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Cursed football horror reaches its terrifying finale as the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology concludes Summer of the Demon. In Part 5, Eddie Richter, Jessica Branlake, Charlie Thoss, and the surviving players of Camp Red Feather face the final nightmare behind the cursed 00 jersey, the Demon’s return, and the dark secrets that have haunted this deadly summer football camp.

The truth behind the Demon is finally revealed, but knowing the truth may not be enough to survive it. The curse grows stronger, old betrayals rise from the shadows, and Eddie is forced into the ultimate supernatural showdown: a brutal football game where the scoreboard means life, death, and damnation.

This thrilling conclusion delivers supernatural horror, cursed-object terror, demon horror, summer camp horror, football horror, monster mayhem, dark teen horror energy, mature themes, shocking revelations, high-stakes action, and a final battle that brings the whole miniseries roaring into the end zone.

If you love horror stories, scary stories, creepy campfire tales, demonic curses, haunted sports horror, killer summer camp stories, and serialized horror fiction, this finale of Summer of the Demon brings the curse of Camp Red Feather to its wildest, bloodiest, most intense chapter yet.

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Summer horror gets radioactive, gothic, mechanical, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of June 29 through July 5. This time, we’re crawling through giant insect mayhem, modern gothic literature, Japanese cyberpunk body horror, George A. Romero’s underground zombie apocalypse, and one deeply twisted Italian gothic shocker from the early 1960s. 

Inside this episode:
June 29, 1977 — Empire of the Ants opens in New York
A radioactive drive-in creature feature turns Florida real estate, toxic waste, Joan Collins, and giant ants into pure summer horror chaos. J
une 30, 2020 — Mexican Gothic is published
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s modern gothic landmark sends Noemí Taboada into a poisonous mansion where family secrets, sickness, inheritance, and fungal horror take root.
July 1, 1989 — Tetsuo: The Iron Man releases in Japan
Shinya Tsukamoto’s black-and-white cyberpunk nightmare turns the human body into metal, noise, panic, rust, drills, and unforgettable industrial body horror.
July 3, 1985 — Day of the Dead receives its New York/limited release
George A. Romero traps the end of the world inside a military bunker, where zombies own the surface and the survivors may be more dangerous than the dead.

Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Barbara Steele stars in Riccardo Freda’s morbid Italian gothic horror film about obsession, death, forbidden desire, and a mansion where the past refuses to stay buried. Horror Birthdays This Week:
Dan Aykroyd, Larry David, Tom Cruise, and Gloria Stuart all land in this week’s horror-adjacent birthday roll, from paranormal comedy and classic Universal horror to vampire films, alien invasion, and anxiety comedy.

Weekly Recommendation — Tales of Terror
Roger Corman, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone bring classic anthology horror, gothic dread, revenge, madness, and candlelit old-school atmosphere to this week’s recommendation.

From Empire of the Ants and Mexican Gothic to Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Day of the Dead, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, and Tales of Terror, this week in horror history proves that summer is never safe from monsters, machines, mansions, zombies, or the dead things waiting underground.

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What really happened to the children of Hamelin on June 26, 1284? This June on Monthly Spooky, Henrique and Michelle follow the real history behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin—from the medieval town chronicle and the legend of 130 missing children to theories involving plague, the Children’s Crusade, dancing mania, mass migration, and a brightly dressed recruiter known as a “locator.” Then the show takes its usual turn into the month’s funniest, creepiest, and most bewildering paranormal news, bizarre archaeology, weird science, unexplained mysteries, strange animals, haunted houses, and new horror movies.Inside this episode:

• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, June 26, 1284, and the earliest surviving evidence behind one of history’s darkest fairy tales
• Why plague, the Children’s Crusade, medieval dancing mania, German migration, and supernatural forces have all been proposed as explanations
• A 7,000-year-old mass grave at Vráble, Slovakia, containing 78 bodies—and 77 headless skeletons
• Reported ghostly child footprints, handprints, and unexplained noises inside an appliance shop in Mendoza, Argentina
• United Airlines Flight 236 turning back toward Newark after a Bluetooth device appeared under the alarming name “BOMB”
• The still-unfolding search for Gracie, the giraffe who escaped Cedar Hollow Ranch and disappeared into the rugged Texas Hill Country
• Scientists baking sourdough bread with yeast recovered from Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old mummy
• The Ocean Census announcing 1,121 strange marine species—including a ghost shark and a mysterious worm living inside a deep-sea “glass castle”
• A live frog named Greg discovered inside a sealed Woolworths bag of lettuce in Esperance, Western Australia
• Australia’s record seizure of 100,000 illegal Madagascar hissing and Dubia cockroaches
• Virginia’s allegedly haunted Octagon Mansion, a Civil War-era paranormal landmark listed for only $295,000
• Henrique’s spoiler-light theater reactions to Scary Movie (2026), Passenger, and The Death of Robin Hood
• A terrifying Reddit “glitch in reality” story about a finished basement that suddenly ceased to exist—and the disturbing gas-leak explanation behind it
• Henrique’s growing Dayton folklore TikTok audience, local urban legends, and the viewers determined to correct every detail

New here? Monthly Spooky is the paranormal comedy and weird-news companion to Weekly Spooky, hosted by filmmaker Henrique Couto and Michelle. Every episode mixes haunted history, creepy folklore, unexplained mysteries, bizarre science, strange but true news, horror movie reviews, and the kind of late-night conversation that makes frightening stories even more fun.Follow or subscribe so you never miss the last Monday of the month. Which mystery gets under your skin most: Hamelin’s missing children, Slovakia’s headless dead, Mendoza’s phantom footprints—or the house whose basement seemingly vanished? And seriously—how do you lose a giraffe?

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Four chilling tales converge on one broadcast tonight. Conspiracy to Defraud weaves narcotics agents and deadly foreign intrigue. Then Taboo ventures into Carpathian darkness where village fears of werewolf horror may be terrifyingly real. Menace in Wax transforms a wartime London museum into a murder trap of espionage and hidden messages. Finally, The Whistler drifts through fog-shrouded shores where a harbor killing remains unsolved. Horror fiction anthology meets true crime mystery—expertly narrated supernatural folklore for the darkest hours.

Four stories. Four disguises. One broadcast that smiles politely while leading you deeper into the dark.

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Late night horror fiction anthology featuring vampire stories that bite into four different corners of the undead mythos. From a daylight-walking Master Vampire made vulnerable by a solar eclipse, to supernatural romance in a convenience store and brutal strip club slaughter—these vampire horror tales deliver the dark supernatural folklore, mature themes and creature-feature terror that Weekly Spooky fans crave. Perfect for horror enthusiasts, scary story collectors, and late-night listeners seeking immersive, cinematic storytelling.

Inside this episode:
• Mortal Eclipse — by Rob Fields
A powerful Master Vampire becomes dangerously human during a rare solar eclipse, leaving her vulnerable to enemies who have been waiting for the perfect time to strike. What begins as a quiet moment above the city turns into a brutal vampire battle involving old grudges, dark magic, and the terrifying price of immortality.
• Vampire Night — by Joe Ruston
A group of women out for one wild night in Cleveland cross paths with a pack of vicious vampire punks, turning a strip club into a neon-lit slaughterhouse. As the bodies pile up, a bartender fights to survive a savage urban vampire attack that may not end when the sun comes up. 
• Stakes n’ Shoguns — by Dan Wilder
On New Year’s Eve, a man hoping to watch a bloody samurai movie in a grimy theater finds himself trapped with drunken vampires, bat swarms, a disgraced priest, and something that may be Count Dracula himself. It’s a filthy, funny, chaotic vampire nightmare soaked in grindhouse energy and midnight-movie madness.
• Convenience Store Vampire — by Douglas Waltz
A bored night-shift clerk at a convenience store meets a mysterious woman who appears without setting off the doorbell and slowly draws him into her strange, romantic, undead world. When violence erupts during a robbery, his ordinary life ends… and eternity begins.
 
If you love vampire horror podcasts, scary vampire stories, bloodsucker fiction, supernatural romance, punk vampires, Dracula horror, midnight movie monsters, vampire attacks, and darkly funny horror, this compilation delivers a bloody mix of action, atmosphere, comedy, romance, and undead terror.

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Unsolved murders, true crime mystery, and urban legends collide in this 10-part horror anthology. From Johnny Gosch's vanishing to the Keddie Cabin bloodbath, Mandela Effect phenomenon, Men in Black encounters, and the legendary Angikuni Lake disappearance—explore real cases, cryptid folklore, and paranormal gaps that blur fact and fiction. Perfect for late night listening.

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This is the stuff of Late Night Horror... The Walt Disney cryogenic frozen conspiracy has haunted Disneyland lore for 60 years—but what if the real horror is how a debunked myth became immortal? Henrique Couto investigates the supernatural folklore behind the legend: the 1960s cryonics craze that made it plausible, the tabloid lies about secret chambers beneath Pirates of the Caribbean, and how Walt Disney's official biography unexpectedly breathed new life into the urban legend. A chilling true crime mystery of myth-making itself and how weird experiences can keep an idea alive.

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The cursed 00 jersey grows more dangerous as the horror fiction anthology continues at Camp Red Feather. In Part 4 of Summer of the Demon, Eddie Richter wakes up injured but not defeated, and the battle against the Demon becomes more desperate than ever.

After surviving another brutal attack, Eddie realizes the nightmare may have a weakness. But knowing how to fight the Demon and actually surviving the fight are two very different things. As storm clouds gather, practice turns strange, teammates grow suspicious, and Camp Red Feather prepares for another deadly scrimmage, Eddie and the Serpents are forced to make their boldest play yet.

This episode of Weekly Spooky delivers supernatural football horror, cursed-object terror, summer camp suspense, demonic mayhem, eerie mystery, teen horror energy, mature themes, brutal action, dark secrets, and a shocking cliffhanger that changes the game heading into the final chapter.

Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields

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Horror history spirals into paranoia and infection this week—from The Thing's frozen body horror to 28 Days Later's rage-virus chaos, The Omen's cursed bloodline, 1408's haunted hotel nightmare, and Quake's gothic digital terror. Henrique explores how June 22–28 birthed some of horror's most influential outbreak and supernatural films, dissecting what made them landmarks in horror legends and why they still feel dangerously relevant today.

Inside this episode:
• 1408 turns one hotel room into a psychological pressure cooker, trapping a skeptical writer inside a space that studies him, wounds him, and refuses to let him leave.
• The Omen gives the evil-child movie one of its classiest and creepiest landmarks, with the Antichrist hiding behind privilege, elegance, and a terrifyingly calm little smile.
• 28 Days Later drags outbreak horror into the 21st century with empty London streets, sprinting infected, digital grime, and the terrifying idea that civilization can collapse almost overnight.
• Quake opens a slipgate into gothic castles, wet tunnels, shambling monsters, Lovecraftian dread, and a diseased industrial soundscape that helped reshape horror-tinged gaming.
• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to The Thing, John Carpenter’s 1982 alien paranoia nightmare about imitation, isolation, mistrust, Rob Bottin’s legendary effects, and the terrifying question of who is still human.

Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Bruce Campbell, Peter Lorre, Isabelle Adjani, and Kathy Bates, a creepy look at how horror teaches us to distrust the obvious, and a weekly recommendation for Twilight Zone: The Movie, the complicated 1983 anthology film that brought Rod Serling’s nightmare world to the big screen.

From haunted rooms and Antichrist children to rage-infected streets, gothic gaming nightmares, Antarctic isolation, alien imitation, blood tests, body horror, and the cold collapse of trust, this week proves horror history can make monsters out of places, people, memories, machines, and the person standing right beside you.

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On spring break 2006, Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer walked into a crowded Columbus bar—and vanished without a trace. Security cameras captured him near the Ugly Tuna Saloon moments before closing, but footage mysteriously never showed him leaving. Explore one of Ohio's most baffling true crime mysteries: the search for answers, theories that haunted the South Campus Gateway, and the supernatural questions that remain unsolved nearly two decades later.

This episode of Terrifying & True investigates the disappearance of Brian Shaffer, the Ohio State medical student who vanished from Columbus on April 1, 2006. We examine the final surveillance footage, the search efforts, the role of camera blind spots, the theories that have followed the case for nearly two decades, and the human heartbreak behind one of America’s most haunting unsolved mysteries.

Brian Shaffer was not a late night horror legend. He was a son, a brother, a boyfriend, a future doctor, and a grieving young man standing at the edge of the rest of his life. Then, somewhere between a crowded bar and the outside world, he disappeared.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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