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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:

Terrifying & True | The Shrink Next Door: Marty Markowitz & Dr. Isaac Herschkopf Jul 16, 2024

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Marty Markowitz sought a psychiatrist’s help, then found Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf occupying more and more of his life. Terrifying & True examines the real story behind “The Shrink Next Door,” following a relationship that crossed from therapy into control over family ties, money, work and a home. The episode explores isolation, professional authority and the difficult process of recognizing manipulation by someone trusted to provide care. How can years of small concessions leave a person feeling like a guest in his own life—and what does it take to reclaim it? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Boiling Sea: An Undersea Volcano Traps a Wartime Cargo Ship in the Pacific Jul 14, 2024

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A cargo ship crossing the wartime Pacific encounters a threat rising from beneath the sea. Strange heat and violent water herald an undersea eruption, leaving the crew surrounded by steam, volcanic debris and an ocean too dangerous to enter. Unknown Broadcast presents Vincent McHugh’s “The Boiling Sea,” an Escape adventure that turns geological catastrophe into maritime survival suspense. Staying aboard may be their only chance, but the vessel must withstand conditions no ordinary voyage prepares them for. There is no safe shore in sight, and the water itself has become the enemy.
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To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe: Maria Clemm, Virginia & Love Beyond Death Jul 12, 2024

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Love for a mother-in-law becomes a tribute to a lost wife in Edgar Allan Poe’s “To My Mother.” Addressed to Maria Clemm, the poem honors the woman who was both Poe’s aunt and Virginia’s mother. Its intimate argument gives the word “mother” a meaning shaped by devotion, care and the person they both loved. This brief spoken-word reading reveals tenderness beneath Poe’s familiar association with terror, inviting listeners into a poem about family and love that survives bereavement. A quiet literary interlude for anyone drawn to the emotional life behind the Gothic stories.
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Portals Part 2 of 5 — A Rescue Mission Across Vampire Strickfield Jul 10, 2024

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A giant vampire bat has carried Arial Mirren into the night, and her friends must reach her across the rooftops of an undead Strickfield. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 2” turns a rescue into a larger mission: find what is opening the doors between worlds before more people are taken as food. Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren and the others bring very different abilities to a town where the mayor commands an army of vampires. This dark-fantasy chapter expands the team’s fight beyond survival toward the source of the invasion. Begin with Part 1 for the full adventure.
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Terrifying & True | Champ: Lake Champlain Monster Sightings, Evidence & Explanations Jul 08, 2024

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What are people seeing beneath Lake Champlain? Terrifying & True explores Champ, the lake-monster legend built from witness accounts, photographs and generations of local storytelling. The episode revisits Sandra Mansi’s famous image, disputed historical claims and possible explanations involving familiar animals and the changing appearance of open water. Regional folklore and cryptid curiosity meet a question that a distant shape cannot easily answer. Is Champ an unknown creature, a series of misidentifications, or a legend that changes how people look at the lake? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | Haunted Cell: A Death-Row Ghost and a Christmas Eve Electric Chair Jul 07, 2024

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A prisoner is placed in a cell once occupied by an executed killer—and hears its former occupant speak. Max Young has more to fear than the police when Skeeter Dempsey begins describing what waits in the electric chair. Unknown Broadcast presents “Haunted Cell,” a Lights Out prison ghost story about confession, coercion and the dread of a sentence drawing closer. As Christmas Eve approaches, a voice from the dark becomes Max’s most persistent companion. This grim vintage radio tale turns a locked cell into a place where even death may not bring an end to the conversation.
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Summer Scares — Six Werewolf, Summer Camp, Roadside & Zombie Horror Stories Jul 05, 2024

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Six summer horror stories turn camps, highways and small towns into dangerous places. Includes “The Wolf of Fagan County” by David O’Hanlon; “The Lady in the Germ Box” by Killian Crane; “The Devil Knows Three Chords” by John Oak Dalton; “The Rest Area” and “New Awakenings” by Rob Fields; and “Wilson Road” by Charles Campbell. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this more-than-two-hour collection brings werewolves, cruel wishes, roadside killers and zombies into the heat. From a bluegrass bargain to a lonely stretch of road, summer offers plenty of ways to get lost.
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Portals Part 1 of 5 — Six Friends Trapped in a Vampire Strickfield Jul 03, 2024

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A supernatural storm drops six friends into an alternate Strickfield where the sun no longer rises and vampires fill the streets. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 1” begins a five-part dark-fantasy adventure with Arial Mirren, Madelyne Donnerly and their allies discovering how dangerous familiar faces can become in another world. A trip back from the mall turns into a struggle against an undead town, forcing hidden abilities into the open. This vampire-apocalypse story opens the door to a wider threat: if the friends could cross into this reality, something else may cross back.
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Terrifying & True | Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer, His Victims & Hidden Photographs Jul 01, 2024

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Rodney Alcala appeared on “The Dating Game” while hiding a history of sexual violence and murder. Terrifying & True follows the killer’s television appearance, the investigation into Robin Samsoe’s death and the evidence linking him to other victims. Photographs recovered from Alcala raise questions beyond the crimes proved in court, as investigators sought to identify the people pictured. The episode examines the distance between a charming public image and the violence concealed behind it. How many stories were still hidden in the photographs he left behind? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Dead Walk at Night: A Blind Uncle’s Cane Returns after Murder Jun 30, 2024

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Danny expects an inheritance to solve his problems once the blind uncle who controls it is gone. Then the familiar tap of the dead man’s cane begins again. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Dead Walk at Night,” an Inner Sanctum mystery about greed, a hidden romance and the sound a murderer cannot bear to hear. The house offers no escape from the rhythm that once announced his uncle’s arrival. Is someone using Danny’s guilt against him, or has the man he killed returned? This vintage radio thriller builds its haunting one approaching footstep at a time.
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