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Backwoods Horror | Road Trip Terror & Gas Station Nightmares

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season
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May 9, 2026
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Summary

Four scary stories of backwoods horror, gas station terror, and dead-end towns collide in this chilling anthology. A father-daughter road trip veers into Ozark dread. Desperate escapes. Strange isolated towns where one wrong turn changes everything. If you love rural horror, road trip nightmares, and stories that leave you checking the rearview mirror, this episode is built for you. Tonight’s lineup takes you from a father-daughter road trip that veers into pure nightmare, to a security job in a town where something ancient is waiting beneath a church, to a vicious Ozark creature feature soaked in blood and panic, and finally to a gas station shift where the fluorescent lights hide something far darker than bad coffee and impatient customers. This is horror at the edge of the map—where the woods close in, the locals know more than they say, and the next stop might be the worst mistake of your life. • Strike-Out! — by Morgan Moore A spring road trip to see family turns catastrophic when a father and daughter break down at the worst possible place imaginable. Tense, nasty, and full of survival-horror momentum, this one feels like a childhood nightmare told with the pedal pinned down. • I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening — by Michael Kelso A security specialist arrives in a remote New England town to investigate frightened workers and finds vanished people, forbidden tunnels, and something inhuman wearing a human face. This one leans hard into eerie isolation, old evil, and creeping dread. • Bite Me — by David O’Hanlon A reunion weekend in the Ozarks becomes a blood-soaked creature nightmare when something impossible starts feeding in the woods. Wild, fast, and vicious, it mixes backwoods horror with monster-movie chaos in the best way. • I Hat…