In Another Room

The Gainesville Ripper Murders vs. Scream — The True Story Behind Ghostface What really inspired Scream? In this episode, we break down the real Gainesville Ripper murders and explore how Danny Rolling’s 1990 killing spree helped shape one of horror’s most iconic villains: Ghostface. If you love true crime, horror history, or the origins of classic movies, this is your deep dive. THE EPISODE COVERS: The true story behind the Gainesville Ripper. Danny Rolling’s violent upbringing, mental illness, and early crimes. How five students were murdered over four days in 1990. How Gainesville went into full panic and lockdown. How Rolling recorded tapes while living in a tent near campus. How he was arrested for a Winn-Dixie robbery before DNA tied him to the murders. How Rolling’s case inspired Kevin Williamson when writing Scream. Ghostface vs. Rolling: what is real and what is Hollywood. Why the case changed the slasher genre forever. QUESTIONS WE EXPLORE: What happens when true crime becomes a horror trope? Did Scream sanitize Gainesville or amplify it? Why are posed bodies more disturbing than chaotic crime scenes? Was Rolling’s “Gemini” persona a delusion or an excuse? Do final meals and last words humanize killers or fuel myths? What modern horror tropes would Ghostface point out today? RELATED INTERESTS: Scream (1996), Wes Craven, Kevin Williamson, serial killer psychology, true crime documentaries, movie inspirations, horror film history. CREDITS: Hosts: Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip Producer: Cassie Jozefov The Fear Archive is a production of Violet Hour Media in partnership with Realm FOLLOW US: Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube: @feararchivepod More shows at Realm.fm Subscribe, rate, and review to support the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing HOLLOW, a new scripted sci-fi horror podcast from Violet Hour Media. A mercenary embarks on a corporate mission to track down a rogue leader and encounters the darkness of space, the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, the darkness within herself. Episode 01 - Leave Battle hardened corporate mercenary, Amelia Wallenrod, travels to the prestigious Luna colonies and is briefed on her mission to recover an important scientist who has been taken hostage on Mars. A Violet Hour Media production. Hollow is airing now for free wherever you listen to podcasts. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing THE GLOOM, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media. An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case, where she eventually learns the horrifying truth about a systemic cover-up tied to her own past. Episode 01 - In Medias Res Samantha Williams, an investigative journalist, introduces the infamous unsolved early 1990s cold case of the Filmore Four, a group of teenagers caught up in a ghastly web of murder and destruction, tied to a Queens, New York psychiatric hospital, and quite possibly, their emotionally damaged therapist, Dr. Darlene Harrington. A Violet Hour Media Production. The entire first season of The Gloom is available for free wherever you listen to podcasts. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing THE ELMWOOD STRAIN, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media. A traumatized woman reluctantly returns to her dying hometown to find the stoner friends she abandoned are hooked on a strange new drug—with bizarre, seemingly supernatural qualities. Episode 01 - Mighty Sabertooths Paige is a popular senior at Elmwood High until a violent tragedy forces her family to flee the town. A decade after abandoning her three best friends, Paige gets word that one of them has died under mysterious circumstances, forcing her to face the past. A Violet Hour Media Production. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of gun violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution. If you would prefer a version of this episode that has gun-related triggers removed, please visit our website at www.violethourmedia.com/elmwood-strain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wendy Morrow has investigated every room. She has met every ghost. And in the basement, she has discovered the truth at the heart of the house — a truth that changes everything she thought she understood about her investigation, her purpose, and her own fate. Now her daughter Lilliana is on her way to the house, looking for her mother. The spirits Wendy has met along the way are gathering. The house is preparing. And in the basement, in 1873, a man named Frank Smith is waiting in the dark. The eight-part horror limited series concludes. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wendy finally unlocks the basement door — the room she has been told never to enter, the room every spirit in the house has been pointing her toward. What she sees there is the story of how the house began. In 1873, Frank Smith is finishing construction on the grand mansion he has built as a gift for his beloved wife. She is traveling west to join him. She never arrives. Wracked with grief and slowly losing his grip on reality, Frank begins seeing a shadowy woman flitting through the halls of his nearly-finished home — an apparition that will lead him, eventually, to commit a murder he doesn't understand and bury its evidence beneath the basement floor. When Wendy digs in the same spot, more than a century later, she finds bones. And then she finds something that should not be possible. Episode 7 of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The house leads Wendy to the dining room — and to a dinner party in 1928 that should not still be happening. Anne Larkin's husband Gregory has been losing his memory for months. This morning, during a heated argument, she killed him with a kitchen knife and hid his body in an old steamer trunk in the corner of the dining room. Tonight she has guests. The candles are lit. The wine is poured. And then Gregory — who is supposed to be in the trunk — walks into the room and takes his usual seat at the head of the table. In the trunk's lining, decades later, Wendy will find what the house has been leading her toward all along. Episode 6 of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wendy enters the living room and is pulled into a Christmas Eve in the 1960s. Judith Hayes is preparing for the holidays in a house decorated with twinkling lights and a tree heavy with ornaments. Her husband Stanley will be home soon. Judith has bought a gun. But Judith is not alone in the house this night. Other spirits — trapped in this same room across other decades — begin reaching across time, their voices crossing wires, their stories bleeding into hers. And in the static between them, Wendy realizes something extraordinary: the house traps spirits within its walls, but there may be a way out. Episode 5 of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wendy is drawn to a small study on the second floor — a room with surprisingly few documented hauntings, and one very famous case file. Walter Vance, a young man discharged from the Army during World War II, who returned to this house in 1945 and slowly went mad listening to numbers stations on his radio, alone. Walter believed he could hear someone he loved on the other end of the static. Wendy is about to find out whether he was right. And unlike every other spirit she has encountered in this house, Walter's ghost can see her too. Episode 4 of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following a message from the Ouija board, Wendy makes her way to the ballroom — and witnesses a story from the turn of the century materializing before her eyes. It's 1902. Famed spiritualist Eleanor Rowe has just opened her practice in the new home she purchased for her business. She is also a complete fraud. Tonight's seance is rigged with cheap tricks and practical effects designed to dazzle her wealthy clients. But when one of those clients begins speaking in a voice that isn't his own — and starts invoking the dead by their true names — Eleanor realizes that something has come through. And it knows her. Episode 3 of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The house leads Wendy to a southeast bedroom — and into a vision of 1973. Teenage Margaret Day has just moved into the house with her father. Her best friend Beth has brought a Ouija board. The plan is to contact the woman Margaret has been seeing in her room at night, the one whose voice she keeps hearing in the walls. But the spirit on the other end of the planchette isn't the ghost Margaret thinks it is. It's someone she'll meet for the first time tonight — and the last time, decades from now, in this very bedroom. Episode 2 of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"This is Wendy Morrow. After months of trying, I am finally going. Tomorrow is the day. I am going to the house." Amateur paranormal investigator Wendy Morrow has spent years researching one of LA's most infamous haunted homes — a house where every room contains a different ghost story, where the hauntings repeat themselves across decades, and where no one stays for very long. Tonight, she finally has the keys. What begins as a routine overnight investigation quickly turns strange. The owner won't go inside. The basement door is locked and no one has the key. And time inside the house doesn't seem to move the way it should. This is the first episode of In Another Room — a serialized horror limited series in eight parts. For fans of The Magnus Archives, The Lovecraft Investigations, Limetown, and Archive 81. A Violet Hour Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing IN ANOTHER ROOM, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media and E3W Productions. An amateur paranormal investigator gets trapped inside a notoriously haunted house, where every room she enters transports her to the last inhabitant’s grisly murder. Subscribe for free wherever you listen to podcasts. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices