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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:

Burn on the Bayou | A Haunted Halloween Party and a Deadly Revenge Plot Oct 06, 2023

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A haunted Halloween party on the Louisiana bayou offers a cheating husband the perfect cover for murder. Undead party designer Lucien Greyshire has filled Pickering Manor with frightening effects, grim history, and alligators waiting below. His wealthy client thinks he knows how the evening will unfold. But Lucien has arranged more than entertainment, and the guest list conceals a deadly surprise. “Burn on the Bayou” is Southern Gothic revenge horror by L. F. Falconer, where hiring the perfect host may be the last mistake you make.
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Strife of the Party | A Corporate Halloween Party Becomes an Occult Sacrifice Oct 05, 2023

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A corporate Halloween party becomes a sacrifice to something ancient beneath the office tower. Special-effects artist Bronson James joins Keisha for an evening of costumes, rivalries, and rich executives. Then strange forces drive the guests into violence, elevators become traps, and the building’s ocean-themed décor takes on a dreadful new meaning. “Strife of the Party” mixes workplace satire, occult horror, and an aquatic god demanding payment. Bronson knows how to make fake monsters—but surviving a real one will require a different skill. By David O’Hanlon.
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A New Halloween Legend | A Party at the Haunted Carnovasch Estate Oct 04, 2023

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The abandoned Carnovasch Estate looks like the perfect place for Strickfield’s biggest Halloween party. Castalia Mirren and her girlfriend Bobbi ignore the locked gate and warnings, inviting students from rival schools into the supposedly haunted mansion. Music, costumes, and curiosity fill the house until someone finds a secret passage leading below. “A New Halloween Legend” turns a teenage celebration into forbidden-basement horror, with the estate’s hidden history waiting beneath the party. Some houses have a reputation for a reason. By Rob Fields.
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The Definitive Halloween Horror Movie Watchlist Oct 03, 2023

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Build a Halloween horror movie marathon with Henrique Couto and film fanatic David Denoyer. Their watchlist ranges from family-friendly scares and familiar favorites to darker independent films and overlooked movies set on Halloween. The conversation includes “Mad Monster Party” and the slasher “Trick,” with picks organized around different audiences and October moods. Whether you are planning a group movie night or choosing one last film after the trick-or-treaters leave, this discussion offers places to start beyond the same annual reruns.
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Terrifying & True | The Egging Murder: The Killing of Jonathan Tyler Gilbert Oct 02, 2023

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An egging incident ended with twenty-two-year-old Jonathan Tyler Gilbert dead on a Georgia road. This 2023 Terrifying & True episode follows the shooting near Griffin, the romantic dispute investigators described, and the evidence that led to three arrests. The case shows how a confrontation outside a home became a fatal act of violence. Case update: Sydney Maughon pleaded guilty to malice murder in 2024 and received life with the possibility of parole. What turned a plan to vandalize a house into a killing that left a family grieving?
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Unknown Broadcast | Violent Night & Execution: Fugitives, Revolution and Supernatural Judgment Oct 01, 2023

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A Caribbean revolution traps a fugitive in a church while the man hunting him searches the worshippers. Escape’s “Violent Night” follows a desperate flight through hostile territory, with sanctuary offering little certainty. Then Arch Oboler’s Lights Out drama “Execution” confronts a Nazi officer with a prisoner who seems to return after every hanging. Unknown Broadcast pairs political adventure with supernatural wartime horror in two old-time radio stories about power, revenge, and resistance. One man needs a way out; another discovers that killing cannot silence every voice.
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The Bells | Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Poem of Joy, Alarm & Mourning Sep 29, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” turns a familiar sound into a journey from celebration to dread. Silver sleigh bells give way to golden wedding bells, then clanging alarms and the heavy toll of iron funeral bells. As the rhythm grows more urgent, the same repeated word begins to carry an entirely different feeling. This dramatic poetry reading lets Poe’s musical language build its own Gothic atmosphere, moving through joy, panic, and mourning without a conventional monster. Listen to the bells change—and to the life passing between each peal.
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The Piano Witch | A Haunted Instrument and a Child’s Deadly Lessons Sep 27, 2023

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A child’s piano lessons awaken something hungry inside the instrument. Eight-year-old Brooke Holden begins studying with Norma Brantley, a teacher whose youthful appearance hides a much older secret. The figure visiting Brooke’s dreams wants more than music: it wants a human soul. As a repairman is drawn to the estate, the lessons become part of a witch’s ritual. “The Piano Witch” is occult horror about a haunted piano, an unsettling teacher, and a child learning the wrong kind of power. By Charles Campbell.
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Monthly Spooky | Skinwalker Ranch, Halloween Traditions & a Yoga-Class False Alarm Sep 25, 2023

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Skinwalker Ranch, Halloween traditions around the world, and a yoga class mistaken for a mass killing fill the Monthly Spooky crypt. Henrique Couto and Michelle discuss the Utah ranch’s paranormal reputation, an Atlantic-crossing attempt in a giant hamster-wheel vessel, and the false alarm triggered by a relaxation session in England. Strange news meets haunted-place lore and Halloween conversation, with a few reminders that a frightening first impression may have an ordinary explanation.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Dark Nature (2022): Trauma, Wilderness Survival and Creature Horror Sep 22, 2023

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“Dark Nature” (2022) takes a trauma-recovery retreat into the Canadian wilderness, where something may be hunting the women on the trail. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Berkley Brady’s creature feature, following Joy’s struggle to trust her companions, their guide, and her own perception of danger. The conversation explores the mountain setting, monster design, and the film’s connection between abuse and survival. Cutting Deep Into Horror includes full-film spoilers and discussion of intimate-partner violence, PTSD, and traumatic experiences.
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