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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:

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Funny Games (2007): Home-Invasion Terror and Audience Complicity Aug 04, 2023

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“Funny Games” (2007) turns a family’s vacation into a home invasion that refuses to obey the usual thriller rules. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Michael Haneke’s psychological horror film, its chilling politeness, fourth-wall breaks, and deliberate denial of relief. The attackers seem to understand the audience’s expectations as well as their victims’ fears. Cutting Deep Into Horror examines violence, helplessness, and the discomfort of watching a movie that looks back at you. This is a full-spoiler discussion of the 2007 film and its confrontational approach to suspense.
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The Stop-Sign Man | A Birthday Dare and a South Carolina Urban Legend Aug 02, 2023

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A stolen stop sign and an eight-sided barn are the ingredients for a South Carolina birthday dare. Seventeen-year-old Stratton Duke knows the rules: go alone, tell nobody, and never get caught. He wants to impress his classmates, but summoning the Stop-Sign Man brings consequences that follow him home. “The Stop-Sign Man” turns a rural urban legend into a coming-of-age nightmare, where a familiar road symbol becomes the face of something waiting in the dark. A County Line Horror story by Bryce Gibson. How do you undo a ritual you never believed in?
More: https://www.countylinehorror.c...
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Monthly Spooky | Philadelphia Experiment, Basement Screams & Fish with Human Teeth Jul 31, 2023

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The Philadelphia Experiment promises a vanished warship and a secret naval disaster—but how much belongs to legend? Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the story of the USS Eldridge alongside reports of screams beneath a basement and fish with humanlike teeth. Monthly Spooky brings military conspiracy lore, strange animal news, and unsettling household sounds into one crypt conversation. Follow the claims and oddities without mistaking an enduring paranormal story for established history.
Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...
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The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe’s Revenge in the Catacombs Jul 28, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” invites you below the carnival and into a revenge plot disguised as hospitality. Montresor offers Fortunato a taste of rare wine, knowing the proud connoisseur will follow him through the family catacombs. Damp walls, ancestral bones, and a worsening cough mark their descent while the supposed host keeps offering chances to turn back. This complete Gothic horror reading follows one man’s carefully controlled confession. What insult could justify his plan—and why is he so certain he can punish without consequence?
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Hell Hath No Fury | A Vengeful Ghost Confronts True-Crime Influencers Jul 26, 2023

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A young bride’s tragedy becomes a ghost legend—and a tempting subject for true-crime influencers. Zelda Mae Darling’s life unravels after a dinner-party disaster, leaving a history shaped by public judgment and a demand for punishment. Decades later, creators chasing attention treat the story as material for another stunt. “Hell Hath No Fury” brings supernatural revenge to the world of haunted tourism, online fame, and people who turn someone else’s suffering into entertainment. Aaron Michael Cook’s ghost story asks what happens when the woman behind the legend finally gets a say.
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Terrifying & True | Titanic Mysteries: Ice Warnings and the Olympic-Switch Theory Jul 24, 2023

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Titanic’s sinking left a documented maritime disaster and a century of theories in its wake. Terrifying & True examines missed ice warnings, lifeboat failures, and claims about fire and construction alongside the unsupported idea that Titanic was secretly exchanged with its sister ship Olympic. The episode follows the divide between evidence and conspiracy lore surrounding the April 1912 tragedy. More than 1,500 people died; the search for explanations has never stopped. Which questions reveal real failures, and which turn a catastrophe into a more elaborate story?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Weekly Spooky at 200 Episodes | How the Audio Horror Show Is Made Jul 21, 2023

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How do you keep an independent horror podcast going for 200 episodes? Filmmaker and journalist Andrew Shearer interviews Henrique Couto about Weekly Spooky’s first major milestones, the work behind the narration, and the collaborators who keep the stories coming. Their conversation looks at the demands of a weekly release schedule and the ambitious production of episode 200. Hear the person behind the microphone discuss building an audio-horror show, learning along the way, and what comes next. A behind-the-scenes visit for listeners curious about how their scares are made.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Over the Scare | A Live Radio Séance Becomes Demonic Possession Jul 19, 2023

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A recovered cassette captures a radio show’s final broadcast after a psychic interview goes horribly wrong. WGAB’s hosts expect jokes and a ratings boost from medium Sophia Martin. When Ricky challenges her to summon a real spirit, something called Lock answers—and begins exposing secrets live on the air. “Over the Scare” is a lost-broadcast horror drama about possession, guilt, and a studio that can no longer control its guest. Written by Henrique Couto; starring Couto, Dan York, and Rachael Redolfi. What would you do if the voice on the radio knew what you had done?
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Terrifying & True | Lost Colony of Roanoke: What Happened to the 1587 Settlers? Jul 17, 2023

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke was gone when John White returned in 1590. Three years earlier, English settlers had arrived on the North Carolina coast, including White’s daughter Eleanor Dare and granddaughter Virginia. Delayed supplies, conflict, and the carved word “CROATOAN” left a mystery that still invites competing explanations. Terrifying & True follows the settlement’s history and theories of relocation, survival, and assimilation with nearby Indigenous communities. Did the colonists disappear—or leave clues to a future their returning governor never found?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Imitation | Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem of Dreams, Pride & Lost Hope Jul 14, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “Imitation” looks back on a private world of dreams, pride, and a bright hope that has slipped away. The speaker describes an early life shaped by visions others could not share, with memory hovering between waking thought and dream. This brief poetry reading offers the melancholy side of Poe: no pursuing monster, just the unsettling distance between a remembered inner world and the present. Listen as mystery and lost possibility take the place of a conventional ghost, in an intimate piece for lovers of Gothic poetry and reflective verse.
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