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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:

This Week in Horror History | Valentine’s Week Horror — Watch Something SCARY with Love! Feb 10, 2026

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My Bloody Valentine and Friday the 13th bring slasher danger to Valentine's week, while The Silence of the Lambs turns conversation into a threat. This Week in Horror History covers February 9–15 with Happy Death Day 2U and The Stepford Wives, moving from time-loop chaos to perfect suburban smiles. Recommendations include Misery, Audition, The Fly, Heart Eyes, and Companion: five ways for affection to become frightening. Birthdays feature Emma Roberts, Natalie Dormer, Simon Pegg, and Claire Bloom. Choose a date-night watchlist of obsession, suspicion, and dangerous affection.
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Terrifying & True | The Lost Franklin Expedition: Arctic Horror and the Northwest Passage Mystery Feb 09, 2026

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HMS Erebus and HMS Terror entered the Arctic in 1845 seeking the Northwest Passage. Neither brought Franklin's expedition home. Terrifying & True follows the graves at Beechey Island, the Victory Point note, the abandonment of the ships, and evidence of desperate survival near King William Island. Inuit accounts and modern archaeology help connect the final journey with wreck discoveries in 2014 and 2016. This historical mystery examines what records, remains, and underwater finds reveal. Beyond the legend of vanished explorers lies a story of cold, hunger, and unanswered questions.
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Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Missing Men and Mute Fate Feb 08, 2026

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A missing man leaves contradictions behind, and a flight from LaGuardia becomes a struggle above the ground. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Man Is Missing, A Shipment of Mute Fate, Death Flies Blind, and A Law of Physics. Four old-time radio dramas carry danger from a search to a sea voyage, an aircraft, and a rain-slick road. More than two hours of vintage mystery and suspense explore the moment routine travel becomes a trap. With clues shifting and choices narrowing, these tales make arrival feel uncertain. Follow each lead or departure, knowing that a timetable cannot promise safety.
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Valentine’s Day Horror Stories: 8 Scary Tales of Love Gone Wrong Feb 06, 2026

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A wedding, a date, and a woodland party become traps in eight Valentine's horror stories. Rob Fields brings Till Death Do Us Part, First Date, and Suspended; Joe Solmo brings Party in the Woods, Dead Ahead, and Love Conquers All. Roxie by Charles Campbell and Cesspool: A Love Story by David O'Hanlon complete the lineup. Over three hours of Weekly Spooky fiction mix jealousy, supernatural danger, and revenge, from Strickfield's hallways to a pool with something waiting below. Romance becomes leverage and attraction becomes risk. Choose a date-night scare where love offers no protection.
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I Hate Driving a Truck in Winter, but Not Just Because of the Weather: Something Hunting in the Dark Feb 04, 2026

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A truck crashes off a fogbound Pennsylvania highway, leaving its injured driver below the road and out of sight. Something huge approaches through the trees. I Hate Driving a Truck in Winter, but Not Just Because of the Weather by Michael Kelso turns a driving accident into creature survival horror. Trapped behind shattered glass, the driver must find a way out before the thing in the fog gets in. A Weekly Spooky tale of winter isolation and roadside terror. Author books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... More stories: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho...
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This Week in Horror History | Rings, The Prodigy, The Messengers + In the Mouth of Madness (Feb 2–8) Feb 03, 2026

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Rings carries a videotape curse into online media, and The Prodigy turns a child's behavior into a possession nightmare. This Week in Horror History explores February 2–8 through The Messengers, The Strangers: Chapter 3, and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Haunted farmland and home invasion lead into cosmic horror where fiction reshapes reality. Birthdays celebrate George A. Romero, Alice Cooper, and Josh Stewart. Valentine supplies the slasher recommendation, with Heart Eyes as a companion pick. Find a film that makes the screen, the family home, or the next face feel unsafe.
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Terrifying & True | The Vanishing Village of Angikuni Lake: Arctic Mystery and UFO Folklore Feb 02, 2026

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An empty Inuit camp, unfinished sewing, and rumors of lights over the tundra form the legend of Angikuni Lake. Terrifying & True tells the vanishing-village story, then examines how newspaper accounts and later retellings turned it into an Arctic mystery and UFO tale. Abandoned supplies, silent dogs, and a disturbed grave belong to the folklore examined, not an established mass disappearance. The episode follows the gap between an image and a reliable record, while respecting the northern communities in the setting. Why has the story grown more certain as its evidence grows thinner?
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Unknown Broadcast | Four Classic OTR Thrillers of Poison, Trains, and Hidden Greed Feb 01, 2026

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A trail of jewelry feeds suspicion inside a marriage, while a doctor's bottle conceals a deadly threat. Unknown Broadcast gathers Leave Well Enough Alone, The Diary of Doctor Pritchard, The Four-Fifteen Express, and Glass Dime. Four vintage radio thrillers follow jealousy, poison, missing money, and the hunt for a rare coin. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense turn possessions into reasons to deceive. From a household to a train, the stories trace how wanting more can narrow a person's choices. A reward may draw witnesses out, but it can also give them reasons to lie.
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BANNED! Snowed-In Horror Convention Slasher: The Complete Winter Miniseries Jan 31, 2026

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A blizzard strands a horror convention at High Point Ski Lodge, and someone has come for revenge instead of autographs. BANNED! by Rob Fields collects all four parts of the winter slasher miniseries in nearly three hours. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, headliner Vickie Valentine and the convention staff face mounting suspicion as the Horror Snow-In becomes a killing ground. This is one story of fandom, humiliation, and payback, with the full confrontation included. Start at the first warning and follow the mystery through a lodge where checking out means risking the blizzard.
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Best of 2025: 4 Scary Tales of Backwoods Survival, Killer Creatures, and a Summoned Hellhound Jan 30, 2026

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A hidden waterfall attracts an unwanted visitor, and a rare-flower search leads deep into danger. This Best of 2025 Weekly Spooky collection gathers Fortune Falls and Stay Hungry by David O'Hanlon, A Plant Called Death by Bruce Haney, and The Hellhowler by Joe Solmo. Over three and a half hours of horror fiction move from remote campsites and Pacific Northwest trails to Colombia's cocaine hippos and investigator James Becker's hunt for a supernatural threat. Four stories turn curiosity, ambition, and a client's warning into survival tests. The way home may be harder to find after dark.
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