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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:

Abandonment Issues — The Changeling’s Bargain and Irish Fae Horror Sep 03, 2025

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Raised human but born fae, a father-to-be enters the wet woods beneath Knocknarea to bargain for his unborn child. Abandonment Issues by Douglas Waltz brings Irish changeling folklore into a modern confrontation near Sligo, where the Fair Folk claim a bloodline he wants to protect. Cold iron, a captured sprite, and a prophecy from a carnival mirror are all he has against an ancient court. This Weekly Spooky fantasy-horror tale makes family and identity the stakes of a dangerous negotiation. What can a man offer beings who believe the child was already theirs before the bargain began?
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Terrifying & True | Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago Nurse Massacre Sep 01, 2025

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Eight nurses were murdered in a Chicago townhouse in July 1966. Corazon Amurao survived beneath a bed and later identified Richard Speck. Terrifying & True follows the victims, the manhunt, the fingerprint evidence, and the testimony that brought the case to court. This Weekly Spooky true-crime documentary also examines Speck's earlier violence, the changes to his sentence, and the prison video that renewed public attention. Beyond the notorious tattoo and headlines is a story of women whose lives were taken, one survivor's account, and the lasting impact of a night that shook a city.
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Unknown Broadcast | Terror in Caves and Castles: Five Horror Stories of Murder and Madness Aug 31, 2025

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A landslide traps four explorers in a cave said to hide a monster. The Thing in the Cave opens this Unknown Broadcast collection, followed by The Brute, Wave of Terror, Murder Castle, and The Phantom Picture. Five old-time radio dramas bring over three hours of claustrophobic suspense, crime, and Gothic mystery. In The Weird Circle's The Phantom Picture, an artist's work becomes entangled with murder and a disturbing canvas. From a sealed cavern to a picture with a sinister history, these stories turn the places people enter for shelter or beauty into reasons to fear what lies inside.
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Back to School Nightmares: 8 Horror Stories of Classrooms, College, and Carnage Aug 29, 2025

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Classrooms and campuses become unsafe in eight Weekly Spooky stories: The Chain of Time by Killian Crane; Suspended, The Message, Slasher, and The Bad School Girl by Rob Fields; A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay by Jeff Carpenter; Heart of Fire, Heart of Stone by Joe Solmo; and Be Mine by Shane Migliavacca. This back-to-school horror collection mixes strange artifacts, punishment, romantic obsession, and a masked killer across more than three and a half hours. From Strickfield High to college life, rites of passage acquire consequences. Enter the halls where fitting in can cost too much.
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Academia Demonia — A Demon Outbreak on the First Day of High School Aug 27, 2025

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A betrayed Chicago hitman dies asking for revenge in 1925. A century later, the debt reaches a high school on its first day back. Academia Demonia by David O'Hanlon follows Chelsea Rizzoli and Ethan Crow as a demonic outbreak turns hallways into hostile ground. Shadows move on their own, students cling to ceilings, and an old Winchester connects modern terror to a mob killing. This Weekly Spooky story combines possession horror with a crime's long aftermath. Before school ends, surviving means confronting a danger that has been waiting far longer than anyone in class has been alive.
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Monthly Spooky | Yuba County Five Mystery, Creepy Closet Note, and Venomous Sea Slugs Aug 25, 2025

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The Yuba County Five vanished after a basketball game in Northern California in 1978. Four friends were later found dead; Gary Mathias remains missing. August 2025's Monthly Spooky examines their mountain detour and the clues behind this unsolved disappearance. The conversation also covers Erin Patterson's Australian mushroom-poisoning case, venomous sea slugs, a bat scare, a haunted-painting rumor, a creepy closet note, and a UFO festival. This Weekly Spooky edition pairs a cold-case mystery with strange news, asking what sent five men away from the road home and into the mountains.
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Unknown Broadcast | Inside the Mind of Killers: Five Horror Stories of Murder and Madness Aug 24, 2025

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A London holiday draws a woman into a mystery; an abandoned tin mine traps a deserter in a smuggling scheme. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Killer Inside, Strange for a Killer, Killer Come Home, The Killer Mine, and Killer at Large. Five old-time radio dramas offer over two and a half hours of crime, blackmail, and suspense. The Killer Mine, adapted from Hammond Innes for Escape, sends a miner beneath the Cornish coast, where opening a tunnel to the sea could turn a job into a death trap. How far will these characters go for someone they think they can trust?
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Introducing: They're Not Shadows - Terrifying True Ghost Stories You’ve Never Heard Aug 23, 2025

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Ghost stories, shadow people, and unexplained encounters come to Weekly Spooky in this introduction to They're Not Shadows. Host Chris Griffiths tells allegedly true paranormal experiences in a campfire style, using smooth narration and subtle sound design to build the atmosphere. A strange presence in a room or a shape where nobody should stand can turn a familiar place into something frightening. This feed drop samples a show devoted to eerie accounts and sustained storytelling, with no conversational detours. Find more episodes and subscribe: https://pod.link/1574448401
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Manuscript Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe: Shipwreck & Supernatural Sea Horror Aug 22, 2025

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A shipwreck survivor finds refuge aboard a ghost ship whose old crew seem unable to see him. Edgar Allan Poe's MS. Found in a Bottle sends its narrator south through violent seas toward an unmapped destination. Obsolete instruments, strange charts, and decaying timbers make rescue feel as dangerous as the storm he escaped. This Weekly Spooky reading of Poe's 1833 story brings Gothic sea horror, isolation, and a voyage beyond human understanding into focus. As the black vessel sails farther from the known world, recording what happens may be the narrator's only chance to leave a trace.
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The Hellhowler – Paranormal Detective vs. a Demon Dog Aug 20, 2025

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Scorched pawprints and nighttime howls bring Marlene Krause to paranormal investigator James Becker. Something is hunting her family in Heaven's Hills, and a security system won't keep it out. The Hellhowler by Joe Solmo follows Becker from a protection charm and a curio shop toward a demon dog with a deadline. This Weekly Spooky occult mystery combines a hard-drinking detective's dark humor with hellhound attacks and human betrayal. Finding the creature is only part of the case: Becker must discover who set it loose before its three-night hunt reaches the Krause home for the last time.
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