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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:

Undead Triangle: Teen Zombie Horror & High School Betrayal May 13, 2026

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Meredith Ridley survives high school on her own terms—until jealousy sends her into the Backwoods of Strickfield and leaves her for dead. In Undead Triangle by Rob Fields, she returns from the lake with a hunger that makes ordinary teenage revenge look tame. Lita Hallaway's rivalry becomes a zombie nightmare as other figures rise and old relationships refuse to stay buried. This Weekly Spooky story mixes teen horror, body horror, and splatter comedy, from the school corridors to junkyard carnage. When the dead still want love and payback, who gets to decide that the relationship is over?
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This Week in Horror History | Vampire Legacy, Zombie Outbreaks & Classic Slashers — May 11–17 May 12, 2026

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Jason Voorhees faces telekinesis in Friday the 13th Part VII, while Firestarter turns a child's power into a government weapon. This Week in Horror History explores May 11–17 through Dracula's Daughter, 28 Weeks Later, Godzilla (2014), and Stephen King's fire-starting nightmare. Follow vampire inheritance, a failed quarantine, and the launch of the MonsterVerse, then revisit The Strangers: Chapter 1 for a masked home-invasion recommendation. From Universal Monsters to modern outbreak horror, these anniversaries show how an old fear changes shape—and finds another generation to frighten.
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Terrifying & True | Setagaya Murders: Japan's Most Chilling Unsolved Case May 11, 2026

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The Setagaya family murders left blood, fingerprints, and clothing behind—but no identified killer. On the night of December 30–31, 2000, four members of the Miyazawa family were killed in their Tokyo home. Terrifying & True follows the forensic trail, the offender's reported behavior inside the house, and the theories that have failed to turn evidence into a name. How can many traces survive while the person who left them remains unknown? This Japanese true crime investigation keeps the family at its center and separates clues from speculation about who committed the murders.
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Unknown Broadcast | Horror Anthology: Black Magic, Killer Cargo & Old-Time Radio Horror Stories May 10, 2026

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A university lecture opens a door to black magic, while escaped cargo turns a ship's dark corners into hiding places for death. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Sending, A Shipment of Mute Fate, The Diary of Sophronia Winters, and Blind Alley. A lonely woman's romance grows threatening, and a concealed body draws a wealthy family into a trap of guilt and secrets. Over two hours of vintage horror and crime suspense move from occult bargains to dangers that are entirely human. Listen as an invitation, voyage, or new relationship begins closing off the exits.
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Backwoods Horror | Road Trip Terror & Gas Station Nightmares May 09, 2026

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A father-daughter road trip breaks down, a security job leads beneath a church, and an overnight gas station hides a secret. Four Weekly Spooky backwoods horror stories gather Strike-Out!, I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening, Bite Me, and I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret. Morgan Moore, Michael Kelso, and David O'Hanlon take you through vanished workers, an Ozark creature attack, and a clerk's growing suspicion of his employer. Over two hours of survival horror turn the next roadside stop into somewhere you may never leave.
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Best of 2025 | Typhoid Mary: Eerie True Story & Horror History May 08, 2026

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Mary Mallon felt healthy while the households where she cooked suffered typhoid outbreaks. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True revisits Typhoid Mary, George Soper's investigation, and the forced quarantine on New York's North Brother Island. Follow the 1906 Oyster Bay outbreak, her fight against confinement, and the return to cooking that led to another deadly outbreak. The medical mystery becomes a difficult question about public safety, personal freedom, and stigma. How do you convince someone she can spread a disease she cannot feel—and what happens when persuasion gives way to force?
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Concrete Evidence: A Creepy Summer Job Horror Story May 06, 2026

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Ten dollars an hour to carry concrete blocks sounds like easy summer money—until the blocks begin to reveal what they're made of. Concrete Evidence by Gary D of Ontario, Canada follows three broke teens near Toronto working for a secretive man building a pink concrete house. Frank keeps his shed locked and wheels in tools and bulging garbage bags while the boys haul blocks across the field. This first-person horror story blends dark humor, body horror, and a suspected killer's hidden evidence. As curiosity turns to dread, how much of the house have they already helped him build?
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This Week in Horror History | Classic Slashers & Cult Films — May 4–10 May 05, 2026

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Friday the 13th sends you back to Camp Crystal Lake, while Crow Country invites you into an abandoned amusement park. This Week in Horror History explores May 4–10 through camp slashers, House of Wax (2005), and Nailbiter, the comic about a town that produces serial killers. The Burning takes the deep-cut spotlight with Tom Savini's effects and a garden-shear nightmare. For a change of pace, The Mummy (1999) brings Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and undead adventure. Find a film, comic, or survival horror game where a holiday destination hides something that wants you to stay permanently.
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Terrifying & True | The Fox Sisters: When Spiritualism's Greatest Hoax Fooled a Nation May 04, 2026

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In 1848, strange knocks in a Hydesville, New York farmhouse helped launch the Fox sisters into the history of Spiritualism. Maggie and Kate claimed the dead could answer; their sister Leah helped bring the performances to audiences. Terrifying & True follows the rappings, the demand for messages from lost loved ones, and Maggie's 1888 confession that physical tricks produced the sounds. Behind the famous ghost story lie grief, family pressure, celebrity, and exploitation. Why did the promise of one more conversation prove so powerful—even when its messenger said it was a deception?
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Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Fate, Prison, Murder, and Madness May 03, 2026

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A man's refuge becomes a trap of espionage and betrayal, while an impossible rosebush suggests something buried beneath the ordinary. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Lady Was a Tiger, Destiny, Uncle Henry's Rosebush, and The Horla. More than two hours of vintage suspense move from murder and tightening circumstances into the fear of an unseen intelligence. These mysteries turn the urge to escape into a question of whether the danger is outside the house or inside the mind. Settle in for crime, psychological horror, and a final descent into the uncanny.
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