Screenshot of America's First Televised Exorcism

It’s rare to hear about a ground-breaking exorcism that didn’t involve Ed and Lorraine Warren, isn’t it? How did they miss out on being part of the first televised exorcism in America? I don’t know, but there was an “Ed” involved and an upcoming new horror movie, True Haunting, isContinue Reading

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A man haunted by the ghost of a boy he’s convinced is trying to kill him. A family buys a dream house only to find the home comes with a stalker. Dear David and The Watcher are two real-life horror stories coming soon to a screen near you. Let’s checkContinue Reading

So Cold the River poster from Pigasus Pictures

“He made his name in blood. No one could touch him. Certain stories, they just refuse to die.” That’s one of the lines in the trailer for So Cold the River, a new horror movie releasing on Mar. 25, 2022. Specifically, it’s how Anne McKinney (Deanna Dunagan) describes a manContinue Reading

Not all houses are haunted by ghosts. In the case of the Westfield Watcher house, its ghoul was a phantom stalker. And that’s the reason I included it in the “Cases of Creepy Haunted Houses” episode of the Haunting American True Crimes season of the podcast. The story is creepyContinue Reading

Archjive81 poster

Have you started watching —or binging as the case may be— Archive 81 on Netflix yet? It started streaming on Jan. 14, 2022, and has been in Netflix’s Top 10 TV Shows in the U.S. Today ever since. For good reason. As I explained when I compared it with StrangerContinue Reading

Archjive81 poster

Are you looking for a new horror show with a supernatural mystery a la Stranger Things to binge —er, I mean watch? Have you given Archive 81 a shot yet? It’s different from Stanger Things in many ways, but there are also some parallels too. If you liked certain aspectsContinue Reading

Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza in woods in Florida at Danny Rolling's campsite

How bad —or good— is Scream: The True Story? Is it the worst Shock Docs yet, or one of the best? That answer will differ depending on the viewer. In this review, I’ll share a few reasons why I thought it wasn’t one of the best, but also why it’sContinue Reading

A Ghost Ruined My Life vs.Haunted Museum

Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life premiered exclusively on discovery+ for Ghostober 2021, a.k.a. Ghostober IV. However, in a recent paranormal programming announcement, Discovery Inc. revealed the series will premiere on Travel Channel starting Friday, January 21. Eli Roth was also involved in another series that premiered duringContinue Reading

Wednesday Netflix poster

I’ve kept my eyes peeled for updates ever since I first learned a live-action series about Wednesday Addams was headed to Netflix. Back then we didn’t know much except that it would be a supernatural coming-of-age series created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar of Smallville fame and directed byContinue Reading

Making Merry Inflatable Snowman on Roof of house decorated for Christmas

December is often called the most wonderful time of the year. But did you know that the Winter Solstice, which happens during December, is also the second most haunted time of the year? Samhain, or Halloween, is the first. The hauntings that happen during Halloween aren’t the same as theContinue Reading

Phrogging a family

Have you ever heard of “phrogging” before? I learned about it when I recently watched I See You, a horror movie that involved phrogging, which is pronounced “frogging.” If I’d seen the movie before making the “Cases of Creepy Haunted Houses” episode for the Haunting American True Crimes season onContinue Reading

Paul Bradford, Adam Ellis and Jen Lewis

Has a viral Twitter thread ever been turned into a movie? I don’t know if it’s ever happened before, but the “Dear David” Twitter phenomenon just landed a movie deal. And it’s going to be called, what else? Dear David! Let’s briefly recap what happened to inspire the movie andContinue Reading