Weekly Spooky

Highway 16 in northern British Columbia looks, at first glance, like any other remote road: mountains, forests, rivers, small towns, and long stretches of empty pavement. But for decades, this corridor became known by a much darker name — the Highway of Tears.This episode of Terrifying & True investigates the real history behind one of Canada's most devastating true crime cases: the disappearances and murders of women and girls along Highway 16 and nearby routes, many of them Indigenous. Officially, the RCMP's Project E-PANA includes eighteen cases, but families, advocates, and Indigenous organizations have long argued that the true number may be higher.We examine the victims, the isolated geography, the lack of safe transportation, the failures of policing and media attention, and the systemic conditions that allowed danger to persist for decades. This is not a story about one cursed road or one simple explanation. It is a story about grief, survival, ignored warnings, and families who refused to let their loved ones disappear from memory.The Highway of Tears remains one of the most haunting examples of how true crime can expose something larger than a single mystery: a pattern of violence, silence, and systemic failure that continues to demand answers.We're telling that story tonight.

Four eerie tales of gothic horror and betrayal unfold tonight. A desert archaeological dig uncovers fresh horror instead of ancient history. Then Owl Creek Bridge becomes a nightmare of illusion, escape, and doom. Witchcraft, stagecraft, and murder collide in flames and suspicion. Finally, The Whistler arrives with a crime story where the cleverest plan may already be waiting to betray you. Expert narration. Immersive darkness. Spine-tingling twists.

Supernatural horror stories, creature attacks, dark fantasy nightmares, vampire hunters, witchcraft, death cults, feral forest legends, and occult monster terror collide in this eerie Weekly Spooky compilation built for fans of scary stories, horror fiction, paranormal thrillers, folk horror, supernatural action, dark magic, cannibal legends, and cursed wilderness mysteries.These stories crawl through haunted forests, secret schools, forgotten hills, and poisoned realms where the old rules of the world break apart. A gentle hermit discovers an ancient corruption spreading through the woods. A supernatural federal agent spends New Year's Eve fighting undead servants and a death god. A folklore writer follows a century-old Oregon mystery into the trees… and finds out some legends are hungry enough to survive.Inside this episode:• New Year's Evil: A Paranormal Thriller from the Case Files of Caroline QuinnA half-vampire federal troubleshooter returns to her old supernatural school on New Year's Eve, only to find the campus overtaken by cultists, undead creatures, and a possible death god resurrection. It's occult action horror with monsters, government secrets, superpowered students, and a countdown to midnight. • Hermit — by Mike MannIn a strange fantasy realm, an ancient woodland healer discovers black ichor infecting animals, trees, and the balance of nature itself. Her desperate warning leads her toward a village where fear, cruelty, dark magic, and monstrous transformation await. • Fool's Hill — by Bruce HaneyA folklore writer investigating old Oregon witch legends uncovers a century-long pattern of disappearances, mutilated bodies, strange screams in the woods, and a hill with a terrible reputation. What begins as local legend becomes a grim folk-horror mystery about curiosity, cannibal survival, and the stories people should have left buried. If you love supernatural horror podcasts, scary folklore stories, dark fantasy horror, occult mysteries, vampire hunters, haunted woods, death cult horror, folk horror, and creature-feature nightmares, this compilation delivers a strange, bloody trip into worlds where the monsters may be ancient, human, undead, or something much worse.

Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror masterpiece comes alive in "Shadow, A Fable"—a chilling tale of death, plague, and ancient dread that feels disturbingly modern. Henrique brings his filmmaker's eye to Poe's most eerie fiction, crafting an immersive audio experience of supernatural terror as a group of men confront something unseen lurking just beyond the light. Perfect for horror fiction fans and Poe enthusiasts.Turn down the lights, my spookies… because in Poe's world, the shadow is never just a shadow.Shadow, a Fable — by Edgar Allan Poe

Cryptid folklore meets modern surveillance this week on Thursday Thrills. We dive into Champ, America's answer to the Loch Ness Monster, and explore the eerie lake-monster legends that refuse to fade—especially after alleged new footage surfaced on Lake Champlain. From high-tech underwater searches to centuries-old hidden-creature encounters, we ask: what makes these stories persist, and what happens when folklore gets caught on camera?Join us as we look at the darkness beneath the surface.

Cursed objects awaken fresh horror in Part 2 of Summer of the Demon. After surviving the jersey's return, Peewee wakes in Greg's room to meet his parents—who reveal the obsession started at Tinkers, a mysterious junk shop. Their confession changes everything: the curse isn't contained. The darkness at Camp Red Feather intensifies as secrets unravel and the real horror emerges. Mature themes, supernatural escalation, and eerie family revelations await in this terrifying chapter of the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology.Back at Camp Red Feather, the Demon strikes again, turning a pool party into a blood-soaked nightmare and proving that no one tied to the championship game is safe. Peewee wants answers, but every clue points back to Greg Branlake, Mick “The Demon” Knight, and the supernatural force hidden inside that 00 jersey.Then Greg's sister Jessica arrives at camp, determined to help uncover the truth about her brother's death, his journals, and the mysterious “Vicious Vixen” who may know more than anyone realizes. But before Peewee and Jessica can escape Camp Red Feather, the Demon returns in broad daylight—and this time, he is ready to tear through everyone on the field.This second chapter of Rob Fields' sports horror slasher miniseries delivers cursed object terror, demonic revenge, summer camp carnage, supernatural football horror, and a brutal cliffhanger that pushes Peewee closer to a showdown he may not survive.Listen now for a scary summer horror story where the Demon is back on the field… and he's still playing to kill.Summer of the Demon: Part 2 — by Rob Fields

Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monsters, haunted hotels, supernatural comedy, demonic hauntings, creepy mirrors, and one killer dessert that may be eating America alive.This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural blockbusters, 1980s horror, haunted-house horror, and strange consumer-satire body horror, including the release of Gremlins, the same-day arrival of Ghostbusters, the wider theatrical expansion of The Shining, the hit sequel The Conjuring 2, and the mirror-filled nightmare of Poltergeist III.Inside this episode:• Gremlins turns one cute little mogwai into small-town monster chaos and helps push Hollywood toward the PG-13 rating.• Ghostbusters brings haunted libraries, demonic possession, rooftop apocalypse, and paranormal exterminators into one of the biggest supernatural comedy franchises ever.• The Shining expands wider in U.S. theaters, pulling more audiences into Stanley Kubrick's cold, hypnotic nightmare inside the Overlook Hotel.• The Conjuring 2 sends Ed and Lorraine Warren to the Enfield haunting and introduces one of modern horror's most memorable demonic figures.• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Poltergeist III, the strange 1988 sequel that traps Carol Anne inside a haunted Chicago high-rise full of mirrors, elevators, cold hallways, and unfinished supernatural business.Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Jurgen Prochnow, and Adrienne Barbeau, a creepy look at how horror sneaks into family homes, hotels, corporate towers, grocery aisles, and blockbuster comedy, and a weekly recommendation for Larry Cohen's weird, gross, and sharply satirical cult classic The Stuff.From mogwai mayhem and ghost exterminators to haunted reflections, demonic forces, the Overlook Hotel, and a mysterious dessert that might be consuming its customers from the inside out, this week proves horror can invade almost anything: your home, your hotel room, your movie theater, your refrigerator, and your appetite.

The murder of Jeffrey Hall is one of the most disturbing modern American true crime cases — not because the killer was hidden, but because the person who pulled the trigger was only 10 years old.On May 1, 2011, in Riverside, California, 32-year-old Jeffrey Hall was asleep on the couch when his son, Joseph Hall, took a .357 revolver from a closet, walked downstairs, and shot him in the head. Jeffrey Hall was not just a father. He was a local leader in the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, and had filled his home with extremist politics, weapons, instability, fear, and violence.But this case is not a simple story of poetic justice. It is a deeply unsettling look at childhood trauma, extremist indoctrination, domestic chaos, juvenile justice, gun access, and the impossible question of what justice means when a child kills.Inside this episode:• The life and extremism of Jeffrey Hall — a Riverside neo-Nazi leader who brought hate into politics, public rallies, and his own home.• Joseph Hall's troubled childhood — marked by neglect concerns, instability, weapons, alleged abuse, behavioral issues, and a household shaped by fear.• The night of the shooting — when a 10-year-old boy retrieved a loaded revolver and killed his sleeping father.• The legal question at the heart of the case — whether Joseph, at just 10 years old, truly understood the wrongfulness and permanence of what he had done.• The juvenile trial and appeals — including the court's finding of second-degree murder, challenges over Miranda rights, and the larger debate over children in the criminal justice system.• The tragedy beneath the headlines — a violent extremist father, a frightened child, a broken household, and a legal system forced to sort horror into categories that never fully fit.This is not a murder mystery. Joseph Hall admitted what happened. The deeper mystery is how a child arrived at that couch with a revolver in his hand — and how many adults, systems, ideologies, and failures helped put him there.A man was killed. A child was charged. A family was destroyed. And the house Jeffrey Hall built around hatred became the place where that violence came home.We're telling that story tonight.

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense dramas, and strange little nightmares that sound as though they were never meant to be transmitted at all.Tonight, the signal begins with a clock that should not exist, moves through the perfume of wild oranges on a deadly Southern shore, follows a woman into a murder mystery wrapped in danger and inheritance, and ends with The Whistler watching a clever crime collapse beneath its own shadow.

Horror fiction anthology featuring mad science, body horror mutations, and medical terror. When human experiments go catastrophically wrong, an asylum doctor transforms into something impossible, a toxic disaster spawns flesh-ripping nightmares, and secret bioweapons become monsters. Four gruesome tales of scientific failure and corporeal dread, expertly narrated with cinematic ambiance for fans of creature horror, horror legends, and dark pulp storytelling.These four tales crawl through the places where the human body stops being safe: an asylum doctor transformed into something impossible, a toxic disaster that unleashes prehistoric predators, a mountain crime scene overrun by man-eating feral hogs, and a warehouse hiding a family secret made of scars, blood, and teeth.Inside this episode:• I Used to Be a Doctor in an Insane Asylum. My Patient Destroyed My World. — by Michael KelsoA psychiatrist working with the most violent patients imaginable loses everything when one of them escapes… but death is only the beginning. After a brutal attack, the doctor awakens as something no longer fully human, becoming an electrical ghost obsessed with revenge. • Night of the Tyrants — by David O'HanlonA criminal nightmare in Fortune, Missouri turns prehistoric when a toxic disaster reveals what a nearby “chemical depot” has really been hiding. Drug dealers, killers, explosions, and rampaging dinosaurs collide in a savage body-horror creature feature. • Hog Wild — by David O'HanlonA botched murder trip leaves criminals stranded in the woods, suspended in a wrecked car above a feeding frenzy of feral hogs. As the bodies fall and the pigs gather below, survival becomes a bloody, brutal fight against nature's ugliest appetite. • Warehouse of Blood — by Shane MigliavaccaA late-night reporter follows a missing-person lead into a family-owned warehouse and finds something much worse than a scoop. Behind the locked doors waits a scarred, hidden, half-forgotten monster who wants to play with his new “dolly.” If you love mad scientist horror, body horror stories, monster horror podcasts, creepy experiments, mutant creatures, revenge from beyond death, and gory pulp horror, this compilation is packed with the kind of nasty surprises that make you check your pulse just to make sure your body still belongs to you.

REC (2007) found footage horror gets the Cutting Deep into Horror treatment as Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfilock themselves inside one of the most terrifying Spanish horror movies ever made. Directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, REC is a lean, relentless Spanish found footage zombie horror classic that follows a TV reporter and her cameraman into a Barcelona apartment building where a routine emergency call becomes a sealed-off nightmare.In this episode, Henrique and Rachael dig into why REC still feels so scary, eerie, immediate, and brutally effectivenearly two decades later. From the firehouse ride-along setup to the escalating quarantine, from the infected attacks to the unforgettable night-vision finale, this is a movie that understands exactly how to use shaky camera chaos without losing the audience.Inside this episode:Why REC works so well as found footage horror — and why the news crew setup makes the camera feel natural instead of forced.The apartment building as a horror trap — claustrophobic hallways, locked exits, frightened residents, and a quarantine that keeps tightening.Spanish zombie horror vs. American remake energy — including comparisons to Quarantine and why the original feels rawer and more dangerous.The Tristiana Medeiros reveal — how the movie shifts from outbreak horror into something more demonic, strange, and unforgettable.The final darkness — why the night-vision climax remains one of the most iconic endings in modern found footage horror.Henrique and Rachael's final thoughts on why REC is one of the strongest found footage films they've covered so far.REC was reportedly produced on a roughly $2.1 million budget and earned about $23 million worldwide, making it a major international success for Spanish horror and one of the defining found-footage genre entries of the 2000s.

Mysterious ghost lights haunt the darkest roads in America and Australia. In this Thursday Thrills episode, explore cryptid encounters and spooky legends tied to the Marfa Lights, Min Min Light horror, and the Devil's Promenade—unexplained phenomena that draw paranormal tourists into real darkness. From eerie folklore to modern sightings, we investigate why these haunted locations refuse to stay dead.Inside this episode:The Hornet / Joplin Spook Light and the haunted road known as the Devil's PromenadeWhy the Marfa Lights became a paranormal tourism destination in West TexasThe Min Min Light legends of the Australian outback and why they feel so sinisterPossible explanations, from headlights and mirages to temperature inversionsA fictional ghost-light encounter built from the fears these legends tap intoNew here? Thursday Thrills is a quick weekly ride into creepy stories, haunted places, weird obsessions, and eerie little corners of the world worth talking about.Would you follow a mysterious light down a dark road?

A cursed football jersey, a dead rival, and a summer camp full of athletes collide in this terrifying new Weekly Spooky horror story from Rob Fields.After surviving the impossible during last fall's championship game, Eddie “Peewee” Richter should be focused on college football, scholarships, and proving he belongs on the field. Instead, he's trapped at Camp Red Feather, haunted by nightmares of Greg Branlake—the football phenom who transformed into something monstrous in front of an entire stadium.But when the Demon returns, it is no longer just a nightmare.A brutal attack at camp proves that the horror from Strickfield's past is alive, angry, and hungry for revenge. Peewee may have escaped once, but the Demon has a new plan: kill everyone who was there that night, saving Peewee for last. As panic takes hold and secrets surrounding the mysterious 00 jersey begin to surface, Peewee realizes the only way to survive may be to uncover the truth behind the curse before it comes for him.This first chapter of the Summer of the Demon miniseries launches a fast, frightening blend of sports horror, supernatural revenge, summer camp terror, monster mayhem, and Strickfield mythology—perfect for fans of scary stories, cursed objects, demonic slashers, and horror fiction with a pulpy, high-energy edge.Listen now for a summer horror story where the game never really ended… and the Demon is still keeping score.Summer of the Demon: Part 1 — by Rob Fields

Horror history gets dangerously domestic this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 1–7 with haunted houses, killer sequels, cursed children, dystopian violence, mature themes, and one deeply uncomfortable genetic-engineering nightmare.This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural horror, Blumhouse hits, and underrated sci-fi body horror, including the return of Norman Bates, the suburban nightmare of Poltergeist, the perfectly timed 6/6/06 release of The Omen remake, and the birth of The Purge as a modern horror franchise.Inside this episode:• Psycho II brings Norman Bates back to the Bates Motel in one of horror's most surprisingly strong legacy sequels.• Poltergeist turns the American dream house into a supernatural trap full of TV static, cursed land, and unforgettable 1980s horror imagery.• The Omen remake arrives on 6/6/06, turning a horror release date into pure Antichrist marketing gold.• The Purge launches a massive Blumhouse franchise with one terrifying idea: for twelve hours, all crime is legal.• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Splice, the disturbing 2010 sci-fi horror film about genetic engineering, parental failure, and the nightmare of creating life without the courage to take responsibility for it.Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Danielle Harris, Keith David, Robert Englund, and Jessica Tandy, a creepy look at what these stories say about control, family, suburbia, and civilization, and a weekly recommendation for Sean Byrne's vicious prom-night horror film The Loved Ones.From haunted television screens to cursed children, science gone rotten, and a society where the rules turn off for one night, this week proves horror is often scariest when it moves into the places that were supposed to keep us safe.

On November 12, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Katarzyna Zowada vanished in Krakow, Poland—a disappearance that would transform into one of modern horror history's most disturbing cases. Weeks later, a discovery on the Vistula River revealed forensic horror and unanswered questions that still haunt the city. Join Henrique as we explore the gaps, the inexplicable details, and the paranormal mystery behind one of Poland's most chilling unsolved murders.Inside this episode:• The disappearance of Katarzyna Zowada and the warning signs that were not treated urgently enough.• The horrifying Vistula River discovery that transformed a missing-person case into one of Poland's most infamous murders.• The forensic mystery surrounding the deliberate removal of skin and the questions it raised about the killer's knowledge, motive, and control.• The long cold case investigation, including Poland's Archiwum X, DNA testing, exhumation, 3D modeling, and renewed river searches.• The arrest, conviction, appeal, and 2024 acquittal of Robert J., and why the case remains legally unresolved.• The human story beneath the horror — Katarzyna as a daughter, student, and young woman whose identity should never be swallowed by the brutality of what was done to her.This is not just a story about one of Europe's most shocking true crime cases. It is a story about how grief lingers when the legal system cannot give a final answer. It is about the danger of confusing suspicion with proof. And it is about a river that gave back part of the truth — but not the killer's name.Katarzyna Zowada disappeared in 1998. Her remains surfaced in the Vistula in 1999. More than twenty-five years later, her murder is still waiting for justice.We're telling that story tonight.

Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with another dimly glowing transmission of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, psychological horror, and ghostly little dramas where the mind is never quite as private as it seems.Tonight's broadcast brings four eerie classics from the darker corners of the dial: a commuter whose fantasy woman steps out of his imagination and into his doom, a cold professor pursued by a force he refuses to understand, a criminal investigation where the dead may be the only witness left worth trusting, and a final Whistler tale where one desperate choice may seal a fate already waiting in the dark. The host is waiting. The chair is ready. The story is sharpening. But some things, perhaps wisely, remain just a little out of focus.

Cursed technology, killer machines, and portal horror collide in this sci-fi nightmare horror anthology series. Three strange stories explore what happens when human inventions open doors to darker realities—because sometimes the real horror isn't in another dimension; it's in what we build. Perfect for fans of dark supernatural tales, horror legends, and creepy technology that goes terribly wrong.Tonight's lineup begins with a girl haunted by grief, bullying, and a strange digital presence that may know far more about her reality than she does. Then the world cracks open with portals, vampires, alternate universes, and a desperate race to stop a nightmare from spilling across dimensions. And finally, a struggling young writer discovers that the old typewriter he brought home doesn't just create fiction—it makes it real, with bloody consequences.• Ghost in the Machine — by Shane MigliavaccaA grieving girl, a decaying house, a mysterious coded woman, and a reality that starts slipping at the edges turn this one into a creepy blend of haunted tech, psychological horror, and emotional science fiction dread. It's eerie, intimate, and deeply unsettling.• Portals — by Rob FieldsWhat begins as a stormy detour through a vampire-ruled alternate universe grows into a full-scale battle involving portals, nuclear power, supernatural heroes, parallel Earths, and the fate of entire worlds. This one is huge, wild, fast-moving, and loaded with sci-fi horror spectacle. • Hunter Black — by Rob FieldsA bullied teenage writer finds an antique typewriter that can turn imagination into reality, unleashing a futuristic killer and a wave of revenge-fueled violence that spirals beyond his control. It's mean, fun, pulpy, and full of killer-creation horror with a nasty little edge.From haunted screens and coded faces to bloodthirsty parallel worlds and stories that type themselves into existence, this collection is all about what happens when the unreal stops staying in its lane. Keep the lights low, keep your devices in sight, and maybe think twice before trusting any machine that seems to know you too well.

Paranormal Activity, found footage horror, demonic hauntings, and the nightmare of being watched while you sleep take center stage in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, as Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into the low-budget movie that turned a bedroom doorway, a static camera, and a few impossible noises into modern horror history.This week, Henrique and Rachael discuss Paranormal Activity, the 2007 found footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Oren Peli, starring Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat. The movie follows a couple who begin filming their home after a disturbing presence seems to become more active at night, and that simple setup helped turn the film into one of horror's biggest micro-budget success stories. AFI lists Oren Peli as director, writer, cinematographer, and editor, with Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat in the cast; Box Office Mojo lists the estimated budget at $15,000 and the worldwide gross at $193,355,933.Henrique and Rachael get into why Paranormal Activity still feels eerie, why its bedroom-camera setup works so well, and how the movie weaponizes waiting. This is not glossy haunted house horror. It is a movie about small sounds, weird behavior, relationship tension, and the terrifying idea that something may be standing in the room while you are asleep.Inside this episode:• Why Paranormal Activity became a found footage phenomenon — Henrique and Rachael talk about the film's perfect timing, its word-of-mouth power, and how its low-budget realism helped make it feel scarier than more polished studio horror.• Katie and Micah's relationship as horror fuel — The episode digs into the uneasy dynamic between Katie and Micah, including how Micah's ego, skepticism, and need to keep filming make the haunting feel more personal and more frustrating.• Less-is-more supernatural terror — From bedroom shadows to long silences, tiny movements, footsteps, doors, and nighttime dread, the conversation looks at how the film turns minimal effects into maximum tension.• The power of found footage believability — Henrique and Rachael compare Paranormal Activity to other found footage movies, including Cloverfield, while discussing why roughness, improvisation, and simplicity can make horror feel more immediate.• The ending and alternate endings — The episode covers the final escalation, Katie's possession, Micah's fate, the psychic's warning, and why the last image is so important to the film's impact.• Why the movie still matters — Whether you think it is terrifying, overhyped, or somewhere in between, Paranormal Activity helped reshape mainstream horror and proved that a scary idea, executed with discipline, could hit harder than a monster in full view.Where to watch Paranormal Activity in the U.S.:Currently, Paranormal Activity is listed as streaming on Paramount+, Paramount+ via Amazon Channel, and fuboTV. It is also listed for digital rental or purchase through Fandango at Home, Apple TV, and Amazon Video. Paramount+ also has an official movie page for the film. Availability changes often, so double-check your preferred app before recording or publishing.

The Backrooms movie arrives tomorrow from A24, and we're diving into how found footage horror and liminal space folklore became one of internet culture's most unsettling modern legends. From a creepy 2019 message board image to Kane Pixels' viral YouTube series, Reddit deep dives, TikTok rabbit holes, and analog horror aesthetics—this episode explores why empty hallways, buzzing fluorescent lights, and yellow walls tap into something primal about being lost nowhere.Inside this episode:• Why The Backrooms are trending again with the A24 film arriving tomorrow • How a simple empty yellow room became a modern creepypasta legend • Why liminal spaces feel so familiar, lonely, and unsettling• How Kane Pixels helped turn internet horror into cinematic found-footage nightmare• Why the scariest thing about The Backrooms may not be the monster - but the architecture itselfThis is a quick, creepy, casual dive into the internet horror phenomenon that made empty hallways feel like a doorway out of reality.

A late-night confession in the freezing woods turns into a nightmare when Will discovers his crush Travis isn't what he thought and something is lurking in the dark... This paranormal mystery blends found footage horror, cryptid dread, and eerie twist-ending storytelling—a dark tale of desire, betrayal, and something inhuman lurking in the darkness. Perfect for fans of paranormal horror legends and supernatural twists.What begins as a tense coming-of-age horror story quickly twists into a terrifying fight for survival, as hidden cruelty, buried secrets, and unseen creatures close in from the shadows. The deeper Will goes into the tunnel, the more he realizes this place may not simply be abandoned — it may be occupied.If you love scary stories with eerie atmosphere, creature horror, dark woods horror, abandoned tunnel stories, twist ending horror, and emotionally sharp tales where the real monsters may not all be hiding in the dark, this episode is built for you.Turn out the lights, step carefully into the tunnel, and remember: sometimes the worst thing waiting in the shadows is not the first thing that reaches for you.The Thing That Lurks in the Tunnel — by Bruce Haney.

Horror legends and icons collide in this week's history lesson: Alien (1979) opens in U.S. theaters, turning deep space into a haunted house, while Drag Me to Hell, Stranger Things 4, Wrong Turn, and Ma reshape what cursed horror looks like on screen. Explore the practical effects, sound design, and supernatural storytelling that made May 25–31 a landmark week for modern horror cinema—and what these films teach us about crafting atmospheric dread.Inside this episode:• Alien opens in U.S. theaters — May 25, 1979Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror masterpiece turns deep space into a haunted house, giving us the Nostromo, the xenomorph, the chestburster, the facehugger, and one of horror's greatest final girls in Ellen Ripley. With its grimy industrial design, corporate paranoia, and unforgettable creature work, Alien remains one of the most influential horror films ever made.Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.• Stranger Things 4, Volume 1 premieres on Netflix — May 27, 2022Hawkins gets darker, scarier, and more traumatic as Vecna drags the Netflix hit fully into supernatural horror. Haunted memories, cursed visions, floating bodies, and the pop-culture resurrection of Kate Bush helped make Stranger Things 4a massive streaming horror event.Where to watch: Streaming on Netflix.• Drag Me to Hell opens in the U.S. — May 29, 2009Sam Raimi returns to horror with a wickedly funny, gross, and vicious curse story starring Alison Lohman as a loan officer who makes one cruel choice and pays for it in demonic consequences. Drag Me to Hell proves PG-13 horror can still be wild, disgusting, scary, and unforgettable.Where to watch: Free with ads on YouTube; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.• Wrong Turn opens in the U.S. — May 30, 2003A bad detour, a car accident, and a nightmare waiting in the woods helped turn Wrong Turn into a durable 2000s survival horror staple. This backwoods cannibal thriller taps into the primal fear of being lost, hunted, and far beyond help.Where to watch: Streaming on Prime Video and Prime Video with Ads; rent/buy on Amazon Video and Apple TV.• Deep-Cut Spotlight: Ma opens in U.S. theaters — May 31, 2019Blumhouse turns a basement hangout into a trap with a smile as Octavia Spencer gives Ma its creepy, uncomfortable power. What starts as teenage partying curdles into obsession, captivity, and social horror, making Sue Ann one of Blumhouse's strangest modern villains.Where to watch: Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.Plus, we celebrate horror birthdays for Peter Cushing, Helena Bonham Carter, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee, then look at how this week's horror anniversaries all circle the same chilling idea: sometimes the scariest place is the trap you willingly walk into.

Cryptid horror collides with declassified paranormal mysteries this May. Henrique and Michelle examine newly released UFO files, Ohio's notorious Loveland Frogman sightings, and the USS Indianapolis—where documented naval tragedy intertwines with unexplained phenomena. A Memorial Day deep dive into weird experiences that shaped history, blurring the line between declassified fact and supernatural folklore.Inside this episode:• USS Indianapolis and the real horror of war — A Memorial Day deep dive into the legendary World War II cruiser, its secret mission, the torpedo attack that sent hundreds of men into the ocean, the days of thirst, exposure, shark attacks, and the heartbreaking aftermath that followed.• The Loveland Frogman returns — Ohio's own cryptid gets another look as the episode digs into the weird, funny, and strangely persistent legend of the Loveland Frogman, one of the Buckeye State's most beloved monster stories.• Newly declassified UFO files — The hosts explore strange government UFO reports, Pentagon files, and the eternal question of whether the truth is out there… or buried under paperwork.• A mysterious ancient burial jar discovery — A strange archaeological find brings a morbid dose of death, history, and mystery to the spooky news lineup.• A coyote swims to Alcatraz — Nature gets weird as a coyote makes an unbelievable journey across the water to one of America's most infamous prison islands.• A celebrity poltergeist story — A bizarre haunting report leads into talk of ghosts, exorcisms, and the strange way paranormal stories still grab headlines.• Cinema Wasteland, episode 400, and horror culture nostalgia — Henrique and Michelle reflect on a long-running cult movie convention coming to an end, the changing world of physical media and horror fandom, and what it felt like to create a major paranormal radio-style episode of Weekly Spooky.New here? This episode stands alone — but it also captures everything Monthly Spooky does best: true horror history, cryptid legends, paranormal news, UFO weirdness, spooky conversation, and Halloween energy all year long.What's scarier: a monster in the woods, a ghost in the house, or the open ocean at night?

Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with another uneasy collection of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, gothic crime, and strange little broadcasts that seem to know exactly what you are afraid to touch.Tonight's transmission carries four shadowed tales from the darker shelves of the dial: a glass ball that may contain something ancient and wicked, a department store where the mannequins are not the only ones waiting after dark, a romantic cottage hiding a murderous secret, and a body pulled from Billingsgate that leads into a web of crime, greed, and fate. The room is warm. The chair is ready. The host is smiling again. But whatever is inside the story… may not stay there.

Slasher horror, ghost stories, and haunted motels collide in this killer horror anthology series. Dive into masked killers, prom night bloodshed, and supernatural terror as Henrique explores how modern horror legends—from roadside motels to murder mansions—tap into timeless fears. Perfect for fans of scary stories, spooky legends, and pulpy 80s–90s horror with real psychological dread.Tonight's lineup begins with a desert motel stop that turns into a nightmare of fugitives, storms, strange lights, and something deeply wrong out in the wasteland. Then we head to Grimm Manor, where a stormy detour traps Bethany Martinson inside a sprawling haunted mansion filled with secret rooms, ghostly tricks, and a hidden fortune waiting behind deadly puzzles. And finally, the night explodes into prom queen rivalry, buried trauma, and a brutal killer loose at Strickfield High in a slasher-sized descent into prom-night chaos.• Incident at Isotop Inn — by Shane MigliavaccaA grieving woman, a punk motel clerk, a desert storm, escaped killers, and Black Ridge's bizarre secrets all smash together in a tense, weird, blood-soaked roadside nightmare. This one blends crime thriller, cosmic strangeness, and grim motel horror in all the right ways.• Murder Mansion — by Rob FieldsBethany Martinson survives a wreck in the storm and stumbles into Grimm Manor, where ghosts, trap rooms, mirror horrors, hidden passages, and a buried family fortune turn one terrible night into a full gothic puzzle-box nightmare. Big haunted-house energy, high-stakes escape-room tension, and classic spooky adventure all the way through.        • Prom Queen Killer — by Rob FieldsA prom-night nightmare of rivalry, buried trauma, queer desire, and a killer stalking Strickfield High turns this novella-length slasher into a vicious, dramatic, blood-soaked descent into chaos. It's exactly the kind of high-school horror that mixes crowns, grudges, and murder into one unforgettable night.        From neon vacancy signs to candlelit deathtraps and blood on the gym floor, this collection is all about one bad night spiraling into something unforgettable. Lock the doors, dim the lights, and don't trust any place that promises shelter, glamour, or a crown.

Eerie found footage chaos meets scary viral marketing mystery in Cloverfield (2008). Director Matt Reeves, writer Drew Goddard, and producer J.J. Abrams crafted a mature-themes monster movie that redefined how handheld perspective creates terror. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi revisit the kaiju-style attack, NYC devastation, and cult-classic status of this explosive creature-feature on Cutting Deep into Horror—one of the 2000s' most unsettling disaster horrors.Cloverfield remains a cult-favorite found footage monster movie built on shaky-cam panic, post-9/11 imagery, mysterious viral marketing, and the unforgettable sight of New York City collapsing under something enormous, unknowable, and very, very hungry.Inside this episode:Henrique and Rachael dig into why Cloverfield still works as a found footage horror movie, even with a studio-sized monster spectacle roaring behind the handheld camera.They revisit the original mystery-box marketing campaign, the untitled teaser, the online speculation, the Lost and Godzilla rumors, and the way the film turned pre-release confusion into a major part of the experience.The conversation walks through the movie's biggest nightmare images: the Statue of Liberty's head in the street, the collapsing city, the subway parasite attack, the rescue mission for Beth, the helicopter crash, Operation Hammer Down, and that final Coney Island clue hiding in plain sight.They also get into the film's lingering connection to 9/11-era disaster imagery, why handheld horror depends so heavily on realism, how Cloverfield compares to The Blair Witch Project and other found footage films, and why the movie's sense of panic still feels unusually immediate.Plus, they discuss the cast, Matt Reeves' later career, Steven Spielberg's reported influence on the ending, the monster's mysterious origin, and whether Cloverfield still holds up nearly two decades later.Where to watch Cloverfield (U.S.):Free with ads on Pluto TV: https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/movies/5bd3338967f34cef7af44a37

Eerie folklore meets paranormal tourism on this haunted Ohio road trip. Explore the Gothic Ohio State Reformatory (famous for Shawshank Redemption & documented paranormal investigations), Cleveland's Franklin Castle, and the ghostly Moonville Tunnel. Discover real ghost stories, chilling histories, and eerie landmarks you can actually visit—plus the dark truths behind these haunted American locations. Perfect for mature-themed horror fans and paranormal travelers.Inside this episode:• Why haunted locations are booming with ghost hunters, horror fans, and paranormal tourists• How the Ohio State Reformatory became a perfect mix of history, cinema, and ghost-hunt atmosphere• Why Franklin Castle still feels like Cleveland's classic haunted-house legend• How Moonville Tunnel turns Ohio railroad folklore into a chilling backroads ghost story• Why people love standing in the dark and asking, “Did you hear that?”This is a fun, spooky, source-aware haunted travel episode for anyone who loves ghost stories, creepy road trips, abandoned places, haunted prisons, paranormal tourism, and real locations that feel like they belong in a horror movie.

Horror stories meet paranormal radio terror in this 400th-episode event. Lost in the Void descends into nightmare as late-night callers share eerie stories of impossible encounters and dark roads—until the final transmission takes a terrifying turn. Featuring Duane Whitaker (Pulp Fiction, The Devil's Rejects), this scary story is a cinematic audio drama for mature audiences who crave immersive anthology horror and unsettling urban legend deep-dives. Randall Burr is the host of Lost in the Void, a lonely overnight radio show where callers share stories of strange figures, haunted highways, eerie truck stops, voices that should not be on the air, and things waiting just beyond the reach of headlights. At first, the night sounds like classic paranormal radio: strange lights under frozen lakes, unsettling highway encounters, mysterious callers from across the world, and listeners who swear the road itself is watching. But as the calls keep coming, something begins to shift. The stories start connecting. The signal reaches places it should not reach. The callers know too much. And the man behind the microphone slowly realizes the show he is hosting may not be a show at all. Final Broadcast is creepy, funny, eerie, strange, and increasingly unnerving as one broadcaster tries to keep control of a program that may already belong to something else. For our 400th episode, Weekly Spooky goes deep into the static with a feature-length nightmare about radio waves, haunted highways, impossible callers, and the terrifying moment when something on the other side of the broadcast starts listening back. Final Broadcast — by Henrique Couto

Dive into a week of horror history: iconic haunted hotels, chilling sequels, cult revenge classics, and one of the 1990s' sharpest horror anthology films.Inside this episode:✅ May 18, 1971 — The Abominable Dr. PhibesVincent Price becomes one of horror's most stylish revenge artists in this bizarre, elegant, plague-inspired cult classic full of murder, black comedy, and art deco nightmare energy.Where to watch: No major U.S. streaming this week; physical media is the main option.✅ May 22, 1992 — Alien 3Ripley crash-lands into one of the franchise's bleakest, most controversial chapters, trading action-horror triumph for grief, sacrifice, prison-colony dread, and industrial nightmare atmosphere.Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max; rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.✅ May 23, 1986 — Poltergeist II: The Other SideThe Freeling family learns the haunting did not stay behind, while Reverend Kane becomes one of supernatural horror's most unforgettable screen nightmares.Where to watch: Streaming on MGM+; free with ads on The Roku Channel and YouTube Free.✅ May 23, 1980 — The ShiningStanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel opens in theaters, beginning the long, strange afterlife of the Overlook Hotel, Jack Torrance, and one of the most debated horror classics ever made.Where to watch: Rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

The Beast of Bray Road is a chilling modern cryptid legend and one of America's most terrifying werewolf sightings — a true story of eerie folklore, haunted highways, and eyewitness horror from rural Wisconsin. In the early 1990s, drivers on Bray Road in Elkhorn reported seeing a massive wolf-like creature that defied explanation. Explore the chilling accounts, the rural legend that gripped a community, and the cryptid mystery that remains unsolved. Perfect eerie suspense storytelling for horror fans who love folklore-backed scares.Inside this episode:• The 1991 sightings that turned Bray Road into a cryptid landmark• Linda Godfrey's investigation and the newspaper story that gave the Beast its name• Eyewitness reports of a wolf-headed creature walking on two legs• The dogman and werewolf folklore surrounding Wisconsin's haunted roads• Possible real-world explanations, from coyotes and wolves to bears and mistaken identity• Why the legend survives, even without physical proofThis episode of Terrifying & True explores the frightening balance between true cryptid sightings, American folklore, rural horror, and skeptical investigation. It is not just a story about whether a werewolf was really seen on a Wisconsin road. It is a story about how a few terrifying encounters, a powerful name, and a lonely stretch of asphalt can create a modern monster.Because somewhere outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin, the road is still there.The ditch is still there.And when the headlights sweep across the grass, it is easy to understand why people kept talking.We're telling that story tonight.

Unknown Broadcast digs into classic radio horror—four eerie vintage tales where cursed writers, haunted doctors, and shadowy mysteries prove old-time suspense still terrorizes. From the golden age of the dial, these chilling stories showcase the folklore, dark psychology, and gothic dread that defined horror before streaming. Perfect for horror fans seeking authentic, mature-themed audio fiction with real literary bone in them.Tonight's transmission brings four eerie classics from the darker corners of the dial: a writer haunted by the women he created, a sinister door in old Paris, a doctor's final confession, and a waiting man whose patience may be the most dangerous thing in the room. 

Haunted roads, cryptid encounters, and creature-feature horror stories converge in this scary stories anthology. Four chilling tales of werewolves, backwoods monsters, and paranormal nightmares—perfect for your next road trip or summer adventure. If you love spooky season all year, folklore, and eerie supernatural storytelling, dive into tonight's creepy compilation of blood-soaked horror stories that blur urban legends with creature features.Tonight's lineup starts in a museum of oddities where a harmless internship becomes a grotesque transformation nightmare. From there, a summer camp prank spirals into swamp horror, mad science, and mutated creatures in the dark. Then the road turns deadly with a phantom passenger story that feels like pure late-night highway dread. And finally, a beach trip becomes a full-on werewolf war as Bella Taibon uncovers a savage family secret under the full moon.• I Worked in a Museum of Oddities Until the Oddest Thing Happened to Me — by Michael KelsoAn unpaid summer internship at a cryptid museum turns monstrous when a mysterious creature bite changes everything. This one mixes body horror, creature-feature chaos, and a mean little twist on small attraction roadside weirdness.• Summer Slaycation — by David O'HanlonWhat begins as a juvenile camp prank in the Cypress Maze erupts into swamp terror, deranged experiments, and plant-animal abominations in a crumbling bayou house. Fast, nasty, funny, and packed with backwoods creature mayhem.• I Used to Drive a Delivery Truck, Until the Incident — by Michael KelsoA delivery driver starts getting written up for carrying a passenger he cannot see—until the camera proves something impossible is riding shotgun. Quiet, eerie, and deeply effective haunted-road horror.• Bella's Holiday — by Rob FieldsA summer beach trip to Shore City turns deadly when Bella and Einny discover a brutal werewolf conspiracy hiding inside a family reunion. Equal parts supernatural action, vampire-werewolf conflict, and savage vacation horror.From dead-end routes and cryptid exhibits to swamp laboratories and moonlit beach bloodshed, this collection is all about summer going rotten in the most entertaining way possible. Pack sunscreen if you want, but you may get more use out of silver, headlights, and a very fast exit.

(00:00:00) Real-Life Hauntings & Terrifying True Stories: Bloody Mary, Sleep Paralysis, Poltergeist Curse & Room 1046 (00:00:14) Introduction to Chilling Tales (00:11:18) Unraveling Bloody Mary (00:19:56) The Haunting of Sleep Paralysis (00:37:17) The Poltergeist Film Curse (00:53:10) The Mystery of Room 1046 (01:11:54) The History of Chain Letters (01:27:38) Chain Letters and Their Legacy (01:27:53) The Corpsewood Manor Murders (01:43:49) The Herrmann Poltergeist Case (01:59:40) The Media Frenzy Begins (02:15:07) The Poltergeist's Final Show (02:38:22) The Legacy of the Herrmann Case (02:41:51) Conclusion: Fear and Folklore Terrifying & True returns with a special collection of the most memorable real horror stories, urban legends, unsolved mysteries, paranormal cases, cursed media, and disturbing true crime covered on the show. This first compilation gathers seven chilling topics that all circle the same terrifying question: what happens when a story becomes too powerful to stay only a story?From childhood mirror rituals to medical nightmares, from Hollywood curse legends to baffling hotel murders, from viral chain-letter fear to a brutal crime twisted by Satanic Panic, these episodes explore the strange borderland where folklore, fear, rumor, tragedy, and real documented events collide.Inside this special Terrifying & True collection:• Bloody Mary — A deep dive into the mirror-summoning urban legend, tracing the myth through Queen Mary I, Mary Worth, Elizabeth Bathory, sleepover folklore, and the fear of what might stare back from the glass. • Sleep Paralysis — The terrifying real phenomenon of waking up frozen, unable to move or scream, while shadow figures, “old hag” entities, and nightmare hallucinations seem to enter the room. • The Poltergeist Film Curse — A look at the tragic legacy surrounding the Poltergeist films, including real human skeleton props, on-set incidents, and the heartbreaking deaths that fueled one of horror cinema's most famous curse legends. • Room 1046 — The bizarre unsolved murder of Artemus Ogletree, who checked into a Kansas City hotel under the name Roland T. Owen and was later found tortured, dying, and surrounded by unanswered questions. • The History of Chain Letters — From ancient curse letters and religious warnings to dime-letter schemes, internet spam, “share or die” posts, and viral fear, this episode uncovers why people keep passing threats and promises forward. • The 1982 Murders at Corpsewood Manor — The disturbing true crime case of Charles Scudder and Joseph Odom, whose isolated Georgia home, occult imagery, and brutal murders became tangled in media sensationalism, Satanic Panic, homophobia, and local legend. • The Herrmann Family Poltergeist Case — The famous 1958 Long Island haunting where bottles popped open, objects flew, investigators arrived, and a quiet suburban house became the center of one of America's most discussed poltergeist cases. Together, these stories form a haunted chain of belief: say the name, wake in the dark, fear the curse, enter the locked room, forward the warning, judge the outsiders, and finally watch the house itself come alive. This is a collection about the stories we inherit, the fears we spread, and the mysteries that refuse to die quietly.This is Terrifying & True: a special collection of real-life horror, paranormal legends, unsolved crimes, cursed stories, and the strange history behind the things that still keep us up at night.

A teen zombie horror story erupts into bloody chaos when a wild new girl at Strickfield High becomes the target of jealousy, murder, and undead revenge. In “Undead Triangle” by Rob Fields, Meredith Ridley is strange, fearless, reckless, and impossible to ignore—but when Lita Hallaway decides Meredith has crossed the wrong line, a deadly rivalry turns into something much worse than high school drama.After a brutal attack in the Backwoods of Strickfield, Meredith rises from the lake changed forever: undead, hungry, and ready to settle the score. But she is not the only monster crawling back from death. What begins as a tale of jealousy, betrayal, and revenge twists into a gruesome zombie love triangle packed with dark humor, body horror, junkyard carnage, and the kind of over-the-top undead mayhem only Weekly Spooky can deliver.This episode is perfect for fans of zombie horror, teen horror stories, revenge horror, splatterpunk, dark comedy horror, high school horror, flesh-eating monsters, and Halloween-ready scary stories. If you like your horror wild, bloody, funny, and completely unhinged, this one is ready to sink its teeth in.Listen now for a gruesome, funny, and vicious tale of death, desire, and undead payback.Undead Triangle — by Rob Fields

This Week in Horror History for May 11–17 brings together a loaded week of horror movie anniversaries, Stephen King adaptations, Universal Monsters, zombie outbreak horror, slasher sequels, kaiju blockbusters, and modern home-invasion terror.Inside this episode:• May 11, 1936 — Dracula's DaughterUniversal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula's legacy into a chilly story of blood, inheritance, repression, and the desperate hope that evil might be cured.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.• May 11, 2007 — 28 Weeks LaterThe Rage virus returns with soldiers, checkpoints, quarantine zones, and the terrifying idea that the people in charge may declare the nightmare over long before the nightmare agrees.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.• May 13, 1988 — Friday the 13th Part VII: The New BloodJason Voorhees rises again on an actual Friday the 13th, this time facing a telekinetic final girl in the cult-favorite slasher sequel fans often describe as Jason versus Carrie at Crystal Lake.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+ with subscription; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.• May 16, 2014 — GodzillaThe MonsterVerse begins as Gareth Edwards brings Godzilla back to American theaters with disaster-movie scale, radioactive awe, and the reminder that humanity is not always the main character of the planet.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.Then, in this week's Deep-Cut Spotlight, we go to May 11, 1984 — Firestarter, the Stephen King adaptation about a little girl, a secret government experiment, and the terrifying question of what happens when the weapon you built learns to hate you. Drew Barrymore stars as Charlie McGee, a child whose fear and trauma can ignite into actual flame, making Firestarter one of King's most haunting stories of power, control, and childhood weaponized by adults.Plus: a birthday roll featuring Robert Pattinson, David Boreanaz, Megan Fox, and Bill Paxton, a Then & Now Bite about horror's power to mutate across generations, and a Weekly Recommendation for The Strangers: Chapter 1, a modern masked-intruder nightmare that proves some old fears never stop knocking.From Dracula's Daughter to Firestarter, from 28 Weeks Later to Friday the 13th Part VII, from Godzilla to The Strangers, this week is packed with horror history that refuses to stay buried.

The Setagaya Family Murders remain one of Japan's most disturbing and baffling unsolved true crime cases: a brutal family killing, an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence, and a killer who somehow vanished anyway.On December 30, 2000, in Setagaya, Tokyo, the Miyazawa family — Mikio, Yasuko, Niina, and Rei — spent what should have been an ordinary night at home before New Year's. Sometime between late night and the next morning, an intruder entered from the park side of the house and murdered all four members of the family.But what happened after the murders is what has haunted investigators for more than two decades.The killer did not immediately flee. He stayed inside the Miyazawa home for hours. He ate from the kitchen. He drank barley tea. He used the bathroom. He tended to his own injuries. He touched the family computer. Then he left behind an astonishing trail of evidence: blood, fingerprints, palm prints, clothing, shoes, a hip bag, gloves, a scarf, handkerchiefs, and even DNA.And still, more than twenty years later, police do not know his name.Inside this episode:The Night of the Murders: How a quiet family home in Setagaya became the scene of one of Japan's most infamous unsolved crimes.The Miyazawa Family: The ordinary lives behind the case — a father, mother, daughter, and son killed inside the place they should have been safest.The Killer Who Stayed: Why the murderer's hours-long behavior inside the home makes this case so uniquely disturbing.A Mountain of Evidence: Blood type, DNA, fingerprints, palm prints, clothing, shoes, and personal items left behind.Theories and Dead Ends: Robbery, personal motive, random violence, foreign suspect theories, park-side tensions, and why none have solved the case.The Unanswered Question: How can a killer leave so many traces and still disappear?This is not a case defined by a lack of evidence. It is defined by the terrifying failure of evidence to become identity. The Setagaya Family Murders are a story about a home violated, a family destroyed, and a killer who left behind almost everything except the one thing investigators needed most: his name.In Setagaya, the most frightening part is not that the killer vanished without a trace.It is that he left so many traces and vanished anyway.We're telling that story tonight.

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying a midnight cargo of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, supernatural mystery, occult terror, and dreadful little accidents that refuse to stay buried.Tonight's transmission gathers four vintage nightmares from the shadowed side of the dial: black magic on a college campus, death crawling loose aboard a ship, a lonely woman's diary curdling into terror, and a fatal road accident that becomes something far more twisted. The host is here. The tea is warm. The room is waiting. And if the stories sound like they were meant for you… well, perhaps they were.

Backwoods horror, road trip terror, gas station nightmares, isolated towns, Ozark creatures, and middle-of-nowhere survival collide in this brutal collection of four creepy horror stories. If you love roadside dread, rural secrets, desperate escapes, strange towns, and stories where one wrong turn changes everything, this episode is built to leave dirt under your nails and headlights in your nightmares.Tonight's lineup takes you from a father-daughter road trip that veers into pure nightmare, to a security job in a town where something ancient is waiting beneath a church, to a vicious Ozark creature feature soaked in blood and panic, and finally to a gas station shift where the fluorescent lights hide something far darker than bad coffee and impatient customers. This is horror at the edge of the map—where the woods close in, the locals know more than they say, and the next stop might be the worst mistake of your life.• Strike-Out! — by Morgan MooreA spring road trip to see family turns catastrophic when a father and daughter break down at the worst possible place imaginable. Tense, nasty, and full of survival-horror momentum, this one feels like a childhood nightmare told with the pedal pinned down.• I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening — by Michael KelsoA security specialist arrives in a remote New England town to investigate frightened workers and finds vanished people, forbidden tunnels, and something inhuman wearing a human face. This one leans hard into eerie isolation, old evil, and creeping dread.• Bite Me — by David O'HanlonA reunion weekend in the Ozarks becomes a blood-soaked creature nightmare when something impossible starts feeding in the woods. Wild, fast, and vicious, it mixes backwoods horror with monster-movie chaos in the best way.• I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret — by Michael KelsoA bitter overnight clerk, a missing coworker, corporate surveillance, and a horrifying secret tied to a distribution center turn a routine gas station job into full paranoid nightmare fuel. Funny, grim, and deeply unsettling.From lonely mountain roads to church basements, flea-ridden woods, and convenience stores where the cameras always seem to be watching, this collection is all about the moment a familiar place turns wrong and keeps getting worse.

Typhoid Mary: The Shocking True Story of New York's Silent Killer is one of the most eerie, gripping, and unexpectedly timely episodes of Terrifying & True. In this Best of 2025 revisit, we return to the haunting real case of Mary Mallon, the woman history would remember as Typhoid Mary—an apparently healthy cook linked to deadly typhoid fever outbreaks across New York and Long Island.At the center of this unforgettable historical mystery is a terrifying idea: what if the person spreading disease shows no symptoms at all? In the early 1900s, affluent households were suddenly struck by baffling illness. The homes were clean, the water was safe, and no one could explain why people kept getting sick. As investigators followed the trail, they uncovered one of the most chilling public health cases in American history—one involving invisible infection, forced quarantine, fear, stigma, and a woman who insisted she had done nothing wrong.This episode is one of the most engrossing Terrifying & True episodes of 2025 because it works on so many levels at once: as a historical true story, a medical mystery, a New York nightmare, and a disturbing ethical drama about freedom, blame, and public safety. It's creepy not because of gore or violence, but because the threat is silent, intimate, and impossible to see. That makes this Best of 2025 re-air especially strong for discoverability—and especially worth revisiting.Inside this episode:The 1906 Oyster Bay outbreak that launched the mysteryGeorge Soper's investigation into a hidden source of repeated typhoid casesMary Mallon's confrontation, arrest, and forced testingThe quarantine on North Brother Island and the legal controversy that followedHer return to cooking under aliases and the second outbreak that sealed her fateWhy Typhoid Mary still matters today in conversations about disease, stigma, and public healthIf you're drawn to historical true crime, dark history, medical mysteries, epidemic stories, New York history, and bizarre real cases that feel almost unbelievable, this is one of the strongest examples of what Terrifying & True does best. This Best of 2025 episode is a chance to revisit one of the show's most unsettling and memorable stories—one that still feels unnervingly relevant more than a century later.We're telling that story tonight.

A strange man. A summer job that sounds too easy. A locked shed. A half-built pink concrete house. And three teenage friends who slowly realize they may be helping a killer build something far more horrifying than a home.In this gruesome and darkly funny episode of Weekly Spooky, a group of broke teenagers near Toronto, Ontario are desperate for summer work when they meet Frank Chopski — a bizarre, wild-eyed stranger with a rusty truck, a creepy little pink teddy bear, and an offer that seems impossible to refuse. Ten dollars an hour just to clean old car parts and carry concrete blocks across a field? Easy money.But Frank is secretive about his locked shed. He never lets the boys inside. He guards his tools. He hauls out garbage bags, towels, saws, hatchets, and heavy handmade concrete blocks dyed a strange shade of pink. And as the summer drags on, the friends begin to notice disturbing details embedded inside the blocks they've been carrying by hand.What starts as a weird summer job becomes a horrifying discovery of body horror, serial killer madness, hidden evidence, and a house literally built out of secrets.If you love scary stories about creepy strangers, summer job horror, serial killer fiction, body horror, dark humor, disturbing mysteries, killer next door stories, and gruesome twist endings, this episode is ready to pour the concrete, smooth the edges, and seal something terrible inside forever.Come for the easy money, my spookies… but don't look too closely at the walls.Concrete Evidence — by Gary D up in Ontario, Canada

This Week in Horror History for May 4–10 dives into a killer week of horror movie history, slasher movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror comics, survival horror games, and classic monster adventure. This episode revisits the bloody legacy of Friday the 13th, the 2005 remake of House of Wax, the serial-killer comic-book mystery Nailbiter, the retro survival-horror game Crow Country, and this week's Deep-Cut Spotlight: The Burning, one of the most brutal and underrated 1980s camp slasher movies.Inside this episode:May 7, 2014 — Nailbiter #1A modern horror comic favorite from Image Comics introduces Buckaroo, Oregon—a small town with a terrifying reputation for producing serial killers. If you love crime horror, serial killer stories, creepy small-town mysteries, and horror comics, this one belongs on your radar.Where to read (U.S., this week): Image Comics, Kindle/Comixology, and collected editions from Image and major booksellers.May 6, 2005 — House of WaxThe 2005 House of Wax remake brings glossy 2000s horror, slasher-movie chaos, and a gruesome wax museum setting together in one sticky nightmare. A cult favorite of the era, it mixes road-trip horror, trapped-tourist terror, melting bodies, and brutal setpieces.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.May 9, 1980 — Friday the 13thOne of the most important slasher movies of all time hits theaters and turns Camp Crystal Lake into horror history. From isolated cabins and doomed counselors to the birth of a franchise that would make Jason Voorhees a horror icon, Friday the 13th helped define the modern summer-camp slasher.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.May 9, 2024 — Crow CountryThe indie horror game Crow Country brings retro survival-horror atmosphere back with eerie puzzles, abandoned amusement-park dread, old-school tension, and modern genre polish. Fans of Resident Evil-style horror games, PlayStation-era survival horror, creepy theme parks, and indie horror games should take note.Where to play (U.S., this week): Steam, PlayStation Store, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.Deep-Cut Spotlight — May 8, 1981: The BurningThis week's Deep-Cut Spotlight heads back to summer camp for The Burning, a grimy 1981 slasher packed with Tom Savini effects, campfire trauma, garden shears, and one of the most infamous raft massacre scenes in horror history. Overshadowed in the original slasher boom, it has since become a true cult horror classic and one of the essential 1980s camp slasher films.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi, The Roku Channel, MGM+; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.Birthday Roll:Lance Henriksen, David Keith, Kevin Peter Hall, and Meg Foster.Weekly Recommendation — May 7, 1999: The MummyFor a lighter but still monster-packed pick, revisit The Mummy, the 1999 Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz adventure that revived Universal monster energy with cursed tombs, scarab swarms, ancient rituals, undead horror, and blockbuster pulp fun. It is the perfect date-window recommendation for fans of classic monster movies, action horror, Universal horror, and summer adventure films.Where to watch (U.S., this week): HBO Max, Peacock; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

The Fox Sisters, Hydesville, and the birth of modern Spiritualism began with something terrifyingly simple: a knock in the dark.In 1848 Hydesville, New York, two young sisters, Maggie and Kate Fox, claimed they could communicate with a mysterious spirit inside their family farmhouse. What started as eerie nighttime rappings soon became a national obsession, drawing neighbors, skeptics, journalists, believers, and grieving families desperate for proof that death was not the end. The phenomenon helped ignite one of the most influential supernatural movements in American history: Spiritualism.But was it a true haunting… or one of the most consequential paranormal hoaxes ever performed?Inside this episode:The Hydesville Rappings: How strange knocks in a farmhouse became a chilling code from “the dead.”Maggie and Kate Fox: Two young girls caught between childhood mischief, family pressure, celebrity, and exploitation.Leah Fox and the Spiritualist Machine: How the sisters' older sibling helped transform a local haunting into a public spectacle.Seances, Grief, and Belief: Why 19th-century America was so ready to believe the dead could answer.The 1888 Confession: Maggie Fox's shocking public admission that the spirit rappings were produced by physical tricks.The Bones in the Wall: The strange 1904 discovery that seemed to vindicate the legend… until the certainty began to fall apart.This is not just a ghost story. It is a story about grief, faith, fraud, family, and the terrible human hunger to hear one more message from someone we have lost. Whether the Fox Sisters were frauds, victims, performers, believers, or all of those things at once, their story changed the way America imagined the dead.From a cold farmhouse in Hydesville, New York, to packed lecture halls and séance parlors, the Fox Sisters helped build a movement on one promise: ask the dead a question, and they might answer.We're telling that story tonight.

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, psychological terror, crime, fate, and uncanny dread. This transmission begins with The Lady Was a Tiger, a tale of false safety, hidden danger, and a man caught in a tightening web of murder, espionage, and betrayal, where home itself starts to feel like a trap.

Cosmic horror, alien invasion nightmares, interdimensional warfare, occult terror, time-travel chaos, and apocalypse-driven weird fiction crash together in this wildly twisted Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love reality-breaking horror stories, ancient evil, multiverse destruction, cult books, and strange creatures from beyond human understanding, this collection delivers a full dose of bizarre, blood-soaked nightmare fuel.Tonight's lineup moves from a New Year's Eve time-rip disaster into a funeral where killer clowns play by rules all their own, then into a last-ditch battle to stop multiversal annihilation, and finally down a rain-slick spiral of crime, occult corruption, and a monster born from something that should have stayed buried. This one leans hard into weird horror: the kind where reality starts slipping, the rules stop making sense, and survival suddenly feels like a temporary condition.• Saint Jimmy — by Dan WilderA freak sound-based time-rip sends Jimmy hurtling through alternate timelines, self-inflicted paradoxes, and one gloriously deranged Y2K nightmare ruled by a leather-clad tyrant and his skeletal minions. It's funny, chaotic, weird as hell, and loaded with sci-fi panic and end-of-the-world absurdity. • The Fun in Funerals — by David O'HanlonA dead clown's funeral becomes a grotesque midnight hunt when the mourners must satisfy an ancient code or face the return of something far worse than death. This one is savage, darkly funny, and drenched in monstrous carnival energy.  • Last Stand — by Rob FieldsWith Hellweaver closing in on the Infinity Core and the Reality Sphere in her grasp, the last heroes of the Battleguard gather for a doomed, universe-saving final battle. This is pure multiverse sci-fi horror spectacle with cosmic stakes and relentless devastation.  • The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor — by David O'HanlonA drifting burnout reinvents himself as “Jimmy Flavor” and gets pulled into a Vatican-backed theft, an occult conspiracy, and a nightmare pursuit involving ancient books, cult magic, and a gut-churning creature that refuses to stop hunting. Mean, strange, and desperate in all the right ways. From torn-open timelines to infernal artifacts, undead clown law, and the collapse of whole realities, this compilation is all about staring into the impossible and realizing it is staring right back.

What starts as a scrappy Japanese zombie movie quickly becomes one of the most inventive, hilarious, and unexpectedly heartfelt horror-comedies of the last decade.This week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into One Cut of the Dead (2017), Shinichiro Ueda's brilliant cult favorite about zombies, chaos, low-budget filmmaking, and the beautiful disaster of trying to make art when everything is falling apart.At first glance, One Cut of the Dead looks like a strange, messy, low-budget zombie movie. But stick with it, because this is a film that rewards patience in a huge way. What unfolds is a clever, funny, deeply affectionate tribute to filmmakers, actors, crew members, and anyone who has ever tried to pull off something impossible with no time, no money, and way too much pressure.Henrique and Rachael talk about what makes the movie's structure so special, how it balances horror and comedy, why the film hits especially hard for anyone who has worked behind the camera, and how its chaotic energy turns into something genuinely joyful.Inside this episode:Why One Cut of the Dead is best experienced knowing as little as possibleHow the movie transforms from zombie weirdness into filmmaking geniusThe joy, stress, and absurdity of independent film productionWhy the second half completely recontextualizes the firstHow Shinichiro Ueda turns a tiny movie into a massive crowd-pleaserWhy this modern Japanese horror-comedy became such a beloved cult classicIf you love zombie movies, Japanese horror, horror-comedy, cult films, or stories about the madness of making movies, this episode is for you.Watch the film on AMC+ 

A creepy old house. A terrifying basement. A hidden Underground Railroad tunnel beneath the floor. And one frightened boy who makes the worst possible choice: he decides to see where it leads.In this terrifying episode of Weekly Spooky, Curtis Tucker is afraid of the unfinished basement in his family's old home — the cold concrete, the rotting doors, the flickering light, and the strange wooden shed tucked away in the corner. When his father reveals that the shed hides a tunnel once used as part of the Underground Railroad, Curtis's fear turns into obsession.One rainy night, unable to sleep and desperate to conquer his nightmares, Curtis creeps downstairs with a flashlight and opens the shed. What begins as a child's attempt to face his fear becomes a claustrophobic crawl through dark underground passages… and ends in a place far worse than anything he imagined.If you love basement horror, hidden room stories, secret tunnels, old house horror, serial killer fiction, creepy kid horror, and scary stories with a brutal twist ending, this one will make you think twice before opening any door you were never meant to find.Turn out the lights, my spookies… but maybe leave the basement door locked.Come On In — by Morgan Moore

This Week in Horror History for April 27–May 3 dives into a packed week of horror movie history, horror release date anniversaries, cult horror films, monster movies, vampire cinema, Stephen King adaptations, teen witch horror, found-footage horror, fake true crime, and killer-plant sci-fi horror — from Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956), The Hunger (1983), Creepshow 2 (1987), and The Craft (1996) to this week's Deep-Cut Spotlight, The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007). If you love classic horror movies, '80s horror, '90s horror, gothic vampire films, anthology horror, cult classics, scary movie anniversaries, horror trivia, and hidden horror gems worth revisiting, this episode is built for you.Inside this episode:April 27, 1956 — Godzilla, King of the Monsters!: the American cut that helped turn Japan's atomic monster into a worldwide horror icon, reshaping Gojira for U.S. audiences and introducing countless viewers to Godzilla's radioactive roar, city-smashing spectacle, and nuclear-age creature-feature terror.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Criterion Channel and Cinemax channels; rentable on Apple TV.April 29, 1983 — The Hunger: Tony Scott's stylish vampire cult film, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon in a cold, glamorous nightmare about immortality, obsession, desire, aging, and the terrible fine print of living forever.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi and Hoopla; rentable on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.May 1, 1987 — Creepshow 2: Stephen King and George Romero return to EC Comics-style anthology horror with “Old Chief Wood'nhead,” “The Raft,” and “The Hitchhiker,” delivering revenge horror, lake terror, roadside dread, comic-book punishment, and one of the nastiest killer-blob sequences of the decade.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Prime Video Free with Ads; rentable on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.May 3, 1996 — The Craft: the definitive '90s teen witch horror classic, starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True, turning pain, power, outsider identity, high school revenge, black-lipstick rebellion, and occult coming-of-age horror into one of the most enduring cult favorites of the decade.Where to watch (U.S., this week): rentable on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and Plex.Deep-Cut Spotlight — April 27, 2007: The Poughkeepsie Tapes: a fake true-crime found-footage nightmare that premiered at Tribeca, vanished into distribution limbo, leaked into horror fandom, and built its reputation like a cursed tape passed hand to hand. If you're fascinated by disturbing horror movies, mockumentary horror, serial-killer fiction, faux-documentary dread, and movies that feel like evidence you were never supposed to see, this one still has a nasty little legend around it.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video; free with ads on Tubi and the Roku Channel.Birthday Roll: Lisa Wilcox, Carolyn Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kirsten Dunst.Weekly Recommendation — The Day of the Triffids (1963): a pulpy sci-fi horror killer-plant apocalypse where spring turns predatory, a meteor shower blinds much of humanity, and the natural world starts moving in for the kill. It's perfect for fans of classic creature features, British apocalypse horror, killer plants, survival sci-fi, and vintage horror oddities.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi, Roku Channel, and Plex.From Godzilla's radioactive monster-movie legacy and The Hunger's gothic vampire glamour to Creepshow 2's Stephen King anthology horror, The Craft's teen witch cult status, The Poughkeepsie Tapes' found-footage true-crime dread, and The Day of the Triffids' killer-plant apocalypse, this episode tracks how one week between April and May delivered a wildly varied run of horror history. Follow the Weekly Spooky feed for more horror podcasts, scary stories, horror movie discussion, cult horror recommendations, spooky deep dives, release date anniversaries, horror trivia, and genre history every week.

Lake Lanier's haunted history takes center stage in this episode of Monthly Spooky, as we dive into one of America's most infamous bodies of water: a man-made Georgia lake built over abandoned communities, graves, tragedy, folklore, and decades of eerie legends. Is Lake Lanier truly haunted, or is its chilling reputation the result of real history, preventable danger, and stories too disturbing to sink quietly beneath the surface?Inside this episode:• Lake Lanier's dark origins — flooded towns, displaced communities, cemeteries, and the unsettling history behind one of the South's most infamous lakes.• The Lady of the Lake and ghostly legends — eerie apparitions, mysterious drownings, haunted water, and folklore that refuses to stay buried.• Real danger beneath the ghost stories — boating accidents, disappearances, negligence, alcohol, safety concerns, and the tragic reality behind the lake's reputation.• Captain Dave's haunted lake tour stories — local ghost lore, eerie sightings, and the strange appeal of Lake Lanier as a haunted destination.• How folklore becomes reality — why places marked by tragedy often turn into legends, curses, and ghost stories.Plus fresh spooky news:• A haunted swingers club with paranormal investigators called in.• Pluckley, England, the “most haunted village in Britain,” reportedly packed with ghosts.• A hiker discovering a human skull in a remote California desert.• Mysterious explosions and strange lights near Lake Ontario.• A hot air balloon making an emergency backyard landing.• A professional cornhole player arrested for murder.• Strange space debris, meteor talk, and recent horror movie riffing.Whether you're here for ghost stories, haunted places, true crime, bizarre news, urban legends, dark history, or creepy comedy, this episode stands alone as a full spooky deep dive into the mysteries of Lake Lanier and the weirdest stories of the month.So what do you think: is Lake Lanier cursed, haunted, dangerously misunderstood… or all of the above?

Unknown Broadcast slips back into the Weekly Spooky feed with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, murder, supernatural bargains, gothic dread, crime, and dark escape drama. This episode opens with Mother Love, a chilling Radio Mystery Theater tale in which Paula Richards, devastated by the certainty that she can never bear a child, turns to a fortune teller and dealer in the macabre for a bargain that promises hope at a terrible price.

Cryptid horror, monster stories, demon dogs, chupacabra terror, survival horror, and futuristic creature nightmares collide in this brutal Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love creature features, deadly folklore beasts, wilderness horror, paranormal monsters, and stories where something inhuman is hunting in the dark, this episode is stacked with claws, teeth, blood, and pure nightmare energy.Tonight's lineup runs from a summoned hellhound with murder on its leash, to a terrifying mystery stalking the African wild, to a school trip that turns into a face-to-face encounter with El Chupacabra, and finally to a far-future wasteland filled with mutant monstrosities and post-apocalyptic beast combat. These stories hit from every angle: occult cryptids, survival panic, creature-feature thrills, and monsters that do not care whether you believe in them.• The Hellhowler — by Joe SolmoA paranormal investigator named James Becker is pulled into a case involving wealth, suspicion, occult magic, and a hellhound summoned from the Abyss. It's pulpy, funny, dangerous, and packed with demon-dog dread and supernatural detective energy.• The Monster's Not Real — by Charles CampbellTwo wildlife documentarians in South Africa discover that the thing hunting the plains is far worse than any predator they were prepared for. This one is tense, strange, and relentless, mixing wilderness survival horror with a genuinely unnerving cryptid vibe.• The Beast of Roca de Vaca — by Morgan MooreA class trip to a ranch becomes a full-on monster hunt when livestock start turning up dead and the legend of El Chupacabra turns out to be very real. It's fast, fun, creepy, and loaded with classic creature-feature excitement.• Future Taibon — by Rob FieldsIn a ruined future world, Cassillia Taibon awakens in a transformed body and immediately finds herself battling bizarre werewolf-scorpion hybrids and other horrors in the shadow of apocalypse. This one blends monster action, horror sci-fi, and Halloween-night chaos into something wild and larger than life.From demon howls in the hills to blood-drained livestock, impossible machines, and something waiting in the grass, this collection is all about what happens when the monster is real after all—and far too close to outrun.

Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago nurse murders remain one of the most horrifying chapters in Chicago true crimehistory. In this Best of 2025 revisit, Terrifying & True returns to one of its most gripping and disturbing deep dives: the night eight young student nurses were terrorized and murdered inside their South Side townhouse, and the long shadow that crime cast over America.This episode follows the full arc of the case, from Speck's violent early life and downward spiral into crime, to the sweltering July night that ended in unimaginable brutality, to the frantic manhunt, nationally watched trial, and the disturbing revelations that surfaced long after his conviction. It's one of the most engrossing episodes we released in 2025, and absolutely one worth revisiting.What makes this story hit so hard is not just the scale of the crime, but the human terror inside it: a house full of young women trapped with a killer, one survivor forced to hide in silence while the horror unfolded around her, and a city left reeling by what newspapers called the crime of the century. This is one of the strongest and most unforgettable Terrifying & True episodes of the year, blending historical detail, emotional weight, and true crime suspense in a case that still shocks decades later.Inside this episode:The life and psychological decline of Richard Speck before the murdersThe 1966 Chicago nurse murders and the horrifying events inside the townhouseCorazon Amurao's survival and the eyewitness testimony that helped identify SpeckThe massive Chicago manhunt that led to his arrest days laterThe trial, conviction, and death sentence reversal that kept the case in the headlinesThe prison scandal and later confession tapes that revealed Speck's lack of remorse and deepened his infamyIf you're drawn to Chicago true crime, mass murder cases, historical crime stories, and deeply researched episodes that explore both the horror of the crime and its lasting impact, this is one of the most powerful episodes Terrifying & True has ever done. This Best of 2025 re-air is the perfect chance to revisit an episode that remains as haunting, enraging, and unforgettable now as it was on first listen.We're telling that story tonight.

A love potion experiment goes horribly wrong in this twisted college horror story set at Strickfield University, where obsession, jealousy, and chemistry turn into a bloody nightmare. When a synthetic hormone transforms a brilliant student into a ravenous, lovesick monster, one desperate guy finds himself trapped in a science building with the very woman he's been chasing for years—and now she wants him in the worst possible way.This episode blends mad science horror, infected romance, body horror, and dark comedy into a fast, vicious tale of lust, regret, and fatal attraction. If you love scary stories, monster transformations, campus horror, and creepy love-gone-wrong fiction, this one delivers a wild ride with a nasty bite.Listen now for a gruesome horror story about toxic desire, chemical infection, and the nightmare that happens when wanting someone too badly finally comes true. Perfect for fans of horror podcasts, creature-feature chaos, and weird, bloody tales with a wicked sense of humor.Chemically Imbalanced: A (Sort-of) Love Story — by Rob Fields