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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? | April Fool’s Day (1986): Island Slasher Mystery Apr 19, 2024

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An island weekend becomes a murder mystery in “April Fool’s Day” (1986), Fred Walton’s slasher starring Deborah Foreman, Griffin O’Neal and Thomas F. Wilson. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss the film’s cozy atmosphere, elaborate misdirection and how its famous twist holds up on repeat viewings. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to a gathering where every prank could conceal a threat. The hosts also share a fond farewell to their production manager, Henwolf, making this episode both a horror conversation and a personal remembrance.
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We Were Hunted by Something Terrifying in the Woods — Backwoods Creature Horror Apr 17, 2024

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A backwoods camping trip turns into a hunt when an enormous, dog-snouted creature stalks two friends at their clifftop campsite. Michael Kelso’s “We Were Hunted by Something Terrifying in the Woods” follows Adrian and the narrator from a familiar climbing route toward a cave with evidence of earlier victims. The beast knows these woods, and reaching a friend in trouble means entering its territory. This wilderness survival story makes every rope, cliff edge and distant engine sound matter.
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Terrifying & True | The Liquid Matthew Murder: Cryptic Notes & Francisco Patiño Gutiérrez Apr 15, 2024

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A real murder and a trail of cryptic notes made “Liquid Matthew” a baffling Florida case. Terrifying & True follows the 1983 discovery of Francisco Patiño Gutiérrez’s body in Hialeah and the rhyming messages that appeared to promise another victim. Detectives pursued a puzzle that seemed designed by a killer, while the man’s own life pointed toward a different investigation. This true-crime episode separates a theatrical clue trail from the homicide behind the headlines. Were the notes a confession, a threat—or a coincidence hiding the real questions? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Smile: A Giant Face over a Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Apr 14, 2024

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A gigantic smile hangs over a Chesapeake Bay lighthouse, and the writer watching it believes it is draining his life. Bill Fenchurch summons his estranged wife Grace to the isolated refuge, where even his skeptical uncle can see the impossible shape. Unknown Broadcast presents G. Frederick Lewis’s “The Smile,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama of maritime danger and psychological dread. Bill grows weaker while Grace searches for an explanation beyond the lighthouse window. Is the face an omen, an obsession, or something the bay itself can explain?
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Do You Even Movie? | Dead of Winter (1987) Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall Apr 12, 2024

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An audition at a snowbound mansion promises a struggling actress her big break in “Dead of Winter” (1987). Instead, the role comes with secrets she may not survive. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Arthur Penn’s Hitchcock-like thriller, with Mary Steenburgen in three roles alongside Roddy McDowall and Jan Rubes. They discuss its betrayals and escalating threats with full spoilers. Do You Even Movie? turns a cozy winter watch into a conversation about performance, deception and the danger of being cast as someone else.
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The Last Flight Out — A Stranger’s Grief Aboard a Haunted Flight Apr 10, 2024

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A stranger’s memories make an ordinary flight feel increasingly impossible in Charles Campbell’s “The Last Flight Out.” Sheila Baker boards Delta Flight 752 from Atlanta to Seattle and meets elderly Otis Thornton, whose family history carries a grief he cannot set down. As turbulence shakes the cabin over the Cascades, his story and the journey begin to converge. This supernatural aviation tale combines the intimacy of a conversation between seatmates with the terror of losing control far above the ground. What has Otis brought aboard that cannot stay in the past?
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Terrifying & True | Good Hart Murders: The Robison Family, Joseph Scolaro & a Case Never Tried Apr 08, 2024

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Six members of the Robison family were killed at their Good Hart cottage in 1968, but the case never reached trial. Terrifying & True follows the delayed discovery beside Lake Michigan and the investigation into Richard Robison’s business dealings. Financial questions, firearms evidence and conflicting accounts focused attention on employee Joseph Scolaro III, who was never charged in the family’s deaths. The episode examines the divide between investigators’ confidence and a case that produced no verdict. What kept the evidence from becoming a prosecution? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Sand Castle — A Beachside Ritual and a Family’s Hidden Grief Apr 07, 2024

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A young woman builds the same sandcastle every day, then lets the tide erase it. Retired teacher Jeremy Denham meets Maureen Hart while birdwatching at an island sanctuary and begins to sense the grief behind her ritual. Unknown Broadcast presents Elspeth Eric’s “The Sand Castle,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater psychological drama about memory, bereavement and a family’s long silence. Shorebirds, a missing flag and a beach remembered from childhood draw Jeremy toward a loss Maureen cannot leave behind. What does rebuilding the castle allow her to keep?
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Old West Horror & Historical Mysteries — Calamity Jane vs. Dracula, Ashland & Poe Apr 05, 2024

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Calamity Jane faces Dracula in a collection that crosses historical true crime, Gothic satire and weird Western horror. Five segments include the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, both parts of John Oak Dalton’s “Calamity Jane vs. Dracula,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” and Dan Wilder’s “Satan’s Shotgun.” Hear a Kentucky murder investigation, vampires in Deadwood and a gunslinger’s infernal revenge alongside Poe’s unsettling military hero. A two-hour collection pairs frontier monsters with real criminal history and Poe’s grotesque humor.
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Horton’s New Diary — A Cursed Journal Makes Every Wish Real Apr 03, 2024

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A bullied teenager discovers that his new diary can rewrite reality in Rob Fields’s “Horton’s New Diary.” Richie Horton wants relief from school torment and a chance at a better life. The journal from Tinker’s delivers, but its answers twist ordinary wishes into obsession and violence. When people around him begin changing, Richie must find a way to stop a story that keeps writing itself into their lives. This Strickfield cursed-object tale turns private teenage fantasies into consequences no one else remembers choosing. Some thoughts are safer left off the page.
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