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Oct. 12, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Scary Horror Stories for the Spooky Season

It's time for horror stories! When the clock forgets your name, my dear, the night remembers. In this episode of Unknown Broadcast, we summon six chilling old-time radio horror stories—tales of cursed strangers, haunted houses, ghost makers, and books that bleed. These macabre fictions echo the golden age of radio—dark, vintage, and unforgettable. 👴 A Very Old Man — A kindly stranger wanders in from the cold… but time clings to him like grave-moss. Every kindness here has a cost. 🌘 A Terrible ...
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Oct. 11, 2025

One Fateful Halloween: A Terrifying Horror Story of Cursed Rings and Nightmares

Dive into a haunting Halloween tale as Halloween turns to horror in this chilling story! When a rebellious teen steals a mysterious glowing pumpkin ring from a strange shop in Strickfield, she unleashes a Halloween curse that drags her into a...
Oct. 10, 2025

Cutting Deep into Horror | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Wes Craven’s Slasher Masterpiece with Freddy Krueger

Halloween watchlist essential! We sink our claws into one of the most iconic horror films ever made: Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Freddy Krueger’s terrifying debut, exploring how this razor-fingered dream stalker redefined the slasher genre and haunted a generation of horror fans. Inside this episode, Henrique and Rachael share their first encounters with the film—late-night VHS terrors and the exhilaration of discovering ...
Oct. 9, 2025

Feed Drop: Urban Legends — The Satanic Panic (True Crime History)

True Halloween Horrors for your Spooky Season! In this chapter, let's delve into the urban legends that brought forward what is now known as 'The Satanic Panic‘, from the first sensational cases and flawed investigations to the media frenzy and...
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Oct. 9, 2025

Halloween Blood Hunt: Spine-Chilling Vampire Horror for Spooky Season

Looking for a terrifying Halloween horror story? An ancient vampire rises again to feed during Halloween week in Ohio. When Countess Elizabeth Bathory—the infamous Blood Countess—returns from the grave, a night of trick-or-treating turns into a...
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Oct. 8, 2025

Halloween Cannibal Killer — Modern Tastes (Horror Novella)

It's Halloween time and our latest scary story dives into a cannibal killer who hunts his victims, blending horror with a chilling culinary obsession.' When a devoted husband vanishes during his evening run, his wife Cora refuses to accept the police’s easy answers. Her desperate search pulls her into a nightmare of blood, muscle, and madness—where primal hunger meets the modern world. Alongside a reluctant gym bro named Troy, Cora uncovers a horrifying truth about the man stalking her town… a...
Oct. 7, 2025

9 Scary Halloween Stories — Headless Riders & Haunted Towns

It’s Spooky Season—prime time for a wall-to-wall Halloween horror binge. This full audio compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast packs 9 scary stories of monsters, urban legends, ghostly vengeance, and October-night mayhem. Hit play for a cinematic mix of pumpkin curses, headless riders, haunted towns, and parties from hell—perfect for late-night listening, trick-or-treat routes, or fall drives. What’s inside (in order): Mischief Night: The Halloween Invasion — Shane Migliavacca: A to...
Oct. 6, 2025

Terrifying & True | The Funhouse Mummy: Elmer McCurdy's Horrifying Tale This Halloween

This Halloween, jump into the eerie tale of Elmer McCurdy—a true crime deep dive into urban legends and America’s carnival underbelly. In 1976, a seemingly innocuous Halloween haunt took a terrifying turn when a “mannequin” on a Long Beach dark ride wasn’t a prop—it was a real human corpse. In 1976, a TV crew at The Pike’s Laff in the Dark discovered human bone after a stunt arm snapped. Forensics exposed arsenic embalming, a copper bullet jacket, and a 1924 penny with old carnival tickets—bread...
Oct. 5, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Gavel, Greed & the Web: Six Horror Stories of Knives, Goblets, and Guilt

Old-Time Radio (OTR) horror anthology featuring CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out, Murder at Midnight, Suspense, and The Whistler—six restored classics in one episode for fans of vintage radio drama, noir thrillers, and classic horror stories. Gather close, my dear. The dial warms, the room cools, and the old ghosts speak. ⚖️ Guilty as Charged (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, by G. Frederick Lewis) — A wrongful accusation tightens like a noose as the justice system hisses for blood. 💰🌊 ...
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Oct. 4, 2025

AIDS Mary: Patient Zero — A Halloween Urban Legend Scary Story

Halloween turns an urban legend into a living nightmare. This scary, feature-length horror story follows a dying teen who enters an experimental trial—then a violent assault twists a cure into something new. The whispers name her AIDS Mary, a lipstick-leaving shadow who walks frat houses and midnight streets, where mirrors fog with warningsand victims fade in days. If you crave Halloween horror stories and spooky stories with mature themes, this one hits like a rumor you wish you’d never heard...
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Oct. 3, 2025

Sickle Jack, the Harvester of Souls - Halloween Horrors

Halloween is here—and so are the scary horror stories you crave. Tonight’s nightmare follows four boys on BMX bikes through spooky season mayhem: a house party gone wrong, a sinister scavenger hunt, and the legend of a pumpkin-headed scarecrow who...
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Oct. 2, 2025

In the Witch House Walls - A Haunted House Halloween Horror Story

Experience the chilling haunt at a renovated funeral parlor this Halloween! Tonight’s feature-length episode delivers one of the season’s darkest scary stories, steeped in haunted house chills and mature themes. When Freddy and Odalys try to turn an...
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Oct. 1, 2025

Madelyne’s Revenge — A Halloween Vampire Horror Story

For your spooky season! Halloween scary stories, vampire battles, supernatural showdowns, and long, immersive horror podcasts, this feature-length nightmare is for you. Kick off 31 Days of Halloween with a Full-Length Horror Story that drips with blood, fangs, and supernatural terror. Madelyne’s Revenge unleashes vampires, monsters, and a spider-girl heroine in a battle that could decide the fate of an entire town. Felicia Bates thought her spider’s strength could protect her family… until the...
Sept. 30, 2025

Halloween Horrors: 11 Urban Legends & Scary Tales for Spooky Season

Dive into scary Halloween stories with our bingeable horror anthology featuring 11 chilling tales perfect for October nights. Discover spooky stories that explore everything from small-town mischief and cursed pumpkin spice to retro drive-in frights and eerie waterpark terror. Press play and let the jack-o’-lantern glow transform your experience this spooky season. In this episode (in order): Mischief Night — Shane Migliavacca — Pranks and vandalism give way to something meaner in the dark, whe...
Sept. 29, 2025

Monthly Spooky | Halloween Origins: Samhain, Trick-or-Treat & Jack-O’-Lanterns

Discover the eerie origins of Halloween from Samhain rituals to modern trick-or-treating! Kick off spooky season with Monthly Spooky as we uncover the origins of Halloween—from ancient Samhain rites to the folklore behind trick-or-treat,...
Sept. 28, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Four Horror Stories of Paranoia, Blind Voyages, and a Cursed Tree

Come closer, my dear. Tonight the glass trembles, the sea goes sightless, and a tree learns your name. We’ll drink, we’ll listen, and we’ll see what answers when we call out in the dark. 🍷 A Drink with Dionysius — A small-time schemer toasts his luck and finds a warhead at the bottom of the bottle. Greed, old flames, and the kind of deal that stains the soul. 😱 Terror Stricken (The Whistler) — Fear begins as a whisper and ends as gangrene. Paranoia swells until every heartbeat sounds like a ve...
Sept. 26, 2025

Cutting Deep into Horror | The Evil Dead (1981) Sam Raimi’s Scariest Film Deep Dive

A Cornerstone of Horror Cinema! Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi cut deep into Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981)—the raw, relentless, cabin-in-the-woods classic that jump-started a whole splatter language. We unpack how Raimi’s scrappy camera...
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Sept. 24, 2025

The Old Man with the Red Bicycle - A Scary Campground Slasher Story

Looking for a slasher story that cuts deep? This Weekly Spooky episode drags you straight into the woods, where an innocent boys’ camping trip becomes a fight for survival. At the abandoned North Fork campground, an old drifter on a battered red bicycle stalks the trails with booby traps, bear snares, and a machete sharp enough to end the night. Bottle rockets and s’mores quickly give way to razor-wire, pitfall spikes, and the kind of forest terror that feels all too real. If you love slasher h...
Sept. 22, 2025

Terrifying & True | Urban Legends of Spook Hollow: Ghost Stories from America’s Haunted Roads

Halloween 2025 is a week away—perfect time for true ghost stories about America’s haunted backroads. This Terrifying & True deep dive uncovers the nationwide pattern behind one eerie place-name: Spook Hollow. We track the Dutch origin of “spook,” the Appalachian meaning of “hollow,” and how frontier fear spawned murdered-peddler tales, haunted bridges, cemetery guardians, and roadside apparitions—prime Halloween podcast listening for fans of paranormal folklore and haunted places. Inside this e...
Sept. 21, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Greed, Guilt & the Black Curtain: Four Horror Stories of Money, Murder, and Memory Loss

Welcome back, my dear. Tonight we slip past the velvet edge where conscience and consequence share a heartbeat. Greed calls from the deep; a confession rots in the light; a noir mind stumbles behind the curtain; and summer itself says farewell with a ghost’s restraint. 💔 You Can Die Again — A remorseful man confesses to murder, but his story frays under questioning, memory unspooling like thread in a dark room. (Written for radio by Sam Dan; original cast includes Richard Mulligan.) 💰🌊 Money M...
Sept. 19, 2025

Cutting Deep into Horror | Event Horizon (1997) — Haunted Spaceship, Hell Clues & Ending Explained

“Cutting Deep into Horror” dives headfirst into Paul W.S. Anderson’s cult-classic sci-fi horror Event Horizon (1997). Hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi unpack how a “haunted house in space” premise, Catholic-guilt undertones, and that infamous “I don’t need eyes to see” line still rattle nerves. We track the film’s bomb-then-cult trajectory, the ‘90s horror landscape post-Scream, and why the movie’s gothic production design and jump scares work because they reveal character, not just becaus...
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Sept. 17, 2025

A New Beginning: Demon Princess of Hell Arrives

Welcome to Weekly Spooky, the horror podcast that brings you chilling scary stories, supernatural encounters, and dark urban legends every week! In this terrifying new tale, horror author Rob Fields takes us deep into the haunted town of Strickfield. When Lucibella Taibon, Elder Princess of Hell, crosses through Ravenhenge into the mortal world, the summer heat feels like Heaven compared to the firestorm she carries inside. Her mission: protect Eileen Donnerly from a brutal revenge plot that th...
Sept. 15, 2025

Terrifying & True | The Acid King Murder: Ricky Kasso, Satanic Panic, and the Killing of Gary Lauwers

On July 4, 1984, police dogs uncovered a shallow grave in the quiet town of Northport, Long Island. Inside lay the mutilated body of 17-year-old Gary Lauwers—stabbed more than 30 times in a drug-fueled frenzy by his friend Ricky “The Acid King” Kasso. Within days, the story became national news, sparking headlines of Satanic sacrifice and cementing Kasso as the terrifying face of America’s 1980s Satanic Panic. But was this really the work of a Satanic cult, or simply the grim fallout of teenage...
Sept. 14, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Dark Destinies and Long Nights: Five Horror Stories of Death and Fate

My dear, the night is a ledger—debits in blood, credits in whispers. Stars tilt the scale, luck frays at the edge, and footsteps in the dark always find their way to a door you don’t want to open. Tonight, five vintage radio chillers trace the thin line between chance and destiny—perfect for fans of classic old-time radio anthologies and atmospheric suspense. ✨ Death in the Stars A ruthless horoscope foretells the end for a powerful matriarch. Pride meets prophecy as ambition, family, and fate...