Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

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 Moore A 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 Kelso A 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’Hanlon A 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 Kelso A 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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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 outbreakGeorge Soper’s investigationMary Mallon’s confrontation, arrest, and forced testingThe quarantine on North Brother IslandHer return to cooking under aliasesWhy Typhoid Mary still matters todayIf 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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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 #1 A 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 Wax The 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 13th One 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 Country The 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 Burning This 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 Mummy For 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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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:Maggie and Kate Fox:Leah Fox and the Spiritualist Machine:Seances, Grief, and Belief:The 1888 Confession:The Bones in the Wall: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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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. 🐅 The Lady Was a Tiger — What seems safe turns lethal, what feels like home becomes a prison, and danger wears a human face until it doesn’t. It has that deliciously sharp old-radio blend of intrigue, menace, and doom closing in from every side. 🕰️ Destiny — The shadowed voice promises “the amazing story of destiny,” and the tale leans hard into fate, inevitability, and the ruin waiting for anyone foolish enough to think he can outwit what is already written. It feels like noir with prophecy hanging over it. 🌹 Uncle Henry’s Rosebush — Rot, neglect, old rooms, and one impossible rosebush holding its place against the ruin around it. This one carries a graveyard stillness, a buried secret, and the creeping sense that something ugly has been tended with care for far too long. 👁️ The Horla — By the end, the night gives way to something stranger and more cosmic, as “phantoms of a world gone by” usher in The Horla. Madness, possession, and the fear of an unseen intelligence seep through this final story like poison through old walls. For listeners chasing classic OTR horror, vintage suspense radio, murder mysteries, psychological horror, supernatural dread, and eerie anthology storytelling, this episode is full of shadows that look human right up until they don’t — and some things are simply unknown to us, at least for a while. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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: One Cut of the DeadIf 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+ 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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...

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? 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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. 🕯️ Mother Love — Desperation, longing, and the supernatural curl together in a story about impossible motherhood and the danger of asking fate to bend. It is intimate, eerie, and cruel in exactly the way classic radio horror should be. 🥂 The Weakling — From the shadows comes “the unusual story of The Weakling,” following young Clyde Banning, son of a district attorney, stepping out of a nightclub after a New Year’s Eve party and into trouble that feels doomed from the start. This one has the bite of noir weakness curdling into tragedy. 🕷️ Will You Walk into My Parlor — The title alone drips with invitation and menace, and placed here it feels like a trap disguised as courtesy. It suggests seduction, danger, and the old fatal mistake of stepping willingly toward what should have been feared. 🕰️ Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer — Suspense takes us into the cold dark preservation of the past, where antique clocks, deep carpets, and old secrets rustle behind polished surfaces. By the end, it becomes a tale of murder, guilt, and the terrible practicality of hiding a body. 🌊 The Fourth Man — The night closes with Escape, inviting us to flee from Noumea in John Russell’s The Fourth Man, a story steeped in peril, survival, and the kind of desperation that makes men show their true natures. It is a strong, hard finish with salt, fear, and doom in the air. For listeners chasing classic OTR horror, vintage suspense radio, supernatural bargains, murder stories, old-time radio crime, and eerie anthology storytelling, this transmission has all the right shadows — and some doors should never have been opened in the first place. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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 SpeckThe 1966 Chicago nurse murdersCorazon Amurao’s survivalThe massive Chicago manhuntThe trial, conviction, and death sentence reversalThe prison scandal and later confession tapesIf 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. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

This Week in Horror History for April 20–26 dives into a packed week of horror release dates, anniversaries, cult favorites, and modern genre hits—from Vacancy (2007) and Silent Hill (2006) to The Hand (1981), Until Dawn (2025), and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, The Dark Half (1993). If you love horror movie history, release date anniversaries, cult horror films, Stephen King adaptations, George A. Romero, video game horror movies, and hidden gems worth revisiting, this episode is built for you. Inside this episode: April 20, 2007 — VacancyWhere to watch (U.S., this week):April 21, 2006 — Silent HillWhere to watch (U.S., this week):April 24, 1981 — The HandWhere to watch (U.S., this week):April 25, 2025 — Until DawnWhere to watch (U.S., this week):Deep-Cut Spotlight — April 23, 1993: The Dark HalfWhere to watch (U.S., this week):Birthday Roll:Weekly Recommendation — I Trapped the Devil (2019):Where to watch (U.S., this week): From roadside terror and ash-covered nightmare towns to killer doubles, psychological breakdowns, and modern horror game adaptations, this episode tracks how one single week in April delivered a wildly varied run of horror history. Follow the Weekly Spooky feed for more horror podcasts, spooky deep dives, horror movie discussion, and genre anniversaries every week. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

What really happened when a monstrous black dog with burning eyes was said to crash through two churches during a violent storm in East Anglia in 1577? In this episode of Terrifying & True, we dig into the chilling legend of Black Shuck, the infamous hell hound of Suffolk and Norfolk, and the real storm disaster that may have given one of England’s most terrifying folklore creatures its lasting power. From the shattered calm of church services in Bungay and Blythburgh, to stories of death omens, devil dogs, scorched church doors, and a beast said to move with the storm itself, this is a tale where English folklore, paranormal legend, and real historical fear collide. We explore the terrifying reports tied to the August 4, 1577 thunderstorm, the long tradition of phantom black dogs in Britain, and the grounded explanations behind one of the most enduring supernatural legends in the British Isles. If you love true folklore, haunted history, mysterious creatures, dark legends, and stories where the line between history and nightmare is razor thin, this is an episode you do not want to miss. Because Black Shuck is more than just a monster story. It is a legend about weather, death, panic, faith, and the shape fear takes when it comes out of the storm. We’re telling that story tonight. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, ghostly dread, strange disappearances, greed, curses, and dark family secrets. This week’s transmission moves from plague-haunted bloodlines to a vanished bride, from murderous greed to a glittering dream of impossible wealth. 🌹 A Ring of Roses — A seemingly innocent visit to meet a fiancée’s old friend turns into a sinister journey through inherited secrets, Black Plague lore, and a cursed ring that feels tied to the living and the dead alike. It’s lush, gothic, and steeped in the creeping dread of classic radio horror. 💍 The Bride Vanishes — A bride disappears into mystery, leaving behind unease, strange behavior, and the sense that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface. This one carries that delicious vintage radio suspense mood of mounting confusion, ominous atmosphere, and danger waiting just offstage. 💵 Avarice — The Whistler steps in with a tale of greed, money, and murderous desperation, where John Abbott’s hunger for wealth twists everything around him. It is sharp, cruel, and exactly the kind of crime-horror radio story where one bad desire poisons an entire house. 💎 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — The night closes with Escape, promising a fabulous world of wonder, danger, and impossible riches. There’s something especially haunting about ending on a story built around desire so extravagant it starts to feel unreal, like a dream that may not want to let you wake up. If you love classic OTR horror, old-time radio suspense, vintage mystery anthologies, paranormal audio drama, and eerie stories pulled from the strangest corners of broadcasting history, this episode is packed with exactly that kind of shadowy delight. Some families inherit love. Some inherit dread. And some spend their whole lives reaching for something bright enough to blind them. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Small-town horror, vampire horror, cursed love, alternate dimensions, and terrifying supernatural encounters collide in this eerie Weekly Spooky compilation of four dark and dangerous tales. If you love creepy small-town secrets, portal horror, monster stories, evil transformations, and strange nights that spiral into bloodshed, this one is packed with nightmare fuel. Tonight’s lineup moves from a town that has been erased from the map, to a sleepover that opens a doorway into a dead vampire world, to a drunken ritual that summons something no one was meant to love, and finally to a seductive nightmare of blood, betrayal, and the deadly price of the nightlife. These stories all hit that sweet spot where youthful recklessness, supernatural evil, and terrible choices meet in the dark. • I’m from a Small Town That No Longer Exists. No One Is Allowed to Know Why — by Michael KelsoA childhood memory of hide-and-seek in the cornfields turns into a chilling account of strangers, human shells, and a town that seems to have been swallowed up and erased. It’s eerie, paranoid, and loaded with that “something is deeply wrong here” kind of dread. • Doorway to Horror — by Rob FieldsA girls’ movie night goes horribly wrong when a mysterious disc drags them into an alternate vampire-ruled Strickfield where Christmas decorations glow over a dead world. This one is fast, fun, creepy, and full of portal horror, undead danger, and end-of-the-world atmosphere. • Love Conquers All — by Joe SolmoThree desperate guys try to conjure up the perfect supernatural lover and instead create a hay-stuffed monstrosity with a seductive voice and murderous intentions. It’s nasty, funny, mean, and exactly the kind of rural backwoods horror-comedy that goes from stupid idea to absolute disaster in record time. • Newborn — by Rob FieldsA night of partying and seduction becomes a brutal vampire origin story as Eliza discovers the truth about what she has become and how far she is willing to go for power. This one leans dark, sexy, vicious, and fully monstrous in all the best ways. From vanished towns and cursed fields to vampire clubs and broken doorways between worlds, this collection is all about crossing a line you can’t uncross. Lock the doors, keep your eyes off the dark corners, and don’t trust anything that offers you freedom too easily. Which one got under your skin the most? 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Creep (2014) is one of the most unsettling found footage horror movies of the 2010s, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into why Patrick Brice’s microbudget nightmare still works so well. This episode centers on Creep, the 2014 psychological horror film directed by Patrick Brice and built around the deeply unnerving chemistry between Mark Duplass and Brice himself. The uploaded episode notes describe the discussion as a deep dive into trust, manipulation, ethical boundaries, filmmaking, and emotional vulnerability, with the hosts also teasing One Cut of the Dead for next week. Inside this episode Why Creep feels so realJosef as a manipulatorFound footage tensionFilmmaking ethics and performanceHenrique and Rachael’s own filmmaking storiesThe final act and ending About the film​Creep premiered at SXSW on March 8, 2014. It was directed by Patrick Brice, with story credit shared by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, and it has gone on to become a modern cult favorite in found-footage and psychological horror circles. It stars Mark Duplass as Josef and Patrick Brice as Aaron. Where to watch (U.S., this week) Current U.S. availability appears to include Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Prime Video, and Amazon Prime Video with Ads for streaming, with Amazon Video and Fandango At Home showing rental and/or purchase options. I’m only listing options that were corroborated across multiple sources. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi go beyond a surface-level review and really get into why Creep feels so disturbing, how Josef weaponizes performance, and why the movie doubles as a nasty little commentary on storytelling itself. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! @WeeklySpookyfacebook.com/WeeklySpooky 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com