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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:

Full Moon Fears: Terrifying Tales of Werewolves and Shape-Shifters Aug 01, 2025

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A werewolf attacks a campsite, a scarred newcomer becomes a suspect, and a suburban house fills with watchful squirrels. Full Moon Fears gathers Wolf Moon by Joe Solmo; Eh, Real Monsters from NEPA by Michelle Antisocial; The Wolf of Fagan County by David O'Hanlon; Bringing Out the Wolf in Me by Rob Fields; and Squirrels (Murder in Small Packages) by Douglas Waltz. Five Weekly Spooky stories mix transformation horror, small-town suspicion, and creatures near home. From rural Pennsylvania to Strickfield, the danger takes more than one shape—and the monster may not be the right suspect.
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Deadly Second Chances Part 5 – Vampire Cheerleader vs. the End of the Multiverse Jul 30, 2025

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Bella Taibon has traveled back to save her family, carrying a vampire's powers and memories of the future. In Deadly Second Chances Part 5 by Rob Fields, the cheerleader faces Cassie's betrayal, Thornton Jillian, and the bargain she made with Hellweaver. The finale of this five-part Weekly Spooky serial brings the Taibon bloodline's past into conflict with a threat reaching across the multiverse. Vampire combat and intrigue test whether rewriting history can repair a loss without creating another. Start with Part 1 for Bella's full journey, then hear what her second chance will cost.
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Bella Taibon: Vampire Outlaw, Witch Killer, Soul Saver Jul 29, 2025

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Bella Taibon can walk in daylight, wield family magic, and face enemies most vampires would fear. Meet her in four Strickfield stories by Rob Fields: The Last Taibon, Bella's Holiday, Homecoming, and Mortal Eclipse. From her family's violent past to her bond with Einstein, this collection follows an unusual Master Vampire through grief, witchcraft, and dangerous loyalties. Over two hours of supernatural action introduce the heroine whose history matters in Deadly Second Chances Part 5. Get to know Bella before Hellweaver offers her the chance to change that history.
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Monthly Spooky | Spontaneous Combustion, Haunted Funeral Homes, and Killer Squirrels Jul 28, 2025

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Can a person burst into flames without an outside spark? Henrique and Michelle tackle spontaneous human combustion in the July 2025 Monthly Spooky, comparing the unsettling stories with possible explanations. Then come New York City bee swarms, Minot's ground squirrel problem, and Henrique's funeral home encounters, including phantom knocks and a personal ghost story. Ball lightning, bad grades, and horror movie recommendations round out a conversation that shifts from strange news to paranormal lore. Settle in for two hours of mysteries, mortuary tales, and the hosts' humor.
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Unknown Broadcast | Darkness Awaits: 6 Terrifying Tales of Fate, Fear, and the Supernatural Jul 27, 2025

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An ex-prisoner sees the man he was convicted of killing, while a young woman's claustrophobia becomes central to a robbery investigation. Darkness Awaits collects six vintage radio dramas: Tomorrow Is Never, Deep into Darkness, Devil's Due, The Sleeping Death, In the Dark, and The Dark Closet. Unknown Broadcast brings together crime, psychological suspense, and eerie uncertainty in a listen lasting over three hours. From a traveler's promise to a doctor's threatening treatment, the danger takes very different forms. Which fears come from the unknown, and which begin with other people?
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Slashback: Prom Night of the Dead - Blood, Blackmail, and a Vengeful Ghost Queen Jul 25, 2025

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A Strickfield High prom ends in violence. Two months later, summer school brings ghost sightings, disappearances, and a dead prom queen who still has unfinished business. Prom Night of the Dead by Rob Fields follows Roni Brunswick into a tangle of blackmail, jealousy, and supernatural revenge. This Slashback presentation gathers the complete four-part saga into one listen, with a school dance's bloody aftermath driving the terror far beyond prom night. For listeners drawn to high school horror and vengeful ghosts, the question is who will survive when those old grudges return.
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Deadly Second Chances Part 4 — Loralee Hardy Rewrites the Prom Queen Killer Jul 23, 2025

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Loralee Hardy knows how her life became the legend of Strickfield's Prom Queen Killer. Now Hellweaver offers her a return to the choices that shaped it. In Deadly Second Chances Part 4 by Rob Fields, Loralee faces her brother Aiden's abuse, her love for Melisande LaPalla, and the temptation to answer betrayal with violence. Her history connects the Prom Queen Killer and Homecoming Queen Killer sagas to a supernatural wager over damaged souls. Can knowing the consequences help her break the pattern? Continue the five-part serial as another second chance puts Hellweaver's plan to the test.
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The Bloody Rise of Loralee Hardy: Prom Queen, Killer, Legend Jul 22, 2025

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Before Loralee Hardy receives a second chance, hear the story that made her Strickfield's Prom Queen Killer. This collection presents Rob Fields' complete Prom Queen Killer miniseries, tracing a life marked by family abuse, jealousy, trauma, and revenge. Death offers no simple escape in a town where black magic can bring buried grudges back to life. The saga supplies Loralee's backstory for Deadly Second Chances Part 4, with more than two hours of high school horror and supernatural consequences. What happens when the desire to be loved becomes inseparable from the urge to punish?
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Terrifying & True | Mandela Effect Explained — False Memories or Alternate Realities? Jul 21, 2025

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You remember the Berenstain Bears differently. You can picture the Monopoly Man's monocle. Why can a memory feel certain when the record disagrees? Terrifying & True explores the Mandela Effect, from Nelson Mandela's widely misremembered death to the supposed Sinbad genie movie Shazaam. The episode examines suggestion, confabulation, repeated misquotations, and the ways shared stories reshape recall. It also considers alternate-timeline and simulation theories as speculation. Compare examples and the psychology behind them, then see how much confidence you place in your own memory.
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Unknown Broadcast | 4 Gripping Horror Stories of Traps, Twists, and Murder Jul 20, 2025

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Two radio typists working late discover that a horror script can make the office feel dangerously unfamiliar. Murder in the Script Department joins Trapped, The Trap, and Escape to Danger in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. The lineup brings confinement, desperate choices, crime, and uncanny suspense into more than two hours of vintage radio drama. Arch Oboler's Lights Out tale turns the machinery of radio itself into a source of fear, with the people behind the story caught in its atmosphere. Listen as plans for safety begin to look like another way of getting cornered.
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