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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:

Do You Even Movie? | The Raven (1963): Vincent Price and Roger Corman’s Gothic Comedy Jun 28, 2024

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Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff turn sorcery into Gothic comedy in Roger Corman’s “The Raven” (1963). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer close their Corman tribute with a spell-casting rivalry, a transformed magician and an early Jack Nicholson appearance. They discuss the AIP Poe cycle, “The Terror,” their first encounters with Poe and more Corman films worth exploring. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to a playful castle adventure where a grieving magician receives a visitor with feathers—and a very human complaint.
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Fool’s Hill — A Missing Folklore Writer and an Oregon Folk-Horror Mystery Jun 26, 2024

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A missing folklore writer leaves behind a manuscript about an Oregon hill where people vanish. In Bruce Haney’s “Fool’s Hill,” Brenda shares her uncle’s research into century-old witch stories, strange carvings and disappearances near Locust Grove. Newspaper clues lead him from a local legend into woods where someone wants the questions to stop. This found-manuscript horror story blends Pacific Northwest folklore with a missing-person mystery, letting old records and a modern investigation unsettle each other. What happened on the wrong side of Fool’s Hill—and why did her uncle keep going?
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Monthly Spooky | Haunted Hospitals, Imaginary Friends, and False Memories Jun 24, 2024

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Haunted hospitals, imaginary friends and the uncertainty of memory lead Monthly Spooky’s June 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore abandoned places, ghostly visitors and false memories, with a detour into the surprising work of hero rats. Unseen companions and remembered events give the hosts plenty to question as they move between paranormal claims, psychology and strange news. An archive episode for listeners who like their spooky stories with curiosity, conversation and the occasional unexpected animal hero.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Red Forest: Wildfire Survival, a Fugitive Killer and the Road to Missoula Jun 23, 2024

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A fugitive gives a woman a ride toward Missoula, only to find the road swallowed by a forest fire. Pressed into an improvised rescue effort, Wally Pindell must face the advancing flames and the consequences of what he is running from. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Red Forest,” an Escape drama written and directed by Anthony Ellis, starring William Conrad and Georgia Ellis. Wildfire survival, a roadside connection and a dangerous confession collide as the group searches for a firebreak. The woods offer no easy exit, and Wally’s past is traveling with him.
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Do You Even Movie? | Slumber Party Massacre (1982): Power-Drill Slasher Jun 21, 2024

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A power-drill killer crashes a teenage sleepover in “The Slumber Party Massacre” (1982). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Amy Holden Jones’s slasher, starring Michele Michaels, Robin Stille and Michael Villella, with Brinke Stevens among its memorable cast. They discuss the production, their affection for the film and collecting the trilogy on physical media. Do You Even Movie?’s Roger Corman tribute continues with full spoilers for the main feature, plus a spoiler-free review of “In a Violent Nature.” Pizza, party plans and neighborhood safety are all on the chopping block.
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The April Fool — A Preview of Rob Fields’s Patreon Slasher Serial Jun 20, 2024

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A killer strikes Strickfield every April Fools’ Day, and survivor Ashley Gable fears this year will be her last. This 2024 preview introduces Rob Fields’s Patreon serial “The April Fool,” a holiday slasher mystery in which Detective Chantel Devereux has one day to stop the annual murders. Ashley has already lost people she loves and survived an attack herself. Now the killer has another chance to finish the job. A short introduction to the longer Strickfield story, rather than the complete serial: can Chantel solve the pattern before the date changes and the murderer disappears for another year?
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I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules Part 2 — The Black-Line Patrol Jun 19, 2024

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The warehouse’s painted patrol routes are supposed to keep the night guard alive. In Michael Kelso’s “I Used to Work in a Fire Tower with a Strange Set of Rules: Part 2,” a trail of blood draws him toward the forbidden black line. Impossible rooms and creatures behind locked doors make every instruction suspect. This strange-rules horror finale continues the former ranger’s first night in a workplace where an ordinary wrong turn can change reality. Start with Part 1 before taking this patrol.
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Terrifying & True | Jinn & Djinn: Islamic Tradition, Arab Folklore & Dark Encounter Stories Jun 17, 2024

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Jinn belong to a world of belief and storytelling far wider than the wish-granting genie. Terrifying & True explores Islamic tradition, Arab folklore and encounter accounts involving unseen beings, shape-shifting and possession. The episode considers how stories change across cultures and how spiritual explanations intersect with frightening personal experiences. Religious teachings, folktales and testimony are approached as distinct kinds of accounts, rather than proof of a supernatural attack. What lies behind the familiar image of the spirit in the lamp? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Edgar Allan Poe’s Locked-Room Detective Mystery Jun 16, 2024

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Two deaths in a locked Paris apartment leave witnesses disagreeing about the voices they heard. C. Auguste Dupin sees a puzzle where everyone else sees an impossibility. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” adapted from Edgar Allan Poe by George Lowther for CBS Radio Mystery Theater, starring Paul Hecht. A young gendarme seeks Dupin’s help with sealed windows, brutal violence and an escape route that appears not to exist. This classic detective mystery blends Gothic horror with close observation: the strangest evidence may be the clue everyone is interpreting incorrectly.
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Do You Even Movie? | Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound (1990): Time-Travel Gothic Horror Jun 14, 2024

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A scientist from 2031 arrives in a world shared by Victor Frankenstein, his creature and Mary Shelley in “Frankenstein Unbound” (1990). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Roger Corman’s return to directing, with John Hurt, Raul Julia and Nick Brimble bringing the collision of science fiction and Gothic horror to life. They consider its unusual take on the Frankenstein myth, Corman’s long directing hiatus and the film’s place among his less familiar work. Do You Even Movie? continues its Corman tribute with full spoilers for a time-travel experiment gone terribly wrong.
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