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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:

Monthly Spooky | Rampaging Rats, Violent Ghosts & an Improvised Horror Story Dec 25, 2023

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A garden ornament turns out to be an old naval shell, rats arrive in alarming numbers and reported ghosts get physical. Monthly Spooky’s December 2023 conversation brings Henrique Couto and Michelle through strange news before they create an improvised horror story together. Listen as an idea develops, unexpected details take over and the hosts turn their own curiosity into fiction. This Christmas visit to the crypt combines paranormal claims, dangerous household surprises and the fun of hearing a scary story assembled as it is told.
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Unknown Broadcast | Seven Christmas Radio Dramas — A Christmas Carol, Suspense & Ghost Stories Dec 24, 2023

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Seven vintage Christmas radio dramas bring ghosts, crime and unexpected grace to the fireside. Hear “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Back for Christmas,” “Christmas Story” (also known as “Three Men”), “Christmas for Carole,” “A Korean Christmas Carol” and “Out for Christmas.” Greer Garson, E. G. Marshall, Dennis Day and Raymond Burr feature across a collection from Suspense, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape and Lights Out. Scrooge’s visitors share the night with desperate choices, a wartime journey and a Santa suit that may change its wearer. More than three hours of holiday radio.
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Inner Raige — Christmas Prison Horror and a Vampire from the Past Dec 23, 2023

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Christmas Eve in prison brings Raige Devereux face-to-face with an enemy the locked gates cannot keep out. Rob Fields’s “Inner Raige” returns to the former serial killer once known as the Angel of Death, now serving her sentence at Glennview Correctional Facility. She is trying to live with her crimes when the past arrives with fangs. This Strickfield holiday story mixes vampire action, prison horror and a struggle over redemption. Raige knows how to kill. Surviving the night may require deciding how much of that old self she is willing to become again.
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Christmas Arcadia — A Cursed VR Game Possesses Arial Mirren Dec 22, 2023

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A Christmas bargain at Tinker’s gives Arial Mirren a virtual world that wants access to her own. Rob Fields’s “Christmas Arcadia” follows a forgotten game console, a persuasive queen and friends who must enter the simulation to find out what is happening to Arial. Mouse, Carter, Mona and Bailey discover that this immersive holiday village has rules nobody explained at purchase. This feature-length Strickfield adventure blends cursed technology, possession and dark fantasy. The game promises escape into another reality. Its ruler may be seeking exactly the same thing.
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Babysitter Massacre: Camp Carnage — Complete Summer-Camp Slasher Audiobook Dec 21, 2023

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A training camp for elite babysitters becomes a masked killer’s hunting ground in David O’Hanlon’s “Babysitter Massacre: Camp Carnage.” Patton Moore founded Camp Care after losing his child to a negligent sitter. Seven candidates arrive hoping to earn credentials that could transform their careers, but deadly traps and murders turn the wilderness against them. Macey must work out who is targeting the campers while hidden histories complicate every alliance. Hear the complete slasher audiobook in one episode, with more than four hours of summer-camp survival horror.
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Scary Christmas to All — Peppermint Ray Hunts the Stolen Naughty List Dec 20, 2023

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A rogue elf steals the Naughty List, and Santa sends his most ruthless operative to get it back. David O’Hanlon’s “Scary Christmas to All” brings Peppermint Ray and carnivorous reindeer Brute Cake to a prison island holding some exceptionally dangerous children. Candy Pain wants to reward the worst of them and overturn the holiday’s moral order. This splatter-horror Christmas comedy combines killer elves, monstrous gifts and a rescue mission with little room for goodwill. Ray knows how to punish. Restoring the balance may demand a different kind of Christmas judgment.
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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The Day Santa Died — Renegade Elves Attack Saint Nick Dec 19, 2023

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Protecting the real Santa Claus is no ordinary security assignment. In Keith Tomlin’s “The Day Santa Died,” former Green Beret John Copeland guards a department-store appearance while renegade elves move into position. Missing teammates and armed intruders turn a public celebration into a battle to evacuate families and reach the rooftop sleigh. This military Christmas horror story puts North Pole magic under siege, with a bodyguard discovering that his employer’s enemies know exactly where the holiday is most vulnerable. Can even Saint Nick survive a carefully planned ambush?
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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4 Twisted Christmas Horror Stories: Killer Santa, Krampus, Robo-Santas & a Killer Elf Dec 19, 2023

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Four Christmas horror stories turn seasonal favorites into threats. Morgan Moore’s “Santa Claus Is Killin’ the Town” brings a red-suited stalker to a holiday reunion; Rob Fields’s “Krampus Is Comin’” unleashes a cursed snow globe; Keith Tomlin’s “Operation Deadly Night” gives a household android dangerous ideas about naughty children; and David O’Hanlon’s “Dead Silent Night” sends Peppermint Ray to collect an overdue punishment. Killer Santas, Krampus possession, murderous robots and a carnivorous reindeer make this an adults-only holiday anthology narrated by Henrique Couto.
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Home Sweet Horror — Krampus Traps an Orphanage at Christmas Dec 18, 2023

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A Krampus snow globe turns an orphanage Christmas into a fight to protect the children. Rob Fields’s “Home Sweet Horror” takes Bailey Downs back to the Pendleton home where she grew up, joined by her Strickfield friends for the holiday celebration. An assistant director’s resentment gives a mysterious gift room to work, and a supernatural blizzard cuts the building off. This feature-length winter adventure combines chosen family, cursed objects and monstrous punishment. Bailey came back to share a good Christmas. Now she must keep the place that raised her from becoming a trap.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Dark & A Shroud for Sarah — Body Horror and Lucille Ball Suspense Dec 17, 2023

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Living darkness, an occult experiment and a murder plot share this four-story night of vintage radio. Unknown Broadcast presents “Speak of the Devil,” Stephen Vincent Benét’s “A Tooth for Paul Revere,” “The Dark” and “A Shroud for Sarah,” starring Lucille Ball. A Scottish household, the American Revolution and a decaying house lead toward terrors ranging from supernatural intrusion to grotesque body horror. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out and Suspense supply the lineup. Four very different dramas ask what happens when a familiar world becomes impossible to trust.
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