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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:

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) The Birth of Modern Terror Nov 28, 2025

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) turns a road trip into a nightmare of family, meat, and rural isolation. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Tobe Hooper's film on Cutting Deep into Horror, from its punishing sound design to Sally Hardesty's ordeal. Full spoilers cover Leatherface, production hardships, and the dinner scene that gives Thanksgiving a sinister echo. Film page: https://tubitv.com/movies/4994... Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

7 Teeth: Thanksgiving Asylum Horror Story Nov 26, 2025

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Thanksgiving decorations cannot make Metropolitan Psychiatric Hospital feel safe when patients start disappearing. 7 Teeth by David O'Hanlon follows long-term patient Richard DePaul into a holiday nightmare of missing people, grisly clues, and competing versions of the truth. A Jenga game and the ward's familiar routines take on a darker meaning in this Weekly Spooky asylum horror story. Seven broken teeth point toward something the institution would rather keep hidden. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

This Week in Horror History | Misery, Scrooge & Violent Night Nov 25, 2025

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Misery (1990), Scrooge / A Christmas Carol (1951), and Violent Night (2022) make a winter horror-movie watchlist of captivity, Christmas ghosts, and a bloody Santa rescue. This Week in Horror History covers November 26–December 2 with The Descent Part 2 (2009) and Deadtime Stories (1986). Henrique Couto explores Stephen King horror, cave creatures, and twisted fairy tales, plus birthdays for Joe Dante, Peter Facinelli, and Nestor Carbonell. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Monthly Spooky | Haunted Mansions, Holiday Scares, and the Sin Eater! Nov 24, 2025

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Could a meal carry away another person's sins? Henrique and Michelle explore Sin Eater folklore in this November 2025 Monthly Spooky, with Thanksgiving leftovers, Black Friday plans, and post-dinner horror picks along the way. Reported palace hauntings, fireballs, a Roman sarcophagus, and a Midwestern grave discovery join the conversation. Holiday table talk meets unsettling history and beliefs about what the dead leave behind. Settle in for strange news and seasonal lore. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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Unknown Broadcast | Family Secrets & Fatal Footfalls: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Betrayal Nov 23, 2025

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A husband vanishes after a mysterious phone call. Unknown Broadcast gathers Family Ties, Just One Happy Little Family, Seven Steps to Murder, and Birdsong for a Murderer. Nearly two hours of old-time radio mystery bring together CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, The Whistler, and Inner Sanctum. Family secrets, quiet greed, and blackmail turn familiar homes into places of danger, while a canary's song exerts an unsettling power. Follow a missing-person investigation and people with murder on their minds, where even a polite conversation may conceal a threat.
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Thanksgiving Nightmares: 6 Thanksgiving Horror Stories of Killer Turkeys, Family & Terror Nov 21, 2025

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A family dinner, a turkey hunt, and a holiday party become threats in six Thanksgiving horror stories. Hear Thanksgiving Dinner by Rachael Redolfi, Turkey Shoot by David O'Hanlon, Fiendsgiving and Homecoming by Rob Fields, Turkey Terror by Douglas Waltz, and The Real First Thanksgiving by Bruce Haney. Over three and a half hours of Weekly Spooky fiction mix killer creatures, family conflict, supernatural revenge, and captivity. From a small-town table to Michigan's frozen Upper Peninsula, the holiday offers little shelter. Come for the feast; listen for what is waiting beyond it.
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I'm From a Small Town That No Longer Exists: Small-Town Horror & Government Cover-Up Nov 19, 2025

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Strangers stare at ordinary objects as if learning to be human. Then a neighbor vanishes. I'm From a Small Town That No Longer Exists by Michael Kelso turns childhood cornfield games into a nightmare of disappearance, control, and a government cover-up. This Weekly Spooky story follows a Midwest community being erased while a survivor tries to tell its story. Author books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... More stories: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...
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This Week in Horror History | Sleepaway Camp, Sleepy Hollow & Salem’s Lot Nov 18, 2025

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Sleepaway Camp (1983), Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Stephen King's The Mist (2007) lead This Week in Horror History for November 18–25. Henrique Couto explores summer-camp slashers, the Headless Horseman, and supermarket survival horror, plus the survival horror game Condemned: Criminal Origins and the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries. Universal's Frankenstein gets a Then & Now discussion, and Bones and All closes with cannibal romance. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...
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Terrifying & True | Thanksgiving in a Haunted Wilderness: The Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and the First Feast Nov 17, 2025

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Before the First Thanksgiving became a holiday legend, Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag communities faced disease, hunger, and an uneasy alliance. Terrifying & True revisits 1620–1630, the 1621 harvest feast, Massasoit's illness, and accounts of Hobbamock and Hockomock Swamp. Explore Pilgrim fears of a haunted wilderness, colonial interpretations of Indigenous beliefs, and the omens people used to explain catastrophe. What gets lost when a decade of conflict becomes a comforting feast? Sponsor: Savorista. Original offer: 25% off with SPOOKY at https://savorista.com/discount...
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Unknown Broadcast | Echoes at Midnight: Stories of Dreams, Corpses, and the Old Country Nov 16, 2025

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A business trip becomes time travel when Gabriel Carson reaches the village where his parents' hidden past is still unfolding. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Old Country, I Saw Myself Running, Nightmare, and The Visiting Corpse. More than two hours of old-time radio mystery and suspense explore family secrets, disturbing dreams, and fractured identity. CBS Radio Mystery Theater's The Old Country turns a journey abroad into a confrontation with inherited danger. Four vintage dramas ask how well you know your own history—and whether waking up is enough to leave a nightmare behind.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

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