Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

May 20, 2024 Terrifying & True | Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? Hagley Wood’s Unidentified Woman
Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? In 1943, boys exploring Hagley Wood found a woman’s remains inside a hollow tree. Terrifying & True follows the investigation, the graffiti that gave the unidentified victim a name and the theories that grew around the discovery. Wartime espionage and witchcraft enter the story as speculation, while the physical evidence offers a more limited account of what happened. This British true-crime mystery asks how an unknown woman became a local legend without her identity being established. Who was she before the question on the wall? We're telling that story tonight.

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20 min
May 19, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | The Meteorman: A Meteorite Hatches a Hungry Alien in an Astronomer’s Home
A meteor shower gives astronomer Russell Adams a specimen he cannot resist bringing home. Inside the fallen stone, something soft and living begins to grow. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “The Meteorman,” a Lights Out science-fiction horror drama that turns a holiday with his wife Diane into an encounter with an alien intelligence. Scientific curiosity soon collides with a visitor whose needs are very different from theirs. More lights cross the sky while the first arrival learns about its hosts. What looks like a discovery may be the beginning of an invasion.

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27 min
May 17, 2024 The Lake by Edgar Allan Poe: Solitude, Terror & a Poisoned Gothic Eden
A lonely lake becomes a place of beauty and dread in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Lake.” Black rocks, tall pines and the change from daylight to darkness shape a speaker’s fascination with a landscape others might fear. This brief poetry reading explores solitude, mortality and the strange pleasure of terror, offering a quiet Gothic interlude rather than a conventional ghost story. The water seems to hold both menace and sanctuary. For listeners drawn to Poe’s dark Romantic imagery, the poem asks why a frightening place can sometimes feel more like home than the ordinary world.

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3 min
May 15, 2024 Bigfoot at the Coast: A Pacific Northwest Cryptid Encounter During a Bear Attack
A coastal camping trip turns into a nighttime rescue when a child disappears into the woods. In Bruce Haney’s “Bigfoot at the Coast,” Tom and his friend Arturo leave beachside routines behind as a bicycle ride leads toward a black bear—and something even larger. This Pacific Northwest cryptid story combines childhood friendship, camping nostalgia and the fear of being far from adult help. Bigfoot may be real, but knowing that does not tell the children what it wants. The next shape to step out of the trees could change the rescue entirely.

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30 min
May 13, 2024 Terrifying & True | Axeman of New Orleans: Unsolved Murders, the Jazz Letter & 1919 Panic
The Axeman attacks brought fear to New Orleans, and a letter signed with the killer’s name made jazz part of the legend. Terrifying & True follows the 1918–1919 violence, the people targeted and the investigations that failed to establish a definitive culprit. The episode examines the message promising safety to homes playing music, without assuming its author was the murderer. True crime, public panic and newspaper spectacle meet in a story where a city's soundtrack became part of its defense. Who was behind the attacks—and who was exploiting the fear? We're telling that story tonight.

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19 min
May 12, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | Typhoon — Joseph Conrad’s China Seas Survival Drama
Captain MacWhirr trusts his steamer more than the warnings of bad weather. Then the Nan-Shan enters a China Seas typhoon that puts every judgment to the test. Unknown Broadcast presents “Typhoon,” an Escape adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s maritime story, told through the eyes of chief mate Jukes. Passengers struggle below deck while the crew fights wind, water and failing order above. This vintage survival drama turns a captain’s apparent stubbornness into the central question: is his refusal to panic the thing that endangered them, or the thing that might bring them through?

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33 min
May 10, 2024 Never Bet the Devil Your Head — Edgar Allan Poe’s Supernatural Satire
Toby Dammit cannot resist a wager, even when his favorite expression puts his own head on the line. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” follows a boastful man toward a covered bridge, a mysterious stranger and a challenge that should have been declined. This complete reading mixes supernatural horror with grotesque comedy and a satire of stories expected to teach a moral lesson. Poe gives a casual turn of phrase an alarming literal possibility. For Toby, talking big has always come easily. Paying up may prove rather more difficult.

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28 min
May 08, 2024 First Date: Arial Mirren, Carter Cross & the Ghosts of Carnovasch Estate
A first date takes an unexpected turn when Arial Mirren and Carter Cross encounter a child ghost at Carnovasch Estate. In Rob Fields’s “First Date,” two longtime rivals explore a new attraction while an abandoned mansion pulls them into an older mystery. A family portrait and a sealed space beneath the house suggest the apparition wants more than company. This Strickfield ghost story combines teenage romance with haunted-house discovery, giving Arial and Carter something more unsettling than an awkward evening to face. Their relationship is changing, but the estate’s past has not been laid to rest.

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27 min
May 06, 2024 Terrifying & True | Poltergeist Curse: Heather O’Rourke, Dominique Dunne & the Film Tragedies
The “Poltergeist curse” grew around real tragedies affecting a famous horror franchise. Terrifying & True examines the deaths of Heather O’Rourke, Dominique Dunne, Julian Beck and Will Sampson, alongside the production stories that helped build the legend. The episode distinguishes documented circumstances from supernatural speculation, keeping the actors behind the screen characters in view. A haunted-house movie became the center of a different kind of ghost story told by its audience. Why do unrelated losses become so compelling when people arrange them into a curse? We're telling that story tonight.

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19 min
May 05, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | Knock at the Door: A Murdered Mother-in-Law Returns from the Basement Well
Ella wants a home of her own, but marriage means living under her mother-in-law’s control. Resentment leads her toward the well beneath the basement—and a crime that does not bring the freedom she expected. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “Knock at the Door,” a Lights Out story of jealousy, guilt and a sound that will not stay outside. The new household seems settled until someone starts knocking. This claustrophobic supernatural drama follows a woman who thought removing one person would solve everything, only to discover how difficult it can be to keep the dead out.

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29 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…