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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:

Mad as Hell | A Strickfield Vigilante Hunts the Halloween Killer Next Door Sep 20, 2023

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A Strickfield vigilante discovers a second killer operating dangerously close to home. She has spent years targeting people she considers deserving of punishment, but the corpse found near her house is not her work. Someone is turning the neighborhood’s Halloween decorations into murder scenes—and bringing attention she cannot afford. “Mad as Hell” follows a killer hunting another killer through small-town suspicion, family tension, and a holiday dispute that becomes far more than a feud over lawn displays. A Halloween slasher story by Rob Fields.
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Terrifying & True | Amber Wilde: The Pregnant Student Who Vanished in Green Bay Sep 18, 2023

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Amber Wilde vanished from Green Bay, Wisconsin, in September 1998. The nineteen-year-old pregnant student had spoken with her father after a minor car crash, then stopped answering his calls. Her car later appeared near Lambeau Field with her belongings inside, the driver’s seat moved, and roughly 900 unexplained miles on the odometer. Terrifying & True follows the timeline, diary entries, and troubling clues in the search for Amber. Who drove her car after she disappeared, and what could those extra miles reveal about the student who never returned home?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Bonus Spooky | Splintered in Her Head: A Buried Identity Returns in Queer Horror Sep 15, 2023

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Lulu DuBois buried the identity she was expected to live with. Now something is clawing its way out of that symbolic grave. Her life with her wife Denise is threatened by a violent double determined to reclaim her body and future. “Splintered in Her Head” turns the fear of being forced back into an unwanted life into supernatural body horror. Morgan Moore’s story follows a transgender woman defending the person she has become, with love and self-possession at stake. This Bonus Spooky episode asks what happens when the past refuses to stay buried.
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I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret | Missing Minutes & Missing People Sep 13, 2023

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Two minutes vanish from a gas station’s security footage every night. Then an engagement ring turns up in a chicken nugget, and two overnight workers begin asking questions the company does not want answered. White vans, missing people, and a coworker’s strange decline expose a threat behind the convenience-store routine. “I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret” is workplace horror by Michael Kelso.
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Terrifying & True | Henry Lee Lucas: The Confession Killer and His False Claims Sep 11, 2023

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Henry Lee Lucas confessed to hundreds of murders, helping close cases across the United States. But travel records, contradictory accounts, and impossible timelines raised a disturbing question: how many of those confessions were false? Terrifying & True examines the Confession Killer, his confirmed violence, and the investigators who accepted his claims. Theme: Ray Mattis. Music: AudioBlocks. Executive producer: Rob Fields. What happens to victims’ families when an apparent answer sends the search for a killer in the wrong direction?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | The Host (2006): Bong Joon-ho’s River Monster and Family Horror Sep 08, 2023

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Bong Joon-ho’s “The Host” (2006) brings a river monster into the heart of Seoul—and tears a family apart when it takes a young girl. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore the Park family’s desperate rescue effort, the creature’s design, and the film’s sudden shifts between horror, grief, and dark comedy. Their discussion connects environmental contamination and failed authorities with the personal stakes that make this Korean monster movie hurt. Cutting Deep Into Horror includes full-film spoilers as the hosts examine why the family matters as much as the beast.
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The House in the Woods | Spider Horror in Oregon’s Alder Creek Woods Sep 06, 2023

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A hiker searching for an Oregon ghost town discovers a house guarded by spider-filled jack-o’-lanterns. Inside lies enough treasure to change his life, along with an eight-eyed creature he barely escapes. Years later, his wife Sarah needs an operation he cannot afford, and the memory of that hidden fortune draws him back toward Alder Creek. Told as a letter he hopes she never reads, “The House in the Woods” pits devotion against the knowledge that something monstrous is still waiting among the trees. A woodland creature-horror story by Bruce Haney.
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Terrifying & True | Dan Rather’s “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” Attack: The Mystery Behind R.E.M.’s Song Sep 04, 2023

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“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” became a famous R.E.M. lyric after a baffling attack on CBS anchor Dan Rather. In October 1986, a stranger beat him on a New York sidewalk while repeating the question. Terrifying & True follows the assault, the phrase’s journey into popular culture, and the later identification of William Tager, whose claims about television messages offered a disturbing possible explanation. The incident became a musical reference, but it began with a real victim. Why was Rather targeted, and what did that strange question mean?
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Freaky Food and Demonic Drink | Seven Food Horror Stories of Cursed Meals & Cannibal Appetites Sep 01, 2023

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Seven food horror stories serve deadly honey, sinister feasts, cursed coffee, and cannibal appetites. Hear “All the Busy Bees” by David O’Hanlon; “For the Mother” by Mark T. B. Shields; “You Are What You Eat” and “Good to the Last Drop” by Rob Fields; “The Dinner Guests” by Shane Migliavacca; “Thanksgiving Dinner” by Rachael Redolfi; and “Taco Tuesday” by Keith Tomlin. “Freaky Food and Demonic Drink” turns familiar meals into traps, from an office craving to a family dinner nobody should attend. Come hungry for narrated horror; leave the leftovers alone.
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Feline Troubles | A Demon Possesses the Family Cat Aug 30, 2023

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The family cat is hungry, vicious, and behaving like something that should never have come out of the basement. After Pashmina develops a strange illness, Coco begins showing the same disturbing changes—and the children become targets. Their father tries to protect the household as an aging pet turns into a relentless threat. “Feline Troubles” transforms the comfort of a familiar animal into demonic-possession horror, with a crooked jaw, red eyes, and a family suddenly afraid of its own home. By Douglas Waltz. Is the danger really confined to the cat?
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