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A teen zombie horror story erupts into bloody chaos when a wild new girl at Strickfield High becomes the target of jealousy, murder, and undead revenge. In “Undead Triangle” by Rob Fields, Meredith Ridley is strange, fearless, reckless, and impossible to ignore—but when Lita Hallaway decides Meredith has crossed the wrong line, a deadly rivalry turns into something much worse than high school drama.

After a brutal attack in the Backwoods of Strickfield, Meredith rises from the lake changed forever: undead, hungry, and ready to settle the score. But she is not the only monster crawling back from death. What begins as a tale of jealousy, betrayal, and revenge twists into a gruesome zombie love triangle packed with dark humor, body horror, junkyard carnage, and the kind of over-the-top undead mayhem only Weekly Spooky can deliver.

This episode is perfect for fans of zombie horror, teen horror stories, revenge horror, splatterpunk, dark comedy horror, high school horror, flesh-eating monsters, and Halloween-ready scary stories. If you like your horror wild, bloody, funny, and completely unhinged, this one is ready to sink its teeth in.

Listen now for a gruesome, funny, and vicious tale of death, desire, and undead payback.

Undead Triangle — by Rob Fields

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This Week in Horror History for May 11–17 brings together a loaded week of horror movie anniversaries, Stephen King adaptations, Universal Monsters, zombie outbreak horror, slasher sequels, kaiju blockbusters, and modern home-invasion terror.

Inside this episode:

• May 11, 1936 — Dracula’s Daughter
Universal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula’s legacy into a chilly story of blood, inheritance, repression, and the desperate hope that evil might be cured.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 11, 2007 — 28 Weeks Later
The Rage virus returns with soldiers, checkpoints, quarantine zones, and the terrifying idea that the people in charge may declare the nightmare over long before the nightmare agrees.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 13, 1988 — Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Jason Voorhees rises again on an actual Friday the 13th, this time facing a telekinetic final girl in the cult-favorite slasher sequel fans often describe as Jason versus Carrie at Crystal Lake.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+ with subscription; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 16, 2014 — Godzilla
The MonsterVerse begins as Gareth Edwards brings Godzilla back to American theaters with disaster-movie scale, radioactive awe, and the reminder that humanity is not always the main character of the planet.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

Then, in this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, we go to May 11, 1984 — Firestarter, the Stephen King adaptation about a little girl, a secret government experiment, and the terrifying question of what happens when the weapon you built learns to hate you. Drew Barrymore stars as Charlie McGee, a child whose fear and trauma can ignite into actual flame, making Firestarter one of King’s most haunting stories of power, control, and childhood weaponized by adults.

Plus: a birthday roll featuring Robert Pattinson, David Boreanaz, Megan Fox, and Bill Paxton, a Then & Now Bite about horror’s power to mutate across generations, and a Weekly Recommendation for The Strangers: Chapter 1, a modern masked-intruder nightmare that proves some old fears never stop knocking.

From Dracula’s Daughter to Firestarter, from 28 Weeks Later to Friday the 13th Part VII, from Godzilla to The Strangers, this week is packed with horror history that refuses to stay buried.

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The Setagaya Family Murders remain one of Japan’s most disturbing and baffling unsolved true crime cases: a brutal family killing, an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence, and a killer who somehow vanished anyway.

On December 30, 2000, in Setagaya, Tokyo, the Miyazawa family — Mikio, Yasuko, Niina, and Rei — spent what should have been an ordinary night at home before New Year’s. Sometime between late night and the next morning, an intruder entered from the park side of the house and murdered all four members of the family.

But what happened after the murders is what has haunted investigators for more than two decades.

The killer did not immediately flee. He stayed inside the Miyazawa home for hours. He ate from the kitchen. He drank barley tea. He used the bathroom. He tended to his own injuries. He touched the family computer. Then he left behind an astonishing trail of evidence: blood, fingerprints, palm prints, clothing, shoes, a hip bag, gloves, a scarf, handkerchiefs, and even DNA.

And still, more than twenty years later, police do not know his name.Inside this episode:

• The Night of the Murders: How a quiet family home in Setagaya became the scene of one of Japan’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
• The Miyazawa Family: The ordinary lives behind the case — a father, mother, daughter, and son killed inside the place they should have been safest.
• The Killer Who Stayed: Why the murderer’s hours-long behavior inside the home makes this case so uniquely disturbing.
• A Mountain of Evidence: Blood type, DNA, fingerprints, palm prints, clothing, shoes, and personal items left behind.
• Theories and Dead Ends: Robbery, personal motive, random violence, foreign suspect theories, park-side tensions, and why none have solved the case.
• The Unanswered Question: How can a killer leave so many traces and still disappear?

This is not a case defined by a lack of evidence. It is defined by the terrifying failure of evidence to become identity. The Setagaya Family Murders are a story about a home violated, a family destroyed, and a killer who left behind almost everything except the one thing investigators needed most: his name.In Setagaya, the most frightening part is not that the killer vanished without a trace.It is that he left so many traces and vanished anyway.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying a midnight cargo of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, supernatural mystery, occult terror, and dreadful little accidents that refuse to stay buried.

Tonight’s transmission gathers four vintage nightmares from the shadowed side of the dial: black magic on a college campus, death crawling loose aboard a ship, a lonely woman’s diary curdling into terror, and a fatal road accident that becomes something far more twisted. The host is here. The tea is warm. The room is waiting. And if the stories sound like they were meant for you… well, perhaps they were.

🕯️ The Sending — A university lecture on ancient magic opens the door to something older than reason, as youth, power, and blood become part of a terrible bargain.
🐍 A Shipment of Mute Fate — A ship carries deadly cargo across the sea, but when that cargo escapes, every dark corner becomes a hiding place for death.
📖 The Diary of Sophronia Winters — A lonely woman believes romance has finally found her, but the pages of her diary begin to reveal a much colder, crueler destiny.
🚗 Blind Alley — A drunken accident, a hidden body, and a wealthy family’s secrets twist into a trap where guilt may not be the only thing waiting in the dark.

Four classic OTR horror stories drift through Unknown Broadcast tonight… and somewhere between the static, the shadows, and the old radio glow, something may already be drifting back toward you.

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Backwoods horror, road trip terror, gas station nightmares, isolated towns, Ozark creatures, and middle-of-nowhere survival collide in this brutal collection of four creepy horror stories. If you love roadside dread, rural secrets, desperate escapes, strange towns, and stories where one wrong turn changes everything, this episode is built to leave dirt under your nails and headlights in your nightmares.

Tonight’s lineup takes you from a father-daughter road trip that veers into pure nightmare, to a security job in a town where something ancient is waiting beneath a church, to a vicious Ozark creature feature soaked in blood and panic, and finally to a gas station shift where the fluorescent lights hide something far darker than bad coffee and impatient customers. This is horror at the edge of the map—where the woods close in, the locals know more than they say, and the next stop might be the worst mistake of your life.

• Strike-Out! — by Morgan Moore
A spring road trip to see family turns catastrophic when a father and daughter break down at the worst possible place imaginable. Tense, nasty, and full of survival-horror momentum, this one feels like a childhood nightmare told with the pedal pinned down.

• I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening — by Michael Kelso
A security specialist arrives in a remote New England town to investigate frightened workers and finds vanished people, forbidden tunnels, and something inhuman wearing a human face. This one leans hard into eerie isolation, old evil, and creeping dread.

• Bite Me — by David O’Hanlon
A reunion weekend in the Ozarks becomes a blood-soaked creature nightmare when something impossible starts feeding in the woods. Wild, fast, and vicious, it mixes backwoods horror with monster-movie chaos in the best way.

• I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret — by Michael Kelso
A bitter overnight clerk, a missing coworker, corporate surveillance, and a horrifying secret tied to a distribution center turn a routine gas station job into full paranoid nightmare fuel. Funny, grim, and deeply unsettling.

From lonely mountain roads to church basements, flea-ridden woods, and convenience stores where the cameras always seem to be watching, this collection is all about the moment a familiar place turns wrong and keeps getting worse.

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Typhoid Mary: The Shocking True Story of New York’s Silent Killer is one of the most eerie, gripping, and unexpectedly timely episodes of Terrifying & True. In this Best of 2025 revisit, we return to the haunting real case of Mary Mallon, the woman history would remember as Typhoid Mary—an apparently healthy cook linked to deadly typhoid fever outbreaks across New York and Long Island.

At the center of this unforgettable historical mystery is a terrifying idea: what if the person spreading disease shows no symptoms at all? In the early 1900s, affluent households were suddenly struck by baffling illness. The homes were clean, the water was safe, and no one could explain why people kept getting sick. As investigators followed the trail, they uncovered one of the most chilling public health cases in American history—one involving invisible infection, forced quarantine, fear, stigma, and a woman who insisted she had done nothing wrong.

This episode is one of the most engrossing Terrifying & True episodes of 2025 because it works on so many levels at once: as a historical true story, a medical mystery, a New York nightmare, and a disturbing ethical drama about freedom, blame, and public safety. It’s creepy not because of gore or violence, but because the threat is silent, intimate, and impossible to see. That makes this Best of 2025 re-air especially strong for discoverability—and especially worth revisiting.

Inside this episode:

• The 1906 Oyster Bay outbreak that launched the mystery
• George Soper’s investigation into a hidden source of repeated typhoid cases
• Mary Mallon’s confrontation, arrest, and forced testing
• The quarantine on North Brother Island and the legal controversy that followed
• Her return to cooking under aliases and the second outbreak that sealed her fate
• Why Typhoid Mary still matters today in conversations about disease, stigma, and public health

If you’re drawn to historical true crime, dark history, medical mysteries, epidemic stories, New York history, and bizarre real cases that feel almost unbelievable, this is one of the strongest examples of what Terrifying & True does best. This Best of 2025 episode is a chance to revisit one of the show’s most unsettling and memorable stories—one that still feels unnervingly relevant more than a century later.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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A strange man. A summer job that sounds too easy. A locked shed. A half-built pink concrete house. And three teenage friends who slowly realize they may be helping a killer build something far more horrifying than a home.

In this gruesome and darkly funny episode of Weekly Spooky, a group of broke teenagers near Toronto, Ontario are desperate for summer work when they meet Frank Chopski — a bizarre, wild-eyed stranger with a rusty truck, a creepy little pink teddy bear, and an offer that seems impossible to refuse. Ten dollars an hour just to clean old car parts and carry concrete blocks across a field? Easy money.

But Frank is secretive about his locked shed. He never lets the boys inside. He guards his tools. He hauls out garbage bags, towels, saws, hatchets, and heavy handmade concrete blocks dyed a strange shade of pink. And as the summer drags on, the friends begin to notice disturbing details embedded inside the blocks they’ve been carrying by hand.

What starts as a weird summer job becomes a horrifying discovery of body horror, serial killer madness, hidden evidence, and a house literally built out of secrets.

If you love scary stories about creepy strangers, summer job horror, serial killer fiction, body horror, dark humor, disturbing mysteries, killer next door stories, and gruesome twist endings, this episode is ready to pour the concrete, smooth the edges, and seal something terrible inside forever.

Come for the easy money, my spookies… but don’t look too closely at the walls.

Concrete Evidence — by Gary D up in Ontario, Canada

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This Week in Horror History for May 4–10 dives into a killer week of horror movie history, slasher movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror comics, survival horror games, and classic monster adventure. This episode revisits the bloody legacy of Friday the 13th, the 2005 remake of House of Wax, the serial-killer comic-book mystery Nailbiter, the retro survival-horror game Crow Country, and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight: The Burning, one of the most brutal and underrated 1980s camp slasher movies.

Inside this episode:
May 7, 2014 — Nailbiter #1
A modern horror comic favorite from Image Comics introduces Buckaroo, Oregon—a small town with a terrifying reputation for producing serial killers. If you love crime horror, serial killer stories, creepy small-town mysteries, and horror comics, this one belongs on your radar.
Where to read (U.S., this week): Image Comics, Kindle/Comixology, and collected editions from Image and major booksellers.


May 6, 2005 — House of Wax
The 2005 House of Wax remake brings glossy 2000s horror, slasher-movie chaos, and a gruesome wax museum setting together in one sticky nightmare. A cult favorite of the era, it mixes road-trip horror, trapped-tourist terror, melting bodies, and brutal setpieces.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.


May 9, 1980 — Friday the 13th
One of the most important slasher movies of all time hits theaters and turns Camp Crystal Lake into horror history. From isolated cabins and doomed counselors to the birth of a franchise that would make Jason Voorhees a horror icon, Friday the 13th helped define the modern summer-camp slasher.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.


May 9, 2024 — Crow Country
The indie horror game Crow Country brings retro survival-horror atmosphere back with eerie puzzles, abandoned amusement-park dread, old-school tension, and modern genre polish. Fans of Resident Evil-style horror games, PlayStation-era survival horror, creepy theme parks, and indie horror games should take note.
Where to play (U.S., this week): Steam, PlayStation Store, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.


Deep-Cut Spotlight — May 8, 1981: The Burning
This week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight heads back to summer camp for The Burning, a grimy 1981 slasher packed with Tom Savini effects, campfire trauma, garden shears, and one of the most infamous raft massacre scenes in horror history. Overshadowed in the original slasher boom, it has since become a true cult horror classic and one of the essential 1980s camp slasher films.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi, The Roku Channel, MGM+; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.


Birthday Roll:
Lance Henriksen, David Keith, Kevin Peter Hall, and Meg Foster.

Weekly Recommendation — May 7, 1999: The Mummy
For a lighter but still monster-packed pick, revisit The Mummy, the 1999 Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz adventure that revived Universal monster energy with cursed tombs, scarab swarms, ancient rituals, undead horror, and blockbuster pulp fun. It is the perfect date-window recommendation for fans of classic monster movies, action horror, Universal horror, and summer adventure films.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): HBO Max, Peacock; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

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The Fox Sisters, Hydesville, and the birth of modern Spiritualism began with something terrifyingly simple: a knock in the dark.

In 1848 Hydesville, New York, two young sisters, Maggie and Kate Fox, claimed they could communicate with a mysterious spirit inside their family farmhouse. What started as eerie nighttime rappings soon became a national obsession, drawing neighbors, skeptics, journalists, believers, and grieving families desperate for proof that death was not the end. The phenomenon helped ignite one of the most influential supernatural movements in American history: Spiritualism.

But was it a true haunting… or one of the most consequential paranormal hoaxes ever performed?

Inside this episode:

• The Hydesville Rappings: How strange knocks in a farmhouse became a chilling code from “the dead.”
• Maggie and Kate Fox: Two young girls caught between childhood mischief, family pressure, celebrity, and exploitation.
• Leah Fox and the Spiritualist Machine: How the sisters’ older sibling helped transform a local haunting into a public spectacle.
• Seances, Grief, and Belief: Why 19th-century America was so ready to believe the dead could answer.
• The 1888 Confession: Maggie Fox’s shocking public admission that the spirit rappings were produced by physical tricks.
• The Bones in the Wall: The strange 1904 discovery that seemed to vindicate the legend… until the certainty began to fall apart.

This is not just a ghost story. It is a story about grief, faith, fraud, family, and the terrible human hunger to hear one more message from someone we have lost. Whether the Fox Sisters were frauds, victims, performers, believers, or all of those things at once, their story changed the way America imagined the dead.

From a cold farmhouse in Hydesville, New York, to packed lecture halls and séance parlors, the Fox Sisters helped build a movement on one promise: ask the dead a question, and they might answer.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, psychological terror, crime, fate, and uncanny dread. This transmission begins with The Lady Was a Tiger, a tale of false safety, hidden danger, and a man caught in a tightening web of murder, espionage, and betrayal, where home itself starts to feel like a trap.

🐅 The Lady Was a Tiger — What seems safe turns lethal, what feels like home becomes a prison, and danger wears a human face until it doesn’t. It has that deliciously sharp old-radio blend of intrigue, menace, and doom closing in from every side.
🕰️ Destiny — The shadowed voice promises “the amazing story of destiny,” and the tale leans hard into fate, inevitability, and the ruin waiting for anyone foolish enough to think he can outwit what is already written. It feels like noir with prophecy hanging over it.
🌹 Uncle Henry’s Rosebush — Rot, neglect, old rooms, and one impossible rosebush holding its place against the ruin around it. This one carries a graveyard stillness, a buried secret, and the creeping sense that something ugly has been tended with care for far too long.
👁️ The Horla — By the end, the night gives way to something stranger and more cosmic, as “phantoms of a world gone by” usher in The Horla. Madness, possession, and the fear of an unseen intelligence seep through this final story like poison through old walls.

For listeners chasing classic OTR horror, vintage suspense radio, murder mysteries, psychological horror, supernatural dread, and eerie anthology storytelling, this episode is full of shadows that look human right up until they don’t — and some things are simply unknown to us, at least for a while.

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