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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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  1. This Week in Horror History | IT, Hellraiser & True Blood - Sep 7-13

    Pennywise crawls out of Derry, Hellraiser opens its puzzle box, and True Blood brings vampires out of the coffin. This Week in Horror History revisits those milestones for September 7-13, 2026, alongside Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the pr

  2. Terrifying & True | The Golem of Prague: Jewish Folklore's Clay Monster

    The Golem of Prague is Jewish folklore's clay guardian, shaped to protect a threatened community. Terrifying & True follows Rabbi Judah Loew's legend through sacred Hebrew letters, the older golem of Chelm, and tales of a body hidden in the

  3. Unknown Broadcast | Deadly Lessons: Old Time Radio Horror & Suspense

    Unknown Broadcast: Deadly Lessons gathers six old-time radio dramas of murder, revenge, and time travel. A teacher discovers secret seances after a pupil dies of fright; gold miners are hunted for their claim. Hear The Last Lesson (CBS Radi

  4. The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride | 8 Halloween Horror Stories

    Stay on the wagon. The haunted hayride has one rule, and breaking it turns staged scares into a fight to survive. Eight Halloween horror stories fill nearly five hours in The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride, a Weekly Spooky fiction antholo

  5. Cutting Deep into Horror | The Ritual (2017): Folk Horror, Survivor’s Guilt & the Forest Monster

    The Ritual (2017) turns a Swedish forest hike into folk horror, where an ancient creature uses its victims' trauma to demand submission. What does the creature want from Luke? Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine David Bruckner's film

  6. Thursday Thrills | Kyoto's Gate to Hell: Rokudo Chinno-ji & Japanese Folklore

    Kyoto's Rokudo Chinno-ji is a real temple at the heart of Japan's Gate to Hell folklore—and Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Legend links its well to Ono no Takamura, a court official said to travel between the living world and the unde

  7. I Do Not Know You | A Cursed Tape Recorder Predicts His Death

    A vintage tape recorder knows Jerry Scott's secrets—and gives him five minutes before an inhuman visitor arrives. I Do Not Know You by Tyler Belmont is an analog horror story from Weekly Spooky. An unmarked package appears in Jerry's electr

  8. This Week in Horror History | IT Chapter Two, Suspiria, Outlast & Pontypool - Aug 31-Sep 6

    Pennywise waits in Derry, witches control a dance academy, and Outlast sends you into an asylum with only a camera. This Week in Horror History revisits IT Chapter Two, Suspiria (2018), Outlast, and The Possession for August 31-September 6,

  9. Monthly Spooky | The Great Moon Hoax, Halloween Hauntings, Bigfoot & UFOs

    Bat people on the Moon? The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 sold readers an imaginary lunar world, and Henrique Couto and Michelle follow the newspaper sensation that made fiction look like science. This August 2026 Monthly Spooky also checks in on

  10. Unknown Broadcast | What the Darkness Saw: Classic OTR Mystery

    A witness hears a paid killing. A recovering patient sees a murder everyone denies. Unknown Broadcast gathers four classic old-time radio mysteries about the danger of knowing too much: The Blind Witness, The Country of the Blind, Eyewitnes

  11. Halloween Horror Stories | Vampires, Body Horror & Headless Folklore

    A headless rider stalks a Halloween shortcut, a drive-in marathon turns into an afterlife reckoning, and an experiment gives a woman a monstrous body. Halloween Changes You brings five horror stories into nearly five hours of headless folkl

  12. When Legends Turn Deadly: True Crime Meets Cryptid Folklore

    Can a ghost story expose a murder, or can belief help conceal real harm? Eight Terrifying & True investigations connect the Greenbrier Ghost, the Fox sisters, the Hat Man, and the fatal exorcisms of Anneliese Michel with the stories people

  13. Halloween Horror Nights 2026: The Architecture of Fear | Thursday Thrills

    Why do we pay to be terrified at Halloween Horror Nights? Henrique Couto explores how haunted attractions use darkness, sound, misdirection, and live actors to turn a room into a threat. This Thursday Thrills preview of HHN 2026 draws on an

  14. The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things | Halloween Insect Horror

    A glass aquarium is locked around a man's head, and the fire ants are already moving. In The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things by Gary D, a windowless basement becomes a claustrophobic revenge trap crawling with roaches, centipedes, an

  15. This Week in Horror History | Candyman, Until Dawn, Don't Breathe & Lord of Illusions

    Candyman, Until Dawn, and Don't Breathe turn familiar places into traps in This Week in Horror History for August 24–30, 2026. Revisit Nia DaCosta's Chicago-set sequel, the choices that drive a teen slasher game, and a Detroit burglary that

  16. Terrifying & True | Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel: The Truth Behind the Elevator Video

    Elisa Lam's Cecil Hotel elevator video became an internet mystery, but her 2013 death was officially ruled an accidental drowning. Terrifying & True follows the Canadian traveler's final days in Los Angeles and examines how a rooftop water

  17. Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman

    A railway worker sees warnings of disaster beside a dark tunnel. A businessman on the Orient Express meets an armed stranger. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Train Stops, Orient Express, The Signalman, and Ticket to Nowhere for more than two

  18. 4 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves & Supernatural Monsters

    A robbery interrupts a witch's ritual, a seductive stranger demands murder, and a criminal job brings a giant gummy worm into play. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn bad decisions into supernatural traps, from cursed brothers to a bliz

  19. Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016): Blood Rituals & Body Horror

    Tonight She Comes (2016) starts with a blood-covered killer and a cabin in the woods, then plunges into an occult ritual with its own grotesque rules. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the slasher on Cutting Deep into Horror, traci

  20. Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban Legends | Thursday Thrills

    The 2016 killer clown panic began with reports from South Carolina woods and spread into threats, hoaxes, and copycat encounters. Ten years later, Henrique Couto follows the Greenville County sightings through news coverage and social media

  21. The Darkness Under Clear Lake: A Sunken Relic Possesses a Missing Swimmer

    Brian disappears beneath Clear Lake and returns clutching a carved relic, his body waterlogged and his strength no longer human. In Bruce Haney's The Darkness Under Clear Lake, a camping trip with Michelle and friends becomes a fight agains

  22. This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf

    Blade, The Exorcist III, and An American Werewolf in London lead This Week in Horror History for August 17–23, 2026. Revisit Wesley Snipes' Daywalker, William Peter Blatty's supernatural detective story, the home invasion of You're Next, an

  23. Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake Became a Cryptid Legend

    The Pale Crawler looks like a creature caught between a human and an animal, but The Rake began as a deliberately written horror story. Terrifying & True traces Operation Crawler, alleged Illinois and Kentucky encounters, and the viral trai

  24. Unknown Broadcast | No Boat Comes Back: Classic OTR Mystery

    An island promises refuge, but the people arriving bring danger with them. Unknown Broadcast collects four classic old-time radio mysteries: The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island. A trader enters a

  25. 4 Scary Stories | Haunted House, Cursed Object, Serial Killers & Cannibal Monsters

    A one-dollar bowl brings home a ghost, and two serial killers choose a family with something monstrous on the menu. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn a first date, a yard-sale bargain, a country dinner, and a party in the woods into de

  26. Cryptids Around the Campfire: Werewolf, Bigfoot, Chupacabra & Wendigo | Halloween Marathon

    Railroad workers report a werewolf in Defiance, Ohio. Black-Eyed Children ask to come inside. Seven Terrifying & True investigations gather Bigfoot, the Fouke Monster, Chupacabra, Indrid Cold, and more for over three hours of campfire liste

  27. Jeff the Killer: Origins of the “Go to Sleep” Creepypasta | Thursday Thrills

    Jeff the Killer's pale face and 'Go to sleep' became creepypasta shorthand for a nightmare. Thursday Thrills follows the fictional killer's origin stories and the image edits that turned him into internet folklore. Henrique Couto traces Ses

  28. Odd Egg: Weird Experiences Turn Grotesque in Spooky Season Body Horror

    Eleven eggs are empty. The twelfth hatches a tiny human head on six spiderlike legs. In Odd Egg by Alex Grass, Maryellen accepts a free carton from a smiling stranger who claims a god lives inside it. Breakfast becomes a creature-horror nig

  29. This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: The Monster Squad, Cujo & The Fly

    The Monster Squad, Cujo, and The Fly lead This Week in Horror History for August 10–16, 2026. A stalled car becomes a trap in Stephen King's rabid-dog nightmare, while The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country bring ghostly secr

  30. Terrifying & True | The Man With a Hole in His Stomach: Beaumont’s Human Experiments

    Alexis St. Martin survived an 1822 gunshot wound with an opening into his stomach. William Beaumont used it to study digestion, lowering food on threads into a living man's body. Terrifying & True examines the medical breakthrough and the u

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