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Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with another uneasy collection of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, gothic crime, and strange little broadcasts that seem to know exactly what you are afraid to touch.

Tonight’s transmission carries four shadowed tales from the darker shelves of the dial: a glass ball that may contain something ancient and wicked, a department store where the mannequins are not the only ones waiting after dark, a romantic cottage hiding a murderous secret, and a body pulled from Billingsgate that leads into a web of crime, greed, and fate. The room is warm. The chair is ready. The host is smiling again. But whatever is inside the story… may not stay there.

🔮 The Thing Inside — A mysterious glass ball from an antique shop awakens something deadly in a quiet New England village, as desire, jealousy, and hidden evil begin to twist one man toward destruction.
🌙 Evening Primrose — A poet flees ordinary life by hiding inside a department store after closing, only to discover a secret society of night dwellers who may never let him leave.
🏚️ Philomel Cottage — A woman believes she has found love and safety in a charming country cottage, but the man beside her may be hiding a past written in murder.
⚓ The Body Off Billingsgate — A corpse on the dock pulls Scotland Yard into a cold, foggy mystery of stolen money, false identities, and a killer who thinks he has already escaped.

Four classic OTR horror stories drift through Unknown Broadcast tonight… and whether the terror is sealed in glass, hidden after closing, waiting in a cottage, or floating in from the fog, something inside the static is still moving.

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Slasher horror, haunted motel terror, killer prom nightmares, ghostly mansion traps, and small-town murder mayhem collide in this killer Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love creepy roadside horror, escape-room death games, prom night bloodshed, masked killers, ghost stories, and long-form horror with a pulpy 80s-and-90s feel, this episode is stacked with suspense, violence, and pure Halloween-all-year fun.

Tonight’s lineup begins with a desert motel stop that turns into a nightmare of fugitives, storms, strange lights, and something deeply wrong out in the wasteland. Then we head to Grimm Manor, where a stormy detour traps Bethany Martinson inside a sprawling haunted mansion filled with secret rooms, ghostly tricks, and a hidden fortune waiting behind deadly puzzles. And finally, the night explodes into prom queen rivalry, buried trauma, and a brutal killer loose at Strickfield High in a slasher-sized descent into prom-night chaos.

• Incident at Isotop Inn — by Shane Migliavacca
A grieving woman, a punk motel clerk, a desert storm, escaped killers, and Black Ridge’s bizarre secrets all smash together in a tense, weird, blood-soaked roadside nightmare. This one blends crime thriller, cosmic strangeness, and grim motel horror in all the right ways.

• Murder Mansion — by Rob Fields
Bethany Martinson survives a wreck in the storm and stumbles into Grimm Manor, where ghosts, trap rooms, mirror horrors, hidden passages, and a buried family fortune turn one terrible night into a full gothic puzzle-box nightmare. Big haunted-house energy, high-stakes escape-room tension, and classic spooky adventure all the way through.        

• Prom Queen Killer — by Rob Fields
A prom-night nightmare of rivalry, buried trauma, queer desire, and a killer stalking Strickfield High turns this novella-length slasher into a vicious, dramatic, blood-soaked descent into chaos. It’s exactly the kind of high-school horror that mixes crowns, grudges, and murder into one unforgettable night.        

From neon vacancy signs to candlelit deathtraps and blood on the gym floor, this collection is all about one bad night spiraling into something unforgettable. Lock the doors, dim the lights, and don’t trust any place that promises shelter, glamour, or a crown.

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Eerie found footage chaos meets scary viral marketing mystery in Cloverfield (2008). Director Matt Reeves, writer Drew Goddard, and producer J.J. Abrams crafted a mature-themes monster movie that redefined how handheld perspective creates terror. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi revisit the kaiju-style attack, NYC devastation, and cult-classic status of this explosive creature-feature on Cutting Deep into Horror—one of the 2000s' most unsettling disaster horrors.

Cloverfield remains a cult-favorite found footage monster movie built on shaky-cam panic, post-9/11 imagery, mysterious viral marketing, and the unforgettable sight of New York City collapsing under something enormous, unknowable, and very, very hungry.

Inside this episode:

Henrique and Rachael dig into why Cloverfield still works as a found footage horror movie, even with a studio-sized monster spectacle roaring behind the handheld camera.

They revisit the original mystery-box marketing campaign, the untitled teaser, the online speculation, the Lost and Godzilla rumors, and the way the film turned pre-release confusion into a major part of the experience.

The conversation walks through the movie’s biggest nightmare images: the Statue of Liberty’s head in the street, the collapsing city, the subway parasite attack, the rescue mission for Beth, the helicopter crash, Operation Hammer Down, and that final Coney Island clue hiding in plain sight.

They also get into the film’s lingering connection to 9/11-era disaster imagery, why handheld horror depends so heavily on realism, how Cloverfield compares to The Blair Witch Project and other found footage films, and why the movie’s sense of panic still feels unusually immediate.

Plus, they discuss the cast, Matt Reeves’ later career, Steven Spielberg’s reported influence on the ending, the monster’s mysterious origin, and whether Cloverfield still holds up nearly two decades later.

Where to watch Cloverfield (U.S.):
Free with ads on Pluto TV: https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/movies/5bd3338967f34cef7af44a37

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Eerie folklore meets paranormal tourism on this haunted Ohio road trip. Explore the Gothic Ohio State Reformatory (famous for Shawshank Redemption & documented paranormal investigations), Cleveland's Franklin Castle, and the ghostly Moonville Tunnel. Discover real ghost stories, chilling histories, and eerie landmarks you can actually visit—plus the dark truths behind these haunted American locations. Perfect for mature-themed horror fans and paranormal travelers.

Inside this episode:
• Why haunted locations are booming with ghost hunters, horror fans, and paranormal tourists
• How the Ohio State Reformatory became a perfect mix of history, cinema, and ghost-hunt atmosphere
• Why Franklin Castle still feels like Cleveland's classic haunted-house legend
• How Moonville Tunnel turns Ohio railroad folklore into a chilling backroads ghost story
• Why people love standing in the dark and asking, “Did you hear that?”This is a fun, spooky, source-aware haunted travel episode for anyone who loves ghost stories, creepy road trips, abandoned places, haunted prisons, paranormal tourism, and real locations that feel like they belong in a horror movie.

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Horror stories meet paranormal radio terror in this 400th-episode event. Lost in the Void descends into nightmare as late-night callers share eerie stories of impossible encounters and dark roads—until the final transmission takes a terrifying turn. Featuring Duane Whitaker (Pulp Fiction, The Devil's Rejects), this scary story is a cinematic audio drama for mature audiences who crave immersive anthology horror and unsettling urban legend deep-dives.

Randall Burr is the host of Lost in the Void, a lonely overnight radio show where callers share stories of strange figures, haunted highways, eerie truck stops, voices that should not be on the air, and things waiting just beyond the reach of headlights. At first, the night sounds like classic paranormal radio: strange lights under frozen lakes, unsettling highway encounters, mysterious callers from across the world, and listeners who swear the road itself is watching.

But as the calls keep coming, something begins to shift.

The stories start connecting. The signal reaches places it should not reach. The callers know too much. And the man behind the microphone slowly realizes the show he is hosting may not be a show at all.

Final Broadcast is creepy, funny, eerie, strange, and increasingly unnerving as one broadcaster tries to keep control of a program that may already belong to something else.

For our 400th episode, Weekly Spooky goes deep into the static with a feature-length nightmare about radio waves, haunted highways, impossible callers, and the terrifying moment when something on the other side of the broadcast starts listening back.

Final Broadcast — by Henrique Couto

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Dive into a week of horror history: iconic haunted hotels, chilling sequels, cult revenge classics, and one of the 1990s' sharpest horror anthology films.

Inside this episode:
✅ May 18, 1971 — The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Vincent Price becomes one of horror’s most stylish revenge artists in this bizarre, elegant, plague-inspired cult classic full of murder, black comedy, and art deco nightmare energy.
Where to watch: No major U.S. streaming this week; physical media is the main option.
✅ May 22, 1992 — Alien 3
Ripley crash-lands into one of the franchise’s bleakest, most controversial chapters, trading action-horror triumph for grief, sacrifice, prison-colony dread, and industrial nightmare atmosphere.
Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max; rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
✅ May 23, 1986 — Poltergeist II: The Other Side
The Freeling family learns the haunting did not stay behind, while Reverend Kane becomes one of supernatural horror’s most unforgettable screen nightmares.
Where to watch: Streaming on MGM+; free with ads on The Roku Channel and YouTube Free.
✅ May 23, 1980 — The Shining
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel opens in theaters, beginning the long, strange afterlife of the Overlook Hotel, Jack Torrance, and one of the most debated horror classics ever made.
Where to watch: Rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight — May 24, 1995: Tales from the Hood
Rusty Cundieff’s Tales from the Hood brings social horror, supernatural justice, EC Comics-style punishment, and Clarence Williams III’s unforgettable Mr. Simms into one of the most underrated horror anthologies of the 1990s. With stories tackling police brutality, domestic abuse, white supremacy, and cycles of violence, this cult favorite still hits hard because its monsters are never far from the real world.
Where to watch: Streaming on YouTube with ads; rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

Plus: horror birthdays for Grace Jones, Fairuza Balk, Felissa Rose, and Doug Jones, a “Then & Now” look at horror as punishment and aftermath, and a weekly recommendation for the unsettling pre-Exorcist possession film The Possession of Joel Delaney.

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The Beast of Bray Road is a chilling modern cryptid legend and one of America's most terrifying werewolf sightings — a true story of eerie folklore, haunted highways, and eyewitness horror from rural Wisconsin. In the early 1990s, drivers on Bray Road in Elkhorn reported seeing a massive wolf-like creature that defied explanation. Explore the chilling accounts, the rural legend that gripped a community, and the cryptid mystery that remains unsolved. Perfect eerie suspense storytelling for horror fans who love folklore-backed scares.

Inside this episode:
• The 1991 sightings that turned Bray Road into a cryptid landmark
• Linda Godfrey’s investigation and the newspaper story that gave the Beast its name
• Eyewitness reports of a wolf-headed creature walking on two legs
• The dogman and werewolf folklore surrounding Wisconsin’s haunted roads
• Possible real-world explanations, from coyotes and wolves to bears and mistaken identity
• Why the legend survives, even without physical proof

This episode of Terrifying & True explores the frightening balance between true cryptid sightings, American folklore, rural horror, and skeptical investigation. It is not just a story about whether a werewolf was really seen on a Wisconsin road. It is a story about how a few terrifying encounters, a powerful name, and a lonely stretch of asphalt can create a modern monster.

Because somewhere outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin, the road is still there.

The ditch is still there.

And when the headlights sweep across the grass, it is easy to understand why people kept talking.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast digs into classic radio horror—four eerie vintage tales where cursed writers, haunted doctors, and shadowy mysteries prove old-time suspense still terrorizes. From the golden age of the dial, these chilling stories showcase the folklore, dark psychology, and gothic dread that defined horror before streaming. Perfect for horror fans seeking authentic, mature-themed audio fiction with real literary bone in them.

Tonight’s transmission brings four eerie classics from the darker corners of the dial: a writer haunted by the women he created, a sinister door in old Paris, a doctor’s final confession, and a waiting man whose patience may be the most dangerous thing in the room. 

🖋️ Three Women — A struggling writer creates a woman too vivid to stay safely on the page, but when fiction begins demanding blood, the ending may no longer belong to him.
🚪 Sire de Maletroit’s Door — In old Paris, one wrong step through one wrong door becomes a trap of honor, marriage, and menace, where escape may depend on accepting the impossible.
💉 The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson — A doctor leaves behind a chilling confession of ambition, murder, madness, and revenge, written as though the dead still have one final diagnosis to deliver.
🕰️ The Man Who Waited — A quiet household hides jealousy, illness, and betrayal, while one patient watcher waits for the perfect moment to turn love into something fatal.

Four classic OTR horror stories pass through Unknown Broadcast tonight… and whether it begins with a book, a door, a letter, or a man who simply waits, the ending may already be written somewhere in the static.

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Haunted roads, cryptid encounters, and creature-feature horror stories converge in this scary stories anthology. Four chilling tales of werewolves, backwoods monsters, and paranormal nightmares—perfect for your next road trip or summer adventure. If you love spooky season all year, folklore, and eerie supernatural storytelling, dive into tonight's creepy compilation of blood-soaked horror stories that blur urban legends with creature features.

Tonight’s lineup starts in a museum of oddities where a harmless internship becomes a grotesque transformation nightmare. From there, a summer camp prank spirals into swamp horror, mad science, and mutated creatures in the dark. Then the road turns deadly with a phantom passenger story that feels like pure late-night highway dread. And finally, a beach trip becomes a full-on werewolf war as Bella Taibon uncovers a savage family secret under the full moon.

• I Worked in a Museum of Oddities Until the Oddest Thing Happened to Me — by Michael Kelso
An unpaid summer internship at a cryptid museum turns monstrous when a mysterious creature bite changes everything. This one mixes body horror, creature-feature chaos, and a mean little twist on small attraction roadside weirdness.
• Summer Slaycation — by David O’Hanlon
What begins as a juvenile camp prank in the Cypress Maze erupts into swamp terror, deranged experiments, and plant-animal abominations in a crumbling bayou house. Fast, nasty, funny, and packed with backwoods creature mayhem.
• I Used to Drive a Delivery Truck, Until the Incident — by Michael Kelso
A delivery driver starts getting written up for carrying a passenger he cannot see—until the camera proves something impossible is riding shotgun. Quiet, eerie, and deeply effective haunted-road horror.
• Bella’s Holiday — by Rob Fields
A summer beach trip to Shore City turns deadly when Bella and Einny discover a brutal werewolf conspiracy hiding inside a family reunion. Equal parts supernatural action, vampire-werewolf conflict, and savage vacation horror.

From dead-end routes and cryptid exhibits to swamp laboratories and moonlit beach bloodshed, this collection is all about summer going rotten in the most entertaining way possible. Pack sunscreen if you want, but you may get more use out of silver, headlights, and a very fast exit.

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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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