Guide to the Unknown
Creepy pop culture! The paranormal! Horror movies! Every week, siblings Kristen and Will have light-hearted convos about dark stuff. Listen for urban legends, haunted places, and stupid humor from two millennials who've seen Scream one thousand times and love ghost stories (even though they're not always sure an actual ghost is involved). It's audio comfort food for fellow horror nerds and curious scaredy cats alike.
Episodes
When Scooby and the gang need help, who do they call?
...Phyllis Diller!
But also Batman! Or Sam and Dean from Supernatural!
Those meddling kids know how to network!
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In October 1999, 4 teenaged sleuths and their dogs encountered a w-w-w-w-witch!
Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost has it all.
Hex Girls and Tim Curry.
What else could you want?
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Catch us on American Hysteria talking about the creepy Cat in the Hat sightings! [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
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Zoinks!
It's October and we're kicking it off with our thoughts about the movies Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island!
Wait...Scooby-Doo...October?
DOOKTOBER BEGINS NOW!
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Sources:
https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2025/09/15/television-laughing-matter
https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/iwao-takamoto
The Wild West was a time of cowboys and chaos.
But they also had Aliens to deal with! And then they all became ghosts!
We're digging into some good scary stories, so pull up a stool and pop open a tin of beans!
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Practical Magic is a movie about witches looking for love.
It's also about murder and necromancy.
But in a really light-hearted fun way!
(It's WEIRD)
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Sources:
https://www.vulture.com/2026/09/practical-magic-griffin-dunne-witch-curse.html
A ghost warden still inspecting prison cells after death...
An angry ghoul haunting a golf course.
What do they have in common? We found them hitting the RANDOM button on HauntedPlaces.org!
...And many many more!
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Freddy is killing for two!
Every September we watch A Nightmare on Elm Street.
So it looks like we're babysitting "The Dream Child" this time. That's movie 5.
This kid is going on our naughty list...And our GROSS list!
Sources:
We watched the movie.
Title Logo credit: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_5:_The_Dream_Child
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Florida is stuffed with paranormal oddities.
UFO's, cryptids, ghosts.
We've got some of each to share with you.
Plan your next trip very carefully!
Sources:
https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/jaxlore-annie-lytle-elementary-the-devils-school/
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
Or a smaller shark. Or BOTH!
We watched Jaws, and now we're not just afraid of the water, we're afraid of all liquids.
All of them.
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We watched the beginning, the end...the whole damn thing...
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On the forgotten slasher series Harper's Island, the bodies are dropping...
One by one.
And we're watching every wonderfully cheesy, creepy moment of it.
Sources:
We watched the whole thing.
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1408 is an evil room. But does it make for a good movie?
Stephen King, the master of horror, has a second horror story based in a hotel.
It's like we're trapped in a loop or something!
Sources:
We watched it!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450385/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv
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They say there's a portal to another dimension in New Jersey.
Confusingly...the place is called Ong's Hat.
And that's just ONE of the strange urban legends we're sharing this week!
Owlman! The Italian Bride! Phantom Clowns?
You scared yet?
Sources:
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Oklahoma_Octopus
“Return to Cabin by the Lake”
The sequel to a TV movie about a serial killer who tends to an underwater “garden of flesh.”
Gotta be really really good, right?
We’re diving in!
Sources:
Uh...We watched Return to Cabin by the Lake.
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We’re traveling to the scenic Widow’s Bay.
Gorgeous, relaxing, cursed as all get-out.
Spoiler free to start! We’ll sound the siren before we reveal the secrets!
Sources:
We watched Widow's Bay. And then we watched it again!
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The spirit moves us..all around the globe!
This week’s Guide to the Unknown is full of as many hauntings as humanly possible.
More of them involve the bathroom than you might expect!
Jackpot!
[More HAUNTED PLACES ROULETTE]
Sources:
https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/smoot-theater/
https://hauntedparkersburg.blogspot.com/2011/06/spooks-at-smoot-theater.html
Are you brave enough to come face to face with Bigfoot?
Sorry, I mean the wood ape!!
Well hey, Rob Lowe and his sons put it all on the line in the final episode of The Lowe Files.
And we watched them do it. That's real courage!
Sources:
We watched The Lowe Files. Did you hear?
https://www.woodape.org/index.php/meandrob/
"The Britons" Kevin MacLeod (i...
We have a variety of terrifying topics to cover this week:
Haunted hospitals, weird water parks, hidden witch bottles, and ludicrous Long Island frights.
All in honor of our sister Karen, gone 10 years today, who hopefully would get a kick out of this stuff!
Sources:
https://www.longislandernews.com/life-and-style/the-spooky-history-behind-huntingtons-haunted-places
We love talking about celebrities who have seen ghosts, and this week, it's a packed house!
Rue McClanahan. Courteney Cox. Sammy Hagar. Margaret Cho. Joey King. Dave Foley. Joshua Leonard.
You're invited to the party! Bring a change of pants!
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Oregon. The Beaver State.
Also full of a ton of scary stuff!
The Gumberoo! The Haunted Heceta Lighthouse! The McMinnville UFO sighting! Silent Rock!
The Rake!
We're booking our tickets now!
Sources:
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2012/04/oregon-ufo-guide-may-2012
Scary Movie is back, and badder than ever!
No, seriously...It's bad.
What do Doofy, Shorty, and that butler with the strong hand have in common?
We hope to never see them again.
Sources:
We saw it. We watched it.
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