Crime House has the perfect news show for Spooky Season, Twisted Tales hosted by Heidi Wong.

Each episode of Twisted Tales is perfect for late-night scares and daytime frights,

revealing the disturbing real-life events that inspired the world's most terrifying blockbusters,

and the ones too twisted to make it to scream.

Twisted Tales is a crimehouse original powered by Pave Studios.

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New episodes out every Monday.

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Halloween is all about leaning into the scary stuff.

Goblins and ghouls, masks and fake blood,

kids dress up, neighbors decorate their houses,

and for one night, the streets belong to trick-or-treaters.

The fun comes from knowing it's all pretend

that the monsters aren't real

and everyone will go home safe at the end of the night.

But in 1992, 11-year-old Shauna Howe had a very different experience.

What should have been a night of fun and laughter ended in the worst way imaginable.

For the small town of Oil City, Pennsylvania,

the events of that evening changed Halloween forever,

because it was no longer make-believe.

It was a living, breathing, nightmare,

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