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Horror history gets cursed, infected, haunted, frozen, and dangerously paranoid this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 22–28 with evil children, haunted hotel rooms, rage-virus chaos, gothic video game nightmares, and one of the greatest alien horror films ever made.

This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, Stephen King horror, religious horror, outbreak horror, horror gaming, and sci-fi body horror, including the release of 1408, the arrival of The Omen, the U.S. release of 28 Days Later, the PC release of Quake, and the Deep-Cut Spotlight on John Carpenter’s freezing, flesh-twisting masterpiece The Thing.

Inside this episode:
• 1408 turns one hotel room into a psychological pressure cooker, trapping a skeptical writer inside a space that studies him, wounds him, and refuses to let him leave.
• The Omen gives the evil-child movie one of its classiest and creepiest landmarks, with the Antichrist hiding behind privilege, elegance, and a terrifyingly calm little smile.
• 28 Days Later drags outbreak horror into the 21st century with empty London streets, sprinting infected, digital grime, and the terrifying idea that civilization can collapse almost overnight.
• Quake opens a slipgate into gothic castles, wet tunnels, shambling monsters, Lovecraftian dread, and a diseased industrial soundscape that helped reshape horror-tinged gaming.
• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to The Thing, John Carpenter’s 1982 alien paranoia nightmare about imitation, isolation, mistrust, Rob Bottin’s legendary effects, and the terrifying question of who is still human.

Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Bruce Campbell, Peter Lorre, Isabelle Adjani, and Kathy Bates, a creepy look at how horror teaches us to distrust the obvious, and a weekly recommendation for Twilight Zone: The Movie, the complicated 1983 anthology film that brought Rod Serling’s nightmare world to the big screen.

From haunted rooms and Antichrist children to rage-infected streets, gothic gaming nightmares, Antarctic isolation, alien imitation, blood tests, body horror, and the cold collapse of trust, this week proves horror history can make monsters out of places, people, memories, machines, and the person standing right beside you.

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On spring break 2006, Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer walked into a crowded Columbus bar—and vanished without a trace. Security cameras captured him near the Ugly Tuna Saloon moments before closing, but footage mysteriously never showed him leaving. Explore one of Ohio's most baffling true crime mysteries: the search for answers, theories that haunted the South Campus Gateway, and the supernatural questions that remain unsolved nearly two decades later.

This episode of Terrifying & True investigates the disappearance of Brian Shaffer, the Ohio State medical student who vanished from Columbus on April 1, 2006. We examine the final surveillance footage, the search efforts, the role of camera blind spots, the theories that have followed the case for nearly two decades, and the human heartbreak behind one of America’s most haunting unsolved mysteries.

Brian Shaffer was not a late night horror legend. He was a son, a brother, a boyfriend, a future doctor, and a grieving young man standing at the edge of the rest of his life. Then, somewhere between a crowded bar and the outside world, he disappeared.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Tonight, the signal begins with a rainy road, a frightened son, and a father’s desperate attempt to bury the truth. Then we step Out of This World into a nightmare of stage lights, ventriloquism, and a dummy that may know more than any wooden thing should. After that comes one of radio’s most famous terror pieces, Sorry, Wrong Number, where a woman trapped by a telephone hears the machinery of murder moving closer. And finally, The Whistler brings us Jealousy, a poisonous tale of fear, obsession, suspicion, and the terrible ways love curdles into death.

🚗 And Nothing But the Truth
A young man confesses to a hit-and-run accident, and his father makes a shocking decision to protect him. But guilt has a way of leaving marks behind, and this classic radio mystery twists through lies, parental sacrifice, police suspicion, and the cruel cost of responsibility.
🎭 Out of This World
A ventriloquist act becomes something far stranger when a dummy named Toby seems to possess a will of its own. Adapted from the legendary film Dead of Night, this eerie old-time radio suspense story turns show business into nightmare fuel, where the voice from the dummy’s mouth may not belong to the performer at all.
☎️ Sorry, Wrong Number
A bedridden woman overhears what sounds like a murder plot on a crossed telephone line, then spends one increasingly frantic night trying to make someone believe her. Agnes Moorehead stars in one of the most iconic radio suspense thrillers ever broadcast: claustrophobic, relentless, and terrifyingly simple.
💔 Jealousy
A fragile wife, a suspicious husband, a doctor, a tonic, and a nightmare figure creeping closer in the dark. In this Whistler mystery, jealousy is not just an emotion — it is a trap, a weapon, and perhaps the one thing more dangerous than murder itself.

Four stories. Four voices in the dark. One broadcast that insists every lie eventually finds its way to the receiver.

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Four twisted tales of babysitting horror: when childcare becomes a killing field. Urban legends, serial killer thrillers, mad science nightmares, and cursed bridges—all wrapped around the ultimate betrayal of trust. Perfect for fans of true crime horror, supernatural folklore, and dark fiction anthologies. Expert narration with cinematic ambiance brings each nightmare to life.

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True crime horror gets cinematic in this anthology: serial killers, unsolved murders, and supernatural folklore collide as real killers prove darker than horror fiction. Discover how monsters hide using superstition and fear. From farmhouses to dating shows, explore where true crime mystery meets cursed truths—with dark humor and spine-tingling ambiance.

Terrifying & True returns with a special collection of disturbing true crime, serial killers, unsolved murders, scary stories, and mature themes. These cases all circle one chilling idea: real-life monsters often hide in plain sight.

Inside this collection: Ed Gein, the quiet Wisconsin killer who inspired horror icons; Richard Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento; Charlie Brandt, the hidden monster with a violent past; Rodney Alcala, the Dating Game Killer; Henry Lee Lucas, the Confession Killer whose case blurred truth and manipulation; and The Phantom Killer, the masked figure behind the terrifying Texarkana Murders. 

Together, these stories create a grim journey through killers, predators, false confessions, urban legend, and the frightening truth that evil does not always look like evil at first glance. Listener discretion is advised for mature themes and disturbing true crime subject matter.

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