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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:

This Week in Horror History | Cult Classics & Body Horror Nightmares — June 22–28 Jun 23, 2026

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The Thing, 28 Days Later, and The Omen bring mistrust to This Week in Horror History for June 22–28, 2026. A haunted hotel room in 1408 and Quake's gothic corridors join empty London streets and an Antichrist hidden behind privilege. John Carpenter's The Thing takes the spotlight with Antarctic isolation, imitation, and Rob Bottin's effects. Horror birthdays and a Twilight Zone: The Movie recommendation complete a week where safety is difficult to recognize. Revisit the films and game that turn a room, a family, or a trusted companion into something you can no longer take at face value.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Terrifying & True | Brian Shaffer: The Ugly Tuna Saloona Disappearance Jun 22, 2026

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Brian Shaffer was last seen near closing time at a Columbus bar on April 1, 2006. The Ohio State medical student's disappearance drew attention to footage that did not clearly show him leaving. Terrifying & True examines the Ugly Tuna Saloona, camera blind spots, searches, and the theories that grew around the missing images. It remains a missing-person investigation, with a family and loved ones behind every unanswered question. Follow what the record establishes and where it stops, without turning incomplete camera coverage into proof that someone could not have left the building.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Unknown Broadcast | Horror Stories of Lies, Living Wood, Wrong Numbers, and Poisoned Love Jun 21, 2026

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A bedridden woman hears a murder plot on a crossed telephone line, and a ventriloquist's dummy seems to speak for itself. Unknown Broadcast gathers And Nothing But the Truth, Out of This World, Sorry, Wrong Number, and Jealousy for over two hours of old-time radio suspense. Agnes Moorehead's calls join a father's effort to hide a hit-and-run, a Dead of Night-inspired stage nightmare, and a Whistler tale of suspicion and poisoned love. Voices carry warnings, confessions, and lies. Listen as people try to control what others hear, only to find the most dangerous message getting through.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Babysitter Horror Stories: Serial Killers, Urban Legends, Mad Scientists & Cry Baby Bridge Jun 20, 2026

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A babysitter faces a killer while hiding secrets of her own, and teenagers approach a bridge haunted by a presence searching for a child. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn routine jobs into traps: Angel in Babysitting, The Trouble with Cousins, The Babysitter, and Cry Baby Bridge. Family tensions, hidden experiments, and Strickfield folklore move the collection from slasher suspense to mad science and ghostly encounters. Stories by Rob Fields and Joe Solmo. Over 90 minutes of horror ask what happens when looking after someone else means discovering a danger already inside the home.
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3 Hours of Scary Serial Killers & Unsolved Murders | True Crime Horror Anthology Jun 19, 2026

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Rodney Alcala appeared on a dating show; Henry Lee Lucas turned confessions into a maze of truth and manipulation. Eight Terrifying & True investigations examine how danger can hide in plain sight. Ed Gein, Richard Chase, Charlie Brandt, Texarkana's Phantom Killer, the Axeman of New Orleans and the Oklahoma City Butcher complete over three hours of crime history. The collection separates documented violence from false claims, sensational nicknames, and the legends that grow around unresolved murders. Follow the evidence and missed warnings that make these cases more complicated than the monsters they inspired.
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Bigfoot, Mothman & Chupacabra: How Cryptids Become Hometown Legends | Thursday Thrills Jun 18, 2026

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How does a feared monster become a town landmark? Bigfoot, Mothman, Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie lead Thursday Thrills through the places that shaped their legends. Henrique Couto follows Pacific Northwest forests, Loch Ness, Puerto Rico, Point Pleasant, and New Jersey's Pine Barrens, then looks at the museums, festivals, and souvenirs built around disputed encounters. The focus is folklore and regional identity, with sightings kept separate from verified zoology. Discover why communities sometimes embrace the very creature once blamed for making the landscape frightening.
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Summer of the Demon pt 3: Cursed Objects & Camp Horror Nightmare Jun 17, 2026

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The Demon wears Greg Branlake's cursed jersey—but doesn't recognize Greg's sister. Who is stalking Camp Red Feather? Summer of the Demon Part 3 by Rob Fields sends Eddie 'Peewee' Richter and Jessica after answers as another attack tears through football practice. Their search for Greg's former girlfriend leads away from camp, but distance offers no guarantee of safety. This middle chapter of Weekly Spooky's five-part football horror serial follows the cursed 00 jersey from the field into family secrets. A new lead could expose the monster's identity—or put Eddie directly in its path.
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This Week in Horror History | Cosmic Nightmares & Gothic Sequels June 15–21 Jun 16, 2026

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Psycho, Jaws 2, and Lifeforce lead This Week in Horror History for June 15–21, 2026. Revisit the Bates Motel, Amity Island's return to shark panic, Batman Returns' gothic Gotham, and World War Z's rushing zombie crowds. Tobe Hooper's space-vampire spectacle takes the deep-cut spotlight with Halley's Comet and a London outbreak. Birthdays and Hammer's Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, round out the calendar. From a motel nightmare to a city under siege, explore how horror grew into a summer event while keeping room for strange cult films and candlelit vampire dread.
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Terrifying & True | Highway of Tears: Missing and Murdered Women in British Columbia Jun 15, 2026

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The Highway of Tears carries decades of loss along Highway 16 in northern British Columbia, where women and girls, many Indigenous, have disappeared or been murdered. Terrifying & True examines the cases alongside limited transportation, remote geography, racism, and failures of investigation and media attention. Families and advocates have fought to keep names, patterns, and questions visible. This episode centers the people behind the road's haunting reputation and the conditions that put them at risk. Hear why accountability and safer travel remain part of the demand for answers.
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Unknown Broadcast | Gothic Horror Fiction & Graves, Gallows, Curses Jun 14, 2026

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An ancient-looking skeleton has fresh hands, and a condemned man stands on Owl Creek Bridge. Unknown Broadcast collects nearly two and a half hours of old-time radio mystery: Dig Me Deadly, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble, and Double Cross. Detective Claudia Trubshaw follows secrets in the sand; John Dickson Carr's Suspense drama brings witchcraft language and murder backstage; The Whistler turns a criminal scheme against its planners. From an excavation to the gallows, follow people trying to outwit a fate that may be closer than they understand.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

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