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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:

Best of 2024: Zombies! Ghosts! Killer Bugs! Maniacs! Jan 17, 2025

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Four Best of 2024 horror stories take you from a haunted house to an apocalyptic cruise, with a dangerous dare and a doctor’s nightmare along the way. Ghosts, killer bugs, zombies and human cruelty share the bill in this two-hour Weekly Spooky collection.
Includes “Terror on Your Radio Dial” by Bruce Haney; “Catching a Buzz” by David O’Hanlon; “The Last Vacation” by Mike Ashkewe; and “My Patient Destroyed My World” by Michael Kelso. Narrated by Henrique Couto, these complete stories turn childhood curiosity, family escape and professional trust into invitations to terror.
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Spin the Bottle Part 3: Samara’s Sister Enters the Pink Death’s Game Jan 15, 2025

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Samara Mirren wakes in Strickfield General Hospital after the Pink Death’s latest game. Her stepsister Quinn arrives determined to bring her home, but Samara refuses to abandon her new life. Quinn moves into her dorm instead, placing another person Samara loves within reach of the killer. “Spin the Bottle: Part 3” by Rob Fields continues the campus slasher mystery as Grant Wilde and Blake Karen try to repair broken trust. Family loyalty offers comfort, but the deadly party game has not finished choosing its players.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Best of 2024 | Slasher: Valentine Screams — When Movies Get DEADLY Jan 13, 2025

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Scream queen Vickie Valentine knows how to survive a horror movie. Surviving what follows her off the screen is another matter. In Rob Fields’s “Slasher: Valentine Screams,” Vickie and Bethany Mirren enter a world of horror conventions, movie fandom and a strange collectible whose appeal hides something dangerous. This Best of 2024 feature-length story returns to the Strickfield universe for a Valentine’s nightmare where screen monsters and real threats begin to overlap. Horror fans may recognize the setting—but recognizing a monster does not mean knowing how to stop it.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Evil Eye — Fatal Wishes, Wartime Fraud & Orson Welles Murder Mystery Jan 12, 2025

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A novelist’s wishes turn deadly, a fraudulent medium exploits grief, and escape from evil proves harder than expected. Unknown Broadcast gathers four vintage radio dramas: “The Evil Eye,” “The Evil of Adelaide Winters,” “Flee from Evil” and “The Rising Sun.” Hear supernatural suspense and murder mysteries from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, The Whistler and The Black Museum, with Agnes Moorehead and Orson Welles among the voices. This old-time radio collection follows dangerous desires, calculated deception and the moment an apparently safe plan begins to unravel.
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Portals — Vampire Revenge and Multidimensional Horror: Complete Miniseries Jan 10, 2025

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A portal opens onto an Earth overrun by vampires, and six friends must face versions of people they thought they knew. “Portals,” Rob Fields’s complete Strickfield miniseries, sends Arial Mirren, Madelyne Donnerly and their allies into a struggle across worlds where familiar faces can conceal very different loyalties. This feature-length collection brings all five parts together for a continuous supernatural adventure of vampire horror, friendship and survival. When another universe follows different rules, finding the way home may be only part of the battle.
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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Spin the Bottle Part 2: The Pink Death Begins a Murderous Game Jan 08, 2025

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Samara Mirren discovers her former girlfriend’s body in her dorm—but when she returns, a figure dressed as a pink Grim Reaper is taking it away. Soon Samara is strapped to a chair with other players from a party she cannot leave behind. “Spin the Bottle: Part 2” by Rob Fields turns a college game into a killer’s ritual, forcing Samara to question her memories and the people closest to her. Grant Wilde and Blake Karen may help her find answers, if the Pink Death does not reach them first. Continue the five-part Strickfield slasher mystery.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Best of 2024 | I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules Jan 06, 2025

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A former fire-tower worker takes a warehouse security job with another strange set of rules. Staying awake is only the beginning: creatures, locked rooms and an impossible stairway turn the night shift into a desperate attempt to survive until morning. Michael Kelso’s “I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules” returns as a complete two-part Best of 2024 story. This rules-horror thriller follows a guard who knows that unusual instructions can be deadly serious—and discovers how little that knowledge protects him when the building stops making sense.
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Unknown Broadcast | Life Blood — Killer Robots, Fatal Escapes & Four Stories of Stolen Lives Jan 05, 2025

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A scientist builds a robot woman, a professor seeks escape, and a desperate man is offered a bargain for his life. Unknown Broadcast brings together “Life Blood,” “Vacation from Life,” “Murder Comes to Life” and “Sell Me Your Life” in four vintage radio dramas about identity, deception and the price of a second chance. From Professor Arthur Moore’s creation Amelia to an ominous offer on a bridge, these stories make ordinary ambitions dangerous. Settle in for more than two hours of old-time radio science fiction, supernatural suspense and murder mystery.
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Homecoming Queen Killer — Complete Strickfield Slasher Miniseries Jan 03, 2025

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Melisande LaPalla’s visit to a Shore City cemetery awakens a nightmare with unfinished business. Loralee Hardy has returned, and the race for homecoming queen is about to become a succession of deadly rivalries. Rob Fields’s “Homecoming Queen Killer” brings all five parts of the miniseries together, following school politics, dangerous attraction and a resurrected killer whose plans reach toward the dance. This feature-length supernatural slasher belongs to the wider Strickfield universe, where the dead can come back with a very personal agenda.
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Spin the Bottle Part 1: Samara’s New Romance, an Obsessive Ex & the Pink Death Jan 01, 2025

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Samara Mirren wants a fresh start at Strickfield University and a romance with Grant “Wildman” Wilde. Her ex, Whit Dalton, refuses to accept that their relationship is over. A party game turns that tension into a public confrontation, setting the stage for something far worse. “Spin the Bottle: Part 1” begins Rob Fields’s five-part campus slasher miniseries with jealousy, a troubled past and a new relationship under pressure. Meet the players before the Pink Death changes the rules—and a simple spin starts deciding far more than who kisses whom.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

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