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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:

Summer of the Demon: Complete Horror Audiobook | Cursed Football Jersey & Summer Camp Horror Jul 03, 2026

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A cursed football jersey promises a failing player greatness, then turns his rivalry into a demonic nightmare. Summer of the Demon by Rob Fields collects Friday Night Frights and all five parts of the camp-horror serial in one three-hour episode. Greg Branlake puts on Mick 'The Demon' Knight's 00 jersey; survivor Eddie 'Peewee' Richter later faces the returning threat at Camp Red Feather with the Strickfield Serpents. Follow the entire story from a desperate bid for football glory to summer training under siege. One uniform links two seasons, and the Demon still wants revenge.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cryptid Encounters & Deep Woods Horror: Firsthand Park Ranger Accounts | Thursday Thrills Jul 02, 2026

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A stranger stands silently near camp. A forest goes quiet, and something breathes outside a tent. Thursday Thrills takes a ride through supposedly firsthand hiking, camping, and park ranger stories gathered from online folklore threads. Henrique Couto explores cave drumming, nearby bison, predator instincts, and Miniwashitu of Missouri River tradition. These are unverified campfire accounts, shaped by isolation and the authority listeners attach to wilderness experience. Discover why a detail can make an anonymous story feel convincing, and why the woods leave so much room for doubt.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Summer of the Demon pt 5: Cursed Objects & Football Camp Horror Finale Jul 01, 2026

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The final game at Camp Red Feather has a scoreboard measured in survival. Summer of the Demon Part 5 by Rob Fields brings Eddie Richter, Jessica Branlake, Charlie Thoss, and the survivors face to face with the curse behind the 00 jersey. Revelations about the Demon's return force Eddie into a brutal supernatural showdown, where the truth may not be enough to win. This concluding chapter delivers the payoff to Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial. Finish the story of a team whose summer training became a fight against something that intends to own far more than the field.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

This Week in Horror History | Zombie Apocalypse & Cyberpunk Body Horror Jun 30, 2026

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Day of the Dead, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and Mexican Gothic lead This Week in Horror History for June 29–July 5, 2026. George A. Romero's bunker nightmare meets Shinya Tsukamoto's industrial body horror and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's poisonous mansion. Empire of the Ants brings radioactive creature chaos, while Barbara Steele stars in the spotlight on The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Birthdays and a Tales of Terror recommendation complete the week with Poe, Vincent Price, and gothic revenge. Find a watch or read where the body, the home, or a refuge can turn against the people depending on it.
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Monthly Spooky | The Pied Piper of Hamelin Mystery: 77 Headless Skeletons & Gracie the Missing Giraffe Jun 29, 2026

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin led 130 children away, according to legend—but what lies behind that medieval story? Henrique Couto and Michelle explore migration, plague, and other proposed explanations in June 2026's Monthly Spooky. The news roundup visits a Slovakian mass grave, alleged ghostly marks in an Argentine shop, and the then-unfolding search for Gracie the giraffe in Texas. A reported disappearing basement closes the journey with a possible explanation. From old chronicles to modern accounts, follow the details that make a mystery endure even when its meaning remains disputed.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Unknown Broadcast | Werewolf, Wax Museum & Fogbound Murder: Four Classic Radio Mysteries Jun 28, 2026

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A village warns of a werewolf, and a London wax museum hides wartime murder among its motionless faces. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio mysteries from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler. Conspiracy to Defraud opens with narcotics agents and false identities; Taboo enters the Carpathians; Menace in Wax turns an exhibition into an espionage trap. Fog closes nearly two and a half hours of vintage suspense with a harbor killing. Follow the disguises from an undercover operation to a coastal crime, where a familiar face may be the least reliable clue.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Late Night Vampire Horror Stories: Bloodsuckers & Urban Legends Jun 27, 2026

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A solar eclipse makes a Master Vampire dangerously human, while vampire punks turn a Cleveland strip club into a killing ground. Four Weekly Spooky stories explore undead life in Mortal Eclipse, Vampire Night, Stakes n' Shoguns, and Convenience Store Vampire. A samurai-movie outing collides with bats and drunken bloodsuckers, and a night clerk meets a woman who never rings the doorbell. Stories by Rob Fields, Joe Ruston, Dan Wilder, and Douglas Waltz. Over three hours of vampire horror and dark comedy ask what immortality is worth when the wrong stranger walks through the door.
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6 Hours of Unsolved Murders & Urban Legends: Late Night Horror Deep Dive Jun 26, 2026

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Johnny Gosch's disappearance and the Keddie Cabin murders anchor a six-hour journey through cases, memory, and modern legend. This ten-part collection also examines the Mandela Effect, Men in Black reports, and the Angikuni Lake disappearance story, among mysteries where evidence and repetition pull in different directions. Terrifying & True distinguishes documented crimes from paranormal claims and folklore while exploring why each subject keeps attracting theories. Settle in for a listening session that asks how missing facts, shared memories, and retold encounters become stories.
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Was Walt Disney Cryogenically Frozen? The Disneyland Urban Legend | Thursday Thrills Jun 25, 2026

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Walt Disney was cremated, yet a legend still places him in a frozen chamber beneath Disneyland. Henrique Couto traces the cryonics rumor on Thursday Thrills, from Disney's futuristic public image to theme-park tunnels, tabloid repetition, and early preservation experiments. The documented record leads to Forest Lawn in Glendale; the story keeps returning to Pirates of the Caribbean. Audio-Animatronics add another way a creator can seem present after death. Explore why this disproven claim survived, and how technology and storytelling gave a famous life an imaginary unfinished ending.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Summer of the Demon pt 4: Cursed Objects & Campfire Horror Jun 24, 2026

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Eddie Richter wakes injured at Camp Red Feather with a dangerous possibility: the Demon may have a weakness. Summer of the Demon Part 4 by Rob Fields pushes the Strickfield Serpents toward another deadly scrimmage as teammates grow suspicious and storm clouds gather. Knowing how to hurt the creature is only the beginning; surviving long enough to try is harder. This penultimate chapter of the football horror serial brings the cursed 00 jersey, camp tension, and a desperate plan together. Follow Eddie into the confrontation that sets up the finale, with the team's trust already fraying.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

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