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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:

Tarnished Gold | An NFL Quarterback Faces a Demon’s Cruel Game Mar 15, 2023

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An NFL quarterback turns to a demon after three bad games threaten everything he believes about himself in “Tarnished Gold” by David O’Hanlon. Carlton Gold has championships, fame and a vast contract, but Mister Day insists his throwing arm is not the problem. The pale stranger offers help that becomes a brutal test of identity, obligation and self-worth. Carlton must face what success has cost him while a supernatural manipulator rewrites the rules. Football ambition meets psychological torment and body horror in a game no stadium could contain.
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Terrifying & True | Werewolf of Defiance: Ohio’s 1972 Railroad-Track Sightings Mar 13, 2023

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The Werewolf of Defiance stalked Ohio’s railroad tracks in a brief wave of reported sightings in 1972. Workers described a large, hairy figure with an animal-like head; one account included an encounter with something carrying a wooden board. Terrifying & True follows the newspaper attention, police response and local fear that turned the reports into enduring cryptid folklore. Witness claims, possible pranks and familiar animals all belong in the discussion. What moved through the rail yard after dark—and why did a werewolf become the explanation? We're telling that story tonight.
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Ghost Stories Vol. 1 | Five Paranormal Tales of Hauntings and Demons Mar 10, 2023

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A haunted pond, a graveyard after dark and something beneath a neighbor’s house await in “Ghost Stories Vol. 1.” Five supernatural horror stories fill more than two hours:
“Suffer the Little Children” — Dennis Freeman
“The Spirit of Langley Pond” — Charles Campbell
“Homecoming” — Joe Solmo
“Ghost in the Graveyard” — Rob Fields
“The Dead Thing Under the House” — David O’Hanlon
From a couple’s new home to a dare among friends, familiar places become dangerous. Will you recognize the warning before the haunting reaches you?
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I Know Who You Are | A Beagle, a Woodland Haunting and a Terrifying Double Mar 08, 2023

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A beagle follows a scent into the woods, and something follows him home in “I Know Who You Are” by Charles Campbell. Rita adores Miller, but after their ordinary walk turns strange, his nighttime growling and frantic digging suggest a presence she cannot see. A storm draws them back toward the trees, where a familiar face waits on the wrong side of the living world. This supernatural horror story ties a woman’s love for her dog to a woodland haunting and an accusation she cannot outrun. What has Miller found—and why does it know her?
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Terrifying & True | Lake Michigan Triangle: Shipwrecks, Flight 2501 & Great Lakes Mysteries Mar 06, 2023

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Shipwrecks, vanished crews and Flight 2501 helped build the legend of the Lake Michigan Triangle. Terrifying & True explores the Great Lakes region between Ludington, Benton Harbor and Manitowoc, following real disasters alongside the paranormal stories attached to them. From the Rosa Belle to a passenger plane lost over the lake in 1950, the episode asks how dangerous water and gaps in the record become tales of strange lights and missing time. Which details belong to documented tragedy, and which arrived as the legend grew? We're telling that story tonight.
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A Night at the Galleria | Ancient Vampires and an After-Hours Mall Robbery Mar 01, 2023

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Two ancient vampires plan an anniversary at a closed shopping mall in “A Night at the Galleria” by Rob Fields. Theodore and Esme look like children, making it easy to slip past security for a private night of stores, snacks and movies. But a crooked guard and his accomplices have plans for the jewelry counters and payroll safe. When the robbery interrupts the celebration, the thieves mistake the couple for easy targets. After-hours mall horror meets immortal romance in a story about predators who have badly misjudged the company they are keeping.
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Monthly Spooky | Black-Eyed Children, Haunted Rings & Cocaine Bear Feb 27, 2023

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Black-Eyed Children and haunted rings bring urban legends and cursed-object stories to this February 2023 Monthly Spooky. Henrique and Michelle gather in the crypt to discuss unsettling encounters, the fears we attach to ordinary possessions, and the real animal story behind Cocaine Bear. Strange news meets paranormal claims and horror-movie conversation, with room for both curiosity and disbelief. Would you open the door to those children—or put on a ring someone warned you never to wear?
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Ghosts in the Machine | A Bullied Girl and a Face Hidden in Computer Code Feb 22, 2023

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A woman’s face appears inside a school computer’s code in “Ghosts in the Machine” by Shane Migliavacca. Janet Rogers is grieving her parents, enduring cruel classmates and adjusting to her aunt’s unsettling old house when impossible things begin happening around her. The stranger on the screen seems familiar—and promises to help her unlock the world. Is Janet being haunted, or discovering that reality is less solid than it looks? This science-fiction horror story follows a lonely girl whose search for comfort may change far more than her school day.
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Terrifying & True | Natalie Wood: Her Drowning, Conflicting Accounts & Lingering Questions Feb 20, 2023

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Natalie Wood disappeared from the yacht Splendour near Catalina Island in November 1981. Her death was first ruled an accidental drowning, but conflicting accounts of the night and later forensic questions kept the case in public view. Terrifying & True revisits the voyage with Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken and captain Dennis Davern, tracing the disputed timeline and the investigation’s reopening. The account separates recorded findings from allegations about what happened aboard. Why have Wood’s final hours proved so difficult to reconstruct? We're telling that story tonight.
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Gothic Poetry, Lost Lenore and “Nevermore” Feb 17, 2023

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A raven interrupts a grieving scholar’s lonely December night in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Mourning Lenore, the narrator opens his chamber to a visitor whose single word seems to answer questions no living person can resolve. Curiosity becomes dread as he keeps asking, unable to resist the reply. Henrique Couto reads this classic Gothic poem of loss, memory and self-torment, letting its insistent rhythm draw you deeper into the room. Is the bird a messenger, an omen or simply the voice grief has been waiting to hear?
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