Halloween Episodes
Find your next Halloween listen: original scary stories, haunted places, cryptid encounters and the folklore behind the season. Short on time? Start with The Fair Folk (25 minutes), a dark fairy rescue story. Prefer ghost folklore? Try Terrifying & True: Resurrection Mary (98 minutes), exploring Chicago’s vanishing-hitchhiker legend. Settling in for the night? The Monsters’ Halloween Revue delivers seven fictional scares in 4 hours 57 minutes. Browse the collection below, choose your nightmare and press play.
Sept. 8, 2025
Terrifying & True | Resurrection Mary: Chicago’s Archer Avenue Vanishing Hitchhiker
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 bac...
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Oct. 31, 2024
The Graveyard Shift — Haunted Halloween Radio Broadcast Horror
A Halloween broadcast at WHNT becomes a paranormal emergency when mysterious callers, failing power, and shadowy presences invade the late-night studio. On a fateful Halloween night, the late-night radio crew at WHNT faces an unprecedented broadcast filled with horror stories and supernatural suspense. From mysterious callers to shadowy entities crossing over into reality, this mature-themed story will captivate fans of scary and spooky stories alike. As power flickers and darkness envelops th...
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Oct. 30, 2024
A Halloween Valentine — Scream Queen, Night Realm and Serpent-Goddess Horror
Scream queen Vickie Valentine confronts a Halloween ritual that transforms her screen persona, Veronda, Queen of the Night, into supernatural reality. Follow scream queen Vickie Valentine, known as “Veronda, Queen of the Night,” as she navigates love, fame, and dark supernatural forces that awaken during the spooky season. This mature-themed tale explores love, sacrifice, and ancient monsters hiding behind human faces. Set against haunted houses, film sets, and the eerie backdrop of Halloween ...
Oct. 28, 2024
Monthly Spooky | Evil Hauntings, Dangerous Dolls, and Terrifying Halloween Realities!
Dangerous dolls, racoons attacking, haunted houses and then dive into the reality of terrifying Halloween myths lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. Each segment follows one of the subjects named in Evil Hauntings, Dangerous Dolls, and Terrifying Halloween Realities, moving between real-world oddities, supernatural lore, and horror entertainment. Listeners can move from one uncanny subject to the next without losing the relaxed, curious rhythm that defines Monthly Spooky. Check out Mi...
Oct. 27, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | Murder Castle, Murder Museum & Five More Halloween Radio Nightmares
A serial killer’s death chamber opens seven Halloween radio nightmares about haunted voices, wax murderers, poisoned marriages, and revenge. “Murder Castle” follows Henry Stewart as he lures unattached women with job advertisements, demands a cash surety bond, and hides murder inside a carefully designed home. In “Mind Over Murder,” dry-goods merchant Sam Morrison ignores a violent crime near a bus station, only to have the number 4826 invade his conscience through license plates, a police badg...
Oct. 25, 2024
Introducing Urban Legends | Poisoned Halloween Candy: Panic, Myth and Real Crimes
Trigger Warning: This chapter involves harm to children. In this chapter, we unwrap a notorious urban legend that has cast a sinister shadow over Halloween for decades, 'Poisoned Candy'. Join us as we delve into the origins, fears, and dark reality behind this enduring Halloween myth, exploring how the legend of tainted treats has become a sinister undercurrent of Halloween folklore, examining its roots in real cases and the fears that continue to haunt the holiday. The chapter separates the ...
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Oct. 25, 2024
Retro Halloween Revelations — Death Returns to Strickfield for a Family Reckoning
☠️ Halloween has returned to Strickfield… and so has Death. In Retro Halloween Revelations by Rob Fields, the long-dead Destiny Mirren—now reborn as Saffron Morningside, the new incarnation of Death—comes back to her hometown with her loyal companion Sienna Michaels to run the Strickfield Funeral Home. But when Destiny’s mortal parents arrive to plan a funeral for their “missing” daughter, long-buried sins claw their way out of the grave. 💀 Destiny’s father, Brently Mirren, hides a dark secret...
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Oct. 24, 2024
Never Buy a Halloween Mask from a Yard Sale — A Possessed-Costume Horror Story
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 a...
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Oct. 23, 2024
Dirt Babies — Killer Halloween Crafts and Babysitter Horror
Babysitter Kristin faces a houseful of homicidal ‘dirt babies’ when a child’s grass-growing school craft awakens something buried in grave soil. Set in the heart of spooky season, this mature-themed episode blends horror, 90s nostalgia, and dark humor. From babysitter-in-peril suspense to gruesome creativity, witness crafts grow teeth, eyes, and a taste for blood, creating a true Halloween bloodbath. The “dirt babies” begin as recognizable school crafts: soil-filled figures meant to sprout gra...
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Oct. 19, 2024
Special Halloween Hours — Strickfield Video Night-Shift Monster Horror
Charlee Brewster’s Halloween shift at Strickfield Video becomes a monster siege involving vampires, werewolves, and undead movie fans. This mature-themed tale by Rob Fields follows Charlee Brewster, a tattooed biker girl, as she faces terrifying vampires, snarling werewolves, and undead cinephiles in a wild, blood-soaked night. Filled with 90s nostalgia, snarky humor, and spine-chilling action, this episode delivers a powerful blend of horror stories and mature themes that will keep you on edg...
Oct. 18, 2024
Nine Scary Halloween Stories – Five Hours of Spooky-Season Horror
Sit back and experience the most scary of Halloween horrors from Weekly Spooky in 2023! Over five hours of scary stories to make you keep the lights on! Drawn from Weekly Spooky’s 2023 Halloween programming, the nine-story collection is paced as a feature-length night of audio horror rather than a single repeated premise. The stories move among supernatural suspense, killers, creatures, seasonal rituals, and October settings while allowing every author’s tale to build toward its own reveal. Th...
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Oct. 16, 2024
The Last Carnovasch — Strickfield Carnival Time-Travel Haunting
A funhouse carries Mouse Donnerly, Arial Mirren, and their friends from an abandoned Strickfield carnival into the haunted mystery’s origin in 1955. From the eerie Carnovasch Estate to a suspense-filled showdown in the Hall of Mirrors, this Halloween epic blends haunted carnival legends with time travel mysteries. Ideal for fans of Goosebumps and Stranger Things, this episode delivers all the spooky stories and horror thrills you crave during the spooky season. If you enjoy mature-themed tales...
Oct. 15, 2024
Do You Even Movie? | Scary Movie (1991): John Hawkes Halloween Funhouse Horror-Comedy
A paranoid teenager enters a Texas Halloween funhouse while an escaped killer may be hiding among the performers and props in Scary Movie (1991). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Daniel Erickson’s underseen horror comedy, John Hawkes’s early performance, regional production, hangout atmosphere, and the twist that keeps staged and real danger in conflict. Daniel Erickson’s film is not the later parody franchise. Its anxious teenager enters a Texas Halloween attraction while news of an es...
Oct. 11, 2024
Twelve Halloween Horror Stories – A 2021–2022 Terror Marathon
Kick back and experience the best of Halloween horrors from Weekly Spooky in 2021 and 2022! Over five hours of scary stories to keep you on the edge of your seat! Built as a longer listening session, Twelve Halloween Horror Stories combines Halloween horror, supernatural suspense, and narrated horror while allowing every story to keep its own threat and payoff. This collection reaches across Weekly Spooky’s 2021 and 2022 Halloween seasons, bringing twelve complete stories into one extended pro...
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Oct. 10, 2024
The Strickfield Slasher: A Cursed VHS Brings a Forgotten Killer to Life
A rare VHS copy of The Strickfield Slasher turns Halloween movie night into a fight against the killer trapped inside its black-and-white frames. While shopping at Strickfield Towne Centre Mall on Halloween, college student Briana discovers Tinker’s oddities shop and a supposedly lost local horror film. The movie began in 1971 as a student production shot at the already-haunted Grimm Manor. Its actor, Scott Meade, took the role of the cleaver-wielding Strickfield Slasher far too seriously—and t...
Oct. 8, 2024
Do You Even Movie? | Trick (2019): Halloween Slasher with Omar Epps and Tom Atkins
Detective Mike Denver pursues the apparently unstoppable Patrick ‘Trick’ Weaver through repeated Halloween massacres in the 2019 slasher Trick. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Patrick Lussier’s direction, Omar Epps, Tom Atkins, Jamie Kennedy, the relentless kills, shifting identity clues, and the film’s commitment to Halloween atmosphere. The film follows Detective Mike Denver across repeated Halloween attacks attributed to the apparently unstoppable Patrick “Trick” Weaver. Its escalat...
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Oct. 5, 2024
I Went on a Halloween Hiking Trip with My Friends. My Reading Light Saved My Life.
A Halloween camping prank becomes real wilderness terror when a monster-mask joke gives way to a towering creature hunting four friends through the forest. The narrator expects an easy October 30 hiking trip with Jolene, Dawn, and Rose: a quiet state-park campsite, a stack of books, and Halloween fun far from home. A new neck-worn reading light is just a convenient way to keep reading after dark. Jolene’s monster-mask ambush also seems harmless—especially when it inspires a plan to frighten the...
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Oct. 4, 2024
Never Enter the Old Corn Maze on Halloween — A Living Labyrinth Horror Story
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: ht...
Oct. 3, 2024
Six Shocking Halloween Stories – A Full Night of Seasonal Terror
Kick back and experience the creepy creation of a Halloween tradition as you hear SIX tales of horrors and fear that all take place on Halloween! Halloween is not simply decorative here: each of the six stories takes place during the holiday, using its costumes, rituals, darkness, and lowered defenses as part of the danger. The collection explores how celebration can disguise a threat and how familiar October traditions change once the impossible becomes real. The anthology format gives listen...
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Oct. 2, 2024
Erasure: A Cursed VHS That Makes People Disappear on Halloween
Seven-year-old Joey helps rent a forbidden horror movie on Halloween and discovers a cursed VHS capable of erasing people from existence. Joey only wants time with his older brother Chris, but Chris and his friend Mack have another plan: switch the tape for the R-rated “Flesh of the Android” into an innocent case and fool Mr. Binford at the neighborhood video store. The scheme works, the boys settle in for a Halloween movie night, and the static hiding inside the cassette proves far more danger...
Feb. 19, 2024
Gloverville: Children Uncover Their Neighbors’ Monstrous Hunger – Best of 2023
Days before Halloween 1982, Charlie and Niecy investigate screams next door and learn why young Libby must sleep outside when her parents get hungry. Ten-year-old Charlie Banks lives with his formidable grandmother, Louise “Mama Lou” Corley, on Oak Street in Gloverville, South Carolina. His best friend Denise “Niecy” Watkins lives across the road. Mama Lou repeatedly warns them to stay away from Tommy and Betty Reynolds—the “creeps” next door—and from their dirt-streaked daughter, Libby. The c...
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Jan. 3, 2024
Homecoming Queen Killer Part 1 of 5 — Loralee Hardy Rises from the Grave
Loralee Hardy, Strickfield’s Prom Queen Killer, rises from her grave during a Halloween-season resurrection ritual and begins a deadly new romance. A group of Shore City East students visits Loralee’s vandalized grave on a stormy October night. When goth teenager Melisande LaPalla recites a black-magic spell, the corpse below them regenerates. Loralee escapes her coffin with supernatural strength, kills one of the students, and follows Melisande home—where her violent idea of protecting the gir...
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Oct. 31, 2023
Inbetween: A Halloween Hospital, Spider-Crab Monsters & the World Beyond
Ruby Salazar falls asleep after a Halloween ultrasound and awakens in an abandoned hospital trapped between worlds with a six-eyed spider-crab hunting her. The clocks repeat the same minute, the phones carry only static, and smoke hides whatever waits outside. Ruby escapes the locked ultrasound wing through the ceiling, only to find wrecked corridors and a creature with armored legs, clicking mandibles, and six red eyes. Arrows scrawled on the walls lead her toward the basement rather than safe...
Oct. 30, 2023
Monthly Spooky | Extreme Haunted Houses, Killer Rides & Halloween in 1914
An extreme haunted house no one can finish leads a Halloween Monthly Spooky featuring trapped thrill riders and wonderfully strange party advice from 1914. How terrifying can a modern haunt become before entertainment turns into endurance? What happens when an amusement-park ride leaves its passengers suspended upside down? The crypt conversation explores both nightmares, then opens a century-old guide to throwing the best Halloween party imaginable—at least by 1914 standards. This seasonal ro...