Episodes

Three children were murdered and their Ashland, Kentucky, home burned just before Christmas 1881, igniting trials, a lynching, and a deadly militia confrontation. Fanny and Robert Gibbons were staying with their friend Emma Thomas when neighbors discovered the Gibbons house in flames on December 24. The fire concealed a triple murder that outraged the close-knit town. George Ellis, William Neal, and Ellis Craft were arrested; Ellis gave an account implicating the others, while Neal and Craft ma...

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Bella Taibon returns from suspension to stop a succubus feeding on Strickfield High—and discovers the demon has targeted Principal Matthew Van Diest. Quarterback Jason Norman gets Bella suspended after groping her and learning what happens when someone puts unwanted hands on a Master Vampire. A week later, best friend Eileen “Einny” Donnerly reports that transfer student Lavender Callier has every boy in school under her spell. Bella uses a careful touch of vampiric glam to make Van Diest forge...

Jimmy Hoffa, the powerful former president of the Teamsters union, disappeared before a planned meeting outside Detroit on July 30, 1975. His body has never been found. Terrifying & True follows James Riddle Hoffa from his rise through the American labor movement to the corruption cases, prison sentence, organized-crime associations, and bitter struggle to regain influence over the Teamsters. Hoffa was expected to meet Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone at the Machus Red Fox re...

“Funny Games” (2007) invades a family’s vacation with calculated psychological terror while forcing the audience to confront its own appetite for screen violence. The discussion examines the plot, fourth-wall ruptures, realism, audience complicity, and Michael Haneke’s refusal to deliver the comforting rules or catharsis expected from a home-invasion thriller. Rather than offering the release expected from a conventional thriller, Funny Games repeatedly interrupts the rules that normally prote...

On his seventeenth birthday, Stratton Duke steals a county stop sign and carries it into an eight-sided barn to summon South Carolina’s Stop-Sign Man. The Crow County ritual has three rules: go alone, never tell anyone what you see, and do not get caught. Stratton grew up hearing that the entity has spinning red octagons for eyes and appears inside the abandoned Williamson barn. He once feared the legend; now he wants enough of an edge to impress new classmate Allison Weaving and prove himself ...

The Philadelphia Experiment, screams coming from beneath a basement, and fish with humanlike teeth fill this month’s crypt with paranormal history and strange news. Henrique and Michelle begin with reports that turn ordinary places and animals into nightmare material. A home becomes frightening when unexplained cries seem to rise from somewhere below the basement, while a peculiar fish story proves that nature can design a mouth more unsettling than many movie monsters. The episode’s central m...

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado follows Montresor into the carnival catacombs, where he uses Fortunato’s pride in his wine expertise to carry out a meticulous revenge. Insulted but outwardly friendly, Montresor exploits Fortunato’s pride as a wine connoisseur. Bells ringing from a fool’s costume, damp walls coated with nitre, family bones, and repeated warnings about a cough accompany their descent through the catacombs. By the time Fortunato recognizes the trowel and freshly laid sto...

Horror story of ghost revenge and true-crime obsession collide in Hell Hath No Fury—a dark, twisty tale of a young bride, a powerful older husband, and a dinner party that ends in a split-second “accident”… followed by a public frenzy that demands blood. Years later, the legend of Zelda Mae Darling becomes a tourist attraction, a media circus, and a content farm for influencers chasing clicks at any cost. But some stories don’t stay buried. When modern true-crime creators push one stunt too fa...

RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, killing more than 1,500 people—but the disaster still attracts mysteries, disputed explanations, and conspiracy theories. Terrifying & True examines the documented sinking alongside claims that have grown around it. Could a coal fire have weakened the ship before departure? Did brittle steel or faulty rivets make the collision more destructive? What happened to the final ice warning from the nearby Californian, and could unusual atmosphe...

Filmmaker and journalist Andrew Shearer interviews Henrique Couto about producing 200 episodes of Weekly Spooky over the show’s first three years. The retrospective explores how the audio fiction is made, lessons from sustaining a weekly schedule, the collaborators behind the feed, and where Henrique hopes to take the show next. The conversation looks behind the finished narration at the practical work required to release original horror on a weekly schedule: finding and developing stories, re...

A recovered cassette captures the final Ricky and Rocky radio broadcast, when a live interview with a psychic opens the studio to a spirit called Lock. WGAB’s popular weekend hosts expect comedy, callers, and an easy ratings boost from New Orleans medium Sophia Martin. Ricky humiliates her by inventing a dead brother, then demands she summon something genuinely supernatural. The challenge works too well. An unknown presence takes control of Ricky, reads callers’ secrets, and turns its attention...

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is a documented historical mystery from Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, where an English settlement established in 1587 disappeared before Governor John White returned. The colony included women and children, among them White’s daughter Eleanor Dare and his newborn granddaughter Virginia Dare. England’s earlier Roanoke attempt had already failed amid shortages and violent conflict with Indigenous communities. When the later settlers needed supplies, Whit...

Edgar Allan Poe turns childhood memory into a dark dream of pride, mystery, and a bright hope that has vanished beyond recovery. First published in 1827, “Imitation” is one of Poe’s earliest poems. Its speaker looks back on a life shaped by visions no one else could share, describing youth as an unfathomable tide suspended between waking thought and dream. What once seemed bright has passed, leaving a mind haunted by its own private history and unable to find ordinary worldly rest. The poem al...

A nighttime dog attack leaves an injured runner healing impossibly fast—then the full moon brings hunger, blackouts, and a brutal transformation. The bite requires thirty-seven stitches, but within two days the wound is gone. An old knee injury heals with it. Smell, night vision, speed, and strength sharpen until ordinary people seem painfully slow, while anger and the scent of blood become almost impossible to resist. A family visit ends with the narrator attacking a sister-in-law and biting a...

Teenager Danny LaPlante hid inside a Massachusetts family’s walls, imitated their dead mother, and later murdered a neighboring mother and two children. In 1986, LaPlante targeted sisters Annie and Jessica Andrews after a brief date with Annie. He broke into their home, moved through a concealed crawlspace, stole food, watched the family, and made noises the grieving girls initially interpreted as supernatural contact. Police eventually discovered him behind a bedroom wall, turning an apparent ...

Five summer horror stories turn haunted water, a closing camp, werewolf country, a cemetery inn, and a bayou prank into deadly vacations. Charles Campbell’s “The Spirit of Langley Pond” brings a cruel prank to the South Carolina water where Alayna Sanders was murdered forty years earlier. John Oak Dalton’s “Camp Dead and Buried” traps the remaining counselors at Camp Elderberry on the hottest night in Indiana history, when the last night of summer becomes a slasher massacre. In David O’Hanlon’...

Seventeen-year-old Lucy Burr leads five Beaver Scouts into forbidden Missouri woods, where Momo hunts children with arrows, snares, and deadly traps. Lucy thinks a campfire story will scare Timmy, Rebecca, Paolo, Ralph, and Tiffany into paying attention. She tells them how a 1976 camping party vanished near Sweetwater Lake, leaving shredded tents, enormous bare footprints, and a finger bone in the creature’s dung. The legend says Momo—the Missouri Monster—is a shaggy, orange-eyed forest ape. Th...

Possession turns a collapsing marriage into feverish body horror as a husband discovers that his estranged wife’s secret is far stranger than an affair. Henrique Couto and Selis of Sweet N Spooky cut into Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 cult film, starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. Set in a divided Berlin, the story follows Mark and Anna through separation, jealousy, surveillance, violence, and an increasingly surreal struggle over identity. The hosts explore how the film transforms the emotional ...

Roni and Derek enter a corpse-filled prom at Strickfield High, where Lillian Johanssen’s final coronation demands two living victims. The locked gym has been transformed into a grotesque school dance. Rotting bodies fill the tables and dance floor, murdered classmates form a prom queen’s court, and Lillian sits preserved upon a throne beneath a blood-red banner. One final place remains empty—and whoever created this Prom Night of the Dead intends Roni Brunswick and Derek Masters to complete the...

Mysterious green water, life beneath the ocean, and a woman who says she can taste other dimensions lead into the Jersey Devil. Henrique Couto and Michelle compare the month’s strangest stories before descending into the Pine Barrens folklore, sightings, and cultural afterlife of New Jersey’s signature cryptid. The opening stories make room for environmental mystery and unusual sensory experience before the episode reaches New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. There, the Jersey Devil becomes a case study...

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher brings an unnamed narrator to Roderick Usher’s decaying mansion, where family illness and the house itself appear fatally connected. Roderick Usher is tormented by acute senses, ancestral dread, and fear of an approaching catastrophe. His twin sister Madeline suffers from a mysterious illness that leaves her near death. When she is placed in the family vault, a violent storm and the sounds of something moving within the house transform grief into...

The ghost of murdered prom candidate Lillian Johanssen stalks Strickfield High, punishing secrets as Roni and Derek search for the killer. Roni Brunswick is trying to survive summer school, satisfy the terms keeping her out of prison, and graduate beside Derek Masters. That fragile plan collapses as classmates connected to the Prom from Hell begin dying. Regal Fairlane’s affair with teacher Austin Zachery and Primrose Mirren’s hidden crimes make both women targets, while a glowing figure resemb...

Pale children with completely black eyes appear at doors and car windows, asking for help—and insisting that they cannot enter until someone gives permission. Terrifying & True explores the Black-Eyed Children, a modern paranormal legend that began spreading through a Texas ghost-story mailing list in 1996. The encounters follow a repeating pattern: ordinary-looking children approach at night, avoid eye contact, and request a ride, a phone, money, shelter, or access to a home. Only when the wit...