Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

you love horror movie anniversaries, January horror releases, and the strange way certain titles hit differently with time, you’re in the right place. This week on This Week in Horror History, we’re counting down the most memorable horror releases from Jan 12–18—from studio creature features and deep-sea paranoia to legacy-sequel slashers and found-footage chaos.Inside this episode (Jan 12–18):Jan 12, 2007 — Primeval: a killer-croc creature feature with a nastier real-world edge than it first appears.Jan 13, 1989 — DeepStar Six: underwater sci-fi horror where technology goes too deep… and something down there answers back.Jan 14, 2022 — Scream (2022): the legacy-sequel slasher that drags the rules back into the light—and shows how grief, fame, and fandom can twist them.Jan 16, 2024 — This Wretched Valley (novel): modern folk horror where the wilderness stops feeling like geography and starts feeling like hunger.Deep-Cut Spotlight — Jan 18, 2008: Cloverfield: a city-shaking found footage monster movie that weaponizes perspective—because sometimes the scariest special effect is what you don’t get to see.Then & Now Bite: Horror loves systems that fail—and this week’s picks all punish the illusion of control, whether it’s nature, technology, rules, or the camera in your hand.Where to watch (U.S., this week):Primeval — free via Hoopla (library) or rent/buy on major VOD storesDeepStar Six — Tubi (free) and rent/buy on major VOD storesScream (2022) — streaming on Paramount+ and rent/buy on major VOD storesCloverfield — streaming options include Paramount+ (plus other services) and rent/buy on major VOD storesOne Missed Call — streaming options include Shudder/AMC+ (plus other services), Tubi (free), and rent/buy on major VOD storesSponsor: This episode is brought to you by Savorista Coffee — premium half-calf and decaf blends. Get 25% off with promo code SPOOKY at Savorista.com—and every order supports the show.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

A blizzard. A vanished trail. The San Juan Mountains in the winter of 1874. Six men leave safety behind—and only one walks back into town. This is the infamous Alfred (Alferd) Packer story: the “Colorado Cannibal” case that refuses to stay settled, because the evidence is brutal… and the survivor’s account keeps shifting.In this episode of Terrifying & True, we follow the doomed decision to cross the high country after Chief Ouray’s warning, the slow collapse into starvation, and the moment the frontier stops being romantic and becomes a cold, clinical math problem: move or die. Then comes the part that turned suspicion into fury—Packer returning alive, armed, spending money, and carrying other men’s belongings, offering explanations that mutate under pressure.And when the thaw gives up what the snow hid—five bodies, skulls split by a hatchet, butchered remains on a slope near Lake City—the story transforms from survival horror into a courtroom nightmare: confessions, escape, a retrial, a legal technicality, and a sentence that changes… even as the legend hardens.Inside this episode:The last “clean moment”: Chief Ouray’s warning—and why it didn’t stop themThe six who left: the men, the reputations, and the stakes that followed them into the snowStarvation’s escalation: boots, leather, and the point where “survival” becomes something elseDead Man’s Gulch: the gap between what we can prove and what one man claimsThe changing story: why Packer’s versions keep reshaping themselvesThe discovery in the thaw: what the scene says when words can’t be trustedTrial, technicality, and legend: how the case becomes folklore without ever becoming clearBecause in the end, the wilderness doesn’t need ghosts to be haunted. Sometimes it only needs snow thick enough to erase tracks… and one man left alive to explain what happened. We’re telling that story tonight.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and radio mystery that slips into the Weekly Spooky feed like a transmission you didn’t ask for… but can’t stop hearing.Tonight’s broadcast contains four vintage radio nightmares—crime-soaked, uncanny, and quietly vicious:🩸 “The Telltale Scar” (CBS Radio Mystery Theater) — An investigative reporter swears he’s spotted a man who died three years ago… and the only proof is a scar that won’t stay buried.🚀 “Mars Is Heaven” (Escape) — A crew lands on Mars and finds the impossible: their hometowns, their loved ones, their dead waiting alive—a perfect welcome that feels too perfect.☎️ “I Want to Report a Murder” (Inner Sanctum) — A mild man, a marriage full of poison, and a phone call that becomes a confession… right before the night snaps shut like a trap.🌑 “Everybody” (Lights Out / Arch Oboler) — Criminals hide out with a terrified girl and a plan, but the house has its own heartbeat… and something old is listening under the floor.Featuring work credited in-program to Roy Windsor, Ray Bradbury, Michael Sklar, and Arch Oboler.Somewhere between the dial and your dreams, the broadcast keeps going—because it only needs you to listen once.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Weekly Spooky is kicking off Best of 2025 by revisiting one of the year’s most unforgettable nightmares: a college horror novella where a simple night out becomes a spin-the-bottle slasher spiral.Samara thinks she’s just stepping outside her comfort zone—new look, new crush, new rules. But in Strickfield, the party games don’t stay playful for long. A jealous ex, a too-perfect date, a crowded house full of grinning faces… and the sick feeling that someone is steering the night toward something violent. When flirting turns to fear and the bottle points to the wrong person, Samara is dragged into a nightmare of obsession, humiliation, and survival—and the real game doesn’t end when you say “stop.”Inside this episode:College dating dread and a night that goes off the railsFraternity party games that turn predatoryPossession, jealousy, and obsession with a body count waiting in the darkMasked terror and the feeling you were chosen for a reasonIf you love slasher horror, dark romance, twisty psychological dread, and long-form horror stories that escalate like a runaway train—this one’s for you. Follow Weekly Spooky for more year-round scares, and don’t miss the rest of our Best of 2025 picks all month long.Spin the Bottle — by Rob Fields🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Bundle up, my spookies—this Best of 2025 episode of the Weekly Spooky horror podcast is a snow-choked compilation built for year-round bingeing: winter horror, blizzard dread, creature features, and a finale that pivots into true crime + folklore with a chilling Terrifying & True deep dive.Inside this Best of 2025 compilation:“I Love the Cold” — Jonathan Lumpkin • A quiet winter evening turns wrong when comfort gives way to a creeping, unnatural chill—and the cold starts to feel less like weather and more like a presence.“The Blizzard of ’58: Never Meet Your Idols” — Bruce Haney • A fan’s dream encounter collides with a historic storm, where admiration curdles into obsession and the whiteout becomes a trap you can’t charm your way out of.“I Was Stalked by a Monster from the Woods” — Michael Kelso • From a porch with binoculars to a tree line that moves on purpose, this one escalates into full-tilt cryptid horror—the kind that makes you stop looking out the window at night. “The Wendigo Curse: A Legend of Greed and Destruction” (Terrifying & True) • We wrap with wendigo folklore, winter starvation terror, and the unsettling bridge between myth and documented history—where the legend becomes a warning… and the real world gets even darker. New here? These episodes stand alone—so hit play, lock the door, and tell us: which winter nightmare got under your skin the most?🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com