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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:

New Year’s Evil — Caroline Quinn Battles a Death God at Ghoul School Dec 31, 2024

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New Year’s Eve should mean drinks and bad decisions for Caroline Quinn. Instead, the vampire hunter and federal Troubleshooter is drawn back toward Ghoul School and a threat with apocalyptic ambitions. A cult’s plans for a death god turn the countdown into a fight with far more at stake than a midnight kiss. “New Year’s Evil” by Mike Ashkewe combines supernatural action, dark humor and Caroline’s unruly approach to saving the day. Ring in a new year with a horror adventure where the government’s unusual graduate has serious unfinished business.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Monthly Spooky | Strange New Years, Mystery Money and Ghostly Doors! Dec 30, 2024

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New Year’s folklore, strange discoveries and holiday hauntings close out Monthly Spooky’s December 2024 conversation. Henrique and Michelle explore customs meant to influence the year ahead, a New York magnet-fishing cash haul and the odd stories that make the festive season feel less predictable. Expect playful detours, skeptical questions and a mix of supernatural claims and unusual news as the hosts look back on a very strange month. An archive episode for listeners who enjoy spooky conversation while the calendar turns.
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Unknown Broadcast | New Year’s Nightmare — Dystopian Futures, Atomic Monsters & Midnight Murder Dec 29, 2024

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A New Year’s identity crisis opens a vintage radio journey into unsettling futures and midnight danger. Unknown Broadcast gathers “New Year’s Nightmare,” “Strange New Tomorrow,” “Strange New World” and “Three Faces at Midnight.” A doctor encounters an authoritarian society, an island holds disturbing surprises, and a carefully arranged scheme threatens to collapse. This extended old-time radio collection moves from psychological mystery to speculative adventure, asking what happens when a fresh start leads somewhere you never intended to go.
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5 New Year’s Horror Stories — Monsters, Ghosts and Midnight Terror Dec 27, 2024

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Ring in the New Year with five horror stories where midnight brings dangerous bargains, undead visitors and a very bad reason to celebrate. Dan Wilder’s “Even the Devil Tells the Truth Sometimes,” “Satan’s Shotgun,” “Stakes and Shoguns” and “Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York” join David O’Hanlon’s “A Few Cold Ones” in this Weekly Spooky marathon. Devils, monsters and dark humor turn resolutions into survival problems across more than 100 minutes of narrated fiction. Henrique Couto hosts a countdown for anyone who likes a little terror with the confetti.
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A Sinister Santa Spectacle: Cursed Gifts, Ghostly Carolers & Christmas Revenge Dec 25, 2024

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Jack Scratch has two Christmas stories to tell, and neither belongs beside a comforting fire. A mysterious present carries a curse in “The Gift,” while unwelcome singers bring dread to a grieving widower in “The Carolers.” Keith Tomlin’s “A Sinister Santa Spectacle” wraps both tales in a sinister holiday performance, turning gifts, music and seasonal cheer into reasons to lock the door. This Christmas horror double feature blends supernatural menace, grief and cruel surprises under the direction of a host who knows how to make an entrance.
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A Vampire’s Holiday: Madelyne Donnerly Brings Christmas Carnage to Strickfield Dec 24, 2024

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An evil vampire version of Madelyne Donnerly has crossed into Strickfield—and Christmas gives her the perfect excuse for chaos. When Anneliese Mirren disappears, Felicia joins Bella Taibon and Eileen Donnerly on a dangerous trip into the Backwoods to rescue her. Their enemy has an advantage they have not anticipated. Rob Fields’s “A Vampire’s Holiday” is a feature-length supernatural adventure of parallel worlds, family ties and holiday bloodshed. Can the rescuers outmaneuver someone who wears such a familiar face?
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High Beams on Christmas — A Deadly Drive Through Strickfield Dec 23, 2024

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A Christmas party ends, and Rhea Auman sets off through Strickfield expecting to make it home for family dinner. Then another driver’s high beams begin turning an ordinary journey into a frightening encounter. Is the vehicle behind her a threat, a warning or something she cannot afford to misunderstand? Rob Fields’s “High Beams on Christmas” brings a familiar road-horror legend into the Strickfield universe, where loneliness and holiday plans can leave someone dangerously exposed. Keep your eyes on the mirror—and listen before the next flash.
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Unknown Broadcast | Christmas Radio Horror — Dead Man’s Holiday & Four Vintage Nightmares Dec 22, 2024

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Christmas travel leads into a ghost town, a fugitive faces a dangerous holiday, and a disturbing inheritance offers a gift no one should want. Unknown Broadcast gathers five vintage radio dramas: “A Holiday Visit,” “Christmas Gift,” “Dead Man’s Holiday,” “Holiday Story” and “The Terrifying Gift.” From an Ohio detour to ominous second sight, these stories turn seasonal visits and supposed good fortune into sources of fear. Settle in for three hours of old-time radio Christmas horror, supernatural suspense and crime, with warmth by the fire and trouble beyond the door.
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Do You Even Movie? | Krampus (2015): Christmas Demon Horror Dec 21, 2024

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A family Christmas collapses into supernatural siege in “Krampus” (2015). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Michael Dougherty’s holiday horror comedy, starring Adam Scott, Toni Collette and David Koechner, and explore its mix of family friction, dark folklore and monstrous festive visitors. They discuss the creatures, Weta effects and the film’s uneasy balance of laughs and terror as a blizzard traps the household. This Do You Even Movie? conversation contains full spoilers, including the ending.
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Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo: Goblin Magic, Living Decorations & a Family Reunion Dec 20, 2024

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A grieving family hopes Christmas will bring them closer, but a strange antique and a goblin named Kako turn the reunion into something far less predictable. When holiday decorations stop behaving like decorations, the house becomes a stage for magic, mayhem and unfinished feelings. Joe Solmo’s “Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo” mixes Christmas creature horror with dark comedy and the awkward tenderness of coming home after a loss. A family visit can be difficult enough without discovering that the festive display has plans of its own.
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