Episodes

Step into Unknown Broadcast — classic old-time radio horror stories and vintage radio suspense pulled from the dark, stitched together, and left to play in the corners of your feed. Tonight, four nightmares unfold: a royal smile that means life… a desperate man pushed into crime… a murder heard in the dark… and an island where gunfire answers the tide. 👑 “The Queen of Darkness” — In a kingdom where a queen still holds real power, Josephine Denison ’s charm hides something colder: ambition, jealo...

If you’re craving haunted house horror stories , ghost stories , and paranormal encounters that escalate fast—this compilation is your next late-night listen. From a historic inn with a locked room and a German priest’s shadow , to an abandoned murder house that turns viral for all the wrong reasons… these tales spiral through possession , poltergeist chaos , cursed objects , and the kind of dread that follows you home. Inside this compilation (in order): • Horror at the Hexagon House Inn — Bill...

Weekly Spooky horror podcast brings you a high-seas survival horror nightmare for our Best of 2025 series—equal parts ghost ship , creature feature , and “you’re trapped and nobody is coming.” Chance and Luka are stranded after a shipwreck—clinging to a container in open water while the ocean churns around them. But rescue doesn’t arrive… and when a drifting vessel appears out of the fog, it feels like a miracle. A derelict ocean liner . A ghost ship . A place to rest, warm up, and wait it out. ...

Horror podcast listeners —the snow keeps falling, the roads keep vanishing, and the High Point Ski Lodge is turning into a sealed box where a killer can work in peace. In BANNED! Part 2 , the winter slasher at the Horror Snow-In doesn’t just strike again… he performs. After James Turner is found with BANNED! carved into his chest , police push through the storm and start questioning attendees—while the convention stubbornly continues like nothing’s wrong. Headliner Vickie Valentine tries to keep...

you love horror movie anniversaries , January horror releases , and the strange way certain titles hit differently with time, you’re in the right place. This week on This Week in Horror History , we’re counting down the most memorable horror releases from Jan 12–18 —from studio creature features and deep-sea paranoia to legacy-sequel slashers and found-footage chaos. Inside this episode (Jan 12–18): Jan 12, 2007 — Primeval : a killer-croc creature feature with a nastier real-world edge than it f...

A blizzard. A vanished trail. The San Juan Mountains in the winter of 1874. Six men leave safety behind— and only one walks back into town. This is the infamous Alfred (Alferd) Packer story: the “Colorado Cannibal” case that refuses to stay settled, because the evidence is brutal… and the survivor’s account keeps shifting. In this episode of Terrifying & True , we follow the doomed decision to cross the high country after Chief Ouray’s warning , the slow collapse into starvation, and the moment ...

Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR suspense , and radio mystery that slips into the Weekly Spooky feed like a transmission you didn’t ask for… but can’t stop hearing. Tonight’s broadcast contains four vintage radio nightmares —crime-soaked, uncanny, and quietly vicious: 🩸 “The Telltale Scar” (CBS Radio Mystery Theater) — An investigative reporter swears he’s spotted a man who died three years ago … and the only proof is a scar that won’t stay buried. 🚀 “Ma...

Weekly Spooky is kicking off Best of 2025 by revisiting one of the year’s most unforgettable nightmares: a college horr or novella where a simple night out becomes a spin-the-bottle slasher spiral . Samara thinks she’s just stepping outside her comfort zone—new look, new crush, new rules. But in Strickfield, the party games don’t stay playful for long. A jealous ex, a too-perfect date, a crowded house full of grinning faces… and the sick feeling that someone is steering the night toward somethin...

Bundle up, my spookies—this Best of 2025 episode of the Weekly Spooky horror podcast is a snow-choked compilation built for year-round bingeing: winter horror , blizzard dread , creature features , and a finale that pivots into true crime + folklore with a chilling Terrifying & True deep dive. Inside this Best of 2025 compilation: “I Love the Cold” — Jonathan Lumpkin • A quiet winter evening turns wrong when comfort gives way to a creeping, unnatural chill—and the cold starts to feel less like w...

Weekly Spooky horror podcast kicks off a brand-new New Year miniseries with a snowbound slasher mystery set inside a remote ski lodge where a horror convention is about to become a hunting ground. Seven years ago, a furious fan named Robbie Redden drove hours to meet an actress he idolized—only to be humiliated, thrown out, and branded with one unforgettable word. Now, as a fresh convention weekend begins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a brutal storm rolls in… and the past rolls in with it. Feat...

Start the year with killer dolls, museum monsters, Arctic dread, and survival horror at full sprint . In this week’s This Week in Horror History (January 5–11), we’re tracking the releases that shaped modern fear—then diving deep into one of the meanest “new apartment” nightmares of the 1970s. Quick Hits (Jan 5–11): M3GAN (2023) — the AI “best friend” who decides safety means control… permanently. Where to watch (U.S., this week): Streaming on Peacock ; also available to rent/buy on Apple TV, Am...

Dive into chilling stories and eerie folklore with this terrifying true mystery from Siberia...A true crime / survival mystery in August 1993 , seven hikers entered the Hamar-Daban Mountains of Buryatia (near Lake Baikal) —and only one walked back out. What happened on that windswept ridge has been called the “Buryat Dyatlov Pass” : a sudden storm, a frantic descent, and then a cascade of bizarre symptoms — foaming at the mouth , blood , panic, and collapse—leaving six bodies scattered on an exp...

Ah, there you are. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR , and radio suspense for those who like the dark close and the volume low, my dear. Tonight the valves warm and the quiet learns to talk: 🔥 Hell Hath No Fury — Fame can’t drown jealousy; a private curtain falls where the applause can’t reach. 🌒 The Night Reveals — Smoke on a coat, matches in a pocket; small sparks confess what lips refuse. 🔑 Lady With a Key — Footsteps where no one should walk, a lock t...

Small town horror stories hit different—because everyone knows your name… and everyone is hiding something. In this Weekly Spooky Vault compilation, we dig into Small Town Secrets where quiet streets cover up occult rituals , missing people , backwoods monsters , and ancient things that should’ve stayed buried . Lock your doors, kill the lights, and listen close—because the scariest part is how normal it all looks in daylight. • I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening — Mi...

Kick off the Best of 2025 with one of the most intense episodes we released on the Weekly Spooky horror podcast —a brutal winter survival horror story where a long-haul trucker gets trapped at a lonely truck stop after a sudden blizzard buries the world in white. The bathroom run turns into a nightmare when his tracks vanish , the store is locked and dark, and something moves in the storm—something too big , too patient , and too wrong to be a deer. Back in his cab, with fuel running low and the...

Weekly Spooky rings in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror story that spirals into a Y2K nightmare —and it all starts with a stupidly simple discovery: crank two radios loud enough, hit the right tone, and you can rip open a hole in time . Sixteen-year-old Jimmy and his cousin Phillip start pulling lost junk from the void… until grief turns curiosity into obsession. One phone call becomes a lifeline. One step through the portal becomes a disaster. And one panicked, brain-melting decision i...

New Year’s horror, horror movie history, and messages from the other side—welcome to This Week in Horror History, the weekly horror podcast where we track what happened on these dates across film, books, and cult classics.In this episode, Henrique Couto follows a haunting thread that runs straight through the holiday: a phone that calls from the future, a killer hiding in the power grid, a cursed ghost anthology, and the original “new year, new monster” that’s been chasing us since 1818.This wee...

Monthly Spooky true crime + paranormal to close out the year: a chilling wrongful conviction case tied to a 1987 Times Square-area murder that stole decades from two lives—and the long road to exoneration when the truth finally surfaced. Inside this episode: The New Year’s Eve case: The wrongful convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren after a 1987 murder near Times Square , including intense police pressure, a pivotal witness, and the fallout that followed for decades. The turning point: How...

Ah, there you are, my dear. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR ghost tales , and radio suspense for these last nights before New Year’s Eve —when clocks get louder and promises come due. Sit close to the speaker and let the tubes warm. Inside tonight’s program: 👼 Angel of Death — Grief invites a visitor who never uses the front door. 🔔 Calling All Souls — A name answered at midnight… by someone who shouldn’t know it. 🕯️ Two Birds with One Stone — Jealousy ...

Ring in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror stories marathon built for maximum dread: devil bargains , vampires in the dark , zombie chaos , and a paranormal case file that turns the end of the year into a blood-soaked countdown. If you’re searching for scary New Year stories , NYE horror , or a horror anthology podcast to binge, this is your midnight companion—six twisted tales that get meaner as the clock runs out. Inside this New Year’s Eve compilation (in airing order): • Even the Devi...

Looking for after Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories to keep the season creepy on December 26 ? Tonight on the Weekly Spooky feed, we’re dropping a holiday horror podcast double feature —two full-length Christmas horror novellas built for the quiet, eerie day after Christmas, when the decorations are still up… and the darkness feels closer. This episode is a post-Christmas horror marathon packed with supernatural dread , winter nightmares , and the kind of holiday terror that h...

Weekly Spooky drops a Christmas Eve horror story soaked in ’90s slasher energy and last-minute retail panic. In Etawah, Oklahoma (1996) , Otis Kilgore walks into the Big K like it’s a church— new car, new haircut, new plan —convinced a cashier named Diane has been sending him secret messages . But when the store “messes with” his routine, Otis spirals into a holiday meltdown that turns Blue Light Specials into red-hot violence . What starts as awkward small-town obsession becomes a full-tilt kil...

Step into This Week in Horror History and relive the nightmare fuel of December 22–28 : a Christmas-week collision of alien infiltration , true-case exorcism lore , and paranoia-soaked sci-fi horror . This episode digs into: Dec 25, 1998 — The Faculty : the ultimate ’90s teen alien horror —teachers acting wrong, bodies getting swapped, and the school turning into a trap. Dec 22, 1978 — Deep-Cut Spotlight: Invasion of the Body Snatchers : a remake that doesn’t just update the story—it infects it ...

Weekly Spooky unleashes a Christmas horror anthology where the lights are twinkling… and the afterlife is weaponized . When Jack Scratch throws open the curtains on Hell’s “operations,” you don’t get fire-and-brimstone pageantry—you get clipboards, procedures, and punishments dressed up in tinsel. Tonight’s holiday horrors include: The Santa Experiment — a confused man wakes in a dying Christmas postcard town… and a Santa with an axe starts closing the distance. Christmas Bones — at the peak of ...