Frightday

A corn maze stabbing, a man in the sewer who talks to kids, and two skeletons going at it on an SUV. A flamingo thief on the stand and a priest versus a falling crucifix. A goon gal behind the wheel, 3,000 pounds of stolen snow crab, a murder suspect who'd plead guilty for a cheesesteak, a knife at Wendy's, and so much more.

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Most summer camps have a lake. Every summer camp in a horror movie has something at the bottom of it. Jane Schoenbrun's third feature follows Chris, a queer director hired to reboot a dead 80s slasher franchise, who tracks the original final girl to the abandoned camp where it was shot. What follows is desire, fear, fried chicken, and a masked killer living in a hole in the lake.

Byron and Kelly dig into Schoenbrun's most playful film yet: Gillian Anderson's Billy, the trauma buried in the original film's infamous scene, Little Death and its helmet, and...

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Captain Jack is back, and this time he's not alone... A new Proton email titled "hellp" arrives with a desperate message from someone who seems to be a prisoner...of his? A girl promised a mansion and a way out of Gary, Indiana, if she'd do the unthinkable...

Byron and Kelly go Full-Walrus armchair detective, chasing that address across the United States, stumbling onto suitcase murders along I-90, the Sylvia Likens case, a Prohibition agent, a Patty Hearst near-miss, a...

At 2:30 AM on November 28, 1953, a man in his underwear went through a closed window and drapes at the Statler Hotel in Manhattan. The night manager reached him on the sidewalk while he was still trying to speak. Upstairs, a phone call went out from the room: "Well, he's gone." The man was Frank Olson, a government bacteriologist. His family would spend the next sixty years getting three different explanations from the government for what happened in that room.

Kelly walks through Olson's work building America's biological weapons program at Camp Detrick, his quiet move onto the CIA's...

This week, if they find a body in your frunk, you likely put it there. Thirty-one sloths die before opening day, a surgeon takes the wrong organ, and Return to Nature finally gets its sentence. A widower's grief journal, a finger in the OJ, and Taylor Momsen gets bit again. Dads catch fire, a café called Clunch gets robbed three nights straight, and someone touches Paul Bellini, so much more.

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Author Brad Olsen, whose books make up his Esoteric Series, joins us to discuss his new book, Secrets of Antarctica, and his case that Nazi Germany's occult research, advanced craft, and key personnel survived the war and went south. Brad links the Thule Society and the Ahnenerbe, the 1938-39 German claim on Neuschwabenland, Hans Kammler and the Bell, the Vril women, and the alleged Haunebu craft to a breakaway German presence he believes still operates under the ice. He cites wartime U-boat maps, Soviet files he says reached the West after the Cold War, and whistleblower accounts.

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Y'all... the trail is coming to an end.
Who had the best insanity defense?

Editors note...so sorry for the crackling audio...I have no idea how that happened!

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This week, Byron talks with Steve "the Shovel Man" Zaragoza, co-host of Dynamic Banter (formerly of SourceFed and Cloverfeels), about his horror anthology audio drama "Gray Bones in a Grave," why festival horror isn't what it used to be, and an intriguing game of horror this-or-that that somehow ends with a modern cult classic on top.

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0:00 Cold open and Steve's résumé
1:00 Reunited, the Skybound/Geena Davis creator contest, and Frankenstein MD
2:17 The rise of the "Sc...

This week we yes-clip into the studio to chat psy-cosmic music festivals, unsolved Morse code, and an earth-shattering nepotism revelation, before walking into liminal horror reviewing Kane Parsons' "Backrooms".

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0:00 Cold open 0:33 The "endless" Montana compound, liminal spaces, and following your gut 2:42 Housekeeping: AMC Scream Unseen with Jacob 3:30 Mooshfest, Tywalker and the Humanoids, and Galactic Twang 7:05 The Captain Jack situation: cracking Morse code hidden in a Bluey card 8:00 Fire in the Mountains, the Blackfeet Reservation, and a Stanley Hotel winter...

Originally broadcast April 4th, 2026.

Blood gumbo at the rodeo. Turnstile's ousted guitarist runs over the singer's dad. Pooh Shiesty and Papa Shiesty, kidnappers. A twelve-ton Kit Kat heist. Lindsay Buckingham, splashed. The Reese's heir goes rogue. A FEMA man teleports to Waffle House. Orbs from the ocean. ...and more!

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0:00 - Intro: The Music and Food Episode
7:00 - Stardust Racers: Epic Universe Roller Coaster Death Update
19:00 - The Toe-Sucker Sentencing
21:00 - Texas Killing...

Patrick Brice returns to Frightday to talk "The Creep Tapes" Season 3, twelve and a half years after Creep premiered at SXSW and turned Mark Duplass's Peachfuzz into an unlikely horror icon.

We get into what it feels like to create a character people are tattooing on themselves, how Season 3 finally nails down a few pieces of the lore (without letting the wolf out of the bag completely), and why this year pushes Peachfuzz out of the cabin and onto a houseboat and a private plane. Patrick also breaks down the pared-down five-person crew, why he's usually the...

Parapsychologist Lisa Puzo Strickland joins us for a wide-ranging, unrestrained conversation about the thread she sees running through everything: consciousness. From precognitive dreams she started having at fifteen, while attending a private Baptist school in the middle of Los Angeles, to a PhD in philosophy and parapsychology and a deep dive into the UAP/NHI field, Lisa makes the case that psi, nature, non-human intelligence, and even brain-computer interfaces are all wired to the same source.

The through-line is fear, and what to do with it. Lisa's refrain, "you don't prepare someone for fear with fear", anchors...

This week we close out our Kilgallen series with the questions the first three were building toward: who killed her, and where did her JFK file go. Byron and Kelly run the suspect list one at a time, then walk through the string of connected deaths and the six places the missing file could have ended up. 

CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open, Ross Coulthart, and the Marcello confession
2:03 Part four begins
2:30 Suspect 1: Carlos Marcello
4:30 The RFK deportation and the motive
9:00 Operation CAMTEX, the informant, and the 302
11:20 The 2025 declassification
15:14 Suspect 2: Ron Pataki
16:00 S...

This week, Kelly is...gone, so Byron and a very special guest chat about the horrors of 2026 so far, before talking modern Creepy Kid™ flicks...and unfortunately AI, reviewing Eli Roth's "Ice Cream Man".

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0:00 Cold open
0:47 Cookie the Boston terrier and favorite ice cream truck treats
6:00 The year in horror so far: Stubs A-List, theater-only viewing
14:23 Speed round: Obsession, Backrooms, Hokum, Primate, We Bury the Dead, Undertone, and more
29:00 Staff Picks: The Stuff and Co...

This week talk concert etiquette, the loss of a genre, and we roll into summer genre blockbusters discussing Curry Barker's 'Obsession'.

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0:00 Cold open
0:34 The Avett Brothers, a Yes Day, and a drunk guy at the pit
7:30 RIP Sam Neill
10:00 Housekeeping: the Allentown saga and the SD card mystery
14:00 Staff Picks: The Love Witch and Willow Creek
25:00 OBSESSION review begins
29:00 Who is Curry Barker
34:00 The art department pay controversy
42:00 S...

Our second communication with Jack shows us...he's listening.
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Danny Sheehan is one of the most consequential public interest attorneys of the last century. His cases include the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, the Karen Silkwood case, the Iran-Contra investigation, and decades of work at the intersection of government secrecy and the public's right to know. He is co-founder of the Romero Institute and the New Paradigm Institute, and a leading voice in the push for congressional UAP disclosure. Today, he stands at the center of what may be the most consequential question humanity has ever faced: the implications of a potential extraterrestrial or extradimensional non-human presence here on Earth.<...

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This week we settle back into things with some Classico™ Frightday. Housekeeping, a call from a whistleblower, Staff Picks™, and a discussion of the latest feature from Steve Spielberg, "Disclosure Day". And things seemed normal...until Byron (of all people) proposed a conspiracy theory...    

Staff Picks
Kelly: The Vast of Night (2019), previously covered on Episode 250
Byron: Take Shelter (2011), Jeff Nichols, with Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.

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This week we stay on Dorothy Kilgallen in the weeks before November 8, 1965, tracing the files, the trips, and the people who disappeared around her. She finished the Murder One preface on a Sunday night and was dead by Monday morning. She handed a backup of her JFK chapter to a friend who died the next day. 

Was Ron Pataki a hotel-suite lover, or a CIA handler from the Guatemala coup keeping watch?

[04:39] – Murder One, the $10,000 advance, and the chapter that never made the book.
[07:48] – The preface handed off Sunday night, dead by Monday morni...

Originally broadcast February 27th, 2026.

This week, we get into light roommate poisoning, a Prince costume meeting a hot stove, and the great PlayStation heist. Quicksand rescues and fifty-six blindfolded frat pledges. Awful things happened inside and outside of cars, a mammoth bone in a river, a mayor who resigned under duress, a murder cult with a Patreon, and so much more.

As we gear up for this year's Contact in the Desert, we had the pleasure of chatting with Captain Ron Janix, co-owner and host of the event. Dive deeper into the evolution of this iconic conference, discover what's in store this year, and get a pulse on the state of the current UFO and UAP community. 

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After a few peaceful weeks...we return to the Frightday Tip-Line, with another whistleblower...

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This week we follow Dorothy Kilgallen onto the front lines of the JFK assassination story, where she did the work almost no other reporter in America was willing to do. From her first column one week after Dallas to the only private interview Jack Ruby ever gave a journalist, we trace the columns, the leaks, and the people she was talking to before her files disappeared.

Was the Carousel Club meeting between Jack Ruby, Officer J.D. Tippit, and a "rich oil man" the thread that finally got her killed?

[00:40] – Dorothy's first column: "Oswald File Mu...

This week we explore the incredible life and mysterious death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Once the most powerful female voice in America, with 20 million daily readers, her legacy has been strangely buried by history. We trace her journey from a "scrappy" reporter at age 20 to the only journalist to privately interview Jack Ruby. 

Was her death in 1965 an accidental overdose, or was it the ultimate price for getting too close to the truth behind the JFK assassination?

01:46 – Who was Dorothy Kilgallen? (The most powerful female voice in America).
04:06 – Scooping the Warren Commission and interviewing Jack Ruby...

Our bracket-style competition to determine the best at being psychologically dangerous continues!

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In this episode of VISITORS, Kelly sits down with Jeff Nuccetelli, Air Force veteran, federal law enforcement officer, and congressional UAP witness, whose 20-year silence about what happened at Vandenberg finally broke in front of Congress. Jeff walks through the October 2003 Red Square incursion, the night a craft landed on the flight line and an OSI colonel showed up the next morning, and why witnesses stopped calling in lights after one of his best officers was quietly threatened with career destruction. He gets into what it cost him personally to testify, the flood of new witnesses that came forward...

Originally broadcast December 13th, 2025.

A shocking on-air confession. Foul fowl. Murder plans. Cruising the wrong way. A pizza crush. ...and more!

Well, well, well, folks... another bracket-style competition to determine the best!
This time around...it's the best at being psychologically dangerous.

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This week brace ourselves for an annual competition before crashing into a little big budget blackly-comedic survival horror, reviewing Sam Raimi's "Send Help".

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What happens when the scientist and the experiencer are the same person? This week, Kelly sits down with Sarah Gamm, astrophysicist, image scientist, intelligence analyst, psychic medium, and UAP Task Force veteran whose resume defies easy categorization. Sarah talks about flatlining in the recovery room and not wanting to come back, what the other side actually felt like, the moment an Arcturian appeared during a pandemic meditation, and why the classified evidence she reviewed still hasn't left her.

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Top of the whatever to ya, and I hope you're wearing green. 
If you're not, be sure to pinch yourself for me. 

Join us as we explore cobble-lore, as well as Jennifer Aniston's feature film debut. 

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Dang, y'all! This week, friend of the show Brandon Christensen sits down to talk all things 'Bodycam' with us. 
As of today, March 13th, you can stream it now, exclusively on Shudder. 

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This week we talk all things Scream, connections to the franchise's history, the minds behind it, & the controversial pivot of Kevin Williamson's Scream VII.

And we do it with our good pals Heather Hynes, and Ramsey Ess of the podcast If You're Listening. "One person's mission to force her friend to listen to all the music he missed in high school."

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…in this episode of VISITORS.

Our conversaton with friend-of-the-pod Jeremiah Horstman continues. 


Jeremiah has dedicated himself to exploring the unforgiving lands around Sedona, Arizona. Through relentless field research, he has become one of the foremost experts on the famous Bradshaw Ranch, renowned for its alleged weirdness of every conceivable category. Jeremiah has recently expanded his focus to exposing covert Deep Underground Military Bases, or DUMBs, secreted beneath the red rocks of the Arizona desert, and the machinations of the military-industrial complex that created them.

Appearances with Ross Coulthart and on History's Beyond Ski...

This week we continue shining a light on the lesser known elite secret society that's possibly running the world...under astrological signs.

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The conversation delves into the enigmatic Zodiac Group, a secret society with historical ties to influential figures like Robert Maxwell and connections to the Epstein scandal. The discussion explores the group's origins, its members, and its potential involvement in UFO research, as well as the interplay between wealth, power, and intelligence. The hosts also touch on the legacy of figures like T...

This week we take second to celebrate the confirmation of alien life, as confirmed during Obama's interview with Brian Tyler Cohen...before taking a look back at his past statements on the subject, as well as his post-interview clarification.

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MISERCORDIA, DES est CANUS

Our whistleblower has returned, this time with a much more threatening tone...directly calling out members of our community, and delivering us the most cryptic letter we've received so far...

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Oopsie. Looks like we uploaded Frightday Morning from this week initially. 
Enjoy...the REAL Zodiac Convergence!

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This week, mentions of a (Gell-)man(n) in the Epstein files, and his proposed participation in a modern secret society has led us down a rabbit-hole of it's origins, the identify of other members, their possible influence, and maybe even what was on the menu.

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The conversation delves into the enigmatic Zodiac Group, a secret society with historical ties...