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Find Your Halloween Listen
Choose a quick Halloween escape, a marathon of scary stories, or a night of vintage ghost tales. Each pick comes with another fright to try next.
Browse the Halloween Collection → Find more scary stories, cryptid folklore, ghost legends and seasonal traditions.
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Scary Fiction: Someone Is Already Inside
Start with Intruder in the Night. In David O'Hanlon's original horror story, a teenage babysitter must protect two children from a masked intruder in wartime Couto Basin. A sweet smell drifts through the house. Then she sees the muddy footprints.
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Cryptids & Urban Legends: The Beast of Bray Road
Terrifying & True investigates Wisconsin's dogman legend. Reported roadside sightings near Elkhorn, Linda Godfrey's reporting and possible animal misidentifications come together in a story about how a frightening encounter becomes enduring folklore.
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Haunted Places & Ghost Folklore: Resurrection Mary
A late-night ride. A woman in white. An empty back seat. Terrifying & True follows Chicago's Archer Avenue vanishing-hitchhiker legend, reported encounters near Resurrection Cemetery and the women proposed as Mary's real identity.
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Real Mysteries: The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer
What does the evidence actually tell us? Terrifying & True examines the Ohio State medical student's disappearance, the Ugly Tuna Saloona and the limits of the available camera footage. A real missing-person case, with unanswered questions behind the headlines.
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Vintage Radio Horror: Unknown Broadcast
Settle in for The Murder Ship & The Sea Phantom. This collection brings together six old-time radio thrillers, from fogbound murder mysteries to ghostly encounters at sea. More than three hours of vintage suspense make this a pick for a long, dark evening.
Halloween Folklore: Where the Traditions Began
Join Monthly Spooky for Halloween Origins. Explore Samhain, souling, guising and the journey from carved turnips to jack-o'-lanterns. This September 2025 conversation also includes news from that time, so come for the folklore and enjoy a visit to the archive.
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Explore Focused Listening Guides
Choose three hand-picked episodes by topic, with artwork, listening times and a player to get you started.
- Halloween Urban Legends: Three Stories to Start With
- Haunted Places: Ghost Stories Behind the Locations
- West Virginia Cryptids: Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster
- Dark Folklore: Golem, Wendigo and Michigan Legends
Explore More by Topic
Cryptids · Urban Legends · Haunted Places · Folklore · Scary Fiction · Halloween
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