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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:

Unknown Broadcast | The Covered Bridge — Time-Slip Ghost Story and Rasputin’s Cursed Rapier Nov 24, 2024

Show notes

A honeymoon drive through a New Hampshire covered bridge carries a newlywed toward a different time. In “The Covered Bridge,” CBS Radio Mystery Theater turns a quiet landmark into a threat to a young woman’s sense of reality. Then Inner Sanctum’s “The Edge of Death” brings Rasputin’s rapier into a sinister waterfront encounter. Unknown Broadcast pairs a time-slip ghost story with a cursed-weapon mystery for more than an hour of vintage radio suspense. Two familiar objects—a bridge and a blade—open paths their owners cannot safely predict.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe: Impermanence, Loss & Time Slipping Away Nov 22, 2024

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Can anything we love be held onto, or does it slip away like sand? Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” moves from a farewell to a desperate struggle on a wave-battered shore, turning a few brief stanzas into an unsettling question about reality and loss. Henrique Couto reads the complete poem in this short Weekly Spooky presentation. A quiet moment of Gothic poetry for listeners drawn to Poe’s imagery, the fear of time passing and the fragile boundary between what we experience and what we can keep. Published in 1849, its doubt still lingers.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

The Legend of Oopsie Poopsie - Dark Humor Meets Grotesque Horror Nov 20, 2024

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The locals in New Ellsworth have a story about Oopsie Poopsie. Jon expects small-town eccentricity when he moves to the Adirondacks, but warnings about a grotesque, oversized infant suggest the joke may have something awful behind it. Joe Solmo’s “The Legend of Oopsie Poopsie” turns lumber-country gossip into a creature-feature nightmare, mixing absurd humor with bodily horror and the fear of discovering why the neighbors take a ridiculous name seriously. Some local legends are best heard from a safe distance. Jon may have moved too close.
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Terrifying & True | The Chicago Tylenol Murders — Cyanide, Panic & Tamper-Evident Packaging Nov 18, 2024

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In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. An everyday medicine became a source of national fear, triggering a massive investigation and changes in product packaging. Terrifying & True follows the victims, the search for the person responsible and the extortion demand that complicated the case. James Lewis was convicted of extortion, not the murders—a distinction essential to understanding the investigation. Explore the unresolved poisonings and the legacy of tamper-evident packaging with narrator Henrique Couto.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Corpse Nobody Loved — A Vanishing Body from Inner Sanctum Nov 17, 2024

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Anne Winslow misses her train and takes a taxi—only to find a corpse beside her. The driver leaves it in her isolated house, but by the time the police arrive, the body has vanished. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Corpse Nobody Loved,” a vintage Inner Sanctum radio mystery that turns a routine journey into a trap of doubt and suspicion. With the phone lines down and no one to back up her story, Anne must work out who is manipulating her. Listen for old-time radio suspense built around an impossible passenger and the unsettling problem of proving what you have seen.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe: Masquerade Revenge Against a Cruel King Nov 15, 2024

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A cruel king treats his court jester’s suffering as entertainment. When that cruelty reaches Hop-Frog’s companion Trippetta, an elaborate masquerade offers the jester a chance to design a performance of his own. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog” is a Gothic revenge story about humiliation, power and the danger of believing someone is too small to resist. Henrique Couto narrates the complete tale for Weekly Spooky, preserving the suspense of a royal celebration whose costumes carry a dreadful purpose. The king wants a spectacle; Hop-Frog knows how to provide one.
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Matriarch: A Sorority’s Initiation into an Immortal Ghoul Family Nov 13, 2024

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A sorority night out at the Strickfield Drive-In leads Jaxey Jynx and her friends toward a family with an appetite for new members. What begins with flirting and a movie becomes an invitation into something older, darker and harder to leave than campus life. Rob Fields’s “Matriarch” follows Jaxey, Renny Stafford and Paulette Peterson into a supernatural horror story of ghoul kinship and dangerous belonging. Being welcomed into a family can feel like a privilege—until you discover what that family expects you to become.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Terrifying & True | Indrid Cold, the Grinning Man — West Virginia’s Strangest UFO Visitor Nov 11, 2024

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In November 1966, Woodrow Derenberger reported meeting a grinning stranger near Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The visitor, he said, communicated without speaking and gave the name Indrid Cold. Terrifying & True explores the encounter, the stories that followed and the figure’s place in UFO lore and the wider Mothman mystery. Were these accounts evidence of something extraordinary, a misunderstanding or a legend taking shape? Henrique Couto traces the claims and their unsettling legacy without treating a witness’s extraordinary story as established fact.
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Unknown Broadcast | Thicker Than Water — A Murder Trial from CBS Radio Mystery Theater Nov 10, 2024

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Still recovering from a stabbing, defense lawyer Nick Wedge takes the case of a young man accused of a knife attack. Then the victim dies, and Benny Bleeker faces a murder trial. Benny’s father insists his son is innocent, but Nick’s own trauma threatens his judgment. Unknown Broadcast presents “Thicker Than Water,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama by Henry Slesar, starring Jay Gregory. This courtroom thriller pits a father’s faith against troubling evidence and a lawyer’s fear. Can Nick separate what happened to him from the case he must argue in court?
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5 Thanksgiving Horror Stories — Family Secrets, Murder and Holiday Terror Nov 08, 2024

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Thanksgiving brings five reasons to fear the family table: “Thanksgiving Dinner” by Rachael Redolfi, “Turkey Shoot” by David O’Hanlon, “Fiendsgiving” and “Homecoming” by Rob Fields, and “Belle’s Turkey Terror” by Douglas Waltz. This Weekly Spooky collection mixes holiday meals, supernatural visitors and reunions that become survival problems. Henrique Couto narrates more than two hours of Thanksgiving horror for listeners who like their seasonal traditions with a vicious surprise.
Original sponsor: https://www.bobbletopia.com/ — the episode’s advertised 20% code was WeeklySpooky.
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