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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:

Terrifying & True | Black Shuck: The Hell Hound Behind a 1577 Storm Apr 20, 2026

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Black Shuck's legend places a terrifying black dog inside the churches of Bungay and Blythburgh during the Suffolk storm of August 4, 1577. Terrifying & True explores the reported apparition, deaths, scorched-door stories, and the disaster behind one of England's best-known phantom hounds. Follow the accounts that turned violent weather into a tale of the devil, then compare the legend with grounded explanations and Britain's wider black-dog folklore. What happens when a community's fear of a real storm takes an animal shape—and keeps roaming long after the skies have cleared?
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Unknown Broadcast | Cursed Rings, Vanishing Brides, Greed: Four Vintage Radio Horror Stories from the Dark Apr 19, 2026

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A cursed ring leads into family secrets, a bride disappears, and the dream of impossible wealth begins to look like a prison. Unknown Broadcast gathers A Ring of Roses, The Bride Vanishes, Avarice, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense move from plague lore and gothic mystery to The Whistler's murderous greed and Escape's dangerous world of riches. These four vintage dramas follow people drawn toward something they believe will make life better. When love, inheritance, and money become traps, how much would you surrender to get back out?
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Small Town Horror: Vampire Nights, Cursed Love & Portal Terror Apr 18, 2026

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A movie night opens a doorway to a vampire-ruled Strickfield, and a drunken ritual summons the wrong lover. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather I'm from a Small Town That No Longer Exists. No One Is Allowed to Know Why by Michael Kelso, Doorway to Horror and Newborn by Rob Fields, and Love Conquers All by Joe Solmo. Vanished neighbors, cursed fields, and a vampire's first hunger turn familiar places deadly. Nearly three hours of small-town horror, supernatural action, and dark comedy follow people who cross a boundary without knowing the cost. The way home may no longer lead to your world.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Creep (2014) Explained: Ending Breakdown, Hidden Meaning & Found Footage Horror Review Apr 17, 2026

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Creep (2014) makes a paid filming job feel like an invitation you should never have accepted. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Patrick Brice's found footage horror film, starring Brice and Mark Duplass, on Cutting Deep into Horror. They explore how Josef uses warmth, awkwardness, and vulnerability to push past Aaron's boundaries, with Peachfuzz and the ending included in this full-spoiler discussion. The hosts connect the film's manipulation to their videography work. Discover why a friendly request can feel more threatening than a warning—and why the camera keeps rolling.
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I Painted a Witch: Haunted Painting Horror Story Apr 15, 2026

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A new painting of a witch seems to know what is happening inside its creator's house—and what may happen next. I Painted a Witch by Bruce Haney turns an ordinary evening into a supernatural horror story about cursed art, domestic fear, and a home that no longer feels private. As the woman studies her new artwork, its connection to her life becomes harder to dismiss. This Weekly Spooky tale blends witch horror with the dread of an intruder drawing closer. Each new detail makes the house feel less secure. Is she looking at a warning, or watching something decide what comes next?
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This Week in Horror History | American Psycho, Amityville Horror, Jakob’s Wife, Sker Ritual & The Lords of Salem Apr 14, 2026

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American Psycho hides violence behind a polished smile, while Jakob's Wife turns a troubled marriage into vampire horror. This Week in Horror History explores April 13–19 through Mary Harron's satire, The Amityville Horror (2005), Sker Ritual, and Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem. Barbara Crampton, haunted-house dread, Welsh folklore, and witchcraft connect a week of films and survival horror gaming. Green Room adds a brutal punk-band siege to the watchlist. From a respectable apartment to a venue with no safe exit, discover what happens when the setting itself becomes part of the threat.
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Terrifying & True | Lead Masks Case: Brazil's Eerie UFO Death Mystery Apr 13, 2026

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Two electronics technicians were found dead on a hillside in Niterói, Brazil, in 1966, with homemade lead eye masks and a note about capsules and a signal. Terrifying & True explores the Lead Masks Case, following Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz to Morro do Vintém and the investigation that failed to establish a cause of death. Witness reports and missing pieces fueled theories of poisoning, spiritualist experiments, UFOs, and murder. Which clues are documented, and which explanations depend on assumptions? Follow an unresolved case whose objects offer no easy answer.
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Unknown Broadcast | Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Fate, Ghosts, Mystery, and Justice Apr 12, 2026

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A veteran cannot leave the war behind, and a skeptical man confronts a threat that reason may not keep away. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Bullet, Pollock and the Porroh Man, A Passage to Benares, and Justice. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense travel through wartime guilt, occult fear, death, and The Whistler's fatal consequences. These four vintage dramas make a tavern, a journey, and a decision feel like steps toward a reckoning. Settle in for psychological horror and supernatural mystery, where believing you have escaped the past may be the first dangerous mistake.
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Witches, Folk Horror, and Occult Terror: 4 Creepy Stories of Curses and Cults Apr 11, 2026

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A hunter kills something that should have stayed alive, and piano lessons bring a child close to a hungry witch. Four Weekly Spooky stories gather What Ricky Did on His Summer Vacation and The God Tongue by Dan Wilder, Bed, Breakfast, and Zombies by Keith Tomlin, and The Piano Witch by Charles Campbell. Fictional Satanic Panic nightmares, cosmic folk horror, a New York witch hunt, and undead guardians fill a collection of occult bargains and hidden appetites. From autumn woods to a Southern music room, traditions conceal danger. What if the smiling teacher wants more than practice?
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Best of 2025 | Carrie Culberson: The True Story of Ohio’s Infamous No-Body Murder Case Apr 10, 2026

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Carrie Culberson vanished from Blanchester, Ohio, in August 1996. Vincent Doan was convicted of her murder without her body being recovered. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True follows the domestic abuse, witness testimony, and investigative failures surrounding one of Ohio's best-known no-body homicide cases. Explore the final night, the trial evidence, and the conflict-of-interest allegations that cast doubt on how the search was handled. A conviction answered one question while leaving Carrie's family with another: where is she? The episode keeps that unfinished search at its center.
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