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 lifeline. One step through the portal becomes a disaster. And one panicked, brain-melting decision in the past causes a chain reaction that detonates reality right at midnight.

Now it’s New Year’s Eve, the world is collapsing into alternate timelines, and a surreal broadcast announces the unthinkable: a monstrous new order has arrived… and Jimmy’s become the accidental saint of the apocalypse. Expect time travel gone wrong, cosmic horror comedy, end-of-the-world chaos, and a ticking-clock sprint through broken history where every “fix” makes things weirder.

Hit play, kill the lights, and welcome to a New Year’s episode where the ball doesn’t drop—reality does. Dare you to make it past 11:59.

Saint Jimmy — by Dan Wilder

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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 ghost anthology, and the original “new year, new monster” that’s been chasing us since 1818.This week in horror history (Dec 29–Jan 4):

• Dec 29, 1964 — Kwaidan premieres in Tokyo, Japan: a gorgeous Japanese ghost anthology that feels like a curse you can’t look away from.
• Dec 29, 1993 — Ghost in the Machine is released: serial killer + electricity + early internet panic = a surprisingly fun tech-haunting nightmare.
• Jan 1, 1818 — Frankenstein is published: Mary Shelley’s warning label for ambition, still echoing through modern horror.
• Jan 4, 2008 — One Missed Call opens in North America: a remake built on dread you can’t silence—because the voicemail is already there.

Horror birthdays this week: Barbara Steele, Eliza Dushku, Anthony Hopkins, Shelley Hennig, and Jaden Martell.

Where to watch / read (U.S., this week — availability changes fast):

• Kwaidan — HBO Max
• Ghost in the Machine — Rent: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube
• Witchboard — Free w/ ads: Tubi (plus Roku Channel and other ad-supported options); also available via subscriptions on select platforms
• One Missed Call (2008) — Tubi, Apple TV
• Frankenstein — Read free via Project Gutenberg / Archive.org

Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Savorista Coffee — premium half-calf and decaf blends. Grab yours at Savorista.com and use promo code SPOOKY for 25% off at checkout (and you support the podcast with every purchase).If you love horror movie history, spooky trivia, and date-driven deep dives, follow This Week in Horror History on the Weekly Spooky feed and ring in the new year the only proper way: with the lights low and the dread turned up.

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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 police pressure, a pivotal witness, and the fallout that followed for decades.
• The turning point: How a later confession/letter from a key eyewitness helped get the charges vacated in 2024—and what it says about the system.
• The human cost: The psychological toll of prison, relationships under strain, and the heartbreak of support that didn’t get to see vindication in time.

Plus fresh spooky news:

• Haunted real estate and why “haunted house” can mean big bucks (and big drama).
• A mysterious burial site discovery in ancient Scotland.
• Bigfoot/Sasquatch reported near Interstate 80 (and the BFRO getting involved).
• Kansas City jazz bar ghosts, investigations, and what counts as “evidence.”
• Oarfish and omens—because nature loves a good horror teaser.
• The Conjuring House controversy: from “save the home” chatter to lawsuit talk and why the story won’t stay dead.

New here? This episode stands alone—jump in for the true crime deep dive, stay for the weird headlines and paranormal rabbit holes.
What creeps you out more: a monster in the woods, or a system that can erase your life on paper?

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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 — A name answered at midnight… by someone who shouldn’t know it.
• 🕯️ Two Birds with One Stone — Jealousy drafts a blueprint; the dark provides the tools.
• ⏳ So Soon — A promise kept too quickly becomes an alibi kept too well.
• 🕛 Murder Is a Lonely Business — Tires hiss, glass breaks, and the night takes attendance.
• 🏨 The Haunted Hotel — A corridor breathes; the suite has already checked you in.

As the year thins toward New Year’s bells and countdown whispers, we keep vigil with classic OTR—noir shadows, guilty hearts, and voices from the other side—curated for you on the Weekly Spooky feed, my dear.

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Ring in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror stories marathon built for maximum dread: devil bargains, vampires in the dark, zombie chaos, and a paranormal case file that turns the end of the year into a blood-soaked countdown. If you’re searching for scary New Year stories, NYE horror, or a horror anthology podcast to binge, this is your midnight companion—six twisted tales that get meaner as the clock runs out.

Inside this New Year’s Eve compilation (in airing order):

• Even the Devil Tells the Truth Sometimes — by Dan Wilder
A killer with a Faustian bargain stalks Times Square on New Year’s Eve… but the “gift” he was promised comes with a brutal twist.
• Satan’s Shotgun — by Dani Wilder
An undead avenger rises once a year to slaughter a monstrous “zodiac” gang—until the final confrontation reveals what this nightmare really is.
• A Few Cold Ones — by David O’Hanlon
A rowdy Brew Year’s Eve festival turns into a hostage nightmare inside a legendary hotel—where the “party” ends in blood, fire, and revenge.
• Stakes n’ Shoguns — by Dan Wilder
A late-night movie screening becomes a war zone when Dracula wakes beneath the theater… and the only “holy water” available is absolutely unhinged.
• Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York — by Dan Wilder — Punk rock New Year’s revelry detonates into alien meteors, zombies, and a strangely hilarious afterlife problem.
• New Year’s Evil: A Paranormal Thriller from the Case Files of Caroline Quinn — by Mike Ashkewe 
New Year’s Eve 2012 turns apocalyptic as Caroline Quinn faces Rots, a corrupted psychic thread, and the rise of Ya-Su.

Lock the doors, turn the lights down, and hit play—because on New Year’s Eve, the countdown isn’t to midnight. It’s to whatever’s waiting in the dark.

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Looking for after Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories to keep the season creepy on December 26? Tonight on the Weekly Spooky feed, we’re dropping a holiday horror podcast double feature—two full-length Christmas horror novellas built for the quiet, eerie day after Christmas, when the decorations are still up… and the darkness feels closer.

This episode is a post-Christmas horror marathon packed with supernatural dread, winter nightmares, and the kind of holiday terror that hits harder once the cheer fades.

Stories in this double feature (in order):

• Mirror Images — by Rob Fields — A sinister mirror doesn’t just reflect… it replaces, spawning twisted doubles that want your life more than you do.
• A Vampire’s Holiday — by Rob Fields — A vampire crashes into Strickfield with appetite and ambition, turning Christmas into a hunting season—and dragging everyone into a cold, violent showdown.

New here? This episode stands alone—just press play and let the after-Christmas spooky season begin.
If you love holiday horror, Christmas horror stories, and a scary story podcast that goes big and cinematic, this one’s for you. Hit play, keep the lights low, and don’t trust your reflection.

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Weekly Spooky drops a Christmas Eve horror story soaked in ’90s slasher energy and last-minute retail panic. In Etawah, Oklahoma (1996), Otis Kilgore walks into the Big K like it’s a church—new car, new haircut, new plan—convinced a cashier named Diane has been sending him secret messages. But when the store “messes with” his routine, Otis spirals into a holiday meltdown that turns Blue Light Specials into red-hot violence.

What starts as awkward small-town obsession becomes a full-tilt killer Santa rampage—duct tape, drain cleaner, homemade weapons, and a blizzard outside a big-box store that’s trying to close early for the holiday. Otis isn’t just looking for love. He’s looking for control, and he’s ready to “deliver presents” the only way he knows how: with blood on the tile.

If you’re craving scary Christmas stories, holiday horror, and a brutal, darkly funny slasher that weaponizes the most stressful night of the season, hit play… and don’t wait for the doors to open.

Otis Slays Christmas — by David O’Hanlon

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Step into This Week in Horror History and relive the nightmare fuel of December 22–28: a Christmas-week collision of alien infiltration, true-case exorcism lore, and paranoia-soaked sci-fi horror.
This episode digs into:

• Dec 25, 1998 — The Faculty: the ultimate ’90s teen alien horror—teachers acting wrong, bodies getting swapped, and the school turning into a trap.
• Dec 22, 1978 — Deep-Cut Spotlight: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: a remake that doesn’t just update the story—it infects it with urban dread, groupthink, and that soul-freezing “everyone’s in on it” feeling.
• Dec 26, 1973 — The Exorcist: a cultural shockwave that rewired horror, from possession tropes to the way films build slow-burn dread.
• Dec 28, 1957 — The Mysterians: classic retro sci-fi with a giant-robot punch of Cold War weirdness.
• Plus: horror birthdays (Blair Witch vibes, scream queens, and silent-era legends), and a weekly recommendation that pairs perfectly with a second “high school is hell” watch.

Where to watch (U.S.)

• The Faculty (1998): Tubi (free w/ ads), The Roku Channel (free), Paramount+ (subscription).
• The Exorcist (1973): Rent on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Fandango at Home (episode also notes it’s not streaming free / not included with subscription right now).
• The Mysterians / Earth Defense Force (1957): Criterion Channel (membership) — the episode says this is the current option.
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): Tubi (free w/ ads), Pluto, Plex; rent on Fandango at Home and Apple TV; also mentioned: Amazon Prime (subscription).

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Weekly Spooky unleashes a Christmas horror anthology where the lights are twinkling… and the afterlife is weaponized. When Jack Scratch throws open the curtains on Hell’s “operations,” you don’t get fire-and-brimstone pageantry—you get clipboards, procedures, and punishments dressed up in tinsel.

Tonight’s holiday horrors include:

• The Santa Experiment — a confused man wakes in a dying Christmas postcard town… and a Santa with an axe starts closing the distance.
• Christmas Bones — at the peak of a mountain made of skulls, demons guard a glowing doorway to Heaven… until forgotten Christmas memories start breaking the system.
• The Furnace — Hell’s intake line runs like a factory—until a calm, impossible “soul” walks in and turns tormentors into terrified children, forcing a desperate overseer to gamble on an ancient weapon that can erase a soul forever.

If you love scary Christmas stories, holiday horror, and supernatural nightmares with a wicked edge, lock the door, kill the lights, and join us. What happens when Hell tries to control everything… and Christmas slips through anyway?


Terror at Christmas — by Keith Tomlin 

 

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Dive into Christmas true crime, Santa Claus history, and holiday folklore with the real medieval relic heist that helped shape the legend of Santa. In 1087, sailors from Bari, Italy break into the tomb of St. Nicholas in Myra (modern Turkey)—and the world’s most famous Christmas icon gets a disturbingly real origin story.

Inside the candlelit crypt, witnesses claim the tomb is flooded with mysterious liquid—the “manna” of St. Nicholas—and the thieves interpret it as a sign the saint approves. But back on shore, the people of Myra collapse into grief and fury, pleading for even a single fragment. And when the relics reach Bari, the celebration turns volatile: church power struggles, blood spilled in the saint’s name, and a brand-new basilica built to lock the prize in place.

Then the rivalry escalates. Venice returns to Myra and scoops up what Bari left behind—tiny fragments, crushed pieces, a second claim to the same saint. Centuries later, science steps into the story: anatomical studies, missing bones, and the unsettling realization that Santa’s “origin story” includes grave-robbing, propaganda, and a relic war that rewrote Europe’s holiday traditions.
Inside this episode:

• The 1087 relic heist: how Bari’s sailors infiltrate Myra and break into the tomb
• “Furta sacra”: the medieval logic that framed theft as holy rescue
• The grief of Myra: a town begging for any piece of their protector
• Bari’s power play: riots, control of the relics, and a basilica built for a stolen saint
• Bari vs. Venice: the second “collection” of bones and a centuries-long relic rivalry
• Miracles and manna: the eerie liquid linked to St. Nicholas and why skeptics argue back
• The Santa connection: how this crime helped carry St. Nicholas into Western Europe’s Christmas tradition

We’re telling that story tonight.

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