Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories and classic OTR suspense —a winter-loaded anthology where snowstorms swallow roads , ice keeps secrets , and the cold feels alive . If you love radio suspense , ghost story anthologies , and classic mystery-thriller drama , this one is built for headphones on a dark night. 🧊 “The Ice Palace” — A glittering winter miracle with a rotten c...

Scary stories for road trips, late-night drives, and anyone who’s ever felt the world get wrong somewhere between exits. In this Weekly Spooky horror podcast compilation, we’re digging into the creepiest vault picks built around roadside terror , travel nightmares , and the kind of highway horror that follows you long after the headlights fade. Inside this episode (in order): I used to drive a del...

A Best of 2025 fan-favorite returns in one killer collection: Deadly Second Chances —the summer mini-series that drops you into the Strickfield universe where second chances come with teeth . In Perdition, the Hellweaver discovers an ancient pact that could finally set her free… but only if she offers five doomed souls the chance to rewind their lives—and watches them choose who they really are wh...

Slasher horror, murder mystery, and winter survival terror collide as the Horror Snow-In at High Point Ski Lodge continues under a tightening blizzard lockdown —and the killer behind BANNED stops treating this like a secret. With police struggling to reach the lodge and the convention refusing to shut down, headliner Vickie Valentine is forced to keep smiling through the fear… even as something ol...

A horror history podcast trip through January 19–25 , when the winter slump gets mean and the genre leaves fresh footprints in the snow. This week’s creepy calendar run includes classic creature feature chaos , a modern psychological thriller hit , a creepy doll shocker , a claustrophobic space-horror video game , and a found-footage landmark that changed horror marketing forever. Inside this epis...

Portugal folklore turns feral in the mountain village of Podence , where the only warning is the clatter of cowbells ricocheting off stone walls. Then the Caretos burst from the dark—men (and now women and kids, too) swallowed in ragged ribbons of red, yellow, and green , faces erased behind blood-red demon masks , hips loaded with heavy bell harnesses that turn every lunge into a metallic scream....

Step into Unknown Broadcast — classic old-time radio horror stories and vintage radio suspense pulled from the dark, stitched together, and left to play in the corners of your feed. Tonight, four nightmares unfold: a royal smile that means life… a desperate man pushed into crime… a murder heard in the dark… and an island where gunfire answers the tide. 👑 “The Queen of Darkness” — In a kingdom whe...

If you’re craving haunted house horror stories , ghost stories , and paranormal encounters that escalate fast—this compilation is your next late-night listen. From a historic inn with a locked room and a German priest’s shadow , to an abandoned murder house that turns viral for all the wrong reasons… these tales spiral through possession , poltergeist chaos , cursed objects , and the kind of dread...

Weekly Spooky horror podcast brings you a high-seas survival horror nightmare for our Best of 2025 series—equal parts ghost ship , creature feature , and “you’re trapped and nobody is coming.”   Chance and Luka are stranded after a shipwreck—clinging to a container in open water while the ocean churns around them. But rescue doesn’t arrive… and when a drifting vessel appears out of the fog, it fee...

Horror podcast listeners —the snow keeps falling, the roads keep vanishing, and the High Point Ski Lodge is turning into a sealed box where a killer can work in peace. In BANNED! Part 2 , the winter slasher at the Horror Snow-In doesn’t just strike again… he performs. After James Turner is found with BANNED! carved into his chest , police push through the storm and start questioning attendees—whil...

you love horror movie anniversaries , January horror releases , and the strange way certain titles hit differently with time, you’re in the right place. This week on This Week in Horror History , we’re counting down the most memorable horror releases from Jan 12–18 —from studio creature features and deep-sea paranoia to legacy-sequel slashers and found-footage chaos. Inside this episode (Jan 12–18...

A blizzard. A vanished trail. The San Juan Mountains in the winter of 1874. Six men leave safety behind— and only one walks back into town. This is the infamous Alfred (Alferd) Packer story: the “Colorado Cannibal” case that refuses to stay settled, because the evidence is brutal… and the survivor’s account keeps shifting. In this episode of Terrifying & True , we follow the doomed decision to...

Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR suspense , and radio mystery that slips into the Weekly Spooky feed like a transmission you didn’t ask for… but can’t stop hearing. Tonight’s broadcast contains four vintage radio nightmares —crime-soaked, uncanny, and quietly vicious: 🩸 “The Telltale Scar” (CBS Radio Mystery Theater) — An investigative reporter swears he’...

Weekly Spooky is kicking off Best of 2025 by revisiting one of the year’s most unforgettable nightmares: a college horr or novella where a simple night out becomes a spin-the-bottle slasher spiral . Samara thinks she’s just stepping outside her comfort zone—new look, new crush, new rules. But in Strickfield, the party games don’t stay playful for long. A jealous ex, a too-perfect date, a crowded h...

Bundle up, my spookies—this Best of 2025 episode of the Weekly Spooky horror podcast is a snow-choked compilation built for year-round bingeing: winter horror , blizzard dread , creature features , and a finale that pivots into true crime + folklore with a chilling Terrifying & True deep dive. Inside this Best of 2025 compilation: “I Love the Cold” — Jonathan Lumpkin • A quiet winter evening t...

Weekly Spooky horror podcast kicks off a brand-new New Year miniseries with a snowbound slasher mystery set inside a remote ski lodge where a horror convention is about to become a hunting ground. Seven years ago, a furious fan named Robbie Redden drove hours to meet an actress he idolized—only to be humiliated, thrown out, and branded with one unforgettable word. Now, as a fresh convention weeken...

Start the year with killer dolls, museum monsters, Arctic dread, and survival horror at full sprint . In this week’s This Week in Horror History (January 5–11), we’re tracking the releases that shaped modern fear—then diving deep into one of the meanest “new apartment” nightmares of the 1970s. Quick Hits (Jan 5–11): M3GAN (2023) — the AI “best friend” who decides safety means control… permanently....

Dive into chilling stories and eerie folklore with this terrifying true mystery from Siberia...A true crime / survival mystery  in August 1993 , seven hikers entered the Hamar-Daban Mountains of Buryatia (near Lake Baikal) —and only one walked back out. What happened on that windswept ridge has been called the “Buryat Dyatlov Pass” : a sudden storm, a frantic descent, and then a cascade of bizarre...

Ah, there you are. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR , and radio suspense for those who like the dark close and the volume low, my dear. Tonight the valves warm and the quiet learns to talk: 🔥 Hell Hath No Fury — Fame can’t drown jealousy; a private curtain falls where the applause can’t reach. 🌒 The Night Reveals — Smoke on a coat, matches in a pocket; s...

Small town horror stories hit different—because everyone knows your name… and everyone is hiding something. In this Weekly Spooky Vault compilation, we dig into Small Town Secrets where quiet streets cover up occult rituals , missing people , backwoods monsters , and ancient things that should’ve stayed buried . Lock your doors, kill the lights, and listen close—because the scariest part is how no...

Kick off the Best of 2025 with one of the most intense episodes we released on the Weekly Spooky horror podcast —a brutal winter survival horror story where a long-haul trucker gets trapped at a lonely truck stop after a sudden blizzard buries the world in white. The bathroom run turns into a nightmare when his tracks vanish , the store is locked and dark, and something moves in the storm—somethin...

Weekly Spooky rings in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror story that spirals into a Y2K nightmare —and it all starts with a stupidly simple discovery: crank two radios loud enough, hit the right tone, and you can rip open a hole in time . Sixteen-year-old Jimmy and his cousin Phillip start pulling lost junk from the void… until grief turns curiosity into obsession. One phone call becomes a...

New Year’s horror, horror movie history, and messages from the other side—welcome to This Week in Horror History, the weekly horror podcast where we track what happened on these dates across film, books, and cult classics. In this episode, Henrique Couto follows a haunting thread that runs straight through the holiday: a phone that calls from the future, a killer hiding in the power grid, a cursed...

Monthly Spooky true crime + paranormal to close out the year: a chilling wrongful conviction case tied to a 1987 Times Square-area murder that stole decades from two lives—and the long road to exoneration when the truth finally surfaced. Inside this episode: The New Year’s Eve case: The wrongful convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren after a 1987 murder near Times Square , including intense p...

Ah, there you are, my dear. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR ghost tales , and radio suspense for these last nights before New Year’s Eve —when clocks get louder and promises come due. Sit close to the speaker and let the tubes warm. Inside tonight’s program: 👼 Angel of Death — Grief invites a visitor who never uses the front door. 🔔 Calling All Souls —...