Episodes

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 ...

Dive into Christmas true crime , Santa Claus history , and holiday folklore with the real medieval relic heist that helped shape the legend of Santa . In 1087 , sailors from Bari, Italy break into the tomb of St. Nicholas in Myra (modern Turkey) —and the world’s most famous Christmas icon gets a disturbingly real origin story. Inside the candlelit crypt, witnesses claim the tomb is flooded with mysterious liquid— the “manna” of St. Nicholas —and the thieves interpret it as a sign the saint appro...

Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR , radio suspense , and Christmas ghost stories for the longest nights of the year. A special holiday edition, my dear: later nights for cold frights . We unwrap mislaid presents, whispered confessions, and footsteps in new snow; a Yule of shivers where favors come due and the past waits in a frost-rimmed mirror. Come nearer to the speaker. The tree lights hum. Somewhere between the carols and the wind, a voice promises a gift… and t...

Christmas horror stories marathon time, my spookies. Tonight on Weekly Spooky , you’re getting a full holiday horror novella triple-feature—three long, nasty winter tales where tinsel and terror share the same oxygen. This is cozy-season listening with sharp teeth: a haunted mall after-hours , a slumber-party movie night that opens the wrong door, and a Christmas event at an orphanage that won’t stay sweet for long. If you’re hunting for scary Christmas stories , holiday horror , and a bingeable...

If you’re hunting for Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories that feel like a warm holiday glow… right before the lights go out—welcome to the final Xmas compilation of the year on the Weekly Spooky feed. Expect holiday horror , supernatural dread , and the kind of winter nightmares that make you double-check the chimney, the gift tags, and the shadows in the tree. Inside this compilation: • All I Want For Christmas - Is my Mother to Stop Haunting Me! — A family that “goes all in” ...

It’s Christmas Eve, the lights are bright, the carols are fake, and something wrong is crawling down the chimney of a normal night. In this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror story, Allison just wants to survive the holidays long enough to buy a last-minute gift… but a filthy, broken “Santa” has other plans — and he’s working off a Naughty List that doesn’t forgive and doesn’t forget.Inside this episode: A big-box store nightmare where the doors feel like they’ve locked themselves A killer Santa wit...

If you’re hunting for a Christmas horror movie that isn’t cozy or cute, Dead End (2003) is a nasty little gift waiting on a snowy back road. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror , hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi sink into the cult Christmas chiller where the Harrington family’s Christmas Eve shortcut becomes an endless nightmare of cursed highways, ghostly women in white, and a hearse that feels like it’s driving straight out of the afterlife. Recorded as a holiday special (Henriqu...

Looking for a Christmas horror story that hits like a slasher, moves like a thriller, and burns like a nightmare? This week on Weekly Spooky , the holidays turn deadly in the Strickfield universe when a toxic chemical crash on a snowy Ohio highway ignites neon green fire —and something comes shambling out of it. Detective Chantel Devereux thinks the worst is over… until the “accident” echoes into the next year and the body count starts climbing in ways that don’t make sense— melted flesh , missi...

Dive into this chilling Christmas horror story where a centuries-old witch's curse entwines with a doomed romance. From the icy Middle Ages to modern-day Strickfield, discover how true love battles a dark, supernatural force in a tale filled with eerie twists and mature themes. Unwrap a spooky story perfect for fans of horror stories and chilling holiday tales during the spooky season. Join us as we explore love, betrayal, and curses this Christmas Eve, where some romances end not in joy, but in...

Bundle up, my spookies—this week’s This Week in Horror History digs into Christmas horror movies, winter ghost stories, and festive frights from December 15–21 . We’re hanging the stockings and turning off the lights as we revisit the classics that made the holidays just a little more terrifying. We kick things off with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974) , a black-and-white horror-comedy love letter to the Universal Monsters era. It proved that audiences were happy to unwrap creepy laughs dur...

Weekly Spooky brings you a Christmas horror story about a broke newsboy, a hidden antiques shop, and a cursed snow globe that can tilt luck itself—if you’re willing to pay. Inside the glass sits a miniature winter town… and with each whispered wish, the flakes swirl… and a few turn black . At first, it feels like a miracle: debts vanish, odds bend, and the world finally stops kicking you in the teeth. But the snow globe keeps count. The town inside begins to glow with holiday lights , the season...

When most people think of Christmas , they picture cozy lights, warm cocoa, and jolly Saint Nick. But in parts of France and Belgium , children grew up with a much darker figure stalking the snowy streets: Père Fouettard, the “French Krampus” — Saint Nicholas’ brutal Christmas punisher. In this chilling episode of Terrifying & True , we unwrap one of Europe’s scariest Christmas legends , where miracle stories, war, and fear-based parenting all twist together in the shadows of the holiday season....