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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.
Unknown Host hosts The Fear Archive, a tv show with 28 episodes published.
Twenty-eight days. That is how long George and Kathy Lutz lasted inside 112 Ocean Avenue before they ran out in the middle of the night, barefoot, with their children and their dog and almost nothing else. They left the
A note arrives at the San Francisco Chronicle in August 1969. It begins: This is the Zodiac speaking. He did not wait for the press to invent a nickname. He named himself. He branded himself. He was doing personal market
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. This week opens with Amanda getting an extrem
There is a body lying on a riverbank. She has been there for two days. Somewhere between eight and thirteen teenagers have seen her. Some came back multiple times. Not one of them called the police. Her name was Marcy Re
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. This week: Amanda crashed an AMC app at 7AM t
Monster vs. Aileen Wuornos is the Fear Archive episode that asks the question true crime almost never asks: when society creates someone like this, does it have the right to destroy her? One day before her execution, Ail
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. This week: Mike took magnesium because he rea
Six men walked into the Colorado mountains in February 1874. One walked out. He was not starving. He had more money than he left with. And when they found the bodies, they had been butchered and consumed. The judge at Al
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. This week: Amanda's old 1988 Nissan 240SX — y
It is a normal day. A manager is checking receipts. Teenagers are laughing in the back. Grease pops, ice melts, orders come in. Then the phone rings. A man says he is a police officer. He sounds calm, professional, certa
There is a registered Omaha sex offender named Cookie Monster who allegedly walked into a stranger's home through an unlocked door, removed his clothes, got into a sleeping child's bed, and brought a bottle of water and
The Fear Archive investigates the Hmong sleep deaths — a series of unexplained nocturnal deaths among Southeast Asian refugees in the early 1980s that Wes Craven has cited as direct source material for A Nightmare on Elm
Amanda has a dead rat in her wall and has been marinating in the smell for weeks. Mike has a baby garter snake in his foundation and is convinced mama snake is behind him right now. This is Dead Air — the Fear Archive co
The Fear Archive investigates Faces of Death — the 1978 shock documentary that was not quite a documentary, not quite fiction, and was deliberately designed to keep you from knowing the difference — and the 2026 remake t
What if the CIA didn't just experiment on human minds — what if they also shaped the movies inside them? In this episode, Amanda and Mike break down the real history of Project MK-Ultra — the CIA's declassified program o
Dead Air is the show between the shows. No scripts. No research. Just Amanda Kagiwada and Mike Assip talking about whatever broke their brains this week — and somehow ending up in weirder places than the Fear Archive eve
The Fear Archive investigates the Bell Witch — the oldest and most entrenched paranormal legend in American history — and the 2005 film that claimed this was the only haunting in the United States ever documented to resu
The Fear Archive investigates the Travis Walton abduction — one of the most famous and most contested UFO encounters in American history — and the 1993 film that tried to put the experience on screen. On November 5, 1975
Black Christmas vs. Danny LaPlante is the episode that asks the question horror fans have never dared to ask out loud: did the film create the killer? In 1974, Black Christmas changed horror forever — not with gore or mo
The Fear Archive investigates the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter — the most detailed and extensively documented alien creature sighting in American history — and the unlikely film it helped inspire. On the night of August
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