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Halloween Pop-up Channel - Powered by "Ghost - Scary Stories"

Drama, Fiction, Kids & Family

Get ready for the most terrifying month of your life with Ghost - Scary Stories Halloween Pop-Up Channel! Caloroga Shark Media unleashes its most bone-chilling collection yet, featuring the absolute best Halloween episodes guaranteed to leave you sleeping with the lights on.

This October, we're diving deep into realms where reality bends, family legacies curse the living, and the veil between worlds grows dangerously thin. Experience the heart-stopping "Halloween Inheritance" series, following Emily Blackwood as she inherits a Victorian mansion and discovers her family's dark magical legacy. Watch her transform from ordinary woman to cosmic guardian in a desperate race against time, facing ancient evils and family secrets that span generations. Each episode builds relentlessly toward Halloween night, where the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance.

Journey through "8 Nights of Terror," where each standalone tale plunges you into different nightmares - from haunted bed and breakfasts to supernatural radio frequencies, cursed costumes to graveyard diners that serve as gateways between life and death. Plus exclusive special episodes featuring the most spine-tingling encounters our archives have to offer.

Whether you're a longtime ghost story devotee or new to supernatural horror, these carefully curated tales will haunt your dreams and quicken your pulse. Lock your doors, dim the lights, and prepare for a month of pure terror!

Episodes
152
Releases
Daily
Typical length
14 min
On air since
2025
Latest episode
1 day ago

Episodes

152 episodes, newest first

  1. Day of the Dead (DIa De Los Muertos) Part 4 of 4 - "The Last Ofrenda"

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    On Día de los Muertos, Marisol must perform the final offering—becoming a living bridge between worlds. Under La Catrina's guidance, she opens herself completely to the collective memories of the spirits, transcending her mortal limitations. Leading a procession through the city, she unites the living and the dead in celebration. Her mother finally understands their family's sacred duty, and Marisol fully embraces her role as keeper of doors between worlds, carrying forward her grandmother's legacy.

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    11 min
  2. Day of the Dead (DIa De Los Muertos) Part 3 of 4 -"Pan de los Muertos"

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    The third day brings crisis as the veil between worlds thins dangerously. When a massive shadow entity threatens the mirror—the connection between realms—Marisol's grandmother makes the ultimate sacrifice, merging with the mirror to become its eternal guardian. While dealing with her grief, Marisol must continue baking for the spirits, now more desperate than ever. Each loaf requires precise memory ingredients, and the shadow creatures grow bolder. The approaching festival brings both urgency and hope.

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    14 min
  3. Day of the Dead (DIa De Los Muertos) Part 2 of 4 - "La Catrina's Mirror"

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    As Marisol deepens her understanding of supernatural baking, she discovers the true power of her grandmother's mirror as a portal between worlds. The spirits grow more numerous and hungry, while dangerous shadow creatures—the forgotten dead—threaten to breach the barriers between realms. Working alongside her grandmother's spirit and La Catrina, she learns to craft special bread for different types of spirits. But the shadows are growing stronger, and maintaining the balance between worlds becomes increasingly challenging.

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    12 min
  4. Day of the Dead (DIa De Los Muertos) - Part 1 of 4 "The Marigold Path"

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    When Marisol discovers mysteriously blooming marigolds in her late grandmother's winter garden, she's drawn into a supernatural inheritance. Under the guidance of La Catrina herself, she learns her grandmother was a sacred baker who fed the spirits during Día de los Muertos. Now Marisol must learn to bake bread infused with memories to keep the dead connected to the living. Through her grandmother's mirror, she begins learning ancient recipes that require more than just flour and sugar—they demand pieces of her own memories as ingredients.

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    15 min
  5. VIDEO AVAILABLE: A HALLOWEEN STORY | THE DOORBELL, Part 2: Answer Every Knock - Come and See the Bees

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    VIDEO AVAILABLE HERE: A Halloween horror story. Part two of two. Ghost, Scary Stories.

    I opened the door.A year ago tonight, at midnight, on a dead street, I turned the latch and looked at what was standing on my porch. It was a man who lived four doors down when I was a girl. He kept bees. He gave the whole street honey at Christmas. He died when I was twelve. He was not a day older, and he was smiling, and he said: come and see the bees, love.And standing in my own open doorway, I finally understood the thing my mother's rules had hidden from me my whole life. In forty years, not one of them ever tried to come in. Not one ever pushed at the door.They were never trying to get in.There is one more rule. I didn't tell you in part one, because you weren't ready, and because you needed to practise first. You've been answering your door all evening, haven't you. Every knock. You're very good at it now.The conclusion of The Doorbell. Keep your light on.

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    16 min
  6. VIDEO: A HALLOWEEN STORY | THE DOORBELL, Part 1: Keep the Porch Light On

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    Watch the video here: A Halloween horror story. Part one of two. Ghost, Scary Stories.

    There are four rules on my street, and my mother taught them to me when I was small. Keep your porch light on, all night. Answer every knock, no matter how late. Admire the costume, and mean it. Give them whatever they ask for, and never turn anyone away.The early hours are sweet — the pumpkins, the princesses, the parents waiting at the end of the path. It's later that the costumes start getting better. Older. Heavier. The ones that come alone, up the dark path, and stand, and wait, and don't always say the words. I've gotten very good at working out what the late ones want.A year ago tonight, the street was dead by midnight. Every porch light still burning. Nobody left outside.And my doorbell rang.Part one of two. Both parts are out tonight. Keep your light on — you're going to need to be good at it.

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    16 min
  7. THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 4: I Had My Daughter's Name in My Mouth. I Finished the Steps Anyway.

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    The sequence takes hours now. And the figure is no longer only at the foot of the bed or on the stairs. It is in every room, ahead of her, waiting.She was deep in the steps when the knock came. Not the figure. A human knock, low on the door, and the voice from the phone. It's so cold out here, Mum. I've been coming for two years.Then the voice said it had found something in the spring, in her closet. A small red coat.The finale of The Instructions. Part 4 of 4.

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    15 min
  8. THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 3: My Sister Said There's Nothing Here. Every Mirror in the House Moved.

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    The rule is simple. If you lose your place, you start over from the front door, no matter how far in you were.She lost her place upstairs, an hour in. When she turned to go back down, the figure was on the stairs — standing on the only path to the beginning.Then her sister Kath let herself in with their mother's old key, stood in the hallway looking at the turned mirrors and the paths worn into the floorboards, and started to cry. There's no one here, she said. There was never anything here. It's just you.For one moment, she believed her.Part 3 of 4.

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    14 min
  9. VIDEO: This Kentucky Haunted House Has a Chainsaw Santa Inside

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    A volunteer-run haunted house in Louisville packs 150 animatronics, a chainsaw-wielding Santa, and a heartfelt family mission.

    Today's five stories:

    1. Brandon Wins Giant Pumpkin Championship — His 2,346-pound pumpkin took the Half Moon Bay prize of $21,114.

    2. Family Builds Haunt in Cole's Memory — Cam and Caden run a volunteer haunted house in Louisville supporting a food bank.

    3. Halloween Costumes for Pets Boom — The National Retail Federation says about 23% of consumers plan to dress up pets.

    4. Mystery of the Missing Candy Delivery — A Minnesota man's 100-pound candy shipment vanished after Amazon marked it delivered.

    5. Halloween Spending Hits Record Levels — Spending is expected to reach $13 billion, and shoppers will average about $38.

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    5 min
  10. THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 2: A Girl on the Phone Called Me Mum. I Didn't Know Who She Was.

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    The steps grow. Nobody tells you that at the start. The fear learns the gaps you leave, and every gap you close becomes a new step.

    Now there are the mirrors — every one turned to the wall before dark, because she looked once, in the hall, and the hall behind her reflection was not empty. And there is the phone, which must never be answered once the steps have begun.

    This week it rang four times. On the fourth, she answered. A young woman's voice, crying, calling her Mum, saying her own name into the line.The name went somewhere and did not stay.

    Part 2 of 4.

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    14 min
  11. THE INSTRUCTIONS — Part 1: It Saved Me. I'm Going to Teach It to You, Step by Step.

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    There was a stretch of her life, not long ago, when the fear came and would not leave. She was not a foolish woman. She ran a full, loud household; she was the one other people leaned on. Then something ended, and into the space it left, the fear came — a certainty, every night, that something was testing the edges of the house, looking for the way in.She checked the locks a hundred times a night. It didn't help, because she did it frightened and at random.Then she found the steps. The same doors, in the same order, a hand flat on each one, the name said out loud. And for the first time in months, the fear stopped.It came back, of course. A little bigger each time. And each time she did the steps, the relief was a little sweeter.Part 1 of 4.

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    14 min
  12. VIDEO: This Halloween Horror Movie Chia Pet Grows a Green Coat in Two Weeks |

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    A beloved plant-growing novelty just got a horror-movie makeover, and it comes with six easy steps to raise your own little villain.

    Today's five stories:

    1. Best Halloween Costumes for 2026 — Johnny runs through costume ideas Variety says are trending this Halloween.

    2. Chicago Cat Tours Halloween Walk — Cats in costumes, a neighborhood stroll and a block party; registration closes September 30th.

    3. Dairy Queen Debuts Halloween Menu — A purple yam Blizzard, a bubbly blood orange drink and a ghost pepper chicken basket.

    4. Halloween II Michael Myers Chia Pet — A new chia pet grows a green coat in one to two weeks, and Johnny explains why it's Halloween II.

    5. Crocs Releases Two Horror Clogs — Halloween and Saw clogs arrive just ahead of the holiday.

    Chapters: 0:00 Story

    1: Best Halloween Costumes for 2026 1:58 Story
    2: Chicago Cat Tours Halloween Walk 2:33 Story
    3: Dairy Queen Debuts Halloween Menu 3:26 Story
    4: Halloween II Michael Myers Chia Pet 5:06 Story
    5: Crocs Releases Two Horror Clogs 5 Good News Stories is produced by Caloroga Media.

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    6 min
  13. HALLOWEEN ROMANTASY | The Masque Pt 2: I Asked a Monster to Be Seen

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    A Halloween romantasy. Part two of two. Masquerade, monster romance.

    The Mourning Masque is a hunt. It has always been a hunt. The masks bind four hundred of the old and the hungry into mannered human shape for one evening, and at the stroke of twelve the binding breaks, and the Host feeds on the chase.The Stag is one of them. He has worn a borrowed face at this party for two hundred years. And his plan, the kindest thing he can think of, is to get me to the gate and vanish before I ever see what he actually is. Save me, and stay a mystery.I have spent my whole life being handled by people who decided what I could take. I am not doing it again tonight, not from him, not from anyone.I don't want to be saved. I want to be let in on it.Eleven fifty. Four hundred monsters. One mask-maker who knows exactly what a mask is actually for, and one face she has not shown anyone in nine years.The conclusion of The Masque.

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    17 min
  14. THE LISTENER — Part 4: The Last Voice It Learns Is Yours.

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    She promised, at the very start, to tell you how to stay alive. She kept every other promise. She told you she survived. She told you she'd give you the rule. She told you what it costs and what she had to refuse and what happened to the man three houses down.She has one thing left to tell you, and she has been building toward it for four nights. Listen the way she asked you to. The finale of The Listener. Part 4 of 4.

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    15 min
  15. VIDEO: Costco’s Smashable Chocolate Frankenstein, Starbucks Black Cat Frappuccino, and Candy Corn Beer

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    Johnny Mac shares five good news Halloween stories: Costco is selling a 5.5-pound Belgian chocolate Frankenstein head that comes with a wooden mallet and contains a pound of body-part-shaped gummy candies for $55, though it’s sold out and being resold for up to $100. Lego released a 323-piece Halloween Pumpkin Lantern set that lights up when the stem is pressed and includes a spider and glow-in-the-dark ghost for about $30. In Philadelphia, Newsroom Philly becomes the Pumpkin Press, a Poe and Headless Horseman-inspired pop-up with themed decor and cocktails like the Headless Horseman, Moon Over Sleepy Hollow, and a Raven’s Cauldron for groups. Starbucks adds a caffeine-free Black Cat Frappuccino on Oct. 22, a Black Knight Cookie, and Halloween merch. Shock Top and Spirit Halloween created Candy Corn Wheat, a limited-edition 5% wheat ale with mixed reactions.

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    5 min
  16. THE LISTENER — Part 3: My Sister Begged at My Door All Night. I Never Made a Sound.

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    There was one other house on that road with a light in it.The woman who opened the door was about seventy, and she knew everything before Marion said a word. She raised a hand to stop her. She pointed to her own throat, then to her own ear. She would listen. She would not speak.She wrote on a yellow legal pad, in careful capitals, and the first thing she wrote — before hello, before her name — was this:DON'T ANSWER IT. NOT ONCE. NOT EVER.The houses on that road were not empty once. They were full of people at the end of a road that goes nowhere, which is a certain kind of person. She had watched the lights go out, one at a time, for thirty years. And she had a list of names.Part 3 of 4.

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    15 min
  17. HALLOWEEN ROMANTASY | The Masque Pt 1: Nobody Unmasks Until Midnight

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    Part One: "Masks On"A Halloween romantasy. Part one of two.

    Masquerade, monster romance, one night only.I make masks for a living, and I have worn one to every event for nine years, so that nobody has seen my actual face. That is not a tragedy. That is a system, and it works.Then a letter arrives on paper heavy enough to feel like a slap, commissioning me to restore forty-four antique masks for something called the Mourning Masque. The money is absurd. The masks are older than anything I have handled, carved from something that is not quite wood and not quite bone, and when I clean them they warm under my hands like they are glad to be touched.The Host invites me to stay for the party. One rule: no names until midnight, when everyone unmasks at once.And across a candlelit room there is a man in the stag mask I carved myself, who says the eyes are set wrong, and when I tell him they are set alive, goes very still. We talk for three hours. He tells me almost nothing. And then, on a cold balcony, he begs me to leave before twelve.Twenty minutes to midnight, I finally understand what my finest work was for.Part one of two. Both parts are out tonight.

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    17 min
  18. THE LISTENER — Part 2: I Talked to My Sister for Five Minutes. The Phone Was Never Off the Hook.

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    She stopped answering. She thought going quiet was the same as being safe.Every night it got better. The first phrases came out wrong — rhythm off, stresses in the wrong places, a voice reading letters it didn't understand. Then the seams closed. And it wasn't only voices it was learning. It learned that if it said half a sentence and let the silence stretch, she would lean toward it, aching to hear the end.Then it found her mother. Not just the voice — six years of that voice, every grain of it right. And in her mother's voice it said the things her mother never said in forty years. I'm proud of you. I'm sorry. I heard you. I always heard you.All she had to do was answer. One word.Part 2 of 4.

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    15 min
  19. THE LISTENER — Part 1: It Said My Name. In My Own Voice. From Outside, Where I Wasn't Standing.

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    It starts as warmth. That's the part she needs you to understand, because if you're waiting for it to sound like a monster you'll miss it, the way she nearly did.Marion nursed her mother for six years in a house at the end of a road that goes nowhere. Six years of being talked at by a woman who never once heard her. Then her mother died, and even that was gone, and the silence came down so completely that she started saying things out loud just to hear a voice in the house.The knocking began in the small hours. She explained every sound away, sensibly, correctly — right up until the sounds started answering her. And then, because she was so tired of being the only voice in that house, she started talking back. She told it about her day. She told it about her mother. She told it the things from the middle of her.It listened. It never once interrupted. It let her finish.Part 1 of 4.

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    14 min
  20. The Worst Halloween Candy for your Teeth

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    Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed stories: a pediatric dentist lists eight candies worst for kids’ teeth, emphasizing that days of post-Halloween snacking are the real problem, and naming sticky chews, sour candy, taffy/caramels, hard candy, licorice-type candies, pure sugar candy, candy corn, and chocolate with caramel/nougat. Major League Soccer shifts most Saturday night matches to Saturday afternoon or Sunday for trick-or-treating, except the Colorado Rapids. In Westland, Michigan, visitors can take guided paranormal investigations at a former psychiatric hospital, with claims of hauntings and overnight options. Hong Kong hosts three weekends of Halloween crowds mixing Western and Chinese-themed costumes, aiming to boost tourism and spending. In Massachusetts, parents protest Elm Street School canceling a Halloween parade and banning costumes in favor of a black-and-orange spirit day.

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