Episodes

Sheila Baker meets elderly Otis Thornton aboard Delta Flight 752, where his tragic family story leads toward a plane crash that refuses to end. Flying from Atlanta to Seattle, Sheila expects little more than an uncomfortable economy seat. Instead, the kind stranger beside her recounts his life with his beloved wife Ella, their daughter Marilyn, and their lost son, little Otis. His memories of grief, guilt, and choices made to protect his family become increasingly vivid as the Boeing 757 encoun...

Six members of the Robison family were murdered inside a Lake Michigan cottage in 1968, leaving Good Hart with a case many investigators believed they solved—but never proved in court. Richard and Shirley Robison had brought their four children—Richie, Gary, Randy, and Susan—to Summerset, their seasonal cottage at Blisswood Resort. They were killed on June 25, but the secluded home was not entered until July 22, after neighbors reported a terrible odor. Investigators found evidence of a .22-cal...

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’...

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 D...

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 at...

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 tar...

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 th...

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...

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...

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...

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 wh...

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...

Six people were murdered at Germany’s isolated Hinterkaifeck farm in 1922, and evidence suggested the killer remained there after the crime. Andreas and Cäzilia Gruber, their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel, her children Cäzilia and Josef, and newly arrived maid Maria Baumgartner were found dead on April 4. Four bodies had been stacked and covered with hay in the barn; Maria and two-year-old Josef were discovered inside the farmhouse. Investigators believed a mattock-like farm tool caused the...

Boris Karloff stars in an Inner Sanctum adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” where restored hearing becomes a curse of impossible sound. Simon is a musician whose deafness has been cured by Doctor Endair. Instead of simply returning him to ordinary life, the treatment sharpens his hearing until whispers, footsteps, and the hidden noises of the world become unbearable. He is not the doctor’s only extraordinary patient: Oliver, once blind, has emerged with vision heightened beyo...

Bad Moon (1996) 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. This week we've got a film to really sink your teeth into as we head deep into the woods to join Henrqiue and David for one of the most underrated werewolf movies of all time! After surviving a brutal wolf attack, a photo-journalist Ted decides to stay in a trailer parked near his sister's house in the hopes that in being near...

An asylum psychiatrist tries to teach a remorseless patient impulse control, then finds the escaped killer has brought torture and murder to his own home. Frederick does not understand why hurting people is wrong. The doctor knows the violent man should never leave the institution, but a security failure unleashes him on the outside world and destroys everything the psychiatrist loves, including his wife Elizabeth. Their confrontation ends in blood, fire, and an electrical accident that transfo...

Census worker Bill Sparkman was found hanging in a remote Kentucky cemetery with “FED” written on his chest, his death staged to suggest an anti-government killing. The September 2009 scene in Clay County was deliberately alarming: Sparkman was bound with duct tape, gagged, stripped, and displayed with his Census Bureau identification. The location, the federal marking, and local tensions over government authority and the upcoming 2010 census fueled national speculation that he had been murdere...

Ada Canby’s dying boarder confesses to a ten-year-old murder, leaving the elderly landlady with names that powerful men want buried. Mr. Paulson arrived from Brazil with little luggage, a cage of birds, and an illness that quickly became fatal. Before dying in Ada’s house, he claims that he—not the imprisoned Lindell—killed Richardson for money. Ada wants no part of murder or police business, but curiosity leads her to the old case: Richardson and Lindell were investment partners, and a witness...

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sphinx transforms a summer retreat and a distant shape on the hillside into a study of fear, perception, and the mind’s readiness to magnify disaster. Seeking refuge from the epidemic in a relative’s cottage beside the Hudson River, Poe’s unnamed narrator becomes consumed by death reports and morbid thought. At the window he witnesses a creature of impossible size, with a skull-like mark across its body, descending the wooded slope. His host offers a rational explanation, ...

A viral candy-snorting dare opens babysitter Clarrisa Hart’s wounded nose to flesh-eating larvae as a supernatural fly outbreak consumes Kohler. Nine-year-old Grover Wright and his brother Will only want more post-Halloween candy. Their bored babysitter offers pizza if they perform a dangerous social-media challenge, but the stunt leaves Clarrisa bleeding just as strange, oil-slick flies begin appearing around town. What first looks like an unusually warm November infestation becomes a case of ...

Seventeen-year-old Junko Furuta was kidnapped in November 1988 and held for forty days before four teenage captors murdered her in Tokyo. Terrifying & True presents this case without turning Junko’s suffering into spectacle. Hiroshi Miyano, Nobuharu Minato, Jō Ogura, and Yasushi Watanabe abducted her as she traveled home from work, threatened her family, and confined her in the Minato residence. Forced phone calls misled her parents after they reported her missing. She died on January 4, 1989, ...

A sapphire ring vanishes during a New York supper party, and the guests agree to count to one hundred in total darkness so the thief can return it. At the Artists and Writers Club, a group debates whether clever crimes can ever be solved without luck or confession. Their conversation turns to a seemingly simple social mystery: during an intimate gathering, a hostess removes three rings and secures them on a hatpin in her bedroom. Minutes later, the sapphire is gone, even though only a small cir...

Horror author Charles Campbell interviews Weekly Spooky creator Henrique Couto about the show, his filmmaking, and the work behind audio horror. The 2024 Horror 421 conversation offers a creator-focused look at writing, directing, producing, and sustaining Weekly Spooky rather than a fictional story, making Henrique’s process the searchable subject. Charles Campbell turns the microphone toward Henrique’s creative career: building Weekly Spooky, directing and producing independent movies, worki...

Whitney Mirren becomes a ghost bride at her Strickfield wedding, using a cursed bouquet to punish the fiancé and family members who betrayed her. Her high-school sweetheart Lance has cheated with Whitney’s mother and a stripper, yet the ceremony at Strickfield Community Church continues. As Minister Delphine Brewster-Sloane begins the vows, Whitney transforms: marble-pale skin, red eyes, locked doors, and a bridal rage that turns the sanctuary into a supernatural execution ground. The horror d...