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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:

First Date: Arial Mirren, Carter Cross & the Ghosts of Carnovasch Estate May 08, 2024

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A first date takes an unexpected turn when Arial Mirren and Carter Cross encounter a child ghost at Carnovasch Estate. In Rob Fields’s “First Date,” two longtime rivals explore a new attraction while an abandoned mansion pulls them into an older mystery. A family portrait and a sealed space beneath the house suggest the apparition wants more than company. This Strickfield ghost story combines teenage romance with haunted-house discovery, giving Arial and Carter something more unsettling than an awkward evening to face. Their relationship is changing, but the estate’s past has not been laid to rest.
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Terrifying & True | Poltergeist Curse: Heather O’Rourke, Dominique Dunne & the Film Tragedies May 06, 2024

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The “Poltergeist curse” grew around real tragedies affecting a famous horror franchise. Terrifying & True examines the deaths of Heather O’Rourke, Dominique Dunne, Julian Beck and Will Sampson, alongside the production stories that helped build the legend. The episode distinguishes documented circumstances from supernatural speculation, keeping the actors behind the screen characters in view. A haunted-house movie became the center of a different kind of ghost story told by its audience. Why do unrelated losses become so compelling when people arrange them into a curse? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | Knock at the Door: A Murdered Mother-in-Law Returns from the Basement Well May 05, 2024

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Ella wants a home of her own, but marriage means living under her mother-in-law’s control. Resentment leads her toward the well beneath the basement—and a crime that does not bring the freedom she expected. Unknown Broadcast presents Arch Oboler’s “Knock at the Door,” a Lights Out story of jealousy, guilt and a sound that will not stay outside. The new household seems settled until someone starts knocking. This claustrophobic supernatural drama follows a woman who thought removing one person would solve everything, only to discover how difficult it can be to keep the dead out.
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Five Tales of Ancient Evil: Ol’ Bones, The God Tongue & Other Dark Legends May 03, 2024

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Five horror stories uncover powers far older than the people who disturb them. Includes “Ol’ Bones” by Joe Solmo; “The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor” and “Careful What You Wish” by David O’Hanlon; “The God Tongue” by Dan Wilder; and “The Chain of Time” by Killian Crane. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this more-than-two-hour collection moves through forbidden woods, occult crime, living scripture, a sinister fairy tale and wishes with hidden costs. Ancient monsters, dangerous books and cruel bargains connect five distinct encounters with things that were never waiting to be understood.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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The Creature from Richardson’s Lake — No Swimming After Sundown May 01, 2024

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Richardson’s Lake has one rule: no swimming after sundown. Four teenagers ignore it, bringing beer and floats through a broken fence for a private summer adventure. Charles Campbell’s “The Creature from Richardson’s Lake” sends them into dark water where something with gills and claws is already feeding. The shore suddenly looks much farther away. This Southern aquatic horror story turns a familiar swimming hole into a creature-feature trap, with trespassers discovering why the daytime attraction closes so promptly. A moonlit swim is a poor time to learn what lives beyond the ropes.
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Monthly Spooky | Champ, a Bigfoot Murder Claim & Cicada Salad Apr 29, 2024

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Champ, the Lake Champlain monster, brings cryptid sightings and disputed evidence to Monthly Spooky’s April 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle also discuss an Oklahoma murder case involving a bizarre claim about feeding someone to Bigfoot, ghostly intruder reports and a New Orleans restaurant serving cicada salad. From shapes beneath the water to insects on the menu, the hosts compare unsettling stories with skeptical questions and dark humor. Which would bother you more: the lake or lunch?
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Unknown Broadcast | The Body Snatchers: Grave Robbers, Anatomy Schools and Murder in 1830s England Apr 28, 2024

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Grave robbers supply the anatomy schools, but fresh bodies can come from something worse than a cemetery. Unknown Broadcast presents John Dickson Carr’s “The Body Snatchers,” a Suspense mystery set in nineteenth-century England. At Mother Slade’s house near London, an illicit trade in human remains draws a doctor toward a dangerous question about the source of his next specimen. This Gothic crime drama combines the world of resurrection men with a murder puzzle, making medical demand and criminal profit uneasy partners. What happens when a supplier decides digging takes too long?
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Hellweaver: A Dark-Web VR Game Where Player Death Is Real Apr 24, 2024

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Winning a dark-web VR match earns money; losing can kill the player outside the game. In Rob Fields’s “Hellweaver,” a ruthless beta tester fights through a ruined virtual Strickfield toward the right to challenge its demon goddess. Her boyfriend Ajaxis has supplied hardware beyond anything sold in stores, and the rewards keep growing with the risk. This explicit techno-horror story combines lethal gaming, cryptocurrency and supernatural ambition. Maxing out her character opens the final challenge—but the rules protecting the boundary between the screen and her home may not be what she thinks.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Terrifying & True | Somerton Man: Tamám Shud, Carl Webb & Australia’s Enduring Beach Mystery Apr 22, 2024

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A body on an Adelaide beach, a scrap reading “Tamám Shud” and a book with mysterious markings made the Somerton Man an enduring Australian mystery. Terrifying & True follows the 1948 discovery and the clues that fueled theories about identity, espionage and death. The episode also considers the genetic-genealogy work that pointed to Carl Webb in 2022, without treating a proposed name as an answer to every question. A scrap meaning “finished” became the beginning of decades of investigation. What brought this man to Somerton Beach—and what happened before he arrived? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Corpse Laughs: Stolen Identity, a Blind Uncle and a Half-Million-Dollar Safe Apr 21, 2024

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A thief takes a dead man’s identity and arrives at a remote estate expecting an easy inheritance. The uncle is blind, the nephew has been absent for years, and a fortune waits in a safe. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Corpse Laughs,” an Inner Sanctum crime mystery in which Gus Miller’s impersonation draws him into a household with secrets of its own. A storm isolates White Oaks while the details of his scheme begin to slip beyond his control. This vintage thriller turns stolen clothes and a borrowed name into a dangerous question: who is really deceiving whom?
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