Episodes

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, ...

Monthly Spooky traces Halloween through Samhain, souling, guising, carved turnips, trick-or-treating, bonfires, bats, and harvest divination. 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, jack-o’-lanterns (yes, turnips first!), towering bonfires, and why bats became icons of the night. We connect old-world customs to the traditions you love today, separating myth from history so you can sound s...

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 ...

The Evil Dead (1981) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. 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 attacks, Tom Sullivan’s gnarly makeup/stop-motion, and Bruce Campbell’s live-wire performa...

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...

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...

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.) - 💰🌊 Mone...

Event Horizon (1997) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. “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-...

A New Beginning sends Lucibella Taibon, an Elder Princess of Hell, through Ravenhenge into Strickfield to protect Eileen Donnerly from a brutal revenge plot. What follows is a dark urban fantasy thriller of supernatural horror—bullies who discover the true meaning of fear, a muscle car crushed against an immovable force, and a vampire matriarch who restores forbidden memories. Between cheerleader uniforms, hellfire judgment, and time-bending curses, Strickfield becomes the battleground of demon...

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...

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 ✨ Death in the Stars A ruthless horoscope foretells the end for a powerful matriarch. Pride meets prophecy as ambition, family, and fate collide on Mystery Theater (written by Ian Martin, starring Kim Hunter). 🌙 The ...

Fire in the Sky (1993) explained — the chilling alien-abduction film based on Travis Walton’s true story. On Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down why the UFO sequence still shocks, how director Robert Lieberman builds dread, and where movie dramatization diverges from the real Arizona logging-crew case. We compare the film to Walton’s account, spotlight the cast (D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, James Garner), and dig into small-town paranoia, survivor trau...

Summer, 1984—at the height of the Satanic Panic. Ricky is a motor-mouthed teen who wants proof the Devil is listening. In a moonlit patch of woods, a dare turns into a ritual and a killing. What follows is darker: Ricky props the body in a lawn chair with sunglasses, invites classmates to look, and turns terror into spectacle—boombox hissing, insects buzzing, and bravado curdling into dread as word spreads and the cops close in. This isn’t a true-crime retelling; it’s a brutal horror story stee...

Resurrection Mary is Chicago’s most famous ghost—and one of America’s most chilling vanishing hitchhiker legends. For nearly a century, terrified drivers on Archer Avenue have reported picking up a mysterious young woman in white… only for her to vanish near Resurrection Cemetery. In this deep dive, we unravel the true story behind the ghost: a chilling mix of paranormal sightings, tragic deaths, and urban legends that span decades. Who was Resurrection Mary? Was she a real woman—like Mary Breg...

My dear, the dial glows in a dark room where classic old-time radio horror breathes again—vintage OTR suspense, murder mystery, and supernatural dread from the golden age of radio drama. 🌫️ Terror on the Heath A moor-side reincarnation riddle from the vintage radio vault—identity, obsession, and a past-life murder mystery that won’t stay buried (hosted by E. G. Marshall). 🚂 Journey into Fear Eric Ambler’s espionage thriller from Escape (CBS): a hunted man flees Istanbul by night train as an as...

Here come the lights, the laughter… and the dread. “Fairground Frights” is a bumper-pack of seven horror stories from Weekly Spooky that turns the carnival midway into a gauntlet of cursed curios, vengeful spirits, and wishes you’ll regret the second you make them. Step into a clown’s funeral where the punchline won’t stay buried. Duck into a toy store after dark, where smiling dolls sharpen their grins. Beat an unbeatable arcade cabinet that might be playing you. Get lost in a mansion’s velvet-...

In the rain-soaked woods below Knocknarea in Sligo, Ireland, a man raised human but born fae bargains with the Fair Folk to save his unborn child. Armed with “cold iron” bullets, a stolen sprite, and a prophecy learned from a carnival crone’s mirror, he confronts an emerald pillar of flame and an ancient court that claims his bloodline. Irish folklore collides with modern terror as love, identity, and iron lore decide the fate of a family. Expect changelings, eerie glens, moss-slick boulders, a...

On a sweltering July night in 1966, Richard Speck forced his way into a South Side Chicago townhouse filled with young student nurses. By morning, eight women were dead—strangled, stabbed, and terrorized in what became known as the Chicago Nurse Massacre. Only one survivor lived to tell the tale, her testimony etching this crime into history. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we unravel the story of Richard Speck—his violent past in Texas, the night of horror that gripped Chicago, the frant...

My dear, the walls around us are never as silent as they seem. Beneath the earth, behind locked doors, even within painted frames—there are whispers waiting to be heard, and horrors waiting to be seen. Tonight, we descend into five tales where stone, sea, and shadow conceal unspeakable truths… and where murder leaves its mark in the most unexpected places. 🕳️ The Thing in the Cave Deep underground, something stirs. And once it finds you, the dark will never let you go. 👊 The Brute There are m...

The bell has rung, spookies… and tonight’s lesson is terror. Weekly Spooky presents eight chilling horror stories that turn classrooms, hallways, and campuses into places of fear: - The Chain of Time by Killian Crane — A strange artifact traps its victims in an endless cycle of dread. - Suspended by Rob Fields — A punishment twists into supernatural terror when discipline goes too far. - A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay by Jeff Carpenter — By the shoreline, love and loss drown in something darker. - ...

Academia Demonia begins with a 1925 Chicago hitman’s curse—and erupts a century later when the first day at a small-town high school descends into demonic possession. Shadows walk without bodies, students cling to ceilings, phones glitch, Latin growls through the halls, and a serpent of sulfur chooses its host. Chelsea Rizzoli just wants to survive the bell. Ethan Crow is gripping a Winchester, and something ancient is steering his hands. Before the doors open to parents and buses, a century-o...

This month on Monthly Spooky, we investigate the unsolved 1978 Yuba County Five disappearance in Northern California—four friends found under tragic, baffling circumstances and the enduring question of Gary Mathias. Was it panic, hypothermia, or something far stranger? This true crime deep dive unpacks the case, the clues, and the most credible theories. You’ll also hear fresh spooky news and curiosities: - Erin Patterson update on the Death Cap mushroom poisoning case in Australia - Venomous s...

My dear, the word killer carries a weight that chills the marrow. But killers are never the same—some hide in plain sight, some return when least expected, and others linger like a shadow you can’t escape. Tonight, we descend into five tales where death is not only a fact… but a calling. 🩸 The Killer Inside Sometimes the sharpest blade is hidden in the quietest heart. 🕰️ Strange for a Killer He doesn’t move with reason, nor strike with mercy. There’s nothing stranger than a predator who kills...

This Weekly Spooky feed drop introduces They’re Not Shadows, a campfire-style podcast built from allegedly true ghost encounters and paranormal testimony. This week, we’re sharing a special episode from one of our favorite spooky storytelling shows: They’re Not Shadows. Every episode delivers a mix of real paranormal stories—ghostly encounters, supernatural creatures, creepy shadow people, and more—all told in a gripping, campfire-style format. No chit-chat, no fluff—just story after eerie sto...