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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:

Introducing Urban Legends | Poisoned Halloween Candy: Panic, Myth and Real Crimes Oct 25, 2024

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Poisoned Halloween candy is one of the season’s most persistent fears. In this guest episode of Urban Legends, Luke Mordue examines the stories behind the warning, the difference between rumor and documented harm, and why the thought of a dangerous trick-or-treat gift remains so powerful. A factual investigation into a frightening tradition of suspicion, rather than a fictional Halloween tale.
Content warning: harm to children.
More: https://www.lukemordue.com/pod...
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Contact: luke@lukemordue.com
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Retro Halloween Revelations — Death Returns to Strickfield for a Family Reckoning Oct 25, 2024

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Death has opened a funeral home in Strickfield, and her first painful reckoning is with the family she left behind. Once known as Destiny Mirren, Saffron Morningside now works beside Sienna Michaels. When her mortal parents arrive to arrange a funeral for their missing daughter, old wounds and unanswered questions return with them. Rob Fields’s “Retro Halloween Revelations” continues the Strickfield universe with supernatural identity, family secrets and a Halloween encounter no one can easily explain. What happens when the person mourned is the one receiving the mourners?
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Never Buy a Halloween Mask from a Yard Sale — A Possessed-Costume Horror Story Oct 24, 2024

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A yard-sale Halloween mask seems perfect for eight-year-old Chrissy. Then strange voices and changes in her behavior leave her mother wondering what came home with the costume. Michael Kelso’s “Never Buy a Halloween Mask from a Yard Sale” turns trick-or-treat preparations into a possessed-object horror story about a parent trying to protect a child from a bargain with a hidden past.
Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau...
Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho...
Original furnace-replacement appeal: https://weeklyspooky.com/HelpM...
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Dirt Babies — Killer Halloween Crafts and Babysitter Horror Oct 23, 2024

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A child’s grass-growing craft project should be harmless. Add soil with a terrible history, and the little figures become something babysitter Kristin cannot safely turn her back on. Bruce Haney’s “Dirt Babies” brings killer-creature horror to a Halloween household, mixing 1990s nostalgia, gruesome invention and dark humor as a familiar school activity develops a monstrous appetite. This feature-length story turns the job of protecting a child into a battle against threats small enough to hide all over the house. The grass may be growing—but so is the danger.
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Do You Even Movie? | Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981): TV-Movie Revenge Horror Oct 22, 2024

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A murdered man, a silent scarecrow and a town unwilling to face its guilt make “Dark Night of the Scarecrow” (1981) a haunting Halloween revenge story. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Frank De Felitta’s television film, Larry Drake’s performance as Bubba Ritter and Charles Durning’s menacing Otis Hazelrigg. They explore the Southern Gothic atmosphere and the way implied violence unsettles without relying on constant gore. This Do You Even Movie? conversation includes full spoilers and discussion of the ending.
More: https://DoYouEvenMovie.com/
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Terrifying & True | The Chupacabra — From Puerto Rico’s Goat-Sucker to America’s Mange Coyotes Oct 21, 2024

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How did Puerto Rico’s spined “goat-sucker” become a hairless canine in American headlines? Terrifying & True follows the chupacabra from reported livestock attacks and sightings in 1995 to later encounters in the mainland United States. Henrique Couto explores witness descriptions, the legend’s spread and investigations of animals presented as evidence. Some celebrated specimens proved to be familiar canids, often with mange; that finding is distinct from proving a supernatural creature exists. A deep dive into modern cryptid folklore and the changing shape of a monster.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Vanishing Lady, The Skull That Walked, Dead Ernest & No Hiding Place — Four Radio Mysteries Oct 20, 2024

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A missing mother, a threatening skull and a man who appears dead lead into four vintage radio mysteries. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Vanishing Lady,” “The Skull That Walked,” “Dead Ernest” and “No Hiding Place.” An inexplicable disappearance, a sinister object, catalepsy and blackmail make appearances dangerously unreliable across more than two hours of old-time radio suspense. These dramas move between seemingly supernatural events and human schemes, inviting you to follow the clues while wondering which familiar explanation will fail next.
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Special Halloween Hours — Strickfield Video Night-Shift Monster Horror Oct 19, 2024

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Charlee Brewster takes an evening job at Strickfield Video, a rental store in a downtown that still loves its old-fashioned pleasures. Then Halloween brings unusual customers, unfamiliar rules and a shift that demands more than finding the right movie. Rob Fields’s “Special Halloween Hours” turns a nostalgic video-store job into a supernatural encounter, where recognizing a monster on a cassette cover is easier than serving one across the counter. Charlee wanted extra money and something to do after class. The holiday hours come with a much stranger assignment.
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Nine Scary Halloween Stories – Five Hours of Spooky-Season Horror Oct 18, 2024

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Nine Halloween stories from 2023 deliver nearly six hours of monsters, strange parties and supernatural trouble. Includes “Strife of the Party” and “Sweet Revenge” by David O’Hanlon; “Burn on the Bayou” by L. F. Falconer; “A Zombie’s Halloween,” “Future Taibon” and “The Portal” by Rob Fields; “Send Beer” by Michelle Antisocial; “Caroline Quinn: Vampire Hunter” by Mike Ashkewe; and “Inbetween” by Shane Migliavacca. Henrique Couto narrates a spooky-season marathon where costumes, pranks and party invitations open the door to real danger.
Sponsored by http://henflix.com/.
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Stalk: A Werewolf Date Turns Deadly in the Canadian Wilderness Oct 17, 2024

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Joshua Fox comes home from Toronto for reading week expecting friends, hockey and perhaps a little romance. Meeting Tracey Kidd near Sauble Beach gives him a much more dangerous kind of excitement. Mike Ashkewe’s “Stalk” turns an Ontario homecoming into a werewolf story where attraction and predatory instinct are difficult to separate. Set around Owen Sound and the Lake Huron shoreline, this darkly funny creature tale follows a lonely student whose wish for an unforgettable encounter is about to be answered with teeth.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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