Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

A Best of 2025 fan-favorite returns in one killer collection: Deadly Second Chances—the summer mini-series that drops you into the Strickfield universe where second chances come with teeth.

In Perdition, the Hellweaver discovers an ancient pact that could finally set her free… but only if she offers five doomed souls the chance to rewind their lives—and watches them choose who they really are when fate gives them one more turn of the key. No interference. No do-overs. Just consequences.

From cursed revenge and corrupted redemption, to supernatural bargains, killers-in-the-making, and blood-soaked turning points, these five chapters hit like a string of midnight doors slamming shut—each one asking the same question: If you could go back… would you save yourself… or become something worse?

Deadly Second Chances by Rob Fields

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Slasher horror, murder mystery, and winter survival terror collide as the Horror Snow-In at High Point Ski Lodge continues under a tightening blizzard lockdown—and the killer behind BANNED stops treating this like a secret.

With police struggling to reach the lodge and the convention refusing to shut down, headliner Vickie Valentine is forced to keep smiling through the fear… even as something old and dangerous stirs inside her. Meanwhile, Robbie Redden turns the weekend into a performance—pushing the murders from the shadows into places they were never supposed to happen.

Part 3 raises the stakes with public scares, disappearing staff, and a killer who wants witnesses—all while the storm cuts off escape and the lodge slips closer to panic. If you thought the word BANNED was just a signature… you’re about to learn it’s a warning.

Banned! - Part 3 — by Rob Fields

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A horror history podcast trip through January 19–25, when the winter slump gets mean and the genre leaves fresh footprints in the snow. This week’s creepy calendar run includes classic creature feature chaos, a modern psychological thriller hit, a creepy doll shocker, a claustrophobic space-horror video game, and a found-footage landmark that changed horror marketing forever.

Inside this episode (Quick Hits):
Jan 19 (1990): Tremors — a creature feature that burrowed its way into cult legend.
Jan 20 (2017): Split — Shyamalan’s thriller that became a major modern horror touchstone.
Jan 22 (2016): The Boy — “it’s just a doll”… famous last words.
Jan 25 (2011): Dead Space 2 — the trapped-in-a-nightmare formula goes interactive.
Deep-Cut Spotlight:
Jan 23 (1999): The Blair Witch Project — a midnight Sundance screening that rewired horror marketing.
Then & Now / Weekly Recommendation:
Spree (2020) — a modern, found-footage nightmare with a streaming-era edge.Where to watch (as said in the episode): free with ads on Tubi, and also Shudder + AMC+ with a subscription (plus rental options mentioned).

Birthday Roll:
Edgar Allan Poe • David Lynch • Robert E. Howard • Tobe Hooper
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Portugal folklore turns feral in the mountain village of Podence, where the only warning is the clatter of cowbellsricocheting off stone walls. Then the Caretos burst from the dark—men (and now women and kids, too) swallowed in ragged ribbons of red, yellow, and green, faces erased behind blood-red demon masks, hips loaded with heavy bell harnesses that turn every lunge into a metallic scream. It’s Carnival… but it moves like a hunt.

This is Entrudo—a tradition believed to reach back to pre-Roman Celtic seasonal rites, an “entry” into the warm season after winter’s darkness. Long before Lent ever claimed the calendar, this was a community ritual of mischief, rule-breaking, and purification: scare off the bad spirits, shake loose the old year, and drag spring and fertility into the streets by force of noise.

Inside this episode:
The first warning: cowbells in a stone alley, laughter turning predatory
Ancient roots: the pagan “entry” of Entrudo and the Celtic ties that won’t die
The disguise: fringed wool suits, horned masks, and the deafening bell harness
Ritual permission: three days where chaos is allowed—then paid for
Fire and farewell: the burning of effigies, bonfires, and Carnival’s final cleansing
Near-extinction and comeback: depopulation, revival, facanitos, and a tradition reborn
UNESCO recognition: how Podence’s “carnival demons” became world-famous without going tame
Cousins of the Caretos: Peliqueiros, Joaldunak, and Iberia’s other bell-bearing “devils”

If you ever find yourself in Podence after dark—listening to cowbells get closer—remember: the masks don’t perform. They pounce.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Step into Unknown Broadcast — classic old-time radio horror stories and vintage radio suspense pulled from the dark, stitched together, and left to play in the corners of your feed. Tonight, four nightmares unfold: a royal smile that means life… a desperate man pushed into crime… a murder heard in the dark… and an island where gunfire answers the tide.
👑 “The Queen of Darkness” — In a kingdom where a queen still holds real power, Josephine Denison’s charm hides something colder: ambition, jealousy, and a court that learns too late what her favor costs.
🕯️ “Dark, Dark Destiny” — Joe Harrison needs money to save his wife, Mary… and one bad decision becomes a chain of robbery, panic, and a death that won’t stay neatly buried as “accident.”
🎹 “A World of Darkness” — A young woman is found stabbed to death inside a house full of suspects. A blind musician, Anton Rizak, listens harder than anyone else… and turns sound itself into the final accusation.
🌑 “Dark Island” — A party, a hidden fortune, double-crosses… and a midnight shoreline where gunfire writes punctuation across the waves. On this island, even the wrong name can get you killed.
The darkness doesn’t end when the story does… it just learns your address.

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
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