Episodes

Castalia Mirren turns the abandoned Carnovasch Estate into the site of Strickfield’s biggest Halloween party—but the mansion is hiding something below. After being expelled from Strickfield Academy, fearless Castalia starts over at Strickfield High and soon discovers the supposedly haunted Carnovasch Estate with her girlfriend, Bobbi Brett. Ignoring the locked gate and KEEP OUT warning, they decide the deserted mansion is the perfect place for a Halloween celebration. As students from both sch...

Henrique sits down with his good friend and movie fanatic David Denoyer to rundown his exhaustive list of films that will make your Halloween season plenty spooky! From Family Friendly and Mainstream to dark, gritty and underground all are covered! David’s watchlist is organized to serve different audiences rather than insist on one definition of Halloween cinema. Family-friendly choices can begin the night, recognizable mainstream favorites keep a group engaged, and darker independent or unde...

An attempt to egg a Georgia home during a romantic dispute ended with 22-year-old Jonathan Tyler Gilbert shot in the road—and three young defendants facing the consequences. On July 3, 2023, Sydney Maughon, Jeremy Munson, and McKenzie Davenport traveled to a house on Dobbins Mill Road near Griffin. Authorities said the plan involved vandalizing the home and confronting a woman, but the situation changed when Gilbert—also known as Tyler Lane—came outside. Video and the later prosecution establis...

A fugitive hides inside a Caribbean church while an assassin studies every worshipper; then “Execution” delivers supernatural wartime judgment. Escape’s “Violent Night,” written by Les Crutchfield, follows plantation owner Barry O’Grady when revolutionary leader Alicron seizes a Caribbean district and comes to settle an old score. Warned by Pepita, Barry flees through his coffee groves, takes Alicron’s daughter Maria hostage, and disguises them both before seeking sanctuary inside a village chu...

Silver sleigh bells, golden wedding bells, brazen alarms, and iron funeral bells carry Edgar Allan Poe’s poem from delight into terror and mourning. “The Bells” is built as a four-part progression in sound. The light music of winter sleigh bells creates youthful excitement. Wedding bells swell with harmony and promise. Then the tone breaks: fire alarms clang in panic, and the repeated word “bells” begins to imitate noise too urgent for ordinary language. The final movement belongs to heavy iro...

Brooke’s piano lessons at the Brantley estate awaken a witch trapped in the instrument—and the child is expected to feed her a human soul. Eight-year-old Brooke Holden begged to learn piano, but her new teacher, Norma Brantley, is no ordinary instructor. Norma looks decades younger than her eighty-four years, recognizes the presence visiting Brooke’s dreams, and encourages the girl to obey it. Every note strengthens the Piano Witch, a rotting figure imprisoned within the old piano’s wood and st...

How do other cultures celebrate Halloween? Can you cross the Atlantic in a hamster wheel? And is there a Yoga Death Cult in Great Britain?! Each segment follows one of the subjects named in Halloween Around the World, Skinwalker Ranch & Yoga Death Studio, moving between real-world oddities, supernatural lore, and horror entertainment. The result is an easy-to-follow roundup for listeners who enjoy eerie facts, unsettling conversation, and a different doorway into the strange every month. Chec...

Dark Nature (2022) sends survivors of abuse into the Canadian wilderness, where a therapy retreat becomes a fight against a hungry creature. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine writer-director Berkley Brady’s feature debut through its central survivor, Joy. After escaping an abusive boyfriend named Derek, Joy joins best friend Carmen on Dr. Dunnley’s therapeutic camping trip for women living with trauma. A broken trail camera, voices in the woods, shared nightmares, and uncertainty about...

A twenty-two-year-old Strickfield vigilante targets bullies and predators—then discovers another killer staging neighbors among their Halloween decorations. The unnamed narrator has spent years murdering people she considers rude, entitled, bigoted, or dangerous. After eliminating several targets around town, she returns home pleased with her work and reads about a body found two houses away. That victim is not hers. Someone is killing inside her upper-middle-class cul-de-sac, close enough to a...

Nineteen-year-old student Amber Wilde vanished from Green Bay, Wisconsin, in September 1998 after a minor crash left her with a possible concussion. Amber spoke with her father throughout September 23 and asked him to call the next morning so she would wake for class. When she failed to answer, her apartment and car were both empty. Days later, the vehicle appeared near Lambeau Field with the doors unlocked, keys in the ignition, phone on the seat, and purse in the trunk. The driver’s seat had ...

Lulu DuBois has built an authentic life with her wife Denise—until a monstrous embodiment of the identity she buried claws out of the earth. After coming out as transgender, Lulu changed her name, began transitioning, and fought to preserve a marriage tested by fear, family prejudice, and the long work of being seen as herself. In a private garden, she marked that transformation with a symbolic grave for the person she was expected to remain. On the anniversary of that burial, the woods fall un...

Two gas-station workers find a woman’s engagement ring inside a “chicken” nugget and uncover a corporate operation that turns missing people into fast food. Every night, the station loses power from 2:59 to 3:01 a.m., while the security recording skips those two minutes as if they never existed. When Kenny traces the ring to a worker from the company distribution center, his questions expose unmarked white vans, homeless victims, and a brain-destroying drug used to silence employees and whistle...

Henry Lee Lucas, often dubbed "The Confession Killer," was a serial killer known for his jaw-dropping confessions to hundreds of murders across the United States. Yet, the true mystery lies in the unsettling question: Were his claims of committing these heinous acts fact or fiction, and what drove him to such bizarre extremes of deceit? Dive into the captivating world of Pakistani urban legends. From haunted landmarks to enigmatic creatures, prepare to explore the mysterious narratives that def...

The Host (2006) follows a fractured Seoul family racing to rescue a kidnapped girl from a mutant creature living in the Han River. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into Bong Joon-ho’s monster film and its balance of creature horror, family drama, dark comedy, grief, and political satire. This spoiler-filled appreciation considers the Park family, government failure, environmental contamination, and why the movie’s emotional stakes cut deeper than a routine monster attack. The creature’s ...

A hiker searching for a lost Oregon ghost town discovers a house guarded by spider-filled jack-o’-lanterns and an eight-eyed creature wearing human skin. Years ago, the narrator entered Alder Creek forest hoping to locate an abandoned wool town. Lost after dark, he found a grotesque carved pumpkin containing a nest of spiders and a black arachnid the size of a baseball glove. Fog, a distant fire, and the need for shelter led him to an unmapped house filled with antiques—and a trunk packed with ...

CBS anchor Dan Rather was attacked on a New York sidewalk by a man demanding, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”—a question that became a pop-culture mystery. On October 4, 1986, Rather was walking toward his Park Avenue apartment when a stranger beat and kicked him while repeating the bizarre phrase. A doorman interrupted the assault, but the attackers escaped and no immediate motive emerged. The question spread through comics, music, and television, most famously inspiring R. E. M.’s 1994 singl...

Seven food horror stories turn honey, ritual feasts, meat, coffee, family dinner, Thanksgiving, and tacos into deadly appetites. David O’Hanlon’s “All the Busy Bees” follows Chuck Byers into an Arkansas company where engineered vulture bees turn dead flesh into red honey. Mark T. B. Shields’s “For the Mother” invites myth scholar Astrid to Baldur Borson’s mountain estate for a winter-solstice feast rooted in Norse ritual. Rob Fields’s “You Are What You Eat” brings workplace bully Aaron Jameston...

A family cat develops an unnatural hunger, attacks two children, and returns from apparent death with red eyes and something demonic inside her. Pashmina and Coco have lived with the family for fifteen years, but a strange illness begins after Pashmina is accidentally trapped in the basement. Weight loss, a crooked jaw, destructive behavior, and relentless eating continue until she dies. Four weeks later, Coco shows the same symptoms—then knocks seven-year-old Michael from a tree and turns her ...

We cover invading bunnies, really awesome sea otters, hellish places all over the world, and a chair for sale that is definitely not haunted. Stop trying to think it is haunted, you look foolish. Each segment follows one of the subjects named in Invading Bunnies, Abandoned-Island Screams & a Fearless Sea Otter, moving between real-world oddities, supernatural lore, and horror entertainment. It is part paranormal conversation, part horror-culture catch-up, and part invitation to follow the mon...

Edgar Allan Poe conceals Frances Sargent Osgood’s name inside a playful poetic puzzle that asks readers to find what is written but unseen. Also associated with the title “A Valentine,” the poem praises its subject while teasing anyone who tries to identify her through an ordinary reading. Poe invokes earlier literary puzzles and tells the reader that the secret is hidden in the words, yet the obvious approaches lead away from the answer. The construction supplies the key. The first letter of ...

A night guard patrolling an isolated wind farm learns that the burned turbine in the woods is tied to a Bigfoot-like creature seeking revenge. After surviving strange-rule jobs in a fire tower and a secret warehouse, the narrator hopes a security shift among windmills will finally be ordinary. The first patrol reveals a missing turbine, scorched trees, and a forest that falls silent whenever he approaches. Later, a seven-foot hairy creature chases the truck at nearly thirty-five miles an hour, ...

Pakistan’s urban legends lead from a woman with backward feet to haunted roads, palaces, islands, and buildings where the past is said to remain dangerously present. Terrifying & True gathers stories from several regions rather than treating one legend as a verified case. The episode visits Old Sukkur’s Jinnat Building, Karachi’s Karsaz Road and Devil’s Point, the Mohatta Palace, and a lodge associated with sudden deaths. It also follows the Pichal Peri, a shapeshifting female spirit whose beau...

Barbarian (2022) sends a traveler into a double-booked Detroit rental where a hidden passage reveals that the house’s danger runs far deeper. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore Zach Cregger’s horror film, its sharp structural turns, Bill Skarsgård’s unsettling ambiguity, Justin Long’s compromised character, and the underground nightmare beneath the neighborhood. The spoiler-filled discussion examines trust, abuse, empathy, and the way the movie redirects audience expectations. The disc...

On her first day in Black Springs, Deputy Sheri Davis discovers an ageless, violent girl restrained beneath a Catholic church in a town with no Catholics. After a controversial shooting ends her Dallas police career, Sheri accepts Sheriff Andy Barnes’s offer to start over in tiny Black Springs, Texas. The population is 1,432, the county is quiet, and Barnes seems prepared to ease his new deputy into the job—until Father Ortega calls from an isolated church and the sheriff treats it as an emerge...