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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:

Homecoming: Bella Taibon’s Thanksgiving Battle with Cannibal Monsters Nov 22, 2023

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Bella Taibon takes an ailing Eileen Donnerly to Ravenhenge for Thanksgiving, hoping her grandmother’s books hold a remedy. The hidden ancestral home promises a retreat from Strickfield, until Eileen discovers neighbors preparing a very different holiday meal. Rob Fields’s “Homecoming” pits a master vampire against cannibal creatures in a place absent from ordinary maps. Inherited magic and chosen family shape this supernatural rescue story, where familiar traditions acquire monstrous appetites. Bella wanted to help her friend recover. Now she must keep her from becoming dinner.
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Terrifying & True | D.B. Cooper: Flight 305, the $200,000 Ransom & the Vanishing Hijacker Nov 20, 2023

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D. B. Cooper collected $200,000 after hijacking Northwest Orient Flight 305, then parachuted into the night on November 24, 1971. His disappearance remains an extraordinary aviation mystery. Terrifying & True follows the FBI investigation, the tie left aboard the aircraft and the ransom money later found beside the Columbia River. What can those physical clues establish, and where does speculation begin? Explore the evidence behind the legend of the vanishing hijacker, from the Portland-to-Seattle flight to the search for a man whose identity remains unconfirmed.
Written by Morgan Moore. We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | The Lost Ship & State Executioner: Desert Treasure and a Haunted Hangman Nov 19, 2023

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Two fugitives chase desert treasure while a royal hangman struggles with the voices of the dead. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Lost Ship” and “State Executioner,” vintage dramas from Suspense and Lights Out. Harry and Viola hope a stranded Spanish galleon can offer escape from their troubles, but the wasteland makes every detour costly. Samuel Jones faces a different reckoning as years of executions invade his conscience. These fictional tales join greed, guilt and psychological horror: one pair cannot stop looking for something buried, while another man cannot escape what he remembers.
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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death & a Kingdom by the Sea Nov 17, 2023

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A grieving lover remembers Annabel Lee in a kingdom by the sea, insisting that death cannot break their bond. Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem in a brief spoken-word reading that moves between tenderness, jealousy and Gothic obsession. The speaker blames envious angels for his loss and finds reminders of his beloved in moonlight, stars and the shore. Musical repetition makes the memory feel both intimate and inescapable. Is this devotion that outlasts the grave, or grief that cannot release the living? Poe’s haunting seaside romance leaves room to hear both.
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Newborn — A Vampire Bride Awakens in Strickfield Nov 15, 2023

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You wake after a Strickfield party with missing memories, no reflection and a hunger ordinary food cannot satisfy. Rob Fields’s “Newborn” places listeners inside Eliza’s transformation through a second-person vampire story. A stranger from the party, a friend who knows more than she first admits and an invitation that suddenly matters all point toward an undead existence Eliza never understood. The vampire Arbogast offers a place among his brides, but this new family has dangers of its own. Follow a young woman’s first steps into a night that may never end.
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Terrifying & True | Thierry Tilly — The Conman Who Captured an Aristocratic Family Nov 13, 2023

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Thierry Tilly persuaded members of France’s de Védrines family that hidden enemies were plotting against them, then used that fear to control their relationships, work and fortune. Terrifying & True follows the manipulation from the family’s château at Monflanquin to their isolation in Oxford. Promises of protection escalated into coercion and abuse before an escape helped expose the scheme. This account examines how a trusted adviser gained such power—and how the family began to break free. Tilly was ultimately convicted of crimes including fraud and torture.
Written by Morgan Moore. We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | Carnival in Vienna & Chicken Heart — Crime and Science-Fiction Horror Nov 12, 2023

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A carnival employee sees a chance to steal a fortune; a laboratory experiment threatens to swallow the world. Unknown Broadcast pairs “Carnival in Vienna” from Escape with Arch Oboler’s “Chicken Heart” from Lights Out. Johnny Allison’s scheme involves a sabotaged Ferris wheel, stolen identification and a laughing mechanical clown in postwar Austria. Then living tissue grows beyond containment in a classic science-fiction nightmare. These vintage radio dramas trade the glitter of a midway for the dread of a laboratory, linking criminal ambition with a catastrophe no one knows how to stop.
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The Happiest Day by Edgar Allan Poe: Pride, Power & Joy Already Lost Nov 10, 2023

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Can a happy memory become painful simply because it can never return? Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Happiest Day” in a brief spoken-word reading about vanished pride, lost hope and the distance between youth and the present. The speaker looks back on a moment of glory while love and friendship seem to have lost their warmth. Repeated references to the happiest day make the contrast with his wounded heart increasingly stark. This melancholy poem offers a quieter encounter with Poe, where the haunting comes from memory and the conviction that life’s brightest hour has already passed.
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Horror at the Hexagon House Inn: Haunted Letters from 1934 Black Springs Nov 08, 2023

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Henry Noble’s letters from a Texas inn begin as a writer’s observations and become a record of mounting terror. In Bill Spears’s “Horror at the Hexagon House Inn,” Henry and Victoria leave Chicago in 1934, hoping Black Springs’ dry air will help her persistent cough. Their six-sided lodging soon offers stranger concerns: footsteps, moving furniture and a past that refuses to stay outside their room. This historical ghost story unfolds through correspondence, combining Depression-era atmosphere with possession and buried violence. How much can a letter explain when its author no longer trusts what he sees?
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Terrifying & True | The Lake Bodom Murders — Finland’s Unsolved Camping Massacre Nov 06, 2023

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Three young campers were murdered at Finland’s Lake Bodom in June 1960; their injured companion, Nils Gustafsson, survived. Terrifying & True revisits the lakeside attack, the troubled crime scene and the evidence that drew investigators back decades later. Gustafsson was prosecuted and acquitted in 2005, and the killings remain unsolved. This account separates the known events from suspicions surrounding one of Finland’s best-known murder mysteries. Missing possessions, disputed interpretations and unanswered questions still shape the search for an explanation. We're telling that story tonight.
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