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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:

The Blizzard of '58 - Trapped in a Snowstorm… with a Monster Feb 19, 2025

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Margaret hopes to meet television horror host Lenore 'Miss Ghoul' Ghoulcraft at a department store. A worsening snowstorm cancels the appearance, closes the building, and leaves Margaret and her brother David trapped inside. The Blizzard of '58 by Bruce Haney turns a fan's outing into a 1950s winter nightmare. As the lights fade and the exits refuse to open, the siblings discover that the weather may be the least of their problems. A familiar screen personality takes on a different meaning in the dark. What would you do if meeting your idol meant spending the night unable to escape her?
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Do You Even Movie? | Blue Ruin (2013) The Brutality of Revenge Feb 18, 2025

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An ill-prepared drifter seeks revenge and puts his estranged family in danger. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Blue Ruin (2013), Jeremy Saulnier's stripped-down thriller starring Macon Blair. They examine the performance, the film's blunt approach to violence, and where it fits in Saulnier's work. The conversation also includes Heart Eyes, Love Hurts, and overlooked revenge movies. Full spoilers for a story that makes vengeance look painful, clumsy, and frighteningly difficult to contain. Revisit the cost of retaliation with Do You Even Movie?: http://doyouevenmovie.com/
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Terrifying & True | Charlie Brandt — The Killer Hidden in Plain Sight Feb 17, 2025

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Charlie Brandt seemed to have left his violent past behind—until a 2004 double murder exposed a family secret. After fleeing Hurricane Ivan, Brandt and his wife Teri stayed with niece Michelle Jones in Orlando. What investigators found there led them back to the 1971 killing of his pregnant mother in Indiana and toward unsolved Florida murders. Terrifying & True follows the hidden history, the victims and the questions surrounding Brandt’s suspected crimes, distinguishing established events from unproven connections. Narrated by Henrique Couto.
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Unknown Broadcast | "Run Faster" — A Fogbound Aviation Thriller from Suspense Feb 16, 2025

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An airliner is running out of fuel in thick fog, and an escaped strangler may be heading for Dave’s wife. The former military pilot has been craving excitement at his quiet emergency airfield. Now he cannot leave his post, and the phone line to his home is dead. Unknown Broadcast presents “Run Faster,” a vintage Suspense radio drama by Lois Landauer. This aviation thriller traps Dave between guiding passengers to safety and reaching Chris before a killer does. With visibility disappearing and help too far away, every minute at the microphone could cost him someone he loves.
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5 Valentine’s Day Horror Stories — Love, Murder and Monstrous Obsession Feb 14, 2025

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Valentine’s Day turns deadly in five horror stories of obsessive love, supernatural revenge and romance with monsters. A sinister seaside gift and a horror convention gone wrong bookend this Weekly Spooky collection, narrated by Henrique Couto.
Includes “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay” by Jeff Carpenter; “Deb, Debbie, Deborah” and “Be Mine” by Shane Migliavacca; “Lovers’ Lane” by Morgan Moore; and “Slasher II: Valentine’s Day” by Rob Fields. From haunted heartbreak to slasher mayhem, these tales make a long night in with someone special feel a little less safe.
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Slasher: Valentine Scorn — The Scream Queen’s Bloody Wedding-Anniversary Revenge Feb 12, 2025

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A Valentine’s Day marriage becomes a slasher nightmare when a murdered bride returns to claim her anniversary. Horror fan Marylee Johnston thought Frost Mirren was her perfect match. Betrayed and left in a river in the Backwoods of Strickfield, she rises again with revenge in mind—and a familiar Scream Queen costume waiting for her. Rob Fields’s “Slasher: Valentine Scorn” brings supernatural vengeance, horror fandom and a bloodstained love triangle together in a feature-length story. Can the people who destroyed Marylee escape the horror movie they created?
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Terrifying & True | The Murder of Lynnette Craft — Abuse, Betrayal, and a Dismemberment Cover-Up Feb 10, 2025

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Lynnette Craft’s disappearance in Swanton, Ohio, became a murder investigation after her remains were discovered in Michigan in 1999. Suspicion fell on her husband, Thomas Craft, and the case took a troubling path through the courts. Terrifying & True examines Lynnette’s life, the investigation, the plea that resolved the prosecution and her family’s continuing fight to keep her story from being forgotten. This true-crime episode follows the gap between a family’s search for answers and the outcome of a criminal case. Narrated by Henrique Couto.
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Unknown Broadcast | Death Pays the Freight — Freight-Train Doppelgänger Thriller Feb 09, 2025

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A freight train offers Joe Harris a way west—and a chance to become someone else. In “Death Pays the Freight,” a deadly encounter inside a boxcar leaves him facing a stranger who looks uncannily like him. Taking the other man’s identity seems like an escape, but the life attached to that name carries dangers Joe cannot see. Unknown Broadcast presents a vintage radio thriller built around a stolen identity, a desperate decision and the consequences waiting at the next stop. For listeners drawn to railroad suspense, crime stories and old-time radio noir.
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Love Gone Wrong | 7 Terrifying Tales of Romance & Horror Feb 07, 2025

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Love becomes obsession, temptation and supernatural terror in seven Weekly Spooky stories. A date, a wedding and a party in the woods each promise intimacy—and deliver danger. Narrated by Henrique Couto.
Includes “Love Conquers All” and “Party in the Woods” by Joe Solmo; “Suspended,” “Till Death Do Us Part” and “First Date” by Rob Fields; “Echoes” by Shane Migliavacca; and “Roxie” by Charles Campbell. This Valentine’s horror collection brings together haunted romance, violent jealousy and lovers whose secrets make getting close the worst possible choice.
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I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snowstorm — A Trucker’s Blizzard Nightmare Feb 05, 2025

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A trucker expects bad roads when a snowstorm closes in. He doesn’t expect something with antlers to stalk him through the blizzard. A roadside stop becomes a fight to survive as smashed windows, freezing wind and a predator outside leave his truck feeling less like shelter than a trap. Michael Kelso’s “I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snowstorm” is a winter creature-feature horror story about isolation on the road and the danger hidden by falling snow.
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