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Terrifying & True | Vampire of Sacramento: Richard Chase — True Halloween Horrors

Episode | 78 min | Oct 13, 2025
Halloween horror stories—making spooky season terrifyingly real. 

Richard Trenton Chase, the “Vampire of Sacramento,” whose 1977–1978 crimes turned neighborhood fear into a citywide lockdown. We connect the early warning signs to the unlocked-door “invitation” pattern, the frantic manhunt and FBI profile, and the courtroom fight over sanity and responsibility. With clear sourcing and zero fluff, we trace how untreated psychosis, blood-fixated delusions, and institutional failures produced one of America’s most nightmarish true-crime horror cases.
Inside this episode
  • Early warning signs: Escalating animal cruelty, delusions, and missed interventions.
  • Method of entry: Why unlocked doors became his “permission”—fueling the vampire legend.
  • Timeline of murders: From Dec 29, 1977 (Ambrose Griffin) through Jan 1978 home invasions marked by mutilation and blood-drinking.
  • Profilers move in: How the FBI Behavioral Science Unit sketched a near-perfect suspect.
  • Arrest & evidence: The apartment, the freezer, and what they revealed about ritual and motive.
  • Trial, verdict, and death: The sanity battle, death sentence, and end on death row.
  • Legacy & lessons: Media panic, myth vs. pathology, and what communities can learn.

If you’ve ever wondered how a horror legend becomes flesh-and-blood fact, this is the case.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Scary Horror Stories for the Spooky Season

Episode | 201 min | Oct 12, 2025
It's time for horror stories! When the clock forgets your name, my dear, the night remembers. In this episode of Unknown Broadcast, we summon six chilling old-time radio horror stories—tales of cursed strangers, haunted houses, ghost makers, and books that bleed. These macabre fictions echo the golden age of radio—dark, vintage, and unforgettable.
  • 👴 A Very Old Man — A kindly stranger wanders in from the cold… but time clings to him like grave-moss. Every kindness here has a cost.
  • 🌘 A Terrible Night — A sleepless hour stretches thin as a blade; something in the hallway counts your breaths… and hungers for the last one.
  • 🏚️ House of Murder — A home with a heartbeat and a habit: it keeps what enters. Doors close softly; the house does the rest.
  • 🪄 The Ghost Maker — A craftsman sells impossible reunions, one coin at a time. The dead return—polite, grateful… and wrong.
  • 🐍 Snake Doctor — Remedies brewed in swamps and whispers; a healer with patient hands and venom in the fine print.
  • 🩸 The Blood Red Ink — A manuscript writes back, correcting its readers in strokes of crimson. The ending will have you.

If you crave the uncanny, the Unknown Broadcast will be your companion: a place where classic OTR horror storiesand modern unease meet. Listen with the lights low and the locks firm; the night dislikes an audience that looks away.

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Ep 356

One Fateful Halloween: A Terrifying Horror Story of Cursed Rings and Nightmares

Episode | 41 min | Oct 11, 2025
Dive into a haunting Halloween tale as Halloween turns to horror in this chilling story!

When a rebellious teen steals a mysterious glowing pumpkin ring from a strange shop in Strickfield, she unleashes a Halloween curse that drags her into a nightmare realm filled with monsters and terror.

As the night unfolds, she encounters living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages in a desperate fight for survival. Escaping the curse means facing her own transformation—and realizing that some things you steal can steal you right back. 

If you love scary Halloween stories, creepy curses, and the thrill of classic horror, this one’s for you. Join us for an unforgettable spooky season is filled with terror and suspense!


One Fateful Halloween — by Rob Fields

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Cutting Deep into Horror | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Wes Craven’s Slasher Masterpiece with Freddy Krueger

Episode | 124 min | Oct 10, 2025
Halloween watchlist essential! We sink our claws into one of the most iconic horror films ever made: Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Freddy Krueger’s terrifying debut, exploring how this razor-fingered dream stalker redefined the slasher genre and haunted a generation of horror fans.

Inside this episode, Henrique and Rachael share their first encounters with the film—late-night VHS terrors and the exhilaration of discovering horror’s most surreal monster. They break down:
  • The legacy of Wes Craven — how his unique vision fused nightmares and reality.
  • Freddy Krueger’s origins — a vengeful ghost, a product of parental sins, and an enduring cultural boogeyman.
  • Themes of fear and adolescence — how suburban safety hides lurking generational trauma.
  • Dream sequences & surreal imagery — why they still feel terrifying decades later.
  • The franchise’s evolution — from Freddy’s pure horror roots to his shift into dark comedy across sequels.
Whether you first saw it huddled at a sleepover or discovered it on late-night TV, A Nightmare on Elm Street still cuts to the bone. Join Henrique and Rachael for a spirited, insightful discussion that blends nostalgia, cultural analysis, and a few laughs along the way.

Where to Watch (U.S., as of this writing):

Stay tuned to the end as the hosts tease next week’s dive into Candyman—because in the world of horror, the cycle always continues.

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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Ep 355

Halloween Blood Hunt: Spine-Chilling Vampire Horror for Spooky Season

Episode | 47 min | Oct 9, 2025
Looking for a terrifying Halloween horror story?

An ancient vampire rises again to feed during Halloween week in Ohio. When Countess Elizabeth Bathory—the infamous Blood Countess—returns from the grave, a night of trick-or-treating turns into a nightmare of blood, immortality, and revenge.

As the town descends into chaos, a teen vampire hunter and a girl from Hell must face the most powerful predator in horror history. Can they stop her before Halloween night ends… or will the Blood Countess bathe again?

This vampire horror story by Rob Fields blends supernatural horror, gothic legend, and pulse-pounding Halloween tension—perfect for fans of scary podcasts, Halloween fiction, and vampire thrillers.

Halloween Blood Hunt — by Rob Fields

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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Feed Drop: Urban Legends — The Satanic Panic (True Crime History)

Episode | 76 min | Oct 9, 2025
True Halloween Horrors for your Spooky Season!

In this chapter, let's delve into the urban legends that brought forward what is now known as 'The Satanic Panic‘, from the first sensational cases and flawed investigations to the media frenzy and courtrooms that followed.  We’ll look at how fear, politics, and culture combined to create a moral wildfire, one that still echoes in today’s conspiracy movements.

If you have more information or a correction on something mentioned in this chapter, email us at [email protected].


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Ep 354

Halloween Cannibal Killer — Modern Tastes (Horror Novella)

Episode | 113 min | Oct 8, 2025
It's Halloween time and our latest scary story dives into a cannibal killer who hunts his victims, blending horror with a chilling culinary obsession.'

When a devoted husband vanishes during his evening run, his wife Cora refuses to accept the police’s easy answers. Her desperate search pulls her into a nightmare of blood, muscle, and madness—where primal hunger meets the modern world.

Alongside a reluctant gym bro named Troy, Cora uncovers a horrifying truth about the man stalking her town… a cannibal gourmet who grades his meals by muscle tone and marbling. As Halloween looms, the line between predator and prey begins to blur—and the hungriest beast might not be the one in the woods.

This twisted novella-length horror story from David O’Hanlon serves up dark humor, brutal tension, and grisly realism, blending serial killer terror, survival horror, and macabre culinary obsession into one unforgettable tale.

Perfect for fans of Hannibal, Dexter, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre—this story will leave you horrified, amused, and maybe a little hungry.

Modern Tastes — by David O’Hanlon

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9 Scary Halloween Stories — Headless Riders & Haunted Towns

Episode | 262 min | Oct 7, 2025
It’s Spooky Season—prime time for a wall-to-wall Halloween horror binge. This full audio compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast packs 9 scary stories of monsters, urban legends, ghostly vengeance, and October-night mayhem. Hit play for a cinematic mix of pumpkin curses, headless riders, haunted towns, and parties from hell—perfect for late-night listening, trick-or-treat routes, or fall drives.

What’s inside (in order):
  • Mischief Night: The Halloween Invasion — Shane Migliavacca: A touring punk band limps into a silent town on Halloween…where the “locals” aren’t human anymore. Survival horror across a diner, alleys, and rooftops before the bridge out.
  • Dullahan — Morgan Moore: A new kid—eerily resembling a condemned witch-trial figure—finds himself hunted on a moonlit path by a headless rider bent on collecting. Creepy folklore turned chase-night terror.
  • Origin of the Pumpkin Man — Charles Campbell: Middle-school hijinks at the Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee escalate from pranks to explosions…and seed the birth of a grim valley legend. 80s Halloween vibes with a sharp fuse.
  • The Grinner — Henrique Couto: A Halloween-obsessed kid, a coveted VHS, and a scarecrow with a warped smile guarding a candy bowl at a decaying hall. Greed, dares, and a grin you can’t forget.
  • Ghost in the Graveyard — Rob Fields: Strickfield extends trick-or-treating to a full week; three friends push to midnight and stir up unfinished business from a summer of horrors. Small-town tradition meets the supernatural.
  • Tricks and Treats — Keith Tomlin: Jack Scratch—an infernal “talent scout”—walks a Midwestern Halloween to sample blood, death, and pain. Interlinked vignettes of wicked people getting the justice they deserve.
  • The Night Stocker — Shane Migliavacca: First night on the job, Halloween shift, “special shipment” in the back, and wolves circling in the parking lot. A grocery aisle turns slasher-stage after hours.
  • Strife of the Party — David O’Hanlon: Glitzy corporate Halloween gala, FX-artist costume flexing, billionaires behaving badly—then the masks come off and the body count climbs. A savage social-horror romp.
  • Burn on the Bayou — L.F. Falconer: A famed Halloween host stages his most ambitious haunted soirée at a ruined manor—while a lover’s plot to “solve” a marriage collides with real ghosts and older fires. Gothic, lush, and lethal.

Curl up with a pumpkin spice (or something stronger), turn the lights down, and let October do what October does.

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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Terrifying & True | The Funhouse Mummy: Elmer McCurdy's Horrifying Tale This Halloween

Episode | 49 min | Oct 6, 2025
This Halloween, jump into the eerie tale of Elmer McCurdy—a true crime deep dive into urban legends and America’s carnival underbelly. In 1976, a seemingly innocuous Halloween haunt took a terrifying turn when a “mannequin” on a Long Beach dark ride wasn’t a prop—it was a real human corpse. In 1976, a TV crew at The Pike’s Laff in the Dark discovered human bone after a stunt arm snapped. Forensics exposed arsenic embalming, a copper bullet jacket, and a 1924 penny with old carnival tickets—breadcrumbs that led to Elmer McCurdy, a bungling Oklahoma train robber killed in 1911. For more than six decades, his body was bought, sold, and exhibited in sideshows and roadside museums, then misfiled as a prop and hung on a ride—until investigators finally confirmed the truth and laid him to rest under concrete in Guthrie (1977).

This is a true-crime deep dive into America’s carnival underbelly, the commodification of death, and how an outlaw became the Funhouse Mummy.

Inside this episode:
  • The 1976 discovery at The Pike: the moment the “dummy” bled clues—arsenic, bullet jacket, 1924 penny, tickets.
  • McCurdy’s final heist (1911): the botched robbery, the posse’s shot, and an undertaker who wouldn’t release the body.
  • The carnival con: how promoters “claimed” the corpse and rebranded it coast-to-coast for decades.
  • Forensic ID & burial (1977): the paper trail that ended with concrete sealing a grave in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
  • Ethics & aftermath: why outlaw mummies vanished—and what the case says about spectacle vs. dignity.

If you’re searching funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy, Long Beach funhouse corpse, The Pike Laff in the Dark, outlaw mummy Oklahoma, arsenic embalming, sideshow history, or a true crime podcast about real “haunted” carnivals, this episode is your map. Follow and share for spooky-season specials all October.

We’re telling that story tonight.

Check out more Terrifying & True episodes!
https://www.weeklyspooky.com/categories/terrifying-true/

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🎵 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 | Gavel, Greed & the Web: Six Horror Stories of Knives, Goblets, and Guilt

Episode | 182 min | Oct 5, 2025
Old-Time Radio (OTR) horror anthology featuring CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out, Murder at Midnight, Suspense, and The Whistler—six restored classics in one episode for fans of vintage radio drama, noir thrillers, and classic horror stories.
Gather close, my dear. The dial warms, the room cools, and the old ghosts speak.
  • ⚖️ Guilty as Charged (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, by G. Frederick Lewis) — A wrongful accusation tightens like a noose as the justice system hisses for blood.
  • 💰🌊 Seeds of Greed (Escape, by Freud A. Nelson) — Treasure glitters; conscience drowns. On a small ship, fortune names its price.
  • 🕷️ Spider (Lights Out) — A carnival of nerves and a creature with too many eyes; some webs are spun from human hunger.
  • 🍷💀 Death’s Goblet (Murder at Midnight, by Sigmund Miller) — A cursed cup passes from hand to hand, and every toast is a tally.
  • 🔪 Two Sharp Knives (Suspense, by Dashiell Hammett) — Small-town secrets, hardboiled logic, and a blade-clean cut to the truth.
  • 🕯️ Dark Pattern(s) (The Whistler) — Motives woven like lace in shadow; the narrator knows what you did… and why.
Keep the lights low, but not out. Some shapes look back when you stare too long.

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