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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert

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

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184:56

Unknown Broadcast | The Murder Ship & The Sea...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/20

Unknown Broadcast brings six old-time radio thrillers from fogbound streets to haunted seas. A war veteran helps a stranger home and becomes entangled in murder; treasure hunters encounter the captain of a sunken galleon. Hear In the Fog (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), Two If by Sea (Escape), The Man in the Fog (Suspense), Seascape (The Whistler), The Murder Ship (Inner Sanctum), and The Sea Phantom (Dark Fantasy). More than three hours of vintage radio suspense mix murder mysteries, espionage, and

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297:02

The Monsters' Halloween Revue | 7 Scary Stories:...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/19

A pumpkin curse, a werewolf's deadly game, and Jack Scratch's twisted tales fill The Monsters' Halloween Revue. Settle in for nearly five hours of scary Halloween stories from Weekly Spooky, including Origin of the Pumpkin Man, STALK, and the complete Tricks and Treats trilogy. A costume party invites ancient powers, while an autumn hookup becomes a desperate test of survival. This seven-part horror fiction collection features Charles Campbell, Mike Ashkewe, David O'Hanlon, Keith Tomlin, Morgan

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247:47

The Dead Don't Stay Silent: 9 Macabre True Crime Stories

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/18

A severed arm inside a shark. Two men found wearing lead masks. The Dead Don't Stay Silent gathers nine true-crime cases and macabre histories in a Terrifying & True collection. Explore the Shark Arm case, Somerton Man, Bella in the Wych Elm, Donna Doll, Lynnette Craft, and the Lead Masks mystery, plus the Salish Sea feet, the shrunken-head trade, and Carl Tanzler. More than four hours trace forensic clues, unsolved murders, and the legends that grow around human remains. What can the dead

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20:30

Thursday Thrills | Flatwoods Monster to Mothman: A...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/17

The Flatwoods Monster and Mothman turn West Virginia folklore into a road trip after dark. In 1952, Kathleen May's group reported a towering figure on a hillside; in 1966, two couples said a red-eyed creature chased their car near Point Pleasant. Henrique Couto revisits these reported cryptid encounters, the original witness accounts and the meteor, owl and crane explanations. Explore the TNT Area legend and the 2026 Mothman Festival, scheduled for September 19–20. What did those beams of light

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45:02

Intruder in the Night: A Babysitter’s Nightmare |...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/16

A masked intruder armed with poison gas stalks a teenage babysitter and two young boys in this 1944 home invasion horror story from David O’Hanlon—an eerie Halloween-season nightmare built on wartime paranoia, chemical terror, and the fear of someone already inside the house.Fourteen-year-old Candice Cardona thinks the strange smell, the open window, and the muddy boot prints can all be explained away. Then one of the children is found unconscious, a chemical sprayer hisses in the dark, and a masked

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19:13

This Week in Horror History | Jennifer's Body, Blair...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/15

Jennifer's Body turns friendship into demonic horror, Blair Witch sends a new crew into the Black Hills, and Hardware traps a killer machine inside an apartment. This Week in Horror History covers September 14-20, 2026, with The Addams Family's macabre TV comedy and Cry_Wolf's invented serial killer joining the lineup. Revisit the films and television that made possession, technology, and even a family home feel dangerous. Plus, celebrate Sam Neill, Jennifer Tilly, Cassandra Peterson, and George R

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48:36

Terrifying & True | Lizzie Borden: The Axe Murders,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/14

Lizzie Borden, the 1892 Fall River axe murders, and the trial that became one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries.With Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story bringing renewed attention to the case, Terrifying & True returns to Fall River, Massachusetts, and the locked Borden home at 92 Second Street.On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed hours apart inside the house. Suspicion fell on Andrew's daughter Lizzie, yet investigators found no eyewitness, no conclusively

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191:38

Unknown Broadcast | Rural Horror: Harvest of Death &...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/13

Halloween Season approaches as Unknown Broadcast follows the garden path into six old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR mysteries, and radio suspense tales rooted in fields, orchards, and haunted soil. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, The Whistler, Inner Sanctum, and Quiet Please bring in a harvest that should have been left in the ground. The fruit is ripe, the hay is stacked, and something beneath the garden has started breathing. ☠ Down the Garden Path - A pleasant path winds

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295:29

7 Halloween Horror Stories: Cursed VHS, Slashers &...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/12

Seven Halloween horror stories rewind the season into nearly five hours of cursed VHS tapes, video store nightmares, slasher killers, occult rituals, late-night horror television, and supernatural scary stories. Weekly Spooky presents Rituals, Reels & Rentals, a retro Halloween horror compilation for listeners who love horror fiction podcasts, 1980s horror nostalgia, cursed media, vintage video stores, Samhain folklore, and long-form scary stories. These tales move from an ancient graveyard

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239:54

Isolation & Murder: 7 True Crime Horror Stories |...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/11

As Halloween approaches prepare yourself with a four-hour-plus True Crime compilation featuring seven true stories of haunted places, unsolved murder, wilderness disaster, cannibalism, and survival. The Stanley Hotel, the Hinterkaifeck murders, the Good Hart murders, Bonnie Hood's death at Camp Nelson, the Hamar-Daban expedition, Alfred Packer, and the Donner Party form one escalating journey into places where distance becomes part of the danger.The night begins at Colorado's Stanley Hotel, where a

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19:19

Bihl Manor: Supernatural Folklore Behind Ohio's...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/10

Just as HGTV prepares to open Bihl Manor for A Very Haunted Renovation, Thursday Thrills visits the reputedly haunted house at 1213 Buckland Avenue in Fremont, Ohio. Henrique Couto traces the turn-of-the-century manor from the Bihl family and piano-shop owner Jerome Bihl through Clarence and Daisy Wolfe, funeral viewings, reported deaths inside the home, its later years as a Lucas County children's group residence, and its transformation into an overnight paranormal investigation site.Then we walk

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52:56

Anger Issues: Werewolf Curse & Supernatural Folklore...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/09

This Halloween season, Weekly Spooky returns to Strickfield for a savage werewolf horror story about rage, lycanthropy, transformation, and a curse that doesn’t wait for the full moon. Danielle Boyd transforms whenever her anger explodes—but unlike most werewolves, Danielle remains fully aware of the monster she becomes.After a Strickfield High cheerleader is brutally killed, monster hunter Headmistress Hiltonson becomes convinced Danielle is responsible. Using the mysterious rejuvenating waters

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20:48

This Week in Horror History | IT, Hellraiser & True...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/08

Start the Halloween pregame with IT, Hellraiser, True Blood, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Loved Ones as major horror anniversaries return from September 7 through September 13. This Week in Horror History heads into spooky season with Stephen King's Pennywise and Derry, Clive Barker's Lament Configuration and Cenobites, HBO vampires, no-combat survival horror, prom-night terror, and The X-Files' paranormal conspiracy.This weekly horror release-date and anniversary roundup revisits the movies,

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49:42

Terrifying & True | The Golem of Prague: Jewish...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/07

The Golem of Prague is one of the most famous monsters in Jewish folklore: a silent giant shaped from clay, awakened by sacred Hebrew letters, and ordered to defend Prague's Jewish community. But did Rabbi Judah Loew - the Maharal of Prague - really create a supernatural protector, and could the golem's body still be hidden in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue? This pre-Halloween Terrifying & True investigation traces the golem legend from Psalm 139 and the Babylonian Talmud to Sefer Yetzirah,

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203:18

Unknown Broadcast | Deadly Lessons: Old Time Radio...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/06

Begin the march toward Halloween with six classic old time radio horror, mystery, suspense, and science fiction dramas from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, Escape, The Whistler, Quiet Please, and The Weird Circle. Deadly Lessons brings together Fred Gwynne, Marian Haley, William Conrad, John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Margo, Elsa Lanchester, Wyllis Cooper, and Charles Dickens in stories of gambling debts, Black Hills gold, seances, revenge, experimental flight, time travel, and buried testimony.As

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293:43

8 Halloween Horror Stories: Haunted Hayrides, Corn...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/05

Eight Halloween horror stories lead down a dark country road in this nearly five-hour Weekly Spooky horror story compilation. The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride packs scary Halloween stories about haunted hayrides, corn mazes, scarecrows, witches, pumpkin monsters, ghosts, folk horror, Southern Gothic revenge, and rural slasher terror. Presented in story order, this Halloween fiction anthology moves from swamp-born pumpkin folklore and a child-eating Halloween legend into witchcraft, harvest

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114:17

Cutting Deep into Horror | The Ritual (2017): Folk...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/04

The Ritual (2017) is a modern folk-horror favorite that transforms a memorial hike through the Swedish wilderness into a terrifying combination of survival horror, psychological horror, occult worship, mythology, and creature-feature terror. In this spoiler-filled episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfirevisit director David Bruckner’s rain-soaked forest nightmare and explain why it belongs in any horror fan’s Halloween-season watchlist and spooky-season

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18:34

Japan's Haunted Temple Gate to Hell: Supernatural...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/03

Kyoto's legendary underworld well is receiving a rare public viewing. On September 4, Rokudo Chinno-ji begins a three-day special opening tied to the launch of Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword, whose director says the real Kyoto temple is central to the game's world. But the place did not need a video game to become one of Japan's eeriest crossroads.At Rokudo Chinno-ji, visitors pull a rope through a small opening to ring a bell hidden behind a wall. Temple tradition says the Mukaegane, or

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24:27

I Do Not Know You: Tape Recorder Death Prophecy &...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/02

Scary Halloween stories meet analog horror in “I Do Not Know You” by Tyler Belmont, a supernatural horror tale about a vintage tape recorder that knows its listener’s secrets—and announces the exact moment he is going to die.Jerry Scott runs a consumer-electronics store and collects the analog machines the modern world has left behind. Then an unmarked package appears inside his shop. The tape recorder within greets him by name, recalls private details from his life, and warns that an inhuman

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21:35

This Week in Horror History | IT Chapter Two,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/09/01

September opens the door to Halloween as IT Chapter Two, Suspiria, Outlast, The Possession, and Pontypool mark major horror anniversaries from August 31 through September 6. This Week in Horror History becomes a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with Pennywise and Derry, witchcraft and bloody dance, survival-horror gaming, haunted-object folklore, demonic possession, infected language, and a supernatural war among angels. This weekly horror release-date roundup revisits the films, games, creators,

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