Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

April 18, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | CRAWL (2019) Alligators, Floods & Florida Terror!
A Florida hurricane traps a daughter and her injured father in a flooding house—with alligators inside. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Crawl (2019), Alexandre Aja's survival thriller starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper. The hosts examine the creature entrance, characters under pressure, the original opening, and whether this is Hard Rain with gators. Rising water and confined space give the April Showers selection its bite. Revisit the scares, family ties, and the choices that keep the danger moving. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/

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2 hr 13 min
April 16, 2025 Strike Out — A Father-Daughter Road Trip into Mountain Slasher Horror
Eleven-year-old Cali Jansen is on a baseball road trip with her father when two failed tires leave them near an isolated mountain house. A request for help turns the journey into a fight for her life. Strike Out by Morgan Moore sends a young Orioles fan into slasher horror, where a threatening stranger, a dangerous property, and the tools at hand leave little room for error. Cali wanted opening day and family time; now she must find her own way through a nightmare. Hear a road-trip survival story in which a child's knowledge of baseball may become her most unexpected advantage.

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36 min
April 14, 2025 Terrifying & True | Angela Hammond — Abducted During a Payphone Call
Angela Hammond describes a suspicious pickup while calling her fiancé from a payphone in Clinton, Missouri. Then he hears her scream. Terrifying & True follows the April 4, 1991, abduction, Rob Shafer's desperate pursuit, and the vehicle failure that ends the chase. The episode examines the truck description, witness account, search, and later leads, including an unproven mistaken-identity theory. A conversation full of detail becomes the starting point for decades of questions. Follow what was heard and seen that night, and the evidence separating known events from speculation.

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26 min
April 13, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | "An Ordinary Man" — Mediterranean Identity Thriller from Escape
A quiet county assessor takes a Mediterranean cruise and lets a stranger believe he is a gem importer. The small invention draws him into a much more dangerous story. Unknown Broadcast presents An Ordinary Man from Escape, a vintage radio thriller about identity, attraction, and a precious brooch. Hensel's encounter with Maria offers the adventure missing from his routine, but protecting her heirloom brings attention he never expected. What begins as a chance to be someone else becomes a test of whom he can trust. Can an ordinary man survive the role he has chosen to play?

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31 min
April 11, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | Return of the Living Dead (1985) - Brains, Punk, and Chaos!
Talking zombies want brains, the rain spreads disaster, and the punks have nowhere safe to go. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit The Return of the Living Dead (1985) for its 40th anniversary. Dan O'Bannon's horror comedy prompts a discussion of practical effects, cast chemistry, its connection to Romero's films, and its place in the series. Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Thom Matthews help turn one warehouse mistake into a Louisville nightmare. Full spoilers and a debate over what makes a great zombie movie. Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/3341...

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2 hr 25 min
April 09, 2025 When One Door Closes — Arial Mirren Faces a Vampire from Her Past
A vampire attacks a charity event inside Strickfield Towne Centre Mall, forcing Arial Mirren to use the powers she inherited from Queen Arcadia. The pursuit leads beneath the building and back into a family history she hoped to escape. When One Door Closes by Rob Fields follows the events of Portals with a supernatural clash over power, betrayal, and the possibility of another life. Arial has faced an alternate vampire Earth; a threat from her own past may be harder to confront. Continue her story as saving a child opens a much more personal struggle—and a new doorway between worlds.

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29 min
April 07, 2025 Terrifying & True | The Bennington Triangle — Five Unsolved Vermont Disappearances
Five disappearances around Vermont's Glastenbury Mountain became known as the Bennington Triangle. Terrifying & True follows Middie Rivers, Paula Welden, James Tedford, Paul Jepson, and Frieda Langer through cases spanning 1945–1950. It considers the searches, rugged terrain, and uncertainty behind the later stories of curses and a mountain monster. Langer's remains were recovered; the cases do not establish a shared cause. Hear how missing-person reports became a New England paranormal legend, and which questions belong to the record rather than the folklore that grew around it.

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35 min
April 06, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | Murder off the Record — Inner Sanctum Reno Noir Mystery
A fortune-telling weighing machine promises drifter Happy Dolan danger, money, and marriage in Reno. The promise soon feels less amusing as strangers take an interest in his future. Unknown Broadcast presents Murder off the Record from Inner Sanctum Mysteries, a vintage radio thriller mixing noir intrigue with dark humor. A record shop, a casino, a romance, and a threatening man pull Happy through a run of alarming encounters. He came to town hoping his luck would change. Listen as he tries to work out whether the next opportunity is a windfall—or another reason someone wants him gone.

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28 min
April 04, 2025 The Not So Great Outdoors — Chilling Tales of Survival, Secrets, and the Supernatural
The woods hide a stalker and giant fleas in five Weekly Spooky tales: Stalk by Mike Ashkewe; Bite Me by David O'Hanlon; and I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules, Camping Alone Can Be Terrifying, Especially When Something's Hunting You!, and We Were Hunted by Something Terrifying in the Woods by Michael Kelso. The Not So Great Outdoors offers over three and a half hours of horror, from a Canadian encounter to an Ozarks camping nightmare and a former ranger's dangerous new job. Follow the trail into creature territory, where a quiet getaway can become a hunt.

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3 hr 39 min
April 02, 2025 The Grave Robbers — Cemetery Treasure Hunters Awaken the Hungry Dead
Fritz knows a neglected grave that could make him rich. Wally follows him from the Ash Street Saloon, persuaded by a story of jewelry buried with a woman named Hazel. The Grave Robbers by Bruce Haney turns a cemetery theft into undead horror when the coffin holds something greed cannot account for. One man sees a fortune; the other begins to see every reason they should leave. Their friendship is tested against an appetite far older than their scheme. Hear a graveyard creature story in which the most dangerous thing about buried treasure is the owner who may still be keeping it.

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32 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…