Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Seven Halloween horror stories rewind the season into nearly five hours of cursed VHS tapes, video store nightmares, slasher killers, occult rituals, late-night horror television, and supernatural scary stories. Weekly Spooky presents Rituals, Reels & Rentals, a retro Halloween horror compilation for listeners who love horror fiction podcasts, 1980s horror nostalgia, cursed media, vintage video stores, Samhain folklore, and long-form scary stories.

These tales move from an ancient graveyard spell on Halloween 1986 to a brutal sacrificial party, a horror host who can reach through the television, vampires stalking an all-night rental shop, a storm-soaked video store slasher, a cursed black-and-white VHS tape, and an occult cassette that can erase people from existence itself. If your Halloween podcast queue includes VHS horror, supernatural fiction, slasher stories, cursed movies, retro media horror, and old-school video store atmosphere, press play and settle in.

Inside this Halloween horror compilation: • “Halloween 198666” by Dan Wilder - On Halloween night in 1986, two friends find an ancient spell book and take a very bad idea into a snowy graveyard. Their attempt at forbidden magic turns a raven, a stolen offering, and a teenage crush into a winged demonic nightmare with an extremely 1980s sense of humor.
• “The Halloween Party” by Keith Tomlin - Amber is abducted on the way to a Halloween party and wakes inside an abandoned factory where a ritualistic killer is making sacrifices to the Dark Lord. Then Clyde arrives, and the night reveals a second visitor whose connection to Hell may be worse than the slasher himself.
• “PHANTASMAGORIA” by Morgan Moore - Young Stephen secretly stays awake for an all-night Samhain horror marathon hosted by the terrifying Moloch. The late-night horror show becomes much more than television when its host selects one viewer for a ritual that can reach straight through the screen.
• “Special Halloween Hours” by Rob Fields - Charlee Brewster takes the overnight Halloween shift at Strickfield Video and discovers that the store really does serve every kind of customer. A birthday hunt for a rare horror tape becomes a chase involving vampires, wolves, a Harley, and the most dangerous movie rental of the night.
• “Deadly Rental - A Valley Halloween Tale” by Charles Campbell - In 1983, a violent storm traps employees and customers inside Valley Video. A strange caller keeps asking “trick or treat,” the power dies, and a costumed killer turns the rental shop into a bloody Halloween slasher scene with one final trick waiting behind the counter.
• “The Strickfield Slasher” by Rob Fields - A rare black-and-white VHS tape purchased from Tinker’s brings an infamous Strickfield slasher movie to a Halloween party at the exact house connected to its legend. Soon the killer is no longer confined to the screen, and reality itself starts looking like the movie.
• “ERASURE” by Morgan Moore - A seven-year-old helps his older brother secretly rent an R-rated gore movie by swapping VHS tapes. At midnight, something crawls out of the VCR - an occult entity capable of doing more than killing people. It can erase them from photographs, memories, history, and existence itself.

Across seven stories, tapes rewind, televisions stare back, killers step off screens, and Halloween rituals turn entertainment into an occult doorway. This is a long-form Halloween horror anthology for fans of scary stories, retro horror, cursed media, supernatural thrillers, slashers, horror hosts, video store nostalgia, and dark fiction built for spooky-season listening.

Follow Weekly Spooky on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or your favorite podcast app, and come back every Wednesday for a brand-new scary story. Keep listening through Halloween season for more horror fiction, monsters, folklore, slashers, ghosts, and supernatural nightmares.

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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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As Halloween approaches prepare yourself with a four-hour-plus True Crime compilation featuring seven true stories of haunted places, unsolved murder, wilderness disaster, cannibalism, and survival. The Stanley Hotel, the Hinterkaifeck murders, the Good Hart murders, Bonnie Hood's death at Camp Nelson, the Hamar-Daban expedition, Alfred Packer, and the Donner Party form one escalating journey into places where distance becomes part of the danger.

The night begins at Colorado's Stanley Hotel, where a real explosion in Room 217 became the foundation of an enduring ghost story. From there, we enter Germany's isolated Hinterkaifeck farm, where six people were murdered and evidence suggested that someone continued using the property after their deaths.

In northern Michigan, the Robison family's lakeside cottage becomes the scene of the still-unsolved Good Hart murders. At California's Camp Nelson Lodge, the killing of Bonnie Hood leads to a surviving eyewitness, an acquitted suspect, a second homicide, and a suspected murder-for-hire arrangement that was never proved in court.

Then the walls disappear. In Siberia's Hamar-Daban Mountains, a sudden storm kills six members of a hiking expedition and leaves one traumatized survivor to explain their final moments. In Colorado, Alferd 'Alfred' Packer returns alone from a winter expedition with a changing story about the five men who did not survive.

The compilation concludes with the Donner Party, whose disastrous westward journey became one of America's most infamous accounts of starvation and cannibalism. Beyond its gruesome reputation is a larger story about failed decisions, delayed rescue, moral collapse, extraordinary sacrifice, and the human refusal to surrender.

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Supernatural folklore and cursed houses collide at Bihl Manor. Before HGTV renovates Ohio's deadliest home, we uncover the paranormal history at 1213 Buckland Avenue in Fremont. From Jerome Bihl's piano shop empire to reported deaths, funeral viewings, and decades as a paranormal investigation hotspot, Henrique Couto traces the haunting that made this manor infamous—and why investigators won't leave.

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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.

🎧 Turn out the lights, settle in, and get ready for another scary story from Weekly Spooky.

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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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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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