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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:

Otis Slays Christmas: Killer Santa Slasher at Kmart Dec 24, 2025

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Otis Kilgore believes a Kmart cashier's routine greetings are secret love messages. In Etawah, Oklahoma, in 1996, a change to his shopping ritual sends that obsession toward a Christmas rampage. Otis Slays Christmas by David O'Hanlon turns last-minute retail stress into a Weekly Spooky killer-Santa slasher. Cashier Diane wants the attention to stop, while a blizzard and a store closing for the holiday narrow everyone's options. Dark humor and brutal violence collide beneath the Blue Light Specials. For Otis, customer service has become a promise nobody made—and he expects it kept.
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This Week in Horror History | The Exorcist, The Faculty & Body Snatchers (Dec 22–28) Dec 23, 2025

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The Faculty makes teachers threatening, Invasion of the Body Snatchers spreads urban paranoia, and The Exorcist brings possession horror into a family home. This Week in Horror History explores December 22–28, with The Mysterians adding giant-robot spectacle and Cold War sci-fi fears. Christmas-week releases connect alien infiltration with the dread that someone familiar has changed. Explore the films' impact, then find a school-night scare in the recommendation segment. Episode sponsor: Aspire. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 20% off at https://aspiredrinks.com/disco...
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Terror at Christmas: Jack Scratch’s Hellish Holiday! Dec 23, 2025

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Jack Scratch invites you behind the scenes of Hell, where Christmas decorations hide a system of punishment. Terror at Christmas by Keith Tomlin presents The Santa Experiment, Christmas Bones, and The Furnace in one Weekly Spooky holiday anthology. An axe-bearing Santa, a doorway above a mountain of skulls, and an impossible arrival in Hell's intake line test the rules that keep torment running. Dark humor meets demonic horror as memories and unwelcome visitors disrupt the routine. Follow Jack through three stories where the staff may have as much reason to be afraid as the souls.
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Terrifying & True | Santa’s Stolen Bones: The Medieval Relic Heist of St. Nicholas Dec 22, 2025

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In 1087, sailors from Bari took the relics of St. Nicholas from his tomb in Myra. Terrifying & True follows the medieval theft behind one strand of Santa Claus history, from the grieving local community to the new shrine in Italy. The episode explores 'furta sacra,' rival claims from Venice, anatomical studies, and the liquid known as the saint's manna. Religious belief, political power, and disputed ownership shape a story removed from modern Christmas cards. What did taking a saint's bones mean to the people who lost them—and to the city that built its identity around their arrival?
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Unknown Broadcast | Christmas Horror Stories of Gifts, Ghosts & Snowbound Suspense Dec 21, 2025

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Gifts, confessions, and wintry danger fill eight vintage radio tales in this Unknown Broadcast Christmas collection. Hear The Gift, Christmas Story, Delayed Christmas Present, A Present for Benny, A Present for Ricky, The Abominable Snowman, Cold Canvas, and The Open End Wrench. Nearly four hours of old-time radio suspense mix holiday mystery, a brush with a Yeti, and crime stories in which an object can become a clue. The selection moves beyond the tree lights into the unease around giving, waiting, and trust. Unwrap a long night of classic audio drama with an edge beneath the paper.
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Christmas Horror Stories: 3 Scary Holiday Novellas Dec 20, 2025

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An overnight mall visit, a mysterious horror disc, and an orphanage's Christmas event become three routes into danger. Weekly Spooky gathers The Mall Overnight, Doorway to Horror, and Home Sweet Horror by Rob Fields in a holiday novella triple feature. Over four hours of Christmas horror follow seasonal activities into places where the rules feel unsafe. A sleepover crosses into an unsettling world, while a return to a hunting ground raises fears about what remains contained. Listen to all three complete stories for haunted spaces, supernatural threats, and festivities gone wrong.
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Scary Christmas Stories: 7 Christmas Horror Tales to Ruin the Holidays Dec 20, 2025

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Christmas cards, gifts, and homecomings turn dangerous in seven stories. Hear All I Want For Christmas - Is my Mother to Stop Haunting Me! by Bruce Haney; A Chain Letter Christmas, Christmas Eve Babysitters, and Christmas at Murder Mansion by Rob Fields; Secret Santa by Charles Campbell; Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo by Joe Solmo; and A Sinister Santa Spectacle: Twisted Christmas Horrors by Keith Tomlin. Nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky holiday fiction bring ghosts, curses, obsession, and Jack Scratch's sinister show into the season. Even tradition can deliver an unwelcome guest.
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The Naughty Claus: Killer Santa Christmas Horror Story Dec 19, 2025

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Allison needs a last-minute gift on Christmas Eve. The store she finds open also brings her into the path of a filthy Santa with a stolen Naughty List. The Naughty Claus by Bruce Haney, based on a concept by Henrique Couto, turns holiday shopping into a Weekly Spooky killer-Santa nightmare. An uneasy alliance with a stranger offers a chance to survive as a familiar costume becomes a disguise for punishment. Dark humor and violent Christmas horror meet a woman trying to make it through a difficult night. The list is old, but the danger arriving with it has found someone to threaten.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Dead End (2003) Christmas Road Trip to Hell! Dec 19, 2025

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Dead End (2003) traps a family on a Christmas Eve shortcut where the road seems endless and a woman in white keeps appearing. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore the film on Cutting Deep into Horror, discussing family resentment, the black hearse, and how one stretch of highway sustains a nightmare. Full spoilers include the twist ending and its effect on the dark comedy. Comparisons with Black Christmas and Krampus place this cult film among holiday horrors. How does a drive to see relatives become a journey nobody understands? Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/4511...
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An Angel of Death Christmas: A Scary Holiday Horror Showdown Dec 18, 2025

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A chemical crash burns green on a snowy Ohio highway, and its consequences return the following Christmas. An Angel of Death Christmas by Rob Fields follows detective Chantel Devereux and Raigen, the secretive killer known as the Angel of Death, into a hunt for a mutated threat. Raigen and Chester face killings that draw closer to home, while missing bodies and injuries complicate the investigation. This Weekly Spooky novella mixes creature horror, a dangerous protagonist, and holiday tension in the Strickfield universe. The season's streets become a battleground for people with secrets.
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