Episodes

Golem folklore, ghost ships, Grinch-related weirdness, and Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 bring Jewish legend and chaotic Christmas horror into the crypt. Henrique and Michelle begin with strange news involving an alleged ghost ship, an adult-film personality, and a headline worthy of the Grinch. The stories move between the unexplained and the absurd before the episode turns toward one of folklore’s most enduring artificial beings. The hosts explore the golem: a figure from Jewish traditio...

Settle in for a spoken-word reading of Clement Clarke Moore’s “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the classic poem of a mysterious Christmas Eve visit. This gentle holiday interlude preserves the poem’s familiar stockings, rooftop arrival, reindeer, and St. Nicholas imagery as a quiet fireside counterpoint to Weekly Spooky’s usual terror. The poem follows a household settling into Christmas Eve silence before rooftop footsteps, a miniature sleigh, and eight reindeer announce an impossible visi...

Eight early Henrique Couto horror stories reveal the handmade roots of Weekly Spooky, from werewolf revenge and haunted houses to grave robbers, vampires, and a prison revolt. Originally released on the compact-disc collections Don’t Listen in the Dark Volumes 1 and 2, these stories were written and performed by Henrique before Weekly Spooky existed. “Built for Death” traps a crooked contractor behind the cost-cutting decisions that made him rich—and leaves him exposed to a werewolf. “The House...

On Christmas Eve, Santa’s killer elf Peppermint Ray arrives to punish Derek—a man whose secret basement earns him a place on a very special naughty list. Derek has escaped Christmas judgment since childhood. He talked his way past Ray once and killed the next elves sent to correct the mistake, growing into a wealthy predator who treats other people as disposable. When the jingling assassin returns with a curved sword and a man-eating reindeer called Brute Cake, Derek believes another clever lie...

A man dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at an Ortega family Christmas Eve gathering in Covina, California, then burned the home with a homemade fuel sprayer. On December 24, 2008, Bruce Pardo arrived carrying wrapped equipment and multiple weapons. Eight-year-old Katrina Yuzefpolsky survived the first shot, while relatives fled through windows and across neighboring yards. Gunfire and the rapidly spreading blaze killed nine members of the Ortega family, including Pardo’s former wife, Sylvia Or...

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A Christmas software update transforms Charles, the Molson family’s android butler, into a murderous Robo Santa with a very literal naughty list. In 2047, Rollins Robotics dominates the market for Personal Android Servants. Its new Santa modification promises festive songs, gift wrapping, and a perfectly automated Christmas morning. George and Helen Molson install it on their trusted RMS-X715, Charles, then leave the machine to care for teenagers Kevin and Allison and twins Tommy and Tammy whil...

Five Sodder children vanished during a Christmas Eve house fire in 1945, leaving their family to question whether the blaze concealed an abduction. George and Jennie Sodder were asleep in their Fayetteville, West Virginia, home when fire broke out shortly after midnight. They escaped with four of their children, but Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie, and Betty were believed to be trapped upstairs. Rescue attempts failed: the family’s ladder was missing, two coal trucks would not start, and the fir...

Support us on Patreon http://patreon.com/IncrediblyHandsome Get into the horror-days with this collection of our most terrifying holiday horrors! Not for the young or easily offended! Get Cool Merchandise https://weeklyspooky.storenvy.com...

Kathy Betcher buys her little sister a Krampus snow globe on Christmas Eve—then becomes the horned spirit’s vessel for a night of bloody judgment. The president of Strickfield University’s Alpha Delta Kappa sorority trusts no one. Betrayal by an unfaithful boyfriend, a former best friend, and her own father hardened Kathy into a ruthless leader who shut out her mother Lorraine and eleven-year-old sister Ruth. A reluctant promise to visit home sends her searching the closing Towne Centre Mall fo...

Santa Claus comes to your home ready to reward you for being good all year... But the creature that comes to punish those who have been bad isn't fat and jolly... He's not even a man! Krampus, the Christmas Demon, is coming! We are telling that...

Janice joins her girlfriend Molly on a Christmas road trip to the small town of Decatur, where a reunion at an old inn is supposed to provide cozy nostalgia—and Perhaps the right moment for a marriage proposal. The picture-perfect holiday setting does not stay peaceful. As Molly reconnects with old friends and Janice tries to feel at home, a local Christmas legend begins cutting through the celebration. Familiar Santa imagery turns threatening, the guest list becomes a hunting ground, and the ...

Hey Gang! Welcome to our month-in-review talk show! A little something extra for the Spookies to enjoy! Michelle and I sit down in the crypt to talk about strange news stories about deadly video games, haunted asylums, and all the terrifying...

On Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a family Thanksgiving hunt targets tentacled turkeys—and reveals why this peculiar holiday meat fights back. Douglas Waltz’s “Turkey Terror” turns the Lake Superior wilderness and a strange family tradition into a creature feature full of seasonal absurdity, danger, and very unconventional dinner plans. The family’s hunt is not a normal trip for a normal bird. In the forests near Lake Superior, generations have learned that these turkeys carry tentacles, resist b...

Chalino Sanchez lived a wild life full of fast women and dangerous men. He wrote songs about those exploits and made many legends along the way. The way he died, however, has become the stuff of legend in its own right. We are telling that story...

Lucien Greyshire can see the dead—and has built a business around giving them work. At an Applebee’s, the scarred proprietor of Greyshire Incorporated spots a Teenage poltergeist tormenting a family and offers the ghost a job in Halloween entertainment. The spirit, who may once have been named Patrick, remembers almost nothing about his life or death. Lucien promises purpose, companionship, and a place where being invisible is an asset, but his unusual recruiting method conceals a darker side ...

Beyond Venezuela's beautiful scenery lurks something mysterious... A black goo capable of causing catastrophic and deadly car accidents but worse yet, NO ONE KNOWS what it is or where it comes from! We are telling that story today, on Terrifying &...

A ruthless supermarket owner finds a decapitated employee in aisle seven and discovers that someone knows exactly how he built his success. The unnamed narrator rose from stockboy to owner of Brown’s General Market in Kohler, Arkansas, while rivals, managers, and even the Brown family suffered a remarkable series of convenient accidents. He loves the store more than any person, and his expansion plan could turn one local market into a regional chain. Late one night, that future appears certain—...

Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, thousands of people have vanished. Hikers, tourists, pilots, and even entire aircraft have disappeared without wreckage, bodies, footprints, or answers. This deadly region has become known as the Alaska Triangle. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we investigate the chilling mystery of the Alaska Triangle, a vast stretch of wilderness connecting Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik. Since 1988, more than 16,000 people have reportedly vanished in this region, where...

Raigen Devereux—the vigilante serial killer known as the Angel of Death—accepts a babysitting job and recognizes something murderous in the child watching her. A week earlier, two young women were slaughtered while caring for ten-year-old Douglas Kazmierczak. The police pursue an outside attacker, but Raigen notices Douglas’s blank stare, calculated behavior, and unsettling resemblance to the person she was when she first began killing. When the boy slips away from his uncle’s home, she follows...

Millicent “Milly” Richards begins her first real job at Bargain Groceries on Halloween night, trading trick-or-treating for shelves, stockrooms, And a paycheck her family needs. Before she clocks in, a red Firebird is already circling too close. Inside the nearly empty supermarket, Milly reunites with her friend Sam, meets an intense manager expecting a special shipment, and learns how isolated the backroom becomes after closing. What begins as ordinary workplace anxiety sharpens into a stalke...

Five family-friendly Halloween horror stories unleash a Chupacabra, ancient mall vampires, a computer ghost, a river siren, and camp monsters. In Morgan Moore’s “The Beast of Roca de Vaca,” Patrick, Sean, and Tommy slip away during a school trip to photograph the legendary goat sucker after livestock are found drained of blood. Ranch host Michael, his dog Picasso, torn fences, and crimson eyes in the dark turn their search for proof into a creature-feature fight for survival. Rob Fields’s “A N...

On Halloween night, the sharply dressed Jack Scratch walks among mortals as Hell’s cheerful talent scout, searching a quiet Midwestern town for people devoted to blood, Death, and pain. Three trick-or-treating routes lead him to three very different evils. “The White Lion” follows a family hunting for one particular house. “The Countess” sends three reckless teenagers to a seductive stranger with an appetite of her own. “The Bunny” traps a fleeing killer in the path of a costumed child who may...

A mysterious Witch’s Tower and Bigfoot sightings begin a Halloween edition of Monthly Spooky filled with haunted attractions, folklore, and horror discussion. From strange news about Halloween movies to unnerving haunts across America, the crypt conversation follows the month’s oddest trails—including a legendary woman with a golden arm and fresh reports of something enormous roaming where it should not be. The episode also turns to Netflix horror with reactions to The Midnight Club and The Wa...