Episodes

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 Beaumont could observe human digestion directly. Beginning in 1825, Beaumont tied food to silk thre...

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 storm outside may be safer than the armed standoff within. ⚓ Flood on the Goodwins — A harrowing wart...

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 terrifying supernatural loop when violent turbulence, a grieving old man, and the cries of a dead child lea...

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 setup, haunted-house scares, creepy clown mannequins, cult rumors, basement terror, and the opening-nig...

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 the sun: celestial dragons driven off by drums, the severed immortal head Rahu, the Norse wolves Sk...

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: mothers make milk. Armed with a child’s incomplete understanding and a pair of kitchen scissors, sh...

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, and Vincent Price lurking inside a classic old-dark-house mystery. Inside this episode: August 3, 19...

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, but only 316 of the nearly twelve hundred people aboard survived. For more than three days, the survi...

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, and eerie anthology storytelling from four legendary radio programs: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Es...

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 Pablo Escobar’s infamous cocaine hippos—but the expedition becomes a blood-soaked fight for survi...

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....

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 differences among the seventh lunar month, the Daoist Zhongyuan Festival, Buddhist Yulanpen or Ullambana obse...

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 secret: Romy is a vampire. When Talia unexpectedly returns during Buster’s first year at Strickfield ...

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, a brutal home-invasion trap thriller, and a modern Métis horror novel about a loved one who return...

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, and paranormal stories. Discover the strange history behind one of America's creepiest cursed obje...

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 lineup includes Here Goes the Bride, Ancient Sorceries, The Lord of the Witch Doctors, Mirage, Cat Wif...

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 shopping mall after closing, a bicycle courier risks his life delivering supplies during the zombie apocal...

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 season listening. Henrique is joined by Rachael Redolfi for a spoiler-filled review of director Bobby ...

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 imagined danger in the ocean. The responsible species—and whether one shark or several were involved—remai...

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 a permanent position at the newly constructed Camp Clemente in Puerto Rico, the fresh cabins, tropi...

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-machine apocalypse, and genetically engineered sharks loose inside an underwater laboratory. Insid...

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 college student, athlete, Little League coach, and future teacher with no obvious enemies. But inve...

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 The Whistler. Four eerie stories of supernatural mystery, impossible apparitions, and noir crime sp...

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 late-night horror for spooky season enthusiasts. “Sin” — by Rob Fields A murderous runaway hiding in...