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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 | Island of the Dolls, a Surfboard-Stealing Otter & a Haunted Chair Aug 28, 2023

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The Island of the Dolls offers one kind of creepy company; a secondhand chair advertised as “definitely not haunted” offers another. Henrique Couto and Michelle compare eerie places and strange headlines, including Florida’s runaway rabbit population and a sea otter with a habit of stealing surfboards. Monthly Spooky moves from animal mischief to unsettling travel lore, with plenty of room to question a story’s frightening reputation. Would you visit the island—or take the seller’s word about that chair?
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To Her Whose Name Is Written Below | Edgar Allan Poe’s Hidden Valentine Aug 25, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe hides a woman’s name inside a poetic riddle in “To Her Whose Name Is Written Below.” Also known as “A Valentine,” the poem addresses Frances Sargent Osgood while challenging its audience to discover the secret in its lines. Compliment, wordplay, and deliberate misdirection turn a love poem into a puzzle that rewards a closer look at the page. This spoken-word reading offers a different side of Poe: playful, intimate, and fascinated by the things language can conceal. Can you hear the clues before you search for the hidden name?
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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I Guard Windmills and I’m Not Sure if I’ll Survive the Shift | Bigfoot at the Wind Farm Aug 23, 2023

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A night guard’s wind-farm patrol becomes a Bigfoot encounter he may not survive. Scorched trees and a missing turbine point toward something the previous shift has kept quiet. Then a towering creature chases his truck through the dark. “I Guard Windmills and I’m Not Sure if I’ll Survive the Shift” brings cryptid horror to an isolated security job, where learning the site’s history may explain why the forest wants revenge. By Michael Kelso.
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Terrifying & True | Pakistan Urban Legends: Pichal Peri, Karsaz Churail & Haunted Places Aug 21, 2023

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Pakistan’s urban legends warn of beautiful strangers with backward feet, haunted roads, and buildings said to shelter jinn. Terrifying & True explores the Pichal Peri, Karachi’s Karsaz Road, Mohatta Palace, and other places where local history meets supernatural reputation. These are folklore and reported encounters, with details that change across tellers—not verified proof of spirits. Travel through stories of churails, vanishing hitchhikers, and places people avoid after dark. How does an ordinary road or house become a warning passed between generations?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Barbarian (2022): The Rental House, Hidden Tunnel and Underground Nightmare Aug 18, 2023

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“Barbarian” (2022) begins with a double-booked Detroit rental and a stranger at the door. What Tess finds below the house changes the danger completely. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Zach Cregger’s sharp narrative turns, Georgina Campbell’s survival instincts, Bill Skarsgård’s unsettling presence, and Justin Long’s compromised character. Cutting Deep Into Horror explores trust, abuse, empathy, and the hidden spaces that make this horror film so hard to predict. Full-film spoilers follow as the hosts trace how the movie keeps changing the rules of the nightmare.
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Welcome to Black Springs | A New Deputy Finds an Ageless Girl Beneath a Church Aug 16, 2023

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A new deputy arrives in Black Springs, Texas, and discovers the town’s strangest prisoner beneath a church. Sheri Davis expects a quiet fresh start after leaving Dallas. Instead, Sheriff Andy Barnes leads her to a hidden cell holding a girl called Shine, who has not aged in ten years and possesses impossible strength. Father Ortega needs help containing her, but nobody has explained what she is. “Welcome to Black Springs” opens a supernatural small-town mystery where a routine first day exposes a secret the whole job may depend on keeping. By Bill Spears.
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Terrifying & True | The Ashland Massacre: Kentucky’s 1881 Christmas Murders Aug 14, 2023

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A Christmas Eve fire exposed three murders in Ashland, Kentucky, in 1881. Fanny and Robert Gibbons and their friend Emma Thomas were dead, and the search for justice soon sparked more violence. Terrifying & True traces the Ashland Massacre through George Ellis’s confession, the accusations against William Neal and Ellis Craft, and the trials that failed to quiet public fury. A lynching and a deadly confrontation with militia followed. How did outrage over three young victims turn a criminal investigation into a wider tragedy for the community?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Ghoulish Getaways | Five Vacation Horror Stories of Monsters, Maniacs & Zombies Aug 11, 2023

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Five vacation horror stories replace rest and relaxation with predators, roadside danger, and the undead. “Ghoulish Getaways” includes “Bella’s Holiday” and “The Rest Area” by Rob Fields, “Dead and Breakfast” by Morgan Moore, “Bed, Breakfast and Zombies” by Keith Tomlin, and “Wings of Twilight” by L. F. Falconer. Beach trips and unfamiliar lodgings offer places to unwind—until distance from home becomes the problem. This narrated anthology mixes monsters, maniacs, and zombie horror for travelers who know a quiet getaway can feel very different after dark.
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Suspended | Bella Taibon Battles a Succubus for Strickfield High Aug 09, 2023

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A succubus is feeding on Strickfield High, and Bella Taibon must break her suspension to investigate. New student Lavender has the boys enthralled and Principal Matthew Van Diest in her sights. Bella’s vampire abilities usually give her an advantage, but this rival’s supernatural influence may be stronger. “Suspended” sends Bella and her best friend Eileen into a mature supernatural horror story of predatory attraction, mind control, and dangerous school secrets. Stopping the demon means recognizing a threat that everyone else is eager to welcome. By Rob Fields.
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Terrifying & True | Jimmy Hoffa: The Teamsters Boss Who Vanished Outside Detroit Aug 07, 2023

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Jimmy Hoffa went to a meeting outside Detroit on July 30, 1975, and vanished. The former Teamsters president had spent years fighting for power, serving time in prison, and navigating relationships with organized crime. Terrifying & True follows his rise, his struggle to regain influence, and the unanswered questions surrounding the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Michigan. Rivalries and Mafia theories complicate a case whose most important evidence is still missing: Hoffa himself. Who expected him that afternoon, and how did a public figure disappear so completely?
We're telling that story tonight.
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