Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories & Eerie Tales

Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monsters, haunted hotels, supernatural comedy, demonic hauntings, creepy mirrors, and one killer dessert that may be eating America alive.

This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural blockbusters, 1980s horror, haunted-house horror, and strange consumer-satire body horror, including the release of Gremlins, the same-day arrival of Ghostbusters, the wider theatrical expansion of The Shining, the hit sequel The Conjuring 2, and the mirror-filled nightmare of Poltergeist III.

Inside this episode:
• Gremlins turns one cute little mogwai into small-town monster chaos and helps push Hollywood toward the PG-13 rating.
• Ghostbusters brings haunted libraries, demonic possession, rooftop apocalypse, and paranormal exterminators into one of the biggest supernatural comedy franchises ever.
• The Shining expands wider in U.S. theaters, pulling more audiences into Stanley Kubrick’s cold, hypnotic nightmare inside the Overlook Hotel.
• The Conjuring 2 sends Ed and Lorraine Warren to the Enfield haunting and introduces one of modern horror’s most memorable demonic figures.
• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Poltergeist III, the strange 1988 sequel that traps Carol Anne inside a haunted Chicago high-rise full of mirrors, elevators, cold hallways, and unfinished supernatural business.

Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Jurgen Prochnow, and Adrienne Barbeau, a creepy look at how horror sneaks into family homes, hotels, corporate towers, grocery aisles, and blockbuster comedy, and a weekly recommendation for Larry Cohen’s weird, gross, and sharply satirical cult classic The Stuff.

From mogwai mayhem and ghost exterminators to haunted reflections, demonic forces, the Overlook Hotel, and a mysterious dessert that might be consuming its customers from the inside out, this week proves horror can invade almost anything: your home, your hotel room, your movie theater, your refrigerator, and your appetite.

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The murder of Jeffrey Hall is one of the most disturbing modern American true crime cases — not because the killer was hidden, but because the person who pulled the trigger was only 10 years old.

On May 1, 2011, in Riverside, California, 32-year-old Jeffrey Hall was asleep on the couch when his son, Joseph Hall, took a .357 revolver from a closet, walked downstairs, and shot him in the head. Jeffrey Hall was not just a father. He was a local leader in the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, and had filled his home with extremist politics, weapons, instability, fear, and violence.

But this case is not a simple story of poetic justice. It is a deeply unsettling look at childhood trauma, extremist indoctrination, domestic chaos, juvenile justice, gun access, and the impossible question of what justice means when a child kills.

Inside this episode:
• The life and extremism of Jeffrey Hall — a Riverside neo-Nazi leader who brought hate into politics, public rallies, and his own home.
• Joseph Hall’s troubled childhood — marked by neglect concerns, instability, weapons, alleged abuse, behavioral issues, and a household shaped by fear.
• The night of the shooting — when a 10-year-old boy retrieved a loaded revolver and killed his sleeping father.
• The legal question at the heart of the case — whether Joseph, at just 10 years old, truly understood the wrongfulness and permanence of what he had done.
• The juvenile trial and appeals — including the court’s finding of second-degree murder, challenges over Miranda rights, and the larger debate over children in the criminal justice system.
• The tragedy beneath the headlines — a violent extremist father, a frightened child, a broken household, and a legal system forced to sort horror into categories that never fully fit.
This is not a murder mystery. Joseph Hall admitted what happened. The deeper mystery is how a child arrived at that couch with a revolver in his hand — and how many adults, systems, ideologies, and failures helped put him there.

A man was killed. A child was charged. A family was destroyed. And the house Jeffrey Hall built around hatred became the place where that violence came home.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense dramas, and strange little nightmares that sound as though they were never meant to be transmitted at all.

Tonight, the signal begins with a clock that should not exist, moves through the perfume of wild oranges on a deadly Southern shore, follows a woman into a murder mystery wrapped in danger and inheritance, and ends with The Whistler watching a clever crime collapse beneath its own shadow.

🕰️ Time and Again
A clockmaker takes possession of a strange hourglass-shaped clock marked with the number 13, and soon discovers that time can be stopped… but never stolen without payment. This is classic radio horror at its most deliciously cruel: a cursed object, a bargain with time, and a machine that seems to beat like a living heart.
🍊 Wild Oranges
A lonely Georgia island. A ruined plantation house. The heavy scent of oranges in the dark. What begins as an eerie coastal discovery turns into a claustrophobic tale of survival horror, obsession, and a knife-wielding threat hidden beneath the Spanish moss.
🐻 The Cross-Eyed Bear
A mysterious classified ad offers danger, money, and employment to a beautiful woman willing to risk her life. But the deeper she goes, the more the job becomes tangled in murder, hidden heirs, secret identities, and the kind of suspense that keeps smiling until the trap snaps shut.
⚖️ The Penalty
A vanished man, a suspicious family, a supposed kidnapping, and a body that may not be what it appears to be. In this Whistler mystery, guilt hides behind clever paperwork, old letters, false identities, and one fatal assumption: that no one will look closely enough.

Four stories. Four doors. One broadcast that insists it found you by accident.

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Horror fiction anthology featuring mad science, body horror mutations, and medical terror. When human experiments go catastrophically wrong, an asylum doctor transforms into something impossible, a toxic disaster spawns flesh-ripping nightmares, and secret bioweapons become monsters. Four gruesome tales of scientific failure and corporeal dread, expertly narrated with cinematic ambiance for fans of creature horror, horror legends, and dark pulp storytelling.

These four tales crawl through the places where the human body stops being safe: an asylum doctor transformed into something impossible, a toxic disaster that unleashes prehistoric predators, a mountain crime scene overrun by man-eating feral hogs, and a warehouse hiding a family secret made of scars, blood, and teeth.

Inside this episode:
• I Used to Be a Doctor in an Insane Asylum. My Patient Destroyed My World. — by Michael Kelso
A psychiatrist working with the most violent patients imaginable loses everything when one of them escapes… but death is only the beginning. After a brutal attack, the doctor awakens as something no longer fully human, becoming an electrical ghost obsessed with revenge.
• Night of the Tyrants — by David O’Hanlon
A criminal nightmare in Fortune, Missouri turns prehistoric when a toxic disaster reveals what a nearby “chemical depot” has really been hiding. Drug dealers, killers, explosions, and rampaging dinosaurs collide in a savage body-horror creature feature.
• Hog Wild — by David O’Hanlon
A botched murder trip leaves criminals stranded in the woods, suspended in a wrecked car above a feeding frenzy of feral hogs. As the bodies fall and the pigs gather below, survival becomes a bloody, brutal fight against nature’s ugliest appetite.
• Warehouse of Blood — by Shane Migliavacca
A late-night reporter follows a missing-person lead into a family-owned warehouse and finds something much worse than a scoop. Behind the locked doors waits a scarred, hidden, half-forgotten monster who wants to play with his new “dolly.”
If you love mad scientist horror, body horror stories, monster horror podcasts, creepy experiments, mutant creatures, revenge from beyond death, and gory pulp horror, this compilation is packed with the kind of nasty surprises that make you check your pulse just to make sure your body still belongs to you.

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REC (2007) found footage horror gets the Cutting Deep into Horror treatment as Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfilock themselves inside one of the most terrifying Spanish horror movies ever made. Directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, REC is a lean, relentless Spanish found footage zombie horror classic that follows a TV reporter and her cameraman into a Barcelona apartment building where a routine emergency call becomes a sealed-off nightmare.

In this episode, Henrique and Rachael dig into why REC still feels so scary, eerie, immediate, and brutally effectivenearly two decades later. From the firehouse ride-along setup to the escalating quarantine, from the infected attacks to the unforgettable night-vision finale, this is a movie that understands exactly how to use shaky camera chaos without losing the audience.Inside this episode:
Why REC works so well as found footage horror — and why the news crew setup makes the camera feel natural instead of forced.
The apartment building as a horror trap — claustrophobic hallways, locked exits, frightened residents, and a quarantine that keeps tightening.
Spanish zombie horror vs. American remake energy — including comparisons to Quarantine and why the original feels rawer and more dangerous.
The Tristiana Medeiros reveal — how the movie shifts from outbreak horror into something more demonic, strange, and unforgettable.
The final darkness — why the night-vision climax remains one of the most iconic endings in modern found footage horror.
Henrique and Rachael’s final thoughts on why REC is one of the strongest found footage films they’ve covered so far.
REC was reportedly produced on a roughly $2.1 million budget and earned about $23 million worldwide, making it a major international success for Spanish horror and one of the defining found-footage genre entries of the 2000s.

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