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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:

Terrifying & True | The Murder of Martha Moxley: Mischief Night and the Skakel Case Oct 16, 2023

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Martha Moxley was fifteen when she was killed with a golf club in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Mischief Night 1975. Pieces of a broken club led investigators toward the neighboring Skakel household, but the case would take decades to reach a courtroom. Terrifying & True follows the evidence, disputed accounts, and Michael Skakel’s murder conviction, which was later vacated; prosecutors dropped the charge in 2020. He maintains his innocence. The story examines wealth, a stalled investigation, and a family’s pursuit of answers. What happened after Martha left her friends that October night?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Unknown Broadcast | Let Me See Your Face & The Waxwork: Classic Radio Horror Oct 15, 2023

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A veiled stranger sits alone in a hotel garden, and one guest cannot resist seeing her face. Beyond Midnight’s “Let Me See Your Face” follows curiosity past repeated warnings into a supernatural encounter. Then Herbert Marshall performs “The Waxwork,” a Suspense adaptation of A. M. Burrage’s story about a journalist spending the night among a museum’s notorious murderers. One figure seems far too alert for wax. Unknown Broadcast pairs two old-time radio mysteries about the danger of looking closer, from an ominous garden to a chamber of horrors after closing time.
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Six More Devious Tales of Halloween | Headless Riders, Pumpkin Monsters & Deadly Games Oct 14, 2023

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Six Halloween horror stories turn familiar October sights into threats: a headless rider, a pumpkin monster, a grinning figure, and games that go too far. Hear “Dullahan” by Morgan Moore; “Origin of the Pumpkin Man” by Charles Campbell; “The Grinner” by Henrique Couto; “Ghost in the Graveyard” by Rob Fields; “Tricks and Treats” by Keith Tomlin; and “The Night Stocker” by Shane Migliavacca. This extended anthology moves from Irish folklore and haunted-bridge terror to sinister trick-or-treating and a supermarket slasher. Which Halloween tradition would you dare to try?
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Future Taibon | A Vampire Wakes as a Machine in a Monster-Ruled 2099 Oct 13, 2023

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Cassillia Taibon wakes in 2099 with a vampire’s memories and a machine’s body. The world outside her crypt has fallen to Hellweaver, leaving Strickfield abandoned and monsters roaming the ruins. Her new systems offer extraordinary power, but surviving scorpion-tailed werewolves and a tyrant’s sacrifices will take more than metal beneath synthetic skin. “Future Taibon” sends a resurrected vampire hybrid into post-apocalyptic horror, where her mission may be the last chance to change a conquered world. How do you fight evil after it has already won? By Rob Fields.
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Vampire Night | A Cleveland Bachelorette Party Becomes a Vampire Siege Oct 12, 2023

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A Cleveland bachelorette party becomes a vampire siege when three bloodthirsty strangers enter the Wings and Dings strip club. Megan and her friends planned one last wild night before her wedding. Now flashing lights hide the first attacks, exits become traps, and bartender Joan must find a route through the chaos. “Vampire Night” delivers a feature-length horror novella of punk bloodsuckers, desperate survivors, and a celebration turning into a massacre. Written by Joe Ruston and narrated by Henrique Couto. The party is over; the hunt has begun.
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A Zombie’s Halloween | An Undead Cheerleader Attacks Strickfield Academy Oct 11, 2023

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A zombie cheerleader brings Halloween revenge to Strickfield Academy. Bernadette Hallow already hates the strict Catholic school when a bite in the woods changes her into something hungry, powerful, and very hard to discipline. She returns with an undead army and a grudge against the students and staff. But Headmistress Hiltonson has a secret life hunting monsters, and she has no intention of surrendering her campus. “A Zombie’s Halloween” pits flesh-eating rebellion against a prepared opponent in Rob Fields’s darkly comic Strickfield horror story. Who will be left when the school day ends?
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Books for Halloween | Cameron Chaney of Library Macabre Oct 10, 2023

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Halloween reading gets a visit from Cameron Chaney, horror author and creator of Library Macabre. He joins Henrique Couto to talk scary books, seasonal reading, and the stories that belong beside a dark October night. Their picks include “Dark Harvest,” with talk of Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree” and Cameron’s own “Autumncrow High: Fresh Hell.” Build a Halloween reading list with two horror enthusiasts swapping recommendations and discussing what makes a book worth staying up for. A relaxed book conversation for readers ready to find their next spooky-season obsession.
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Terrifying & True | Yoshihiro Hattori: The Halloween Wrong-Door Shooting in Louisiana Oct 09, 2023

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Yoshihiro “Yoshi” Hattori was a sixteen-year-old Japanese exchange student looking for a Halloween party when he reached the wrong house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On October 17, 1992, homeowner Rodney Peairs shot him after a confrontation at the door. Terrifying & True examines the mistaken address, cultural misunderstanding, and sharply different criminal and civil outcomes: Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, then held liable in the civil case. How did a teenager’s night of celebration become a tragedy that reached families on both sides of the Pacific?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | A Night in Murder’s Den & Spiders: Wax Museum Killers and Amazon Terror Oct 08, 2023

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A wax museum’s murderers seem to watch an overnight guest, while an enormous spider offers two desperate men a dangerous chance at riches. Beyond Midnight’s “A Night in Murder’s Den” follows journalist Raymond Hewson into Mariner’s Waxworks, where one killer’s eyes seem much too alive. In Lights Out’s “Spiders,” Joe and Dixie try to capture an Amazon creature they should have fled. Unknown Broadcast pairs old-time radio suspense with jungle monster horror: two stories in which the prospect of a payday keeps men close to something they already know they should fear.
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Six Horrifying Tales of Halloween | Cursed Treats, Mutant Creatures & Satanic Panic Oct 07, 2023

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Six Halloween horror stories turn seasonal treats and celebrations into traps. Hear “Pumpkin Spice and Nothing Nice” by Charles Campbell; “Retro Halloween Weekend” by Rob Fields; “The Halloween Party” by Keith Tomlin; “A Wet and Wild Halloween” by David O’Hanlon; “Halloween 198666” by Daniel Wilder; and “Mischief Night: The Halloween Invasion” by Shane Migliavacca. Cursed cravings, mutant creatures, and a night of satanic panic fill this extended narrated anthology. Pick a comfortable seat for six different ways October can go horribly wrong.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

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