Episodes

June 21, 2024

Do You Even Movie? | Slumber Party Massacre (1982): Power-Drill Slasher

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 ...
June 20, 2024

The April Fool — Strickfield’s Once-a-Year Slasher Mystery

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...
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June 19, 2024

I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules Part 2 — The Black-Line Patrol

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...
June 17, 2024

Terrifying & True | Jinn & Djinn: Islamic Tradition, Arab Folklore & Dark Encounter Stories

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...
June 16, 2024

Unknown Broadcast | The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Edgar Allan Poe’s Locked-Room Detective Mystery

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...
June 14, 2024

Do You Even Movie? | Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound (1990): Time-Travel Gothic Horror

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...
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June 12, 2024

I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules Part 1 — The Warehouse Night Shift

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...
June 10, 2024

Terrifying & True | Jasmine Richardson & Jeremy Steinke: The Medicine Hat Family Murders

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...
June 9, 2024

Unknown Broadcast | The Bullet: Ida Lupino, an Unloaded Gun and Domestic Terror

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...
June 7, 2024

Do You Even Movie? | Humanoids from the Deep (1980): Roger Corman’s Sea-Monster Horror

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 ...
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June 5, 2024

Cesspool: A Love Story – Aquatic Monster Horror

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...
June 3, 2024

Terrifying & True | Oak Island Money Pit: Treasure Hunters, Flood Tunnels & Natural Sinkholes

Oak Island’s Money Pit has drawn treasure hunters into a centuries-long cycle of excavation, flooding, tantalizing finds, and theories that grow faster than the hole itself. The popular origin story begins in 1795, when Daniel McGinnis and two friends noticed a depression and signs of earlier activity on the Nova Scotia island. Their digging reportedly revealed layers of timber at regular intervals, encouraging later companies to descend in search of pirate gold. As shafts deepened, seawater ru...
June 2, 2024

Unknown Broadcast | No Rest for the Dead: A Medical-School Corpse, Murdered Doctor and Dead-Man Trap

Dr. Tarleton’s apparent accident becomes a murder mystery involving a medical-school corpse, a missing letter opener, and a dead man making telephone calls. George Denning accepts a loan from the doctor in exchange for willing his brain to medical research. His daughter Grace fears the arrangement will make her father a suspect when Tarleton is found with a severed artery. The secretary, Miss Henry, reports that a mysterious Mr. McCobb visited the office, while a call from someone using that na...
May 31, 2024

Murder Mansion — Escape-Room Detective Bethany Martinson Trapped in Grimm Manor

Escape-room prodigy Bethany Martinson takes shelter from a Fourth of July storm inside Grimm Manor, where every locked room may be a puzzle designed to kill her. The 19-year-old Strickfield University student is a gifted detective with an extraordinary appetite, a talent for solving impossible cases, and a darker personality called Harpy that she struggles to keep contained. After a washed-out bridge forces her into Strickfield’s backwoods, Bethany crashes into a burned vehicle containing three...
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May 29, 2024

Sin: Laney Listor’s Blood Ritual to Free the Demon Goddess Hellweaver

Runaway Laney Listor finds a hidden demonic bible and performs a blood ritual to summon Hellweaver, the imprisoned goddess who promises to remake her. Laney entered Strickfield Academy under a stolen identity after murdering two students and taking their uniforms. She treats the parochial school as a temporary refuge until a book buried inside a river cave reveals a different scripture—one she can read despite its unknown language. Its pages describe Hellweaver, the Reality Sphere, the prison d...
May 27, 2024

Monthly Spooky | Haunted Highways, Killer Worms and Haunted Apartments!

Abandoned hospitals, deadly worms, and do a deep dive into America's Most Haunted Roads lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. The haunted-road discussion treats travel itself as the vulnerable state: drivers are isolated, landmarks repeat in darkness, and local stories attach ghosts, warnings, or unexplained figures to specific stretches of pavement. Abandoned hospitals and haunted apartments bring the same location-based fear indoors, while the killer-worm report replaces supernatural u...
May 26, 2024

Unknown Broadcast | Life Ends at Midnight: A $1,500 Debt, Life Insurance and a Murder Deadline

Walter Bates needs $1,500 before midnight and sees a fatal solution in the elderly boarder whose life-insurance policy could benefit his mother. Walter returns to the struggling home of Mrs. Bates demanding money she does not have. He faces a deadline that could cost him his life, while his mother can barely meet rent and household expenses. Her boarder, Mr. Chalmers, is an old man with rheumatism and a $2,500 straight-life policy he is considering abandoning because it has no cash value. Walt...
May 24, 2024

Do You Even Movie? | Urban Legend (1998): Campus Folklore Slasher

Urban Legend (1998) turns familiar campus folklore into murder methods as a parka-clad killer stalks students at Pendleton University. "SOMEONE'S IN THE BACK SEAT!" And it's Henrique and Dave who this week are enrolling at Pendelton University as a serial killer is terrorizing the campus using urban legends to murder students and staff in 1998's "URBAN LEGEND" ! Directed by Jamie Blanks and starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, & Morbius himself, Jared Leto. Hear your hosts discuss how this ...
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May 22, 2024

I Never Believed the Stories About the Abandoned Mining Town. Until... — A Park Ranger’s Nightmare

A Nevada park ranger follows a missing family into an abandoned mining town and discovers that the descendants of its workers never truly left. The ranger begins with a deserted camper near land clearly marked off-limits. Inside are clothes, blood, and signs that a man, woman, and two boys vanished suddenly. Unusual footprints lead away from the vehicle and into the decaying town, where the ranger’s radio fails and something with reflective eyes watches from the buildings. A scream draws him d...
May 20, 2024

Terrifying & True | Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? Hagley Wood’s Unidentified Woman

A human skull found inside a hollow tree in wartime England inspired one of true crime’s most haunting questions: “Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?” In April 1943, four boys entered Hagley Wood in Worcestershire and climbed an old wych elm while looking for bird nests. Inside the trunk they discovered the remains of a woman. Clothing, a counterfeit wedding ring, and other evidence offered few answers, and investigators could not match the victim to a missing person. The mystery deepened when gra...
May 19, 2024

Unknown Broadcast | The Meteorman: A Meteorite Hatches a Hungry Alien in an Astronomer’s Home

Astronomer Russell Adams opens a fallen meteorite and finds living gray flesh inside—an extraterrestrial visitor growing at impossible speed. Professor Adams and his wife Diane watch an unusually active meteor shower from the countryside. When a fragment lands nearby, Russell treats it as a scientific prize and brings the stone home. Breaking it open reveals a soft nugget of tissue where only iron and rock should exist. The material expands, develops intelligence, and speaks with the confidence...
May 17, 2024

The Lake by Edgar Allan Poe: Solitude, Terror & a Poisoned Gothic Eden

Edgar Allan Poe’s solitary speaker returns to a wild lake where black rocks, tall pines, and a poisoned wave make terror feel like paradise. In “The Lake,” an unnamed place becomes the landscape of the speaker’s youth and the object of an increasingly dangerous fascination. By day, the lonely water offers refuge from an ordinary world. When night falls and darkness spreads across the lake, that solitude changes: the wind stirs, terror awakens, and the scene produces not simple fear but a trembl...
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May 15, 2024

Bigfoot at the Coast: A Pacific Northwest Cryptid Encounter During a Bear Attack

A night bike ride at a Pacific Northwest beach campground sends Tom after a missing child—and into a confrontation between a black bear and Bigfoot. Every summer, Tom camps at the coast with best friend Arturo and Arturo’s family. The trip means a stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory, bonfires, bicycles, and a chance for the boys to reinvent themselves away from school. They befriend siblings Melissa and Ricky, whose father is trying to hold his family together after a divorce, while rumors spr...
May 13, 2024

Terrifying & True | Axeman of New Orleans: Unsolved Murders, the Jazz Letter & 1919 Panic

The Axeman of New Orleans broke into homes, attacked families with their own tools, and sent a letter promising to spare anyone playing jazz on a designated night. From 1918 into 1919, a series of brutal assaults spread fear through New Orleans and nearby Gretna. Many victims were Italian grocers or members of their households, including Joseph and Catherine Maggio, Louis Besumer and Harriet Lowe, Joseph Romano, the Cortimiglia family, Steve Boca, Sarah Laumann, and Mike Pepitone. Entry was oft...