Scary Fiction Episodes

Unknown Broadcast presents Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Fate, Ghosts, Mystery, and Justice, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in ghost lore and supernatural suspense, old-time radio suspense, and revenge and supernatural justice and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, ghostly encounters, occult dread, and fatal justice. This week’s tr...

Witchcraft, folk horror, Satanic Panic terror, cursed small towns, undead nightmares, and occult evil come together in this dark and eerie Weekly Spooky compilation. Tonight’s lineup drags you through the fever dream of 1984 Satanic Panic paranoia, into the misty woods of cosmic folk horror, through a witch-haunted bed and breakfast, and finally into a grand old home where piano lessons become something far more sinister. These are stories of hidden covens, hungry gods, cursed families, and the...

A lonely ice fishing hut, a brutal Ontario snowstorm, and a series of slow, deliberate knocks at the door in the dead of night — tonight’s Weekly Spooky episode delivers a deeply unsettling true scary story about isolation, fear, and the kind of experience that refuses to make sense long after the sun comes up. If you love true horror stories, creepy wilderness encounters, paranormal mysteries, strange campfire tales, and stories about being trapped alone in the dark while something waits outsi...

Unknown Broadcast presents Four Vintage Tales of Family Ruin, Wartime Espionage, Mad Science, and a Strange Little V…, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, love, family, and betrayal, and ghost lore and supernatural suspense and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio drama, eerie mystery anthologies, and dark audio storytelling slipped loose from the stati...

Ghost stories, werewolves, zombies, haunted houses, and small-town horror collide in this creepy collection of four scary stories packed with eerie legends, supernatural terror, and backwoods nightmares. Tonight’s lineup drags you through cursed water, alien chaos, full-moon bloodshed, and one deeply wrong house that should have been left alone. These stories all share that perfect campfire-horror feeling: ordinary people, local legends, and one terrible night where everything goes bad. • The ...

An April Fools’ prank turns lethal when the joke creates consequences its perpetrators cannot dismiss or escape. Looking for the perfect April Fools Day horror story? Tonight on Weekly Spooky, a skeptical researcher chasing mysterious ley lines, haunted roads, and strange energy finds himself lured to a remote castle where nothing is what it seems. What begins like a campy gothic prank quickly spirals into a bizarre night of vampires, werewolves, dark comedy, and supernatural terror. This cree...

Unknown Broadcast presents Four Old-Time Radio Stories of Fear, Deception, and Doom, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, ghost lore and supernatural suspense, and folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, and eerie anthology drama slipping out of the dark and into your speakers. This week’s transmission d...

AI horror, demonic deals, graveyard horror, undead revenge, and creepy psychological terror collide in this Ides of March installment from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast. In this episode, a writer discovers that artificial intelligence can become something far more invasive—and far more dangerous—than a helpful tool. A deadly mistake on a dark road spirals into an occult revenge nightmare that refuses to stay buried. A promising night out twists into a demonic first date from hell, where desi...

Black cat curse horror collides with carnival horror, fortune teller terror, and a brutal supernatural revenge story in tonight’s nightmare from Weekly Spooky. When a reckless young woman ignores a warning at a county fair, she triggers a chain of bad luck deaths, fiery disaster, and a curse that turns every crossed path into a death sentence. What starts as a wild night of lust and attitude spirals into a vicious tale of killer bad luck, occult punishment, and a woman trapped inside a living n...

Unknown Broadcast leaks once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories in its teeth and insisting they are perfectly harmless. Tonight’s signal wanders through reincarnation and resentment, jungle danger and false names, poison and polite suburban dread, and finally a grim little reckoning delivered by The Whistler himself. If you came seeking classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, gothic mystery, and those deliciously strange old broadcasts that sound a...

The Ides of March isn’t just betrayal—it’s the moment the universe decides you’ve had it too easy. In this compilation of scary horror stories, we go from demonic possession and hellish bargains to occult curses, bloody pentagrams, and a revenge trail that crawls straight out of the old world and into something far worse. In this episode (in order): • “Academia Demonia” — by David O’Hanlon A school day goes wrong in the most unholy way—shadows lengthen, bodies move wrong, and something ancient...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Lionizing follows a young celebrity whose absurd rise through fashionable society depends on his consuming fascination with noses. Lionizing — by Edgar Allan Poe Poe frames social ambition as an escalating absurdity: expertise becomes fashion, fashion becomes celebrity, and celebrity creates its own brutal etiquette. The humor is broad, but the target is precise—the public’s willingness to confuse novelty with achievement and reputation with character. Read as macabre satire ...

A scary phone number horror story, technology thriller, and psychological nightmare collide in tonight’s chilling episode. In Boredom can be Deadly, a bored man sitting in a bathroom stall makes one tiny mistake: he calls a strange number scribbled on the wall. What answers isn’t a prank, a wrong number, or a joke — it’s the beginning of a deadly game involving mind-reading phones, secret surveillance, manipulation, murder, and a terrifying conspiracy hiding in plain sight. What starts as curio...

Unknown Broadcast drifts back through the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories, and I do hope you’ve left the door unlatched. Tonight’s signal carries phantom fingers across piano keys, ancient Egypt breathing through a cursed relic, a rain-soaked household trying to keep murder in the family, and a final little lesson in debt, guilt, and the sort of arithmetic that is never settled in ledgers alone. Classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, supernatural mystery, gothic ...

The Ides of March isn’t just a date—it’s a warning. In this compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, four stories turn bad choices into worse consequences: a cursed swamp legend that crawls out of the mud, a predator’s idea of “conservation,” a feast where the menu fights back, and an alarm clock that wakes up way more than you. In this episode (in order): • “Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp” — by David O’Hanlon • “Stay Hungry” — by David O’Hanlon • “You Are What You Eat” — by Robert Fiel...

A cryptid horror story, monster encounter, and backroads nightmare collide in this brutal episode of horror fiction. What starts as a drunken party and a terrible decision spirals into a terrifying creature attack deep in the countryside, where the roads are dark, the fields feel endless, and something inhuman is hunting just beyond the farmhouse door. After a blackout leaves one man stranded in a freezing pasture, he pieces together a night of drug use, lost time, rural paranoia, and cryptid t...

Unknown Broadcast presents Ghosts, Curses, and Deadly Secrets, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in ghost lore and supernatural suspense, folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions, and old-time radio suspense and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns, creeping once more through the cracks in the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories carried in on grief, blood, confession, and candlelight. Tonight’s transmission wanders through classic O...

Ides of March horror stories are all about the moment trust breaks—and someone decides to settle the score. In this March compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, four tales spiral from small-town cruelty to wilderness terror, from viral fame to blood-soaked karma, and from a lonely highway to something not quite human waiting in the dark. In this episode (in order): • Hell Hath No Fury — by Aaron Michael Cook A perfect evening curdles into humiliation and rage—until payback arrives ...

Vampire horror story meets supernatural thriller in this scary story of a daylight predator and a mother-daughter escape that turns into a high-speed chase. When Madelyne “Maddy” Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, panic hits fast—because the monster from last winter is back, and she’s moving like she already knows who she wants. What follows is mall horror, small-town dread, and a desperate run for safety as buried family secrets start clawing their way to the surfac...

Unknown Broadcast is your strange little frequency of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery—the kind of signal that crackles with laughter one second and turns cold the next. Tune the dial just a hair too far…and you’ll catch the stories that weren’t meant to survive the night. Tonight’s broadcast drifts from absurd crime to buried dread, from cursed good fortune to open-water peril—four classic radio tales where greed, fear, and bad timing all make the ...

Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories and mystery tales—a bingeable gothic anthology packed with macabre suspense, dark humor, revenge, and one of the most famous detective stories ever written. If you’re searching for Edgar Allan Poe short stories, classic horror, Victorian gothic, old-time spooky literature, or a murder mystery with a locked-room vibe, this compilation is built for you. Inside this episode (in order): • Manuscript Found in a Bottle — a nightmare voyage into storm, fog, and ...

Ice fishing turns into a frozen-lake nightmare in this chilling winter horror tale. A widower heads out onto thick, steel-strong ice for a quiet day on the lake—testing every step like his grandpa taught him—until the silence becomes unnatural, the surface starts to crack, and something black and slick glides beneath his fishing hole. What begins as a peaceful survival routine spirals into supernatural terror tied to old local secrets: an abandoned lakeside development, whispers of missing chil...

Unknown Broadcast presents Signals from the Dead Air, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, revenge and supernatural justice, and folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast slips into the Weekly Spooky feed again—bringing old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery that feels like you found a station you were never meant to tune in. Tonight’s signal carries four tal...

Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories—gothic terror, madness, murder, and psychological dread—all in one chilling anthology. Inside this episode: • The Black Cat — a confession soaked in alcohol-fueled violence, guilt, and the uncanny feeling that something is watching from the dark. • Morella — grief, identity, and a haunting that crawls into the heart of a family and refuses to let go. • The Cask of Amontillado — Poe’s coldest revenge tale: a smiling invitation, a wine cellar, and a final b...