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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:

Portals — The Complete Strickfield Vampire-Apocalypse Saga Aug 02, 2024

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Six friends land on an alternate Earth where vampires rule and Strickfield’s familiar faces have become enemies. Rob Fields’s complete five-part “Portals” saga follows Arial Mirren, the Donnerly cousins and their allies through endless night, hidden powers and a nuclear plant used to open doorways between worlds. Stopping the invasion means more than finding a route home: other realities could become feeding grounds next. This feature-length vampire apocalypse blends dark fantasy, witchcraft and monster-fighting action into one continuous Strickfield adventure.
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Portals Part 5 of 5 — Arial’s Final Battle Against Vampire Earth Jul 31, 2024

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The final fight for vampire Earth becomes personal for Arial Mirren as her friends struggle to destroy the portal machinery and reach home. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 5” concludes the Strickfield saga inside a nuclear plant where every member of the team has a part to play. Vampire doubles, supernatural powers and a reactor countdown turn the escape plan into a race against catastrophe. Start with Part 1 for the full story, then return for this dark-fantasy finale. Can the team close the doors between worlds without trapping themselves on the wrong side?
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Monthly Spooky | Talking Dolls, Demon Voices and Sleep Paralysis! Jul 29, 2024

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Sleep paralysis leaves you awake, unable to move and sensing someone nearby. Henrique Couto and Michelle share their own experiences in Monthly Spooky’s July 2024 conversation, exploring the fear behind the Old Hag legend. Strange news includes a psychic’s claim about a Princess Diana doll, Chicago’s “rat hole” and ghost stories at Dorset’s Knowlton Church. Personal nightmares meet paranormal headlines as the hosts ask why a bedroom can feel haunted before you are fully awake.
Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...
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Unknown Broadcast | The Dream — Insomnia and a Recurring Nightmare from Lights Out Jul 28, 2024

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Claire Collins is exhausted, but she is terrified to fall asleep. The same nightmare keeps bringing her to a house, a little boy and a question she cannot bear to answer. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “The Dream,” a Lights Out psychological horror drama about insomnia, jealousy and a memory that will not remain hidden. Her husband wants a doctor to help; Claire wants a way to rest without returning to that room. This vintage radio nightmare makes sleep itself the threat, following a woman whose waking silence is no protection from what waits behind her closed eyes.
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Do You Even Movie? | Monster Man (2003): Road-Trip Monster-Truck Horror Jul 26, 2024

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Two friends and a hitchhiker find themselves hunted by a monstrous driver in a giant truck in “Monster Man” (2003). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Michael Davis’s road-trip horror comedy, starring Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich and Michael Bailey Smith. They discuss its outrageous stunts, gruesome humor, straight-to-video appeal and memories of catching it on Showtime, with road-trip stories of their own. Do You Even Movie? takes a full-spoiler ride through an early-2000s creature feature where the vehicle is almost as alarming as the man behind the wheel.
More: https://doyouevenmovie.com
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Portals Part 4 of 5 — The Team Attacks a Vampire Nuclear Plant Jul 24, 2024

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The Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant becomes a battleground as Arial Mirren and her friends fight Mayor Gunter’s vampires. In Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 4,” breaking out of captivity is only the start: the team must stop the machinery that lets this undead Earth raid other worlds. Arial’s emerging powers, Bella’s speed and the Donnerly cousins’ inventions give them a chance, but their first attack may not be enough. Vampire horror and dark-fantasy action drive the penultimate chapter toward a dangerous decision. Begin with Part 1 to follow the complete saga.
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Terrifying & True | Sleep Paralysis: Shadow People, the Old Hag & the Science of REM Sleep Jul 22, 2024

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Awake, unable to move and certain someone is beside the bed: sleep paralysis can make a familiar room feel threatening. Terrifying & True explores the overlap between waking awareness and REM sleep, alongside accounts of shadow people, chest pressure and the figure known as the Old Hag. The episode places frightening experiences beside the folklore used to explain them, without treating a sensed presence as proof of a supernatural visitor. Why do these waking nightmares feel so physical—and why do similar figures appear in stories across cultures? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | Deadline for Death — A Dead Gangster’s Promise and a Witness in Hiding Jul 21, 2024

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A condemned gangster promises that the witness who betrayed him will die within a month of his execution. Sam Rogers knows Johnny Promise’s reputation and hides in a hotel, watching the calendar and suspecting every visitor. Unknown Broadcast presents “Deadline for Death,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater thriller about a threat that seems to survive its maker. A barber’s razor, a new lock and footsteps outside the room turn daily routines into possible assassination attempts. Can Sam outlast the deadline, or has waiting behind a locked door become another kind of trap?
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Beloved Physician by Edgar Allan Poe — A Surviving Poem Fragment for Marie Louise Shew Jul 19, 2024

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “Beloved Physician” survives as a fragment honoring the tireless care of Marie Louise Shew. Its brief lines linger on an unsteady pulse, devotion through long hours and the exhaustion of someone who keeps giving. Henrique Couto pairs the reading with a childhood memory of discovering Poe at his school library and carrying that new fascination into a gathering storm. This short literary episode offers a quieter corner of Poe’s work: gratitude, vulnerability and the presence of a caregiver, rather than the machinery of a conventional horror tale.
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Portals Part 3 of 5 — The Dracula Curse That Created Vampire Earth Jul 17, 2024

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How did an entire Earth fall to vampires? Imprisoned beneath Strickfield’s nuclear plant, Arial Mirren and her friends begin to learn the answer. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 3” follows Mayor Patrick Gunter’s pursuit of power toward the haunted Carnovasch Estate and a forbidden connection to Dracula. The revelations explain why the captives’ own world is at risk—and why escape alone will not end the threat. This middle chapter blends vampire mythology, political ambition and alternate-world horror. Start with Part 1 before entering the darkest history of vampire Strickfield.
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