Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

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 nightmare that spirals beautifully out of control, and one extremely angry flock proving that pastoral scenery is no protection from body-count madness.Inside this episode✅ Horror releases from Mar 23–29Mar 23, 2007 — The Hills Have Eyes 2A brutal remake-era sequel that swaps the family-road-trip setup for National Guard trainees, abandoned bunkers, and irradiated desert terror. Mean, grimy, and built to make survival feel filthy.Where to watch: Rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.Mar 24, 2006 — Stay AliveOne of the most aggressively 2000s horror premises ever made: what if the video game kills you for real? Glossy PG-13 studio horror with haunted-game rules, gamer paranoia, and cursed-tech charm.Where to watch: Free with a library card on Hoopla; rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.Mar 28, 2018 — Gonjiam: Haunted AsylumA South Korean found-footage jolt that turns a livestream ghost hunt into a panic attack. Smart about performance, smart about fear, and one of the best “camera keeps rolling while everything goes wrong” horror movies of the last decade.Where to watch: Prime Video; free with ads on Tubi, Xumo Play, The Roku Channel, and Plex.Mar 29, 2007 — Black SheepA gloriously ridiculous horror-comedy creature feature where genetic engineering goes wrong and the countryside itself becomes the problem. Carnivorous sheep, splatter laughs, and full commitment to the bit.Where to watch: Free with ads on Tubi TV and Plex; rent or buy on Amazon Video and Apple TV.🎬 Deep-Cut SpotlightMar 23, 1990 — Def by TemptationA slick, smoky, neon-lit cult favorite that drops supernatural horror into late-night New York and makes every bar, sidewalk, and bad decision feel dangerous. Seductive, funny, eerie, and way too cool to stay overlooked.Where to watch: Prime Video, Shudder, AMC+ channels, and Troma NOW; free with ads on Tubi and Pluto TV.🎂 Horror birthdaysMar 24, 1930 — Steve McQueenMar 24, 1977 — Jessica ChastainMar 25, 1942 — Richard O’BrienMar 26, 1931 — Leonard Nimoy⭐ Weekly RecommendationMar 24, 2017 — LifeA tight studio sci-fi horror movie built on the eternal bad idea of smart people assuming protocols will save them. Space-lab panic, escalating dread, and one rapidly evolving organism that does not care about anybody’s plan.Where to watch: Rent or buy on Prime 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 the reason this legend still hits so hard today: because in many versions, she is not random evil. She is warning, justice, and consequence.  We follow the core pattern of the legend—the alluring woman, the reveal of the hooves, the predator becoming the prey—and examine how Deer Woman stories survive in modern encounter lore, including roadside sightings, party retellings, and the Haskell-associated versions that spread as powerful warnings inside communities. This episode also takes the careful route, separating traditional story, modern folklore, and pop-culture adaptation, while asking why so many Deer Woman stories cluster around themes of stalking, harassment, predation, and violence against women.Inside this episode:What the Deer Woman is across folklore and modern retellingsWhy there is no one single “official” versionThe hooves reveal and why it makes this legend unforgettableRoadside, party, and encounter-story variantsThe Haskell folklore cluster and why Deer Woman persists as a warningThe connection between the legend and predatory male behaviorWhy Deer Woman still resonates now as both horror figure and moral consequenceIf you love true paranormal folklore, Native American legends, cryptid-style mystery, dark mythic horror, urban legends explained, and stories where the supernatural may be hiding a deeper social truth, this episode is for you. The Deer Woman is scary on the surface—but the deeper terror is what she says about the world that keeps needing her story. 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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, vintage radio suspense, gothic mystery, and those deliciously strange old broadcasts that sound as though they were never meant for civilized company, then do sit down. Just don’t sit with your back to the door. The lineup for this episode is The Return of the Moresbys, John Jock Todd, The Burning Court, and Retribution.       🐈 The Return of the MoresbysA husband sneers at the unseen, laughs at spiritual notions, and finds murder much easier to imagine than remorse. But some wives are difficult to escape, especially when devotion curdles into haunting and the grave proves distressingly porous. This Radio Mystery Theater tale was written by Henry Slessor.🗡️ John Jock ToddThen off we go into dust, danger, and the kind of frontier where a man’s name is rarely the most suspicious thing about him. Old grudges, savage reckonings, and jungle survival all come striding in together, looking for blood and perhaps a little justice, though the two are so often confused. The episode credits this as John Jock Todd by Robert Simpson, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield.  🥃 The Burning CourtNow a glass of sherry, a handsome room, and all the proper comforts of domestic life — which is usually when murder feels most at home. From John Dixon Carr’s famous novel comes a tale of poison, suspicion, and secrets moving quietly through well-appointed rooms with very bad intentions.  ⚖️ RetributionAnd last comes The Whistler, who never sounds quite as though he is judging you and never quite as though he isn’t. A lonely courthouse, a storm-black road, and a story promised as “the strange story of retribution” make for an ending full of guilt, fate, and the sort of payment that always arrives overdue but never forgotten.   So there you are: four doorways, four warnings, four invitations dressed up as entertainment. You may call it classic radio horror, vintage suspense, supernatural mystery, or old-time gothic drama. I call it a rather lovely way to spend an evening with the lights too low and the conscience unguarded.Some doors open onto memory, some onto guilt, and some onto the sort of justice that has all the time in the world.   🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 school day goes wrong in the most unholy way—shadows lengthen, bodies move wrong, and something ancient comes calling with a deal that wants blood.• “A New Beginning” — by Rob Fields  A stranger arrives with heat in her veins and Hell in her lineage—protection comes with power, temptation, and the kind of justice that smiles while it burns.• “Breaking The Seal” — by Douglas Waltz  A night of partying turns into the grossest curse imaginable, where panic, humiliation, and dark magic collide—and the punchline might be fatal.• “Satan’s Shotgun” — by Dan Wilder  A revenge saga in the wilds—bones, bandages, monsters, and a yearly return from the dirt… all leading to a final reckoning that doesn’t play fair.If you love demon horror, occult stories, witch curses, and darkly funny horror with a mean streak—this Ides of March installment is for you. Light a candle… or don’t. Something might take it as an invitation.🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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

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 praise, obsession, and cruelty become.If you love Edgar Allan Poe stories, classic horror, gothic fiction, macabre satire, and eerie tales that expose the ugliness hiding beneath beauty and popularity, this episode delivers a weird, witty, and wonderfully unsettling listen. Lionizing is a perfect example of Poe’s ability to mix the bizarre with the brilliant, turning a strange premise into a chilling reflection on ego, reputation, and the madness of public adoration.Lionizing — by Edgar Allan Poe🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 surveillance, manipulation, murder, and a terrifying conspiracy hiding in plain sight.What starts as curiosity turns into a spiral of paranoia, greed, violence, and dread as one ordinary man is pulled into a trap far bigger than he understands. If you love creepy phone calls, urban legend horror, tech horror stories, twist ending horror, and dark tales where a simple bad decision destroys everything, this one is going to get under your skin.This episode is perfect for fans of scary stories, horror fiction, suspense thrillers, weird conspiracy horror, and unsettling stories about the danger lurking behind everyday technology. One number. One call. One moment of boredom. That’s all it takes.Boredom Can Be Deadly — by Michael Kelso🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 (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 Biblical doom, modern prestige nightmare fuel, and a deep-cut supernatural oddity where a black hearse keeps gliding back into frame like something unfinished is still following you.   Inside this episode✅ Horror releases from Mar 16–22Mar 17, 2000 — Final DestinationThe movie that made everyday accidents feel rigged by fate: planes, power lines, bathroom cords, kitchen knives, and the awful sense that death noticed you got away with something.Where to watch: Max or YouTube TV; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Plex, and Spectrum On Demand.  Mar 19, 2004 — Dawn of the DeadZack Snyder’s breakneck zombie remake turns the mall into a brightly lit coffin: panic in suburbia, brutal momentum, and fast zombies that still know how to ruin a room.Where to watch: Netflix; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home.  Mar 20, 1981 — The Final ConflictSam Neill steps in as adult Damien Thorn and somehow makes the Antichrist look corporate, ambitious, and perfectly comfortable bringing end-times menace into the boardroom.Where to watch: rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home.  Mar 22, 2019 — UsJordan Peele’s nightmare of doubles, class terror, mirrors, scissors, and subterranean dread—one of those modern horror hits that felt like an event the second it arrived.Where to watch: Hulu; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home. 🎬 Deep-Cut SpotlightMar 21, 1980 — The HearseA weird little regional supernatural chiller with cults, suspicion, personal trauma, and a black hearse that keeps showing up like an accusation. Exactly the kind of strange side-road title this show exists to celebrate.Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Plex Player, or Fawesome; rent or buy on Amazon. 🎂 Horror birthdaysMar 16, 1975 — Sienna GuilloryMar 18, 1950 — Brad DourifMar 20, 1962 — Stephen SommersMar 22, 1991 — Dominique Fishback ⭐ Weekly RecommendationMar 21, 2008 — ShutterA ghostly remake with cursed-image energy, a dislocated Tokyo setting, and a nasty little payoff that still works if you want something slick, eerie, and easy to throw on after the main lineup.Where to watch: Hulu or Disney+; rent or buy on Amazon, 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 Island incident, the terror and sudden silence surrounding Albert K. Bender, the disturbing Point Pleasant / Mothman-era warnings, the threatening visit to Robert Richardson in Ohio, the bizarre and unforgettable Dr. Herbert Hopkins encounter, and the unsettling Niagara Falls Men in Black hotel case tied to alleged security footage. Along the way, we ask the question that keeps this mystery alive: are these stories evidence of a real pattern of intimidation, or has the Men in Black myth grown into a self-sustaining piece of modern folklore?  Inside this episode:The earliest Men in Black cases linked to UFO witnesses and sudden threatsAlbert Bender’s shutdown and the moment the legend exploded into UFO culturePoint Pleasant, Mary Hyre, and John Keel-era paranoiaThreats against witnesses and their familiesDr. Herbert Hopkins and one of the strangest MIB stories ever reportedThe 2008 Niagara Falls hotel encounter and the question of whether Men in Black were finally caught on cameraThe reality checks separating documented history, folklore, and high strangenessIf you love true UFO stories, Men in Black reports, unsolved paranormal mysteries, government conspiracy lore, Mothman-adjacent high strangeness, and the unnerving edge where witness testimony collides with urban legend, this episode is built for you. These are the stories of black-suited strangers, unblinking eyes, cold warnings, and people who came too close to something they were never supposed to talk about. 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 settled in ledgers alone.Classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, supernatural mystery, gothic dread, and strange old broadcasts are all alive and whispering here — which is inconvenient for the dead, of course, but a delight for the rest of us.         🖐️ The Hand That Refused to DieA brilliant concert pianist loses his right hand and with it, so he believes, his life. But grief is a poor physician, and the unseen is rarely content to stay unseen. Somewhere between despair, devotion, and the spirit of creation itself, something reaches back.💍 The Ring of ThothAncient Egypt has a tiresome habit of refusing to remain ancient. A strange ring, an older secret, and a trail that stretches far beyond the comfort of the modern world invite you into a story where immortality feels less like a blessing and more like a sentence.🌧️ Wet SaturdayRain falls, nerves fray, and a respectable family begins the familiar work of deciding which truth can be hidden and which body cannot. The house is full of panic, calculation, and that particular kind of politeness people adopt when everything has already gone horribly wrong.📒 The AccountingAnd then, for the final tally, a Whistler tale. Money goes wandering, consciences go dim, and somebody discovers that every lie eventually presents itself for inspection. Some sums can be delayed. Few are forgiven.So come closer. Four tales. Four thresholds. Four opportunities to mistake a warning for an invitation. And if some voice in the dark sounds as though it’s trying to help you, well… I wouldn’t make too much of that.🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 Swamp” — by David O’Hanlon • “Stay Hungry” — by David O’Hanlon • “You Are What You Eat” — by Robert Fields • “Rude Awakenings” — by Rob Fields If you like your horror with cryptid folklore, survival dread, dark humor, and that “oh no… it’s happening” momentum—this one’s for you. The swamp is listening. The jungle is watching. And the dead? They’re very cranky about being disturbed.🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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

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 thrills and replaces them with grime, dread, and the sickening feeling that you are watching something you should not be seeing. Inside this episode:why Henry feels more like a serial killer character study than a conventional slasherhow the film’s cold, ugly realism makes the violence hit harderthe disturbing dynamic between Henry, Otis, and Beckywhy the ending lingers long after the creditshow the movie uses restraint, suggestion, and atmosphere to become even more upsetting than gorier horror filmswhether its “true story” reputation helps or hurts the movie’s powerHenrique and Rachael get into the film’s nasty little-world realism, its uncomfortable intimacy, Michael Rooker’s unsettling screen presence, and the way Henry blurs the line between horror movie, exploitation film, and crime nightmare. They also talk through the movie’s reputation, what makes Becky such an important part of the story, and why this one still feels meaner and more dangerous than a lot of modern serial killer horror.Film detailsYear: 1986Director: John McNaughtonStarring: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy ArnoldRuntime: 83 minutes Where to watch (U.S., this week):Amazon Prime Video, and free options including Pluto TV, Fandango at Home Free, and Plex, with rental/purchase options on Apple TV🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 a freezing pasture, he pieces together a night of drug use, lost time, rural paranoia, and cryptid terror. Two unstable strangers claim they were attacked on a remote road by a monstrous creature with huge teeth, claws, and a humanoid body moving on all fours. He does not believe them—at first. But out in the backroads, disbelief does not keep you alive.This episode is packed with creepy monsters, survival horror, isolated farmland dread, violent suspense, and the kind of filthy, dangerous rural atmosphere that makes every sound in the dark feel like a warning. If you love scary stories, creature features, cryptid encounters, monsters in the woods, and bleak horror fiction with a nasty edge, this one is for you.Tonight on Weekly Spooky, step into a world of meth-fueled chaos, dead phones, abandoned cars, midnight fields, and a savage thing waiting in the dark. Sometimes the scariest part of the night is not what you took—it is what was already out there, watching.The Backroads Cryptid — by Bruce Haney🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 (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-documentary that feels eerily ahead of its time. Inside this episode✅ Horror releases from Mar 9–15Mar 9, 1984 — Children of the CornA Stephen King cornfield nightmare that turned a tiny budget into a franchise: rural isolation, fanatical children, and one of the great creepy-premise hooks of 1980s horror.Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video with subscription; TubiTV, The Roku Channel, and Plex free with ads; rent or buy wherever you rent or buy movies.  Mar 10, 2023 — Scream VIGhostface goes big-city in the franchise’s nastier New York chapter: subway panic, bodega chaos, and a sharper, meaner pulse.Where to watch: Paramount Plus with subscription; free on Pluto TV.  Mar 13, 2015 — It FollowsA modern horror classic that makes sex, distance, and everyday space feel cursed: dream-logic suburbs, synth dread, and a threat that never stops coming.Where to watch: free with ads at Fandango at Home or Plex; Philo with subscription; Kanopy with library card; or rent at the usual suspects.  Mar 15, 2002 — Resident EvilA zombie video-game blockbuster that helped prove game-based horror could work as durable theatrical horror.Where to watch: Prime Video with subscription; Hulu with subscription. 🎬 Deep-Cut SpotlightMar 9, 1998 — The Last BroadcastA faux-documentary Jersey Devil chiller made for almost nothing that now plays like a warning shot for digital-horror history.Where to watch: free with Prime Video subscription; totally free with ads on Tubi; rent or buy digitally at the usual suspects. 🎂 Horror birthdaysMar 9, 1986 — Brittany SnowMar 13, 1985 — Emile HirschMar 14, 1933 — Michael CaineMar 15, 1979 — Pollyanna McIntosh ⭐ Weekly RecommendationMar 13, 2015 — The InvitationA slow-burn dinner-party nightmare built from grief, paranoia, and that awful feeling that everyone in the room knows more than you do.Where to watch: Tubi TV free with ads; The Roku Channel free with ads; Philo, Peacock, or Amazon Prime with subscription; rent or buy on Fandango at Home, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime. 🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 accepts. Lesley is a mother of four. Trevor is a police constable and father. Both are mourned as victims of heartbreak and scandal.But the truth is darker—and it doesn’t surface for nearly two decades.Behind the public grief, investigators will later learn, a secret affair and a ruthless plan were allegedly shaping events from the shadows. Colin Howell, a respected dentist and lay preacher, and Hazel Buchanan (later Hazel Stewart) are accused of plotting to remove their spouses and stage the scene to look like a tragic decision. The story moves from a “straightforward” death scene to something far more chilling: sedation, exhaust fumes, meticulous staging, and a lie that holds until January 2009, when Colin Howell finally breaks and confesses—first to church elders, then to police.The confession reopens everything. Hazel is arrested. In court, the case becomes a battle over what was done, what was admitted, and whether Hazel’s role was coerced or fully complicit. The old garage scene is re-examined with a new question: not why would they do this? but who benefits if everyone believes they did?Inside this episodeThe discovery in Castlerock and why police initially believed it was a double suicideThe secret relationship hiding in plain sight inside a tight religious communityThe alleged method: sedatives + exhaust fumes and the “suicide pact” stagingHow the case stayed buried—until a confession detonated it in 2009The interrogation dispute: coercion vs. participationThe courtroom reckoning and the verdict that finally rewrote the official storyThis is a true crime nightmare about image, faith, control, and deception—and how a staged scene can trap the truth for years. 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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, 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 foot of the bed pretending not to breathe.👻 The Ghost at the GateHere, a widow keeps faith with the dead a little too faithfully. She sets a place for memory, pours tea for longing, and opens the door just wide enough for sorrow to step back inside. But the dead are poor houseguests, and poorer rivals. They do so hate being replaced.🩸 Blood of CainThen to New Orleans, where old sins have old roots, and family history is written less in ink than in stain. Some inherit fortunes. Others inherit grudges, curses, and the steady tread of vengeance climbing the stairs. Blood remembers. Blood always remembers.📝 Statement of Employee Henry WilsonNext comes a statement, neat and proper on its face, which is often how guilt prefers to dress. A man explains what happened, and with each careful word the air grows colder, the walls draw nearer, and the truth begins to show its teeth. Confession can be such a generous thing… especially when it delivers a soul gift-wrapped to the gallows.🕯️ Jane EyreAnd at last, a governess arrives at a great dark house full of locked doors, guarded glances, and secrets with the good manners not to introduce themselves right away. Romance flickers in one corridor, dread breathes in another, and the whole place seems to listen when no one is speaking. Which, I think, is terribly rude in a home.So settle in for a strange little procession of classic radio horror, supernatural suspense, gothic drama, and old-time ghosts who have not yet exhausted their interest in the living. Four tales. Four thresholds. Four chances to decide whether the voice calling from the dark means to warn you… or welcome you 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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

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 Fury — by Aaron Michael CookA perfect evening curdles into humiliation and rage—until payback arrives with a smile and a blade hidden behind it.• Valley Rat — by Charles CampbellA simmering feud in a hard-scrabble town turns vicious, and the cost of cruelty comes due when the past won’t stay put.• Fortune Falls — by David O’HanlonTwo friends chase a wild view and a quick thrill—then realize the woods don’t forgive mistakes… and something out there is counting steps.• ROADKILL — by Travis VanHooseA late-night road, a predatory stranger, and a pickup that stops for the wrong reason—because the highway has teeth, and it remembers.If you love revenge horror, backwoods nightmare suspense, and roadside creature terror, this compilation is built for you. Keep your headlights bright… and don’t stop for anything you can’t explain.🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 built their legend — and why that legend remains so controversial.We follow their rise from local investigators to national figures in the world of hauntings, possessions, and demonology, then dig into the doubts, criticism, and conflicting accounts that have followed them for decades. It’s a deep dive into belief, fear, fame, folklore, and the uneasy space where the paranormal collides with performance.Because this is a Best of 2025 re-air, it’s the perfect chance to catch an episode that listeners may have missed the first time around — especially if you’re fascinated by haunted history, real-life paranormal cases, or the truth behind some of horror’s most famous stories.Inside this episode:• The rise of Ed and Lorraine Warren• The real stories connected to Amityville, Annabelle, and The Conjuring• Their occult museum and public image• The skeptics, critics, and controversies surrounding their work• Why their legacy still shapes paranormal culture today🎧 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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

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 dread, and a desperate run for safety as buried family secrets start clawing their way to the surface. Set in the Strickfield universe, Lady Frankenstein Returns is tense, fast, and relentlessly creepy—where survival isn’t just about getting away… it’s about what wakes up inside you when the nightmare returns.Lady Frankenstein Returns — 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 (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 becomes the infection.Inside this episode✅ Horror releases from Mar 2–8Mar 4, 1922 — NosferatuSilent-era plague-vampire terror that still feels unnervingly alive: shadow horror, eerie atmosphere, and Count Orlok stalking the roots of vampire cinema.Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video (subscription); AMC+ (subscription); Shudder (subscription); free w/ ads on Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, PlexMar 6, 1987 — Angel HeartA nasty occult noir spiral—each clue feels like a trapdoor, and the deeper the detective digs, the more the case starts digging into him.Where to watch: free w/ ads on Pluto TV; or rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TVMar 3, 1995 — The ManglerThe monster is the laundry press. Stephen King madness, industrial grime, and the kind of “how is this real?” horror premise that somehow works because it commits completely.Where to watch: rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at HomeMar 2, 2007 — ZodiacA slow, suffocating true-crime obsession story—procedural dread, mounting paranoia, and the feeling that the case will never let you go.Where to watch: Paramount+ (subscription); free w/ ads on Pluto TV; or rent on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home🎬 Deep-Cut SpotlightMar 6, 2009 — PontypoolA snowbound radio station. A spreading panic. And an “infection” that moves through words—once you hear the wrong phrase, it’s already inside you.Where to watch: Philo (subscription); not available to rent/purchase on the usual digital services right now (DVD options exist)🎂 Horror birthdaysMar 2, 1943 — Peter StraubMar 2, 1980 — Ingrid Bolso-BerdahlMar 4, 1973 — Len WisemanMar 7, 1946 — John Hurd⭐ Weekly RecommendationMar 8, 1972 — Tales from the CryptAmicus anthology gold—mean, funny, cozy-in-a-campfire-way… with murder, revenge, and those perfect coffin-lid twist endings.Where to watch: free w/ ads on TubiTV, The Roku Channel, Plex; or rent on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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 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 enough to describe what he says happened. Investigators initially believe it’s a robbery… until the details don’t fit: nothing of value is taken, and the attack feels targeted.The evidence leads prosecutors to Bruce (Edward) Beauchamp, and the case barrels toward trial. But when the jury returns a stunning verdict on March 29, 1991—not guilty on all charges—the investigation hits a legal wall. Under double jeopardy, Beauchamp can never be tried again for Bonnie Hood’s murder, no matter what new suspicions emerge.And then the story turns again.About a year later, on March 22, 1992, Beauchamp confronts Jim Hood, Bonnie’s husband. The encounter ends in gunfire—and this time the courtroom battle focuses on Jim Hood, not the man once accused of the original cabin murder. The trials that follow spiral into a web of motive, credibility, and forensics, culminating in a final verdict on December 9, 1993 that seals Jim Hood’s fate.Inside this episodeThe Night of the Cabin Shooting: what happened at Camp Nelson Lodge and why it didn’t look like a typical robberyThe Surviving Witness: Rudy Manuel’s account—and why it becomes so contestedThe Suspect & The Trial: how the case centers on Bruce Beauchamp… and what the jury ultimately decidesDouble Jeopardy: how one verdict can permanently lock a murder caseThe Second Shooting: the confrontation between Beauchamp and Jim Hood that ends with another homicideWhat’s Proven vs. What’s Alleged: separating courtroom facts from lingering theoriesIf you’re drawn to California true crime, unsolved murders, and cases where the justice system itself becomes part of the mystery, this one is a chilling ride through a crime that never truly got its ending. 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!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 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