Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

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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