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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:

Just a Dream | Four Pale Visitors Come Closer to a Boy’s Bed Each Night Mar 25, 2020

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Four pale visitors step from a black car and approach David’s house in Joe Solmo’s “Just a Dream.” The eight-year-old keeps waking from the same nightmare, but each night the strangers get closer. His older brother promises to protect him, and a stuffed owl’s radio offers a little comfort in the dark. Neither explains why the details keep returning so precisely. Set among the toys and television memories of an eighties childhood, this supernatural horror story gives a familiar reassurance an uneasy meaning. David’s family says it was only a dream. How can he be sure?
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Basket Hound | A Soul-Stealing Stranger Visits an Old West Saloon Mar 18, 2020

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A stranger offers a saloon worker a bargain with a hidden cost in Scott S. Phillips’ “Basket Hound.” Seventeen-year-old Orel Hamlin enjoys the quiet of his nightly trips outside to empty the spittoons. Then George Malcolm appears behind the Stone House, all persuasive talk and interest in a young man others underestimate. What he carries inside him belongs nowhere near an ordinary frontier town. This Weird West horror story mixes stolen souls, grotesque body horror and a midnight confrontation. Malcolm thinks he has found an easy mark. Orel already has a job.
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Warehouse of Blood | A Missing-Model Investigation Uncovers a Waterfront Monster Mar 11, 2020

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A reporter follows a missing model’s trail into a blood-soaked warehouse in Shane Migliavacca’s “Warehouse of Blood.” On Friday the 13th in April 1979, Sam shadows shipping heir Teddy Stoneberry to the waterfront. She expects evidence of a rich man’s crime. Instead, a mauled guard and movement above the storage shelves suggest something much harder to explain. Armed with a flashlight and a two-shot pistol, Sam must navigate the dark before her subject finds her. This gritty monster thriller turns the chance for a career-making scoop into a fight to escape.
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Rude Awakenings | A Cursed Alarm Clock Wakes the Graveyard Mar 04, 2020

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A bargain alarm clock wakes far more than its owner in Rob Fields’ “Rude Awakenings.” Shawni Jerral needs to stop oversleeping before her boss fires her. A strange shop called Tinker’s offers an inexpensive solution, but the new clock gets louder no matter how low she sets it. Angry neighbors are only the first sign of trouble. She takes it to a sleepover at Bev’s house, opposite a graveyard. Testing the alarm wakes its residents. This cursed-object horror comedy turns a simple wake-up call into a zombie siege. The alarm has one job, and it refuses to quit.
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I Had Mothman’s Baby | A Trailer-Park Cryptid Pregnancy Turns Monstrous Feb 26, 2020

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A woman claims Mothman fathered her child in Dan Wilder’s “I Had Mothman’s Baby.” Earl arrives at Verlene’s blacked-out trailer to hear what she calls the story of the century. A heavily bundled stranger, impossible cravings and a rapidly changing body feature in her account—and something inside the trailer may be ready to corroborate it. This outrageous cryptid horror comedy turns Mothman folklore into a grotesque tale of pregnancy and monstrous parenthood. Verlene wants publicity for her unusual family. Earl would settle for a little light and a safe way out.
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Hysterhysteria | A Woman Wakes in a Dark Clinic with Something Calling Her Mother Feb 19, 2020

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Something moves across the broken glass in Joe Solmo’s “Hysterhysteria.” Alicia wakes in darkness with a wound across her abdomen and no memory of how she arrived. Lightning reveals the wreckage of a doctor’s office, but the small figure nearby is harder to explain. It knows her face, calls her mother and wants her attention. This psychological body-horror story traps a frightened woman between fractured memories and an impossible demand for care. Each flash shows her a little more of the room. The intervals of darkness give her visitor time to move.
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Deb, Debbie, Deborah | A Valentine’s Blizzard Brings a Killer to a Widow’s Door Feb 12, 2020

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A knock interrupts a widow’s lonely Valentine’s Day in Shane Migliavacca’s “Deb, Debbie, Deborah.” Deborah has been dancing with memories of her dead husband as snow cuts off the world outside. News of an escaped killer and the return of a disturbing childhood presence make the evening harder to trust. When a stranger arrives, her isolated home becomes the meeting place for two very troubled lives. This psychological horror story mixes grief, obsession and brutal violence behind a familiar holiday door. Content notice: suicidal behavior and graphic violence.
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A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay | A Valentine Crush Meets Sea Folklore and Mutation Feb 05, 2020

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A rejected Valentine draws a student toward polluted waters in Jeff Carpenter’s “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay.” Ayumi hopes handmade chocolates will win her biology teacher’s affection. He is preoccupied with the bay’s mutated sea life; she is captivated by a tale of a sea princess who can change her form. Learning to dive offers a way to follow him beneath the surface, where her fantasies meet something far stranger. This aquatic body-horror story blends obsessive longing with sea folklore. What kind of transformation is waiting in the water?
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The Black Cat | Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Tale of Guilt and Murder Jan 29, 2020

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A condemned man recounts the horror that destroyed his household in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat.” Once devoted to his pets, he turns cruel toward Pluto, his faithful black cat. After violence and a mysterious fire, a second animal appears with an unsettling resemblance to the first. Henrique Couto narrates this classic Gothic story of alcoholism, guilt and a mind desperate to excuse its own brutality. Is the cat a supernatural pursuer, or does the narrator bring his punishment upon himself? Content notice: animal cruelty and domestic violence.
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The Devil Knows Three Chords | A Bluegrass Duo Faces a Crossroads Bargain Jan 22, 2020

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A bluegrass partnership unravels in 1968 San Francisco in John Oak Dalton’s “The Devil Knows Three Chords.” Chester Killbuck wants to keep playing the old songs; Bobby Lee Starr hears a future in the music his son loves. A booking at the Avalon Ballroom brings their differences to a breaking point, along with questions about where Chester’s remarkable talent came from. This musical folk-horror story gives the crossroads bargain a place among fiddles, family ties and changing times. Bobby Lee knows his partner’s playing. How well does he know the man?
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