Episodes

Black cat curse horror collides with carnival horror, fortune teller terror, and a brutal supernatural revenge story in tonight’s nightmare from Weekly Spooky. When a reckless young woman ignores a warning at a county fair, she triggers a chain of bad luck deaths, fiery disaster, and a curse that turns every crossed path into a death sentence. What starts as a wild night of lust and attitude spirals into a vicious tale of killer bad luck, occult punishment, and a woman trapped inside a living n...

This Week in Horror History connects The Hills Have Eyes 2, Stay Alive, Gonjiam & Def by Temptation (Mar 23–29) through release anniversaries, creators, cultural context, and the continuing influence of the featured horror titles. This Week in Horror...

The Deer Woman is one of the most haunting figures in Indigenous folklore and modern paranormal legend—a beautiful woman with deer hooves who appears at the edge of the woods, the roadside, the party, or the dark place where safety ends. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we explore the chilling shape of the Deer Woman story, the many ways it appears across traditions and retellings, and the reason this legend still hits so hard today: because in many versions, she is not random evil. She is ...

Unknown Broadcast leaks once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories in its teeth and insisting they are perfectly harmless. Tonight’s signal wanders through reincarnation and resentment, jungle danger and false names, poison and polite suburban dread, and finally a grim little reckoning delivered by The Whistler himself. If you came seeking classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, gothic mystery, and those deliciously strange old broadcasts that sound a...

The Ides of March isn’t just betrayal—it’s the moment the universe decides you’ve had it too easy. In this compilation of scary horror stories, we go from demonic possession and hellish bargains to occult curses, bloody pentagrams, and a revenge trail that crawls straight out of the old world and into something far worse. In this episode (in order): • “Academia Demonia” — by David O’Hanlon A school day goes wrong in the most unholy way—shadows lengthen, bodies move wrong, and something ancient...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Lionizing follows a young celebrity whose absurd rise through fashionable society depends on his consuming fascination with noses. Lionizing — by Edgar Allan Poe Poe frames social ambition as an escalating absurdity: expertise becomes fashion, fashion becomes celebrity, and celebrity creates its own brutal etiquette. The humor is broad, but the target is precise—the public’s willingness to confuse novelty with achievement and reputation with character. Read as macabre satire ...

A scary phone number horror story, technology thriller, and psychological nightmare collide in tonight’s chilling episode. In Boredom can be Deadly, a bored man sitting in a bathroom stall makes one tiny mistake: he calls a strange number scribbled on the wall. What answers isn’t a prank, a wrong number, or a joke — it’s the beginning of a deadly game involving mind-reading phones, secret surveillance, manipulation, murder, and a terrifying conspiracy hiding in plain sight. What starts as curio...

Final Destination, Dawn of the Dead, Us & The Hearse (Mar 16–22) anchor a week-by-week tour of horror releases, anniversaries, and genre milestones. This week we’ve got franchise-launching paranoia, turbo-charged zombie apocalypse energy, polished...

What are the Men in Black really — secret government agents, UFO cover-up operatives, paranormal enforcers, or something even stranger? In this episode of Terrifying & True, we dig into the chilling history of the real Men in Black phenomenon, from the earliest UFO-era intimidation reports to later encounters that made witnesses fear for their lives. We trace the legend back to the Maury Island incident, the terror and sudden silence surrounding Albert K. Bender, the disturbing Point Pleasant / ...

Unknown Broadcast drifts back through the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories, and I do hope you’ve left the door unlatched. Tonight’s signal carries phantom fingers across piano keys, ancient Egypt breathing through a cursed relic, a rain-soaked household trying to keep murder in the family, and a final little lesson in debt, guilt, and the sort of arithmetic that is never settled in ledgers alone. Classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, supernatural mystery, gothic ...

The Ides of March isn’t just a date—it’s a warning. In this compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, four stories turn bad choices into worse consequences: a cursed swamp legend that crawls out of the mud, a predator’s idea of “conservation,” a feast where the menu fights back, and an alarm clock that wakes up way more than you. In this episode (in order): • “Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp” — by David O’Hanlon • “Stay Hungry” — by David O’Hanlon • “You Are What You Eat” — by Robert Fiel...

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) is one of the bleakest and most notorious serial killer horror films ever made, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into what makes John McNaughton’s grim 1986 cult classic still feel so raw, disturbing, and hard to shake. Starring Michael Rooker in a chilling breakout role, Henry strips away slick movie thrills and replaces them with grime, dread, and the sickening feeling that you are watching somethi...

A cryptid horror story, monster encounter, and backroads nightmare collide in this brutal episode of horror fiction. What starts as a drunken party and a terrible decision spirals into a terrifying creature attack deep in the countryside, where the roads are dark, the fields feel endless, and something inhuman is hunting just beyond the farmhouse door. After a blackout leaves one man stranded in a freezing pasture, he pieces together a night of drug use, lost time, rural paranoia, and cryptid t...

This Week in Horror History connects Scream VI, It Follows, Resident Evil & Children of the Corn (Mar 9–15) through release anniversaries, creators, cultural context, and the continuing influence of the featured horror titles. This Week in Horror...

A locked garage behind a quiet holiday cottage. A car filling with exhaust. And two bodies posed to tell a simple story: a suicide pact between two “betrayed” spouses. On May 19, 1991, in Castlerock, Northern Ireland, Lesley Howell (31) and Trevor Buchanan (32) are found dead inside a vehicle with a hose running from the exhaust into the car—an apparent double suicide that the community quickly accepts. Lesley is a mother of four. Trevor is a police constable and father. Both are mourned as vic...

Unknown Broadcast presents Ghosts, Curses, and Deadly Secrets, an old-time radio horror selection grounded in ghost lore and supernatural suspense, folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions, and old-time radio suspense and preserved as a complete after-dark drama. Unknown Broadcast returns, creeping once more through the cracks in the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories carried in on grief, blood, confession, and candlelight. Tonight’s transmission wanders through classic O...

Ides of March horror stories are all about the moment trust breaks—and someone decides to settle the score. In this March compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, four tales spiral from small-town cruelty to wilderness terror, from viral fame to blood-soaked karma, and from a lonely highway to something not quite human waiting in the dark. In this episode (in order): • Hell Hath No Fury — by Aaron Michael Cook A perfect evening curdles into humiliation and rage—until payback arrives ...

This Friday on Weekly Spooky, we’re bringing back one of the biggest and most exhaustive episodes of Terrifying & True we’ve ever produced. In this special episode we take a long, hard look at the couple who became the most famous names in American paranormal investigation. From Amityville and Annabelle to the cases that helped inspire The Conjuring, this episode explores how the Warrens built their legend — and why that legend remains so controversial. We follow their rise from local investig...

Vampire horror story meets supernatural thriller in this scary story of a daylight predator and a mother-daughter escape that turns into a high-speed chase. When Madelyne “Maddy” Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, panic hits fast—because the monster from last winter is back, and she’s moving like she already knows who she wants. What follows is mall horror, small-town dread, and a desperate run for safety as buried family secrets start clawing their way to the surfac...

Nosferatu, Angel Heart, The Mangler, Zodiac & Pontypool (Mar 2–8) anchor a week-by-week tour of horror releases, anniversaries, and genre milestones. This week we’ve got silent-era vampire plague dread, occult noir doom, a killer laundry machine, and...

A remote mountain lodge in the Sierra Nevada. A busy wedding weekend. And a violent break-in after midnight that leaves one woman dead and a key witness barely alive. On August 19, 1990, in Camp Nelson, California, Bonnie Hood (46) is shot and killed inside a cabin at Camp Nelson Lodge, a secluded retreat in Tulare County. Her handyman, Rudy Manuel, is shot in the head—but survives long enough to describe what he says happened. Investigators initially believe it’s a robbery… until the details d...

Unknown Broadcast is your strange little frequency of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery—the kind of signal that crackles with laughter one second and turns cold the next. Tune the dial just a hair too far…and you’ll catch the stories that weren’t meant to survive the night. Tonight’s broadcast drifts from absurd crime to buried dread, from cursed good fortune to open-water peril—four classic radio tales where greed, fear, and bad timing all make the ...

Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories and mystery tales—a bingeable gothic anthology packed with macabre suspense, dark humor, revenge, and one of the most famous detective stories ever written. If you’re searching for Edgar Allan Poe short stories, classic horror, Victorian gothic, old-time spooky literature, or a murder mystery with a locked-room vibe, this compilation is built for you. Inside this episode (in order): • Manuscript Found in a Bottle — a nightmare voyage into storm, fog, and ...

A true-crime horror deep dive into a grim, under-seen cult title: Confessions of a Serial Killer (shot in 1985, directed by Mark Blair)—a film rooted in the Henry Lee Lucas mythology, where the horror isn’t a monster… it’s a man calmly telling you what he did. In this episode, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down what makes this movie so unsettling: the low-rent, almost-documentary texture; the blunt confessional structure; and the way it drags you through a nightmare that feels ...