Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Just as HGTV prepares to open Bihl Manor for A Very Haunted Renovation, Thursday Thrills visits the reputedly haunted house at 1213 Buckland Avenue in Fremont, Ohio. Henrique Couto traces the turn-of-the-century manor from the Bihl family and piano-shop owner Jerome Bihl through Clarence and Daisy Wolfe, funeral viewings, reported deaths inside the home, its later years as a Lucas County children's group residence, and its transformation into an overnight paranormal investigation site.

Then we walk the house floor by floor: Daisy's active room, a piano said to play alone, the red-haired boy on the staircase, children laughing in the attic, running shadow figures, the man in the upstairs window, and the basement presences known as the Bitter and the Scratcher. Along the way, we separate documented history from local legend, question the uncertain story of a boy's death, and examine the newer Lizzie and Alvie Bihl lore used by the HGTV series.

An eerie Ohio ghost story for fans of haunted houses, paranormal investigations, local folklore, creepy history, Halloween podcasts, and real places with legends that refuse to stay quiet.

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This Halloween season, Weekly Spooky returns to Strickfield for a savage werewolf horror story about rage, lycanthropy, transformation, and a curse that doesn’t wait for the full moon. Danielle Boyd transforms whenever her anger explodes—but unlike most werewolves, Danielle remains fully aware of the monster she becomes.

After a Strickfield High cheerleader is brutally killed, monster hunter Headmistress Hiltonson becomes convinced Danielle is responsible. Using the mysterious rejuvenating waters hidden beneath Strickfield, Hiltonson goes undercover as a student to hunt the werewolf from inside the school. But Danielle’s strange immunity to silver, a second werewolf stalking the night, and a school already crawling with supernatural secrets suggest that this hunt may be much more complicated than it appears.

“Anger Issues” by Rob Fields is a bloody, darkly funny supernatural horror story packed with werewolf transformations, full-moon terror, monster hunting, high-school horror, violent creature battles, and the continuing mythology of Strickfield.

As Halloween draws closer, the monsters are getting restless—and in Strickfield, sometimes the difference between girl and beast is just one very bad day.

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Start the Halloween pregame with IT, Hellraiser, True Blood, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Loved Ones as major horror anniversaries return from September 7 through September 13. This Week in Horror History heads into spooky season with Stephen King's Pennywise and Derry, Clive Barker's Lament Configuration and Cenobites, HBO vampires, no-combat survival horror, prom-night terror, and The X-Files' paranormal conspiracy.

This weekly horror release-date and anniversary roundup revisits the movies, television, games, creators, and cult classics that shaped the genre while building an early-September Halloween watchlist: vampire horror, Stephen King adaptations, supernatural horror movies, survival-horror games, giallo legends, prom-night horror, monster-of-the-week television, and fall horror listening.Inside this episode:
September 7, 2008 - True Blood - Alan Ball's HBO vampire hit brings Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Bon Temps, and supernatural politics out of the coffin.
September 8, 2010 - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Frictional Games turns Brennenburg Castle into a landmark no-combat survival-horror nightmare built on darkness, sanity, running, and hiding.
September 8, 2017 - It - Andy Muschietti sends the Losers Club into Derry's sewers to face Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise in a record-breaking Stephen King blockbuster.
September 11, 1987 - Hellraiser - Clive Barker opens the Lament Configuration and unleashes the Cenobites in his feature-directing debut and the start of a horror franchise.
September 13, 2009 - The Loved Ones - Sean Byrne's Australian prom-night nightmare premieres internationally at TIFF, where a rejected invitation becomes a private dance no one should attend.
Plus: a horror birthday roll honoring Dario Argento, David Arquette, Brian De Palma, and Roald Dahl; and a Weekly Recommendation for The X-Files, Chris Carter's paranormal-conspiracy classic and an ideal early-autumn binge.From Pennywise beneath Derry and Cenobites beyond the puzzle box to Bon Temps vampires, Brennenburg Castle, and a pink-satin torture prom, this September 7-13 horror history roundup is your Halloween pregame: a spooky-season warm-up for scary-movie marathons, cult-horror fans, survival-horror gamers, paranormal-TV devotees, and anyone counting down to October one nightmare at a time.

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The Golem of Prague is one of the most famous monsters in Jewish folklore: a silent giant shaped from clay, awakened by sacred Hebrew letters, and ordered to defend Prague's Jewish community. But did Rabbi Judah Loew - the Maharal of Prague - really create a supernatural protector, and could the golem's body still be hidden in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue?

This pre-Halloween Terrifying & True investigation traces the golem legend from Psalm 139 and the Babylonian Talmud to Sefer Yetzirah, medieval Jewish mysticism, the older golem of Chelm, and the famous Prague story. We separate documented religious tradition from later folklore, literary invention, and horror imagery while preserving the eerie question at the center: what happens when human beings create power without judgment?

Long before the golem became a stone-faced monster in movies, games, and Halloween culture, it was an unfinished human form - a body close enough to life to become unsettling. Rabbinic texts describe a created man who cannot speak. Medieval traditions connect artificial creation with combinations of the twenty-two Hebrew letters and the 231 gates. Early modern stories place the runaway servant not in Prague, but in Chelm, where a creature built to obey grows too large for its maker to control.

The episode then enters the Old-New Synagogue and the legend of Rabbi Loew. The historical Maharal was a major Jewish thinker who met Emperor Rudolf II, but no surviving writing from the rabbi, his disciples, or contemporary Prague chronicles records a clay guardian. The Prague connection emerged through nineteenth-century literature, while Yudl Rosenberg's 1909 book decisively shaped the now-familiar story of Yossele, the golem created to defeat blood libels - false antisemitic accusations that had caused real persecution and violence - and protect a threatened community.

As Halloween season approaches, this deep dive explores why the golem remains one of folklore's most powerful supernatural legends - and why it is more than a simple monster story. It is a tale of antisemitic persecution, communal fear, sacred language, obedience, artificial life, and the terrifying responsibility of a creator. From Prague's locked attic and rumors of a Nazi intruder to Paul Wegener's silent-film monster and modern comparisons with robots and artificial intelligence, the golem keeps receiving new commands.

Inside this episode:
The meaning of golem in Psalm 139, rabbinic tradition, and the story of Rava's silent created man
Sefer Yetzirah, sacred Hebrew letters, medieval Jewish mysticism, and the corrected 231 gates
The older golem of Chelm and the changing traditions of emet, met, and the removable shem
Rabbi Judah Loew, Emperor Rudolf II, the Old-New Synagogue, and the real history of Jewish Prague
Yudl Rosenberg's 1909 literary hoax and the protector created to fight false blood-libel accusations
The synagogue attic, the Nazi-intruder rumor, Paul Wegener's film, classic monsters, robots, and AI

Was the Golem of Prague an ancient protector waiting in a synagogue attic - or a modern legend assembled from sacred texts, persecution, folklore, and the human fear of creations that obey too well?

We're telling that story tonight.

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Begin the march toward Halloween with six classic old time radio horror, mystery, suspense, and science fiction dramas from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, Escape, The Whistler, Quiet Please, and The Weird Circle. Deadly Lessons brings together Fred Gwynne, Marian Haley, William Conrad, John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Margo, Elsa Lanchester, Wyllis Cooper, and Charles Dickens in stories of gambling debts, Black Hills gold, seances, revenge, experimental flight, time travel, and buried testimony.

As September darkens and Halloween draws closer, open the book, take your seat, and listen carefully. The signal has already written your name in the margin.

☠ CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Last Lesson - Fred Gwynne and Marian Haley star in Sam Dann's darkly comic mystery about a compulsive gambler, dangerous debts, a marriage for money, and a wealthy daredevil wife who refuses to make his escape easy. First broadcast October 13, 1975.
⚓ Escape - The Notebook - John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, and William Conrad enter 1870s Dakota Territory, where two miners carrying news of a Black Hills gold strike are hunted by a stranger willing to kill for their claim. First broadcast July 26, 1953.
⚡ Suspense - Finishing School - Margo and Elsa Lanchester lead a Gothic school mystery about a newly hired teacher, a student's death by fright, and secret seances that may be calling the dead back to life. Network broadcast December 30, 1943.
☾ The Whistler - The Black Book - A ballet star's triumphant opening night becomes a carefully staged nightmare when the rival he once crippled returns with a meticulous plan for revenge. Broadcast April 28, 1947.
✦ Quiet Please - One for the Book - Wyllis Cooper's strange science fiction time-travel tale sends Air Force pilot Max Westlake through a Mach 12 experimental flight from 1957 back to 1937, where he comes face to face with an earlier version of himself. Broadcast November 21, 1948.
◆ The Weird Circle - Dr. Manette's Manuscript - Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities becomes classic radio Gothic horror as Dr. Manette's prison manuscript exposes cruelty, captivity, and the vengeance waiting to be collected. Broadcast November 28, 1943.

This three-hour classic radio drama collection is made for late-night listeners who love vintage mystery, old time radio horror, supernatural fiction, Gothic suspense, science fiction thrillers, and eerie Halloween-season listening.The transmission closes the book, but the last page is still turning by itself.

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