Episodes
Aug. 19, 2024
Terrifying & True | Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield & the Crimes That Inspired Horror
Ed Gein’s Plainfield, Wisconsin, farmhouse concealed grave robbery, murder, and objects made from human remains—crimes that reshaped American horror fiction. Gein grew up under the control of his mother Augusta, whose extreme religious teachings portrayed women and sexuality as corrupt. After the deaths of his closest family members, he lived alone on the farm and began exhuming recently buried women. He removed bodies and used skin and bones to create masks, clothing, containers, and household...
Aug. 18, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | The Eye of Evil: Burmese Temple Bells, a Missing Explorer and a Deadly Cult
Stephen Loring searches Burma for a missing friend and follows temple bells into a jungle ruin ruled by a knife-wielding high priestess. Campbell’s last letter was posted from Mandalay, but local knowledge points Loring south toward Pugan and the ancient shrines his friend had been studying. Mung Ba, the devoted Burmese guide who worked for Campbell, arrives with a carefully repeated invitation to make the difficult river journey. The deeper Loring travels, the more warnings he hears about the ...
Aug. 16, 2024
Serial Killers Unleashed – Four Murder Stories of Revenge and Mayhem
Four terrifying stories of murderers on the loose. These are not supernatural killers or monsters lurking in the dark... These are your friends, your neighbors... your spouse... The four stories keep their killers human, which shifts the suspense toward proximity and recognition. A murderer can be a neighbor, partner, friend, or apparently ordinary stranger; motive, opportunity, revenge, and the ability to hide in daily life replace supernatural rules as the engine of fear. Presented as one ex...
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Aug. 14, 2024
Twenty-Two Minutes: A Ghostly Lumberjack & a Countdown to Survival
Laura has twenty-two minutes to survive a ghostly lumberjack with an axe inside an isolated Pacific Northwest ranger station. Her fiancé Allen is already dead, his proposal hike ended by a century-old apparition near the remains of an abandoned logging camp. Bear spray passed harmlessly through the attacker. Now Laura is injured, hiding in a supply trailer, and clinging to a 911 dispatcher’s estimate that an officer can reach her before the lumberjack does. Every blow against a tree sounds clo...
Aug. 12, 2024
Terrifying & True | Bermuda Triangle: Flight 19, USS Cyclops & the Facts Behind the Legend
The Bermuda Triangle is blamed for vanishing ships, lost aircraft, broken compasses, and supernatural forces—but its most famous cases have more earthly explanations than the legend suggests. Terrifying & True maps the region commonly drawn between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, then follows the disappearances that built its reputation. The USS Cyclops vanished in 1918 with more than 300 people aboard and no confirmed wreckage. In 1945, five Navy bombers known as Flight 19 became disoriented ...
Aug. 11, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | Strange Passenger: A Murdered Wife Haunts the Highway from New York to the West
Fleeing New York after murdering his wife, John Thompson picks up a hitchhiker who looks exactly like the woman he killed. John crosses the George Washington Bridge in a blue coupe, planning to leave his old life behind and start over in the West. A young woman named Anne waits beside the New Jersey highway. She calls him Johnny, requests “Stardust” on the radio, and awakens a memory he is desperate to suppress. When a struggle at the wheel causes a crash, John believes he has killed her—only f...
Aug. 9, 2024
Do You Even Movie? | I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997): Hook-Handed Summer Slasher
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) follows four friends stalked by a hook-wielding killer one year after they conceal a deadly seaside accident. "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?" Hopefully a new episode of Do You Even Movie is the answer to that question as we are wrapping up our Summer Favorites Month with the ultimate Summer horror that will get you hooked as we join Henrique and David in North Carolina this week! Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find the...
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Aug. 7, 2024
Camping Alone Can Be Terrifying, Especially When Something’s Hunting You!
A solo camper follows blood from an abandoned fire and discovers an antlered wilderness monster powerful enough to battle a bear—and determined to follow him home. Terrifying screams shatter the first night of a remote camping trip, but daylight makes the danger feel easier to dismiss. On the hike out, the narrator finds a severed human toe beside a carelessly burning fire, collides with a bloodstained bear, and sees the creature both animals fear: an eight-foot figure with deer antlers, a skul...
Aug. 5, 2024
Terrifying & True | The Watcher House: 657 Boulevard, Anonymous Letters & an Unsolved Stalker
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 u...
Aug. 4, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | At the Point of the Needle: Heat Wave, Beach Feud and a Marriage Pushed to Murder
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...
Aug. 2, 2024
Portals — The Complete Strickfield Vampire-Apocalypse Saga
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 mutan...
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July 31, 2024
Portals Part 5 of 5 — Arial’s Final Battle Against Vampire Earth
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. Ever...
July 29, 2024
Monthly Spooky | Talking Dolls, Demon Voices and Sleep Paralysis!
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 ...
July 28, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | The Dream: Insomnia, a Murdered Stepson and a Nightmare with No Waking
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 f...
July 26, 2024
Do You Even Movie? | Monster Man (2003): Road-Trip Monster-Truck Horror
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" ! Directe...
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July 24, 2024
Portals Part 4 of 5 — The Team Attacks a Vampire Nuclear Plant
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 destroy...
July 22, 2024
Terrifying & True | Sleep Paralysis: Shadow People, the Old Hag & the Science of REM Sleep
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...
July 21, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | Deadline for Death: A Dead Gangster’s Promise and the Daylight-Saving Trap
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 an...
July 19, 2024
Beloved Physician by Edgar Allan Poe: His Unfinished Tribute to Marie Louise Shew
Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished “Beloved Physician” honors the steady care, loyalty, and exhaustion of Marie Louise Shew in a brief midnight reading. Only a fragment of the poem survives. Its lines watch a tireless caregiver measure an unsteady pulse, continue through night and day, and finally yield to necessary sleep. Repeated images of toil, loyalty, and a faithful heart make the surviving verse feel both grateful and painfully intimate. The missing stanzas leave the full design of Poe’s tribut...
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July 17, 2024
Portals Part 3 of 5 — The Dracula Curse That Created Vampire Earth
Imprisoned beneath the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant, the team finally hears how Mayor Patrick Gunter helped turn an entire alternate Earth into a vampire apocalypse. Ten years earlier, Gunter was losing a mayoral race to Harmony Mirren when a mysterious partner offered him victory and dominion over far more than Strickfield. Their search for ultimate power led beneath the haunted Carnovasch Estate to a chained chest containing the imprisoned essence of Dracula. Opening it transformed the con...
July 15, 2024
Terrifying & True | The Shrink Next Door: Marty Markowitz & Dr. Isaac Herschkopf
Marty Markowitz sought help from psychiatrist Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf—then watched the doctor take control of his relationships, business, money, home, and sense of self for nearly three decades. The relationship began in 1981 as Markowitz struggled with grief, family conflict, and pressure surrounding his fabric business. Herschkopf gradually moved beyond the boundaries of therapy, becoming a constant adviser and social presence. Marty cut off family members labeled “toxic,” changed his will, g...
July 14, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | The Boiling Sea: An Undersea Volcano Traps a Wartime Cargo Ship in the Pacific
A wartime cargo ship crossing the Pacific reaches the birth of an undersea volcano, where superheated water and volcanic debris surround the crew. The voyage begins as wartime transport across a vast ocean, but strange heat, discoloration, and violent movement in the sea warn that the danger is rising from below. The ship has entered a region where the ocean floor is rupturing. Steam rolls across the surface, pumice and ash threaten the vessel, and water hot enough to kill makes abandoning ship...
July 12, 2024
To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe: Maria Clemm, Virginia & Love Beyond Death
Edgar Allan Poe addresses Maria Clemm—the aunt and mother-in-law he called his true mother—in a tender poem shaped by love for Virginia. Written in 1849, “To My Mother” is not addressed to Poe’s biological mother. Its subject is Maria Clemm, his aunt and the mother of his late wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. The speaker explains that the word “mother” can mean more than a biological bond: Maria became dearer to him because she was mother to the wife he loved more deeply than life itself. That family...
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July 10, 2024
Portals Part 2 of 5 — A Rescue Mission Across Vampire Strickfield
Arial Mirren has been carried away by a giant vampire bat, forcing Felicia and Bella to launch a rooftop rescue across the ruins of alternate Strickfield. Felicia reveals the full strength of her mutant spider form while Bella Taibon brings Master Vampire speed to the chase. After they recover Arial, the survivors compare everything they know about this undead Earth and reach a dangerous conclusion: escaping again will only postpone the next attack. To end the cycle, they must locate the techno...