True crime, hauntings, horror, and Sunday Scaries.
3 Spooked Girls is a conversational horror and true-crime show led by Tara and Jessica in the excerpted episodes. Its feed moves between crime headlines, paranormal encounters, odd history, holiday horror movies, and multi-part scary fiction.
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3 Spooked Girls works like a rotating shelf of scary-night material. Some episodes track true crime headlines. Some collect audience stories about paranormal encounters and crime-adjacent experiences. Some step into horror movies, including a recap of Black Christmas. Others follow strange history, such as the Dancing Plague of 1518. Across the excerpts, Tara and Jessica are the recurring voices, opening episodes with an informal back-and-forth that makes the heavier material feel like a conversation already in progress. The show is not polished into distance. It leaves room for side comments, seasonal notes, quick reactions, and the messy rhythm of two people talking through unsettling subjects together. That looseness is part of the appeal. It can be funny, but the show does not treat its warnings lightly. The episodes repeatedly frame the content as mature, frightening, and sometimes graphic. True crime listeners get headline updates and case-related follow-ups. Paranormal fans get listener encounters. Horror fans get recaps and creature-feature energy around the edges. Fiction listeners get Sunday Scaries, a recurring serialized lane with multi-part arcs such as I Dared My Best Friend to End My Life and its connection to I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life. Those episodes ask for continuity. Starting mid-series is possible, but the show itself points listeners back to earlier parts. The overall identity is broad but coherent: scary stories, crime, odd events, and horror culture, delivered with friendly banter and frequent reminders that the material can get dark.
Made for: Best for listeners who like spooky variety feeds with casual chemistry, true crime updates, paranormal accounts, horror recaps, and serialized scary fiction. It suits fans comfortable with mature, frightening material.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by shifting between crime headlines, listener encounters, horror-movie conversation, strange historical cases, and ongoing Sunday Scaries fiction without dropping its informal Tara-and-Jessica rhythm.
Join Tara and Jessica every Thursday for a deep dive into significant true crime cases, documentary recaps, urban legend retellings, and the history and haunts of paranormal-linked locations. Then come back every Sunday for our Sunday Scaries fiction series.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tara and Jessica make narrated suspense feel communal, using conversation and consequential choices to keep invented danger immediate.
Tara and Jessica turn frightening stories into a shared act of narration, interruption, and judgment. Their Fiction work ranges from the continuing threat of "I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life" to a Krampus choose-your-own-adventure in which decisions alter the characters'…
Krampus can chase you through a choice-driven nightmare before Tara and Jessica return you to real-world suspicion.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A branching Krampus story turns a winter festival into a test of nerve, truth, and debt.
Krampusnacht works best as a branching winter-horror tale with clear pressure points: a debt ledger, a creature in the shed, and a bell before nightfall all turn the festival square into something far more dangerous.
A profane odd-law guessing game with high-heel permits, loose tangents, and sharp host rapport.
Jessica and Tara make a brisk game out of odd state-law folklore, starting with a rumor about long hair and raises before landing on Carmel-by-the-Sea's high-heel rules.
A legal trap closes in before cash, a map, and a dark forest turn the crisis into a flight.
The episode turns a close friend's campaign into a legal nightmare that keeps closing in. Accusations around medical records, identity theft, credit card fraud, and a drained bank account leave the protagonist with little room to breathe.
A bar shooting with no clear motive leaves Papa Joe working through damaged evidence and a survivor who cannot remember what happened.
A bar shooting turns into a case defined less by motive than by absence. Papa Joe works through victims Deborah, Joanne, and James Rimke, with no clear tie to shady business or illegal activity.
Strange cases, loud banter, no polish.
Behavior, evidence, and accountability.
Courtroom chaos, case updates, sharp reactions.
Case files with a psychological verdict.
Old crimes, formally brought to judgment.
This episode continues the series covering the Reddit horror stories about mysterious staircases found in the woods, presented in chronological order with narrative connections.
The hosts introduce a new mini-series on Twilight, sharing their personal fandom and matching tattoos as they kick off discussions about the franchise.
This episode features listener-submitted paranormal and true crime personal stories as part of the 'Listener Encounters' series on the Three Spooked Girls podcast.
A search and rescue team in Montana finds a traumatized survivor who claims to have been released by the Wendigo, a supernatural creature from folklore.
The hosts introduce and discuss a paranormal documentary called 'The Curse of the Highgate Vampire' from Discovery Plus, shifting from their usual true crime focus.
A hiker recounts discovering a mysterious journal in a restricted area of a national park, sharing a creepy and graphic story as part of a series on eerie national park tales.
This is part three of a horror narrative series where the host continues a chilling story about daring a best friend to end her life, following up from a previous series.
This true crime podcast episode investigates a chilling homicide case involving a serial killer operating in mountainous regions, featuring graphic details and mature content.
This episode features the hosts Tara and Jessica discussing recent true crime headlines, including updates on previously covered cases and other interesting stories.
This true crime podcast episode investigates the murder of Elsie Jennes, featuring graphic details and mature content.
This episode promotes the horror movie 'The Yeti', describing its plot, cast, and release details.
This episode continues a true crime narrative where the host explores a chilling story about a dare involving a best friend and murder, with warnings about graphic content.
A host shares a chilling personal story about a supernatural encounter while working at a national park that nearly killed them and now calls them back.
This episode continues the suspenseful story where the narrator's best friend is trying to ruin their life, with the narrator having moved to a new town to escape David.
This episode explores frightening urban legends from Wisconsin, featuring graphic and mature content about paranormal folklore.
This episode features listener-submitted true crime and paranormal stories, marking the return of this popular segment on the Three Spooked Girls podcast.
This episode of Sunday Scaries shares a frightening story about something evil lurking in Hoosier National Forest, based on listener requests for scary tales from national forests and parks.
This episode continues a chilling true crime narrative where the host updates listeners on a dangerous dare involving her best friend and a life-threatening situation.
This episode continues the 'Staircases in the Woods' horror story series from Reddit, discussing related urban legends like the Rake and Wendigo.
This episode continues a series where the host recounts how her best friend is successfully ruining her life through a dare, based on past events while incorporating listener suggestions for fighting back.
This episode discusses the Thanksgiving horror movie 'Pilgrim' from Hulu's Into the Dark series, exploring its themes and context within holiday horror.
This episode of Three Spooked Girls explores the historical true crime case of Lizzie Halliday, a female serial killer, with a focus on graphic and mature content.
This episode is part six of a horror narrative series where the hosts continue the story of a dare involving a best friend and life-threatening consequences.
This episode introduces a horror story series where a man named Clark, Xander's best friend, recounts a dangerous dare to end his life, continuing from a previous series.
A host shares a personal story about working at a fictional national park with supernatural elements, blending horror and mystery in a narrative format.
This episode is part two of a true crime discussion about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, featuring hosts Tara and Jessica from Three Spooked Girls.
This episode continues a true crime series where the host investigates a life-threatening dare from her best friend, delving into personal danger and unresolved mysteries.
This is the final episode of a horror podcast series where the host recounts a terrifying story about a dare with her best friend that went horribly wrong.
This episode continues a horror narrative where a person's best friend accepts a dare to ruin their life, building suspense and psychological tension.
This episode recaps the Netflix documentary 'Unknown Number: The High School Catfish,' discussing a disturbing catfishing case that has haunted the hosts since its release.
Jessica and Tara recap and discuss the 1974 horror film Black Christmas, focusing on its original version and holiday themes.
This episode introduces a new horror series where the host dared her best friend to ruin her life, featuring scary stories to combat Sunday anxieties.
This episode of Three Spooked Girls discusses the murder of Donald Ott with a holiday-themed twist, featuring graphic and mature content.
This episode continues the series on haunted restaurants, focusing on the Golden Lamb in Ohio, exploring its spooky history and paranormal claims.
This episode discusses how horror movies like Scream have inspired real-life crimes, based on a BuzzFeed list.
This Halloween special episode of Three Spooked Girls features hosts Tara and Jessica discussing their excitement for Halloween week, including festive outfits and spooky themes.
Jessica and Tara from Three Spooked Girls discuss the horror movie 'St.
This is the final episode of a horror podcast series where the narrator describes how documenting supernatural events in the woods has dangerously impacted their life.
This episode of Three Spooked Girls explores the mysterious dancing plague of 1518, a historical event where people danced uncontrollably.
Jessica and Tara introduce an episode on the urban legend of the Green Children of Woolpit, setting a chilling tone with warnings and engaging listeners with tales from England's paranormal history.
This episode continues the suspenseful story where the host's best friend is succeeding in ruining her life as part of a dare, with warnings of frightening and graphic content.
This is a Patreon feed-drop of Jessica's 'Real or Not Real State Laws' game, where she reads Tara oddly specific state laws and Tara guesses whether each is genuine.
Hosts Tara and Jessica of Three Spooked Girls perform a Krampus-themed Choose Your Adventure story set in the fictional town of Grimsburg during its 'Krampusnock' winter festival.
This is the finale episode of a true crime series where the hosts discuss a chilling story about daring a best friend to end a life, continuing from previous parts.
In part 6 of 3 Spooked Girls' serialized fiction 'I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life,' hosts Tara and Jessica narrate Xander Jones's arrest and interrogation after being framed for arson, kidnapping, and identity theft by his former friend David King.
This episode is part two of a recap of the story 'Unknown Number: The High School Catfish', discussing frightening and graphic content about a catfishing case.
Tara and Jessica of Three Spooked Girls run through a list of Idaho ghost stories, cryptids, and conspiracy theories, opening with the haunted Lewiston Civic Theater and the lake-monster legend of 'Charlie' at Piet Lake near McCall.
Jessica and Tara kick off a multi-part 'nostalgia' deep dive into the Hunger Games franchise on their second show, Social Seance Society, opening with the series' Panem worldbuilding — the name stands for 'Post-Apocalyptic North America' — and its thirteen-turned-twelve-district structure under Capitol rule.
Three Spooked Girls hosts Tara and Jessica begin a two-part recap of the Netflix documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, opening with the June 5, 2002 abduction of 14-year-old Elizabeth from her Salt Lake City bedroom, witnessed only by her nine-year-old sister Mary Catherine.
Jessica and Tara recap a 'Papa Joe' (Homicide Hunter Lieutenant Joe Kenda) episode covering the May 17, 1986 mass shooting and arson at the Grandview Lounge in Colorado Springs, where three people were shot and the bar was set on fire.