Anonymous letters from “The Watcher” turned 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey, from a family’s dream home into an unsolved stalking mystery.

Derek and Maria Broaddus purchased the house in 2014 and began renovations before moving in with their three children. Within days, a typewritten letter arrived from someone claiming a generational duty to watch the property. Later messages referred to the children, vehicles, movements around the home, and details that convinced the family they were under close surveillance.

Terrifying & True follows the police investigation, neighborhood suspects, handwriting analysis, private investigators, and DNA recovered from an envelope. The genetic material suggested a female contributor but did not match people who voluntarily supplied samples. The episode also examines the Broadduses’ lawsuit against the previous owners, public accusations that the family staged the letters, and why the financial and emotional damage made a hoax difficult to explain.

The Broadduses never moved into 657 Boulevard and eventually sold it at a significant loss. No publicly identified suspect was charged, and the letters became the basis for magazine coverage and a heavily dramatized Netflix series. Stripped of television inventions, the core mystery remains unsettling: someone knew intimate details about the family and the house, but the identity and motive of The Watcher were never established.

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A relentless heat wave and a public-beach feud push George Pettit past the breaking point after years of criticism from his wife Myra.

Myra insists on renting a beach cottage, then tries to claim the public sand in front of it as private property. She orders George to post no-trespassing signs, arrange chairs as a barrier, and drive away a young couple who settle nearby. When they refuse to move, Myra uses an old phonograph record as sonic harassment; the visitors return with music of their own.

A judge explains that the property ends at the retaining wall and warns both sides to behave. Myra treats the ruling as another humiliation caused by George’s weakness. Her complaints continue through the drive home and into the next morning, when the beachgoers return. George finally takes a gun outside, determined to solve the problem in the most permanent way possible.

Written by Joseph Cochran and starring Betty Garde and Walter Kinsella, “At the Point of the Needle” is a pressure-cooker domestic crime drama about heat, resentment, entitlement, and a worn phonograph needle that becomes a metaphor for a marriage scratched raw. This replaces the prior misleading suggestion that a small pointed object is the murder weapon.

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Six Strickfield heroes are pulled into an alternate Earth ruled by vampires and must destroy the nuclear-powered portals being used to harvest humans across the multiverse.

This complete five-part saga brings together Arial Mirren, Madelyne and Eileen Donnerly, Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren, and Carter Cross. Their powers and secrets collide after a supernatural tornado carries them through a doorway into endless night: Bella is a daylight-walking Master Vampire, Felicia can become a giant mutant spider, Madelyne channels the white witch Mary Worth, Eileen builds weapons, and Arial discovers that Queen Arcadia left supernatural power behind.

Mayor Patrick Gunter’s vampire army controls the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant, where forbidden Mirren magic and stolen technology open portals into other realities. To stop entire worlds from becoming feeding grounds, the team must survive vampire doubles, giant bats, power-draining cells, and a reactor countdown. “Portals” is a feature-length Strickfield universe adventure mixing vampire apocalypse horror, dark urban fantasy, superhero action, witchcraft, and alternate-world science fiction.

“Portals” by Rob Fields.

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Portals uses vampire horror as parts of one unfolding threat, preserving the suspense around who survives and what the characters ultimately discover.

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Arial Mirren faces the vampire double who helped condemn an alternate Earth while her friends race to destroy the portal machine and its nuclear power source.

The final chapter reveals the personal betrayal behind the apocalypse and forces Arial to decide what kind of Mirren she will become. Outside, Felicia battles toward the reactor controls, Bella keeps Mayor Gunter occupied, Eileen repairs the portal home, Madelyne channels Mary Worth, and Carter refuses to abandon the person he loves. Every part of the plan must work before the damaged reactor reaches zero.

Part five completes Rob Fields’ supernatural Strickfield crossover with vampire doubles, giant bats and wolves, mutant-spider combat, witchcraft, BMX action, and a multiverse at stake. The survivors may be able to escape through one final doorway, but Arial believes only a sacrifice inside the dying plant can ensure that vampire Earth never opens another portal.

“Portals Part 5” by Rob Fields.

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Talking dolls, alleged demon voices, mysterious rat holes, ancient waste, and the terror of sleep paralysis enter the Monthly Spooky crypt.

Henrique Couto and Michelle move from strange-news oddities into a deeper discussion of waking immobility, sensed presences, and why sleep paralysis has inspired supernatural explanations across cultures.

A doll that appears to speak and a recording presented as a demon voice make sound the evidence under debate. Mysterious rat holes and ancient waste add archaeological and urban oddities before the episode reaches sleep paralysis, an experience in which a waking person may be unable to move while sensing a presence in the room.

The deeper discussion considers why that combination of bodily immobility, dream imagery, fear, and apparent wakefulness has generated stories of demons, shadow people, night hags, and supernatural attack across cultures. This Monthly Spooky episode is therefore useful to listeners searching for talking dolls, alleged EVP or demon recordings, sleep paralysis entities, sensed presences, and the folklore built around frightening sleep experiences.

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Claire Collins refuses to sleep because a recurring nightmare forces her to face the child she murdered—and this time she may not wake up.

After six days of insomnia, Claire’s husband Charles sends her to a doctor. She admits that she fears one specific dream but will not explain why. Whenever exhaustion wins, Claire walks an endless street into a house where a boy asks, “Where’s my father?” She gives him a drink to silence him, then flees through a tunnel toward a black river while something follows.

Claire is Charles’s second wife. She resented his son Jimmy because the child reminded her that Charles had loved someone before her. The dream repeats the poisoned drink and the guilt she refuses to confess. A physician prescribes only two sedative tablets, but Claire takes the entire supply in her desperation for sleep. The familiar nightmare then reaches the point where she has always awakened.

Arch Oboler’s “The Dream” is a psychological Lights Out story about insomnia, jealousy, child murder, overdose, and the terror of consciousness trapped inside its own punishment. This recovered transcript supplies the factual context the previous vague description omitted.

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Monster Man (2003) is the focus of this Do You Even Movie? discussion, with Henrique Couto and David Denoyer exploring the film’s story, cast, production, and horror legacy.

"I'm a corpse burrito!" Our Summer Favorites Month races on with a slice of early 2000s Straight to Video Horror as we join Henrique and David in Santa Clarita, California this week. Two friends and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck in 2003's "MONSTER MAN" !

Directed by Michael Davis and starring Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, and Michael Bailey Smith. Hear your hosts gush about their love for this early "extreme" horror entry in the days of straight to video releases, how often this used to play Showtime back in the day, the incredible & frankly insane stunts in the film, plus personal stories of road trips, and more!

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The captives escape their power-draining cells and turn the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant into a battlefield against Mayor Gunter’s vampire army.

Arial Mirren discovers she still carries Queen Arcadia’s fire, light, and electrical powers, while Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren, the twin Donnerly cousins, and Carter Cross fight to reach the portal controls. Their first strike damages the machine but cannot stop the vampires for long. Outnumbered and exhausted, the group must decide whether destroying the reactor itself is the only way to prevent Gunter from harvesting innocent people across the multiverse.

Part four drives the five-part saga toward its last stand. Mary Worth prepares a spell to move surviving mortals beyond the potential blast, Madelyne and Eileen weaponize a battered car and sunlight gauntlets, and Carter takes his BMX skills into the fight. Then another giant bat carries Arial away from the team and into a confrontation with her mother—and the hidden partner who helped create vampire Earth.

“Portals Part 4” by Rob Fields.

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Sleep paralysis can leave a person awake but unable to move while a shadowy presence appears beside the bed or an invisible weight presses against the chest.

Terrifying & True explores the frightening overlap between waking consciousness and rapid-eye-movement sleep. During REM sleep, the brain temporarily suppresses most voluntary muscle movement. An episode can occur when awareness returns before that protection has fully lifted, producing seconds or minutes of immobility, fear, and dreamlike hallucinations.

The episode follows recurring accounts of footsteps, whispered voices, shadow people, intruders, pressure on the body, false awakenings, and the figure often called the “Old Hag.” Similar experiences have been interpreted through different cultural traditions as demons, witches, spirits, or nocturnal attackers. The consistency of those stories is compelling, but it does not require a supernatural cause: visual, auditory, and tactile dream imagery can intrude into an otherwise familiar bedroom.

Sleep paralysis is usually harmless, though disrupted sleep, insomnia, irregular schedules, stress, and narcolepsy can be associated with episodes. A stable sleep routine may reduce recurrence, and frequent events that cause anxiety or daytime exhaustion are worth discussing with a medical professional. This episode keeps the folklore intact while explaining why a waking nightmare can feel completely real.

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A condemned gangster promises to kill the friend who betrayed him within one month of his execution—and keeps the deadline from beyond the grave.

Johnny Promo, known as Johnny Promise, dies in the electric chair for murdering Officer Cochran after a failed bank robbery. In court he swears that prosecution witness Sam Rogers will have no more than a month to live. Johnny has money, loyal associates, and a reputation for never breaking his word, so Sam hides on the ninth floor of a cheap hotel and trusts only Linda.

Every ordinary encounter becomes a possible assassination: a barber’s razor, a hot towel, a locksmith asking about duplicate keys, footsteps outside the room. Sam changes the locks and watches the calendar until September 28, determined to remain behind the door until 5 a.m. passes. Then clocks outside the hotel show a different hour, and he remembers that daylight-saving time ended during the night.

“Deadline for Death” is a CBS Radio Mystery Theater crime story about paranoia, betrayal, time, and supernatural revenge. A courtroom curse, electric-chair execution, locked hotel room, and fatal one-hour error drive Sam toward a deadline that may be psychological, criminal, or enforced by the dead themselves.

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