Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Join filmmaker Henrique Couto as Cutting Deep into Horror explores The Houses October Built (2014)—a found footage nightmare about five friends hunting the most extreme haunted houses across America. Discover how this supernatural folklore film captures real haunted-house horror, extreme-tourism fears, and the dark secrets lurking behind roadside attractions. Perfect for early Halloween spooky season listening.

Henrique is joined by Rachael Redolfi for a spoiler-filled review of director Bobby Roe’s Halloween horror film, which blends fictional found footage with real haunted attractions, genuine haunt performers and documentary-style material.The group’s road trip becomes increasingly dangerous as their search for a secret underground attraction called the Blue Skeleton draws the attention of masked performers who begin following, filming and confronting them far beyond the supposed safety of the haunts.

Henrique and Rachael discuss the film’s documentary origins, its countdown toward October 31 and the way it transforms the excitement of Halloween tourism into something threatening and deeply uncomfortable.The conversation explores:
The documentary origins of The Houses October Built
Real haunted houses and Halloween attractions
Henrique and Rachael’s personal haunt experiences
Touch passes and interactive haunted attractions
The mystery surrounding the Blue Skeleton
Haunted-house actors dealing with frightened or violent guests
Extreme haunt legends and McKamey Manor
The difference between theatrical scares and genuine abuse
Why human villains can be more frightening than supernatural monsters
Comparisons with Hell House LLC
Then Henrique and Rachael go completely behind the curtain to explain The Houses October Built ending, including the kidnapping at the Halloween festival, the group being separated, the coffins, the threat of being burned alive and Brandy’s horrifying buried-alive finale.Does the movie’s ambiguous conclusion make it more frightening? Is the Blue Skeleton an extreme haunted attraction, a criminal organization or something even darker? And why does this unsettling movie continue to stand out among modern Halloween found footage films?Celebrate Summerween, enjoy some Halloween in July horror, and begin building your early Halloween movie watchlist with The Houses October Built.

Next time on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique and Rachael continue their Summerween haunted-attraction double feature with Hell House LLC.

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Just in time for Shark Week 2026, Thursday Thrills dives into true shark attacks, megalodon legends, terrifying sea monsters, and the bizarre unsolved murder exposed when a captive tiger shark regurgitated a human arm.

We revisit the 1916 Jersey Shore and Matawan Creek attacks, the Black Demon of Baja, and Sydney's infamous Shark Arm case.

Along the way, meet the Stronsay Beast, centuries-old Greenland sharks, river-roaming bull sharks, and sand tiger embryos that eat their siblings before birth. It is a fun, eerie ride through shark horror, cryptid folklore, sea monsters, true crime, ocean mysteries, and the nightmare behind Jaws.

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Chupacabra horror, Puerto Rico folklore, summer camp terror, and violent cryptid attacks collide in “Camping With Chupacabra” by Douglas Waltz—a complete scary story from the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology podcast.

Jonathan Edwards is a veteran camp counselor who has spent twenty years teaching wilderness survival, training young counselors, and sleeping beneath the stars. When he accepts a permanent position at the newly constructed Camp Clemente in Puerto Rico, the fresh cabins, tropical forest, mountain trails, and private lake seem like the beginning of his dream job.
Then an unholy howl rolls out of the jungle.

The frightened counselors whisper an old name: El Vampiro de Moca—the Chupacabra.
After a savage nighttime attack tears through the camp, Jonathan discovers that the property was built directly over an ancient protective sigil. Beneath the nearby mountains lies a bat-filled cavern, a supernatural portal known as the Well of Chupacabra, and a pack of reptilian creatures waiting for another chance to enter our world.

Armed with wilderness experience, a loyal Zippo lighter, and a case of dynamite, Jonathan and camp owner Paul Williams descend into the darkness to seal the well before the Chupacabras return. But destroying one monster nest may reveal that Puerto Rico is hiding far more supernatural secrets than either man imagined.

Fans of Chupacabra stories, cryptid horror, scary camping stories, Puerto Rico legends, summer camp horror, wilderness survival, monster attacks, cave horror, creature features, supernatural thrillers, and complete horror audiobooks will find plenty to fear—and plenty of pulpy monster-hunting fun—in this episode.

Pack your supplies, keep the cabin doors barricaded, and listen closely when something howls beyond the firelight. Tonight on Weekly Spooky, camping season becomes hunting season in “Camping With Chupacabra” by Douglas Waltz.

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Dracula, The Hills Have Eyes, Nope, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering July 20 through July 26. Summer horror gets seductive, sun-scorched, mechanical, extraterrestrial, and shark-infested as we explore gothic vampires, desert survival horror, reverse-horror gaming, Jordan Peele’s terrifying vision of spectacle, Stephen King’s killer-machine apocalypse, and genetically engineered sharks loose inside an underwater laboratory.

  Inside this episode:
July 20, 1979 — Dracula releases in the United States
Frank Langella gives Count Dracula a dangerous combination of gothic romance, theatrical charm, and supernatural menace. This version of Bram Stoker’s vampire proves that evil does not always need to force its way through the door. Sometimes it gets invited inside.
July 22, 1977 — The Hills Have Eyes premieres in Tucson, Arizona
Wes Craven turns an ordinary family road trip into a brutal desert survival nightmare. When a shortcut leaves the Carter family stranded far from civilization, the open landscape becomes a trap filled with heat, isolation, violence, and another family watching from the hills.
July 23, 2020 — Carrion releases
This reverse-horror video game flips the familiar monster formula by letting players become the creature. A growing mass of teeth, tendrils, and hunger escapes through a research facility while terrified scientists and guards discover that containment has completely failed.
July 22, 2022 — Nope releases in U.S. theaters
Jordan Peele turns the sky into a haunted house in a strange and ambitious collision of UFO horror, creature-feature spectacle, Hollywood exploitation, western imagery, animal behavior, and the dangerous human need to capture the impossible on camera.

Deep-Cut Spotlight — Maximum Overdrive
Stephen King steps behind the camera for one of the loudest and most gloriously unhinged killer-machine movies of the 1980s. After Earth passes through the tail of a comet, trucks, vending machines, arcade games, lawn equipment, and other everyday technology suddenly turn against humanity. At the Dixie Boy truck stop, a group of survivors becomes trapped by eighteen-wheelers that appear to have developed personalities, grudges, and a deep hatred of human beings. With a goblin-faced truck, massive explosions, diner panic, homicidal machinery, and AC/DC blasting through the chaos, Maximum Overdrive remains a greasy, absurd, and unforgettable piece of Stephen King horror history.

Horror Birthdays This Week: 
Diana Rigg, Josh Hartnett, Willem Dafoe, and Lynda Carter enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Theatre of Blood, Last Night in Soho, Halloween H20, The Faculty, 30 Days of Night, Trap, Shadow of the Vampire, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu, and The Initiation of Sarah.

Weekly Recommendation — Deep Blue Sea Researchers inside an isolated underwater facility genetically engineer mako sharks while searching for a medical breakthrough. Unfortunately, making enormous predators more intelligent turns out to be a catastrophically bad idea. Packed with violent storms, flooding corridors, underwater laboratories, corporate hubris, giant sharks, and one of the most memorable shock moments in 1990s horror, Deep Blue Sea remains a fast, fun, and wonderfully ridiculous summer creature feature. From Dracula and The Hills Have Eyes to Carrion, Nope, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea, this week in horror history proves that summer terror can wait inside a gothic mansion, watch from the desert hills, escape from a laboratory, descend from the sky, take control of an eighteen-wheeler, or circle silently beneath the water.

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The murder of Brian Barrett became one of the most disturbing true crime cases of the early internet age: a deadly online love triangle built on catfishing, fake identities, chatroom deception, jealousy, and obsession.

In 2006, 22-year-old Brian Barrett was shot and killed outside Dynabrade Corporation in Clarence, New York, near Buffalo. At first, the murder seemed almost motiveless. Brian was a college student, athlete, Little League coach, and future teacher with no obvious enemies. But investigators soon uncovered a digital trail involving Pogo chatrooms, Yahoo instant messages, online romance, and a username that would become infamous: TalHotBlond.

This episode of Terrifying & True investigates the real story behind the Brian Barrett murder, the TalHotBlond case, and the online deception that led to violence. Thomas Montgomery, a 46-year-old married father, had been posing online as an 18-year-old Marine sniper named Tommy. Mary Shieler, a 45-year-old mother in West Virginia, was posing as her own teenage daughter, using the girl’s photos and voice to maintain the fantasy. Brian Barrett entered the situation as himself — a real 22-year-old man caught between two adults hiding behind fake ide

As the lies unraveled, Montgomery became consumed by jealousy, humiliation, and obsession. The online rivalry moved from Pogo games and instant messages into the workplace, where Brian and Thomas both worked. Then, on September 15, 2006, Brian walked to his pickup truck after his shift and was ambushed with a .30-caliber rifle.

We examine the evidence against Thomas Montgomery, the DNA on the peach pit, the missing rifle, the chat logs, the TalHotBlond deception, Mary Shieler’s role, and why the case became known as the internet love triangle murder. But at the center of the story is not a screen name, a scandal, or a twist. It is Brian Barrett — a son, brother, friend, coach, student, and future teacher whose life was stolen by obsession.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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