Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

March 18 Boredom Can Be Deadly: Scary Phone Horror Story | He Called a Bathroom Wall Number and It Ruined His Life
A bored man calls a number scribbled inside a bathroom stall. His phone answers his thoughts—and offers money to kill a stranger. Boredom Can Be Deadly by Michael Kelso is a Weekly Spooky technology horror story about greed, surveillance, and a choice that becomes harder to take back. What looks like a prank supplies private information, directions, and a target, pulling a curious caller into someone else's deadly game. Dark humor gives way to paranoia as the device in his hand seems to know every hesitation. If the phone can read his mind, what chance does he have of keeping a secret?

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25 min
March 17 This Week in Horror History | Final Destination, Dawn of the Dead, Us & The Hearse (Mar 16–22)
Death makes everyday accidents feel planned in Final Destination, while fast zombies turn a mall into a trap in Dawn of the Dead. This Week in Horror History covers March 16–22 with The Final Conflict, Jordan Peele's Us, and the recurring black car of The Hearse. From Damien Thorn's corporate menace to frightening doubles, this week's films turn familiar places against their occupants. Birthdays include Brad Dourif, Sienna Guillory, Stephen Sommers, and Dominique Fishback. The ghostly photos of Shutter supply a recommendation for viewers who like their nightmares following them home.

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23 min
March 16 Terrifying & True | The Real Men in Black: UFO Witness Threats, Government Conspiracy, and Paranormal Cases
UFO witnesses report strange visitors who demand silence. Terrifying & True follows the Men in Black legend through Maury Island, Albert K. Bender, Point Pleasant, Robert Richardson in Ohio, Dr. Herbert Hopkins, and the Niagara Falls hotel footage claim. Threatening calls and unsettling encounters helped turn alleged intimidation into a lasting UFO legend. The episode weighs documented history against witness stories and paranormal explanations without treating a cover-up as proven. Are these accounts evidence of a shared threat, or stories shaped by the legend they helped create?

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58 min
March 15 Unknown Broadcast | Phantom Hands, Cursed Rings, and Deadly Lies: Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories
A pianist loses his right hand, yet something seems determined to reach the keys. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Hand That Refused to Die, The Ring of Thoth, Wet Saturday, and The Accounting. Four old-time radio dramas move from phantom hands and an ancient Egyptian relic to a family concealing murder and The Whistler's reckoning with money and lies. More than two hours of supernatural mystery and crime suspense turn talent, immortality, and respectability into dangerous desires. Listen as a household tries to explain away the unthinkable—and discover how much politeness can conceal.

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2 hr 23 min
March 14 Ides of March: Four Horror Stories of Monsters, Revenge, Cannibals, and the Living Dead
A swamp legend rises from the mud, a predator talks of conservation, and an alarm clock wakes more than its owner. Four Weekly Spooky Ides of March stories turn bad choices into monstrous consequences: Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp and Stay Hungry by David O'Hanlon, You Are What You Eat by Robert Fields, and Rude Awakenings by Rob Fields. Over two hours of creature horror, cannibal terror, and supernatural revenge move from a cursed place to a meal that refuses to stay on the menu. Daily routines become threats in tales where getting what you wanted may be the worst part of the bargain.

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2 hr 11 min
March 13 Cutting Deep Into Horror | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986): Why It’s So Disturbing
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) makes ordinary rooms feel complicit in violence. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine John McNaughton's film, starring Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, and Tracy Arnold, on Cutting Deep into Horror. They explore Henry, Otis, and Becky, the film's ugly realism, and its disputed true-story reputation. Full spoilers, including the ending, for listeners interested in serial killer cinema and exploitation horror. Film page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/vide...

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1 hr 56 min
March 11 The Backroads Cryptid: A Drug-Fueled Ride Into a Rural Monster Nightmare
A man wakes in a freezing pasture with missing hours, a dead phone, and no idea how he got there. The Backroads Cryptid by Bruce Haney follows a disastrous party into rural Oregon, where two strangers say a creature attacked their car. Their story sounds impossible until the darkness beyond the farmhouse starts to feel occupied. This Weekly Spooky horror fiction mixes drug-fueled paranoia, isolated farmland, and a savage monster encounter. Getting home means deciding whose account to trust and whether the people offering shelter are any safer than whatever is waiting outside the door.

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23 min
March 10 This Week in Horror History | Scream VI, It Follows, Resident Evil & Children of the Corn (Mar 9–15)
Ghostface stalks New York in Scream VI, while the threat in It Follows never needs to run. This Week in Horror History explores March 9–15 through Children of the Corn, Resident Evil, and the Jersey Devil mockumentary The Last Broadcast. Killer children, infected corridors, and suburban paranoia offer different ways to make a familiar place unsafe. Birthdays include Brittany Snow, Emile Hirsch, Michael Caine, and Pollyanna McIntosh. The Invitation closes the watchlist with a dinner party where grief and suspicion share the table. Find a film that makes the next invitation feel different.

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24 min
March 09 Terrifying & True | Castlerock Double Murder (1991): Staged as a Suicide Pact
Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were found dead in a car in Castlerock, Northern Ireland, in May 1991. The scene suggested a suicide pact; a confession nearly 18 years later exposed a double murder. Terrifying & True follows Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart, the affair behind the killings, the staged garage scene, and the convictions that overturned the accepted account. This true crime episode examines how deception survived inside a close religious community and how investigators revisited the evidence. What happens when the story told about two deaths protects the people responsible?

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47 min
March 08 Unknown Broadcast | Ghosts, Curses, and Deadly Secrets: Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories
A widow welcomes memories of her husband until the dead seem unwilling to make room for the living. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Ghost at the Gate, Blood of Cain, Statement of Employee Henry Wilson, and Jane Eyre. Four old-time radio dramas move through grief, a New Orleans family's dark inheritance, a troubling confession, and a governess entering a house of secrets. More than two hours of ghost lore, criminal suspense, and gothic romance make domestic comforts feel uncertain. At the dinner table or behind a locked door, the past may still expect to be treated as one of the family.

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2 hr 7 min

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Weekly Spooky is your year-round Halloween podcast for scary stories: original horror fiction, urban legends, haunted places, cryptids and dark folklore, alongside true crime, paranormal mysteries and…