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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:

Terrifying & True | Bobby Dunbar: The Missing Child, Bruce Anderson & a DNA Revelation May 01, 2023

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Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a Louisiana fishing trip in 1912. Eight months later, his parents brought home a boy they believed was their son—but Julia Anderson said the child was hers, Bruce. Terrifying & True follows the search, the disputed identification, and the kidnapping case against William Cantwell Walters. Decades later, DNA testing challenged the reunion and supported Anderson’s claim. One family gained an answer while another mystery remained. If the boy raised as Bobby was Bruce Anderson, what happened to the four-year-old who vanished at Swayze Lake?
We're telling that story tonight.
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The Doomed City by Edgar Allan Poe | Gothic Poetry in a City Ruled by Death Apr 28, 2023

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Death watches from a throne above a silent city in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Doomed City.” Towers, open graves and deserted palaces stand beside motionless water, illuminated by an eerie light rising from the sea. Nothing stirs beneath the darkened sky—until the stillness begins to break. Henrique Couto reads this early Poe poem, drawing you into a landscape where architecture and mortality become inseparable. A brief, atmospheric journey into Gothic poetry, strange waters and the fear of a world abandoned by the living.
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Friday Night Frights | A Cursed Football Jersey and a Dangerous Winning Streak Apr 26, 2023

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A cursed football jersey offers a desperate quarterback the comeback of his dreams in “Friday Night Frights” by Rob Fields. With college scouts watching and an abusive coach threatening his future, Greg Branlake buys the number 00 jersey of Strickfield legend Mick “The Demon” Knight. His passes improve, his strength surges—and his girlfriend Katie sees a change the cheering crowd refuses to notice. How much of himself will Greg surrender to keep winning? A Strickfield horror story of ambition and dangerous power.
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Monthly Spooky | Haunted Airbnbs, Déjà Vu, Cave Isolation & Evil Dead Rise Apr 24, 2023

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Haunted Airbnbs, déjà vu and 500 days alone in a cave: Henrique and Michelle explore unsettling places and unreliable perceptions in this April 2023 Monthly Spooky. A salvage operation becomes a rescue, a vacation rental raises paranormal questions, and extreme isolation changes the meaning of an ordinary day. Then the conversation turns to Evil Dead Rise and the horror of demonic possession at home. Settle into the crypt for strange news, uneasy travel and horror-movie discussion.
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The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe | Gothic Poetry and a Theater of Death Apr 21, 2023

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A theater full of weeping angels watches humanity perform in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm.” The actors chase an elusive phantom while unseen forces move the scenery, trapping the drama in a circle without escape. Then a crawling red shape enters the stage. Henrique Couto reads this macabre poem of mortality, helplessness and the terrible distance between the players and those pulling their strings. Listen as Poe turns an evening at the theater into a compact vision of cosmic horror, where even the audience cannot intervene.
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The House That Killed Me | Haunted-House Exploration and a Warning from the Dead Apr 19, 2023

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Ghostly children warn two video creators to leave an abandoned Oregon house in “The House That Killed Me” by Bruce Haney. Brandon hopes the untouched rooms will make his channel a success; Dan knows the property’s history includes deaths much more recent than Brandon expected. Cameras capture the house’s secrets, but a forgotten piece of equipment draws them back inside after their first encounter. Are the dead protecting their home—or trying to protect its visitors? Haunted-house horror meets the dangerous pursuit of internet fame.
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Terrifying & True | The Battle of Los Angeles — 1,400 Shells, No Enemy Aircraft Apr 17, 2023

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The Battle of Los Angeles sent more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells into the night sky in February 1942, yet no enemy aircraft was confirmed. A wartime blackout, sweeping searchlights and conflicting official explanations turned a coastal air-raid alarm into an enduring UFO mystery. Terrifying & True follows the panic after Pearl Harbor and the nearby Ellwood shelling, then examines the balloon explanation and the photograph that helped fuel decades of speculation. What did the guns actually target—and how much did fear shape what people saw? We're telling that story tonight.
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The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe | A Lifelike Painting and an Obsessive Artist Apr 14, 2023

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A wounded traveler discovers a painting that seems disturbingly alive in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Oval Portrait.” Sheltering in a remote château, he shifts a candle and reveals a young woman’s face in an ornate frame. A book beside his bed holds the portrait’s history: a devoted bride, a painter consumed by his work, and long sittings in an isolated tower. Henrique Couto narrates this Gothic horror story about love, obsession and the price of artistic perfection. What happened outside the frame while the artist pursued the perfect likeness?
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Night of the Tyrants | T. Rex Horror at a Missouri Meth-Lab Trailer Park Apr 12, 2023

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Tyrannosaurs crash a criminal execution in “Night of the Tyrants” by David O’Hanlon. At a Missouri trailer park turned meth lab, Bruce and Maggie Boudreaux face a Dixie Mafia enforcer after stealing from the operation. Then an emergency siren sounds, something heavy crosses the roof, and the people holding the guns discover they are prey. Volatile chemicals, locked-in enemies and prehistoric predators make every escape route a fresh gamble. This darkly comic dinosaur horror story asks who has the worst odds: the thieves, the mobster or anyone between them and the truck.
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Terrifying & True | Tupac Shakur Murder: The 1996 Las Vegas Shooting Apr 10, 2023

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Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Las Vegas murder left a shooting scene, an earlier casino fight and years of conflicting accounts. This April 2023 Terrifying & True episode revisits the fatal attack after the Tyson–Seldon fight, Tupac’s final ride with Suge Knight, and the allegations and theories surrounding the white Cadillac. The recording predates the later prosecution. Case update: Duane “Keffe D” Davis was convicted of first-degree murder on August 31, 2026. How did a public shooting become a mystery that outlived so many of its witnesses? We're telling that story tonight.
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