A young woman rebuilds the same sandcastle every day on the beach where her two-year-old brother drowned ten years earlier.

Jeremy Denham is a retired teacher and recent widower who turns to birdwatching after losing his wife. At an island sanctuary, he meets Maureen Hart building an elaborate castle with turrets, battlements, and a moat. She returns to the same place day after day but never adds a flag. Her ritual intrigues both Jeremy and Ralph Poole, the sanctuary’s poet caretaker.

Maureen’s mother has tried to bury the family’s past. Her little son Kenny drowned in shallow water while Maureen stepped away from their sandcastle, and her husband disappeared from the family soon afterward. The mother and daughter never truly mourned together. A discussion of young shearwaters abandoned before migration, followed by a night of watching birds cross the full moon, begins to expose the loss Maureen has repeated without being able to name.

Written by Elspeth Eric, “The Sand Castle” is a melancholy psychological drama about childhood guilt, bereavement, memory, and the rituals people create when grief remains unfinished. The beach, migrating birds, vanished father, and castle erased by the tide give the story an uncanny atmosphere without losing sight of its human wound.

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Five journeys into the 1880s combine the Ashland Massacre, Calamity Jane battling Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, and an undead gunslinger.

The opening nonfiction account examines Kentucky’s 1881 Ashland Tragedy: the murders of children Fanny and Robert Gibbons and Emma Thomas, the prosecution of George Ellis, Ellis Craft, and William Neal, and the mob violence and disputed evidence that followed. The episode treats the case as a historical crime with contested guilt, not a solved legend.

John Oak Dalton’s two-part “Calamity Jane vs. Dracula” brings Martha Jane Cannary, Colorado Charlie Utter, Wild Bill Hickok’s grave, the Gem saloon, and a coffin-hauling servant into a vampire invasion of Deadwood. In the conclusion, a Chinese blacksmith’s jiangshi lore, the gambler known as Whisky Tom, and weapons forged for the living dead turn frontier gunplay into a supernatural Western showdown.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” follows a narrator obsessed with the celebrated Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith and the mechanical truth hidden beneath his commanding appearance. Dan Wilder’s “Satan’s Shotgun” rides into New Year’s Eve 1899 as a murdered farmer rises with a cursed weapon to hunt Gideon Pharaoh and his occult Zodiac Death Gang. Together, the five segments cross true crime, vampire horror, Gothic satire, weird Western action, and resurrection revenge.

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Bullied teenager Richie Horton receives a mysterious diary that makes whatever he writes come true—but every fulfilled wish arrives warped and dangerous.

The journal from Tinker’s first seems like a private place for Richie to imagine a better life without school bully Irving “Bull” Hitzigger. Then his hopes begin reshaping reality. Bailey Downs becomes violently obsessed with him, people around Richie change without understanding why, and an ordinary teenage fantasy escalates toward a knife attack. The diary cannot simply be torn up or thrown away, leaving Richie to search for another way to stop the story he started.

Rob Fields’ cursed-object horror tale combines high-school bullying, wish fulfillment, obsession, and a journal that rewrites the lives around its owner. Even after Richie floods the pages with ink and events appear to reset, one person still remembers what happened—and the diary is not as lost as he believes.

“Horton’s New Diary” by Rob Fields.

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Horton’s New Diary builds its tension through folklore, ritual, and cursed traditions, and teen and school-set horror, letting the characters’ decisions push the danger from an identifiable setup toward a final turn best left unspoiled.

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Two Houston-area women named Mary Morris were murdered four days apart in October 2000, creating a true-crime mystery built around coincidence, possible mistaken identity, and two families without answers.

Mary Lou Morris, a 48-year-old bank employee, disappeared on her way to work. Her burned vehicle and remains were found near her home, while her purse and wedding ring were missing. Investigators could establish little about how she was killed or why someone with no known enemies would be targeted.

Then Mary McGinnis Morris, a 39-year-old nurse practitioner, was found dead in her car after reporting that someone appeared to be following her. Her death raised questions about conflict at work, strain within her marriage, a missing wedding ring, a gun placed in the vehicle for protection, and a disturbing phone call recorded near the time of the attack.

Terrifying & True examines the popular “hitman killed the wrong Mary” theory while making clear that it has never been proved. Police have said the homicides may be unrelated, and suspicion directed at Mary McGinnis Morris’s husband or coworker did not lead to charges. The episode follows the phone-card mystery, the anonymous calls, and the gaps that keep both cases unresolved—two victims whose shared name may be the key, or only a haunting coincidence.

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Mary Astor stars as Lucia, whose nightmares and jealousy convince her that husband Gilbert and half-sister Beverly are planning her murder.

Inside a mansion above the sea, Lucia sees a shadowy figure approaching her bed with hands extended toward her throat. Gilbert’s growing closeness to Beverly makes the vision feel like a warning. Then he brings Lucia a bitter tonic containing strychnine, dismisses the housekeeper until Friday, and insists that his frightened wife take another dose.

When the housekeeper secretly returns, Lucia is gone and the bed is covered in blood. Police suspicion settles on Gilbert and Beverly, especially after arsenic is discovered in the medicine. Yet without a body, the authorities cannot bring a murder charge. Weeks later, the accused pair discuss leaving the country—and Lucia’s fears, evidence, and hidden intentions begin to take a different shape.

Written by J. Donald Wilson, “In Fear and Trembling” uses Gothic atmosphere and noir psychology to explore jealousy, premonition, a missing body, and the dangerous gap between evidence and belief. Mary Astor’s performance keeps Lucia’s terror and judgment at the center.

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Ten ghost stories gather haunted lakes, cemeteries, cursed homes, sinister screens, urban legends, and restless spirits in a long marathon.

Featured tales include “The Spirit of Langley Pond,” “Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s,” “Ghost in the Graveyard,” “Ghost Story,” “Suffer the Little Children,” “Ghosts in the Machine,” “Homecoming,” “Cry Baby Bridge,” and “Ophiuchus.” Settle in for nearly four hours of apparitions, digital hauntings, demonic houses, and local legends.

Stories by Charles Campbell, L. F. Falconer, Rob Fields, Shane Migliavacca, Joe Solmo, Dan Wilder, and other Weekly Spooky contributors.

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Sarah and Keith buy a one-dollar ceramic bowl at a yard sale and bring the ghost of missing artist Sylvester Helm into their apartment.

Their Sunday hunt for a vacuum cleaner produces only an uneven piece of “punk-rock pottery” stamped with the name Sylvester. At first the bowl merely shifts when nobody is watching. Then it appears in rooms where the couple did not leave it, a human shape rises beneath their bedcovers, and a cold, translucent man touches Sarah while she sleeps.

Online research identifies the maker as Sylvester Leroy Helm, a respected painter and ceramicist presumed dead after disappearing in 2010. His occult book collection vanished with him, and the ghost resembles his photograph. Locking the bowl in a freezer, smashing it, and disposing of it cannot guarantee that either the object or its owner will stay gone. The bargain has attached itself to the household, and the couple must find a way to transfer it without becoming the next haunted sellers.

Bruce Haney’s “Thrifting Fail” is paranormal domestic horror about garage-sale finds, a haunted object, secondhand ownership, and an artist whose unfinished history follows his work. The story’s ceramic bowl and Sylvester Helm now lead the metadata for listeners searching for haunted antiques, cursed thrift-store objects, and ghost stories set inside an ordinary apartment. Story by Bruce Haney.

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Abandoned asylums, ghostly lovers, and the legend of the vanishing hitchhiker lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation.

Vanishing-hitchhiker stories attach a fleeting passenger to a road, a death, and a driver who learns the truth too late. The ghostly love triangle gives haunting an intimate motive, while an abandoned asylum supplies a location where reputation and evidence blur. The nose-bug story brings the episode back to a more physical and immediate form of unease.

Rather than forcing these subjects into one explanation, Henrique and Michelle follow the details that make each memorable. The roundup is for listeners seeking vanishing hitchhiker legends, roadside ghosts, haunted asylums, supernatural romance, medical oddities, and a Monthly Spooky conversation that can move from folklore to body horror without losing its sense of curiosity.

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Reporter Fred Peterson meets Hedy Parsons after her husband vanishes from a snowbound car—and returns insisting he was never there at all.

Hedy says Tom stepped out at a traffic light to clear snow from the rear window. A police officer finds no trace of him, and Fred senses a story in the frightened woman’s impossible account. When Tom reappears, he claims he spent the evening at home and warns the reporter to stay away from his wife.

The mystery deepens as Tom describes an earlier husband who also disappeared during a trip, then died after another man rushed to Hedy’s rescue. He believes Hedy is a witch who falls in love, drains a man’s ability to love, and uses her next protector to destroy him. Hedy offers a more rational explanation: guilt and obsession have made Tom dangerously unstable. Fred must decide whom to believe as attraction, a newly purchased revolver, and three explicit warnings close around him.

Written by Sam Dann and starring Joan Loring, “I Warn You Three Times” combines winter mystery, witchcraft, romantic manipulation, and murder in a modern CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama.

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A solar eclipse briefly makes vampire Bella Taibon almost human—just as two magically transformed enemies arrive to destroy her.

Eileen “Einny” Donnerly finds Bella waiting above Strickfield, determined to experience the rare darkness that suppresses her undead strength, speed, and healing. Bella never wanted immortality and treasures the eclipse as a short chance to feel mortal again. For once she can watch the shadowed sun without supernatural power separating her from the life she lost.

The moment also creates the perfect opportunity for Alissa and Allie Mirren. The identical witch twins used Olde Bloodstone to complete their transformation into vampires after Bella defeated their cheerleading coven. They now possess magic, claws, speed, and a grievance—while Bella has only her combat training and Eileen’s help. The eclipse that promised freedom becomes a countdown until sunlight returns her abilities, if the sisters allow her to survive that long.

Rob Fields’s “Mortal Eclipse” is a Strickfield vampire story about unwanted immortality, witchcraft, celestial vulnerability, friendship, and revenge. Bella Taibon and the Bloodstone twins now lead the metadata so returning listeners can connect the episode to their larger supernatural conflict while new listeners can find its solar-eclipse horror premise. Story by Rob Fields.

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