Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Carrie Culberson was just 22 years old when she vanished from Blanchester, Ohio in August 1996. What followed became one of the state’s most haunting true crime cases: a young woman missing, a violent boyfriend at the center of suspicion, a town shaken by fear and rumor, and a murder conviction without a body. For this Best of 2025 revisit, we’re returning to one of the most gripping and unforgettable episodes of Terrifying & True. 

This story has all the elements that make a case impossible to forget: a terrifying pattern of domestic violence, eyewitnesses who heard Carrie’s cries for help, deeply troubling investigative failures, and a family forced to fight for justice even as Carrie’s body remained missing. It’s one of the most engrossing episodes we released in 2025, and it absolutely deserves a revisit. 

In this episode, we trace the final hours before Carrie disappeared, the escalating abuse in her relationship with Vincent Doan, and the chilling testimony that helped prosecutors build one of Ohio’s most infamous no-body homicide cases. We also dig into the mishandling of the investigation, the courtroom battle that followed, and the long emotional aftermath for Carrie’s family and community. 

Inside this episode:
Carrie Culberson’s disappearance and the disturbing final night she was seen alive
The abusive relationship that turned deadly
Eyewitness accounts that helped shape the case against Vincent Doan
Police failures and conflict-of-interest allegations that cast a shadow over the investigation
The trial and conviction in one of Ohio’s most well-known no-body murder cases
The lasting fight for justice and answers as Carrie’s family continues to seek her remains 

If you’re drawn to Ohio true crime, missing persons cases, domestic violence homicide cases, and emotionally powerful stories where justice comes with no real closure, this is one of the strongest episodes Terrifying & True has ever done. This Best of 2025 re-air is a chance to revisit a case that still haunts Ohio—and still demands to be remembered. We’re telling that story tonight.

🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
Email: [email protected]

🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

A lonely ice fishing hut, a brutal Ontario snowstorm, and a series of slow, deliberate knocks at the door in the dead of night — tonight’s Weekly Spooky episode delivers a deeply unsettling true scary story about isolation, fear, and the kind of experience that refuses to make sense long after the sun comes up.

If you love true horror stories, creepy wilderness encounters, paranormal mysteries, strange campfire tales, and stories about being trapped alone in the dark while something waits outside, this one will get under your skin. Set miles from shore on a frozen lake, “KNOCK, KNOCK” turns an overnight fishing trip into a nerve-rattling nightmare of pounding walls, unseen visitors, and footprints in the snow leading in every direction. Lock the door, keep the heater running, and listen close.

“KNOCK, KNOCK” — by Gary D, Ontario, Canada aka Blue Fire Raging

🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
Email: [email protected]

🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

This Week in Horror History is your weekly horror release-date roundup, with where to watch or stream (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation for fans of monster movies, supernatural horror, survival horror, cosmic horror, Stephen King, and cult favorites. This week brings A Quiet Place, Oculus, Critters, Scary Movie 5, and The Void—a lineup packed with silence-driven terror, cursed mirrors, hungry little monsters, horror parody, and blood-slick cosmic nightmare fuel. 

Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Apr 6–12
Apr 6, 2018 — A Quiet Place
A modern monster-movie hit that turned silence, family tension, and every tiny sound into pure box-office terror.
Where to watch: Paramount+; rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. 
Apr 12, 2013 — Scary Movie 5
A chaotic horror parody sequel that works as a weirdly useful snapshot of the possession, found-footage, and cursed-house boom of the early 2010s.
Where to watch: Rent or buy on Prime Video and Apple TV. 
Apr 11, 2014 — Oculus
One of the meanest haunted-object movies of the last twenty years, built around a cursed mirror that shreds memory, reality, and self-control.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime with subscription; also rent or buy via Prime Video and Apple TV. 
Apr 11, 1986 — Critters
A scrappy, nasty 1980s creature feature where tiny alien furballs turn a farmhouse siege into gleeful B-movie chaos.
Where to watch: Tubi, Pluto TV, and The Roku Channel; rent or buy on Apple TV and Fandango at Home. 

🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
Apr 7, 2017 — The Void
A savage cosmic body-horror deep cut with a half-empty hospital, robed cultists, practical-effects mayhem, and pure midnight VHS nightmare energy.
Where to watch: Free on Tubi; rent or buy options include Prime Video and Apple TV. 

🎂 Horror birthdays
Apr 8, 1955 — Kane Hodder
Apr 10, 1988 — Haley Joel Osment
Apr 11, 1942 — Damien Thomas
Apr 12, 1951 — Tom Noonan 

⭐ Weekly Recommendation
Apr 12, 1985 — Cat’s EyeA wickedly fun Stephen King anthology full of mean little twists, 1980s horror charm, and compact nightmare hooks that bite harder than they first appear.Where to watch: Howdy with subscription; rent or buy on Apple TV and Fandango at Home.

🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
Email: [email protected]

🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

The Anneliese Michel exorcism remains one of the most disturbing and controversial cases in modern religious history—a story of alleged demonic possession, failed medical treatment, Catholic ritual, and a young woman whose death still fuels arguments about faith, mental illness, epilepsy, and neglect. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we go beyond the sensational “real exorcism” legend and into the documented tragedy behind the case: a deeply religious woman in West Germany, months of ritual intervention, a body wasting away in plain sight, and the horrifying question of what happens when conviction replaces care. 

We trace the full arc of the case, from Anneliese Michel’s early medical struggles and reported seizures to the growing belief that she was possessed, the Church-approved exorcism rites carried out by Fathers Ernst Alt and Arnold Renz, and the devastating collapse that ended in her death on July 1, 1976. The episode also follows the aftermath: the criminal trial, the role of her parents, the suspended sentences for negligent homicide, and the reason this case still endures as one of the darkest intersections of Catholic exorcism, psychological suffering, and preventable death. 

Inside this episode:
Who Anneliese Michel was before the case became world-famous
Epilepsy, psychiatric symptoms, and spiritual interpretation
How the possession narrative took hold
The months-long Catholic exorcism rites
Why medical treatment stopped
Her death from malnutrition and dehydration
The 1978 trial of her parents and the priests
Why the real horror is more disturbing than the legend

If you’re drawn to true exorcism stories, real demonic possession cases, Catholic horror, paranormal true crime, religious mystery, and the devastating gray area where belief and mental illness collide, this episode is essential listening. The Anneliese Michel case is frightening not because it might prove a demon was in the room—but because a suffering young woman was, and the people around her could no longer see her clearly enough to save her.

We’re telling that story tonight.

🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
Email: [email protected]

🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Unknown Broadcast returns with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio drama, eerie mystery anthologies, and dark audio storytelling slipped loose from the static.

This week’s transmission moves from a prison-bred family wound that never healed, to occupied France and a dangerous OSS operation, to a miracle cure that may be something far worse, and finally to the soft, impossible footsteps of a child-sized presence that does not belong in any ordinary room. Four stories. Four distinct kinds of dread. All of them patient.

💰 “Accounts Receivable” — A son forced back into the orbit of his dying criminal father finds that old hatred is easier to carry than forgiveness. Prison, buried money, generational damage, and a home already cracking under financial strain turn this into a bitter family reckoning where every debt comes due.
⚜️ “Operation Fleur de Lys” — Occupied France, the underground, OSS planning rooms, and a mission tied to the coming push into Normandy give this one the charged pulse of wartime espionage. It moves with secrecy, danger, divided loyalties, and the feeling that love and duty may not survive the same operation.
🧠 “The Kettler Method” — A celebrated doctor’s brain operation promises wonders, but the very phrase “the Kettler Method” carries the chill of obsession, pride, and terrible consequences. Mad medicine, professional vanity, and surgical dread make this one feel like science stepping over a line it should never have approached.
👣 “Little Fellow” — Quiet, intimate, and deeply uncanny, this final tale trades overt violence for the hush of something impossible drawing near. A tiny voice, a tiny presence, and the eerie innocence of the title itself make it feel less like a haunting than an intrusion from some smaller, stranger corner of reality. 

So settle in for classic radio suspense, vintage horror, old-time radio mystery, and eerie supernatural drama from a feed that never entirely explains itself. Some ghosts come back for revenge, some secrets return for history, and some things arrive so softly you only notice them once they are already in the room. 

🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
Email: [email protected]

🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com