Episodes

Summer horror gets bloody, claustrophobic, cursed, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 6 through July 12. This time, we’re digging into splatter-film history, cursed-camera video games, one of the scariest cave movies ever made, Netflix’s summer-camp slasher revival, Italian zombie cult madness, and the return of the Tall Man. Inside this episode: July 6, 1963 — Blood Feast reportedly plays Peoria, Illinois Herschell Gordon Lewis changes horror f...

The Greenbrier Ghost is one of the strangest true crime cases in American history: a West Virginia murder trial where testimony about a ghost helped expose the truth. In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her husband, Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue, quickly took control of her body, covered her neck, and helped rush her toward burial before a complete medical examination could be performed. At first, Zona’s death was treated as natural. Then her m...

Unknown Broadcast presents Psychic Horror, Living Mannequins, Vanishing Rooms, and Deadly Jealousy, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in murder, disappearance, and investigation, old-time radio suspense, and body horror and transformation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns with four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, and eerie anthology drama pulled from somewhere beyond the static. Tonight’s transmission b...

Four terrifying tales of isolation and predation: a waterfall campsite, lonely Ohio highway, Halloween prank, and deserted rest area become hunting grounds for serial killers, cannibals, and shapeshifting monsters. This late night horror anthology blends true crime terror with supernatural revenge and desperate fights for survival—expertly narrated for maximum chills. “Fortune Falls” — by David O’Hanlon Two college friends secretly camp beside a remote Oregon waterfall, but their plans to witne...

A cursed football jersey turns a high school star into a monster… and the nightmare follows his rival to summer camp. This full Weekly Spooky horror audiobook collects Friday Night Frights and all five parts of Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields in one complete scary story release. In Friday Night Frights, Greg Branlake is desperate to save his football future after a humiliating loss to Strickfield High. When he discovers the original 00 jersey worn by Mick “The Demon” Knight, the legendary foo...

Deep woods horror stories have taken over scary-story feeds for a reason: the wilderness is one of the last places where modern people can still feel completely outmatched. In this Thursday Thrills episode, Henrique takes a late-night car ride through supposedly firsthand camping, hiking, park ranger, cave, and backcountry accounts gathered from online folklore threads. These are not presented as verified cases; they are modern campfire stories - the kind people post after something in the wood...

Cursed football horror reaches its terrifying finale as the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology concludes Summer of the Demon. In Part 5, Eddie Richter, Jessica Branlake, Charlie Thoss, and the surviving players of Camp Red Feather face the final nightmare behind the cursed 00 jersey, the Demon’s return, and the dark secrets that have haunted this deadly summer football camp. The truth behind the Demon is finally revealed, but knowing the truth may not be enough to survive it. The curse grow...

Summer horror gets radioactive, gothic, mechanical, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of June 29 through July 5. This time, we’re crawling through giant insect mayhem, modern gothic literature, Japanese cyberpunk body horror, George A. Romero’s underground zombie apocalypse, and one deeply twisted Italian gothic shocker from the early 1960s. Inside this episode: June 29, 1977 — Empire of the Ants opens in New York A radioactive drive-in creature featur...

What really happened to the children of Hamelin on June 26, 1284? This June on Monthly Spooky, Henrique and Michelle follow the real history behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin—from the medieval town chronicle and the legend of 130 missing children to theories involving plague, the Children’s Crusade, dancing mania, mass migration, and a brightly dressed recruiter known as a “locator.” Then the show takes its usual turn into the month’s funniest, creepiest, and most bewildering paranormal news, biz...

Werewolf folklore, a wartime wax-museum murder, narcotics intrigue, and a fogbound harbor killing converge in four vintage radio nightmares from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler. “Conspiracy to Defraud” opens the Unknown Broadcast with undercover danger, narcotics agents, and international deception. Every identity is suspect, and the machinery of espionage turns a criminal investigation into a deadly contest of appearances. Escape then enters the Carpathian darkne...

Late night horror fiction anthology featuring vampire stories that bite into four different corners of the undead mythos. From a daylight-walking Master Vampire made vulnerable by a solar eclipse, to supernatural romance in a convenience store and brutal strip club slaughter—these vampire horror tales deliver the dark supernatural folklore, mature themes and creature-feature terror that Weekly Spooky fans crave. Perfect for horror enthusiasts, scary story collectors, and late-night listeners see...

Six hours of unsolved murders, disappearances, paranormal reports, and urban legends create an extended late-night horror deep dive. The ten-part collection examines the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, the Keddie Cabin murders, the Mandela Effect, Men in Black encounters, and the Angikuni Lake disappearance alongside other mysteries where evidence, memory, rumor, and folklore collide. It is designed for listeners who want true crime and unexplained history in one substantial marathon. The ten-p...

Walt Disney was cremated, not cryogenically frozen—yet the rumor of his body hidden beneath Disneyland has survived for six decades as one of pop culture’s hardiest urban legends. Thursday Thrills begins with the familiar image: a frost-covered chamber beneath Pirates of the Caribbean, where the futurist behind Tomorrowland waits for medicine to conquer death. The details change from teller to teller—sometimes the entire body was preserved, sometimes only his head—but the documented record does...

The cursed 00 jersey grows more dangerous as the horror fiction anthology continues at Camp Red Feather. In Part 4 of Summer of the Demon, Eddie Richter wakes up injured but not defeated, and the battle against the Demon becomes more desperate than ever. After surviving another brutal attack, Eddie realizes the nightmare may have a weakness. But knowing how to fight the Demon and actually surviving the fight are two very different things. As storm clouds gather, practice turns strange, teammate...

Horror history spirals into paranoia and infection this week—from The Thing's frozen body horror to 28 Days Later's rage-virus chaos, The Omen's cursed bloodline, 1408's haunted hotel nightmare, and Quake's gothic digital terror. Henrique explores how June 22–28 birthed some of horror's most influential outbreak and supernatural films, dissecting what made them landmarks in horror legends and why they still feel dangerously relevant today. Inside this episode: • 1408 turns one hotel room into a...

On spring break 2006, Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer walked into a crowded Columbus bar—and vanished without a trace. Security cameras captured him near the Ugly Tuna Saloon moments before closing, but footage mysteriously never showed him leaving. Explore one of Ohio's most baffling true crime mysteries: the search for answers, theories that haunted the South Campus Gateway, and the supernatural questions that remain unsolved nearly two decades later. This episode of Terrifying & Tru...

Unknown Broadcast presents Horror Stories of Lies, Living Wood, Wrong Numbers, and Poisoned Love, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in old-time radio suspense, love, family, and betrayal, and murder, disappearance, and investigation and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Tonight, the signal begins with a rainy road, a frightened son, and a father’s desperate attempt to bury the truth. Then we step Out of This World into a nightmare of stage lights, ventriloquism, and a dummy th...

Four babysitter horror stories turn quiet homes, ringing telephones, bad cousins, secret experiments, and a haunted bridge into deadly traps. The collection includes “Angel and Babysitting,” “The Trouble with Cousins,” “The Babysitter,” and “Cry Baby Bridge.” Serial-killer suspense, mad-science horror, and Strickfield folklore all begin with ordinary responsibilities—and the terrible decisions that make someone else’s cautionary tale. “Angel in Babysitting” begins with a caretaker whose own se...

True crime horror gets cinematic in this anthology: serial killers, unsolved murders, and supernatural folklore collide as real killers prove darker than horror fiction. Discover how monsters hide using superstition and fear. From farmhouses to dating shows, explore where true crime mystery meets cursed truths—with dark humor and spine-tingling ambiance. Terrifying & True returns with a special collection of disturbing true crime, serial killers, unsolved murders, scary stories, and mature them...

Bigfoot, Mothman, Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie became more than monster stories—they became symbols of the landscapes and communities that claim them. Thursday Thrills takes a dark road trip through cryptid folklore and asks how an unexplained creature becomes a hometown legend. Bigfoot feels inseparable from the wet forests and logging roads of the Pacific Northwest. The Loch Ness Monster turns a cold, deep Scottish lake into a place of romantic mystery. Chupacabra stories transfor...

Cursed objects awaken at Camp Red Feather as the horror fiction anthology continues. In Part 3 of Summer of the Demon, Eddie digs deeper into a monstrous curse that claims the camp is hiding dark secrets. The Demon grows stronger, the truth more dangerous, and Eddie realizes: everyone knows something they’re refusing to tell him. How far will he go to uncover what happened that summer? The nightmare at Camp Red Feather continues as Eddie Richter searches for answers behind the cursed football j...

Horror history gets iconic, aquatic, gothic, apocalyptic, and completely unhinged this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 15–21 with motel terror, shark sequels, dark superhero nightmares, zombie blockbuster chaos, and one wild space-vampire cult classic that brings cosmic horror crashing down on Earth. This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror, summer blockbusters, gothic comic-book horror, zombie disaster cinema, and 1980s Cannon Films ma...

Highway 16 in northern British Columbia became known as the Highway of Tears after decades of women and girls—many Indigenous—disappeared along this remote corridor. This episode investigates the true crime horror, unsolved disappearances, and the dark folklore that emerged from tragedy. Explore the real cases, the landscape that enabled them, and how a highway itself became haunted by its history. A cinematic dive into one of Canada's most devastating mysteries. We examine the victims, the iso...

Four eerie tales of gothic horror and betrayal unfold tonight. A desert archaeological dig uncovers fresh horror instead of ancient history. Then Owl Creek Bridge becomes a nightmare of illusion, escape, and doom. Witchcraft, stagecraft, and murder collide in flames and suspicion. Finally, The Whistler arrives with a crime story where the cleverest plan may already be waiting to betray you. Expert narration. Immersive darkness. Spine-tingling twists. 🪦 Dig Me Deadly A desert excavation turns in...