most recognizable creepypasta horror icons - but where did that pale, smiling face actually come from? As Halloween 2026 and spooky season begin creeping closer, Thursday Thrills investigates the original Jeff the Killer image, the conflicting 2008 and 2011 origin stories, and the mystery hidden behind the words "Go to sleep." Henrique Couto follows the tra
Odd Egg: Weird Experiences Turn Grotesque in Spooky Season Body Horror
Spooky season body horror hatches in “Odd Egg” by Alex Grass, a weird creature-horror story about a carton of free eggs, a smiling stranger, and something impossible waiting inside the final shell. After Roger from the mysterious Keystone Cooperative Growers Association leaves Maryellen a dozen farm-fresh eggs and promises that a god lives inside them, breakfast takes a grotesque turn. Eleven shel
This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: The Monster Squad, Cujo & The Fly
The Monster Squad, Cujo, The Fly, The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 10 through August 16. As summer horror starts giving way to spooky season, we’re beginning the Halloween horror pregame with classic monsters, Stephen King terror, haunted-house mysteries, Jason Voorhees, cosmic horror, rabid-animal survival,
Terrifying & True | The Man With a Hole in His Stomach: Beaumont’s Human Experiments
William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin stand at the center of one of the most famous and ethically troubling stories in the history of human experimentation. After an accidental musket blast on Mackinac Island in 1822 tore through St. Martin's ribs, lung, diaphragm and stomach, Army surgeon Beaumont saved his life. The wound healed into a permanent gastric fistula - a living opening through which
Unknown Broadcast | Storm Horror: Hurricane & Night of the Storm
Unknown Broadcast rides a wall of wind into four old-time radio horror and radio suspense stories where the weather closes every exit. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler tune in with hurricanes, flooded waters, wartime peril, and crimes that refuse to stay buried. Come in out of the rain ☂ Hurricane — A desperate pair reaches an isolated beach house and discovers the sto
4 Scary Travel Horror Stories | Wendigo, Ghost Ship, Airplane Horror & Serial Killer
Four scary travel horror stories unleash a Wendigo, a rat-infested ghost ship, a doomed passenger flight, and an escaped serial killer stalking a summer highway. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with this complete horror fiction anthology packed with supernatural terror, survival horror, cannibalism, killer animals, and roadside nightmares. A routine airplane journey becomes a terrifyi
Cutting Deep Into Horror | Hell House LLC (2015) — Halloween Haunt Found Footage Horror
Join filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi as Cutting Deep into Horror keeps Summerween rolling and gets an early jump on Halloween season with Hell House LLC (2015), Stephen Cognetti’s cult found footage horror movie about a Halloween haunted attraction inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This spoiler-filled Hell House LLC review and ending discussion digs into the movie’s mockumentary set
Solar Eclipse 2026: Supernatural Folklore & Celestial Monsters | Thursday Thrills
Thursday Thrills explores solar-eclipse folklore, celestial monsters, and the supernatural fears attached to the 2026 astronomical event. On August 12, 2026, daylight will vanish along a path crossing Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and beyond—and old stories say the Moon may not be the only thing responsible. In this Thursday Thrills episode, Henrique Couto follows the monsters once blamed for eating
Let-Down: Body Horror Through a Child's Perspective
Body horror stories rarely get more disturbing than “LET DOWN” by Morgan Moore, a narrated horror story told through the innocent perspective of a six-year-old girl who cannot speak and is trying to care for her hungry baby brother. Her family is collapsing under sickness, poverty, neglect, and her father’s gambling addiction. When the food and baby formula run out, she remembers one simple fact:
This Week in Horror History | The Sixth Sense, Piranha & Bodies Bodies Bodies (Aug. 3–9)
The Sixth Sense, Piranha, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Antropophagus, Lady Killer, and The Bat headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 3 through August 9. As summer horror reaches its hottest, strangest stretch, we’re starting our early Halloween horror pregame with killer fish, emotional ghost stories, murderous housewives, hurricane-party paranoia, forbidden cult cinema, a
Terrifying & True | USS Indianapolis Sinking: Sharks, Survival and Captain McVay
The USS Indianapolis sinking remains one of the most devastating naval disasters of World War II. On July 30, 1945, Japanese submarine I-58 torpedoed the heavy cruiser in the Philippine Sea after it completed a secret mission delivering components for the Little Boy atomic bomb to Tinian. Indianapolis sank in about twelve minutes. Nearly nine hundred sailors and Marines reached the water alive, bu
Unknown Broadcast | Classic Old Time Radio Horror: Leiningen vs the Ants, CBS Radio Mystery Theater & Suspense
Unknown Broadcast presents Classic Old Time Radio Horror, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, murder, disappearance, and investigation, and folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with a full night of classic old time radio horror, vintage radio suspense, OTR mystery, Golden Age radio drama,
4 Scary Animal Horror Stories | Werewolf, Killer Hippos, Demon Cat & Monster Dog!!!
Four scary animal horror stories unleash killer hippos, a rage-fueled werewolf, a shape-shifting monster dog, and a demon-possessed cat. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology filled with supernatural creatures, deadly animal attacks, cursed pets, survival horror, and dark comedy.A documentary crew travels deep into the Colombian jungle to investigate
Disappearances & Lost Colonies | True Crime Mystery Marathon
As Halloween season creeps closer, Terrifying & True begins the descent into darker stories with a special compilation of disappearances, ghost ships, lost colonies, missing people, wilderness mysteries, and unexplained cases that still haunt history. This is Vanished Without a Trace — a chilling collection of scary true stories about the places where people entered the dark and never came bac
Hungry Ghost Month: Supernatural Folklore from Asia | Thursday Thrills
Hungry Ghost Month runs August 13 through September 10 in 2026, with the fifteenth-day Hungry Ghost Festival falling on August 27. Why do some getai and wayang performances in Singapore and Malaysia leave the entire front row empty? Thursday Thrills explores the Chinese ghost folklore, religious traditions and regional beliefs behind seats reserved for unseen guests. Henrique traces the difference
The Ties That Bind: Vampire Love Triangle Horror Story
A vampire love triangle, paranormal romance, and deadly second chance collide in “The Ties That Bind” by Rob Fields—a mature vampire horror story set in the supernatural town of Strickfield. Buster Crane has never forgotten his childhood first love, Talia Mirren. He also cannot stop loving Romy Jillian, the mysterious woman whose pale skin, cold touch, and missing reflection reveal a terrifying se
This Week in Horror History | The Lost Boys, Jason Lives & Fright Night (July 27–August 2)
The Lost Boys, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Fright Night, The Village, and The Collector headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering July 27 through August 2. Summer horror gets vampiric, supernatural, folklore-soaked, and dangerously familiar as we revisit an iconic 1980s vampire movie, the resurrection of Jason Voorhees, M. Night Shyamalan’s isolated village nightmare
Monthly Spooky | Creepy Carnival Animatronics, Hooga Hooga, Haunted Houses & UFOs
Summerween arrives with a laugh you can hear from across the midway. In this July edition of Monthly Spooky, Henrique Couto and Michelle dive into Laughing Sal, the towering carnival animatronic whose haunting mechanical cackle became American folklore. They explore how this six-foot funhouse nightmare evolved from a popular midway attraction into a cryptid-like legend—appearing in movies, museums
Unknown Broadcast | Halloween in July: Classic Old Time Radio Horror
Halloween in July begins with classic old time radio horror, vintage suspense, gothic mystery, witchcraft, Lights Out terror, and spooky season nightmares. Unknown Broadcast returns with an extra-large Halloween-in-summer transmission featuring six eerie radio dramas from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, The Whistler, Lights Out, and The Mysterious Traveler. This classic OTR horror lin
Summerween: 4 Halloween Horror Stories with Bigfoot, Vampires, Zombies & Demons
Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in July with four complete narrated Halloween horror stories featuring Bigfoot, vampires, zombies, demons, supernatural folklore, and terrifying encounters after dark. In this special Weekly Spooky horror compilation, a night watchman is hunted across a remote wind farm by a violent Sasquatch, a centuries-old vampire couple spends its anniversary inside a shoppin
Cutting Deep Into Horror | Found Footage Horror: The Houses October Built (2014)
Join filmmaker Henrique Couto as Cutting Deep into Horror explores The Houses October Built (2014)—a found footage nightmare about five friends hunting the most extreme haunted houses across America. Discover how this supernatural folklore film captures real haunted-house horror, extreme-tourism fears, and the dark secrets lurking behind roadside attractions. Perfect for early Halloween spooky sea
Shark Week Horror: Jersey Shore Attacks & Unsolved Sea Mysteries | Thursday Thrills
The 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks, Sydney’s Shark Arm murder, megalodon legends, and sea-monster mysteries surface in this Shark Week edition of Thursday Thrills. The journey begins with the “Twelve Days of Terror,” when attacks at Beach Haven, Spring Lake, and Matawan Creek killed Charles Vansant, Charles Bruder, Lester Stillwell, and Stanley Fisher and permanently changed how Americans imagine
Chupacabra Horror: A Puerto Rico Cryptid Encounter Nightmare
Chupacabra horror, Puerto Rico folklore, summer camp terror, and violent cryptid attacks collide in “Camping With Chupacabra” by Douglas Waltz—a complete scary story from the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology podcast. Jonathan Edwards is a veteran camp counselor who has spent twenty years teaching wilderness survival, training young counselors, and sleeping beneath the stars. When he accepts
This Week in Horror History | Dracula, Maximum Overdrive & Deep Blue Sea (July 20–26)
Dracula, The Hills Have Eyes, Nope, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering July 20 through July 26. Summer horror gets seductive, sun-scorched, mechanical, extraterrestrial, and shark-infested as we explore gothic vampires, desert survival horror, reverse-horror gaming, Jordan Peele’s terrifying vision of spectacle, Stephen King’s killer
Terrifying & True | The Murder of Brian Barrett: TalHotBlond and the Internet Love Triangle Murder
The murder of Brian Barrett became one of the most disturbing true crime cases of the early internet age: a deadly online love triangle built on catfishing, fake identities, chatroom deception, jealousy, and obsession. In 2006, 22-year-old Brian Barrett was shot and killed outside Dynabrade Corporation in Clarence, New York, near Buffalo. At first, the murder seemed almost motiveless. Brian was a
Unknown Broadcast | Old-Time Radio Horror Fiction Anthology
Unknown Broadcast presents Old-Time Radio Horror Fiction Anthology, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, ghost lore and supernatural suspense, and murder, disappearance, and investigation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with a full night of horror fiction anthology classics: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and
Late Night Horror: Demons, Cults & Cursed Rituals Anthology
Demons, Satanic cults, and supernatural revenge collide in this horror fiction anthology. A runaway discovers a forbidden book devoted to an imprisoned goddess. A mercenary raids an asylum to film a cult. A cursed man awakens to humiliation and dark magic. Four tales of demonic possession, occult rituals, and vampire mythology—expertly narrated with dark comedy and spine-tingling twists. Perfect l
The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe — Complete Gothic Horror Reading
What could be worse than dying? Waking up after everyone has already buried you. Weekly Spooky presents a complete reading of “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe, a claustrophobic gothic horror story built around one of humanity’s oldest and most terrifying fears: being buried alive. Tormented by a medical condition that can make him appear dead, a man becomes consumed by accounts of prematu
Cartoon Cat Internet Horror: Why Creepypasta Monsters Feel Sinister | Thursday Thrills
Cartoon Cat is one of the creepiest viral horror monsters to crawl out of internet folklore. In this episode of Thursday Thrills, we dive into the Cartoon Cat urban legend, explore its origins in modern internet horror, and talk about why old cartoon imagery feels so unsettling when it turns sinister. From rubber-hose animation and creepy vintage cartoon aesthetics to internet monster lore, creepy
Driving a Truck Can Be a Nightmare, Literally: Cryptid Terror on the Road!
A truck driver’s terrifying nightmare begins coming true in this supernatural highway horror story about prophetic dreams, a demonic roadside creature, and a daughter who knows something is waiting for her father in the dark.After dreaming that a towering monster tears him from his delivery truck and drags him into the woods, an ordinary car-parts driver tries to convince himself it was only a nig
This Week in Horror History | The Blair Witch Goes Viral (July 13–19)
Mid-July horror gets mutated, vengeful, infectious, and lost in the woods in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 13 through July 19. This time, we’re digging into mad-scientist island nightmares, supernatural revenge literature, one extremely angry killer whale, a science-fiction body-horror classic, biological vampires, and the tiny independent movie that change
Terrifying & True | The Taos Hum: Unexplained Low-Frequency Supernatural Noise
The Taos Hum is one of America’s strangest unexplained sound mysteries: a low-frequency noise heard by only a small percentage of people, often described as a distant diesel engine, electrical drone, vibration, or pulsing hum with no visible source. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we investigate the mystery of the Taos Hum in northern New Mexico, where residents including Steve Walters,
Unknown Broadcast | Ghost Ships, Death Cards, Buried Bodies, and Fool’s Gold
Unknown Broadcast presents Ghost Ships, Death Cards, Buried Bodies, and Fool’s Gold, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in ghost lore and supernatural suspense, old-time radio suspense, and murder, disappearance, and investigation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, an
4 Scary Stories: Urban Legends, Cryptids & Cursed Rituals with DEMONS
This Weekly Spooky horror compilation features four terrifying stories packed with urban legends, cryptids, folk horror, haunted forests, cursed rituals, supernatural monsters, dark humor, and deadly Ouija board terror. An Adirondack newcomer encounters the grotesque truth behind a bizarre local legend. A South Carolina teenager steals a stop sign and awakens something inside an abandoned barn. A
Evil Dead Burn Weekend: Demonic Possession, Cursed Books & Hellhound Horror
Cursed objects, demonic possession, and occult rituals dominate this special horror anthology. As Evil Dead Burn hits theaters July 10, Weekly Spooky delivers a full night of original, cinematic-quality scary stories featuring cursed artifacts and supernatural folklore — no movie tie-in, just pure demon-fueled terror. Perfect for horror enthusiasts craving that wild cocktail of dark supernatural c
Siren Head: Cryptid Terror & Distorted Broadcasts | Thursday Thrills
Thursday Thrills traces Siren Head from internet-horror creation to cryptid-style folklore, distorted broadcasts, and modern monster sightings. Tonight on Thursday Thrills, we head into the woods for Siren Head, the internet urban legend that turns emergency sirens, storm warnings, distorted broadcasts, and lonely rural roads into pure nightmare fuel. Created by horror artist Trevor Henderson in 2
Branch Manager: Deep Woods Horror Story & Supernatural Folklore
Three burned-out Toronto telemarketers escape to Algonquin Park, where mutilated wildlife, shredded tents, and something rooted in the forest begins hunting their camp. “Branch Manager” by Gary D up in Ontario, Canada, aka Blue Fire Raging, blends Canadian wilderness horror, supernatural folklore, cryptid terror, body horror, and dark comedy without revealing what is waiting beyond the firelight.
This Week in Horror History | Splatter Films & Supernatural Folklore
Summer horror gets bloody, claustrophobic, cursed, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 6 through July 12. This time, we’re digging into splatter-film history, cursed-camera video games, one of the scariest cave movies ever made, Netflix’s summer-camp slasher revival, Italian zombie cult madness, and the return of the Tall Man. Inside this episode: J
Terrifying & True | The Greenbrier Ghost: A Haunted Murder Mystery
The Greenbrier Ghost is one of the strangest true crime cases in American history: a West Virginia murder trial where testimony about a ghost helped expose the truth. In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her husband, Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue, quickly took control of her body, covered her neck, and helped rush her toward burial before a complete
Unknown Broadcast | Psychic Horror, Living Mannequins, Vanishing Rooms, and Deadly Jealousy
Unknown Broadcast presents Psychic Horror, Living Mannequins, Vanishing Rooms, and Deadly Jealousy, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in murder, disappearance, and investigation, old-time radio suspense, and body horror and transformation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio my
Cannibals & Cursed Ground | Late Night Horror Anthology With Supernatural Revenge
Four terrifying tales of isolation and predation: a waterfall campsite, lonely Ohio highway, Halloween prank, and deserted rest area become hunting grounds for serial killers, cannibals, and shapeshifting monsters. This late night horror anthology blends true crime terror with supernatural revenge and desperate fights for survival—expertly narrated for maximum chills. “Fortune Falls” — by David O’
Summer of the Demon: Complete Horror Audiobook | Cursed Football Jersey & Summer Camp Horror
A cursed football jersey turns a high school star into a monster… and the nightmare follows his rival to summer camp. This full Weekly Spooky horror audiobook collects Friday Night Frights and all five parts of Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields in one complete scary story release. In Friday Night Frights, Greg Branlake is desperate to save his football future after a humiliating loss to Strickfiel
Cryptid Encounters & Deep Woods Horror: Firsthand Park Ranger Accounts | Thursday Thrills
Deep woods horror stories have taken over scary-story feeds for a reason: the wilderness is one of the last places where modern people can still feel completely outmatched. In this Thursday Thrills episode, Henrique takes a late-night car ride through supposedly firsthand camping, hiking, park ranger, cave, and backcountry accounts gathered from online folklore threads. These are not presented as
Summer of the Demon pt 5: Cursed Objects & Football Camp Horror Finale
Cursed football horror reaches its terrifying finale as the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology concludes Summer of the Demon. In Part 5, Eddie Richter, Jessica Branlake, Charlie Thoss, and the surviving players of Camp Red Feather face the final nightmare behind the cursed 00 jersey, the Demon’s return, and the dark secrets that have haunted this deadly summer football camp. The truth behind t
This Week in Horror History | Zombie Apocalypse & Cyberpunk Body Horror
Summer horror gets radioactive, gothic, mechanical, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of June 29 through July 5. This time, we’re crawling through giant insect mayhem, modern gothic literature, Japanese cyberpunk body horror, George A. Romero’s underground zombie apocalypse, and one deeply twisted Italian gothic shocker from the early 1960s. Inside this e
Monthly Spooky | The Pied Piper of Hamelin Mystery: 77 Headless Skeletons & Gracie the Missing Giraffe
What really happened to the children of Hamelin on June 26, 1284? This June on Monthly Spooky, Henrique and Michelle follow the real history behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin—from the medieval town chronicle and the legend of 130 missing children to theories involving plague, the Children’s Crusade, dancing mania, mass migration, and a brightly dressed recruiter known as a “locator.” Then the show
Unknown Broadcast | Werewolf, Wax Museum & Fogbound Murder: Four Classic Radio Mysteries
Werewolf folklore, a wartime wax-museum murder, narcotics intrigue, and a fogbound harbor killing converge in four vintage radio nightmares from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler. “Conspiracy to Defraud” opens the Unknown Broadcast with undercover danger, narcotics agents, and international deception. Every identity is suspect, and the machinery of espionage turns a cri
Late Night Vampire Horror Stories: Bloodsuckers & Urban Legends
Late night horror fiction anthology featuring vampire stories that bite into four different corners of the undead mythos. From a daylight-walking Master Vampire made vulnerable by a solar eclipse, to supernatural romance in a convenience store and brutal strip club slaughter—these vampire horror tales deliver the dark supernatural folklore, mature themes and creature-feature terror that Weekly Spo
6 Hours of Unsolved Murders & Urban Legends: Late Night Horror Deep Dive
Six hours of unsolved murders, disappearances, paranormal reports, and urban legends create an extended late-night horror deep dive. The ten-part collection examines the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, the Keddie Cabin murders, the Mandela Effect, Men in Black encounters, and the Angikuni Lake disappearance alongside other mysteries where evidence, memory, rumor, and folklore collide. It is designe
Was Walt Disney Cryogenically Frozen? The Disneyland Urban Legend | Thursday Thrills
Walt Disney was cremated, not cryogenically frozen—yet the rumor of his body hidden beneath Disneyland has survived for six decades as one of pop culture’s hardiest urban legends. Thursday Thrills begins with the familiar image: a frost-covered chamber beneath Pirates of the Caribbean, where the futurist behind Tomorrowland waits for medicine to conquer death. The details change from teller to tel
Summer of the Demon pt 4: Cursed Objects & Campfire Horror
The cursed 00 jersey grows more dangerous as the horror fiction anthology continues at Camp Red Feather. In Part 4 of Summer of the Demon, Eddie Richter wakes up injured but not defeated, and the battle against the Demon becomes more desperate than ever. After surviving another brutal attack, Eddie realizes the nightmare may have a weakness. But knowing how to fight the Demon and actually survivin
This Week in Horror History | Cult Classics & Body Horror Nightmares — June 22–28
Horror history spirals into paranoia and infection this week—from The Thing's frozen body horror to 28 Days Later's rage-virus chaos, The Omen's cursed bloodline, 1408's haunted hotel nightmare, and Quake's gothic digital terror. Henrique explores how June 22–28 birthed some of horror's most influential outbreak and supernatural films, dissecting what made them landmarks in horror legends and why
Terrifying & True | Brian Shaffer: True Crime Mystery & Bar Disappearance Horror
On spring break 2006, Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer walked into a crowded Columbus bar—and vanished without a trace. Security cameras captured him near the Ugly Tuna Saloon moments before closing, but footage mysteriously never showed him leaving. Explore one of Ohio's most baffling true crime mysteries: the search for answers, theories that haunted the South Campus Gateway, and the sup
Unknown Broadcast | Horror Stories of Lies, Living Wood, Wrong Numbers, and Poisoned Love
Unknown Broadcast presents Horror Stories of Lies, Living Wood, Wrong Numbers, and Poisoned Love, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, love, family, and betrayal, and murder, disappearance, and investigation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Tonight, the signal begins with a rainy road, a frightened son, and a father’s desperate attempt to bury the tr
Babysitter Horror Stories: Serial Killers, Urban Legends, Mad Scientists & Cry Baby Bridge
Four babysitter horror stories turn quiet homes, ringing telephones, bad cousins, secret experiments, and a haunted bridge into deadly traps. The collection includes “Angel and Babysitting,” “The Trouble with Cousins,” “The Babysitter,” and “Cry Baby Bridge.” Serial-killer suspense, mad-science horror, and Strickfield folklore all begin with ordinary responsibilities—and the terrible decisions tha
3 Hours of Scary Serial Killers & Unsolved Murders | True Crime Horror Anthology
True crime horror gets cinematic in this anthology: serial killers, unsolved murders, and supernatural folklore collide as real killers prove darker than horror fiction. Discover how monsters hide using superstition and fear. From farmhouses to dating shows, explore where true crime mystery meets cursed truths—with dark humor and spine-tingling ambiance. Terrifying & True returns with a specia
Bigfoot, Mothman & Chupacabra: How Cryptids Become Hometown Legends | Thursday Thrills
Bigfoot, Mothman, Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie became more than monster stories—they became symbols of the landscapes and communities that claim them. Thursday Thrills takes a dark road trip through cryptid folklore and asks how an unexplained creature becomes a hometown legend. Bigfoot feels inseparable from the wet forests and logging roads of the Pacific Northwest. The Loch Ness Mon
Summer of the Demon pt 3: Cursed Objects & Camp Horror Nightmare
Cursed objects awaken at Camp Red Feather as the horror fiction anthology continues. In Part 3 of Summer of the Demon, Eddie digs deeper into a monstrous curse that claims the camp is hiding dark secrets. The Demon grows stronger, the truth more dangerous, and Eddie realizes: everyone knows something they’re refusing to tell him. How far will he go to uncover what happened that summer? The nightma
This Week in Horror History | Cosmic Nightmares & Gothic Sequels June 15–21
Horror history gets iconic, aquatic, gothic, apocalyptic, and completely unhinged this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 15–21 with motel terror, shark sequels, dark superhero nightmares, zombie blockbuster chaos, and one wild space-vampire cult classic that brings cosmic horror crashing down on Earth. This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horro
Terrifying & True | Highway of Tears: Missing Women & Dark Canadian Lore
Highway 16 in northern British Columbia became known as the Highway of Tears after decades of women and girls—many Indigenous—disappeared along this remote corridor. This episode investigates the true crime horror, unsolved disappearances, and the dark folklore that emerged from tragedy. Explore the real cases, the landscape that enabled them, and how a highway itself became haunted by its history
Unknown Broadcast | Gothic Horror Fiction & Graves, Gallows, Curses
Four eerie tales of gothic horror and betrayal unfold tonight. A desert archaeological dig uncovers fresh horror instead of ancient history. Then Owl Creek Bridge becomes a nightmare of illusion, escape, and doom. Witchcraft, stagecraft, and murder collide in flames and suspicion. Finally, The Whistler arrives with a crime story where the cleverest plan may already be waiting to betray you. Expert
Dark Fantasy Horror Fiction: Witches, Cults & Feral Legends
Supernatural horror stories, creature attacks, dark fantasy nightmares, vampire hunters, witchcraft, death cults, feral forest legends, and occult monster terror collide in this eerie Weekly Spooky compilation built for fans of scary stories, horror fiction, paranormal thrillers, folk horror, supernatural action, dark magic, cannibal legends, and cursed wilderness mysteries. These stories crawl th
Shadow, A Fable by Edgar Allan Poe: Plague, the Dead & Gothic Terror
Seven men hide from a devastating plague when an impossible shadow enters their sealed chamber and speaks in the voices of the dead. Edgar Allan Poe sets this brief Gothic nightmare in the ancient city of Ptolemais during a year of pestilence, when the heavens themselves seem to promise disaster. Inside a room draped in black, the survivors drink deep wine beside the shrouded corpse of their compa
Champ on Camera? Lake Champlain’s Monster & American Lake-Creature Legends | Thursday Thrills
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