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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:

Origin of the Pumpkin Man | A Halloween School Prank and a Monstrous Revenge Oct 12, 2022

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A cruel school prank helps create a Halloween monster in “Origin of the Pumpkin Man” by Charles Campbell. At LBC Middle School’s 1987 Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee, Butch Marker and Steve Vig prepare explosive pumpkins for the festivities. After a child is hurt, science teacher Raymond Mathis receives a packet marked PUMPKIN POTION and an invitation to punish those responsible. The dance is still ahead, but the evening’s rules are already changing. An ’80s Halloween horror story about recklessness, revenge and the frightening birth of a local legend.
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Terrifying & True | Chain Letters: Curses, Pyramid Schemes & Viral Fear Oct 10, 2022

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Chain letters turn a simple instruction—pass this on—into a promise of fortune or a threat of disaster. Terrifying & True follows copied religious warnings, Lucy Meyer’s 1888 fundraising appeal and the money-making schemes that flooded mailboxes long before email spam. Dime letters and the Circle of Gold show how generosity, greed and superstition can keep a message moving. Today the same pressure travels through social feeds and forwarded posts. Why do people who doubt a curse still hesitate to break the chain, and who profits from that hesitation? We're telling that story tonight.
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Dullahan | A Headless Horseman on a Halloween Shortcut Oct 05, 2022

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A Halloween shortcut leads toward a headless horseman in “Dullahan” by Morgan Moore. New to Yatesville, Isaiah Crane accepts a costume-party invitation from the girl he likes, even though his classmates want him dressed as a local man executed for witchcraft. Running late, he takes his bicycle into the woods and discovers that resembling a dead man can attract the wrong kind of attention. Folk horror meets the anxiety of trying to fit in as Isaiah searches for a way back to the party. Some town legends become much harder to dismiss after dark.
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Terrifying & True | Corpsewood Manor Murders (1982): Charles Scudder and Joseph Odom Oct 03, 2022

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The 1982 Corpsewood Manor murders destroyed the secluded Georgia home Charles Scudder and Joseph Odom had built together. Terrifying & True follows the couple’s move from Chicago, their hospitality and the rumors of wealth that drew Kenneth Brock and Tony West to their door. The robbery, killings and trials became tangled with homophobia, occult imagery and the era’s Satanic Panic. Later ghost stories surround the ruins, but the documented crime begins with human choices. How did a dream of privacy become a target for violence and prejudice? We're telling that story tonight.
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Blood Rage | Strickfield’s Angel of Death Hunts a Vampire Sep 28, 2022

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A blood-drained corpse puts a serial killer on a vampire’s trail in “Blood Rage” by Rob Fields. Raige is a Strickfield police intern with a secret appetite for murder, working beside Detective Drake Kazmierczak while trying to keep her own crimes hidden. A fraternity-house investigation points toward a predator whose methods are disturbingly different from hers. Between the case and her growing attraction to Drake, every move risks exposing the Angel of Death. Vampire horror collides with a killer’s double life in the next chapter of Raige’s story.
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Monthly Spooky | La Llorona, Child Ghosts & Halloween Strange News Sep 26, 2022

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La Llorona, the Weeping Woman of folklore, leads this September 2022 Monthly Spooky into Halloween season. Henrique and Michelle discuss reported child ghosts, mystery meat, a real-life Addams family and strange stories from Reddit. The crypt conversation then turns to Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, The Invitation and Pearl, bringing movie reactions alongside urban legends and paranormal claims. It’s a spooky-season snapshot of the tales that travel from haunted waterways to the screen—and the odd headlines in between.
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Not Them | A Paranormal Investigator’s Partner Has Been Replaced Sep 21, 2022

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A paranormal investigator recognizes a stranger where everyone else sees his trusted partner in “Not Them” by Tyler Belmont. Anthony Thomas knows Margaret Clark’s face, voice and history—but the woman arriving at work looks nothing like her. Colleagues accept the change, and even Margaret’s wife seems unaware that anything is wrong. Anthony’s experience with monsters offers little comfort when memory itself becomes unreliable. This supernatural identity-horror story asks what happens when the person beside you changes and you’re the only one who notices.
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Terrifying & True | Texarkana Moonlight Murders: The Phantom Killer Sep 19, 2022

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The 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders left five people dead and a border town afraid of the dark. Terrifying & True follows attacks on lovers’ lanes and at a farmhouse, the survivors’ accounts and the investigation of the figure called the Phantom Killer. The case helped inspire The Town That Dreaded Sundown, but the real people behind the screen legend deserve a closer look. Fear, conflicting clues and an elusive attacker turned ordinary nighttime routines into a source of dread. What could investigators establish—and what remained beyond their reach? We're telling that story tonight.
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Ophiuchus | A Mysterious 1982 Arcade Game Demands More Than Quarters Sep 14, 2022

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A strange arcade cabinet waits inside a gas station in “Ophiuchus” by Dan Wilder. It’s 1982, and twelve-year-old Darcy Reed is looking for a game worth her quarters at Rocco’s Gas and Go. The unfamiliar machine offers something she has never played before, but its alien imagery and unsettling demands suggest the stakes extend beyond a high score. Retro gaming nostalgia gives way to science-fiction horror as Darcy learns that the controls do more than move a character on a screen. What happens when the game starts making its own moves—and expects her to keep playing?
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Terrifying & True | Sylvia Likens: The 1965 Murder and Ivan Rogers’s Memorial Sep 12, 2022

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Sylvia Likens was sixteen when she was murdered in Indianapolis in 1965. This Terrifying & True account by John Oak Dalton examines Gertrude Baniszewski’s household, the abuse others witnessed and the trial that followed. It also traces a less familiar connection: filmmaker Ivan Rogers, a child in the city at the time, later worked to preserve Sylvia’s memory through a public memorial. The episode contains graphic accounts of child abuse and torture. How did a neighborhood fail Sylvia—and how did one man choose to remember her? We're telling that story tonight.
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