Episodes

Kick back and experience the creepy creation of a Halloween tradition as you hear SIX tales of horrors and fear that all take place on Halloween! Halloween is not simply decorative here: each of the six stories takes place during the holiday, using its costumes, rituals, darkness, and lowered defenses as part of the danger. The collection explores how celebration can disguise a threat and how familiar October traditions change once the impossible becomes real. The anthology format gives listen...

Seven-year-old Joey helps rent a forbidden horror movie on Halloween and discovers a cursed VHS capable of erasing people from existence. Joey only wants time with his older brother Chris, but Chris and his friend Mack have another plan: switch the tape for the R-rated “Flesh of the Android” into an innocent case and fool Mr. Binford at the neighborhood video store. The scheme works, the boys settle in for a Halloween movie night, and the static hiding inside the cassette proves far more danger...

Cobweb (2023) follows an eight-year-old boy investigating knocks inside his bedroom wall, only to uncover the secret his parents have hidden inside the family home. Directed by Samuel Bodin and starring Lizzy Caplan, Anthony Starr, and Woody Norman. Hear your hosts discuss how we were all robbed of seeing this in theaters due to poor advertising, the incredibly haunting and errie cinematography & lighting, plus hear a short review of "The Front Room", as well as a very stupid way that Henrique ...

Lost cats, murdered spies, ghost children and the most unlucky day of the year lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. The lost-cat story begins with an ordinary disappearance, while ghost-child reports and the death of a spy pull the conversation toward mysteries with very different stakes. Friday the 13th then supplies the folklore anchor: an unlucky date whose reputation has been reinforced by superstition, history, popular culture, and generations of people primed to notice misfortune....

Rosalind Wallace believes she has engineered the perfect murder, but an ugly gold butterfly pin awakens the twelfth juror’s buried memory. For seven years, wealthy Rosalind has controlled Edward Albritton through a secret affair. When he tries to return to his wife, she shoots him and coerces vulnerable employee Alfred Graham into confessing. Alfred’s fingerprints are on the weapon, his financial crimes supply a motive, and Rosalind’s testimony appears to guarantee a conviction. The plan is so ...

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition awakens in absolute darkness, where a hidden pit and descending blade turn every sensation into calculated terror. After hearing his death sentence, the unnamed narrator loses consciousness and wakes inside a cell he cannot see. He measures the walls by touch, stumbles at the edge of a deep circular pit, and realizes the darkness itself has been designed as an instrument of execution. When he awakens again, he is strapped beneath the painted figure of Time ...

Wildlife filmmakers Gwen Faulkner and Sarah Mathis find mutilated animals and pools of red waste as an impossible predator closes around their South African camp. The documentarians came to study big cats and have grown attached to cheetah Clementine and her cubs, Itchy and Scratchy. Their familiar routines break when carcasses appear crushed rather than eaten, a watering hole turns unnaturally black, and foul red pits dot the grassland. Even lions have been mangled by something no known animal...

The Fouke Monster turned a small Arkansas town into the home of one of America’s most enduring regional Bigfoot legends—and inspired a landmark drive-in horror film. Terrifying & True traces reports of a tall, foul-smelling, red-eyed creature around Fouke and the Texarkana region, including stories that predate the best-known wave of sightings. The episode centers on Bobby and Elizabeth Ford’s alleged May 1971 encounter, the three-toed tracks found near their home, later highway sightings, the ...

A horror writer working late on one final Lights Out script imagines a monster so intensely that the creature steps out of his mind and into the room. Arch Oboler places a version of himself at the center of “The Author and the Thing.” Exhausted by deadlines, ghosts, blood, and the demand for another terrifying broadcast, the writer sends his secretary Miss Goddard home and struggles alone with an unfinished play. A medieval text beside him warns that seven days and nights spent concentrating o...

"I am the future!" We are Back to School & Back in Action for this week's episode as we are covering an ultimate 80s pick! We are traveling to Ontario this week to join Henrique and David for a trip to the school from Hell. A new teacher at a...

Garnet Mirren and four undefeated Pendleton basketball players owe their success to a Hellweaver pact that grants their desires as long as they feed on mortal flesh. Their private victory celebrations leave very little behind. The arrangement turns against them when one teammate devours prey that is not fully human. A winter storm closes in, supernatural hunger mutates into something older, and the predators must survive a Wendigo-like creature born from their own appetite and broken rules. W...

Elizabeth Short’s 1947 murder became known as the Black Dahlia case, transforming a 22-year-old victim into one of Los Angeles’s most enduring unsolved true-crime symbols. Short’s body was discovered in a vacant lot in the Leimert Park area on January 15. It had been severed, washed, drained of blood, and deliberately posed. The condition of the remains led investigators to consider whether the killer had anatomical or medical knowledge, while the lack of blood at the lot suggested she had been...

Diver Trent Hall searches the Paraguay River for the Santa Rosa’s lost gold, where betrayal above water and piranhas below threaten every breath. Trent is working dangerous, low-paying dives in Argentina when Vincent Murdoch returns with an irresistible proposition. Fourteen years earlier, during war between Bolivia and Paraguay, the Santa Rosa vanished while carrying millions in gold toward Brazil. Murdoch claims that Maria Sandoval’s traumatized father is the only survivor and can guide them ...

Puppet Master 4 (1993) pits a young scientist and Toulon’s animated puppets against demonic creatures sent to destroy the secret of artificial life. "I'm with you, Puppet Master!" And we're with Henrique because it's his Birthday on this week's episode! And for his birthday film pick we're traveling to California to meet up with Henrique & David as a young scientist and his friends, upon being attacked by demons, are protected by a gang of animated puppetsin the 1993 sequel “Puppet Master 4” ! ...

A security specialist investigating an abandoned Vermont town finds a restored church hiding human sacrifices and a demon that can wear any face. Jones is an ex-military troubleshooter sent by Sentinel Security when workers renovating an old New England church begin quitting or disappearing. The town’s owner insists the project must continue, but tools move overnight, strange symbols appear in fresh lumber, and no one remains after dark. A hidden staircase beneath the church leads Jones toward ...

Brandon Lee was filming The Crow when a prop revolver fired a lodged bullet, turning a carefully staged death scene into a fatal on-set accident. On March 31, 1993, Lee was performing as Eric Draven in what was expected to become his breakthrough role. The revolver used in the scene had previously been loaded with improvised dummy cartridges for a close-up. One cartridge still contained an active primer, which pushed its bullet into the barrel without producing the force or sound of a normal gu...

Hollywood star Laura Lane’s premiere-night party becomes a cover-up when the husband everyone believes dead walks into her bedroom demanding his share. Laura has fought her way from an obscure past as Gloria Gordon to become the celebrated star of “Star-Crossed Love.” Her studio expects smiles, interviews, and perfect publicity at the lavish party following the film’s premiere. Behind the glamorous image is George, the brutal first husband thought to have died during a Newark holdup—and the sec...

Four Shane Migliavacca stories unleash zombie-apocalypse deception, cannibal killers, a desert motel siege, and deadly romantic obsession. “Survivors” follows an isolated girl raised to fear the dead; “The Dinner Guests” sends killers Orville and Cherry into the wrong family home; “Incident at Isotope Inn” traps hostages with something worse outside; and “Be Mine” turns a secret admirer into Valentine’s Day horror. Together they form a long collection of monsters, murder, love, and betrayal. T...

The five surviving members of the Battleguard confront Hellweaver before she can use the Reality Sphere to remake the entire multiverse. Hellweaver has defeated the greatest defenders in her path and seized an artifact capable of reshaping reality according to its bearer’s will. Her destination is the Infinity Core, the epicenter of the multiverse. If the Sphere reaches it, every world may be transformed into an extension of her demonic realm. Princess Giean-Gh’Ari, Carly Richmond, Max Considi...

Project Blue Book investigated 12,618 UFO reports for the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War—and closed with 701 cases still classified as unidentified. The program grew from Project Sign and Project Grudge before receiving the Blue Book name in 1952. Its mission was to determine whether unidentified flying objects threatened national security and to analyze sightings scientifically. Under Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, investigators standardized reports and examined radar contacts, photographs, pi...

After Sam Croft nearly strangles his wife Dora during a vicious argument, an impossible figure crashes into their fifth-floor Bronx apartment. Sam feels trapped between a domineering mother and a wife who mocks his work and resents the life they share. When their latest fight turns violent, a broken window announces the arrival of a silent, terrifying visitor. The figure blocks the door, watches the couple, and seems capable of crushing their throats—yet the superintendent’s daughter and the re...

Six stories by “Splatter” Joe Solmo unleash forest predators, body-part parasites, a revenant, two werewolves, and a demonic family debt. “Party in the Woods” sends Tristan and Becca to a moonlit gathering where huge gray hunters with claws and humanlike cruelty wait beyond an old stone chimney. “The Trouble with Cousins” follows cadaver thieves into a black-market doctor’s warehouse, where stolen human remains have become a living hive of screaming parasites. In “Dead Ahead,” Becca and Tom bu...

A night librarian at the Battle Creek Public Library discovers an antique volume hidden inside a wall. Bound in leather and stamped with the Latin word Interitus—destruction—the book was never meant to be opened. When the seal breaks, an ancient force called Ulupoka takes control of a late-night patron and turns the quiet stacks into a supernatural battleground. The librarian’s only hope may be Jerome Blackwell, a long-missing local historian who knows why the demon was imprisoned and what mus...

Haunted dolls for sale, monkeys on the loose, ghosts in an abandoned school, and myths of the Moon enter the Monthly Spooky crypt. Henrique Couto and Michelle compare strange-news reports before taking a deeper look at lunar folklore and the fears people have projected onto the night sky. Dolls advertised with haunting histories show how supernatural narratives can become part of an object’s value. Escaped monkeys provide a very real form of local chaos, while the abandoned-school segment brin...