Episodes

Something in Algonquin Park is listening for the next camper to move. In Branch Manager by Gary D, also known as Blue Fire Raging, three Toronto telemarketers trade their call centre for a weekend in the woods. Fog and snapped branches give way to shredded tents, missing friends, and a forest that seems to be crawling toward them. Kenny's escape from work becomes a struggle against a sound-sensitive creature rooted in the landscape. This Canadian wilderness horror story mixes body horror and dar...

The Descent, Blood Feast, and MADiSON lead This Week in Horror History for July 6–12, 2026. Explore splatter cinema's bloody beginnings, an instant camera that invites horror into every shot, and a cave expedition trapped with something below. Fear Street Part Two: 1978 adds Camp Nightwing's slasher nightmare, while Burial Ground takes the spotlight with Italian zombie chaos. Birthdays and a Phantasm II recommendation bring the Tall Man and his silver spheres back onto the calendar. Find a watch...

Zona Heaster Shue's mother said a ghost revealed her daughter's murder; an exhumation supplied physical evidence. Terrifying & True revisits the 1897 Greenbrier Ghost case in West Virginia, where Mary Jane Heaster challenged a natural-death ruling and accused Zona's husband, Trout Shue. Follow the broken-neck findings, the trial, and the defense questioning that brought the apparition story before jurors. A murder conviction followed, but the ghost claim remains a claim. Examine how a mother's i...

A poet hiding in a department store discovers that someone already lives behind the displays. A missing apartment leaves five canaries as clues. Unknown Broadcast collects The Girl Who Found Things, Evening Primrose, Five Canaries in the Room, and The Other Woman for over two hours of old-time radio mystery. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler add an uncanny search for a missing woman and a jealous wife's plan aboard a private flight. Follow strange rules, impossible sp...

A waterfall campsite draws an ax-wielding threat, while a photographer's roadkill art puts two unsettling hitchhikers in his car. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories make isolation dangerous in Fortune Falls, Roadkill, Old Jerry, and The Rest Area. A Halloween prank leads into a recluse's haunt, and a lonely Ohio rest stop attracts an escaped murderer with an appetite. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Travis VanHoose, R. T. Raynaud, and Rob Fields. Over 90 minutes of supernatural revenge, cannibal horro...

A cursed football jersey promises a failing player greatness, then turns his rivalry into a demonic nightmare. Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields collects Friday Night Frights and all five parts of the camp-horror serial in one three-hour episode. Greg Branlake puts on Mick 'The Demon' Knight's 00 jersey; survivor Eddie 'Peewee' Richter later faces the returning threat at Camp Red Feather with the Strickfield Serpents. Follow the entire story from a desperate bid for football glory to summer trai...

A stranger stands silently near camp. A forest goes quiet, and something breathes outside a tent. Thursday Thrills takes a ride through supposedly firsthand hiking, camping, and park ranger stories gathered from online folklore threads. Henrique Couto explores cave drumming, nearby bison, predator instincts, and Miniwashitu of Missouri River tradition. These are unverified campfire accounts, shaped by isolation and the authority listeners attach to wilderness experience. Discover why a detail ca...

The final game at Camp Red Feather has a scoreboard measured in survival. Summer of the Demon Part 5 by Rob Fields brings Eddie Richter, Jessica Branlake, Charlie Thoss, and the survivors face to face with the curse behind the 00 jersey. Revelations about the Demon's return force Eddie into a brutal supernatural showdown, where the truth may not be enough to win. This concluding chapter delivers the payoff to Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial. Finish the story of a team whose summ...

Day of the Dead, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and Mexican Gothic lead This Week in Horror History for June 29–July 5, 2026. George A. Romero's bunker nightmare meets Shinya Tsukamoto's industrial body horror and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's poisonous mansion. Empire of the Ants brings radioactive creature chaos, while Barbara Steele stars in the spotlight on The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Birthdays and a Tales of Terror recommendation complete the week with Poe, Vincent Price, and gothic revenge. Find a watch or...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin led 130 children away, according to legend—but what lies behind that medieval story? Henrique Couto and Michelle explore migration, plague, and other proposed explanations in June 2026's Monthly Spooky. The news roundup visits a Slovakian mass grave, alleged ghostly marks in an Argentine shop, and the then-unfolding search for Gracie the giraffe in Texas. A reported disappearing basement closes the journey with a possible explanation. From old chronicles to modern accou...

A village warns of a werewolf, and a London wax museum hides wartime murder among its motionless faces. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio mysteries from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler. Conspiracy to Defraud opens with narcotics agents and false identities; Taboo enters the Carpathians; Menace in Wax turns an exhibition into an espionage trap. Fog closes nearly two and a half hours of vintage suspense with a harbor killing. Follow the disguises from an u...

A solar eclipse makes a Master Vampire dangerously human, while vampire punks turn a Cleveland strip club into a killing ground. Four Weekly Spooky stories explore undead life in Mortal Eclipse, Vampire Night, Stakes n' Shoguns, and Convenience Store Vampire. A samurai-movie outing collides with bats and drunken bloodsuckers, and a night clerk meets a woman who never rings the doorbell. Stories by Rob Fields, Joe Ruston, Dan Wilder, and Douglas Waltz. Over three hours of vampire horror and dark ...

Johnny Gosch's disappearance and the Keddie Cabin murders anchor a six-hour journey through cases, memory, and modern legend. This ten-part collection also examines the Mandela Effect, Men in Black reports, and the Angikuni Lake disappearance story, among mysteries where evidence and repetition pull in different directions. Terrifying & True distinguishes documented crimes from paranormal claims and folklore while exploring why each subject keeps attracting theories. Settle in for a listening se...

Walt Disney was cremated, yet a legend still places him in a frozen chamber beneath Disneyland. Henrique Couto traces the cryonics rumor on Thursday Thrills, from Disney's futuristic public image to theme-park tunnels, tabloid repetition, and early preservation experiments. The documented record leads to Forest Lawn in Glendale; the story keeps returning to Pirates of the Caribbean. Audio-Animatronics add another way a creator can seem present after death. Explore why this disproven claim surviv...

Eddie Richter wakes injured at Camp Red Feather with a dangerous possibility: the Demon may have a weakness. Summer of the Demon Part 4 by Rob Fields pushes the Strickfield Serpents toward another deadly scrimmage as teammates grow suspicious and storm clouds gather. Knowing how to hurt the creature is only the beginning; surviving long enough to try is harder. This penultimate chapter of the football horror serial brings the cursed 00 jersey, camp tension, and a desperate plan together. Follow ...

The Thing, 28 Days Later, and The Omen bring mistrust to This Week in Horror History for June 22–28, 2026. A haunted hotel room in 1408 and Quake's gothic corridors join empty London streets and an Antichrist hidden behind privilege. John Carpenter's The Thing takes the spotlight with Antarctic isolation, imitation, and Rob Bottin's effects. Horror birthdays and a Twilight Zone: The Movie recommendation complete a week where safety is difficult to recognize. Revisit the films and game that turn ...

Brian Shaffer was last seen near closing time at a Columbus bar on April 1, 2006. The Ohio State medical student's disappearance drew attention to footage that did not clearly show him leaving. Terrifying & True examines the Ugly Tuna Saloona, camera blind spots, searches, and the theories that grew around the missing images. It remains a missing-person investigation, with a family and loved ones behind every unanswered question. Follow what the record establishes and where it stops, without tur...

A bedridden woman hears a murder plot on a crossed telephone line, and a ventriloquist's dummy seems to speak for itself. Unknown Broadcast gathers And Nothing But the Truth, Out of This World, Sorry, Wrong Number, and Jealousy for over two hours of old-time radio suspense. Agnes Moorehead's calls join a father's effort to hide a hit-and-run, a Dead of Night-inspired stage nightmare, and a Whistler tale of suspicion and poisoned love. Voices carry warnings, confessions, and lies. Listen as peopl...

A babysitter faces a killer while hiding secrets of her own, and teenagers approach a bridge haunted by a presence searching for a child. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn routine jobs into traps: Angel in Babysitting, The Trouble with Cousins, The Babysitter, and Cry Baby Bridge. Family tensions, hidden experiments, and Strickfield folklore move the collection from slasher suspense to mad science and ghostly encounters. Stories by Rob Fields and Joe Solmo. Over 90 minutes of horror ask wha...

Rodney Alcala appeared on a dating show; Henry Lee Lucas turned confessions into a maze of truth and manipulation. Six Terrifying & True investigations examine how danger can hide in plain sight. Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Charlie Brandt, and Texarkana's Phantom Killer complete over three hours of crime history, from Wisconsin to Sacramento. The collection separates documented violence from false claims, sensational nicknames, and the legends that grow around unresolved murders. Follow the evidence...

How does a feared monster become a town landmark? Bigfoot, Mothman, Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie lead Thursday Thrills through the places that shaped their legends. Henrique Couto follows Pacific Northwest forests, Loch Ness, Puerto Rico, Point Pleasant, and New Jersey's Pine Barrens, then looks at the museums, festivals, and souvenirs built around disputed encounters. The focus is folklore and regional identity, with sightings kept separate from verified zoology. Discover why commun...

The Demon wears Greg Branlake's cursed jersey—but doesn't recognize Greg's sister. Who is stalking Camp Red Feather? Summer of the Demon Part 3 by Rob Fields sends Eddie 'Peewee' Richter and Jessica after answers as another attack tears through football practice. Their search for Greg's former girlfriend leads away from camp, but distance offers no guarantee of safety. This middle chapter of Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial follows the cursed 00 jersey from the field into family ...

Psycho, Jaws 2, and Lifeforce lead This Week in Horror History for June 15–21, 2026. Revisit the Bates Motel, Amity Island's return to shark panic, Batman Returns' gothic Gotham, and World War Z's rushing zombie crowds. Tobe Hooper's space-vampire spectacle takes the deep-cut spotlight with Halley's Comet and a London outbreak. Birthdays and Hammer's Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, round out the calendar. From a motel nightmare to a city under siege, explore how horror grew ...

The Highway of Tears carries decades of loss along Highway 16 in northern British Columbia, where women and girls, many Indigenous, have disappeared or been murdered. Terrifying & True examines the cases alongside limited transportation, remote geography, racism, and failures of investigation and media attention. Families and advocates have fought to keep names, patterns, and questions visible. This episode centers the people behind the road's haunting reputation and the conditions that put them...