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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:

This Week in Horror History | Freaky, The X-Files, DOOM & The Mad Ghoul - Nov 9-Nov 15 Nov 10, 2026

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November 9–15, 2026 in horror history: Freaky turns body swapping into a slasher trap, The X-Files enters the surgical nightmare of Sanguinarium, and DOOM brings Hell to Nintendo Switch. Revisit John Carradine’s sinister puppeteer in Bluebeard and Universal’s The Mad Ghoul, where a professor turns his student into an instrument of control. Connect these film, TV and game anniversaries through stolen identities and dangerous authority, celebrate four horror birthdays, and add Bryan Bertino’s The Monster to your watchlist for a tense mother-and-daughter survival story on a dark road.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Terrifying & True | John List: The Family Killer Who Hid for 17 Years Nov 09, 2026

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John List murdered five members of his family at Breeze Knoll in Westfield, New Jersey, on November 9, 1971—then built a second life as Robert Clark. This true crime episode follows his written confession, 17 years as a fugitive and the viewer tip that helped end the manhunt after America's Most Wanted aired his case. Archival interviews and broadcast audio bring the investigation into focus, alongside the lives of Helen, Alma, Patricia, John Jr. and Frederick.
Narrated by Henrique Couto.
How did a killer who signed his own confession stay hidden so long? We're telling that story tonight.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Unknown Broadcast | War’s Long Shadow: Wartime Secrets & Old Time Radio Suspense Nov 08, 2026

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Unknown Broadcast follows war’s long shadow through four old time radio dramas of courage, betrayal and buried secrets, selected for Veterans Day week.
“The Ghost of Andersonville” (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, 1982): a freed Union prisoner accuses a general of betrayal.
“The Man Who Won the War” (Escape, 1950): a naval treason case is reopened.
“Tarawa Was Tough” (Suspense, 1957): Marines face a deadly Pacific landing.
“Lady on a Yacht” (The Whistler, 1953): a woman’s Nazi past threatens her new life.
From the Civil War to World War II, the fighting ends—but its secrets survive.
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Do Not Let It In | 5 Horror Stories of Unseen Visitors & Intruders Nov 07, 2026

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Five horror stories turn shelter into a trap: unexplained knocking outside an isolated ice hut, a hidden tunnel beneath an old house, a tape predicting a repairman’s death, a masked intruder stalking a babysitter, and a paranormal investigator’s strangely changed partner. Home invasion terror meets supernatural suspense. Dare to answer the door?
“Knock, Knock” — Written by Gary D.
“Come On In” — Written by Morgan Moore.
“I Do Not Know You” — Written by Tyler Belmont.
“Intruder in the Night” — Written by David O’Hanlon.
“Not Them” — Written by Tyler Belmont.
Narrated by Henrique Couto.
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When Darkness Calls: 7 True Crime Stories of Stalkers, Scams & Murder Nov 06, 2026

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An anonymous letter writer targets a town. A psychiatrist takes over his patient’s life. When Darkness Calls explores seven true crime stories of stalking, scams and murder from Terrifying & True: the Circleville Letters, Dan Rather’s “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” attack, Thierry Tilly’s con, Marty Markowitz’s exploitation, Brian Barrett’s murder, Dorothy Jane Scott’s unsolved case and the Gardner Museum heist.
Narrated by Henrique Couto. Thierry Tilly segment written by Morgan Moore.
After Dorothy vanishes, the calls keep coming. Who is on the line? We're telling that story tonight.
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The Devil’s Stone: Shebbear’s Ritual to Keep Evil Away | Thursday Thrills Nov 05, 2026

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The Devil’s Stone in Shebbear, Devon, has an annual appointment: every November 5, bellringers turn the boulder in a ritual said to keep misfortune away. Henrique Couto follows the bells and crowbars into stories of St Michael, a stone that wouldn’t stay put, and a wartime delay that troubled the village. Why keep turning it when even longtime participants can’t explain how the custom began? Explore dark folklore, British legends, and the people who keep an eerie tradition alive. Halloween may be over, but this Thursday Thrills leaves one last question waiting in the dark: what might be underneath?
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Until the Cows Come Home | A Cattle Mutilation Horror Story Nov 04, 2026

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Cattle mutilations bring USDA agent Ben Akers to a remote Colorado ranch in “Until the Cows Come Home.” Two heifers have been drained of blood, and the rancher reports strange lights and a low hum during thunderstorms. Ben expects an explanation he can put in a report. Then he finds something inside the carcasses that his years of experience cannot explain. This UFO horror story follows a skeptical investigator into a storm where the missing evidence may be the least of his problems.
Written by George Larson. Narrated by Henrique Couto.
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This Week in Horror History | Jacob's Ladder, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Siren & Starship Troopers - Nov 2-Nov 8 Nov 03, 2026

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November 2-8 in horror history: Jacob's Ladder turns a veteran's New York commute into a psychological nightmare, while Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein gives the Creature a voice. Revisit Siren's sightjacking survival horror and Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers satire, then dive into Barry Levinson's The Bay, a fictional Chesapeake outbreak assembled from scattered cameras. Four genre birthdays and Rod Serling's 1969 Night Gallery pilot round out a week of horror movies, television and games that ask who controls the official story, and what the evidence leaves behind.
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Terrifying & True | New England Vampire Panic: Why Families Burned the Dead Nov 02, 2026

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Mercy Brown was dead. Her brother was dying. New England’s vampire panic drove families to open graves and burn hearts, hoping to save the living from tuberculosis, then called consumption. Henrique Couto traces Rhode Island’s vampire folklore, Connecticut’s mysterious JB55 burial and the evidence behind America’s graveyard rituals. Hear archival recordings of folklorist Michael Bell, Everett Peck and archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni. With Thanksgiving’s promise of reunion as its backdrop, why did grieving families seek a cure inside a coffin? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | When the Veil Won’t Close: Ghost Stories After Halloween Nov 01, 2026

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Unknown Broadcast keeps Halloween’s chill alive with four old-time radio mysteries of grief, witchcraft and the boundary between life and death.
✦ The Dead Deserve to Rest — A widow trusts a promise of contact beyond the grave.
☾ Ancient Sorceries — A strange village seems to recognize a traveler who has never visited.
◆ The Furnished Floor — A widower rebuilds the home he shared with his late wife.
✧ Apparition — A dead husband’s apparent return threatens an inheritance.
Dim the lights for All Souls season and classic radio suspense. The signal fades, but someone upstairs is still listening.
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