The Gainesville Ripper Murders vs. Scream — The True Story Behind Ghostface

What really inspired Scream? In this episode, we break down the real Gainesville Ripper murders and explore how Danny Rolling’s 1990 killing spree helped shape one of horror’s most iconic villains: Ghostface. If you love true crime, horror history, or the origins of classic movies, this is your deep dive.

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Introducing HOLLOW, a new scripted sci-fi horror podcast from Violet Hour Media.

A mercenary embarks on a corporate mission to track down a rogue leader and encounters the darkness of space, the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, the darkness within herself.

Episode 01 - Leave

Battle hardened corporate mercenary, Amelia Wallenrod, travels to the prestigious Luna colonies and is briefed on her mission to recover an important scientist who has been taken hostage on Mars.

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Introducing THE GLOOM, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media.

An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case, where she eventually learns the horrifying truth about a systemic cover-up tied to her own past.

Episode 01 - In Medias Res

Samantha Williams, an investigative journalist, introduces the infamous unsolved early 1990s cold case of the Filmore Four, a group of teenagers caught up in a ghastly web of murder and destruction, tied to a Queens, New York psychiatric hospital, and quite possibly, their emotionally damaged therapist, Dr. Darlene Harrington.

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Introducing THE ELMWOOD STRAIN, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media.

A traumatized woman reluctantly returns to her dying hometown to find the stoner friends she abandoned are hooked on a strange new drug—with bizarre, seemingly supernatural qualities.

Episode 01 - Mighty Sabertooths

Paige is a popular senior at Elmwood High until a violent tragedy forces her family to flee the town. A decade after abandoning her three best friends, Paige gets word that one of them has died under mysterious circumstances, forcing her to face the past.

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Narrative horror podcast In Another Room reaches its finale — every ghost, every room, every story converging on one final night.

Wendy Morrow has investigated every room. She has met every ghost. And in the basement, she has discovered the truth at the heart of the house — a truth that changes everything she thought she understood about her investigation, her purpose, and her own fate.

Now her daughter Lilliana is on her way to the house, looking for her mother. The spirits Wendy has met along the way are gathering. The house is preparing. And in the basement, in 1873, a man named Frank Smith is waiting in the dark.

The eight-part horror limited series concludes.

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Narrative horror podcast In Another Room finally unlocks the basement — and the story of how the house began.

Wendy finally unlocks the basement door — the room she has been told never to enter, the room every spirit in the house has been pointing her toward. In 1873, Frank Smith is finishing construction on the grand mansion he has built as a gift for his beloved wife. She is traveling west to join him. She never arrives.

Wracked with grief and slowly losing his grip on reality, Frank begins seeing a shadowy woman flitting through the halls of his nearly-finished home — an apparition that will lead him, eventually, to commit a murder he does not understand and bury its evidence beneath the basement floor.

When Wendy digs in the same spot, more than a century later, she finds bones. And then she finds something that should not be possible.

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Narrative horror podcast In Another Room sets a dinner table in 1928 — with a body in the trunk and guests arriving at seven.

The house leads Wendy to the dining room — and to a dinner party in 1928 that should not still be happening. Anne Larkin's husband Gregory has been losing his memory for months. This morning, during a heated argument, she killed him with a kitchen knife and hid his body in an old steamer trunk in the corner of the dining room.

Tonight she has guests. The candles are lit. The wine is poured. And then Gregory — who is supposed to be in the trunk — walks into the room and takes his usual seat at the head of the table.

In the trunk's lining, decades later, Wendy will find what the house has been leading her toward all along.

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Narrative horror podcast In Another Room enters the living room — and a 1960s Christmas Eve where multiple ghost stories bleed across time.

Wendy enters the living room and is pulled into a Christmas Eve in the 1960s. Judith Hayes is preparing for the holidays in a house decorated with twinkling lights and a tree heavy with ornaments. Her husband Stanley will be home soon. Judith has bought a gun.

But Judith is not alone in the house this night. Other spirits — trapped in this same room across other decades — begin reaching across time, their voices crossing wires, their stories bleeding into hers. And in the static between them, Wendy realizes something extraordinary: the house traps spirits within its walls, but there may be a way out.

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Narrative horror podcast In Another Room finds its most intimate ghost — a WWII veteran alone with a radio and a voice in the static.

Wendy is drawn to a small study on the second floor — a room with surprisingly few documented hauntings, and one very famous case file. Walter Vance, a young man discharged from the Army during World War II, returned to this house in 1945 and slowly went mad listening to numbers stations on his radio, alone.

Walter believed he could hear someone he loved on the other end of the static. Wendy is about to find out whether he was right. And unlike every other spirit she has encountered in this house, Walter's ghost can see her too.

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