Episodes

In this episode of Cutting Deep Into Horror, we dive into the intricacies and terrors of the 2014 film "Last Shift," directed by Anthony de Blasi. Co-hosts Henrique and Rachael unpack the story of Officer Loren, a rookie cop assigned to her first shift at an abandoned police station as it prepares to close its doors for good. The discussion explores various horror tropes while delving into profound themes of family legacy, trauma, and the impact of the past on the present. We begin with introdu...

Trigger Warning: This chapter involves harm to children. In this chapter, we unwrap a notorious urban legend that has cast a sinister shadow over Halloween for decades, 'Poisoned Candy'. Join us as we delve into the origins, fears, and dark reality behind this enduring Halloween myth, exploring how the legend of tainted treats has become a sinister undercurrent of Halloween folklore, examining its roots in real cases and the fears that continue to haunt the holiday. The chapter separates the ...

☠️ Halloween has returned to Strickfield… and so has Death. In Retro Halloween Revelations by Rob Fields, the long-dead Destiny Mirren—now reborn as Saffron Morningside, the new incarnation of Death—comes back to her hometown with her loyal companion Sienna Michaels to run the Strickfield Funeral Home. But when Destiny’s mortal parents arrive to plan a funeral for their “missing” daughter, long-buried sins claw their way out of the grave. 💀 Destiny’s father, Brently Mirren, hides a dark secret...

A secondhand Halloween mask brings voices, visions, and violent influence into a family home, forcing a mother to fight for her daughter. The yard-sale bargain matters because its history is unavailable. A store-bought costume comes with packaging and an origin; this mask arrives through a stranger, carrying voices, visions, and violent influence that tighten around a child before her mother understands what entered the home. Michael Kelso’s story centers the parent’s attempt to separate her d...

Babysitter Kristin faces a houseful of homicidal ‘dirt babies’ when a child’s grass-growing school craft awakens something buried in grave soil. Set in the heart of spooky season, this mature-themed episode blends horror, 90s nostalgia, and dark humor. From babysitter-in-peril suspense to gruesome creativity, witness crafts grow teeth, eyes, and a taste for blood, creating a true Halloween bloodbath. The “dirt babies” begin as recognizable school crafts: soil-filled figures meant to sprout gra...

Four vigilantes murder Bubba Ritter and escape conviction, only to find a scarecrow watching as mysterious accidents eliminate them one by one. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit the 1981 television movie, Frank De Felitta’s direction, Charles Durning’s villainy, Larry Drake’s performance, and the Southern Gothic atmosphere that built its cult reputation. The television film begins with vigilante certainty: Otis Hazelrigg and three accomplices kill Bubba Ritter, stage the scene, and escap...

The chupacabra began as a spined, reptilian creature in 1990s Puerto Rico, then transformed on the U.S. mainland into a hairless canine. Terrifying & True traces the “goat-sucker” from earlier livestock panic in Moca to the 1995 attacks around Canóvanas. Witness Madelyne Tolentino described a gray-green, upright being with large eyes and spikes down its back, while radio host Silverio Pérez helped give the new cryptid its name. Television, tabloids, UFO speculation, and the early internet carri...

A vanished mother, a walking skull, a cataleptic man mistaken for dead, and an executive’s buried identity anchor four classic radio mysteries. Escape’s “The Vanishing Lady,” based on Alexander Woollcott’s version of the legend, sends young Cynthia Winship and her ill mother into a crowded Paris hotel during the great exposition. A doctor dispatches Cynthia across the city for medicine; when she returns, the hotel register, room, staff, and every trace of Mrs. Winship have been changed. British...

Charlee Brewster’s Halloween shift at Strickfield Video becomes a monster siege involving vampires, werewolves, and undead movie fans. This mature-themed tale by Rob Fields follows Charlee Brewster, a tattooed biker girl, as she faces terrifying vampires, snarling werewolves, and undead cinephiles in a wild, blood-soaked night. Filled with 90s nostalgia, snarky humor, and spine-chilling action, this episode delivers a powerful blend of horror stories and mature themes that will keep you on edg...

Sit back and experience the most scary of Halloween horrors from Weekly Spooky in 2023! Over five hours of scary stories to make you keep the lights on! Drawn from Weekly Spooky’s 2023 Halloween programming, the nine-story collection is paced as a feature-length night of audio horror rather than a single repeated premise. The stories move among supernatural suspense, killers, creatures, seasonal rituals, and October settings while allowing every author’s tale to build toward its own reveal. Th...

Joshua Fox’s hopeful date at a remote cottage near Sauble Beach becomes a werewolf hunt through the dark Canadian wilderness. Home in Owen Sound for Canadian Thanksgiving and college reading week, Josh expects his old friends to be busy and turns to an online dating site for company. A message from Tracey Kidd—confident, magnetic, and far out of his league—invites him to help close her family’s cottage for winter. The hot tub, liquor cabinet, and isolated house make the invitation sound like th...

A funhouse carries Mouse Donnerly, Arial Mirren, and their friends from an abandoned Strickfield carnival into the haunted mystery’s origin in 1955. From the eerie Carnovasch Estate to a suspense-filled showdown in the Hall of Mirrors, this Halloween epic blends haunted carnival legends with time travel mysteries. Ideal for fans of Goosebumps and Stranger Things, this episode delivers all the spooky stories and horror thrills you crave during the spooky season. If you enjoy mature-themed tales...

A paranoid teenager enters a Texas Halloween funhouse while an escaped killer may be hiding among the performers and props in Scary Movie (1991). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Daniel Erickson’s underseen horror comedy, John Hawkes’s early performance, regional production, hangout atmosphere, and the twist that keeps staged and real danger in conflict. Daniel Erickson’s film is not the later parody franchise. Its anxious teenager enters a Texas Halloween attraction while news of an es...

Ohio’s Bigfoot legend—the Grassman—haunts Salt Fork State Park, Hocking Hills, and the Appalachian foothills through sightings, howls, footprints, and stories that resist proof. Terrifying & True follows the state’s reputation as a major center of reported Sasquatch activity. Witnesses describe tall, hair-covered figures crossing roads and driveways, moving through old strip mines, shaking trees, throwing rocks, or calling from deep forest. Salt Fork State Park became a particular focus for inv...

Four vintage radio nightmares confront a deadly image, something unearthed from a grave, a fogbound murder, and a man tormented by voices. This Unknown Broadcast presents “Death Has Claws,” “We Dug It Up,” “Confession,” and “The Man Who Heard Voices.” The lineup draws on Inner Sanctum, Lights Out, Escape, and CBS Radio Mystery Theater for macabre suspense involving obsession, buried secrets, shell-shocked perception, and voices with lethal intentions. “Death Has Claws” opens with an image whos...

C. Auguste Dupin investigates a savage double murder in a locked Paris room where the voices, wounds, and escape route appear impossible. Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter are found brutally killed inside their fourth-floor home in the Rue Morgue. The doors are locked from within. Witnesses agree that they heard two voices during the violence, yet they cannot agree on the language—or even whether one speaker sounded human. The police arrest a suspect, but the physical evidence refuses to fit a...

Kick back and experience the best of Halloween horrors from Weekly Spooky in 2021 and 2022! Over five hours of scary stories to keep you on the edge of your seat! Built as a longer listening session, Twelve Halloween Horror Stories combines Halloween horror, supernatural suspense, and narrated horror while allowing every story to keep its own threat and payoff. This collection reaches across Weekly Spooky’s 2021 and 2022 Halloween seasons, bringing twelve complete stories into one extended pro...

A rare VHS copy of The Strickfield Slasher turns Halloween movie night into a fight against the killer trapped inside its black-and-white frames. While shopping at Strickfield Towne Centre Mall on Halloween, college student Briana discovers Tinker’s oddities shop and a supposedly lost local horror film. The movie began in 1971 as a student production shot at the already-haunted Grimm Manor. Its actor, Scott Meade, took the role of the cleaver-wielding Strickfield Slasher far too seriously—and t...

A vampire may turn a human only after hearing “yes,” but an ancient rule of consent becomes terrifying when a child’s safety hangs on one final answer. Victor is 227 years old and has created only a few vampires. His most vulnerable progeny is Shannon, a little girl whose hunger and loneliness lead her away from their temporary refuge in Langley, South Carolina, and into the home of Lisa, her mother Karen, and grandmother Molly McBride. What begins as a secret friendship between two children dr...

Detective Mike Denver pursues the apparently unstoppable Patrick ‘Trick’ Weaver through repeated Halloween massacres in the 2019 slasher Trick. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Patrick Lussier’s direction, Omar Epps, Tom Atkins, Jamie Kennedy, the relentless kills, shifting identity clues, and the film’s commitment to Halloween atmosphere. The film follows Detective Mike Denver across repeated Halloween attacks attributed to the apparently unstoppable Patrick “Trick” Weaver. Its escalat...

Nine experienced hikers fled a damaged tent on a frozen Ural Mountains slope in 1959, leaving behind footprints, severe injuries, and the enduring mystery of Dyatlov Pass. Igor Dyatlov’s group camped on Kholat Syakhl during poor weather after one member had turned back because of illness. When searchers reached the site weeks later, they found the tent cut from inside and the party’s shoes, clothing, food, diaries, and equipment abandoned. Footprints led toward the forest, where the first bodie...

Four classic radio thrillers bring together a condemned prisoner, a family ghost, a rat-swarmed lighthouse, and a house no investigator can survive. This Unknown Broadcast includes Suspense’s “The Hangman Won’t Wait,” Inner Sanctum’s “Mark My Grave,” Escape’s Vincent Price classic “Three Skeleton Key,” and CBS Radio Mystery Theater’s “A Ghostly Game of Death.” Murder mystery, supernatural dread, and isolated survival make this an old-time-radio horror marathon. “The Hangman Won’t Wait” uses a ...

A Halloween camping prank becomes real wilderness terror when a monster-mask joke gives way to a towering creature hunting four friends through the forest. The narrator expects an easy October 30 hiking trip with Jolene, Dawn, and Rose: a quiet state-park campsite, a stack of books, and Halloween fun far from home. A new neck-worn reading light is just a convenient way to keep reading after dark. Jolene’s monster-mask ambush also seems harmless—especially when it inspires a plan to frighten the...

A Halloween party dares two brothers and their friends into a haunted corn maze where a living labyrinth turns one hour of fear into a fight to escape. On Halloween night in 2005, thirteen-year-old Danny and his older brother Derek arrive in costume for a party held beside an abandoned corn maze. The local stories say the maze maintains itself, swallows trespassers, and opens a path to the other side every October 31. Most of the teenagers treat it as an urban legend—until a confrontation at th...