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The Fear Archive investigates the real stories behind horror films. Every episode, hosts Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip dig into the actual cases, killers, hauntings, and conspiracies that Hollywood turned into your favorite scary movies — and ask whether the film or the truth is more disturbing. From Ed Gein and Psycho to the Gainesville Ripper and Scream, from MK-Ultra and The Manchurian Candidate to Faces of Death and the internet gore ecosystem — if a horror film has a real story behind it, the Fear Archive will find it. New episodes every other Wednesday. A Violet Hour Media production.

  1. 6d ago

    Martin vs. Richard Chase | The Film That Got to the Vampire of Sacramento First

    In January 1978, a man walked a quiet street outside Sacramento trying front doors. He was not looking for anything to steal. He had a rule, and when somebody finally asked him about it he explained it plainly: a locked door meant he was not welcome, an open one meant he was. Anyone raised on horror movies knows that rule. Bram Stoker wrote it down in 1897 and vampire films have run on it ever since. Nothing in the record suggests Richard Trenton Chase cared about vampire stories. He arrived at it on his own, inside a mind that had been coming apart for most of a decade. What he believed was that his blood was turning to powder. This is the episode Mike has been putting off for a year, and it is one of the most violent cases the show has covered. It is also, underneath the headlines, a story about a man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia years before he hurt anyone, and about every institution that touched him and then let go. A hospital discharged him to his mother. A court conservatorship lapsed and nobody renewed it. He stopped taking his medication. He walked into a gun shop in December 1977 and walked out with a pistol. Six people were dead within a month. Amanda and Mike walk the case from the beginning, then go somewhere the show has not gone before: where vampires actually come from. Not the novels. The Habsburg exhumation reports of the 1720s, the Austrian military officers sent to investigate the walking dead, and the Empress who dispatched her personal physician to settle it. What those villagers found in the graves was decomposition, which nobody yet understood. Accurate observation, wrong explanation. Then the films. William Friedkin's Rampage, the courtroom film built directly on this case and recut five years after it was shot. Michael O'Shea's The Transfiguration, about a boy who builds a survivable world out of vampire movies and a calendar. And George Romero's Martin, which is the reason this episode exists. Romero shot Martin in Braddock, Pennsylvania in 1976. It premiered in 1977. There is no evidence Richard Chase ever saw it, no evidence he knew it existed, and the timeline makes it close to impossible. Romero was not predicting anything. He was reasoning carefully about what a person who actually did this would look like, and a year later reality produced that person on a parallel track. Romero threw out the invitation rule as superstition. Chase, who had no interest in vampires at all, was following it as an operating procedure. The papers called Chase the vampire of Sacramento. He never once used that word about himself. LISTENER WARNING: This episode contains detailed discussion of murder, mutilation, the consumption of blood, sexual assault of the dead, and the deaths of two children. It also covers suicide, animal cruelty, and severe untreated mental illness. If you have lost someone to violence, skip this one. There is a chapter marker for the film section if that is the part you want. About one in three hundred people worldwide lives with schizophrenia, roughly twenty four million according to the World Health Organization. The overwhelming majority will never harm anyone, and people with serious mental illness are considerably more likely to be victims of violent crime than to commit it. If this episode leaves you more frightened of them, it failed. If you are struggling, 988 is the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, by call or text. NAMI's HelpLine is 1-800-950-6264 and is good at the practical questions about getting someone seen. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Oct 28

    Dead Air | Ep. 14 | Two People Found Out Where We Live

    Two separate strangers worked out where Amanda and Mike live, and only one of them was funny about it. Mike opened a piece of mail this week because the return address said Mr. Horse, and he briefly allowed himself to believe it was Michael Horse from Twin Peaks finally answering a guest request from years ago. It was not Michael Horse. It was not a person at all. Amanda's best friend Simone, a horse girl and a paying Patreon subscriber, has reviewed the photograph and filed an opinion about its dimensions that Mike has chosen to sit with. Amanda's version is worse. A postcard arrived offering a screener for a short film called The Neighbor, written and directed by a name that had been redacted. There was a QR code and a password. She watched black and white footage that looked like a security camera, thought it seemed oddly familiar, and then watched a woman walk into frame, pour a cup of water, and walk out. The woman was her. It was her house. When she went back to the link, it would not open again. Elsewhere in a slightly lighter episode: Halloween costume predictions for a year in which Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, and a stilt-walking Cat in the Hat are all somehow in contention. You Can See Everything, the three-hour A24 documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, which Amanda calls one of the best documentaries she has ever seen and which has both of them arguing about whether Holmes is performing one last and very deliberate character. The Restoration at Grayson Manor, Glenn McQuaid's gothic horror with Alice Krige and Chris Colfer, which Amanda describes, accurately, as a movie about hands. Clayface. A South Park episode in which Sephora is the backrooms. The ramps underneath SoFi Stadium, which turn out to be a genuine liminal space if you are trying to leave a Jay-Z concert. An eleven-foot metal object that sat in a Minnesota cornfield for six weeks before anybody noticed. And a woman in Alaska who kept her husband in a freezer and kept cashing his checks. Dead Air is the weekly companion show to The Fear Archive, where Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip talk about what they watched, what is in the news, and whatever has lodged itself in their heads that week. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. And to whoever sent the postcard: Amanda would genuinely like you to step forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Oct 21

    The Conjuring vs. Ed and Lorraine Warren | Featuring Special Guest Amanda Noel (Spooky New England)

    Amanda Noel has been in the basement of the Conjuring house, which is further into it than the Perron family ever went. She visited seven times before she took the job. Then she was its caretaker, sleeping in the 1736 farmhouse seven days at a stretch, sometimes completely alone, in Christine and Nancy Perron's old bedroom, because it was one of only two rooms in the entire house with an air conditioner. One afternoon she was cooking an old Perron family recipe and heard footsteps crossing the floor toward her. Nobody was there. This week Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip bring a third chair onto The Fear Archive for the first time. Amanda Noel is the creator behind Spooky New England and a former ER nurse, and she spends the hour taking The Conjuring apart against the Perron family haunting it was built on. Start with the Warrens. In the film, Ed Warren performs an exorcism on Carolyn Perron while she is possessed and trying to kill her children. None of that happened. The Warrens came to the house because they believed the house needed cleansing, not Carolyn. They held a seance. Carolyn was lifted out of her chair and thrown into the next room while her daughters watched through the doorway, convinced their mother had died. When Roger Perron went to her, Ed Warren grabbed him and warned that touching his wife could get him possessed, and Roger punched him in the face. The Warrens were thrown out of that house and never allowed back in. Andrew had to clean up the blood. Then there is Bathsheba Sherman. In the film she is a witch who sacrificed a baby and hanged herself. The real Bathsheba was a farmwife who had four children and buried three of them young, and who died of a stroke in her seventies. She never lived on the Perron property. She was never tried for anything, and she was never accused of witchcraft. She was buried in a Christian service by a reverend, alongside her family, which is not what happened to women accused of witchcraft in New England. The story about a baby dying in her care does not appear anywhere until the Perrons moved in during the 1970s. Her headstone was desecrated so many times that it had to be removed. Amanda Noel took the caretaker job in part to make sure somebody finally told her story correctly. Also in this one: the unauthorized seance Amanda Noel ran in that basement with four strangers, and what went past the window. The baby sound machine that starts playing a lullaby every time Annabelle comes up. The threshold in that house that no animal would cross. April Perron's imaginary friend and the surname nobody has ever been able to explain. And the court fight over who owns the house now, where Amanda Noel has no interest in blaming the architecture. It is not the house. It is greed. Mike also finally tells the story of getting locked in the tunnels underneath King's Park Psychiatric Center as a teenager, and the two months of his life that fell apart immediately afterward. Find Amanda Noel at @spookynewengland on TikTok and Facebook, @spooky.new.england on Instagram, and at spookynewengland.substack.com, where she writes the long versions of these stories. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Guest host Amanda Noel. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. LISTENER WARNING: This episode includes discussion of death and dying, the murder of a woman and her two children, and the death of a family pet. Popular Topics (paste at end of description field) Popular Topics Include: Ed and Lorraine Warren, Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren, Ed and Lorraine Warren true story, The Conjuring, The Conjuring true story, is The Conjuring a true story, Conjuring house, real Conjuring house, Conjuring house caretaker, Perron family, Perron family haunting, Carolyn Perron, Roger Perron, Andrea Perron, Warren seance, Bathsheba Sherman, Bathsheba Sherman real story, Burrillville Rhode Island, Harrisville Rhode Island, Old Arnold Estate, Annabelle doll, Warren Occult Museum, who owns the Conjuring house, Amanda Noel, Spooky New England, haunted New England, Lizzie Borden house, Bennington Triangle, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, haunted house true story, true paranormal case, paranormal podcast, Amanda Kagiwada, Michael Ryan Assip, Violet Hour Media, Fear Archive, The Fear Archive, horror podcast, true crime podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Oct 15

    Dead Air | Ep. 13 | Wicker Nipples and the Billionaire Rat Army

    Amanda went to the West Coast premiere of Wicker and came back with merchandise. Specifically, wicker nipple pasties, which she describes on mic in detail Mike did not ask for. The Sundance breakout from Black Bear stars Olivia Colman as a woman who commissions a husband from a basket maker and Alexander Skarsgard as the husband in question, and Amanda insists that underneath the silliness it is a beautiful story about family. Mike brings two films he loved: Lance Oppenheim's Primetime, which is loosely built on the To Catch a Predator era and which Chris Hansen is reportedly furious about, and Casper Kelly's Buddy, which opens with ten straight minutes of a fake Barney episode before the cracks start showing. Mike makes the case that Primetime belongs in a triple feature with Network and Nightcrawler. Somewhere in here he also remembers a late-eighties CBS series where Ron Perlman lived in the sewer looking like Fabio with a lion's face, and Amanda has to look it up to confirm he is not making it up. Then the news. A possible serial killer along the Lansing River Trail in Michigan, where five unhoused men between 22 and 70 have died since October 2025, and a conversation about the term the less dead and what it means for how hard anyone looks. A 1985 Newport cold case cracked 41 years later by a discarded water bottle. A former American Idol singer sentenced to life for staging his wife's murder as a home invasion. The death of Gypsy Rose Blanchard's ex at 34. And the Bouncy Castle Bandit, who is being held on a bond more than four times what she allegedly stole. Plus the story that broke Amanda: a 94-year-old billionaire in Chicago has been paying people to scatter Brazil nuts and walnuts across Lincoln Park for years. The squirrels are thrilled. So are the rats. One parent counted 42 of them in 15 minutes. The city keeps ticketing him. He keeps paying the fines. Nobody knows why he is doing it. Which leads to the real question of the episode: if you had that kind of money, what would your unhinged hobby be? Amanda would buy a dolphin and let it stay in the ocean. Mike would build a house with so many hidden passages he could get lost in his own backrooms, and then he would commission a chainsaw that is also a flamethrower. Dead Air is the weekly companion show to The Fear Archive, where Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip talk about what they watched, what is in the news, and whatever else is stuck in their heads. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Oct 8

    The Exorcist vs. Roland Doe | The Real 1949 Exorcism and the Boy Who Survived It

    In January 1949, in a suburb of Washington, D.C., a fourteen-year-old boy began showing symptoms his devout family believed could only be explained one way. Over the following months he was subjected to somewhere between twenty six and thirty separate sessions of Catholic exorcism ritual. Then it stopped. He recovered. He grew up, married, had children, and spent nearly forty years as a NASA engineer whose work helped put men on the moon. Almost none of his colleagues knew. He never spoke publicly about any of it, and he left his house every Halloween because he was afraid someone who knew would find him. A Georgetown student named William Peter Blatty read about the case in the Washington Post. He carried it for twenty two years before it became a novel, and that novel became the film that sent audiences out of theaters fainting and vomiting in documented, reported numbers. In this episode of The Fear Archive, Amanda and Mike go through all of it. The real 1949 case and what journalist Mark Opsasnick's research actually turned up. Blatty's years inside the U.S. Information Agency, and why the question driving The Exorcist is the same question driving MK-Ultra: can a human mind be taken over by a force it did not choose, and who is responsible for what that force does. William Friedkin firing live rounds near his actors and refrigerating the set until people got sick. The fire that destroyed the soundstage and left Regan's bedroom untouched. What the film quietly implies about Burke Dennings, and why Regan's violation may not have begun with the demon. And Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper, who walked out of a Florida theater showing Exorcist III and took the name of his demon with him. If you have been with the show since episode one, this one closes a loop. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes discussion of child abuse, sexual assault, ritual abuse, murder, and government psychological experimentation. Please proceed with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Oct 1

    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer vs. Henry Lee Lucas | 229 Closed Cases, Three Real Victims, and a Strawberry Milkshake

    Georgetown, Texas. Williamson County Jail, 1983. A small man sits in an office he is not supposed to be in. Fifty pounds underweight, bad teeth, a glass eye under a drooping left lid. In front of him: coffee, a fresh pack of Pall Malls, and a strawberry milkshake. Across the table, a sheriff. Behind the sheriff, file boxes full of photographs of dead women from twenty six states. The sheriff slides a photo across. The man looks at it a while. Then he says yes. Yes, that one was mine. By the time they stopped asking, police in 26 states had closed 229 murders. Families were told it was over. Detectives got commendations. The Texas Rangers who ran the tour were received like visiting royalty in every jurisdiction they landed in. Almost none of it was true. This is the Season 3 premiere of The Fear Archive, and it is the story of a man who killed at least three people, confessed to six hundred, and in doing so became the single most useful person in American law enforcement. It is also the story of a film made for one hundred ten thousand dollars that frightened the Motion Picture Association so badly they buried it for four years. Amanda and Mike walk the whole mechanism. The one room cabin in Blacksburg, Virginia. Viola Lucas. The eye, the dress, the 87 IQ. Otis Toole, the Jacksonville soup kitchen, and the Hand of Death, a satanic murder for hire cult in the Everglades that police searched for by helicopter and never found. Adam Walsh, and the grief that built America's Most Wanted. Becky Powell. Kate Rich. The arrest that started all of it: a weapons charge, nothing more. Then the Lucas Task Force, and the detail that broke the entire thing. They did not interview him. They briefed him. Crime scene photos, autopsy photos, case files walked through in front of him, sometimes while he was medicated, and then the question. He could repeat specific, accurate, brutal detail back at them, and nobody in the room was tracking that they had put it in his mouth twenty minutes earlier. The number climbed from one hundred to three hundred to six hundred, and at the far edge, three thousand, which would require a murder a day for eight years in a thirteen year old station wagon. The unraveling came from Waco. Vic Feazell, a young district attorney who actually read the file and convened a grand jury on the confessions themselves. Hugh Aynesworth at the Dallas Times Herald, the reporter who had stood in Dealey Plaza, who took the case apart with time cards and jail records instead of psychology. Feazell was later indicted on federal corruption charges and acquitted. The Attorney General called the investigation of him retaliatory. And then Orange Socks. A young woman found in a culvert off Interstate 35 on Halloween 1979, strangled, naked except for a pair of orange socks. Lucas was convicted and sentenced to death on his confession alone, while a Jacksonville roofing company paycheck placed him in Florida. In June 1998, Governor George W. Bush commuted the sentence 48 hours before the execution date, the only commutation he granted across 152 executions. In August 2019, DNA gave her back her name: Deborah Louise Jackson, born September 20, 1956, twenty three years old. Her killer has never been identified. On the film side: John McNaughton, a Chicago 20/20 broadcast, and a wrestling documentary that collapsed when the footage owner doubled his price, leaving MPI's Waleed and Malik Ali sitting on a budget. Twenty eight days in 1985 on 16mm. Michael Rooker in his first feature, in character on set and off for the entire shoot. Tom Towles. Tracy Arnold. The videotape sequence, and the rewind, and what it does to the person in the chair. The X rating, and Roger Ebert's observation that there was nothing to cut, because the problem was tone. Four years on a shelf, a lawsuit against the MPAA, a hand in the creation of NC-17, and then Scorsese handing McNaughton a De Niro picture. Plus the sequel almost nobody has seen, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Part 2: Mask of Sanity, with Kate Walsh years before Grey's Anatomy. And Netflix's The Confession Killer, the docuseries that floats confabulation as the most persuasive explanation anyone has offered. The episode closes with a thirteen point list of what is actually on paper, and with the arithmetic nobody wants: roughly twenty of the cases Lucas closed have since been resolved by DNA. Every one of those means there was a real killer, and he was left alone. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. LISTENER WARNING: This episode contains detailed discussion of homicide, sexual violence, child abuse, the murder of a child, animal cruelty, necrophilia, coerced and false confession, and capital punishment. It also describes a prolonged sequence of filmed home invasion, sexual assault, and murder. If you are in a bad place today, sit this one out. 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  7. Sep 3

    Dead Air | Ep. 12 | The Mole People Are Back and a Man Flew 200 Lizards in His Socks

    At 4:19 in the morning on August 18th, three people in headlamps and overalls pulled themselves out of a sanitation manhole about 150 feet from the main entrance to Penn Station and walked away fast. There is video. An Arizona tourist watched it and said, out loud, "reconnaissance, 9/11." The NYPD is running facial recognition and has arrested nobody. Mike has been following the mole people since the very first episode of this show, back when they were surfacing in Williamsburg and Gravesend, and he would like everyone to understand that Penn Station is an escalation. Dead Air is what happens between Fear Archive episodes — no research, no structure, no plan. Just Amanda and Mike talking until something disturbing comes up. It always does. Then Amanda opens the World's Fair. Between 1850 and the early 1900s, dozens of them went up around the world. Grand palaces, domed halls, ornate facades, built in almost no time and then torn down within a year or two. Roughly 1,500 buildings, gone. She has questions about the attendance numbers, and she turns out to be right about them: the famous 27 million figure for Chicago in 1893 counts the same people over and over again. From there it is a short walk to the Tartarian Empire, to the Great Chicago Fire taking out nearly everything the fair had built, and to H. H. Holmes running a murder castle in the shadow of the White City while millions of strangers moved through a city that had no way of noticing anyone was gone. Mike counters with a woman in a grave. In 2022, archaeologists in northern Poland opened a 400-year-old burial and found a young woman with a rusted sickle laid across her throat and a padlock fastened to her foot. DNA work published this month found something the first reports missed: they had also forced a copper object into her mouth. It is the first burial ever documented with all three. She is one of several dozen strange graves in the same field, which includes a child buried face down and a body arranged as if crucified, and the documentary about the site is called Field of Vampires. Amanda's position is that you do not open it. Amanda also dug a rusted sickle out of her own flower bed this spring and hung it on the wall. Also: fifty driverless Jaguars parked across Nashville with twenty-nine cameras apiece and the microphones running; a new horror movie hiding an analogue horror ARG somewhere on YouTube; a shout-out to Cloud Nothings at Tubbies in Kingston; and the man who boarded a flight to Tokyo with two hundred live lizards zipped into twenty-two pairs of socks. Everything we make is on Patreon for $5 a month. Every episode ad-free with no mid-rolls, a bonus Dead Air every month, The Watchlist breakdowns, the mailbag, case files, and you vote on what we cover next. The summer movie list drops there soon. https://www.patreon.com/c/FearArchivePod A new season of The Fear Archive is in production. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. LISTENER WARNING: unsolved disappearances, serial murder, a 17th-century burial, mass shootings, surveillance, animal smuggling, strong language, and one dad joke Amanda knew was bad while she was still saying it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Aug 27

    Dead Air | Ep. 11 | William Shatner Started a Hardcore Band and the Son of Sam Didn't Act Alone

    Dead Air is what happens between Fear Archive episodes — no research, no structure, no plan. Just Amanda and Mike talking until something disturbing comes up. It always does. They're back — and prepping. For the collapse of the power grid, allegedly, but mostly for Season 3 of The Fear Archive, which is officially in the works. This week: Amanda and Mike both watched Blood Shine, the new film from friends of the show Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks — Martyrs by way of First Reformed with a little Misery in its bones — and somebody at the LA premiere passed out from the gore. They pay tribute to two losses: Screaming Mad George, the legendary special effects artist behind Society, who fronted a punk band called The Mad that headlined over the Misfits before he ever touched a makeup kit. And Hayden Panettiere — Amanda's husband Peter worked closely with her on the Until Dawn motion capture, a game whose script holds the Guinness World Record at over ten thousand pages. Also this week: Chris Hansen refused to sign A24's NDA before a screening of Primetime, the Robert Pattinson film about his life, and Mike has a theory that the movie is really about the moment journalism crossed into reality television. Mars Attacks turns thirty with a 4K remaster and prompts the essential question: Mars Attacks or Independence Day? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds aired what is essentially a full horror movie, in which Spock cuts off his own ears. William Shatner, at 95, is in a hardcore band called The F*****s, playing Riot Fest and — according to Shatner — booked for Coachella. Norway is building the world's longest road tunnel with roundabouts carved from solid rock 820 feet under the sea, which raises the question: where are you roundabouting to? And finally: the Son of Sam conspiracy. Mike walks through Maury Terry's Ultimate Evil theory, the Process Church, its alleged ties to Charles Manson, and why people inside the criminal justice system still believe David Berkowitz was too stupid to have done it alone. A future Fear Archive episode is officially teased. Season 3 is coming. The Watchlist continues on Patreon, with the summer movie list dropping soon. Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production. LISTENER WARNING: This program contains strong language, discussion of true crime, and William Shatner's opinions on heavy metal. Popular Topics Include: Fear Archive podcast, Dead Air podcast, horror podcast bonus episode, Amanda Kagiwada, Michael Ryan Assip, Fear Archive Season 3, Blood Shine film, Emily Bennett Justin Brooks, Screaming Mad George Society, Hayden Panettiere Until Dawn, Until Dawn motion capture, Primetime Robert Pattinson, Chris Hansen A24 NDA, Predators documentary, Mars Attacks 4K 30th anniversary, Mars Attacks vs Independence Day, Star Trek Strange New Worlds horror episode, Griffin Incident, William Shatner hardcore band, The F*****s Riot Fest, Norway underwater roundabout, Faroe Islands jellyfish roundabout, Son of Sam conspiracy, Sons of Sam Maury Terry, The Ultimate Evil, Process Church, David Berkowitz, Joshua Zeman, horror podcast, true crime horror, Violet Hour Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Fear Archive investigates the real stories behind horror films. Every episode, hosts Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip dig into the actual cases, killers, hauntings, and conspiracies that Hollywood turned into your favorite scary movies — and ask whether the film or the truth is more disturbing. From Ed Gein and Psycho to the Gainesville Ripper and Scream, from MK-Ultra and The Manchurian Candidate to Faces of Death and the internet gore ecosystem — if a horror film has a real story behind it, the Fear Archive will find it. New episodes every other Wednesday. A Violet Hour Media production.

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    Realm
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    Violet Hour Media
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    40
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