Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Summer horror gets bloody, claustrophobic, cursed, and undead in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 6 through July 12. This time, we’re digging into splatter-film history, cursed-camera video games, one of the scariest cave movies ever made, Netflix’s summer-camp slasher revival, Italian zombie cult madness, and the return of the Tall Man. 

Inside this episode:
July 6, 1963 — Blood Feast reportedly plays Peoria, Illinois
Herschell Gordon Lewis changes horror forever with a cheap, outrageous, blood-soaked shocker often credited as a key turning point in splatter cinema and grindhouse gore. 
July 8, 2022 — MADiSON releases
A haunted-house horror game turns an instant camera into a cursed object, making every photo feel like an invitation for the nightmare to come closer.
July 8, 2005 — The Descent opens theatrically in the UK and Ireland
Neil Marshall sends a group of friends into an unmapped cave system where grief, betrayal, darkness, and something much worse are waiting below.
July 9, 2021 — Fear Street Part Two: 1978 releases on Netflix
The Fear Street trilogy heads to Camp Nightwing for a brutal summer-camp slasher packed with cursed-town mythology, teen terror, and R.L. Stine nostalgia with real bite.

Deep-Cut Spotlight — Burial Ground
Andrea Bianchi’s Italian zombie cult favorite unleashes ancient Etruscan dead, a cursed country estate, crumbling corpses, and some of the strangest undead chaos of the early 1980s.

Horror Birthdays This Week:
Shelley Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Anjelica Huston, and Fred Gwynne all enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to The Shining, Friday the 13th, Tremors, The Witches, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Pet Sematary. Weekly Recommendation — Phantasm II
Angus Scrimm’s Tall Man returns in a bigger, weirder, more action-heavy sequel filled with silver spheres, funeral-home dread, road-trip nightmare energy, and late-80s cult horror atmosphere.

Plus, Weekly Spooky heads into the woods with “Branch Manager” by Gary D up in Ontario, Canada — aka Blue Fire Raging — where exhausted telemarketers escape into Algonquin Park only to discover that the forest is listening, moving, and hungry. From Blood Feast and MADiSON to The Descent, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, Burial Ground, and Phantasm II, this week in horror history proves that summer horror can trap you underground, curse your camera, resurrect the dead, send you to camp, and still leave room for one more silver sphere flying down the hallway.

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The Greenbrier Ghost is one of the strangest true crime cases in American history: a West Virginia murder trial where testimony about a ghost helped expose the truth.

In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her husband, Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue, quickly took control of her body, covered her neck, and helped rush her toward burial before a complete medical examination could be performed. At first, Zona’s death was treated as natural.

Then her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, claimed Zona returned from the grave.

According to Mary, her daughter appeared to her over four nights and revealed that Trout had broken her neck. When authorities exhumed Zona’s body, doctors found a broken neck, a crushed windpipe, and evidence of violent death. What had been buried as a tragic natural death became a murder investigation.

This episode of Terrifying & True examines the real Greenbrier Ghost case, the murder of Zona Heaster Shue, the 1897 trial of E. S. Shue, the role of ghost testimony in court, the exhumation that changed everything, and the mystery of whether Mary Jane Heaster saw a spirit, had a vision, followed intuition, or used folklore to force justice.Was the Greenbrier Ghost truly a voice from beyond the grave? Or was this the story of a grieving mother who refused to let her daughter’s murder stay buried?

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast returns with four old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, and eerie anthology drama pulled from somewhere beyond the static.

Tonight’s transmission begins with a troubled girl whose uncanny gift for finding lost things draws her toward a missing woman, a frightened family, and something buried much too close to home. Then the doors close inside an enormous department store, where a poet discovers that the mannequins are not the only inhabitants waiting for nightfall. After that, a bachelor party becomes an impossible murder mystery involving a dead stranger, a vanished apartment, and five extremely important canaries.

Finally, The Whistler follows a jealous wife whose plan to eliminate “the other woman” rests upon one fatal assumption.

🔎 “The Girl Who Found Things” — CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Iris Lloyd is defiant, unpredictable, and apparently clairvoyant. When she is brought to the Wheeler house to help locate a missing woman, her disturbing flashes point toward a taxi driver, a secret in the woods, and a family desperate to keep the truth lost forever.
🌙 “Evening Primrose” — Escape
Poet Charles Snell hides inside Bracey’s department store to escape ordinary life, only to discover an entire secret society already living between its counters and display windows. Falling in love with Ella brings him into conflict with their rigid rules—and with the mysterious Dark Men who make certain troublesome residents disappear.
🐤 “Five Canaries in the Room” — Suspense
After his bachelor party, Ronald Denham becomes entangled in a murder involving a dead stranger, a missing apartment, and five noisy canaries. The crime appears impossible, but even a vanished room leaves clues behind.
💔 “The Other Woman” — The Whistler
Convinced her husband is leaving her for his secretary, Olivia Martin transforms a private flight into a calculated murder plot. Jealousy gives her a target, a plan, and absolute certainty—until the truth reveals that she chose the wrong woman.

Four stories. Four things that should have remained hidden. Some people spend their lives searching for the truth. Tonight, the truth knows exactly where to find them.

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Four terrifying tales of isolation and predation: a waterfall campsite, lonely Ohio highway, Halloween prank, and deserted rest area become hunting grounds for serial killers, cannibals, and shapeshifting monsters. This late night horror anthology blends true crime terror with supernatural revenge and desperate fights for survival—expertly narrated for maximum chills.

“Fortune Falls” — by David O’Hanlon
Two college friends secretly camp beside a remote Oregon waterfall, but their plans to witness its beautiful sunrise are interrupted by a mysterious cowboy, a speeding truck, and an ax.
“Roadkill” — by Travis VanHoose
An arrogant Ohio photographer earns his first major success by transforming roadside death into art—until two strange hitchhikers confront him over the animals he deliberately left behind.
“Old Jerry” — by R.T. Raynaud
A Halloween prankster enters the neighborhood recluse’s homemade haunted house and discovers that Old Jerry has a vicious sense of humor, a failing power saw, and an appetite no amount of candy could satisfy.
“The Rest Area” — by Rob Fields
Two friends stop at an isolated Ohio rest area and play one frightening prank too many—awakening the attention of an escaped ax murderer who has been searching for his next meal.

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A cursed football jersey turns a high school star into a monster… and the nightmare follows his rival to summer camp.This full Weekly Spooky horror audiobook collects Friday Night Frights and all five parts of Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields in one complete scary story release.

If you love horror audiobooks, supernatural horror stories, cursed object horror, summer camp horror, football horror, and long-form scary stories, this is the entire Demon saga from beginning to end.

In Friday Night Frights, Greg Branlake is desperate to save his football future after a humiliating loss to Strickfield High. When he discovers the original 00 jersey worn by Mick “The Demon” Knight, the legendary football relic seems to give him everything he wants: power, confidence, scholarships, fame, and revenge. But the jersey is more than a collector’s item. It is a cursed object, and once Greg puts it on, the Demon begins to take over. Then, in Summer of the Demon, Eddie “Peewee” Richter is still haunted by the state championship game where he survived Greg Branlake’s demonic transformation. Now Eddie and his teammates are at Camp Red Feather, preparing for college football with the Strickfield Serpents, when the Demon returns with glowing red eyes, unstoppable strength, and unfinished business.

From Friday night lights to Camp Red Feather, from high school rivalry to demonic revenge, this complete audiobook brings the entire cursed football horror saga together in one massive Weekly Spooky episode.Listen now to Summer of the Demon: The Complete Horror Audiobook, featuring Friday Night Frights and the entire five-part miniseries.

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