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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:

Lady Frankenstein Returns — Vampire Pursuit and Family Secrets Mar 04, 2026

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Maddy Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, and a shopping trip becomes a race to escape. Lady Frankenstein Returns by Rob Fields brings a predator from last winter back into the Strickfield universe. Maddy and her mother face daylight pursuit, mounting panic, and family secrets that make the danger feel closer than either wants to admit. This Weekly Spooky vampire horror story combines mall terror with a frantic chase, letting a familiar face turn an ordinary outing into a threat. Getting away is only part of the problem when the past already knows who you are.
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This Week in Horror History | Nosferatu, Angel Heart, The Mangler, Zodiac & Pontypool (Mar 2–8) Mar 03, 2026

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Nosferatu brings vampire shadows, Angel Heart turns detective work into occult dread, and The Mangler makes a laundry press monstrous. This Week in Horror History explores March 2–8 through those films and David Fincher's Zodiac, where the search for a killer becomes an obsession. Pontypool supplies a radio-station nightmare in which language spreads danger, while Tales from the Crypt offers a classic anthology recommendation. From Count Orlok to a voice on the air, this watchlist follows threats that enter ordinary life. Find a classic, a crime thriller, or a strange late-night watch.
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Terrifying & True | Bonnie Hood Murder at Camp Nelson Lodge (1990): The California Double Jeopardy Case Mar 02, 2026

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Bonnie Hood was killed at California's Camp Nelson Lodge in 1990, while handyman Rudy Manuel survived the attack. Terrifying & True follows the investigation, Bruce Beauchamp's acquittal, and the later shooting that put Bonnie's husband Jim Hood on trial. This California true crime case connects witness credibility, disputed motives, forensic evidence, and double jeopardy. It separates the verdicts from allegations about who planned the lodge killing. Two shootings create overlapping mysteries, but they do not produce the same courtroom answers. What could each prosecution prove?
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Unknown Broadcast | The Golden Penny: Yacht Intrigue & Four Classic Radio Mysteries Mar 01, 2026

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A stolen white elephant sends detectives into an absurd hunt, while a con man sets his sights on a yacht and a fortune. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Stolen White Elephant, The Digger, The Golden Penny from The Whistler, and Escape's Clear for Action. Four old-time radio dramas move from comic crime to a dangerous mine shaft, a scheme aboard the Golden Penny, and naval peril. More than two hours of mystery and suspense combine dark laughter, desperate choices, and maritime adventure. Follow the clues and the next command at sea: a clever plan can still leave its maker trapped.
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Edgar Allan Poe Horror & Mystery Stories: Murders in the Rue Morgue and Classic Tales of Terror Feb 28, 2026

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An uncanny voyage, a humiliation, and an impossible Paris murder lead into five Edgar Allan Poe tales. This Weekly Spooky collection presents Manuscript Found in a Bottle, Hop-Frog, Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Man That Was Used Up. Nearly three hours of Gothic fiction mix maritime dread, revenge, macabre comedy, and the deductions of C. Auguste Dupin. Poe's original prose turns reputation and curiosity into dangerous guides. For listeners drawn to classic horror and detective fiction, the next mystery may begin with a detail everyone else overlooks.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985): Henry Lee Lucas Horror and True-Crime Exploitation Feb 27, 2026

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Confessions of a Serial Killer turns a man's calm account of violence into a chilling horror film. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Mark Blair's 1985 production on Cutting Deep into Horror, tracing its Henry Lee Lucas connection and the gap between criminal mythology and a documentary record. They discuss the confessional structure, low-budget realism, performances, and ethics of true-crime exploitation. Full spoilers throughout. Why can a bare-bones film feel more persuasive than a slick thriller, and what happens when that realism borrows authority from disputed confessions?
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On The Ice: Fishing Horror Story - A Monster Beneath the Frozen Lake! Feb 25, 2026

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A widower goes ice fishing on Lake Pauldoon, following the careful routine his grandfather taught him. Then the wind falls silent and something black moves beneath the hole. On the Ice by Douglas Waltz turns a quiet winter outing into a Weekly Spooky creature horror story. An abandoned lakeside development and a history of missing children connect the frozen surface to older local secrets. Alone on the lake, the fisherman must confront a danger his habits cannot explain. Listen for winter isolation, backwoods occult terror, and the sound that makes every step toward shore feel uncertain.
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This Week in Horror History | End-of-Winter Dread — The Crazies, Get Out & The Invisible Man (Feb 23 — Mar 1) Feb 24, 2026

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The Crazies poisons small-town trust, Get Out makes hospitality threatening, and The Invisible Man turns disbelief into another weapon. This Week in Horror History covers February 23–March 1 with Sons of the Forest and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live joining the film lineup. Survival in the woods meets love after the apocalypse, while From Beyond the Grave offers sinister antiques and compact supernatural tales. Birthdays include Terence Fisher, Billy Zane, Neil Jordan, and Lupita Nyong'o. Build a horror watchlist for winter's end, when a home or a face can conceal the threat.
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Monthly Spooky | Evil Ghost Baby Exorcism, Boston Skull Mystery, and the New England Vampire Panic Feb 23, 2026

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A reported ghost-baby exorcism in Galway meets a skull found in concrete in Boston. In this February 2026 Monthly Spooky, Henrique and Michelle discuss those headlines alongside a Rhode Island pilot's UFO report and the hunt for an escaped toucan in Las Vegas. The conversation then turns to the New England vampire panic, when tuberculosis, grief, and superstition shaped fears of the returning dead. Strange news and American folklore share the episode, with paranormal claims kept distinct from established history. Why do communities reach for monsters when explanations fail them?
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Unknown Broadcast | Signals from the Dead Air: Four Classic Radio Horror Tales of Revenge and Ruin Feb 22, 2026

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A fake medium profits from grief, while an unsettling sound makes a home feel hostile. Unknown Broadcast gathers Medium Rare from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Bells from Suspense, Career Man from The Whistler, and the snake-country mystery Snake Doctor. Four old-time radio stories move through deception, ambition, buried money, and revenge. More than two hours of vintage suspense ask what happens when a successful con begins to control the person running it. At Cashier Creek or in a quiet room, the danger may be a secret believed safely buried. Tune in before the next warning rings.
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