Unknown Broadcast | Halloween at Midnight: 8 Old Time Radio Horror Stories

Halloween haunts and ghost lore get a skeptical twist on Monthly Spooky. Henrique Couto and Michelle revisit Pennsylvania's Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride, then open Eric Elfman's The Very Scary Almanac (1993) for Borley Rectory ghost stories, poltergeist accounts and UFO encounters. Spooky news brings new claims about the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film and a runaway inflatable pumpkin. Plus: Night of the Demons, Mischief Night (2013), and an eerie, unverified Reddit tale of a father who seems to arrive home while he's still at work. Settle in for a Halloween hangout full of spooky stories and laughs.

Four Halloween horror stories prove some places never forget. Renovating a former funeral home unleashes what was hidden in its walls. A masked killer escapes a sanitarium. A craft project made with graveyard soil becomes a living nightmare. The Walls Remember brings nearly six hours of haunted-house horror, slasher suspense, and tiny monsters in In the Witch House Walls, Another Mischief Night, Dirt Babies, and Asylum of the Dirt Babies. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Shane Migliavacca, and Bruce Haney. Narrated by Henrique Couto. Follow Weekly Spooky and spend Halloween somewhere you can't escape.

In “12:01: An Anna Wu Story” by Mike Ashkewe, Halloween horror begins with stolen body parts and a warning to go home. Ice-powered agent Anna Wu follows the evidence to a hidden butcher-shop laboratory in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. A doorway to the dead will open for just one minute at midnight—and someone is building a body for whatever comes through. Can an investigator used to preserving crime scenes stop a forbidden resurrection? Narrated by Henrique Couto, this paranormal thriller blends occult mystery, body horror and a race against the clock for fans of scary Halloween stories.

John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) turns a quiet neighborhood into a place where Michael Myers could be hiding anywhere. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Donald Pleasence’s obsessive Dr. Loomis, Debra Hill’s teenage characters and Dean Cundey’s use of shadows and empty space. Why does the Shape’s slow, silent pursuit still get under our skin? From Carpenter’s unforgettable score to the final-girl debate, this spoiler-filled horror movie review explores the craft and psychology that make Carpenter’s slasher classic a Halloween-season essential.

Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey, has a ghost story that begins with pocket change: toss a coin into the water, and a boy beneath the bridge is said to send it back. Join Henrique Couto for a Halloween ride through the ghost-boy legend, a reported reflection in the creek, and tales of a phantom pickup whose headlights vanish. Explore local folklore collected by Weird NJ, the real history of Clinton Furnace, and Henrique’s memories of spooking friends on dark car rides. If you love haunted roads, ghost stories and Halloween urban legends, wait until you hear that little metallic tap.