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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:

File 137 | A Cybernetic Hacker Opens a Forbidden Memory in 2190 May 24, 2023

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In 2190, cybernetic hacker Carly hunts a forbidden file that has left other data thieves dead. A self-erasing preview promises the answer: a neural recording from a secret laboratory where an impossible specimen begins to move. Then Carly’s systems overload, and disconnecting may no longer be enough. “File 137” turns curiosity into cyberpunk horror, with virtual reality, wet-wired implants, and knowledge that refuses to stay safely behind a screen. Mike Ashkewe’s science-fiction horror story asks what happens when opening a file gives something access to you.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Terrifying & True | King Tut’s Curse: Deaths After the Tomb or Media-Made Myth? May 22, 2023

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King Tut’s curse became a worldwide story after Lord Carnarvon died months after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Terrifying & True revisits Howard Carter’s 1922 excavation, the deaths attached to it, and the newspaper coverage that made ancient revenge seem possible. Coincidence, illness, and the long lives of many people associated with the tomb complicate the legend. Explore the Curse of the Pharaohs as a collision of Egyptology, fear, and sensational storytelling. Was a boy king guarding his burial—or were modern readers helping build a myth?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Spirits of the Dead | Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Poem of Mourning & Unseen Company May 19, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “Spirits of the Dead” turns solitude beside a tombstone into the feeling of being surrounded. The dead who were known in life seem present again, while stars, shadow, and still air deepen the mystery. This atmospheric poetry reading explores mourning and unseen companionship through the quiet imagery of Gothic verse. There is no need for a violent apparition when the whole night can feel occupied. Listen to a brief, intimate Poe poem in which being alone does not mean being free of those who came before—and silence offers little certainty.
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Wolf Rage | Danielle Boyd’s Werewolf Curse and the Strickfield Church Massacre May 17, 2023

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Danielle Boyd returns to Strickfield with a werewolf curse and a temper that can trigger the change without a full moon. Once a successful Malibu model, she now hides her secret while confronting the religious household she escaped. When violence at the local church turns into a massacre, Danielle becomes a suspect in killings she knows were not hers. “Wolf Rage” brings transformation horror, family control, and a supernatural murder mystery into Rob Fields’s Strickfield universe. Can a woman carrying a monster inside her convince anyone that a different killer is responsible?
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Terrifying & True | SUNDS: Hmong Refugee Sleep Deaths, Nightmares & a Medical Mystery May 15, 2023

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Sudden deaths during sleep left Southeast Asian refugee families and doctors searching for answers. Terrifying & True examines Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome, or SUNDS, with attention to Hmong experiences of displacement, nightmare traditions, and the medical investigation into abnormal heart rhythms. The episode also explores the real reports that helped inspire Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Spiritual interpretations belong to the cultural history, not proof of a supernatural cause. What lies behind a fear that sleep itself could be fatal?
We're telling that story tonight.
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Fairyland | Edgar Allan Poe’s Moonlit Poem of Dreams & Unease May 12, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fairyland” carries the listener into a dreamscape where immense moons descend over mountains, valleys, and shadowed water. Clouds become strange garments, familiar landscapes lose their scale, and beauty remains just beyond explanation. This spoken-word poetry reading offers a quieter kind of unease, built from changing light and the sense that the natural world has slipped into a dream. Enter a lesser-known corner of Poe’s imagination, where the setting itself supplies the mystery. What happens to wonder when nothing around you stays the same size?
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The Thin Place | Irish Folklore, a Dullahan & the Ohio Woods Between Worlds May 10, 2023

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An abandoned bridge in Ohio leads a teenage camper into the world of his grandmother’s Irish folklore. Rich dismisses her warnings until distant lights draw him across a boundary into woods where a headless rider and stranger creatures are real. The dullahan, the pooka, and old protective customs become more than fireside stories as a cabin gathering turns deadly. “The Thin Place” blends Celtic folklore with wilderness horror, forcing a skeptical boy to remember what might get him home. David O’Hanlon’s story asks which family warning you would wish you had believed.
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Terrifying & True | Wall Street Bombing of 1920: America’s Unsolved Financial District Attack May 08, 2023

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A horse-drawn wagon exploded on Wall Street at lunchtime on September 16, 1920, killing 38 people and injuring many more. Terrifying & True reconstructs the blast outside New York’s financial institutions, the rescue effort, and an investigation that never established who built the bomb. Threatening flyers, anarchist suspects, and a hurried cleanup complicated the search for answers. Behind the attack’s famous location were clerks, messengers, and other workers caught in the street. Who brought the wagon there, and why did the trail to the bomber go cold?
We're telling that story tonight.
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The Haunted Palace | Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Allegory of a Mind in Ruins May 05, 2023

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Haunted Palace” begins with a radiant building filled with music and harmony, then lets sorrow change every room. Glowing windows darken, beautiful voices become discordant, and the palace turns into an image of a mind losing its order. This Gothic poetry reading explores psychological collapse through architecture, sound, and haunting visual detail. The horror comes from watching something once alive with meaning become impossible to recognize. Listen for the human features hidden in the building as Poe makes a ruined kingdom feel painfully close.
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The Eighth Abigail | Christmas, Cloning & a Gothic Family Secret May 03, 2023

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An undead child stands in a Christmas snowstorm, watching the house where her mother is preparing another replacement. A mortician has secretly sheltered the eighth Abigail after her geneticist sister’s attempts to restore a lost daughter kept failing. Now compassion, grief, and the responsibility for those discarded children collide. “The Eighth Abigail” is L. F. Falconer’s wintry Gothic horror story of cloning, resurrection, and a family unable to accept death. What happens to a child brought back as a miracle when she cannot be the person her mother remembers?
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