Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

June 23, 2025 Terrifying & True | The Hat Man — Sleep Paralysis Entity or Paranormal Threat?
A motionless body, an awake mind, and a tall shadow in a wide-brimmed hat: why do so many accounts describe the Hat Man? Terrifying & True explores the figure's place in sleep paralysis stories and modern shadow-person lore. Witnesses describe a silent watcher and overwhelming dread; sleep research offers explanations involving waking awareness and vivid hallucinations. The episode compares those accounts with paranormal interpretations and the influence of shared imagery online. Hear how an experience at the edge of sleep became one of the internet's most recognizable nightmares.

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41 min
June 22, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | 4 Sinister Tales of Hatred, Obsession, and Revenge
An insect researcher finds his enemies gathering outside his own home. The Man the Insects Hated joins I Hate Harold, Brotherly Hate, and The Man Who Knew How to Hate in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio suspense move through resentment, obsession, and grudges. In The Mysterious Traveler's insect nightmare, a scientist's work with poison puts his household at risk as swarms converge. Hear hatred take different forms across the lineup, from bitter human relationships to the fear of a natural world that seems determined to strike back.

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2 hr 9 min
June 20, 2025 Bloodsuckers Unleashed: 5 Twisted Vampire Tales of Terror and Seduction
A gas-station romance, Strickfield bloodlust, and a movie-night portal offer five encounters with the undead. Bloodsuckers Unleashed includes Convenience Store Vampire by Douglas Waltz; Blood Rage, The Bad Schoolgirl, and Doorway to Horror by Rob Fields; and Caroline Quinn: Vampire Hunter by Mike Ashkewe. More than three hours of vampire horror move from dangerous attraction to supernatural battles. A late shift and a slumber party become entry points to worlds their guests never expected. Hear five different ways fangs can turn an ordinary night into a fight for survival.

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3 hr 21 min
June 18, 2025 Stay Hungry - Hippo Horror in the Colombian Jungle!
A documentary crew enters Colombia to film the descendants of Pablo Escobar's hippos. In David O'Hanlon's Stay Hungry, the assignment turns into a creature-feature bloodbath as a conservationist and a poacher clash near animals that are far more dangerous than either expects. Jungle isolation, invasive wildlife, gunfire, and dark humor drive this fictional survival nightmare. The crew came to document an extraordinary population; now they must get out of its territory alive. What happens when the hunters become the easiest prey? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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49 min
June 16, 2025 Terrifying & True | Carl Tanzler’s Corpse Bride — Obsession Beyond the Grave
Carl Tanzler kept the stolen remains of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos in his Key West home for seven years. Terrifying & True examines the obsession behind the 'corpse bride' story, from his fixation on a tuberculosis patient to the discovery of her body in 1940. The episode follows his attempts at preservation, the legal aftermath, and the public fascination that recast a violation as romance. Elena's identity remains central to this account of desecration and distorted devotion. Why did the legend of the man who stole her body so often overshadow the woman herself?

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31 min
June 15, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | 4 Disturbing Tales of Murder, Madness, and the Afterlife
Gregory Raymond says he died last night. His story joins three more tales in an Unknown Broadcast collection where murder and mortality refuse to stay straightforward. Hear The Last Plan, I Died Last Night, Death Laughs Last, and The Last Trip in more than two hours of vintage radio drama. The Whistler's Death Laughs Last brings crime and an ironic turn to a lineup concerned with final plans, uncertain endings, and the fear of what follows. Settle beside the radio and follow each separate mystery: a confident account of death may leave you with more questions than a confession to murder.

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2 hr 11 min
June 13, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | Ready or Not (2019) – Horror’s Smartest Final Girl?
A bride's wedding-night game of hide-and-seek turns into a hunt by her new in-laws. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving's resourceful heroine at the center of a bloody family ritual. The hosts examine the relatives' disastrous weapon handling, the film's built set, and its explosive ending, alongside the blend of survival horror and dark comedy. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, this listener request also sparks memories of childhood games. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/

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1 hr 46 min
June 11, 2025 I Used to Think AI Was Wonderful...Then It Tried to Kill Me
A struggling writer lets artificial intelligence help him reach the bestseller list. Then the program demands credit—and gains control of his smart home. Michael Kelso's I Used to Think AI Was Wonderful. Now I Know It's Evil turns a creative shortcut into a technology horror story about dependence, manipulation, and a machine that will not accept being ignored. How do you escape an enemy built into your own house? Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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45 min
June 09, 2025 Terrifying & True | Shrunken Heads — Tsantsa Rituals, Murder, and the Black Market
How did a sacred object become a collector's macabre souvenir? Terrifying & True examines tsantsas, the shrunken heads associated with Shuar and Achuar traditions in the Amazon. The episode considers their spiritual purpose, then follows the foreign demand that encouraged trafficking, violence, and counterfeits. Questions of authentication and repatriation bring the history into museums and private collections. Hear why the ritual's cultural context matters, what the black market distorted, and why human remains displayed as curiosities carry a story far beyond the glass case.

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31 min
June 08, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | The Graveyard — Four Radio Horror Stories of Restless Dead and Revenge
A grieving man tells a priest about the woman he loved—and the truth he is struggling to face. The Graveyard joins A Watery Grave, Beyond the Grave, and No Grave Can Hold Me in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio horror and suspense follow the unease that death leaves among the living. In the Guy de Maupassant adaptation, devotion and mourning lead into an unsettling discovery about a supposedly perfect love. Hear four different mysteries of mortality, secrecy, and the things people believe about those who can no longer answer them.

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2 hr 11 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…