Episodes

Unknown Broadcast welcomes the new year with four complete old-time radio thrillers about identity, dystopian futures, atomic-age monsters, and a midnight impersonation that becomes a murder trap. Each story asks what happens when tomorrow arrives carrying a life you no longer recognize. Inside this episode: • New Year’s Nightmare — As 1947 begins, hard-drinking Chris Andrews awakens in another home, beside another woman, and is told he is actually Charles Arnold. Memory loss, a second marriage,...

5 New Year’s Horror Stories brings together a complete horror collection shaped by ghost lore and supernatural suspense, cryptid and creature horror, and zombie and undead horror, with each included story retaining its own premise and identity. Tonight, we journey into the heart of darkness with your hauntingly mesmerizing host and narrator, Henrique Couto, as we celebrate five years of spine-chilling stories that tantalize and terrify. In this very special year-end episode, Henrique expresses ...

Jack Scratch presents two Christmas horror stories about cursed generosity and ghostly carolers who deliver supernatural judgment to guilty homes. In “The Gift,” a family’s annual Christmas Eve present becomes an ancient lacquered box wrapped in images of a horned Santa and skeletal reindeer. The object changes what it contains for each person who touches it, offering the lost keepsake, desire, or secret wish that will tempt them most. What looks like a perfect gift turns affection into competi...

An evil vampire version of Madelyne Donnerly crosses into Strickfield’s universe and kidnaps Anneliese Mirren to turn Christmas into a battle for power and survival. Bella Taibon and Eileen Donnerly have encountered the vampire universe before, but this arrival is different. Madelyne is now grown, predatory, and bored enough to manufacture chaos for pleasure. She begins by taking Anneliese, the estranged older sister of Felicia Mirren, and drawing the people who will come for her into the Backw...

Rhea Auman flees a Strickfield Christmas party with a killer hidden in her back seat while another driver flashes high beams to keep her alive. Rhea attends Brighton Mirren’s gathering on Pleasant Valley Road because she hates being alone. The party exposes romantic betrayals and draws Jack Rosemont, a violent man convinced that Rhea deserves punishment for breaking hearts. When the evening erupts, she escapes to her car believing the immediate danger is behind her. On the dark road home, a tr...

Unknown Broadcast celebrates the dark side of Christmas with five complete old-time radio stories filled with snowbound roads, fugitives, haunted gifts, buried secrets, and second sight. Warm lights and family reunions sit beside ghost towns, murder, deception, and supernatural inheritance in this holiday horror marathon. Inside this episode: • A Holiday Visit — Joan and Skip Bartram drive through an Ohio snowstorm on their way to a long-awaited family Christmas. An unmarked detour, a crash, and...

Krampus (2015) is the focus of this Do You Even Movie? discussion, with Henrique Couto and David Denoyer exploring the film’s story, cast, production, and horror legacy. "Saint Nicholas isn't coming this year. Instead, a much darker, ancient spirit has arrived—Krampus."As the holiday season winds down, we're closing out Christmas with a modern horror classic that's about to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Join Henrique and David as they travel (metaphorically) to New Zealand to discuss Kramp...

Jennifer’s first Christmas home in five years becomes a supernatural family reunion when an antique saw awakens decorations, goblins, and one impossible wish. After losing her husband Brandon, Jennifer has struggled to raise their son Bryce and rebuild her life. She finally returns to the suburban home of her parents, Mark and Amy, hoping the familiar fireplace and Christmas traditions will give Bryce the kind of holiday memories she once had. On the mantel sits an old handsaw carved with a sun...

Five Christmas horror stories turn psychiatric wards, frozen wastelands, department-store Santas, assassins, and supernatural vengeance into one deadly holiday anthology. Inside this collection: • “Xmas at the Psych Ward” — On a snowy Christmas Eve, troubled young Caleb confronts his past inside a psychiatric hospital while a murderous presence turns the ward’s holiday gathering into a fight for survival. • “Christmas at Pendleton Station” — Kasselia Tabon crosses a frozen dystopian world whe...

Bethany and Harpy return to Grimm Manor at Christmas when three vengeful ghosts kidnap Harmony Mirren and demand a final reckoning inside Murder Mansion. Bethany Martinson now shares her body with Harpy, the stronger and far less restrained alternate soul who once helped her survive the haunted plantation house. Their uneasy partnership has become a genuine sisterhood: Bethany solves mysteries by day, while Harpy has taken a night-security job at Strickfield Towne Centre Mall under the imperiou...

In this festive episode of *Cutting Deep into Horror*, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi reunite to discuss the chilling 2016 Christmas horror film, *Better Watch Out*. As the holiday countdown crescendos, the duo offers a deep exploration of the movie’s unsettling narrative, juxtaposing typical Christmas warmth with dark themes of obsession, violence, and the often hidden scars of childhood trauma. The episode opens with Henrique sharing his longstanding tradition of expressing feelings...

Mona Ables and Bailey Downs accept a Christmas Eve babysitting job only to be hunted through a Mirren mansion by two enormous monsters. Summer and Helmsley Mirren offer excellent pay, unlimited food, and a generous bonus if Mona can watch their children, Lucious and Pagan. Bailey only intends to walk her friend to the house, but Summer hires them both. The children are likable, the pizza arrives, and a holiday movie marathon makes the job seem almost normal—apart from hints that the previous si...

Unknown Broadcast gathers four classic old-time radio dramas built around fear: fear of betrayal, fear of madness, fear of accusation, and fear carefully used as a weapon. A lonely villa, a disturbing painting, a bank robbery, and a stranger who claims to control another person’s destiny become four very different traps. Inside this episode: • House of Fear — In this Whistler story, Paul Garson cannot accept Lana Wallace’s decision to marry the older Gregory Hellman. When Lana’s new marriage tur...

We dive deep into the eeriness of the cheerful season. This collection features three spine-tingling Christmas novellas, intertwining lighthearted humor with genuine scares, all set within the beloved Strickfield universe. With over four hours of hair-raising tales penned by Rob Fields, it's the perfect treat for anyone seeking a festive thrill during this joyous time of year. The first novella, "The Mall Overnight," takes us to an abandoned mansion near Strickfield, where the brilliant yet cha...

Two former lovers draw each other in an office Secret Santa, reopening a rejected proposal, years of resentment, and a grievance that turns homicidal. At The Augusta Herald in Georgia, prepress manager Floyd Bennett and administrative assistant Carol Tatum can barely tolerate working under the same boss. Two years earlier, Floyd proposed during a private Christmas hayride. Carol rejected him harshly, and the failed relationship hardened into constant workplace hostility. Now each has secretly d...

Seven Christmas horror stories transform naughty lists, impossible gifts, winter roads, and deep space into a marathon of holiday nightmares. • Christmas Cranberries — by L. F. Falconer A cruel young boy fascinated by an old-world Christmas legend learns that the punishment waiting beneath the tree has an appetite of its own. • The Naughty List — by Keith Tomlin Twelve-year-old Andy awakens in an icy labyrinth with other “bad” children, eerie elves, and a towering Christmas beast enforcing per...

A cursed Christmas card binds Charity Mirren and her girlfriend Mica to lethal commands from the same chain-letter magic Charity once died to stop. Three years after the original Chain Curse destroyed members of her family, Charity still cannot explain why she returned from a deliberate death that should have ended it. She has built a life of service and faith with Mica Collins, whose family accepted their relationship when Charity’s own relatives rejected her. Christmas Eve should be a chance ...

In this episode of *Cutting Deep Into Horror*, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Rodolfi dive into the harrowing landscape of Yorgos Lanthimos’ *The Killing of a Sacred Deer*, a film that embodies the depths of trauma and moral complexity. Join us as we engage in a profound discussion on parental responsibility, guilt, and the chilling consequences of choices made in the dark corners of our minds. As we unpack the film's narrative, Henrique and Rachael examine the nuances of familial bonds chall...

A Christmas-obsessed mother dies in a decorating accident, then returns inside a towering skeleton determined to reunite her family for the holidays. Carol Holly believes every light, ornament, and crooked Santa must be perfect. When her devotion to the season ends with a fatal fall into the lit fireplace, the Holly family expects grief—not a supernatural Christmas homecoming. Carol’s spirit possesses an oversized skeleton decoration and begins pursuing her children with one terrifying convicti...

Unknown Broadcast presents four complete old-time radio murder mysteries in which memory, meticulous planning, forgotten promises, and professional pride become deadly traps. These stories move from stage illusion and cemetery visions to a blueprint for murder and a writer who discovers that killing may be the only business he truly understands. Inside this episode: • Memory of a Murder — Harry Jonas is haunted by a vision connected to a cemetery, a vanished man, and Constantine’s dangerous vaud...

An ancient mirror inside the haunted Carnovasch Estate creates doppelgängers that frame a group of friends for destroying their own Christmas celebrations. Richie Horton enters the abandoned mansion on Pleasant Valley Road while fleeing a bully from Strickfield Junior High School. When his friends catch up, curiosity draws them back into the room he discovered. An ornate mirror dominates the space. Each child appears in the glass—except Madelyne Donnerly, who casts no reflection at all. The ne...

Five Christmas horror stories bring killer Santas, Krampus, murderous machines, dark elves, and bloodthirsty vampires into the holiday season. • Santa Claus Is Killing the Town — by Morgan Moore A couple’s Christmas road trip reaches a welcoming inn shadowed by the legend of a local killer Santa—and by a holiday reunion that may not survive the night. • Krampus Is Comin’ — by Rob Fields A former Strickfield sorority president returns home as old betrayals demand a reckoning and the punishing s...

A werewolf returns home for Christmas hoping for peace, only to find family tension and supernatural violence waiting at the holiday gathering. The holidays are a time for family, forgiveness, and festive cheer—but when you’ve got blood on your hands and a monster in your soul, things get complicated fast. In Welcome Home, a haunted young man returns to his rural hometown after years away… but his homecoming is shadowed by deep secrets, buried trauma, and the curse that stalks his bloodline. A...

A cruel scientist’s zombie experiment escapes beneath Strickfield University, infecting a rebellious student and unleashing a Christmas Day feeding frenzy. Blue Ribbons researcher Vickie Van Wert has spent months dissecting captured zombies and testing them as potential bioweapons. When assistant Shelby sabotages the vaccine and releases the reanimated Brooke, Vickie is bitten and flees the underground laboratory as the infection takes hold. On the streets above, Vickie attacks Rayleen Hollow,...