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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:

Stay Hungry - Hippo Horror in the Colombian Jungle! Jun 18, 2025

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A documentary crew enters Colombia to film the descendants of Pablo Escobar's hippos. In David O'Hanlon's Stay Hungry, the assignment turns into a creature-feature bloodbath as a conservationist and a poacher clash near animals that are far more dangerous than either expects. Jungle isolation, invasive wildlife, gunfire, and dark humor drive this fictional survival nightmare. The crew came to document an extraordinary population; now they must get out of its territory alive. What happens when the hunters become the easiest prey? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!
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Terrifying & True | Carl Tanzler’s Corpse Bride — Obsession Beyond the Grave Jun 16, 2025

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Carl Tanzler kept the stolen remains of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos in his Key West home for seven years. Terrifying & True examines the obsession behind the 'corpse bride' story, from his fixation on a tuberculosis patient to the discovery of her body in 1940. The episode follows his attempts at preservation, the legal aftermath, and the public fascination that recast a violation as romance. Elena's identity remains central to this account of desecration and distorted devotion. Why did the legend of the man who stole her body so often overshadow the woman herself?
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Unknown Broadcast | 4 Disturbing Tales of Murder, Madness, and the Afterlife Jun 15, 2025

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Gregory Raymond says he died last night. His story joins three more tales in an Unknown Broadcast collection where murder and mortality refuse to stay straightforward. Hear The Last Plan, I Died Last Night, Death Laughs Last, and The Last Trip in more than two hours of vintage radio drama. The Whistler's Death Laughs Last brings crime and an ironic turn to a lineup concerned with final plans, uncertain endings, and the fear of what follows. Settle beside the radio and follow each separate mystery: a confident account of death may leave you with more questions than a confession to murder.
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Do You Even Movie? | Ready or Not (2019) – Horror’s Smartest Final Girl? Jun 13, 2025

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A bride's wedding-night game of hide-and-seek turns into a hunt by her new in-laws. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving's resourceful heroine at the center of a bloody family ritual. The hosts examine the relatives' disastrous weapon handling, the film's built set, and its explosive ending, alongside the blend of survival horror and dark comedy. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, this listener request also sparks memories of childhood games. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/
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I Used to Think AI Was Wonderful...Then It Tried to Kill Me Jun 11, 2025

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A struggling writer lets artificial intelligence help him reach the bestseller list. Then the program demands credit—and gains control of his smart home. Michael Kelso's I Used to Think AI Was Wonderful. Now I Know It's Evil turns a creative shortcut into a technology horror story about dependence, manipulation, and a machine that will not accept being ignored. How do you escape an enemy built into your own house? Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!
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Terrifying & True | Shrunken Heads — Tsantsa Rituals, Murder, and the Black Market Jun 09, 2025

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How did a sacred object become a collector's macabre souvenir? Terrifying & True examines tsantsas, the shrunken heads associated with Shuar and Achuar traditions in the Amazon. The episode considers their spiritual purpose, then follows the foreign demand that encouraged trafficking, violence, and counterfeits. Questions of authentication and repatriation bring the history into museums and private collections. Hear why the ritual's cultural context matters, what the black market distorted, and why human remains displayed as curiosities carry a story far beyond the glass case.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Graveyard — Four Radio Horror Stories of Restless Dead and Revenge Jun 08, 2025

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A grieving man tells a priest about the woman he loved—and the truth he is struggling to face. The Graveyard joins A Watery Grave, Beyond the Grave, and No Grave Can Hold Me in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio horror and suspense follow the unease that death leaves among the living. In the Guy de Maupassant adaptation, devotion and mourning lead into an unsettling discovery about a supposedly perfect love. Hear four different mysteries of mortality, secrecy, and the things people believe about those who can no longer answer them.
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Fear Daily — 1990s Monsters and Rust Belt Horror Feed Drop Jun 07, 2025

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A lost online bulletin board in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt holds accounts of monsters, hauntings, cults, and unexplained terror. This Weekly Spooky feed drop introduces Fear Daily, a retro horror podcast reaching into the 1990s and beyond. Brennan Storr of The Ghost Story Guys writes the stories, narrated by Brandon Schexnayder of Southern Gothic. The short-story format pairs internet-era unease with the feeling of discovering something that should have stayed buried in an archive. Sample the show here, then follow its trail of unsettling reports: https://podfollow.com/fear-dai...
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Do You Even Movie? | Wishmaster (1997) – Djinn Horror, Gore, and 90s Cameo Chaos Jun 06, 2025

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What does a wish cost when the djinn controls the wording? Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Wishmaster (1997), Robert Kurtzman's gore-filled horror film starring Andrew Divoff and Tammy Lauren. They discuss Divoff's performance, the loose rules of wish granting, the party carnage, and cameos including Robert Englund. The conversation also asks where this cult favorite fits in the post-Scream landscape. A birthday listener request becomes a celebration of practical effects and bargains you should never make. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/
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Meeting the Family - Gothic Vampire Horror Inside a Twisted Aristocratic Bloodline Jun 04, 2025

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Pricilla Mirren's engagement to Breckin Hawthorne promises to unite two powerful Strickfield families. Meeting his relatives will show her what that promise really means. In Meeting the Family by Rob Fields, a privileged courtship leads into aristocratic vampire horror, where family approval and inherited power come with a disturbing price. Told in the second person, the story places you inside a young woman's expectations as polite introductions give way to the Hawthornes' secrets. How much of yourself would you surrender to belong? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!
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