Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Black cat curse horror collides with carnival horror , fortune teller terror , and a brutal supernatural revenge story in tonight’s nightmare from Weekly Spooky . When a reckless young woman ignores a warning at a county fair, she triggers a chain of bad luck deaths , fiery disaster, and a curse that turns every crossed path into a death sentence. What starts as a wild night of lust and attitude s...

This Week in Horror History (Mar 23–29) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.) , a deep-cut spotlight , and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror mean, chaotic, and just a little contaminated . This week we’ve got desert-mutant survival horror , a killer video game movie with pure mid-2000s cursed-object energy, a found-footage livestream...

The Deer Woman is one of the most haunting figures in Indigenous folklore and modern paranormal legend —a beautiful woman with deer hooves who appears at the edge of the woods, the roadside, the party, or the dark place where safety ends. In this episode of Terrifying & True , we explore the chilling shape of the Deer Woman story, the many ways it appears across traditions and retellings, and...

Unknown Broadcast leaks once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories in its teeth and insisting they are perfectly harmless. Tonight’s signal wanders through reincarnation and resentment, jungle danger and false names, poison and polite suburban dread, and finally a grim little reckoning delivered by The Whistler himself. If you came seeking classic OTR horror...

The Ides of March isn’t just betrayal—it’s the moment the universe decides you’ve had it too easy. In this compilation of scary horror stories , we go from demonic possession and hellish bargains to occult curses , bloody pentagrams , and a revenge trail that crawls straight out of the old world and into something far worse. In this episode (in order): • “Academia Demonia” — by David O’Hanlon   A...

Step into the strange and biting world of Edgar Allan Poe’s Lionizing , a sharp gothic satire that blends dark humor , social commentary , and Poe’s signature fascination with vanity, status, and human absurdity. In this unforgettable classic, a man’s rise to fame is built on something as ridiculous as it is disturbing — and the higher he climbs into fashionable society, the more twisted the prais...

A scary phone number horror story , technology thriller , and psychological nightmare collide in tonight’s chilling episode. In Boredom can be Deadly , a bored man sitting in a bathroom stall makes one tiny mistake: he calls a strange number scribbled on the wall. What answers isn’t a prank, a wrong number, or a joke — it’s the beginning of a deadly game involving mind-reading phones , secret surv...

This Week in Horror History (Mar 16–22) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror full of bad omens, fast panic, doubles in the driveway, and death working from a checklist. This week we’ve got franchise-launching paranoia, turbo-charged zombie apocalypse energy, polished Bibli...

What are the Men in Black really — secret government agents, UFO cover-up operatives, paranormal enforcers, or something even stranger? In this episode of Terrifying & True , we dig into the chilling history of the real Men in Black phenomenon , from the earliest UFO-era intimidation reports to later encounters that made witnesses fear for their lives.  We trace the legend back to the Maury Is...

Unknown Broadcast drifts back through the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories, and I do hope you’ve left the door unlatched. Tonight’s signal carries phantom fingers across piano keys, ancient Egypt breathing through a cursed relic, a rain-soaked household trying to keep murder in the family, and a final little lesson in debt, guilt, and the sort of arithmetic that is never...

The Ides of March isn’t just a date—it’s a warning. In this compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast , four stories turn bad choices into worse consequences : a cursed swamp legend that crawls out of the mud, a predator’s idea of “conservation,” a feast where the menu fights back, and an alarm clock that wakes up way more than you. In this episode (in order): • “Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swam...

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) is one of the bleakest and most notorious serial killer horror films ever made, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror , Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into what makes John McNaughton’s grim 1986 cult classic still feel so raw, disturbing, and hard to shake. Starring Michael Rooker in a chilling breakout role, Henry strips away slick movie...

A cryptid horror story , monster encounter , and backroads nightmare collide in this brutal episode of horror fiction. What starts as a drunken party and a terrible decision spirals into a terrifying creature attack deep in the countryside, where the roads are dark, the fields feel endless, and something inhuman is hunting just beyond the farmhouse door. After a blackout leaves one man stranded in...

This Week in Horror History (Mar 9–15) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror a little meaner, stranger, and more paranoid. This week we’ve got killer kids, franchise reinvention, slow-walk supernatural dread, survival-horror blockbuster energy, and a deep-cut faux-documenta...

A locked garage behind a quiet holiday cottage. A car filling with exhaust. And two bodies posed to tell a simple story: a suicide pact between two “betrayed” spouses. On May 19, 1991 , in Castlerock, Northern Ireland , Lesley Howell (31) and Trevor Buchanan (32) are found dead inside a vehicle with a hose running from the exhaust into the car—an apparent double suicide that the community quickly...

Unknown Broadcast returns, creeping once more through the cracks in the Weekly Spooky feed with four old-time radio horror stories carried in on grief, blood, confession, and candlelight. Tonight’s transmission wanders through classic OTR horror, ghost stories, gothic suspense, and vintage radio nightmares — the sort of tales that do not merely entertain, but wait. Patiently. Like something at the...

Ides of March horror stories are all about the moment trust breaks—and someone decides to settle the score . In this March compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast , four tales spiral from small-town cruelty to wilderness terror, from viral fame to blood-soaked karma, and from a lonely highway to something not quite human waiting in the dark. In this episode (in order): • Hell Hath No Fur...

This Friday on Weekly Spooky , we’re bringing back one of the biggest and most exhaustive episodes of Terrifying & True we’ve ever produced. In this special episode we take a long, hard look at the couple who became the most famous names in American paranormal investigation. From Amityville and Annabelle to the cases that helped inspire The Conjuring , this episode explores how the Warrens bui...

Vampire horror story meets supernatural thriller in this scary story of a daylight predator and a mother-daughter escape that turns into a high-speed chase . When Madelyne “Maddy” Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, panic hits fast—because the monster from last winter is back, and she’s moving like she already knows who she wants. What follows is mall horror , small-town...

This Week in Horror History (Mar 2–8) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.) , a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for early-March nights that still feel like winter. This week we’ve got silent-era vampire plague dread , occult noir doom , a killer laundry machine , and a true-crime obsession spiral —plus a Deep-Cut where language itself bec...

A remote mountain lodge in the Sierra Nevada . A busy wedding weekend. And a violent break-in after midnight that leaves one woman dead and a key witness barely alive. On August 19, 1990 , in Camp Nelson, California , Bonnie Hood (46) is shot and killed inside a cabin at Camp Nelson Lodge , a secluded retreat in Tulare County . Her handyman, Rudy Manuel , is shot in the head—but survives long enou...

Unknown Broadcast is your strange little frequency of old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR suspense , and vintage radio mystery —the kind of signal that crackles with laughter one second and turns cold the next. Tune the dial just a hair too far…and you’ll catch the stories that weren’t meant to survive the night.  Tonight’s broadcast drifts from absurd crime to buried dread, from cursed go...

Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories and mystery tales —a bingeable gothic anthology packed with macabre suspense , dark humor , revenge , and one of the most famous detective stories ever written. If you’re searching for Edgar Allan Poe short stories , classic horror , Victorian gothic , old-time spooky literature , or a murder mystery with a locked-room vibe, this compilation is built for you....

A true-crime horror deep dive into a grim, under-seen cult title: Confessions of a Serial Killer (shot in 1985 , directed by Mark Blair )—a film rooted in the Henry Lee Lucas mythology, where the horror isn’t a monster… it’s a man calmly telling you what he did.  In this episode, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down what makes this movie so unsettling: the low-rent, almost-documenta...

Ice fishing turns into a frozen-lake nightmare in this chilling winter horror tale. A widower heads out onto thick, steel-strong ice for a quiet day on the lake—testing every step like his grandpa taught him—until the silence becomes unnatural, the surface starts to crack , and something black and slick glides beneath his fishing hole. What begins as a peaceful survival routine spirals into supern...