Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Terrifying & True returns with a special collection of the most memorable real horror stories, urban legends, unsolved mysteries, paranormal cases, cursed media, and disturbing true crime covered on the show. This first compilation gathers seven chilling topics that all circle the same terrifying question: what happens when a story becomes too powerful to stay only a story?

From childhood mirror rituals to medical nightmares, from Hollywood curse legends to baffling hotel murders, from viral chain-letter fear to a brutal crime twisted by Satanic Panic, these episodes explore the strange borderland where folklore, fear, rumor, tragedy, and real documented events collide.

Inside this special Terrifying & True collection:
• Bloody Mary — A deep dive into the mirror-summoning urban legend, tracing the myth through Queen Mary I, Mary Worth, Elizabeth Bathory, sleepover folklore, and the fear of what might stare back from the glass.
• Sleep Paralysis — The terrifying real phenomenon of waking up frozen, unable to move or scream, while shadow figures, “old hag” entities, and nightmare hallucinations seem to enter the room.
• The Poltergeist Film Curse — A look at the tragic legacy surrounding the Poltergeist films, including real human skeleton props, on-set incidents, and the heartbreaking deaths that fueled one of horror cinema’s most famous curse legends.
• Room 1046 — The bizarre unsolved murder of Artemus Ogletree, who checked into a Kansas City hotel under the name Roland T. Owen and was later found tortured, dying, and surrounded by unanswered questions.
• The History of Chain Letters — From ancient curse letters and religious warnings to dime-letter schemes, internet spam, “share or die” posts, and viral fear, this episode uncovers why people keep passing threats and promises forward.
• The 1982 Murders at Corpsewood Manor — The disturbing true crime case of Charles Scudder and Joseph Odom, whose isolated Georgia home, occult imagery, and brutal murders became tangled in media sensationalism, Satanic Panic, homophobia, and local legend.
• The Herrmann Family Poltergeist Case — The famous 1958 Long Island haunting where bottles popped open, objects flew, investigators arrived, and a quiet suburban house became the center of one of America’s most discussed poltergeist cases.

Together, these stories form a haunted chain of belief: say the name, wake in the dark, fear the curse, enter the locked room, forward the warning, judge the outsiders, and finally watch the house itself come alive. This is a collection about the stories we inherit, the fears we spread, and the mysteries that refuse to die quietly.

This is Terrifying & True: a special collection of real-life horror, paranormal legends, unsolved crimes, cursed stories, and the strange history behind the things that still keep us up at night.

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A teen zombie horror story erupts into bloody chaos when a wild new girl at Strickfield High becomes the target of jealousy, murder, and undead revenge. In “Undead Triangle” by Rob Fields, Meredith Ridley is strange, fearless, reckless, and impossible to ignore—but when Lita Hallaway decides Meredith has crossed the wrong line, a deadly rivalry turns into something much worse than high school drama.

After a brutal attack in the Backwoods of Strickfield, Meredith rises from the lake changed forever: undead, hungry, and ready to settle the score. But she is not the only monster crawling back from death. What begins as a tale of jealousy, betrayal, and revenge twists into a gruesome zombie love triangle packed with dark humor, body horror, junkyard carnage, and the kind of over-the-top undead mayhem only Weekly Spooky can deliver.

This episode is perfect for fans of zombie horror, teen horror stories, revenge horror, splatterpunk, dark comedy horror, high school horror, flesh-eating monsters, and Halloween-ready scary stories. If you like your horror wild, bloody, funny, and completely unhinged, this one is ready to sink its teeth in.

Listen now for a gruesome, funny, and vicious tale of death, desire, and undead payback.

Undead Triangle — by Rob Fields

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This Week in Horror History for May 11–17 brings together a loaded week of horror movie anniversaries, Stephen King adaptations, Universal Monsters, zombie outbreak horror, slasher sequels, kaiju blockbusters, and modern home-invasion terror.

Inside this episode:

• May 11, 1936 — Dracula’s Daughter
Universal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula’s legacy into a chilly story of blood, inheritance, repression, and the desperate hope that evil might be cured.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 11, 2007 — 28 Weeks Later
The Rage virus returns with soldiers, checkpoints, quarantine zones, and the terrifying idea that the people in charge may declare the nightmare over long before the nightmare agrees.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 13, 1988 — Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Jason Voorhees rises again on an actual Friday the 13th, this time facing a telekinetic final girl in the cult-favorite slasher sequel fans often describe as Jason versus Carrie at Crystal Lake.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+ with subscription; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 16, 2014 — Godzilla
The MonsterVerse begins as Gareth Edwards brings Godzilla back to American theaters with disaster-movie scale, radioactive awe, and the reminder that humanity is not always the main character of the planet.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

Then, in this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, we go to May 11, 1984 — Firestarter, the Stephen King adaptation about a little girl, a secret government experiment, and the terrifying question of what happens when the weapon you built learns to hate you. Drew Barrymore stars as Charlie McGee, a child whose fear and trauma can ignite into actual flame, making Firestarter one of King’s most haunting stories of power, control, and childhood weaponized by adults.

Plus: a birthday roll featuring Robert Pattinson, David Boreanaz, Megan Fox, and Bill Paxton, a Then & Now Bite about horror’s power to mutate across generations, and a Weekly Recommendation for The Strangers: Chapter 1, a modern masked-intruder nightmare that proves some old fears never stop knocking.

From Dracula’s Daughter to Firestarter, from 28 Weeks Later to Friday the 13th Part VII, from Godzilla to The Strangers, this week is packed with horror history that refuses to stay buried.

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The Setagaya Family Murders remain one of Japan’s most disturbing and baffling unsolved true crime cases: a brutal family killing, an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence, and a killer who somehow vanished anyway.

On December 30, 2000, in Setagaya, Tokyo, the Miyazawa family — Mikio, Yasuko, Niina, and Rei — spent what should have been an ordinary night at home before New Year’s. Sometime between late night and the next morning, an intruder entered from the park side of the house and murdered all four members of the family.

But what happened after the murders is what has haunted investigators for more than two decades.

The killer did not immediately flee. He stayed inside the Miyazawa home for hours. He ate from the kitchen. He drank barley tea. He used the bathroom. He tended to his own injuries. He touched the family computer. Then he left behind an astonishing trail of evidence: blood, fingerprints, palm prints, clothing, shoes, a hip bag, gloves, a scarf, handkerchiefs, and even DNA.

And still, more than twenty years later, police do not know his name.Inside this episode:
The Night of the Murders: How a quiet family home in Setagaya became the scene of one of Japan’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
The Miyazawa Family: The ordinary lives behind the case — a father, mother, daughter, and son killed inside the place they should have been safest.
The Killer Who Stayed: Why the murderer’s hours-long behavior inside the home makes this case so uniquely disturbing.
A Mountain of Evidence: Blood type, DNA, fingerprints, palm prints, clothing, shoes, and personal items left behind.
Theories and Dead Ends: Robbery, personal motive, random violence, foreign suspect theories, park-side tensions, and why none have solved the case.
The Unanswered Question: How can a killer leave so many traces and still disappear?
This is not a case defined by a lack of evidence. It is defined by the terrifying failure of evidence to become identity. The Setagaya Family Murders are a story about a home violated, a family destroyed, and a killer who left behind almost everything except the one thing investigators needed most: his name.In Setagaya, the most frightening part is not that the killer vanished without a trace.It is that he left so many traces and vanished anyway.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying a midnight cargo of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, supernatural mystery, occult terror, and dreadful little accidents that refuse to stay buried.

Tonight’s transmission gathers four vintage nightmares from the shadowed side of the dial: black magic on a college campus, death crawling loose aboard a ship, a lonely woman’s diary curdling into terror, and a fatal road accident that becomes something far more twisted. The host is here. The tea is warm. The room is waiting. And if the stories sound like they were meant for you… well, perhaps they were.

🕯️ The Sending — A university lecture on ancient magic opens the door to something older than reason, as youth, power, and blood become part of a terrible bargain.
🐍 A Shipment of Mute Fate — A ship carries deadly cargo across the sea, but when that cargo escapes, every dark corner becomes a hiding place for death.
📖 The Diary of Sophronia Winters — A lonely woman believes romance has finally found her, but the pages of her diary begin to reveal a much colder, crueler destiny.
🚗 Blind Alley — A drunken accident, a hidden body, and a wealthy family’s secrets twist into a trap where guilt may not be the only thing waiting in the dark.

Four classic OTR horror stories drift through Unknown Broadcast tonight… and somewhere between the static, the shadows, and the old radio glow, something may already be drifting back toward you.

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