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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:

Terrifying & True | Richard Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento Murders Oct 13, 2025

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Richard Trenton Chase became known as the Vampire of Sacramento after six murders in 1977–1978. How did police find him? Terrifying & True traces the investigation, the FBI profile, and evidence found in his apartment. This Weekly Spooky true-crime documentary follows the case from early warning signs and blood-related delusions to the courtroom battle over sanity and responsibility. Follow the witnesses and physical clues behind the arrest, the insanity defense, and six murder convictions. More cases: https://www.weeklyspooky.com/c...
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Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Scary Horror Stories for the Spooky Season Oct 12, 2025

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An elderly farmer's gift for healing unsettles his doctor son-in-law, while a plan to fake a haunting turns inheritance into a dangerous motive. Unknown Broadcast gathers A Very Old Man, A Terrible Night, House of Murder, The Ghost Maker, Snake Doctor, and The Blood Red Ink. Six old-time radio dramas fill over three hours with family conflict, deception, murder, and the supernatural. Listen for people whose explanations reveal as much as their secrets, as familiar homes become places of suspicion. Classic audio suspense lets a voice, a pause, or a question do the frightening work.
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One Fateful Halloween — Cursed Pumpkin Ring and Nightmare-Realm Horror Oct 11, 2025

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Sheila wants a Halloween night free from babysitting. A glowing pumpkin ring in Eisley Tinker's shop looks like something she can take for herself—until the theft takes her somewhere else. One Fateful Halloween by Rob Fields sends a Strickfield teenager into a world of living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes cursed jewelry, portal horror, and rebellion with consequences she never imagined. The ring offers more than a way out of an evening she resents. As the strange world closes around her, getting home may mean confronting what she has become.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Wes Craven’s Slasher Masterpiece with Freddy Krueger Oct 10, 2025

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What happens when staying awake becomes your only defense? Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) on Cutting Deep into Horror. Wes Craven's Freddy Krueger brings parental secrets into teenagers' dreams, blurring suburban safety and surreal violence. Full spoilers explore adolescent fear, the dream sequences, the hosts' first viewings, and Freddy's later shift toward dark comedy. Return to the slasher debut that made sleep itself feel dangerous. Film page: https://www.amazon.com/Nightma...
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Feed Drop: Urban Legends — The Satanic Panic (True Crime History) Oct 09, 2025

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How did frightening rumors become investigations, prosecutions, and ruined lives? This Urban Legends feed drop examines the Satanic Panic through sensational media, suggestive interviews, recovered-memory claims, and courtroom battles. Luke Mordue explores how allegations of organized ritual abuse gained authority through repetition, and how similar patterns recur in conspiracy movements. Hear a history of moral panic that asks what happens when certainty outruns evidence. More from the originating show: http://www.lukemordue.com/podc... | Corrections: luke@lukemordue.com
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Halloween Blood Hunt — Elizabeth Báthory Blood Countess Horror Oct 09, 2025

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Elizabeth Báthory has spent centuries hiding in plain sight, renewing her youth with blood. Now Halloween week in Strickfield puts her on a collision course with a young vampire hunter and a princess of Hell. Halloween Blood Hunt by Rob Fields turns the Blood Countess legend into supernatural fiction, with modern technology and old appetites sharing the hunt. This Weekly Spooky tale follows a predator who discovers that her latest target knows how to fight back. Gothic bloodlust meets Halloween action as a quiet Ohio town shelters monsters—and people prepared to confront them.
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Modern Tastes — Cannibal Killer, Missing Husband and Halloween Survival Horror Oct 08, 2025

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Cora's husband disappears during an evening run, and the police's explanation leaves her with questions she cannot ignore. Modern Tastes by David O'Hanlon follows her search with Troy, a gym enthusiast pulled into the case, into a cannibal killer's chosen menu. Muscle tone and marbling become grotesque clues in this Weekly Spooky horror novella, where fitness culture meets a predator's culinary obsession. As Halloween approaches, Cora must learn who is hunting runners before she joins them. Dark humor sharpens a missing-person mystery that grows into a brutal struggle to survive.
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9 Scary Halloween Stories — Headless Riders & Haunted Towns Oct 07, 2025

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A punk band's Halloween stop and a headless rider begin nine Weekly Spooky scares. Mischief Night: The Halloween Invasion and The Night Stocker by Shane Migliavacca; Dullahan by Morgan Moore; Origin of the Pumpkin Man by Charles Campbell; The Grinner by Henrique Couto; Ghost in the Graveyard by Rob Fields; Tricks and Treats by Keith Tomlin; Strife of the Party by David O'Hanlon; and Burn on the Bayou by L. F. Falconer. Over four hours of horror fiction visit haunted towns, cursed celebrations, and workplaces where a costume offers little protection. Take the long way through Halloween.
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Terrifying & True | The Funhouse Mummy: Elmer McCurdy's Horrifying Tale This Halloween Oct 06, 2025

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A funhouse dummy breaks, revealing human bone. How did an Oklahoma outlaw end up on a Long Beach dark ride? Terrifying & True follows Elmer McCurdy, the Funhouse Mummy, from his death in 1911 through decades as a traveling sideshow attraction to his identification after a 1976 film-crew discovery at The Pike. Forensic clues and a carnival paper trail restore a name to the body, finally buried in Guthrie in 1977. This Weekly Spooky documentary examines the unsettling business of displaying the dead. More cases: https://www.weeklyspooky.com/c...
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Unknown Broadcast | Gavel, Greed & the Web: Six Horror Stories of Knives, Goblets, and Guilt Oct 05, 2025

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A salesman accused of crimes he didn't commit faces a lie detector, while pearl hunters let greed steer their voyage. Unknown Broadcast presents Guilty as Charged by G. Frederick Lewis; Seeds of Greed by Freud A. Nelson; Spider; Death's Goblet by Sigmund Miller; Two Sharp Knives by Dashiell Hammett; and Dark Patterns. These six old-time radio dramas span CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out, Murder at Midnight, Suspense, and The Whistler. Over three hours of crime and supernatural suspense explore how evidence, temptation, and fear can turn an ordinary decision into a trap.
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