Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

The Ritual (2017) is a modern folk-horror favorite that transforms a memorial hike through the Swedish wilderness into a terrifying combination of survival horror, psychological horror, occult worship, mythology, and creature-feature terror. In this spoiler-filled episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfirevisit director David Bruckner’s rain-soaked forest nightmare and explain why it belongs in any horror fan’s Halloween-season watchlist and spooky-season podcast queue.

After Rob is murdered during a robbery, Luke joins Hutch, Dom, and Phil on a hiking trip...

Kyoto's legendary underworld well is receiving a rare public viewing. On September 4, Rokudo Chinno-ji begins a three-day special opening tied to the launch of Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword, whose director says the real Kyoto temple is central to the game's world. But the place did not need a video game to become one of Japan's eeriest crossroads.

At Rokudo Chinno-ji, visitors pull a rope through a small opening to ring a bell hidden behind a wall. Temple tradition says the Mukaegane, or welcoming bell, can be heard in the realm of the dead. Behind the main...

Scary Halloween stories meet analog horror in “I Do Not Know You” by Tyler Belmont, a supernatural horror tale about a vintage tape recorder that knows its listener’s secrets—and announces the exact moment he is going to die.

Jerry Scott runs a consumer-electronics store and collects the analog machines the modern world has left behind. Then an unmarked package appears inside his shop. The tape recorder within greets him by name, recalls private details from his life, and warns that an inhuman visitor will arrive in five minutes. When a tall figure in a fedora and long coa...

September opens the door to Halloween as IT Chapter Two, Suspiria, Outlast, The Possession, and Pontypool mark major horror anniversaries from August 31 through September 6. This Week in Horror History becomes a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with Pennywise and Derry, witchcraft and bloody dance, survival-horror gaming, haunted-object folklore, demonic possession, infected language, and a supernatural war among angels.

This weekly horror release-date roundup revisits the films, games, creators, and dark legends that shaped the genre while giving Halloween fans an early-September watchlist for spooky season: supernatural horror movies, witch films, Stephen King adaptations, found-footage scares, survival horror games, cult...

Halloween season is almost here, and Monthly Spooky is kicking off the countdown with haunted houses, Bigfoot, UFOs, cryptids, unexplained mysteries—and bat people living on the Moon.

In the August 2026 edition of Monthly Spooky, Henrique Couto and Michelle are getting ready for Halloween with another strange trip through paranormal news, ghost stories, cryptid sightings, UFO and UAP reports, weird history, unexplained phenomena and creepy mysteries before diving into one of the most wonderfully bizarre media sensations of the nineteenth century: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835.

Beginning in August 1835, newspaper readers were treated to astonishing reports su...

Unknown Broadcast opens its eyes to four classic OTR mysteries about blindness, eyewitness testimony, and the dangerous distance between seeing and being believed. The Blind Witness, The Country of the Blind, Eyewitness, and With My Own Eyes turn perception itself into the scene of the crime.Look closely. Then look again.

The signal has been known to move things while you blink.
◖ The Blind Witness — A blind man becomes the unseen witness to a paid killing—and the one loose end two professionals did not expect.
▲ The Country of the Blind — A sighted mo...

Five Halloween horror stories unleash headless folklore, haunted drive-ins, supernatural transformation, vampires, and body horror in a nearly five-hour scary-story audiobook from Weekly Spooky. Halloween Changes You is a long-form Halloween horror compilation about masks that become identities, second lives that demand a price, and monsters who discover that becoming something new may be easier than becoming human again.

Presented in story order, this Halloween fiction anthology moves from an intimate chase through the woods to an afterlife movie marathon, a funeral-home reckoning, a mutant spider origin, and a full-scale vampire battle over love, family, and survival.
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When Legends Turn Deadly is a nearly five-hour Terrifying & True true crime and folklore marathon featuring eight stories about monsters, cultural memory, Spiritualism, murder, extremist violence, and fatal belief. The Hat Man, the Deer Woman, Djinn, the Melonheads, the Fox sisters, the Greenbrier Ghost, the murder of Jeffrey Hall, and the exorcism of Anneliese Michel form one escalating journey from modern nightmare to documented human tragedy.

The journey begins between dreaming and waking, where people across cultures report a faceless silhouette in a wide-brimmed hat. Science points to sleep paralysis and suggestion; folklore and online testimony have turned...

Universal Orlando holds the first of its two 2026 Premium Scream Nights on August 27, followed by the regular Halloween Horror Nights event opening on August 28 - and this week's Thursday Thrills goes inside the architecture of fear. Rather than rank haunted houses before they open, Henrique Couto asks what a walk-through attraction can do to our bodies and imaginations that a horror movie cannot.

The answer begins inside a real haunted-house experiment, where visitors wore heart-rate monitors while researchers studied the strange overlap between fear and enjoyment. Their findings showed a group-level inverted-U association across three recorded scare points...

Halloween insect horror, body horror, and revenge horror crawl together in this grotesque Weekly Spooky scary story about bullying, karma, and a punishment with thousands of legs. A man wakes in a windowless basement with a reinforced glass aquarium locked around his head—packed with fire ants, carpenter ants, crickets, centipedes, millipedes, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and something even fouler.

The nightmare is not random. Years earlier, he and his best friend Dave turned another child’s suffering into entertainment, forcing their victim to swallow insects and endure humiliations that never stopped hurting. Now the past has placed both men...

Horror history is already leaning toward Halloween as Candyman, Until Dawn, Don't Breathe, The Last Exorcism, and Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions mark major anniversaries from August 24 through August 30. This Week in Horror History turns late summer into a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with slasher games, home-invasion suspense, supernatural urban legends, documentary-style exorcism horror, occult detective stories, and a devilish Stephen King recommendation for spooky season.

This weekly horror release-date roundup revisits the movies, games, creators, and dark legends that helped shape the genre while giving Halloween fans an early fall watchlist filled with cult horror, supernatural thrillers...

Elisa Lam's death at the Cecil Hotel remains one of the internet age's most haunting true crime mysteries, even though the case received an official ruling. In January 2013, the twenty-one-year-old Canadian traveler disappeared from the notorious downtown Los Angeles hotel after appearing in the now-famous Cecil Hotel elevator video. Nineteen days after she was last publicly seen, she was found inside a rooftop water tank.

This pre-Halloween true crime investigation follows the documented Elisa Lam case while separating evidence from the haunted-hotel folklore that grew around it. We examine the Cecil Hotel's dark history, Elisa's final days at...

Unknown Broadcast boards four old-time radio train mysteries where every timetable points toward danger. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler send us through a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a supernatural railway warning, and one very expensive ride to nowhere. Your ticket is already punched. Please do not ask who is sitting in the empty compartment.

▣ The Train Stops — At a forgotten station where no passenger train should stop, an old railway watcher hears the timetable come alive again.
✦ Orient Express — A businessman bound for Istanbul finds an armed...

Four scary stories unleash serial killers, witchcraft, a werewolf curse, supernatural seduction, and a gigantic killer gummy worm. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with occult rituals, crime horror, murder mysteries, supernatural monsters, body horror, and dark comedy.

Two criminal brothers follow a wealthy woman home expecting an easy robbery. Instead, they interrupt a secret witchcraft ritual involving an ancient enchanted collar—and one thief begins transforming into a bloodthirsty werewolf-like monster. 

Then a mysterious woman named Roxie overwhelms Jake Blackmon with an unnatural attraction bef...

Tonight She Comes (2016) is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher for horror fans building their Halloween watchlists—a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare that mutates into occult body horror, splatter comedy, and resurrection horror. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the outrageous independent horror film that has stayed with them for a decade and explain why its strangest choices are far more deliberate than they first appear.

Henrique and Rachael trace the story from its apparently unstoppable, blood-covered killer and intentionally foolish slasher characters to a rural family pr...

Ten years after the 2016 killer clown panic, Weekly Spooky’s Thursday Thrills returns to the creepy clown sightings that began near Fleetwood Manor Apartments in Greenville County, South Carolina. In August 2016, children and residents reported clowns in the woods—mysterious figures allegedly displaying money, flashing green lights or lasers, making strange noises, and trying to persuade children to follow them toward an abandoned house near a pond. Deputies searched the wooded area and increased patrols, but contemporary reporting says they found no clown, no costume, no hidden camp, and no physical evidence proving the earliest claims.
The story did not...

A cursed object awakens beneath Clear Lake's surface, transforming a peaceful camping trip into a supernatural nightmare. When Brian discovers a carved relic hidden in dark, grass-choked waters, he disappears—and returns transformed, impossibly strong and impossibly wrong. Bruce Haney's "The Darkness Under Clear Lake" is a haunting tale of body horror, halloween style dread, and the price of curiosity in cursed folklore.

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Blade, The Exorcist III, An American Werewolf in London, You’re Next, The Night House, and Night of the Creeps headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 17 through August 23. Our late-summer Halloween horror pregame continues with Marvel vampires, supernatural possession, haunted-house grief, masked home invaders, alien parasites, reanimated corpses, and one of the greatest werewolf transformations ever filmed.

Inside this episode:
August 17, 1990 — The Exorcist III opens in U.S. theaters
William Peter Blatty returns to the world of The Exorcist with a rain-soaked supernatural detective story starring George C. S...

The Pale Crawler is a modern cryptid legend and Halloween Favorite tied to The Rake, a creepypasta deliberately created online in 2005. What began as an anonymous forum experiment soon became a wave of alleged humanoid sightings, viral trail-camera images, Reddit stories and YouTube horror. 

In this episode of Terrifying & True, we trace Operation Crawler and the birth of The Rake creepypasta, the alleged Effingham, Illinois and rural Kentucky encounters, the notorious Louisiana “swamp monster” trail-camera hoax, and the internet feedback loop that transformed a collaborative horror story into modern folklore. We also examine ordinary explanations behind many Pale Crawl...

Unknown Broadcast sails beyond the last reliable chart for four classic OTR tales of island horror, radio mystery, and tropical suspense. The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island promise refuge, fortune, or paradise—and collect a different price from every visitor.

The beaches are white, the water is warm, and the boats all seem to be pointed the wrong way.
☀ The Beach of Falesa — A trader arrives on a remote Pacific island seeking a future and finds a web of fear, power, violence, and voodoo waiting ashore.
✧ The Far-Away Island —...

Four scary stories unleash a haunted house, a cursed yard-sale object, escaped serial killers, and flesh-eating cannibal monsters. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with ghost stories, paranormal activity, haunted objects, home-invasion horror, supernatural creatures, and terrifying encounters in the woods.

A first date leads two Strickfield teenagers into an abandoned haunted mansion where a ghost child watches from the window. Trapped inside the Carnovasch Estate, they follow the spirit into a dark basement and uncover a two-hundred-year-old secret sealed behind a brick wall. Then a young...

Seven chilling cryptid encounters and true crime folklore stories uncovered just in time for Halloween: From Bigfoot sightings in 1970s Ohio to Chupacabra terror in Puerto Rico, explore supernatural folklore that shaped America's scariest legends. This immersive horror marathon weaves Wendigo mythology, the Black-Eyed Children, the Fouke Monster, and Indrid Cold into a cinematic deep dive across cursed regions and paranormal hotspots—perfect for Halloween preparation with expertly narrated, eerie storytelling that blurs fact and fright.

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