Episodes

Natalie Wood’s 1981 death off Catalina Island began as an accidental-drowning case, but conflicting accounts and later evidence kept the mystery alive for decades. The acclaimed actress was aboard the yacht Splendour over Thanksgiving weekend with her husband Robert Wagner, her Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, and captain Dennis Davern. After dinner ashore and drinking aboard the yacht, Wood disappeared during the night. Her body was found the next morning, and investigators initially con...

A grieving scholar mourning Lenore receives a midnight visitor whose answer to every desperate question is the same: “Nevermore.” The narrator tries to lose himself in old books on a bleak December night when a tapping begins at his chamber door. He first finds darkness, then a raven that enters through the window and perches above him on a bust of Pallas. Amused by the bird’s single word, the lonely man begins asking questions he knows cannot bring comfort. Memory, superstition, and self-torm...

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...

Sixteen-year-old Karlie Lain Gusé vanished from California’s Chalfant Valley on October 13, 2018, leaving her phone behind and a trail that ended beside Highway 6. The previous evening, Karlie attended a gathering and called her stepmother for help while frightened and disoriented. Her family brought her home and stayed with her through the night. By morning, the front door was open and Karlie was gone. Multiple witnesses later reported seeing a girl matching her description walking south near ...

Meet “Weird Darkness,” Darren Marlar’s anthology of true paranormal accounts, legends, unsolved mysteries, and narrated tales of the unexplained. This feed introduction points Weekly Spooky listeners toward another audio-first destination for ghosts, strange creatures, dark history, and stories that sit between documented mystery and supernatural possibility. Hosted and narrated by Darren Marlar, Weird Darkness explores the shadowed territory where eyewitness accounts, folklore, crime, history...

Five more Valentine horror stories pair desire with death, following relationships that curdle into obsession, violence, and supernatural consequence. Volume two continues the love-and-blood anthology with a separate lineup of macabre romances, preserving each story’s final betrayal or reckoning. Volume two offers a separate set of relationships and threats, allowing love to become motive, trap, weapon, or supernatural invitation. The stories explore the danger of being chosen, rejected, betra...

Scream queen Vickie Valentine films a slasher sequel at a horror convention, only to be abducted by ghouls who want to make her an undead bride. After leaving adult film behind, Vickie has become the “Scream Supreme” through cult horror hits made with Jessie and Jennie Corgen. Slasher II: Valentine’s Day is meant to continue her final-girl story at the Ridgeway Heights Horror Con. Then a towering fan named Flint and his mother Victoria kidnap Vickie, carry her into the Strickfield Backwoods, an...

Anthony and Nathaniel Cook terrorized Toledo, Ohio, through murder, abduction, rape, and attempted murder—then DNA helped expose crimes that had remained unresolved for nearly two decades. Beginning in 1980, the brothers attacked couples and young people across Lucas County. Their victims included Thomas Gordon, Connie Sue Thompson, Dawn Rene Backes, Scott Moulton, Denise Siotkowski, Daryl Cole, Stacy Lynn Balonek, and Peter Sawicki. A surviving victim’s account and fingerprints led to Anthony ...

Five Valentine horror stories explore love, lust, obsession, betrayal, and the bloody price of wanting another person too much. Volume one replaces romantic comfort with macabre relationships and masochistic consequences, offering a full seasonal collection for listeners who prefer their valentines dark. The stories use romance as a source of vulnerability: attraction can become control, devotion can harden into possession, and intimacy gives dangerous people or supernatural forces a way insid...

An escaped killer takes hostages at an Arizona desert motel, where a forbidden military site and an impossible doorway threaten to fracture time. Jane Whitman arrives at the Isotope Inn carrying grief, a revolver, and the secret of her husband’s death. Todd Torivio and Carly Allen are working the isolated motel when bank robber Del Bailen, Sherri, and the albino twins Spider and Fly storm inside. The gang’s violence is only the beginning: Black Ridge, a former nuclear-testing area, is broadcast...

Living inside a funeral home, swallowing LEGO pieces for science, and romances that end in death give this Monthly Spooky episode an unusually intimate view of the macabre. Henrique and Michelle return to the crypt with strange news about the practical—and psychological—reality of making a home where the dead are prepared for burial. The setting invites a conversation about what people normalize when death becomes part of the workplace and what still feels unsettling after the lights go out. T...

Five stories of wolves, dogs, werebeasts, and other fanged predators explore what happens when the pack stops fearing people. The collection moves through transformation, animal attack, and monster folklore while supporting Chicano’s veterinary care, giving its hair-raising theme a real-world purpose. Across the five tales, canine familiarity gives way to predation. Some threats draw on werewolf transformation and monster folklore; others make ordinary dogs, wild packs, or large unidentified b...

Drake Kazmierczak confronts his fiancée Raige Deveraux as the Angel of Death, forcing love, justice, and her lifelong bloodlust into a final reckoning. With Queen of Hearts killer Rigby Brewster bound to a table, Raige insists that prison cannot answer for the innocent lives Rigby destroyed. Drake cannot accept vigilante execution, yet he also cannot shoot the woman he loves. Raige finally admits that she has never felt emotion and chose him only as a trusted companion—until Drake’s uncondition...

Anonymous letters turned Circleville, Ohio, into a maze of accusations, surveillance, death, and attempted murder—and the writer’s identity was never conclusively established. The campaign began in 1976 when school-bus driver Mary Gillispie received letters accusing her of an affair with superintendent Gordon Massie. Her husband Ron was threatened as well. After Ron died in a 1977 vehicle crash following a mysterious phone call, the letters returned with allegations of a cover-up and signs appe...

A wounded Raige Deveraux returns to the Queen of Hearts killer’s river house as Detective Drake Kazmierczak closes in on her identity as the Angel of Death. After removing Drake’s bullet at a hidden safehouse, Raige realizes she cannot explain the wound or safely return to their apartment. She decides to end Rigby Brewster’s threat and leave Strickfield forever. At the river house, however, Rigby has recaptured her mother, Delphine, and demands proof that Raige will become her lover. Raige make...

Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were found shot inside a parked Volkswagen at Muncie’s Westside Park, beginning a cold-case investigation that has lasted more than 40 years. Late on September 28, 1985, a police officer clearing the Indiana park discovered the Northside High School students in Ethan’s still-running car. Ethan, 16, had been shot in the chest; Kimberly, 15, had been shot in the head. A third bullet shattered a window. Investigators recovered a knife and an empty gun holster, while...

What should frighten a horror host traveling through Michigan? Fortean investigator Ashley Hilt joins Henrique Couto to explore the state’s cryptid and paranormal reputation. Recorded while Weekly Spooky is on the road in Michigan, this conversation turns a simple trip into a field guide to the strange. Ashley brings an investigator’s perspective to reports of unexplained creatures, hauntings, and other phenomena that sit between folklore and evidence. Henrique wants to know what might be waiti...

Detective Drake Kazmierczak hunts the Angel of Death without realizing the vigilante serial killer is his partner and fiancée, Raige Deveraux. After following a false lead to Camp Rolling Hills, Drake captures Trina Culver—the Cheerleader Killer—but remains obsessed with the masked woman he has pursued for years. Raige follows Queen of Hearts killer Rigby Brewster to a river house on Indian Hollow Road, where Rigby is holding her mother, Delphine Brewster-Sloane, hostage. A grenade and a deadly...

The Keddie Cabin murders left three people dead inside Cabin 28, a child missing, and a California mountain community haunted by questions the first investigation failed to answer. On the morning of April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp returned to her family’s cabin at the Keddie resort and found her mother, Glenna “Sue” Sharp; her brother John; and John’s friend Dana Wingate murdered. Three younger boys had survived elsewhere in the cabin, but 12-year-old Tina Sharp was gone. Her remains were discover...

Lifelong Michigander Stew Miller joins Henrique Couto on the road to explore the state’s Wendigos, Manitous, Melonheads, and regional legends. The conversation connects Michigan’s forests and Indigenous-rooted folklore with local monster stories, giving listeners a resident’s tour of the strange tales attached to the Great Lakes State. Michigan’s geography gives the conversation its shape: enormous lakes, deep forests, remote roads, and communities where stories travel locally long before they...

Raige Devereux is a police intern, a bride-to-be, and a serial killer who secretly judges criminals she believes the law will not stop. In the opening chapter of this four-part miniseries, the hunter begins to suspect that someone has selected her as prey. While Detective Drake Kazmierczak closes in on the truth about the woman he plans to marry, a new killer turns Raige’s private rituals into a personal contest. Evidence, obsession, and competing bloodlusts tighten around a relationship alrea...

The Texas Killing Fields are not one tidy serial-killer story, but a corridor of disappearances, murders, investigative failures, and families still seeking answers. Along Interstate 45 between Houston and Galveston, women and girls vanished or were found dead across several decades. This episode begins with early victims including Colette Wilson, Brenda Jones, Rhonda Johnson, and Sharon Shaw, then follows the cases connected to the remote Calder Road field near League City. The geography made ...

Meet Raigen Devereux—the Angel of Death—across five connected Strickfield horror stories that lead into the Rage’s End miniseries. The Hook sends escaped killer Farley McFaine back toward Strickfield with a prison-issued hook and a college couple in his path. Christmas Rage brings a killer Santa to the Strickfield Towne Centre, forcing Raigen into a holiday collision of family conflict, vigilante justice, and deadly attraction. Catalyst returns to Raigen’s origin as Detective Drake Kazmierczak ...

A New Year’s Eve screening of “Shogun Assassin” becomes a vampire siege when Count Dracula awakens beneath a decaying Manhattan grindhouse. The unnamed narrator only wants to escape the stale popcorn, broken seats, and front-row drunks long enough to see the film he missed the first time. Instead, the homeless men sheltering inside the theater begin feeding on one another. A desperate wooden stake works, but the apparent vampire hunter has no heroic training—he works reception at a blood bank a...