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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:

They Don’t Drive Cars | Flesh-Eating Creatures Invade an All-Night Store Jan 15, 2020

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A two-in-the-morning snack run leads to a blood-spattered store in Scott S. Phillips’ “They Don’t Drive Cars.” Aaron delivers newspapers in Charlton, New Mexico, and knows Freddy’s All-Nite should be quiet. Tonight, something small and hungry is loose near the rain-soaked streets. Finding help means persuading someone that the danger is real before it reaches them too. This creature-feature horror comedy turns an ordinary craving into a frantic small-town survival problem: what do you do when the things outside are too strange to name?
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Wolf Moon | A Werewolf Stalks a Remote Lakeside Campsite Jan 08, 2020

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A werewolf follows the scent of blood to an isolated campsite in “Splatter” Joe Solmo’s “Wolf Moon.” Brandon promises Daria a peaceful night beside a remote lake, far from traffic and crowded campgrounds. For her first wilderness trip, she gets unfamiliar noises, a small cut on her hand and a huge shape sniffing along the tent. When the creature attacks, the car offers only a fragile hope of escape. This brutal werewolf story turns a romantic getaway into a fight to protect the person beside you. Daria wanted to share Brandon’s love of the outdoors. Now she has to survive it.
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Even the Devil Tells the Truth… Sometimes | A New Year’s Eve Pact in New York Dec 31, 2019

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A stolen amulet puts a violent New Yorker in business with the Devil in Dan Wilder’s “Even the Devil Tells the Truth… Sometimes.” The terms promise immortality in exchange for a killing each New Year’s Eve. For a man who already enjoys hurting strangers, the bargain sounds simple—until another midnight approaches and he begins testing what his patron really meant. This explicit supernatural crime story follows a remorseless narrator through the city’s holiday crowds. While Times Square waits for the ball to drop, he has a very different deadline to meet.
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Home for Christmas | A Wendigo Comes to a Snowbound Boarding School Dec 24, 2019

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A Christmas blizzard traps the residents of Blackoaks Boarding School with an unexpected guest in Shane Migliavacca’s “Home for Christmas.” Kat and the other girls face a holiday of flickering tree lights and closed roads when a stranger arrives, claiming to have survived a bus crash. Offering him warmth seems only humane. But an old hunger has found its way into the house, and dead phone lines leave little chance of help. This snowbound Wendigo horror story turns holiday hospitality into a siege. The people inside must decide what they have let in.
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Biting Cold | A Wounded Hunter Faces a Beast in a Christmas Blizzard Dec 18, 2019

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A wounded hunter has one hand, a fading phone battery and a beast waiting in the snow in Jeff Carpenter’s “Biting Cold.” An avalanche has left him stranded as Christmas approaches. He needs to make a fire before exposure finishes what the animal began, while saved messages from his daughter give him a reason to keep moving. This winter survival-horror story pits a broken body against hunger, blood loss and the long night. Narrated by Henrique Couto, with music and sound design by Ray Mattis, it brings the frozen wilderness close enough to hear.
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The Blind Date | A Goth Romance Leads to a Haunted Cemetery Dec 11, 2019

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An online match takes Cassandra from a Goth club to a haunted cemetery in Joe Solmo’s “The Blind Date.” Encouraged by her friend Betty, the shy horror fan meets Jeremy, who shares her taste in dark music. Their evening ends with a drive to a busy park, then a walk across the road to a quieter graveyard. Beneath a statue of the town’s founder, Jeremy’s attention begins to feel less like affection and more like preparation. This occult dating-horror story turns a first romance into a trap. What arrangements has he made for the girl who trusted him?
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Homecoming | A Couple’s First Night in Their New House Awakens a Demon Dec 04, 2019

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A surprise home purchase leads a couple into a demonic family secret in Joe Solmo’s “Homecoming.” Brandon wants to give his fiancée Christy a fresh start, complete with borrowed furniture and plans for children. On their first night, thumps and screams draw him toward a dark basement marked with strange symbols. Whatever waits below seems to know Christy, who has never known her biological parents. This haunted-house story turns the promise of a shared future into a struggle over an inherited past. Brandon chose the house. Did something inside choose them?
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Thanksgiving Dinner | A Small-Town Welfare Check Reveals a House of Cruelty Nov 27, 2019

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A Thanksgiving welfare check takes Officer Sophia Cortez to a boarded-up trailer in Monticello, Indiana. A neighbor hasn’t heard from Norman Roberts for days. His television is still playing, and a growl comes from a room without light. A nylon cord leads Sophia toward a family secret hidden for years. She asks dispatch to stay on the line before following it into the dark. This police horror story turns a quiet holiday shift into an investigation that will change how she sees family—and what people can hide next door.
Written by Rachael Redolfi. Narrated by Henrique Couto.
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Survivors | A Girl Raised to Fear the Undead Ventures Beyond Her Forest Cabin Nov 20, 2019

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A teenage girl leaves the safety of a forest cabin in Shane Migliavacca’s “Survivors.” Her father has raised her to believe the world outside belongs to scavengers and the walking dead. He taught her to hunt, shoot and distrust strangers, while keeping supply trips to himself. When she must face the woods without his protection, those lessons become the only guide she has. This psychological survival-horror story follows a fifteen-year-old confronting a world she knows through someone else’s warnings. Can she recognize danger when every stranger looks like an enemy?
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I Saw the Dragon | A Mercenary’s Endless Night in a Haunted TV Station Nov 13, 2019

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A mercenary holds a television station through a night that will not end in John Oak Dalton’s “I Saw the Dragon.” Sent to secure a hill in a war-torn African country, he finds disturbing videotapes and voices beneath the floor. Dead comrades appear, the darkness persists, and martial-arts star Don “The Dragon” Wilson becomes part of an increasingly surreal ordeal. This supernatural war story follows a soldier beyond the threats his training can explain. Holding the station was the assignment. Waiting for sunrise may be the harder battle.
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