People use bhoyer golpo and vuter golpo like they mean the same thing. Mostly they do. But if you listen long enough, a difference emerges, and it is worth knowing because it changes what you search for.
Bhoyer golpo is the umbrella. It means scary story, full stop. The fear can come from anywhere: a ghost, a stalker, a cursed object, a psychological twist. If it is meant to frighten you, it is a bhoyer golpo. Simple.
Vuter golpo is narrower. Vut means ghost, so a vuter golpo is specifically a ghost story. All vuter golpo are bhoyer golpo, but not all bhoyer golpo are vuter golpo. A thriller about a home invasion with zero ghosts? Bhoyer golpo, yes. Vuter golpo, no.
In practice, uploaders mix them up constantly. You will find ghost-free thrillers tagged vuter golpo and genuine ghost stories tagged only bhoyer golpo. The tagging on most platforms is folk taxonomy, enthusiastic but unreliable. Do not trust it blindly.
Does the distinction matter for listening? Honestly, only a little. But it matters for finding. If you specifically want ghosts, the old spirits, the haunted houses, searching vuter golpo filters out the crime thrillers. If you want variety, bhoyer golpo casts the wider net. Use both searches. Compare the results. You will build a better playlist.
There is a third term floating around too, bhuter golpo, which sits between the two in common usage and is probably the most searched of all three. Language is messy. Search like a local, not like a librarian.
Good catalogs tag stories by what they actually contain, not just what the uploader typed. That is the idea behind shunogolpo.com: genre tags you can trust, so a vuter golpo search returns actual ghosts.