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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:

Christmas Scary Stories Vol. 1 | Five Tales of Winter Monsters & Holiday Terror Dec 09, 2022

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Five Christmas horror stories bring danger through the snow: “Biting Cold” by Jeff Carpenter; “Home for Christmas” by Shane Migliavacca; “Christmas Rage” by Rob Fields; “Welcome to Tiny Christmas, Iowa” by Michelle Antisocial; and “Babes in Terrorland” by Morgan Moore. A hunter faces a ravenous beast, a boarding school shelters a stranger, and Strickfield encounters a killer Santa. A town’s relentless cheer and a toy-store break-in complete the collection. Settle in for winter survival, holiday cults and toys with their own ideas about unwanted visitors.
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Krampus Is Comin’ | A Cursed Snow Globe and a Sorority’s Christmas Reckoning Dec 07, 2022

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A Krampus snow globe offers much more than a last-minute Christmas gift in “Krampus Is Comin’” by Rob Fields. Strickfield sorority president Kathy Betcher has learned to answer betrayal with revenge, keeping even her family at a distance. A reluctant visit home sends her to Tinker’s for a present for her little sister, where a horned figure waits behind glass. When its eyes begin to glow, Kathy’s private grudges find a terrifying new outlet. Cursed-object horror meets Christmas folklore in a story about punishment, family and the danger of deciding who deserves it.
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Terrifying & True | Krampus: Alpine Folklore, Krampusnacht & Santa’s Dark Counterpart Dec 05, 2022

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Krampus brings horns, chains and punishment to the Alpine Christmas season. Terrifying & True follows the folklore of Saint Nicholas’s frightening companion through Krampusnacht, winter customs and the masked processions of the Krampuslauf. Birch switches, bells and baskets give the legend its unsettling imagery, while regional traditions and modern reinventions complicate simple claims about its origins. How did a figure meant to frighten children become a holiday attraction celebrated far beyond the Alps—and what still makes those bells sound like a warning? We're telling that story tonight.
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Santa Claus Is Killin’ the Town | A Christmas Reunion Turns into Slasher Horror Nov 30, 2022

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A hometown Christmas reunion turns threatening in “Santa Claus Is Killin’ the Town” by Morgan Moore. Janice joins her girlfriend Molly for a holiday at an old inn in Decatur, hoping an unfamiliar circle of friends might offer the right setting for a proposal. But cozy traditions share the town with a sinister Christmas legend, and the welcoming image of Santa begins to change. This holiday slasher story mixes a queer romance, reunion nerves and the fear of being far from home when the celebration goes wrong. Some Christmas visitors bring more than coal.
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Monthly Spooky | Dark Christmas Origins, Deadly Video Games, Haunted Asylums & Bigfoot Nov 28, 2022

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Dark Christmas traditions, haunted asylums and a Bigfoot story lead this November 2022 Monthly Spooky. Henrique and Michelle bring strange headlines to the crypt, including the idea of a video game with deadly consequences and the frightening stories attached to holiday customs. The movie conversation revisits the Thanksgiving slasher Blood Rage and looks ahead to that year’s Christmas horror releases. Settle in for cryptid curiosity, alleged hauntings and seasonal movie talk as one holiday gives way to another.
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Turkey Terror | Tentacled Thanksgiving Horror in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Nov 23, 2022

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A family’s Thanksgiving feast comes with tentacles in “Turkey Terror” by Douglas Waltz. On the shores of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, hunting the holiday bird is a tradition passed between generations. The meat is delicious; the fear on returning hunters’ faces is harder to explain. After a disastrous hunt brings him home from graduate school, one man heads into the frozen wilderness determined to end the custom. Thanksgiving creature horror meets a family secret whose source waits inside a lakeside cave. What have they really been putting on the table?
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Terrifying & True | Chalino Sanchez: The Unsolved Murder of a Corrido Legend Nov 21, 2022

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Chalino Sanchez’s 1992 murder followed a life that helped make him a corrido legend. Terrifying & True traces his rise from homemade recordings to packed performances, the Coachella concert gunfight and his final return to Culiacán. A note passed to him onstage became part of the mythology, though its contents have never been publicly established. His music, survival and violent death left a legacy that stretches across Sinaloa and Southern California. What can the final performance tell us—and where does the evidence give way to legend? We're telling that story tonight.
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Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s | A Poltergeist’s Strange Job Offer Nov 16, 2022

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A teenage poltergeist gets an unusual job offer in “Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s” by L. F. Falconer. Lucien can see the dead, and his Halloween entertainment business has a place for talents the living cannot provide. At a restaurant, he recruits a restless spirit who remembers little of his own past. Work and companionship sound like a second chance, but Lucien’s kindness comes with secrets of its own. This ghost story blends afterlife melancholy and macabre humor with a troubling question: how well should you know the man offering you a future?
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Terrifying & True | La Mancha Negra: Venezuela’s Mysterious Black Road Stain Nov 14, 2022

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La Mancha Negra was reported as a sticky black stain spreading along Venezuela’s Caracas airport highway. Drivers described dangerously slick pavement, and repeated cleaning attempts only added to the mystery. Terrifying & True examines accounts of changing road conditions, theories involving asphalt, oil and sewage, and the political suspicions that grew around the problem. Dramatic accident figures circulated, but the scale of those claims remains disputed. Was this an unresolved road hazard, a story enlarged by repetition—or a mixture of both? We're telling that story tonight.
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The Fall of Man | A Supermarket Owner Trapped in a Killer’s Game Nov 09, 2022

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A supermarket owner discovers a body in aisle seven in “The Fall of Man” by David O’Hanlon. He built Brown’s General Market into his whole world, advancing as competitors and colleagues suffered suspiciously convenient accidents. Now the exits are chained and a voice over the public-address system knows far too much about his success. Every department becomes hostile territory as he tries to survive inside the business he loves. Darkly comic workplace horror turns ambition, retail routine and a carefully protected past into the ingredients of one very bad closing shift.
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