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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:

Knock, Knock: True Scary Ice Fishing Story in the Middle of the Night Apr 08, 2026

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Slow knocks reach an ice fishing hut during an Ontario snowstorm. Miles from shore, the person inside hears pounding on the walls but cannot see who is outside. Knock, Knock is presented as a personal account by Gary D of Ontario, Canada, also known as Blue Fire Raging. This Weekly Spooky wilderness horror story follows an overnight trip through isolation, unseen visitors, and footprints in the snow. The hut offers heat and shelter, but every sound makes opening the door feel more dangerous. Listen to an eerie first-person encounter that leaves the source of the knocking unresolved.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

This Week in Horror History | A Quiet Place, Oculus, Critters & The Void (Apr 6–12) Apr 07, 2026

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A Quiet Place makes every sound dangerous, and Oculus makes a mirror impossible to trust. This Week in Horror History explores April 6–12 through family survival, cursed objects, and the hungry alien chaos of Critters. Scary Movie 5 brings the parody, while The Void takes the deep-cut spotlight with a besieged hospital, robed cultists, and practical body horror. Stephen King's Cat's Eye adds three compact nightmares to the watchlist, with birthdays including Kane Hodder and Tom Noonan. Find your next film among quiet rooms, farmhouses, and places where looking closer makes it worse.
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Terrifying & True | Anneliese Michel: Exorcism, Medical Crisis & the Negligent-Homicide Trial Apr 06, 2026

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Anneliese Michel underwent exorcisms as her health collapsed. Terrifying & True follows the young woman from Klingenberg, West Germany, through seizures, psychiatric distress, and the belief that she was possessed. She died in 1976; her parents and two priests were convicted of negligent homicide in 1978. The episode examines how medical care failed, what the recordings can and cannot establish, and why the court focused on obtaining lifesaving help. A disturbing history of faith, illness, and responsibility asks how certainty about a supernatural cause can leave a person without rescue.
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Unknown Broadcast | Four Vintage Tales of Family Ruin, Wartime Espionage, Mad Science, and a Strange Little Visitor Apr 05, 2026

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A dying criminal father draws his son back into old wounds, while a doctor's promised cure carries the chill of obsession. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio dramas: Accounts Receivable, Operation Fleur de Lys, The Kettler Method, and Little Fellow. More than two hours of vintage suspense move from buried money and family resentment to an OSS mission in occupied France, dangerous medicine, and a presence that does not belong. Each story changes the source of the unease, from human betrayal to the uncanny. Listen as a debt, a duty, or a miracle becomes something hard to escape.
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Ghosts, Werewolves, Zombies, and Haunted Houses: 4 Small-Town Horror Stories Apr 04, 2026

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A lakeside prank awakens a ghost, and a punk show collides with meteors and the undead. Four Weekly Spooky tales gather The Spirit of Langley Pond by Charles Campbell, Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York by Dan Wilder, The Beast of Fagan County by David O'Hanlon, and Ghost Story by A. N. Onimus. A town faces brutal killings and werewolf fears, while a trip from the county fair ends at a sinister house. Over two hours of small-town horror mix local legends, creature attacks, and dark comedy. Beyond the fair lights, the places you grew up around may have kept their own secrets.
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Best of 2025 | Resurrection Mary: The True Story of Chicago’s Vanishing Hitchhiker Ghost Apr 03, 2026

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Resurrection Mary is the hitchhiker said to vanish near Resurrection Cemetery after accepting a ride along Chicago's Archer Avenue. This Best of 2025 Terrifying & True follows the white-dress ghost legend through Jerry Palus's account, later reported encounters, and theories about Mary Bregovy and Anna Norkus. Why do generations keep telling a similar roadside story? Explore the local history, disputed identities, and retellings that made Mary part of American folklore. The mystery lies in how the legend grew, with alleged sightings treated as accounts rather than proof of a ghost.
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Fooled Ya — An April Fools’ Prank Turns Deadly Apr 01, 2026

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A skeptical researcher follows ley lines to a remote castle, where an April Fools' joke begins looking like a monster problem. Fooled Ya by Douglas Waltz mixes vampires, werewolves, and gothic mischief in a Weekly Spooky horror-comedy about trusting the wrong invitation. The search for ley-line energy becomes a night of unreliable appearances and supernatural danger, with the prank's consequences reaching beyond a harmless laugh. If you enjoy creature features and jokes that turn against their tellers, step inside—but listen carefully for who is still laughing when the game changes.
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This Week in Horror History | Slither, Pet Sematary, Resident Evil 3 & Cat People (Mar 30–Apr 5) Mar 31, 2026

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Slither brings alien parasites to a small town, while Pet Sematary turns grief into a wish to reverse death. This Week in Horror History explores March 30–April 5 through James Gunn's body horror, Cat People (1982), and Cursed Films, the documentary series about movie-curse legends. Resident Evil 3's 2020 remake puts Jill Valentine and Nemesis in the deep-cut spotlight, with Stephen King's novel Carrie as the reading pick. From mutated flesh to Raccoon City's collapsing streets, discover a film, book, or survival horror game where changing the rules of life makes everything worse.
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Monthly Spooky | Bigfoot in Ohio & Cursed Lake Lanier: Sock Burning, Spring Superstitions, and Lake Shawnee Hauntings Mar 30, 2026

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Ohio Bigfoot reports, Lake Lanier's cursed reputation, and the haunted lore of Lake Shawnee Amusement Park meet springtime rituals in this March 2026 Monthly Spooky. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore why people attach fear and superstition to places, from woods to abandoned attractions. Annapolis, Maryland's sock-burning tradition offers a strange way to say goodbye to winter, alongside wilderness accounts and horror-film conversation. Follow the reported encounters and local legends as the season changes. Sometimes the story that follows you home is the hardest thing to shake.
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Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Stories of Fear, Deception, and Doom Mar 29, 2026

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An elderly woman's quiet home becomes a trap when a strange cat and an unwelcome visitor arrive. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio stories: The Resident, The Man Who Would Be King, The Cave of Ali Baba, and The Letter. More than two hours of vintage suspense move from domestic intrusion to an imperial fantasy, a secret criminal chamber, and an accusation that destroys a scientist under Nazi terror. These dramas follow the damage done by ambition, deception, and misplaced trust. A password may open a door, but what will let you leave once you discover who is waiting behind it?
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