Weekly Spooky: Scary Christmas Stories | Terrifying Tales to Creep Your Holiday

Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, radio suspense, and Christmas ghost stories for the longest nights of the year. A special holiday edition, my dear: later nights for cold frights. We unwrap mislaid presents, whispered confessions, and footsteps in new snow; a Yule of shivers where favors come due and the past waits in a frost-rimmed mirror. Come nearer to the speaker. The tree lights hum. Somewhere between the carols and the wind, a voice promises a gift… and the bill.Inside this Christmas collection you’ll hear snowbound horror stories, ghostly radio chillers, a brush with a Yeti, and wintry crimes that bite like sleet. Cozy up—cocoa in hand, curtains drawn—and let Unknown Broadcast thread these holiday hauntings together in one long night.3) Emoji-headed blurbs per story (no author credits)🎁 The Gift — A present chosen with care… and paid for in something other than money.🎄 Christmas Story — Candlelight, confession, and a truth that won’t stay wrapped.📦 Delayed Christmas Present — A package arrives a year late; its sender hasn’t moved on.🎁🗡️ A Present for Benny — Ribbon, paper, and gunmetal; sometimes the bow hides the bite.   🎁📻 A Present for Ricky — Good boys get toys; the rest get what they deserve.🐾❄️ The Abominable Snowman — Whiteout, wide eyes, and footprints that don’t circle back.🖼️ Cold Canvas — Art that steals warmth; a portrait that keeps breathing when the room does not. 🔧 The Open End Wrench — Under a streetlamp, one tool left behind points the way to the station house—and the end. Blow out the last candle, my dear, and keep the radio low—Unknown Broadcast will handle the rest of your classic OTR Christmas horror tonight.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

Christmas horror stories marathon time, my spookies. Tonight on Weekly Spooky, you’re getting a full holiday horror novella triple-feature—three long, nasty winter tales where tinsel and terror share the same oxygen.This is cozy-season listening with sharp teeth: a haunted mall after-hours, a slumber-party movie night that opens the wrong door, and a Christmas event at an orphanage that won’t stay sweet for long. If you’re hunting for scary Christmas stories, holiday horror, and a bingeable horror podcast episode that plays like a midnight marathon, you just found your seasonal tradition.Inside the marathon (in order):The Mall Overnight — A Christmas-time nightmare where the mall becomes a hunting ground again… and whatever was captured before might not stay contained.Doorway to Horror — A sleepover, a mysterious horror disc, and a Christmas-decorated world that feels… wrong. Step through, and you may not step back.Home Sweet Horror — A December trip to an orphanage for a big Christmas event turns personal—and the “home sweet home” vibe doesn’t last.Lights down. Volume up. And if you hear bells? Don’t assume they’re festive.The Mall Overnight / Doorway to Horror / Home Sweet Horror — by Rob Fields🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

If you’re hunting for Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories that feel like a warm holiday glow… right before the lights go out—welcome to the final Xmas compilation of the year on the Weekly Spooky feed. Expect holiday horror, supernatural dread, and the kind of winter nightmares that make you double-check the chimney, the gift tags, and the shadows in the tree.Inside this compilation:• All I Want For Christmas - Is my Mother to Stop Haunting Me! — A family that “goes all in” on Christmas watches perfection turn deadly… and the afterlife refuses to take “no” for an answer. • A Chain Letter Christmas — A curse that should’ve stayed buried gets reactivated with a Christmas card—and the target list is very, very personal. • Secret Santa — Office holiday cheer curdles into obsession and violence when a “simple” gift exchange turns into a trap you can’t opt out of. • Christmas Eve Babysitters — It’s Christmas Eve, you take the babysitting job… and you realize way too late you weren’t hired for your résumé—you were hired for what happens after midnight. • Christmas at Murder Mansion — In Strickfield, Harpy’s just trying to survive the season… but the mall, the power players, and the grudges don’t take holidays off. • Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo — A long-overdue homecoming in late December carries old grief, old memories… and a feeling that home isn’t as safe as it’s supposed to be. • A Sinister Santa Spectacle: Twisted Christmas Horrors — When Jack Scratch steps out from the Christmas tree like a ringmaster, you’re not watching a holiday display anymore—you’re part of the show. Press play, turn the lights down, and make this your new end-of-year tradition: a Christmas horror anthology stuffed with dread instead of tinsel.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

It’s Christmas Eve, the lights are bright, the carols are fake, and something wrong is crawling down the chimney of a normal night. In this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror story, Allison just wants to survive the holidays long enough to buy a last-minute gift… but a filthy, broken “Santa” has other plans — and he’s working off a Naughty List that doesn’t forgive and doesn’t forget.Inside this episode:A big-box store nightmare where the doors feel like they’ve locked themselvesA killer Santa with an agenda, a grin, and a hunger for punishmentA brief, brutal alliance with a stranger who might be the only thing standing between Allison and the sleigh bells from hellExpect mature themes, dark humor, and a holiday rampage that turns “season of giving” into season of taking. Hit play, my spookies — and remember: sometimes the worst monsters wear the most familiar costumes.The Naughty Claus — by Bruce Haney🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

If you’re hunting for a Christmas horror movie that isn’t cozy or cute, Dead End (2003) is a nasty little gift waiting on a snowy back road. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi sink into the cult Christmas chiller where the Harrington family’s Christmas Eve shortcut becomes an endless nightmare of cursed highways, ghostly women in white, and a hearse that feels like it’s driving straight out of the afterlife.Recorded as a holiday special (Henrique even wishes “my spookies” a very happy holidays right up top), this conversation leans hard into holiday horror vibes: the stress of family gatherings, the dread of long winter drives, and how Dead End weaponizes Christmas lights, carols, and obligation into something suffocating and surreal.Henrique and Rachael dig into the film’s French indie roots and cult status—shot on 35mm for around $900,000 and later becoming a huge word-of-mouth hit on DVD—with an eye for what makes its single stretch of road feel so oppressive.   They unpack the Harrington family’s bickering, secrets, and guilt; the symbolism of the woman in white and the black car; and how the twist ending recontextualizes every dark joke and cruel fate along the way.You’ll also hear how Dead End stacks up against other Christmas horror classics, why it’s perfect “between-holidays” viewing when you’re sick of saccharine movies, and whether it deserves a bigger spot in the seasonal horror rotation alongside titles like Black Christmas and Krampus. By the end, you’ll know more about Dead End than you ever thought you needed—and probably be eyeing your next late-night drive a little differently.Inside this episodeHoliday stress & family horror: How Dead End turns a simple Christmas Eve drive to the in-laws into a pressure cooker of resentment, secrets, and supernatural punishment.The woman in white & the black car: Breaking down the film’s ghostly mythology, the hearse imagery, and what those apparitions say about guilt, death, and being “collected” on that endless winter road.Road-movie minimalism: Why keeping the action on one night, one family, and one stretch of forest highway makes the film feel like a bleak Christmas Twilight Zone episode.Budget vs. atmosphere: The tricks that make a ~$900k holiday horror movie feel bigger and more timeless than many larger-budget 2000s genre films.That twist ending: Henrique & Rachael’s interpretation of the finale, Marion’s survivor’s guilt, and how the movie uses its reveal to reframe the entire Christmas Eve journey.Comparing Christmas horrors: Where Dead End sits in the holiday horror canon—and why road-trip terror might be the most relatable Christmas nightmare of all.Where to watch Dead End (2003) – U.S. streaming(Availability can change—these are current as of December 2025.)Amazon Prime Video (subscription / with ads) – Included with Prime / Prime Video with Ads https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Dead-End-2004/0HY9MUNJC4WLAX4JW97SS647H8 Tubi (free with ads) – Stream the full movie free: https://tubitv.com/movies/451127/dead-end Plex (free with ads) – Watch on Plex’s on-demand movie section: https://watch.plex.tv/movie/dead-end Apple TV (rent/buy) – HD rental or purchase: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/dead-end/umc.cmc.1iym6o3m9wnyrxwfszyeb80p4 Fandango at Home (Vudu) (rent/buy) – Digital rental and purchase: https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/Dead-End/1033867🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com