Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Resurrection Mary, Chicago’s vanishing hitchhiker, Archer Avenue ghost story, and Resurrection Cemetery legend all come together in one of the most haunting and engrossing episodes of Terrifying & True—and for our Best of 2025 revisit, this is absolutely one worth experiencing again. 

On a lonely stretch of road outside Chicago, drivers have reported the same chilling encounter for generations: a beautiful young woman in a white dress asking for a ride, only to vanish near the gates of Resurrection Cemetery. In this episode, we dig into the eerie folklore, the alleged eyewitness encounters, the possible real women behind the legend, and the unsettling way this phantom hitchhiker story has embedded itself into American ghost lore. 

This is one of the best and most immersive Terrifying & True episodes of 2025—the kind of story that pulls you in with atmosphere, mystery, and just enough historical grounding to make every strange detail hit even harder. If you missed it the first time, this is the perfect chance to revisit one of the show’s standout deep dives. And if you already heard it, the legend of Resurrection Mary is the kind of chilling classic that only gets better on a second listen. 

Inside this episode:
The classic Resurrection Mary legend and why Archer Avenue remains one of America’s most famous haunted roads
The vanishing hitchhiker mystery and the terrifying pattern repeated across decades of sightings
Jerry Palus, cab drivers, nightclub witnesses, and cemetery encounters tied to the legend
The search for Mary’s real identity, including theories involving Mary Bregovy and Anna Norkus
The blurred line between folklore, fact, media, and mass belief that made this Chicago ghost story endure 

If you love true ghost stories, haunted road legends, urban legends, Chicago hauntings, and deeply atmospheric paranormal mysteries, this episode is one of the strongest examples of what Terrifying & True does best. This Best of 2025 revisit shines a light on a fan-favorite episode that remains one of the show’s most memorable journeys into the uncanny. We’re telling that story tonight.

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Looking for the perfect April Fools Day horror story? Tonight on Weekly Spooky, a skeptical researcher chasing mysterious ley lines, haunted roads, and strange energy finds himself lured to a remote castle where nothing is what it seems. What begins like a campy gothic prank quickly spirals into a bizarre night of vampires, werewolves, dark comedy, and supernatural terror.

This creepy and funny monster story blends classic horror movie vibes, eerie folklore, and an April Fools twist that turns a joke into a nightmare. If you love scary stories, gothic horror, cryptids, old-school monster movies, haunted castles, and supernatural suspense, this one is for you. Hit play and spend April 1st with a story that feels equal parts Hammer Horror, midnight creature feature, and wicked practical joke from hell.

Fooled Ya — by Douglas Waltz

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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This Week in Horror History is your weekly horror movie and horror game release-date roundup, with where to watch or play (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation for fans of body horror, supernatural horror, Stephen King, cult horror, survival horror, and horror documentaries.

This week brings Slither, Cat People, Cursed Films, Pet Sematary, and Resident Evil 3—a lineup packed with alien parasites, erotic transformation, cursed-production mythology, grief-driven resurrection horror, and full-speed Raccoon City panic. 

Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Mar 30–Apr 5
Mar 31, 2006 — Slither
James Gunn’s slimy body-horror cult favorite turns alien parasites, mutant flesh, and small-town terror into one of the nastiest and funniest creature features of the 2000s.
Where to watch: Rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. 
Apr 2, 1982 — Cat People
A stylish, dreamlike erotic horror remake where sex, transformation, and predatory danger blur together in a feverish New Orleans nightmare.
Where to watch: Rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. 
Apr 2, 2020 — Cursed Films
his eerie Shudder horror docuseries explores cursed movie legends, horror fandom, and real tragedy, asking why the genre keeps turning productions into myths.
Where to watch: Streaming on Shudder; also available through AMC+ and Philo. 
Apr 5, 2019 — Pet Sematary
A modern Stephen King horror remake built on grief, resurrection, and the terrible idea that death might be reversible.
Where to watch: Streaming on Paramount+; also available via the Paramount+ Roku Channel; rent or buy on Apple TV and Fandango at Home. 
🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
Apr 3, 2020 — Resident Evil 3
A fast, brutal survival horror remake that turns Raccoon City, Jill Valentine, and Nemesis into a pure sprint through collapse, fire, and unstoppable biohazard chaos.
Where to play: PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, and Steam. 

🎂 Horror birthdays
Mar 30, 1957 — Tawny Moyer
Mar 31, 1943 — Christopher Walken
Apr 1, 1883 — Lon Chaney
Apr 4, 1932 — Anthony Perkins 

⭐ Weekly Recommendation
Apr 5, 1974 — Carrie
Stephen King’s classic horror novel remains one of the genre’s great nightmares of bullying, repression, religious terror, vengeance, and catastrophic power finally unleashed.
Where to read: Available in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audio editions. 

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Monthly Spooky paranormal podcast time—Henrique & Michelle dig into spooky news, urban legends, and creepy folklore that hits different when winter won’t let go. We start with the chaos of modern life (yes, taxes), then dive headfirst into spring superstitions from around the world, including the wild Annapolis sock-burning tradition that literally sets “winter” on fire.

Inside this episode:
Sock Burning in Annapolis, Maryland: the bizarre spring festival you have to hear to believe
Springtime superstitions & rituals: strange “good luck” rules that feel like accidental curses
Wilderness encounters: unsettling stories that blur the line between fear, memory, and the unknown
Cursed Lake Lanier: deadly reputation, dark history, and why people call it haunted
Bigfoot sightings in Ohio: local buzz, creature-in-the-trees paranoia, and cryptid talk
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park: tragedies, eerie lore, and why some places never feel “quiet” again
Horror movies reviewed: what’s worth your time right now

New here? This episode stands alone—jump in for Bigfoot, haunted lakes, spring folklore, and the kind of spooky headlines that make you side-eye the woods on a sunny day.

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Unknown Broadcast returns with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, and eerie anthology drama slipping out of the dark and into your speakers.

This week’s transmission drifts from a lonely house haunted by more than nerves, to a mad dream of kingship, to a secret criminal chamber with its own whispered password, and finally to a single letter that ruins lives from Vienna to Paris. Four tales. Four doors. None of them should be opened.

🐈 “The Resident” — An elderly woman seeking safety and solitude finds both slipping away when a strange cat appears, a younger intruder settles in far too comfortably, and the house itself begins to feel less like a refuge than a trap.
👑 “The Man Who Would Be King” — Two charming scoundrels chase empire at the edge of the world, gambling everything on nerve, fraud, and destiny until the dream turns savage and the crown grows much too heavy.
🗝️ “The Cave of Alibaba” — Secret societies, hidden rooms, criminal rituals, and a deadly mechanical trick turn this stylish thriller into a locked den of thieves where one wrong word can bury a man alive.
✉️ “The Letter” — In the shadow of Nazi terror and paranoia, a gentle scientist is destroyed by accusation, betrayal, and a single handwritten lie that keeps killing long after it is sent.
If you love classic radio suspense, vintage horror anthologies, creepy mystery drama, and old-time radio thrillers, this broadcast was waiting for you.

Some doors open with a password, some with a knock, and some with nothing more than curiosity. The trouble, as ever, is what chooses to answer.

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