Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong

Summer Scares: Horror's Most Terrifying Camping Trips

A lakeside camping trip ends in blood. A quiet cabin becomes a house of horrors. And the killers were never caught. Heidi Wong tells the real stories that inspired Friday

Summer Scares: Real Stories of the Conjuring Universe

Step beyond the screen and into the real-life terror behind The Conjuring Universe. Heidi explores the Perron family’s decade-long haunting in a Rhode Island farmhouse an

Penpal: The Stalker Who Watched from the Beginning | Creepypastas

When Dathan was five, his kindergarten class released helium balloons with letters inside as a sweet lesson about connecting with strangers. But someone found his balloon

Real People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT, a new Crime House podcast!

Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love Twisted Tales, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alex

Borrasca: The Sound on the Mountain | Creepypastas

In 2015, a writer named C.K. Walker posted a story to Reddit's r/nosleep forum about a boy named Sam who moves to a perfect small town in the Ozark Mountains... and slowl

Psychosis: When Screens Replace Reality | Creepypastas

In 2010, writer Matt Dymerski published a creepypasta called Psychosis: a journal written by a programmer slowly convinced that everyone he knows has been replaced by som

Candle Cove: The Kids' TV Show That Wasn’t There | Creepypastas

In 2009, a web cartoonist named Kris Straub published a short story formatted as an internet forum thread, in which a group of strangers collectively reconstruct a distur

The Strangers: The Passengers You Should Ignore | Creepypastas

Andrew Erics is a twenty-five-year-old factory worker in New York City who passes his daily commute by people-watching... until he notices riders who are too still, too b

The Devil's Cosmonaut: Horror on a Space Station | Creepypastas

In 1976, Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov endured a catastrophic solo stint aboard the Salyut 5 space station: contaminated air, a crumbling support system, and a rescue th

NoEnd House: Nine rooms, No Way Out | Creepypastas

No End House is a creepypasta about a nine-room haunted attraction that promises five hundred dollars to anyone who makes it through... a feat no one has ever accomplishe

Polybius: The Arcade Game That Drives You Insane | Creepypastas

In 1981, a plain black arcade cabinet appeared overnight in a Portland, Oregon arcade. No logo, no artwork, just a name glowing in pale green letters: Polybius. Players r

Ted the Caver: The Horror Underground | Creepypastas

In early 2001, a recreational caver named Ted documented his obsessive attempt to break through a sealed passage deep inside a cave... and what he found on the other side

BEN Drowned: Horror You Can't Control | Creepypastas

In September 2010, a college student bought a used copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask at a garage sale, and discovered a save file named BEN belonging to a boy wh

Dear David: The Ghost in the Replies | Creepypastas

In August 2017, New York-based cartoonist Adam Ellis began documenting a haunting on Twitter: a dead boy named David, a dented skull, and a rocking chair that moved on it

Anansi’s Goatman: When the Terror Blends In | Creepypastas

In the summer of 2012, a teenager's camping trip on remote Alabama woodland turns into something no one can explain. What begins with strange smells and figures standing

The Backrooms: From Anonymous Post to A24 Horror Movie | Creepypastas

In 2018, an anonymous user posted a photograph of an empty yellow room on 4chan — no caption, no story, no name. A year later, two paragraphs turned that image into one o

When Beloved Cartoons Became Something Darker | Creepypastas

Three of the internet's most notorious lost media creepypastas take aim at SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons, and classic Disney — spinning tales of hidden episodes so

The Horror That Never Stops Walking

What if something was following you… …and it never stopped? It doesn’t run. It doesn’t rush. It just keeps walking. This episode explores the real-world fears behind o

The True Stories That Inspired "The Silence of the Lambs"

Ed Gein. Ted Bundy. Gary Heidnik. Jerry Brudos. Each of these men committed crimes so disturbing they reshaped public understanding of serial killers. Together, their s

The Mummy Is Back: But Was the Curse Ever Real?

A boy king erased from history. A tomb filled with gold. And a wave of deaths blamed on ancient revenge. As the Mummy universe expands once again, Heidi Wong uncovers the