Episodes

Ten ghost stories gather haunted lakes, cemeteries, cursed homes, sinister screens, urban legends, and restless spirits in a long marathon. Featured tales include “The Spirit of Langley Pond,” “Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s,” “Ghost in the Graveyard,” “Ghost Story,” “Suffer the Little Children,” “Ghosts in the Machine,” “Homecoming,” “Cry Baby Bridge,” and “Ophiuchus.” Settle in for nearly four hours of apparitions, digital hauntings, demonic houses, and local legends. Stories...

Sarah and Keith buy a one-dollar ceramic bowl at a yard sale and bring the ghost of missing artist Sylvester Helm into their apartment. Their Sunday hunt for a vacuum cleaner produces only an uneven piece of “punk-rock pottery” stamped with the name Sylvester. At first the bowl merely shifts when nobody is watching. Then it appears in rooms where the couple did not leave it, a human shape rises beneath their bedcovers, and a cold, translucent man touches Sarah while she sleeps. Online research...

Abandoned asylums, ghostly lovers, and the legend of the vanishing hitchhiker lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. Vanishing-hitchhiker stories attach a fleeting passenger to a road, a death, and a driver who learns the truth too late. The ghostly love triangle gives haunting an intimate motive, while an abandoned asylum supplies a location where reputation and evidence blur. The nose-bug story brings the episode back to a more physical and immediate form of unease. Rather than forcing...

Reporter Fred Peterson meets Hedy Parsons after her husband vanishes from a snowbound car—and returns insisting he was never there at all. Hedy says Tom stepped out at a traffic light to clear snow from the rear window. A police officer finds no trace of him, and Fred senses a story in the frightened woman’s impossible account. When Tom reappears, he claims he spent the evening at home and warns the reporter to stay away from his wife. The mystery deepens as Tom describes an earlier husband wh...

A solar eclipse briefly makes vampire Bella Taibon almost human—just as two magically transformed enemies arrive to destroy her. Eileen “Einny” Donnerly finds Bella waiting above Strickfield, determined to experience the rare darkness that suppresses her undead strength, speed, and healing. Bella never wanted immortality and treasures the eclipse as a short chance to feel mortal again. For once she can watch the shadowed sun without supernatural power separating her from the life she lost. The...

Six people were murdered at Germany’s isolated Hinterkaifeck farm in 1922, and evidence suggested the killer remained there after the crime. Andreas and Cäzilia Gruber, their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her children Cäzilia and Josef, and newly arrived maid Maria Baumgartner were found dead on April 4. Four bodies had been stacked and covered with hay in the barn; Maria and two-year-old Josef were discovered inside the farmhouse. Investigators believed a mattock-like farm tool caused the...

Boris Karloff stars in an Inner Sanctum adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” where restored hearing becomes a curse of impossible sound. Simon is a musician whose deafness has been cured by Doctor Endair. Instead of simply returning him to ordinary life, the treatment sharpens his hearing until whispers, footsteps, and the hidden noises of the world become unbearable. He is not the doctor’s only extraordinary patient: Oliver, once blind, has emerged with vision heightened beyo...

Bad Moon (1996) 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. This week we've got a film to really sink your teeth into as we head deep into the woods to join Henrqiue and David for one of the most underrated werewolf movies of all time! After surviving a brutal wolf attack, a photo-journalist Ted decides to stay in a trailer parked near his sister's house in the hopes that in being near...

An asylum psychiatrist tries to teach a remorseless patient impulse control, then finds the escaped killer has brought torture and murder to his own home. Frederick does not understand why hurting people is wrong. The doctor knows the violent man should never leave the institution, but a security failure unleashes him on the outside world and destroys everything the psychiatrist loves, including his wife Elizabeth. Their confrontation ends in blood, fire, and an electrical accident that transfo...

Census worker Bill Sparkman was found hanging in a remote Kentucky cemetery with “FED” written on his chest, his death staged to suggest an anti-government killing. The September 2009 scene in Clay County was deliberately alarming: Sparkman was bound with duct tape, gagged, stripped, and displayed with his Census Bureau identification. The location, the federal marking, and local tensions over government authority and the upcoming 2010 census fueled national speculation that he had been murdere...

Ada Canby’s dying boarder confesses to a ten-year-old murder, leaving the elderly landlady with names that powerful men want buried. Mr. Paulson arrived from Brazil with little luggage, a cage of birds, and an illness that quickly became fatal. Before dying in Ada’s house, he claims that he—not the imprisoned Lindell—killed Richardson for money. Ada wants no part of murder or police business, but curiosity leads her to the old case: Richardson and Lindell were investment partners, and a witness...

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sphinx transforms a summer retreat and a distant shape on the hillside into a study of fear, perception, and the mind’s readiness to magnify disaster. Seeking refuge from the epidemic in a relative’s cottage beside the Hudson River, Poe’s unnamed narrator becomes consumed by death reports and morbid thought. At the window he witnesses a creature of impossible size, with a skull-like mark across its body, descending the wooded slope. His host offers a rational explanation, ...

A viral candy-snorting dare opens babysitter Clarrisa Hart’s wounded nose to flesh-eating larvae as a supernatural fly outbreak consumes Kohler. Nine-year-old Grover Wright and his brother Will only want more post-Halloween candy. Their bored babysitter offers pizza if they perform a dangerous social-media challenge, but the stunt leaves Clarrisa bleeding just as strange, oil-slick flies begin appearing around town. What first looks like an unusually warm November infestation becomes a case of ...

Seventeen-year-old Junko Furuta was kidnapped in November 1988 and held for forty days before four teenage captors murdered her in Tokyo. Terrifying & True presents this case without turning Junko’s suffering into spectacle. Hiroshi Miyano, Nobuharu Minato, Jō Ogura, and Yasushi Watanabe abducted her as she traveled home from work, threatened her family, and confined her in the Minato residence. Forced phone calls misled her parents after they reported her missing. She died on January 4, 1989, ...

A sapphire ring vanishes during a New York supper party, and the guests agree to count to one hundred in total darkness so the thief can return it. At the Artists and Writers Club, a group debates whether clever crimes can ever be solved without luck or confession. Their conversation turns to a seemingly simple social mystery: during an intimate gathering, a hostess removes three rings and secures them on a hatpin in her bedroom. Minutes later, the sapphire is gone, even though only a small cir...

Horror author Charles Campbell interviews Weekly Spooky creator Henrique Couto about the show, his filmmaking, and the work behind audio horror. The 2024 Horror 421 conversation offers a creator-focused look at writing, directing, producing, and sustaining Weekly Spooky rather than a fictional story, making Henrique’s process the searchable subject. Charles Campbell turns the microphone toward Henrique’s creative career: building Weekly Spooky, directing and producing independent movies, worki...

Whitney Mirren becomes a ghost bride at her Strickfield wedding, using a cursed bouquet to punish the fiancé and family members who betrayed her. Her high-school sweetheart Lance has cheated with Whitney’s mother and a stripper, yet the ceremony at Strickfield Community Church continues. As Minister Delphine Brewster-Sloane begins the vows, Whitney transforms: marble-pale skin, red eyes, locked doors, and a bridal rage that turns the sanctuary into a supernatural execution ground. The horror d...

Mothman, strange pregnancies, and Valentine's Day gifts you'll never forget... even if you try lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. The Valentine segment looks at gifts whose meaning or consequence goes disastrously wrong, while reports of unusual pregnancies and a roasted groundhog supply the month’s stranger headlines. Mothman gives the episode its most enduring legend: a winged figure associated with Point Pleasant, ominous sightings, and decades of cryptid debate. Monthly Spooky mo...

A letter mailed by someone long dead sends attorney Joe Parker back to an abandoned Hudson estate and a murder hidden since 1918. Twenty-five years earlier, Major Jerry Kenyon was found shot inside a vine-covered summer house. His death was accepted as suicide, even though the people gathered in the main house included his wife Isabel, his brother Paul, the maid Kitty, and the talkative Diane Fisk. A phonograph recording machine captured their voices while gunfire from the cellar and the bright...

In 1992, two boys tune an old radio to a dead man’s voice—and discover the signal from Carl Gitter’s house wants to take them off the air forever. Twelve-year-old Josh is obsessed with ghosts but has never found convincing evidence. That changes when he befriends Mike, whose family has moved into the notorious Gitter House in Boring, Oregon. Carl Gitter was an amateur electrical engineer and ham-radio operator who tried to contact the other side in the 1940s. A 1949 newspaper report says he att...

Days before Halloween 1982, Charlie and Niecy investigate screams next door and learn why young Libby must sleep outside when her parents get hungry. Ten-year-old Charlie Banks lives with his formidable grandmother, Louise “Mama Lou” Corley, on Oak Street in Gloverville, South Carolina. His best friend Denise “Niecy” Watkins lives across the road. Mama Lou repeatedly warns them to stay away from Tommy and Betty Reynolds—the “creeps” next door—and from their dirt-streaked daughter, Libby. The c...

In the blazing English summer of 1921, a young would-be novelist rents a room where something unseen follows him down the stairs. At twenty-one, the traveler arrives in the village of Crone’s Stratford and takes lodging with Mrs. Wayne and her companion, Mrs. Jennison, at an ordinary red-brick cottage in Sebastopol Terrace. The household is welcoming, yet an unexplained fear grows whenever the two women leave him alone. Footsteps or a presence seem to trail him from the upstairs room, and the p...

My Bloody Valentine (1981) brings a miner-masked killer back to Valentine Bluffs when the town revives the dance forbidden after an earlier massacre. This week, our hosts are in a bloody romantic mood as we join them in Valentine Bluffs where a madman is filling candy boxes with torn hearts & picking off anyone who dares to celebrate Valentine's Day in the 1981 slasher classic "My Bloody Valentine" ! Directed by George Mihalka and starring Lori Hallier & Neil Affleck, this 80s slasher is a fan ...

Horror host and scream queen Vickie Valentine is preparing a Valentine’s broadcast before joining her girlfriend Bethany Mirren at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Horror Con. The convention will premiere the newest film in Vickie’s slasher franchise. A movie production built around masks, monsters, and manufactured scares becomes dangerously real when an actual creature finds its way into the celebration. Cast, fans, and filmmakers must determine which terror belongs to the script before the ...