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What really happened when a monstrous black dog with burning eyes was said to crash through two churches during a violent storm in East Anglia in 1577? In this episode of Terrifying & True, we dig into the chilling legend of Black Shuck, the infamous hell hound of Suffolk and Norfolk, and the real storm disaster that may have given one of England’s most terrifying folklore creatures its lasting power.

From the shattered calm of church services in Bungay and Blythburgh, to stories of death omens, devil dogs, scorched church doors, and a beast said to move with the storm itself, this is a tale where English folklore, paranormal legend, and real historical fear collide. We explore the terrifying reports tied to the August 4, 1577 thunderstorm, the long tradition of phantom black dogs in Britain, and the grounded explanations behind one of the most enduring supernatural legends in the British Isles.

If you love true folklore, haunted history, mysterious creatures, dark legends, and stories where the line between history and nightmare is razor thin, this is an episode you do not want to miss. Because Black Shuck is more than just a monster story. It is a legend about weather, death, panic, faith, and the shape fear takes when it comes out of the storm.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast returns to the Weekly Spooky feed with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, ghostly dread, strange disappearances, greed, curses, and dark family secrets. This week’s transmission moves from plague-haunted bloodlines to a vanished bride, from murderous greed to a glittering dream of impossible wealth.

🌹 A Ring of Roses — A seemingly innocent visit to meet a fiancée’s old friend turns into a sinister journey through inherited secrets, Black Plague lore, and a cursed ring that feels tied to the living and the dead alike. It’s lush, gothic, and steeped in the creeping dread of classic radio horror.
💍 The Bride Vanishes — A bride disappears into mystery, leaving behind unease, strange behavior, and the sense that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface. This one carries that delicious vintage radio suspense mood of mounting confusion, ominous atmosphere, and danger waiting just offstage. 
💵 Avarice — The Whistler steps in with a tale of greed, money, and murderous desperation, where John Abbott’s hunger for wealth twists everything around him. It is sharp, cruel, and exactly the kind of crime-horror radio story where one bad desire poisons an entire house.
💎 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — The night closes with Escape, promising a fabulous world of wonder, danger, and impossible riches. There’s something especially haunting about ending on a story built around desire so extravagant it starts to feel unreal, like a dream that may not want to let you wake up.

If you love classic OTR horror, old-time radio suspense, vintage mystery anthologies, paranormal audio drama, and eerie stories pulled from the strangest corners of broadcasting history, this episode is packed with exactly that kind of shadowy delight.

Some families inherit love. Some inherit dread. And some spend their whole lives reaching for something bright enough to blind them.

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Small-town horror, vampire horror, cursed love, alternate dimensions, and terrifying supernatural encounters collide in this eerie Weekly Spooky compilation of four dark and dangerous tales. If you love creepy small-town secrets, portal horror, monster stories, evil transformations, and strange nights that spiral into bloodshed, this one is packed with nightmare fuel.

Tonight’s lineup moves from a town that has been erased from the map, to a sleepover that opens a doorway into a dead vampire world, to a drunken ritual that summons something no one was meant to love, and finally to a seductive nightmare of blood, betrayal, and the deadly price of the nightlife. These stories all hit that sweet spot where youthful recklessness, supernatural evil, and terrible choices meet in the dark.

• I’m from a Small Town That No Longer Exists. No One Is Allowed to Know Why — by Michael KelsoA childhood memory of hide-and-seek in the cornfields turns into a chilling account of strangers, human shells, and a town that seems to have been swallowed up and erased. It’s eerie, paranoid, and loaded with that “something is deeply wrong here” kind of dread.
• Doorway to Horror — by Rob FieldsA girls’ movie night goes horribly wrong when a mysterious disc drags them into an alternate vampire-ruled Strickfield where Christmas decorations glow over a dead world. This one is fast, fun, creepy, and full of portal horror, undead danger, and end-of-the-world atmosphere.
• Love Conquers All — by Joe SolmoThree desperate guys try to conjure up the perfect supernatural lover and instead create a hay-stuffed monstrosity with a seductive voice and murderous intentions. It’s nasty, funny, mean, and exactly the kind of rural backwoods horror-comedy that goes from stupid idea to absolute disaster in record time.
• Newborn — by Rob FieldsA night of partying and seduction becomes a brutal vampire origin story as Eliza discovers the truth about what she has become and how far she is willing to go for power. This one leans dark, sexy, vicious, and fully monstrous in all the best ways.

From vanished towns and cursed fields to vampire clubs and broken doorways between worlds, this collection is all about crossing a line you can’t uncross. Lock the doors, keep your eyes off the dark corners, and don’t trust anything that offers you freedom too easily.

Which one got under your skin the most?

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Creep (2014) is one of the most unsettling found footage horror movies of the 2010s, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into why Patrick Brice’s microbudget nightmare still works so well. This episode centers on Creep, the 2014 psychological horror film directed by Patrick Brice and built around the deeply unnerving chemistry between Mark Duplass and Brice himself. The uploaded episode notes describe the discussion as a deep dive into trust, manipulation, ethical boundaries, filmmaking, and emotional vulnerability, with the hosts also teasing One Cut of the Dead for next week. 
Inside this episode

• Why Creep feels so real and why its awkward, intimate style makes the horror hit harder
• Josef as a manipulator, using warmth, humor, and vulnerability as weapons
• Found footage tension and how the film turns normal social discomfort into dread
• Filmmaking ethics and performance, including how the movie comments on directors, subjects, and emotional exploitation
• Henrique and Rachael’s own filmmaking stories, including videography and client-boundary experiences that echo the film’s anxieties
• The final act and ending, and why the movie lingers long after it is overThese themes line up closely with the episode chapters and summary embedded in the uploaded transcript file, including sections on wedding videography struggles, first impressions, the shift in atmosphere, the Peachfuzz reveal, manipulation, and filmmaking truths.   

About the film​Creep premiered at SXSW on March 8, 2014. It was directed by Patrick Brice, with story credit shared by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, and it has gone on to become a modern cult favorite in found-footage and psychological horror circles.

It stars Mark Duplass as Josef and Patrick Brice as Aaron. 

Where to watch (U.S., this week)
Current U.S. availability appears to include Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Prime Video, and Amazon Prime Video with Ads for streaming, with Amazon Video and Fandango At Home showing rental and/or purchase options. I’m only listing options that were corroborated across multiple sources. 

Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi go beyond a surface-level review and really get into why Creep feels so disturbing, how Josef weaponizes performance, and why the movie doubles as a nasty little commentary on storytelling itself.

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What if the scariest thing in your home wasn’t a ghost… but a painting you created yourself? In tonight’s Weekly Spooky episode, a casual girls’ night turns into a chilling supernatural nightmare when a woman discovers that her strange new artwork seems to know too much about her house, her life, and what is about to happen next. Haunted paintings, witches, cursed art, ghosts, and home invasion horror collide in one eerie tale that keeps getting darker every time you look closer.

If you love scary stories, witch horror, haunted house tales, paranormal fiction, and stories where everyday life suddenly slips into something impossible and terrifying, this one is for you. “I Painted a Witch” blends domestic unease, occult mystery, creepy imagery, and supernatural dread into a nightmare about art that doesn’t just reflect reality… it changes it. Lock the doors, leave the lights on, and look away before the painting looks back.

I Painted a Witch — by Bruce Haney

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This Week in Horror History for April 13–19 dives into a killer stretch of horror release dates, anniversaries, cult favorites, horror gaming, and one of the most divisive occult fever dreams of the 2010s. We’re talking American Psycho, The Amityville Horror, Jakob’s Wife, Sker Ritual, and a Deep-Cut Spotlight on The Lords of Salem—plus horror birthdays, a Then & Now bite, and a weekly recommendation with Green Room. 

Inside this episode
• April 14, 2000 — American Psycho
Mary Harron’s razor-sharp satire and one of modern horror’s great monsters.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Prime Video with Ads; rentable on Apple TV and Fandango at Home
• April 15, 2005 — The Amityville Horror
The Ryan Reynolds remake that hit big during the 2000s horror remake wave.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Prime Video with Ads, The Roku Channel
• April 16, 2021 — Jakob’s Wife
Barbara Crampton brings vampire horror, marriage rot, and bloody liberation together in one of the era’s most underrated genre titles.Where to watch (U.S., this week): AMC+, Shudder, Philo
• April 18, 2024 — Sker Ritual
A round-based co-op survival horror shooter with eerie Welsh folklore DNA and old-school wave-based chaos.Where to play (U.S., this week): Steam, Xbox, PlayStation


Deep-Cut Spotlight — April 19, 2013: The Lords of Salem
Rob Zombie’s hazy, dreamlike Salem nightmare traded mainstream scares for dread, repetition, static, and witchcraft—and grew into a true cult conversation piece.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Fandango at Home Free; rentable on Apple TV

Birthday Roll
Ron Perlman, Jonathan Brandis, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Abigail Breslin

Weekly Recommendation — Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal punk-survival nightmare, released in its April 15, 2016 window, remains one of the nastiest and most effective modern horror thrillers.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Netflix; rentable on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home 

If you love horror movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror release dates, where-to-watch picks, and the strange history hiding inside the calendar, this is your weekly stop. Follow the Weekly Spooky feed for more horror every week—new fiction on Wednesday, Cutting Deep into Horror on Friday, and the eerie mystery of Unknown Broadcast on Sunday. 

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The Lead Masks Case is one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in true crime history: two Brazilian electronics technicians, found dead on a hillside in Niterói, Brazil, wearing homemade lead eye masks, with a cryptic note instructing them to take capsules, await a signal, and use the mask afterward. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we dig into the eerie facts, the failed investigation, the missing cause of death, and the theories that have kept this bizarre case alive for decades—from UFO encounters and occult experiments to poison, fraud, and murder. 

This is the kind of case that feels too strange to be real: raincoats in the brush, missing money, removed watches, a note that reads like a ritual checklist, and no clear answer for what killed Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets. If you love unsolved mysteries, paranormal true crime, UFO cases, bizarre deaths, Brazilian mysteries, and strange historical cases, this episode is built to pull you all the way in. 

Inside this episode:

• The 1966 deaths of two technicians on Morro do Vintém
• The infamous lead masks and the chilling note
• Capsules, signals, and “protect metals”
• Witness claims, missing money, and possible companions
• The autopsy delay that doomed the case
• Why the official cause of death remains unknown
• Theories involving UFOs, spiritualism, poison, and homicide

If you’ve ever been fascinated by cases where the evidence seems to point everywhere and nowhere at once, The Lead Masks Case is an all-timer. It is eerie, unresolved, deeply atmospheric, and still haunting more than half a century later.

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 radio mystery, ghostly encounters, occult dread, and fatal justice. This week’s transmission moves from a war-haunted tavern to strange magic, from death-shadowed streets to a whispered tale of punishment waiting in the dark.

🔫 The Bullet — A weary veteran tries to leave the war behind, only to find that memory, guilt, and death may still be waiting for him at the end of the bar. A grim radio suspense tale of trauma, fate, and the one thing that never truly misses.
🪘 Pollack and the Porroh Man — Skepticism walks into older, darker forces as reason collides with ritual and unseen power. The air turns uncanny, and what begins as doubt drifts toward occult horror and a reckoning with forces that do not care whether you believe in them.
🕯️ A Passage to Benares — Mystery, death, and the afterlife intertwine in a tale that feels dreamlike and fatal all at once. This one carries that rich classic radio horror mood where every revelation only makes the darkness deeper.
⚖️ Justice — The night belongs to The Whistler, and judgment arrives with a smile that sounds almost merciful. Greed, suspicion, and consequence tighten like a noose in a story where justice may come late, but never empty-handed.

If you love Unknown Broadcast, classic OTR horror stories, old-time radio suspense, vintage mystery podcasts, ghost stories, and eerie audio drama from the shadows of broadcasting history, this episode is waiting for you.

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Witchcraft, folk horror, Satanic Panic terror, cursed small towns, undead nightmares, and occult evil come together in this dark and eerie Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love witches, rural horror, sinister rituals, ancient gods, creepy old houses, and stories where the whole town feels wrong, this collection is packed with nightmare fuel.

Tonight’s lineup drags you through the fever dream of 1984 Satanic Panic paranoia, into the misty woods of cosmic folk horror, through a witch-haunted bed and breakfast, and finally into a grand old home where piano lessons become something far more sinister. These are stories of hidden covens, hungry gods, cursed families, and the kind of evil that doesn’t live in castles or mansions alone—it lives in the woods, in old traditions, in broken-down towns, and in people who smile too kindly.

• What Ricky Did on His Summer Vacation — by Dan WilderA drug-soaked spiral of Satanic Panic horror, teenage delusion, murder, and infernal manipulation unfolds in the summer of 1984. This one is grimy, mean, darkly funny, and full of occult dread and small-town nightmare energy. 
• The God Tongue — by Dan WilderA lonely hunter kills something in the autumn woods that should never have died, and in doing so becomes tangled in an ancient inhuman lineage beneath the forest floor. This is pure cosmic folk horror: eerie, strange, pagan-feeling, and deeply unsettling. 
• Bed, Breakfast, and Zombies — by Keith TomlinWhat starts as a father-and-son witch hunt in a sleepy New York town turns into a graveyard nightmare involving undead guardians, secret crypts, and a family of ancient monsters with a long memory. It’s pulpy, fun, spooky, and loaded with witchy folklore and old-school horror thrills. 
• The Piano Witch — by Charles CampbellA little girl’s piano lessons with an elegant old woman lead to whispered bargains, a hungry witch trapped in wood, and a dreadful plan unfolding inside a grand Southern home. This one is creepy, wicked, and steeped in classic witch-story atmosphere. 

From occult woods and buried crypts to cursed music rooms and Satan-haunted summers, this collection is all about the old evil that waits just beyond the edge of ordinary life. So dim the lights, listen close, and don’t trust the smiling stranger who says they only want to teach you something.

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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.

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