Rodney Alcala appeared as a charming bachelor on national television while concealing a history of sexual violence and murder that stretched across years.

On September 13, 1978, Alcala won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw on The Dating Game. Bradshaw declined to go out with him after the taping because his behavior made her uneasy. The show had not uncovered his criminal record, including the brutal attack on eight-year-old Tali Shapiro and an earlier place on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Terrifying & True traces how Alcala repeatedly changed names and locations, used photography to approach young women, and evaded lasting confinement before the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. Later investigations connected him to the deaths of Cornelia Crilley, Ellen Hover, Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb, and other victims in California and New York.

The episode follows overturned convictions, retrials, DNA evidence, and the cache of photographs recovered from Alcala. Police released many images hoping the unidentified women and girls could be found, leaving open the possibility of additional victims. Alcala died of natural causes on California’s death row in 2021, but the unanswered identities in those photographs keep the investigation’s human cost from ending with him.

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Danny murders the blind uncle who controls his inheritance, but the unmistakable tap of a cane continues after the body is buried.

His uncle’s authority stands between Danny and the money—and between Danny and the woman he wants. Greed and forbidden love make murder seem like a clean solution. Because the victim cannot see his attacker, Danny believes he can arrange the death, remove suspicion, and step into the future he has been denied.

Then the house begins to reproduce the dead man’s habits. A cane approaches through the darkness with the same measured rhythm Danny knew in life. Each tap revives the crime and makes it harder to distinguish supernatural vengeance from a guilty mind breaking under pressure. The murderer who relied on blindness finds himself terrified by a presence he can hear but cannot safely confront.

“The Dead Walk at Night” is an Inner Sanctum mystery about inheritance, betrayal, murder, and auditory haunting. Its blind uncle, familiar cane, hidden romance, and nighttime footsteps turn a carefully planned killing into a suspense story where the dead announce their return before they are seen.

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The Raven (1963) 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.

"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!" We have reached the end of our ROGER CORMAN Tribute Month but we are going out in a blaze of glory....or a blaze in a Castle! This week, join Henrique and David as they're traveling back to 1506 to join Erasmus Craven, a magician mourning the loss of his wife, whose visited by a fellow magician whose been turned into a raven by an evil Sorcerer. Together, the two join forces to defeat the evil Sorcerer in 1963's "THE RAVEN" !

Directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karlof, as well as an early appearance by Jack Nicholson. Hear the hosts talk about what makes this wildest and most action packed of AIP Poe Films, the story of Corman's other film shot on the set of THE RAVEN entitled THE TERROR, what was our hosts first run with the works of Edgar Allen Poe, plus Henrique & David give a rundown of Honorable Mentions for Corman Films to seek out, and more!

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Brenda receives her missing uncle’s manuscript about Fool’s Hill, an Oregon legend connecting witches, disappearances, and bodies found in the woods.

Folklore writer R. H. Thurston—known to family as Randy—traces the mystery to a 1919 newspaper item about William Ivanhoe’s claim that he saw witches near Locust Grove. Later reports mention stolen crops, strange carvings, a mutilated body, and other locals who vanished around the same patch of forest. A research trip brings Randy to a saloon, an abandoned property, and Bob Smith, a man whose daughter Gracie disappeared years earlier.

The deeper Randy follows the documents, the more the legend resists a supernatural explanation without becoming any less horrifying. Someone destroys his tires. Screams travel through the trees. Modern disappearances begin to resemble the century-old accounts, and the phrase “the wrong side of Fool’s Hill” becomes both a warning and a real place from which curious people may not return.

Bruce Haney’s “Fool’s Hill” is presented through forum posts, a missing author’s document, old newspaper evidence, and Brenda’s final investigation. It blends Pacific Northwest folklore, folk horror, feral cannibals, missing-person mystery, and the possibility that one survivor is still rebuilding the legend in the Oregon woods. Story by Bruce Haney.

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Abandoned hospitals, hero rats, ghostly visitors and false memories lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation.

Abandoned hospitals carry the memory of illness, confinement, and institutional history, making them powerful settings for reported hauntings. Imaginary friends and ghostly visitors raise a different question about unseen companions, while false memories challenge confidence in the mind’s own record. Hero rats provide a surprising real-world counterpoint to the darker material.

The episode does not force a single explanation across psychology, folklore, and strange news. Instead, Monthly Spooky lets the hosts react to each subject and follow the discomfort it creates. Listeners interested in haunted hospitals, childhood imaginary friends, apparition stories, memory distortion, the Mandela-effect-adjacent fear of remembering wrong, and remarkable animal behavior will find a clearly varied roundup.

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Fugitive Wally Pindell picks up a hitchhiker bound for Missoula, then a raging forest fire traps them with a ranger, trooper, and makeshift crew.

Wally is already afraid of the woods when he emerges from a failed hunt and sees a red glow circling the mountain road. He gives Jan a ride toward her new job, but authorities stop the car and press every available person into the fire response. The road is cut off, the wind has shifted, and flames on three sides leave only a dangerous route toward a distant firebreak.

As the group crosses the burning forest, Wally tells Jan why he is running. A former friend framed him for a fatal crash, costing him five years, his marriage, and his life before prison. Wally later killed the man and fled. State trooper Hanson overhears the confession, creating a second threat even as the crew loses men to exhaustion, injury, and the advancing blaze.

Written and directed by Anthony Ellis, “The Red Forest” stars William Conrad as Wally and Georgia Ellis as Jan. It combines wildfire survival, fugitive crime, roadside romance, and moral reckoning in a Montana-bound Escape adventure where confession may be the only path out.

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Slumber Party Massacre (1982) 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.

"Close your eyes for a second...and sleep forever!" The Roger Corman Tribute Month continues as this week we are traveling to 1980's California to join Henrique and David as they take you to a slumber party Trish is hosting while her parents away but a bloodbath soon unfolds as an escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood and crashes the party in 1982's "THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE" !

Directed by Amy Holden Jones and starring Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, plus the debut of Scream Queen, Brinke Stevens! Hear your hosts gush about what a genuine if not perfect slasher film this is, the personal physical media journeys of all 3 films, the incredible and crazy stories of production, plus a brief spoiler free review of "In A Violent Nature" !

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A killer returns to Strickfield every April Fools’ Day, giving survivor Ashley Gable and Detective Chantel Devereux one day to stop the annual murders.

Rob Field's Most Lengthy Strickfield Horror So Far!

For four years, April Fool’s Day has seen one person a year die in Strickfield. Then the murders start to affect the life of Ashley Gable when her boyfriend is murdered the fifth April Fool’s Day. A year later, Ashley’s younger sister is claimed by the killer. Ashley herself is stabbed fatally and left for dead only to survive. It’s the present and April Fool’s Day again.

This year, the April Fool’s Day killer has returned to Strickfield to find and finish Ashley. However, Detective Chantel Devereux is called in from the North Ridgeway Police Department for her reputation in solving the toughest cases. Chantel has only April Fool’s Day to solve the case of the April Fools Day Murders and save Ashley. Otherwise, the killer won’t be back until the following year on said day.

Will Chantel be able to crack one of Strickfield’s toughest cases and save Ashley?

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Trapped inside a warehouse where painted lines control reality, a night guard follows a trail of blood onto the forbidden black route—and walks into a monster ambush.

Part two resumes on the endless staircase created when the former fire-tower ranger broke one of his new job’s rules. A cryptic text returns him to the hallway, but the remaining patrols still must be completed before morning. Blood leads away from the approved colored paths, the doors lose their numbers, and a winged creature joins a smaller faceless thing in closing off every escape.

Michael Kelso’s strange-rules horror finale expands the night shift into a secret testing facility filled with doppelgängers, impossible rooms, frozen creatures, and a floor that becomes lava. The missing Mr. Larson may be an ally—or another trap—and surviving until the day staff arrives means deciding which rules protect the guards and which were designed to sacrifice them.

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Jinn are far older and more complex than the wish-granting genies of Western popular culture: unseen beings of Islamic tradition and pre-Islamic Arab folklore with moral choice of their own.

Terrifying & True explores descriptions of jinn as beings created from smokeless fire, distinct from humans and angels. In the Qur’an they are accountable for their decisions and may be good, harmful, faithful, rebellious, or indifferent. Earlier traditions linked them with wilderness, abandoned places, poetry, divination, and forces that existed just beyond ordinary perception.

The episode follows the transformation from jinn to the “genie” of bottles, lamps, and The Thousand and One Nights. Folklore gives them the ability to change shape, imitate voices, form relationships, seek revenge, or be contained through ritual and cunning. Those stories spread far beyond the Arabian Peninsula through North Africa, Turkey, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, taking on local forms without becoming one universal belief system.

Modern encounter accounts involving possession, sleep, unexplained voices, protective objects, and frightening figures are presented as personal testimony and folklore—not verified evidence that jinn caused illness or harm. The episode also considers how spiritual explanations can intersect with mental health and why cultural context matters. This is a respectful journey through theology, storytelling, fear, and the unseen world behind the word “genie.”

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