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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 | Life Ends at Midnight: A $1,500 Debt, Life Insurance and a Murder Deadline May 26, 2024

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Walter Bates needs $1,500 before midnight, but his mother has barely enough to keep the household going. An elderly boarder’s life-insurance policy gives him a terrible idea. Unknown Broadcast presents Robert Tallman’s “Life Ends at Midnight,” a Suspense crime drama starring Fay Bainter, with Tony Barrett as Walter. A family’s financial desperation becomes a race to turn someone else’s death into money. The clock keeps moving while Walter tries to make an impossible deadline seem manageable. This vintage noir story follows a man whose solution may be more dangerous than the debt.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Do You Even Movie? | Urban Legend (1998): Campus Folklore Slasher May 24, 2024

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A campus killer turns urban legends into murder methods in “Urban Legend” (1998). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Jamie Blanks’s slasher, starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart and Jared Leto. They compare favorite folklore, discuss the late-1990s horror boom after “Scream” and celebrate the film’s appeal as a late-night cable discovery. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to Pendleton University, where stories students have laughed off become reasons to check the back seat. Familiar warnings become deadly when someone acts them out.
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I Never Believed the Stories About the Abandoned Mining Town. Until... — A Park Ranger’s Nightmare May 22, 2024

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A missing family’s camper leads a Nevada park ranger toward a mining town everyone is told to avoid. Michael Kelso’s “I’m a Park Ranger Who Never Believed the Stories About the Abandoned Mining Town. Until...” follows blood, strange footprints and a cry for help into ruins that are not empty. With his radio failing, the ranger must decide how far to follow the trail. This wilderness creature-horror story turns a search for stranded visitors into a nightmare beneath a forgotten settlement.
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Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Terrifying & True | Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? Hagley Wood’s Unidentified Woman May 20, 2024

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Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? In 1943, boys exploring Hagley Wood found a woman’s remains inside a hollow tree. Terrifying & True follows the investigation, the graffiti that gave the unidentified victim a name and the theories that grew around the discovery. Wartime espionage and witchcraft enter the story as speculation, while the physical evidence offers a more limited account of what happened. This British true-crime mystery asks how an unknown woman became a local legend without her identity being established. Who was she before the question on the wall? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Meteorman: A Meteorite Hatches a Hungry Alien in an Astronomer’s Home May 19, 2024

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A meteor shower gives astronomer Russell Adams a specimen he cannot resist bringing home. Inside the fallen stone, something soft and living begins to grow. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “The Meteorman,” a Lights Out science-fiction horror drama that turns a holiday with his wife Diane into an encounter with an alien intelligence. Scientific curiosity soon collides with a visitor whose needs are very different from theirs. More lights cross the sky while the first arrival learns about its hosts. What looks like a discovery may be the beginning of an invasion.
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The Lake by Edgar Allan Poe: Solitude, Terror & a Poisoned Gothic Eden May 17, 2024

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A lonely lake becomes a place of beauty and dread in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Lake.” Black rocks, tall pines and the change from daylight to darkness shape a speaker’s fascination with a landscape others might fear. This brief poetry reading explores solitude, mortality and the strange pleasure of terror, offering a quiet Gothic interlude rather than a conventional ghost story. The water seems to hold both menace and sanctuary. For listeners drawn to Poe’s dark Romantic imagery, the poem asks why a frightening place can sometimes feel more like home than the ordinary world.
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Bigfoot at the Coast: A Pacific Northwest Cryptid Encounter During a Bear Attack May 15, 2024

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A coastal camping trip turns into a nighttime rescue when a child disappears into the woods. In Bruce Haney’s “Bigfoot at the Coast,” Tom and his friend Arturo leave beachside routines behind as a bicycle ride leads toward a black bear—and something even larger. This Pacific Northwest cryptid story combines childhood friendship, camping nostalgia and the fear of being far from adult help. Bigfoot may be real, but knowing that does not tell the children what it wants. The next shape to step out of the trees could change the rescue entirely.
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Terrifying & True | Axeman of New Orleans: Unsolved Murders, the Jazz Letter & 1919 Panic May 13, 2024

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The Axeman attacks brought fear to New Orleans, and a letter signed with the killer’s name made jazz part of the legend. Terrifying & True follows the 1918–1919 violence, the people targeted and the investigations that failed to establish a definitive culprit. The episode examines the message promising safety to homes playing music, without assuming its author was the murderer. True crime, public panic and newspaper spectacle meet in a story where a city's soundtrack became part of its defense. Who was behind the attacks—and who was exploiting the fear? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | Typhoon — Joseph Conrad’s China Seas Survival Drama May 12, 2024

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Captain MacWhirr trusts his steamer more than the warnings of bad weather. Then the Nan-Shan enters a China Seas typhoon that puts every judgment to the test. Unknown Broadcast presents “Typhoon,” an Escape adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s maritime story, told through the eyes of chief mate Jukes. Passengers struggle below deck while the crew fights wind, water and failing order above. This vintage survival drama turns a captain’s apparent stubbornness into the central question: is his refusal to panic the thing that endangered them, or the thing that might bring them through?
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Never Bet the Devil Your Head — Edgar Allan Poe’s Supernatural Satire May 10, 2024

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Toby Dammit cannot resist a wager, even when his favorite expression puts his own head on the line. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” follows a boastful man toward a covered bridge, a mysterious stranger and a challenge that should have been declined. This complete reading mixes supernatural horror with grotesque comedy and a satire of stories expected to teach a moral lesson. Poe gives a casual turn of phrase an alarming literal possibility. For Toby, talking big has always come easily. Paying up may prove rather more difficult.
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