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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:

Aliens, Time Rips, Cult Books, and Multiverse Terror: 4 Cosmic Horror Stories of Apocalypse and Weird Chaos May 02, 2026

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A New Year's time rip fractures reality, and a dead clown's funeral becomes a hunt governed by an ancient code. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather Saint Jimmy by Dan Wilder, The Fun in Funerals and The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor by David O'Hanlon, and Last Stand by Rob Fields. Alternate timelines, occult books, and Hellweaver's threat to the multiverse turn survival into a struggle against rules that keep changing. Over two hours of cosmic horror, science fiction, and grotesque comedy follow people who touch something impossible—and discover that reality may not put itself back together.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | One Cut of the Dead (2017): Japanese Horror and Filmmaking Chaos May 01, 2026

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One Cut of the Dead (2017) starts as a scrappy Japanese zombie film and rewards anyone who stays with its strange choices. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Shinichiro Ueda's horror-comedy on Cutting Deep into Horror, exploring structure, crew mishaps, and the affection behind its portrait of low-budget filmmaking. How does apparent chaos become a carefully built payoff? Full spoilers: watch the movie first to preserve its surprises, then join the conversation about making art when everything goes wrong. Film page: https://www.amcplus.com/movies...
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Come On In — Secret Tunnel Horror Beneath an Old House Apr 29, 2026

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Curtis Tucker fears his family's unfinished basement. Then his father reveals a hidden tunnel once used by the Underground Railroad, and fear gives way to a need to know where it goes. Come On In by Morgan Moore follows the boy downstairs on a rainy night with a flashlight and a plan to face his nightmares. Inside the wooden shed, the way forward leads beneath the house and into darkness he cannot see through. This Weekly Spooky horror story turns a familiar childhood fear into a claustrophobic journey. How far would you crawl to prove there was never anything to be afraid of?
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This Week in Horror History | Godzilla, The Craft & Found Footage Horror History (April 27 — May 3) Apr 28, 2026

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The Craft gives teenage outsiders dangerous power, while The Hunger turns immortality into a vampire's trap. This Week in Horror History explores April 27–May 3 through Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Creepshow 2, and the faux true-crime nightmare of The Poughkeepsie Tapes. David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, Stephen King, and George Romero connect a week of monster cinema, occult revenge, and anthology horror. The Day of the Triffids adds a killer-plant apocalypse to the watchlist. Discover how a giant monster, a handheld camera, or an ordinary lake can make the familiar world unsafe.
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Monthly Spooky | America’s Most Haunted Lake? Ghost Stories, Dark History & Bizarre Spooky News Apr 27, 2026

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Lake Lanier's Lady of the Lake legend floats above a history of displaced communities, drownings, and boating danger. This April 2026 Monthly Spooky explores the Georgia reservoir's haunted reputation, Captain Dave's local ghost stories, and the gap between a curse and real hazards on the water. The news conversation also visits Pluckley, England, reported lights near Lake Ontario, and a hot-air balloon's landing. Follow the stories that turn a popular destination into a place people fear after dark, while keeping local folklore separate from the tragedies that helped shape it.
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Unknown Broadcast | Five Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Love, Murder, and Suspense Apr 26, 2026

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A woman desperate for a child seeks a bargain from a dealer in the macabre, while an escape from Noumea tests how far men will go to survive. Unknown Broadcast gathers five old-time radio dramas: Mother Love, The Weakling, Will You Walk into My Parlor, Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer, and John Russell's The Fourth Man. Over two hours of vintage suspense connect supernatural promises, nightclub trouble, murder, and guilt with stories from Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, and Escape. Listen as longing becomes a liability and every offer of a way out begins to carry a price no one expected.
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Cryptids, Chupacabras, Demon Dogs, and Future Monsters: 4 Scary Horror Stories of Beasts and Survival Apr 25, 2026

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A summoned hellhound has murder on its leash, and a school trip runs into El Chupacabra. Four Weekly Spooky monster stories gather The Hellhowler by Joe Solmo, The Monster's Not Real by Charles Campbell, The Beast of Roca de Vaca by Morgan Moore, and Future Taibon by Rob Fields. A paranormal investigator follows occult trouble, South African documentarians face an unknown predator, and Cassillia Taibon awakens among future mutations. More than three hours of creature horror and supernatural action ask how you survive when the beast has powers your defenses were never built to stop.
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Best of 2025: Richard Speck: The True Story of the 1966 Chicago Nurse Murders Apr 24, 2026

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Corazon Amurao hid beneath a bed while Richard Speck murdered eight nurses in Chicago in 1966. Her survival and testimony became central to the case against him. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True follows the South Side townhouse attack, the manhunt, the trial, and the later reversal of Speck's death sentence. The episode also examines revelations from his prison years and the lasting impact on the victims' families and the city. A historical true crime account focused on the lives destroyed, the witness who could identify the killer, and how the evidence brought him before a jury.
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Chemically Imbalanced: A (Sort-of) Love Story — Love Potion Gone Wrong Horror Story Apr 22, 2026

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A synthetic love hormone turns a student into a ravenous monster—and traps the man who wanted her inside the science building. Chemically Imbalanced: A (Sort-of) Love Story by Rob Fields brings mad science to Strickfield University, where years of obsession become a problem no laboratory door can solve. This Weekly Spooky horror story mixes body horror, infected romance, and dark comedy as a supposed shortcut to desire spins out of control. He finally has her attention, but surviving it is another matter. Listen to a college nightmare about getting exactly what you thought you wanted.
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This Week in Horror History | Silent Hill, Stephen King, George Romero, Cult Horror & More (April 20–26) Apr 21, 2026

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Silent Hill hides terror in the ash, Vacancy makes a motel room a death trap, and The Dark Half gives a writer a murderous double. This Week in Horror History explores April 20–26 through Stephen King, George A. Romero, and horror that turns ordinary places against their occupants. Michael Caine faces The Hand, Until Dawn (2025) brings repeated-night terror to the screen, and I Trapped the Devil supplies a paranoid next-watch recommendation. From a roadside stop to a basement no one should open, discover films where familiar surroundings become the first warning that something is wrong.
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