Episodes

Twelve-year-old Jasmine Richardson and her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke planned the murder of her family in Medicine Hat, Alberta, after her parents tried to end their relationship. On April 23, 2006, Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son were found killed inside their home. Jasmine was initially treated as a missing child, but emails, online messages, and evidence recovered by investigators pointed to a conspiracy between her and Steinke. Their relationship had develop...

Ida Lupino stars as Ruth Martin, whose husband terrorizes her with an unloaded war-souvenir pistol and the promise that one day it will fire. Harry returns from three years in prison to find that Ruth has transformed their clothing business, earned the loyalty of workers and buyers, and built a life that no longer places him at the center. His wounded pride turns into surveillance, control, and threats. He demands that Ruth sign a release giving up the business and repeatedly counts to three wh...

Humanoids from the Deep (1980) 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. "They're Coming! Humanoids From the Deep!" It's June and we are proudly kicking off our "Roger Corman Tribute Month" with one of his most notorious and trigger warning packed 80s Horror Flicks! Join Henrique and David this week as they travel to Noyo, California where a quiet fishing village becomes the target ...

Pool cleaner Andre expects a summer of easy money and a chance with Lila—until swimmers across Barrister Bend begin dissolving in their own pools. After coworker Fred Lentz dies during a routine cleaning, Andre discovers that the town’s swimming pools may connect to a newly opened underground lake. A green, tentacled predator is moving through the water, draining its victims and turning every backyard oasis into a feeding ground. When the creature reaches a crowded pool party, Andre, Jamie, Li...

Oak Island’s Money Pit has drawn treasure hunters into a centuries-long cycle of excavation, flooding, tantalizing finds, and theories that grow faster than the hole itself. The popular origin story begins in 1795, when Daniel McGinnis and two friends noticed a depression and signs of earlier activity on the Nova Scotia island. Their digging reportedly revealed layers of timber at regular intervals, encouraging later companies to descend in search of pirate gold. As shafts deepened, seawater ru...

Dr. Tarleton’s apparent accident becomes a murder mystery involving a medical-school corpse, a missing letter opener, and a dead man making telephone calls. George Denning accepts a loan from the doctor in exchange for willing his brain to medical research. His daughter Grace fears the arrangement will make her father a suspect when Tarleton is found with a severed artery. The secretary, Miss Henry, reports that a mysterious Mr. McCobb visited the office, while a call from someone using that na...

Escape-room prodigy Bethany Martinson takes shelter from a Fourth of July storm inside Grimm Manor, where every locked room may be a puzzle designed to kill her. The 19-year-old Strickfield University student is a gifted detective with an extraordinary appetite, a talent for solving impossible cases, and a darker personality called Harpy that she struggles to keep contained. After a washed-out bridge forces her into Strickfield’s backwoods, Bethany crashes into a burned vehicle containing three...

Runaway Laney Listor finds a hidden demonic bible and performs a blood ritual to summon Hellweaver, the imprisoned goddess who promises to remake her. Laney entered Strickfield Academy under a stolen identity after murdering two students and taking their uniforms. She treats the parochial school as a temporary refuge until a book buried inside a river cave reveals a different scripture—one she can read despite its unknown language. Its pages describe Hellweaver, the Reality Sphere, the prison d...

Abandoned hospitals, deadly worms, and do a deep dive into America's Most Haunted Roads lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. The haunted-road discussion treats travel itself as the vulnerable state: drivers are isolated, landmarks repeat in darkness, and local stories attach ghosts, warnings, or unexplained figures to specific stretches of pavement. Abandoned hospitals and haunted apartments bring the same location-based fear indoors, while the killer-worm report replaces supernatural u...

Walter Bates needs $1,500 before midnight and sees a fatal solution in the elderly boarder whose life-insurance policy could benefit his mother. Walter returns to the struggling home of Mrs. Bates demanding money she does not have. He faces a deadline that could cost him his life, while his mother can barely meet rent and household expenses. Her boarder, Mr. Chalmers, is an old man with rheumatism and a $2,500 straight-life policy he is considering abandoning because it has no cash value. Walt...

Urban Legend (1998) turns familiar campus folklore into murder methods as a parka-clad killer stalks students at Pendleton University. "SOMEONE'S IN THE BACK SEAT!" And it's Henrique and Dave who this week are enrolling at Pendelton University as a serial killer is terrorizing the campus using urban legends to murder students and staff in 1998's "URBAN LEGEND" ! Directed by Jamie Blanks and starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, & Morbius himself, Jared Leto. Hear your hosts discuss how this ...

A Nevada park ranger follows a missing family into an abandoned mining town and discovers that the descendants of its workers never truly left. The ranger begins with a deserted camper near land clearly marked off-limits. Inside are clothes, blood, and signs that a man, woman, and two boys vanished suddenly. Unusual footprints lead away from the vehicle and into the decaying town, where the ranger’s radio fails and something with reflective eyes watches from the buildings. A scream draws him d...

A human skull found inside a hollow tree in wartime England inspired one of true crime’s most haunting questions: “Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?” In April 1943, four boys entered Hagley Wood in Worcestershire and climbed an old wych elm while looking for bird nests. Inside the trunk they discovered the remains of a woman. Clothing, a counterfeit wedding ring, and other evidence offered few answers, and investigators could not match the victim to a missing person. The mystery deepened when gra...

Astronomer Russell Adams opens a fallen meteorite and finds living gray flesh inside—an extraterrestrial visitor growing at impossible speed. Professor Adams and his wife Diane watch an unusually active meteor shower from the countryside. When a fragment lands nearby, Russell treats it as a scientific prize and brings the stone home. Breaking it open reveals a soft nugget of tissue where only iron and rock should exist. The material expands, develops intelligence, and speaks with the confidence...

Edgar Allan Poe’s solitary speaker returns to a wild lake where black rocks, tall pines, and a poisoned wave make terror feel like paradise. In “The Lake,” an unnamed place becomes the landscape of the speaker’s youth and the object of an increasingly dangerous fascination. By day, the lonely water offers refuge from an ordinary world. When night falls and darkness spreads across the lake, that solitude changes: the wind stirs, terror awakens, and the scene produces not simple fear but a trembl...

A night bike ride at a Pacific Northwest beach campground sends Tom after a missing child—and into a confrontation between a black bear and Bigfoot. Every summer, Tom camps at the coast with best friend Arturo and Arturo’s family. The trip means a stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory, bonfires, bicycles, and a chance for the boys to reinvent themselves away from school. They befriend siblings Melissa and Ricky, whose father is trying to hold his family together after a divorce, while rumors spr...

The Axeman of New Orleans broke into homes, attacked families with their own tools, and sent a letter promising to spare anyone playing jazz on a designated night. From 1918 into 1919, a series of brutal assaults spread fear through New Orleans and nearby Gretna. Many victims were Italian grocers or members of their households, including Joseph and Catherine Maggio, Louis Besumer and Harriet Lowe, Joseph Romano, the Cortimiglia family, Steve Boca, Sarah Laumann, and Mike Pepitone. Entry was oft...

Captain MacWhirr drives the steamer Nan-Shan directly into a catastrophic China Seas typhoon, trapping crew and human cargo inside the storm. MacWhirr is a stubborn, literal-minded commander who trusts his ship and refuses to dramatize the weather. As pressure falls and warnings mount, he chooses not to alter course. The sea soon overwhelms the decks, cargo breaks loose, and the vessel becomes almost impossible to control. Below, frightened passengers and their possessions are thrown together i...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Never Bet the Devil Your Head turns Toby Dammit’s favorite expression into a literal bargain in a grotesque satire of moral storytelling. Toby Dammit is argumentative, impulsive, and constitutionally unable to resist a wager. While crossing a gloomy covered bridge with the narrator, he accepts a challenge from a mysterious old man and attempts an impossible leap. What begins as comic bravado becomes a grotesque lesson in literal consequences, with a hidden obstacle, a missing ...

Arial Mirren and Carter Cross’s first date leads them into the haunted Carnovasch Estate, where a child ghost asks them to uncover a sealed tomb. Their relationship has changed after Arial’s break with her mother and move into the Donnerly home. Carter no longer reacts to her provocations the way he once did, and the longtime rivals finally acknowledge the attraction beneath their arguments. An evening together should let them discover whether that connection can survive outside a crisis. Inst...

The Poltergeist film series became surrounded by stories of a curse after real-life deaths, production accidents, and the revelation that human skeletons were used on screen. Terrifying & True begins with the 1982 haunted-house classic directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, then follows the tragedies most often cited by believers. Dominique Dunne, who played Dana Freeling, was killed by her former boyfriend shortly after the first film’s release. Heather O’Rourke, the young a...

Ella murders her controlling mother-in-law and hides the body beneath the basement, but the dead woman refuses to stop knocking. Newly married to Jay, Ella enters a house where everything still belongs to “Ma”—the property, car, garden, money, and emotional claim on her son. Resentment grows until Ella lures the older woman into the basement, points her toward an uncovered well beneath the building, and pushes her into the darkness. When Jay returns, Ella calmly claims his mother went out and n...

Five horror stories awaken an ancient forest monster, a plague god, living scripture, a child-eating witch, and a cruel wish-granting ifrit. Joe Solmo’s “Ol’ Bones” follows a northern New York hunting family that leaves its first kill beyond the creek for the enormous creature guarding forbidden woods. David O’Hanlon’s “The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor” gives broke addict Flavio Jimenez a criminal persona and a Vatican-backed heist targeting a grimoire stolen by a cult devoted to Jarri, an ancient...

Four teenagers sneak into Richardson’s Lake after sundown, where a seven-foot aquatic creature hunts anyone who breaks the swimming hole’s only rule. The Warrenville, South Carolina attraction has been run by the Richardson family since the 1950s. Sally Richardson collects cash by day and strictly forbids swimming after sunset. Cecil Dalton, Billy Frost, Angie Renew, and Mandy Hudson ignore the warning, slip through a broken fence, and bring beer and floats to the dark water under a full moon. ...