Episodes

A wartime cargo ship crossing the Pacific reaches the birth of an undersea volcano, where superheated water and volcanic debris surround the crew. The voyage begins as wartime transport across a vast ocean, but strange heat, discoloration, and violent movement in the sea warn that the danger is rising from below. The ship has entered a region where the ocean floor is rupturing. Steam rolls across the surface, pumice and ash threaten the vessel, and water hot enough to kill makes abandoning ship...

Edgar Allan Poe addresses Maria Clemm—the aunt and mother-in-law he called his true mother—in a tender poem shaped by love for Virginia. Written in 1849, “To My Mother” is not addressed to Poe’s biological mother. Its subject is Maria Clemm, his aunt and the mother of his late wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. The speaker explains that the word “mother” can mean more than a biological bond: Maria became dearer to him because she was mother to the wife he loved more deeply than life itself. That family...

Arial Mirren has been carried away by a giant vampire bat, forcing Felicia and Bella to launch a rooftop rescue across the ruins of alternate Strickfield. Felicia reveals the full strength of her mutant spider form while Bella Taibon brings Master Vampire speed to the chase. After they recover Arial, the survivors compare everything they know about this undead Earth and reach a dangerous conclusion: escaping again will only postpone the next attack. To end the cycle, they must locate the techno...

Champ, the legendary Lake Champlain monster, swims through Indigenous tradition, disputed historical claims, modern photographs, and a thriving regional cryptid culture. Terrifying & True begins with stories associated with Abenaki and Iroquois communities before examining a frequently repeated claim that Samuel de Champlain saw the creature in 1609. His surviving description more closely resembles a large fish, and historians debate whether it belongs in the Champ story at all. The episode th...

Convicted murderer Max Young is locked in an executed prisoner’s haunted cell, where Skeeter Dempsey’s ghost prepares him for the electric chair. Police capture Max during a filling-station robbery and suspect him of killing Officer Ambrose Hogan. Detective Miller cannot force a confession, so he places the terrified prisoner in the cell once occupied by Skeeter Dempsey, a cop killer already put to death. In the dark, Skeeter’s voice introduces Max to a jail where the dead remain close and even...

Six summer horror stories bring werewolves, deadly camp wishes, roadside killers, backwoods creatures, devilish music, and a zombie outbreak into the heat. “The Wolf of Fagan County” by David O’Hanlon follows 13-year-old Conrad through a summer of mutilated bodies, family secrets, and monsters hiding in a small town. Killian Crane’s “The Lady in the Germ Box” sends bullied camper Greg to a portable toilet where a supernatural woman grants wishes with viciously literal results. In John Oak Dalto...

A supernatural tornado carries six Strickfield friends into an alternate Earth where vampires rule, daylight is gone, and familiar families have become predators. Arial Mirren is rebuilding her life with Madelyne Donnerly after breaking Queen Arcadia’s possession and being disowned by her parents. A trip home from Strickfield Towne Centre Mall should be routine—until the storm drops Arial, Madelyne, Carter Cross, Eileen Donnerly, Bella Taibon, and Felicia Mirren into a nightmare version of thei...

Rodney Alcala appeared as a charming bachelor on national television while concealing a history of sexual violence and murder that stretched across years. On September 13, 1978, Alcala won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw on The Dating Game. Bradshaw declined to go out with him after the taping because his behavior made her uneasy. The show had not uncovered his criminal record, including the brutal attack on eight-year-old Tali Shapiro and an earlier place on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives lis...

Danny murders the blind uncle who controls his inheritance, but the unmistakable tap of a cane continues after the body is buried. His uncle’s authority stands between Danny and the money—and between Danny and the woman he wants. Greed and forbidden love make murder seem like a clean solution. Because the victim cannot see his attacker, Danny believes he can arrange the death, remove suspicion, and step into the future he has been denied. Then the house begins to reproduce the dead man’s habit...

The Raven (1963) 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. "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!" We have reached the end of our ROGER CORMAN Tribute Month but we are going out in a blaze of glory....or a blaze in a Castle! This week, join Henrique and David as they're traveling back to 1506 to join Erasmus Craven, a magician mourning the loss of his wife, whose visited by a fellow magician w...

Brenda receives her missing uncle’s manuscript about Fool’s Hill, an Oregon legend connecting witches, disappearances, and bodies found in the woods. Folklore writer R. H. Thurston—known to family as Randy—traces the mystery to a 1919 newspaper item about William Ivanhoe’s claim that he saw witches near Locust Grove. Later reports mention stolen crops, strange carvings, a mutilated body, and other locals who vanished around the same patch of forest. A research trip brings Randy to a saloon, an ...

Abandoned hospitals, hero rats, ghostly visitors and false memories lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. Abandoned hospitals carry the memory of illness, confinement, and institutional history, making them powerful settings for reported hauntings. Imaginary friends and ghostly visitors raise a different question about unseen companions, while false memories challenge confidence in the mind’s own record. Hero rats provide a surprising real-world counterpoint to the darker material. The ...

Fugitive Wally Pindell picks up a hitchhiker bound for Missoula, then a raging forest fire traps them with a ranger, trooper, and makeshift crew. Wally is already afraid of the woods when he emerges from a failed hunt and sees a red glow circling the mountain road. He gives Jan a ride toward her new job, but authorities stop the car and press every available person into the fire response. The road is cut off, the wind has shifted, and flames on three sides leave only a dangerous route toward a ...

Slumber Party Massacre (1982) 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. "Close your eyes for a second...and sleep forever!" The Roger Corman Tribute Month continues as this week we are traveling to 1980's California to join Henrique and David as they take you to a slumber party Trish is hosting while her parents away but a bloodbath soon unfolds as an escaped psychotic serial killer ...

A killer returns to Strickfield every April Fools’ Day, giving survivor Ashley Gable and Detective Chantel Devereux one day to stop the annual murders. Rob Field's Most Lengthy Strickfield Horror So Far! For four years, April Fool’s Day has seen one person a year die in Strickfield. Then the murders start to affect the life of Ashley Gable when her boyfriend is murdered the fifth April Fool’s Day. A year later, Ashley’s younger sister is claimed by the killer. Ashley herself is stabbed fatally...

Trapped inside a warehouse where painted lines control reality, a night guard follows a trail of blood onto the forbidden black route—and walks into a monster ambush. Part two resumes on the endless staircase created when the former fire-tower ranger broke one of his new job’s rules. A cryptic text returns him to the hallway, but the remaining patrols still must be completed before morning. Blood leads away from the approved colored paths, the doors lose their numbers, and a winged creature joi...

Jinn are far older and more complex than the wish-granting genies of Western popular culture: unseen beings of Islamic tradition and pre-Islamic Arab folklore with moral choice of their own. Terrifying & True explores descriptions of jinn as beings created from smokeless fire, distinct from humans and angels. In the Qur’an they are accountable for their decisions and may be good, harmful, faithful, rebellious, or indifferent. Earlier traditions linked them with wilderness, abandoned places, poe...

C. Auguste Dupin investigates two brutal deaths in a locked Paris apartment where every door and window appears secured from inside. Off-duty gendarme Pierre Muset and his sweetheart Yvette hear screams from Madame L’Espanaye’s fourth-floor rooms in the Rue Morgue. Inside, the elderly woman lies murdered and her daughter has been forced high into the chimney. Witnesses report two voices speaking in different languages, yet the gold remains untouched and no human escape route seems possible. Pi...

Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound (1990) 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. "I will be with you forever. I am unbound!" The Roger Corman Tribute Month rolls on this week as we follow Roger to Italy to join Henrique and David on Corman's last director credited film. A scientist behind the project of creating the ultimate weapon is zapped from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerla...

A former fire-tower ranger takes a night-security job at an abandoned warehouse, where colored patrol lines and a bizarre rule sheet are the only protection from what is locked inside. The work should be simple: watch the cameras, follow each painted route on schedule, never open the wrong door, and wait for missing supervisor Mr. Larson. Instead, a glowing container releases an eight-foot black, scaly, winged creature and its chittering companion. The new guard soon learns that ignoring even o...

Twelve-year-old Jasmine Richardson and her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke planned the murder of her family in Medicine Hat, Alberta, after her parents tried to end their relationship. On April 23, 2006, Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son were found killed inside their home. Jasmine was initially treated as a missing child, but emails, online messages, and evidence recovered by investigators pointed to a conspiracy between her and Steinke. Their relationship had develop...

Ida Lupino stars as Ruth Martin, whose husband terrorizes her with an unloaded war-souvenir pistol and the promise that one day it will fire. Harry returns from three years in prison to find that Ruth has transformed their clothing business, earned the loyalty of workers and buyers, and built a life that no longer places him at the center. His wounded pride turns into surveillance, control, and threats. He demands that Ruth sign a release giving up the business and repeatedly counts to three wh...

Humanoids from the Deep (1980) 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. "They're Coming! Humanoids From the Deep!" It's June and we are proudly kicking off our "Roger Corman Tribute Month" with one of his most notorious and trigger warning packed 80s Horror Flicks! Join Henrique and David this week as they travel to Noyo, California where a quiet fishing village becomes the target ...

Pool cleaner Andre expects a summer of easy money and a chance with Lila—until swimmers across Barrister Bend begin dissolving in their own pools. After coworker Fred Lentz dies during a routine cleaning, Andre discovers that the town’s swimming pools may connect to a newly opened underground lake. A green, tentacled predator is moving through the water, draining its victims and turning every backyard oasis into a feeding ground. When the creature reaches a crowded pool party, Andre, Jamie, Li...