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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:

I Used to Be a Doctor in an Insane Asylum — My Patient Destroyed My World Mar 13, 2024

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A psychiatrist knows his patient should never leave the asylum. Then Frederick escapes, bringing the doctor’s professional nightmare into his own home. Michael Kelso’s “I Used to Be a Doctor in an Insane Asylum. My Patient Destroyed My World.” follows a man whose attempts to understand a remorseless killer become a fight for everything he loves. This violent supernatural revenge story crosses institutional horror with a grieving physician’s pursuit of a patient who cannot be reasoned with.
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Terrifying & True | Bill Sparkman — The Census Worker Death Staged to Look Like Murder Mar 11, 2024

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Bill Sparkman’s death in a Kentucky cemetery initially looked like an attack on a census worker. Terrifying & True revisits the 2009 investigation, the “FED” marking that fueled speculation and the forensic findings that challenged the first interpretation. Police concluded that Sparkman had staged his suicide to resemble a homicide, a finding some loved ones struggled to accept. This episode examines how an alarming scene became a national political story before the evidence was understood. What happens when the apparent message of a death obscures its cause? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Old Ones are Hard to Kill: Deathbed Confession and a Dangerous New Boarder Mar 10, 2024

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An elderly landlady hears a dying boarder confess to murder—and soon has another tenant asking careful questions. Ada Canby would prefer to stay out of police business, but the confession may free a man who has spent years in prison. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater mystery about kindness, curiosity and an underestimated woman. Her new boarder seems charming and helpful. The more he wants to know about the dead man, the less comfortable her own house becomes. Can Ada discover what he wants before he knows what she heard?
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The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe — Full Gothic Short Story Audiobook Mar 08, 2024

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An epidemic drives a frightened narrator to a cottage beside the Hudson River, where he sees a creature of impossible size. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Sphinx” turns a quiet retreat into a nightmare of perception: death reports fill the visitor’s thoughts, and a skull-marked shape seems to descend the distant hillside. His host sees reason for a different explanation. This complete Gothic short-story reading explores how isolation and dread can distort what appears directly before our eyes. Is the landscape hiding a monster, or is fear changing the scale of the world?
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Catching a Buzz — A Viral Dare and a Flesh-Eating Fly Infestation Mar 06, 2024

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Strange flies swarm Kohler after Halloween, and a reckless candy-snorting dare gives them a way inside. David O’Hanlon’s “Catching a Buzz” follows babysitter Clarrisa Hart and a town facing far more than an ordinary insect problem. Wounds become breeding grounds, animals suffer and a shadowy figure appears wherever the swarm gathers. This parasitic body-horror story combines a viral challenge, gruesome infestation and a possible supernatural plague. Cold weather should bring relief from flies. In Kohler, it may only make them more desperate for somewhere warm.
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Terrifying & True | Junko Furuta — The Kidnapping, Murder, and Sentences That Outraged Japan Mar 04, 2024

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Junko Furuta was seventeen when she was abducted in 1988 and held captive for weeks before her murder. Terrifying & True examines the investigation, the failures that left her without help and the juvenile sentences that sparked anger in Japan. Written by Morgan Moore, this episode keeps Junko’s life and the people responsible in view while exploring the case’s lasting impact. The horror extends beyond the perpetrators to the opportunities for intervention that were missed. How did so many chances to help pass without bringing her to safety? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | One Hundred in the Dark: A Stolen Sapphire and a Clubroom Test of Trust Mar 03, 2024

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A sapphire ring disappears at a supper party, and the hostess offers the thief one hundred counts of darkness to return it. Unknown Broadcast presents Owen Johnson’s “One Hundred in the Dark,” a Suspense adaptation built around an apparently simple social mystery. A clubroom debate about unsolved crimes leads into a gathering where every guest has something to lose by being suspected. No one needs to move very far; everyone has time to listen. This vintage detective puzzle turns a polite attempt to avoid scandal into a test of friendship, pride and trust.
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Horror 421 Interviews Henrique Couto — Weekly Spooky & Independent Filmmaking Mar 01, 2024

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How do you keep making horror when the budget is small and the release schedule never stops? Charles Campbell turns the microphone on Weekly Spooky creator Henrique Couto in this Horror 421 interview. Their conversation explores independent filmmaking, podcast production and the work behind bringing scary stories to an audience. Henrique discusses the projects competing for his time and the practical choices that keep them moving. A creator conversation for listeners curious about the voice behind Weekly Spooky and the relationship between making movies and making audio horror.
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Till Death Do Us Part: Whitney Mirren’s Cursed Bouquet & Red Wedding Revenge Feb 28, 2024

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A Strickfield wedding becomes a supernatural reckoning when betrayal follows the bride down the aisle. In Rob Fields’s “Till Death Do Us Part,” Whitney Mirren reaches her ceremony with secrets surrounding her fiancé and family. A blood-red bouquet turns vows of devotion into something far harder to escape. This ghost-bride horror story mixes infidelity, possession and a wedding party trapped with the consequences of its own behavior. The flowers are beautiful, the doors are closing, and the promise to stay together may last much longer than anyone intended.
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Monthly Spooky | Valentine's Gifts Gone Wrong, Mothman and Roasted Groundhog! Feb 26, 2024

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Mothman shares the crypt with disastrous Valentine’s gifts and some very strange headlines in Monthly Spooky’s February 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore Point Pleasant’s winged-figure legend, an Alabama mother’s unusual twin delivery and a Florida lawsuit involving an exploding toilet. Romantic expectations, paranormal claims and roasted-groundhog talk give the hosts plenty to question. Cryptid folklore and romantic disasters offer several reasons to be glad your own day was ordinary.
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