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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:

Cruel Moon | A Werewolf Transformation Told from Inside the Curse Jul 12, 2023

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A nighttime animal attack leaves a runner with thirty-seven stitches—and wounds that vanish within two days. Then senses sharpen, anger surges, and the full moon brings blood-soaked gaps in memory. “Cruel Moon” tells a werewolf horror story from inside the transformation, as new strength becomes a threat to everyone nearby. Bones shift, appetite changes, and the narrator struggles to understand what happens during the missing hours. This visceral account of lycanthropy asks whether the curse is destroying its victim or revealing something they secretly want. By Anonymous.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Terrifying & True | Danny LaPlante: The Boy in the Walls and the Gustafson Family Murders Jul 10, 2023

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Danny LaPlante’s name is tied to the “boy in the walls” story and the 1987 murders of Priscilla Gustafson and her children Abigail and William in Massachusetts. Terrifying & True examines the home-intrusion accounts that became an apparent-haunting legend, then follows the Gustafson killings, the manhunt, and LaPlante’s conviction. The retellings can be lurid, but the victims and the criminal case were real. How did a story of someone secretly occupying a family’s home become linked to a triple murder—and where does the documented record end?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Summer Slayings | Five Horror Stories of Ghosts, Werewolves, Zombies & Camp Killers Jul 07, 2023

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Five summer horror stories turn swimming, camp, and roadside lodgings into dangerous escapes. “Summer Slayings” features “The Spirit of Langley Pond” by Charles Campbell; “Camp Dead and Buried” by John Oak Dalton; “The Wolf of Fagan County” and “Summer Slaycation” by David O’Hanlon; and “Bed, Breakfast and Zombies” by Keith Tomlin. A vengeful ghost, a camp killer, a werewolf, undead hosts, and bayou creatures make this narrated anthology a long night of hot-weather terror. Pack for the trip—but remember that a remote getaway can also leave you far from help.
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These Dark Woods | Momo, the Missouri Monster, and a Summer Camp Nightmare Jul 05, 2023

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A Momo campfire legend becomes a fight for survival at an isolated summer camp. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Burr tells her young campers about the Missouri Monster, hoping to scare them into paying attention. Then a hulking figure with glowing eyes appears beyond the firelight. Arrows, snares, and traps suggest this predator has planned the hunt. David O’Hanlon’s “These Dark Woods” pits Scout training against a terrifying pursuer—and sends Lucy back toward a nightmare she cannot leave behind. What is stalking the woods, and how much of the campfire story can she trust?
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Possession (1981): Divorce, Doppelgängers & Body Horror Jun 30, 2023

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“Possession” (1981) turns the collapse of a marriage into feverish body horror. Henrique Couto and Selis of Sweet N Spooky discuss Andrzej Żuławski’s cult film, starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as a couple whose separation opens onto jealousy, doubles, and monstrous desire in divided Berlin. Cutting Deep Into Horror explores Adjani’s performance, the subway sequence, and the disturbing creature at the center of Anna’s secret life. This full-spoiler conversation considers how the film makes emotional devastation physical, with discussion of abuse, trauma, and relationship violence.
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Prom Night of the Dead Part 4 of 4 | Roni’s Last Stand at Strickfield’s Corpse Prom Jun 28, 2023

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A corpse-filled prom waits inside the locked gym at Strickfield High. Roni Brunswick and Derek Masters enter a final celebration built around Lillian Johanssen, where murdered classmates form a grotesque court and two living guests still have roles to play. “Prom Night of the Dead” reaches its fourth and final chapter as the apparent haunting forces a confrontation with the secrets behind the killings. Rob Fields brings the Strickfield slasher saga to a showdown of obsession, revenge, and desperate escape. Start with Part 1 to follow the mystery through all four installments.
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Monthly Spooky | Jersey Devil Folklore, Venice’s Green Water & Tasting Spirits Jun 26, 2023

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The Jersey Devil brings Pine Barrens folklore to a Monthly Spooky conversation about the month’s strangest stories. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore New Jersey’s famous cryptid alongside Venice’s fluorescent green canal water, an extended stay beneath the ocean, and a woman who says she can taste spirits. Monster legends share the microphone with unusual claims and odd news, as the hosts follow what makes each story so hard to ignore. What keeps the Jersey Devil alive in the public imagination?
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The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Mansion Horror Jun 23, 2023

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A visit to Roderick Usher’s decaying mansion becomes a nightmare of illness, isolation, and family dread. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” follows a narrator trying to comfort an old friend while Roderick’s sister Madeline lies gravely ill. The house seems to share its inhabitants’ decline, and a storm brings sounds that reason cannot easily explain. Hear the complete Gothic horror story in which a damaged home and a troubled bloodline become inseparable. Is the terror inside the walls, inside the mind, or moving between the two?
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Prom Night of the Dead Part 3 of 4 | A Ghostly Killer Stalks Strickfield High Jun 21, 2023

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A figure resembling the dead Lillian Johanssen is punishing Strickfield High’s summer-school students. Roni Brunswick wants to graduate and stay out of prison, but classmates keep dying and her own history makes her easy to suspect. With Derek Masters beside her, she follows the secrets connecting the victims to the Prom from Hell. Part 3 of Rob Fields’s “Prom Night of the Dead” tightens a high-school slasher mystery of blackmail, revenge, and an apparent ghost. Is Lillian back, or is someone using her memory to prepare one final event? Continue from Parts 1 and 2.
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Terrifying & True | Black-Eyed Children: Doorstep Encounters and an Internet Urban Legend Jun 19, 2023

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Black-eyed children appear at doors and car windows, asking for a ride or permission to come inside. Their requests sound ordinary until witnesses notice eyes without visible whites—and a fear they cannot explain. Terrifying & True explores this modern urban legend through reported encounters, internet retellings, and the recurring invitation motif. From lonely roads to late-night knocks, these stories turn an offer of help into a frightening decision. Are the visitors supernatural, or does the legend reveal something about our fear of trusting strangers?
We're telling that story tonight.
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