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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:

Ghosts Beyond the Veil: Seven Horror Stories for Día de los Muertos Nov 01, 2025

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Ghosts and unfinished lives fill seven Weekly Spooky stories for Día de los Muertos. Shane Migliavacca brings Echoes and Father's Day; A. N. Onimus, Ghost Story; Rob Fields, First Date; L. F. Falconer, Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee's; Dennis Freeman, Suffer the Little Children; and Charles Campbell, The Spirit of Langley Pond. Nearly three hours of ghost fiction move from a romance and a séance to haunted estates, restless children, and a dangerous lakeside legend. Love, curiosity, and grief draw the living closer. Listen before deciding which spirits deserve your trust.
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A Warm Place — Halloween Supermarket Slasher and Possession Horror Oct 31, 2025

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A masked stranger watches Nancy on her walk to work, and an old woman's warning follows her into the supermarket. A Warm Place by Shane Migliavacca turns a Halloween night shift into slasher and possession horror. The nearly empty aisles offer too many hiding places and too few people to help as Nancy tries to understand what is stalking her. This Weekly Spooky anniversary story combines fluorescent-lit retail dread with a presence that wants somewhere warm. Ordinary work feels safer than the street—until the warnings begin to make sense. Clock in for a night that refuses to end quietly.
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Halloween Night at Grimm Manor — Haunted-House Scavenger Hunt Horror Oct 30, 2025

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A Halloween dare sends Daisy May, Carnelian, and their friends into Grimm Manor, where escaping means completing the house's challenges before midnight. Halloween Night at Grimm Manor by Rob Fields turns a Strickfield rivalry into a haunted-house scavenger hunt. Keys, puzzles, and watchful spirits test children who thought bravery meant refusing to back down. This Weekly Spooky ghost novella makes the house's rules part of the danger. No foul language. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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Asylum of the Dirt Babies — Halloween Possession and Killer-Craft Revenge Oct 29, 2025

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Thomas wants to fit in, but a bully's initiation sends him after dirt from a killer's grave. Asylum of the Dirt Babies by Bruce Haney returns to Locust Grove, where a harmless-looking craft can give violence a new body. School outsiders, goth teens, and a grieving babysitter face a Halloween reckoning tied to the abandoned asylum and last year's deaths. This Weekly Spooky novella mixes supernatural revenge, possession, and tiny creatures with murderous intentions. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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Tricks and Treats 2025 — Three Halloween Horror Stories by Keith Tomlin Oct 28, 2025

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A child's trick-or-treat stop, a dogfighter's cruelty, and a hidden room give Jack Scratch three reasons to enjoy Halloween. Tricks and Treats 2025 by Keith Tomlin gathers Rebirth, Big Bill, and The Room, with Jack and his infernal hound Daisy guiding the night. Occult ritual, animal revenge, and thieves drawn to dangerous treasures bring dark humor to this Weekly Spooky anthology. Three stories turn the promise of a treat into something far harder to escape. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...
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Monthly Spooky | Halloween Urban Legends: Poisoned Candy, Haunted Houses & Spooky Stories Oct 27, 2025

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Why does the poisoned Halloween candy story persist? Henrique and Michelle explore the panic, its origins, and the gap between documented incidents and stranger-danger folklore in this October 2025 Monthly Spooky. A grocery-store ghost, haunted real estate, and the Hair Museum's farewell add eerie places and objects to the conversation. The horror-movie roundup includes Good Boy, while the hosts mark their fortieth installment. Settle in for Halloween legends, strange news, and attraction culture, where ordinary errands and seasonal traditions acquire stories that are hard to shake.
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Unknown Broadcast | Devil’s Gold, The Walking Dead & Six More Classic Radio Hauntings Oct 26, 2025

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A sailor receives a gold coin he cannot seem to lose, and an impossible phone call reaches a man from his past. Unknown Broadcast gathers Devil's Gold, The Devil's Workshop, The Walking Dead, Night Melody, The Witness of Death, The Dead Sleep Lightly, Roses Are for the Dead, and This Side of Nowhere. Eight old-time radio dramas fill over four and a half hours with guilt, greed, murder, and supernatural unease. A reward becomes a burden and familiar voices offer little comfort. Listen for eerie mysteries whose clues make the world feel less certain with every turn of the dial.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Greatest Horror Stories — A Halloween Compilation of Spooky Classics Oct 25, 2025

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A raven at midnight, a decaying mansion, and a prisoner's ordeal await in over seven hours of Edgar Allan Poe. This Halloween collection of Gothic stories and poetry includes The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Annabel Lee, Berenice, and Hop-Frog. Hear obsession, revenge, grief, and strange discoveries unfold in Poe's original words, performed by Henrique Couto for Weekly Spooky. Settle in for classic horror and mystery, with chapters to help you choose your next tale from the dark.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | The Blair Witch Project (1999): Found-Footage Folklore and Fear Oct 24, 2025

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Three filmmakers enter the Burkittsville woods, and a found-footage nightmare begins. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine The Blair Witch Project (1999), directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, on Cutting Deep into Horror. Full spoilers explore improvisation, group conflict, Rustin Parr's fictional lore, and the final image. They trace how footage, sound, and marketing helped make an unseen threat persuasive. How much terror can a camera create by failing to show it? Film page: https://www.amazon.com/Blair-W...
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Vampire Night, The Final Yes & Blood and Snow — Three Horror Novellas Oct 23, 2025

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Cleveland nightlife turns predatory, a vampire's consent rule meets a hive, and an heiress runs from assassins into a blizzard. Weekly Spooky gathers Vampire Night by Joe Ruston, The Final Yes by Charles Campbell, and Blood and Snow by Rob Fields. Over five hours of horror fiction give each novella its own threat, from neon-lit vampire mayhem to corruption in small-town South Carolina and supernatural revenge in Strickfield. These three complete stories explore appetite, power, and the cost of surviving. Enter for vampires and winter terror, with every bargain carrying a different price.
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