Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

July 21, 2025 Terrifying & True | Mandela Effect Explained — False Memories or Alternate Realities?
You remember the Berenstain Bears differently. You can picture the Monopoly Man's monocle. Why can a memory feel certain when the record disagrees? Terrifying & True explores the Mandela Effect, from Nelson Mandela's widely misremembered death to the supposed Sinbad genie movie Shazaam. The episode examines suggestion, confabulation, repeated misquotations, and the ways shared stories reshape recall. It also considers alternate-timeline and simulation theories as speculation. Compare examples and the psychology behind them, then see how much confidence you place in your own memory.

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46 min
July 20, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | 4 Gripping Horror Stories of Traps, Twists, and Murder
Two radio typists working late discover that a horror script can make the office feel dangerously unfamiliar. Murder in the Script Department joins Trapped, The Trap, and Escape to Danger in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. The lineup brings confinement, desperate choices, crime, and uncanny suspense into more than two hours of vintage radio drama. Arch Oboler's Lights Out tale turns the machinery of radio itself into a source of fear, with the people behind the story caught in its atmosphere. Listen as plans for safety begin to look like another way of getting cornered.

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2 hr 14 min
July 18, 2025 Portals: A Summer of Terror Across Time and Space
Six unlikely allies cross into an alternate Earth overrun by vampires. A mutant spider girl, a Master Vampire, a genius, two girls with extraordinary powers, and a boy with a bicycle must work together before the catastrophe spreads. Portals by Rob Fields gathers the Strickfield summer miniseries into one science-fiction horror adventure spanning parallel worlds. Their own Earth is at stake, along with others across the multiverse, and survival depends on becoming a team. Enter a vampire apocalypse where finding a way home may be only the beginning of the fight.

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2 hr 11 min
July 16, 2025 Deadly Second Chances Part 3 — Calvin Mirren, Organ Theft and Redemption
Calvin Mirren remembers the women who drugged him and stole his kidneys. Hellweaver sends him back to before he first meets Katherine Pierce, when he still has a chance to avoid harming her, Rayleen Jones, and Belinda James. Deadly Second Chances Part 3 by Rob Fields turns a Strickfield organ-theft revenge tale into a test of redemption. Calvin knows where his old choices lead. Can he stop treating people as disposable, or will fear of his future send him down another violent path? Continue the five-part dark-fantasy serial as a ruthless Mirren receives a chance to choose differently.

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55 min
July 15, 2025 Calvin Mirren and Hellweaver: Sin, Seduction, and the End of the Multiverse
Three women plan a Halloween reckoning for Calvin Mirren, while a disciple of Hellweaver prepares for a very different transformation. This Rob Fields triple feature gathers The Halloween Heist, Sin, and Last Stand, connecting Strickfield revenge horror to a battle for the multiverse. Meet the privileged predator, the goddess's devoted advocate, and the Battleguard who oppose her cosmic ambitions. Their stories provide the background for Deadly Second Chances Part 3. Before Calvin gets another chance at life, hear why Hellweaver has a stake in the soul of a Mirren.

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1 hr 37 min
July 14, 2025 Terrifying & True | The Changeling Legend — Fairy Folklore and Real-Life Horror
What happens when a family decides a loved one has been replaced by a fairy? Terrifying & True explores changeling folklore across Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the Germanic world, then follows its human cost in the 1895 murder of Bridget Cleary. Illness and unfamiliar behavior could inspire stories of stolen children or uncanny substitutes—and cruel attempts to bring the supposed original back. This episode examines protective rituals, persecution, and the point where belief became abuse. Hear how a supernatural explanation for change could turn a vulnerable person into a target.

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1 hr 7 min
July 13, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | Tales of the Macabre: 4 Horror Stories of Madness, Mystery, and Poe
A passenger's closely guarded box makes an ocean voyage feel sinister. Edgar Allan Poe's The Oblong Box joins Beyond Reason, The Derelict, and Portrait of the Past in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. These vintage radio dramas move through obsession, uncertainty, and maritime mystery, giving listeners more than two and a half hours of suspense. Poe's tale places an inquisitive traveler beside a secret he cannot leave alone. Board the steamer, follow the questions, and listen for the moment when curiosity becomes something more dangerous than the unanswered mystery.

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2 hr 39 min
July 11, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998): Island-Resort Slasher
A storm traps Julie James and her friends at an island resort with the hook-handed Fisherman. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), from its creepy church opening to Jeffrey Combs' resort manager and the sequel's outrageous reveal. Danny Cannon directs Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brandy in this Bahamas-set slasher. The hosts discuss why isolated vacation horror works, share Fourth of July mishaps, and revisit their hopes for the then-upcoming legacy sequel. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: http://doyouevenmovie.com/

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1 hr 55 min
July 09, 2025 Deadly Second Chances Part 2 - Revenge, Romance, and Resurrection
Jensen Mirren remembers the obsession that ended her life. Hellweaver sends her back with a chance to avoid Zach Jenner, the love triangle, and the deadly snakes—but escaping her past may demand more than staying away. Deadly Second Chances Part 2 by Rob Fields continues the five-part Strickfield saga of revenge and redemption. A wealthy young woman who once wanted control must decide what she can change when the future is already in her memory. Follow Jensen's bargain as desire threatens another chance at freedom. Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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55 min
July 08, 2025 The Making of Jensen Mirren: Obsession, Blood, and the Devil You Love
Zach Jenner is caught between Jensen Mirren and Silvia Charmer, with jealousy, control, and a sinister urban legend closing in. People Can Lick Too and Silvia, both by Rob Fields, reveal the relationships behind Jensen's role in Deadly Second Chances Part 2. This Strickfield double feature mixes intimate betrayal with snake horror and the fear that someone knows your private life far too well. Hear Jensen's history before her chance to rewrite it, and follow a love triangle in which choosing a partner offers no guarantee of safety. Obsession has more than one face here.

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47 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…