Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

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 comm...

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 w...

Four chilling tales of werewolves, cryptids, and paranormal horror converge on haunted roads. This summer horror anthology blends creature-feature folklore with eerie supernatural storytelling—perfect for your next road trip. Join Henrique Couto for spooky legends of backwoods monsters, paranormal nightmares, and urban legends that blur the line between myth and reality. If you love spooky season...

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 horror anthology series 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 childho...

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 dra...

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 Daughter Universal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula’s legacy...

The Setagaya Family Murders remain one of Japan's most horrifying unsolved cases—a brutal true crime mystery wrapped in eerie forensics and supernatural dread. On December 30, 2000, investigators discovered the Miyazawa family in the aftermath of a nightmare that would baffle authorities for decades. With overwhelming evidence yet no killer ever caught, Henrique uncovers the haunting details, chil...

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with a rare horror anthology of old-time radio classics. Four vintage chilling stories: black magic on a college campus, death aboard a cursed ship, a woman's diary spiraling into supernatural terror , and dreadful secrets that refuse to stay buried. Discover how these legendary radio horrors shaped modern scary storytelling. Perfect fo...

Four scary stories of backwoods horror, gas station terror, and dead-end towns collide in this chilling anthology. A father-daughter road trip veers into Ozark dread. Desperate escapes. Strange isolated towns where one wrong turn changes everything. If you love rural horror, road trip nightmares, and stories that leave you checking the rearview mirror, this episode is built for you. Tonight’s line...

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...

Broke teens near Toronto accept a summer job from a strange man building a pink concrete house... In this eerie horror story, three friends slowly realize they may be helping a killer—a darkly funny, chilling tale that blurs urban legend and true crime. Perfect for horror fans and spooky season year-round. Ten dollars an hour just to clean old car parts and carry concrete blocks across a field? Ea...

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 , a...

The Fox Sisters sparked spiritualism's biggest hoax in 1848 Hydesville, New York. Maggie and Kate claimed they could communicate with spirits through mysterious knockings—a deception that captivated millions, spawned folklore legends, and shaped paranormal belief for generations. Explore how two sisters' ghost story became history. But was it a true haunting… or one of the most consequential paran...

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...

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...

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 try...

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...

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 (1...

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 t...

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...

Cryptid horror, monster stories, demon dogs, chupacabra terror, survival horror, and futuristic creature nightmares collide in this brutal horror anthology series. 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. Toni...

Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago nurse murders remain one of the most horrifying chapters in Chicago true crime history. 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 episod...

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 wa...

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 ,...

When a black hell hound with burning eyes supposedly crashed through two churches during a violent 1577 storm in Suffolk and Norfolk, was it folklore or fact? In this episode of Terrifying & True, we investigate Black Shuck—the most fearsome cryptid in English folklore—and uncover the real storm disaster that may have birth one of the world's most enduring eerie legends. From eyewitness accoun...