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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky is your year-round Halloween podcast for scary stories: original horror fiction, urban legends, haunted places, cryptids and dark folklore, alongside true crime, paranormal mysteries and horror history.

Hosted by filmmaker and narrator Henrique Couto, the feed combines cinematic horror stories, dark humor, twist endings, old-time radio nightmares, horror-movie discussion, and investigations into the strange and unexplained. Recurring programs include Weekly Spooky fiction, Terrifying & True, Thursday Thrills, Unknown Broadcast, This Week in Horror History, Cutting Deep Into Horror, Monthly Spooky, and seasonal story compilations.

During Halloween and spooky season, discover scary stories of haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, urban legends, ghost stories, monster encounters, and long-form horror marathons for late-night listening, fall drives, and Halloween parties. Mature themes included.

Explore the complete world of Weekly Spooky at https://weeklyspooky.com/ and follow the podcast for new nightmares throughout the week.

Copyright: © Copyright Henrique Couto

Latest Episodes:

Shark Week Horror: Jersey Shore Attacks & Unsolved Sea Mysteries | Thursday Thrills Jul 23, 2026

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The 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks changed how Americans feared the water. Sydney's 1935 Shark Arm murder case began when a captive shark vomited a tattooed human arm. Henrique Couto follows both cases in this Shark Week edition of Thursday Thrills, separating disputed details from the evidence. The journey also examines the unverified Black Demon, the Stronsay Beast, and megalodon's place in prehistory. Real shark biology adds river hunters and long-lived Greenland sharks. Explore the history behind the headlines without treating folklore as proof that an extinct predator survives.
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Chupacabra Horror: A Puerto Rico Cryptid Encounter Nightmare Jul 22, 2026

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A howl tears through a Puerto Rico summer camp, and counselor Jonathan Edwards finds his dream job has been built over a supernatural danger. Camping With Chupacabra by Douglas Waltz sends him beyond Camp Clemente's cabins into a bat-filled cavern and a monster-hunting mission beneath the mountains. Wilderness skills, a Zippo lighter, and dynamite may be his best defense against the creatures waiting below. This Weekly Spooky horror story reimagines Chupacabra lore as pulpy creature fiction. Before Jonathan can keep the campers safe, he has to find out what their new home has disturbed.
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This Week in Horror History | Dracula, Maximum Overdrive & Deep Blue Sea (July 20–26) Jul 21, 2026

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Dracula, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea lead This Week in Horror History for July 20–26, 2026. Frank Langella's seductive vampire shares the calendar with The Hills Have Eyes, Jordan Peele's Nope, and Carrion, the game that lets you become the escaped monster. Stephen King's killer-machine siege takes the spotlight before engineered sharks turn an underwater laboratory into this week's recommendation. Birthdays round out a tour of gothic romance, desert terror, and science gone wrong. Find a summer watch or play where the machines, wildlife, or sky refuse to stay in the background.
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Terrifying & True | Brian Barrett: The TalHotBlond Internet Love Triangle Murder Jul 20, 2026

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Brian Barrett was himself online; the adults in the TalHotBlond romance were hiding behind invented identities. In 2006, the 22-year-old student and coach was murdered outside his workplace near Buffalo. Terrifying & True traces Thomas Montgomery's teenage Marine persona, Mary Shieler's use of her daughter's identity, and the jealousy that crossed from chatrooms into real violence. Messages, physical evidence, and the investigation reveal how the deception unraveled. Follow the case beyond its screen name to remember the young man whose future was taken by someone else's fantasy.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Singing Walls — Psychic Terror, Wartime Murder & Ghostly Revenge Jul 19, 2026

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Music comes through a hotel wall, a private club witnesses impossible predictions, and spies carry deadly secrets aboard the Taurus Express. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Walls of Jericho, Three Good Witnesses, The Singing Walls, and The Avengers for over two hours of old-time radio suspense. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler move through psychic terror, wartime murder, amnesia, and stolen gold. Apparitions and guilt unsettle people who thought their crimes were hidden. Follow the clues from a hotel room to a betrayal the dead may refuse to leave alone.
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Late Night Horror: Demons, Cults & Cursed Rituals Anthology Jul 18, 2026

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A runaway opens scripture devoted to an imprisoned demon goddess, while a mercenary drags his cameraman into a cult's abandoned asylum. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories make ambition, cruelty, and curiosity dangerous: Sin, Gamble with the Devil, Breaking the Seal, and The Bad Schoolgirl. A witch's curse and vampire cheerleaders with soul-powered jewelry complete nearly two hours of occult horror and dark comedy. Stories by Rob Fields, David O'Hanlon, and Douglas Waltz. From a Catholic academy to Strickfield High, these characters reach for power without knowing what will reach back.
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The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe — Complete Gothic Horror Reading Jul 17, 2026

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What if everyone mistakes your stillness for death? The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe follows a man whose catalepsy makes being buried alive an obsession. Weekly Spooky presents the complete reading, from the accounts that feed his fear to the vault, alarms, and escape devices he builds against it. Each safeguard promises control, yet his imagination keeps returning to a sealed coffin. This classic literary nightmare turns medical uncertainty into claustrophobic suspense. Enter Poe's story of a mind arranging its life around one terrible possibility: waking where no one can hear.
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Cartoon Cat Internet Horror: Why Creepypasta Monsters Feel Sinister | Thursday Thrills Jul 16, 2026

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Trevor Henderson's Cartoon Cat turns the look of an animated friend into an internet horror nightmare. Thursday Thrills explores the fictional monster's rubber-hose style, distorted nostalgia, and creepypasta appeal, asking why a familiar cartoon grin can feel wrong when it appears outside the screen. The episode follows its imagery and folklore before an original story enters an abandoned mall after dark. Explore how playful shapes become threats when their rules stop making sense. Listen for the moment something that belongs in a drawing starts moving through a place you recognize.
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Driving a Truck Can Be a Nightmare, Literally: Cryptid Terror on the Road! Jul 15, 2026

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A truck driver's nightmare shows a monster dragging him into the woods. Then his delivery route reaches the same bridge, and his daughter Angeline knows what is waiting there. Driving a Truck Can Be a Nightmare, Literally by Michael Kelso turns shared dreams into a warning that grows harder to ignore with every late run. This Weekly Spooky highway horror story puts a father's ordinary job between a child's premonition and a creature beside the road. Can knowing the next stop change what happens when he arrives? Explore Michael Kelso's books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau...
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This Week in Horror History | The Blair Witch Goes Viral (July 13–19) Jul 14, 2026

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The Blair Witch Project, The Fly, and The Only Good Indians lead This Week in Horror History for July 13–19, 2026. Revisit the 1958 teleportation nightmare, Stephen Graham Jones' supernatural reckoning, the mutations of The Island of Dr. Moreau, and a vengeful killer whale in Orca. The Strain takes the spotlight with vampirism as an outbreak before the weekly recommendation enters Maryland's woods with three student filmmakers. Birthdays complete the week. Follow the path from scientific hubris to found footage, and the film that made fans wonder if its cameras had found something real.
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