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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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137:36

Edgar Allan Poe Horror Stories: The Black Cat, The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/21

Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories—gothic terror, madness, murder, and psychological dread—all in one chilling anthology. If you love classic horror, dark literature, and Victorian-era nightmares, this Poe compilation is built for you: guilt that won’t stay buried, revenge sealed behind bricks, obsession that rots the mind, and survival-horror fear sharpened to a razor’s edge.Inside this episode:• The Black Cat — a confession soaked in alcohol-fueled violence, guilt, and the uncanny feeling that

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95:08

Deals with the Devil: Horror Stories of Demons,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/20

Devil deals, cursed bargains, crossroads temptation, and payback from hell — this Weekly Spooky horror compilation is packed with supernatural revenge, demonic contracts, and the kind of “too good to be true” offers that always come with blood in the fine print.Tonight’s theme: Deals with the Devil. Four stories. Four bargains. And every single one of them comes due.Stories in this compilation (in order):“The Deal Was Great, But The Payments Are Hell” — Joe Solmo: A paranoid man on the run thinks

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45:18

Road Trip: Snowbound in a Small-Town Bar With...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/18

Road trip horror meets supernatural action in a snow-choked small town where bad decisions don’t stay personal for long. Caroline Quinn—government “Troubleshooter,” part vampire, and currently running from her own heartbreak—heads west to disappear for two weeks… only to end up in Germfask, Michigan, a place with failing cell service, bitter cold, and a neon sign that simply says BEER.Inside a rural dive called The Den, the locals aren’t just unfriendly—they’re organized. Armed. Watching. And when

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18:54

This Week in Horror History | Freaks, House on...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/17

This Week in Horror History (Feb 16–22) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for long winter nights. This week we’ve got haunted-house showmanship, toy-factory dread, medieval deadites, and vampire rock-star chaos—plus a studio-era Deep-Cut that still feels like a dare.Inside this episode✅ Horror releases from Feb 16–22Feb 17, 1959 — House on Haunted HillWilliam Castle + Vincent Price turn a party invite

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45:45

Terrifying & True | Stanley Hotel: The Shining Origin...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/16

The Stanley Hotel isn’t just a famous haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado—it’s a place where real disaster and pop-culture horror fused into one unstoppable legend. Tonight, we trace the true story that begins with a stormy night in 1911, when acetylene gas silently pooled inside Room 217… and a single candle turned the west wing into a blast zone. A young head chambermaid, Elizabeth Wilson, is hurled through collapsing floors—and somehow survives. From there, the Stanley’s history becomes a

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127:33

Unknown Broadcast | Love and Death on the Air: Four...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/15

Unknown Broadcast slips into the Weekly Spooky feed again—bringing you old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio thrills where love curdles into obsession, reputations become weapons, and the truth arrives late… if it arrives at all.Tonight’s broadcast features four chilling tales:🎭 A Matter of Love and Death — A celebrity collides with someone unknown… and a “romance” turns into a trap with the spotlight as the knife.🔥 Love, Honor, or Murder — When the line between

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323:35

Valentine’s Day Horror Stories Marathon: 6 Scary...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/14

Valentine’s Day horror stories meet slasher mayhem in this binge-ready Valentine’s Day marathon of scary stories, romantic horror, and love gone wrong. If you’re searching for a Valentine’s horror podcast, creepy Valentine’s stories, or a slasher anthology packed with obsession, stalking, and revenge—this collection is your perfect date-night nightmare.Tonight, love doesn’t whisper… it fixates. It follows. It leaves candy hearts that read like threats.Stories in this marathon (in order):Deb Debbie

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116:43

Cutting Deep into Horror | Pearl (2022) Mia Goth’s...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/13

Psychological horror breakdown time. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into Ti West’s Pearl (2022) — the candy-colored prequel to X that turns ambition, isolation, repression, and rage into a full-blown descent. We talk Mia Goth’s star-making performance, why the film feels like a twisted classic-Hollywood fever dream, and how the story’s backdrop of 1918 rural life, sickness, and war-era anxiety amplifies Pearl’s need to be seen… and her capacity to snap.This is a spoiler-friendly

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100:10

Will You Be My Undead Valentine? - Zombie Horror...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/11

A Valentine’s Day horror novella set in 1958 small-town America, where young love collides with abuse, obsession, and the grave. August Hannig and Becky Sue “Bex” Brewer find each other at a winter Grange dance—two outsiders bonded by forbidden romance and a shared hunger to escape the crushing rules of Dorset. But when Bex’s violent father tightens his grip, the night turns into a nightmare… and love doesn’t just die—it comes back wrong.This is a darkly romantic zombie revenge tale packed with

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21:10

This Week in Horror History | Valentine’s Week Horror...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/10

Love isn’t soft this week — it’s sharp. In Valentine’s Week Horror History (Feb 9–15), we trace the anniversaries where romance curdles into obsession, suburbia turns sinister, and the holiday’s heart-shaped sheen hides something mean underneath.Inside this episode (Quick Hits + Spotlight):Feb 11, 1981 — My Bloody Valentine: blue-collar slasher dread in a mining town where the tunnels feel alive and the “tradition” is murder. (U.S. this week: free via Kanopy / buy-rent on major VOD.) Feb 13, 2009 —

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47:28

Terrifying & True | The Lost Franklin Expedition:...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/09

In 1845, Sir John Franklin and 129 men sailed into the Arctic chasing the Northwest Passage—and vanished into a white maze of ice, darkness, and slow collapse. This episode follows the chilling, evidence-anchored timeline of the Lost Franklin Expedition, from the first quiet graves at Beechey Island to the brutal trap of Victoria Strait, where the ice held two war-built ships like insects in amber: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.We trace the expedition’s last clear message—the Victory Point note—and the

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133:33

Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Horror...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/08

Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery drift into the Weekly Spooky feed again… and this one is packed with vanishings, fatal coincidences, and the kind of doom that arrives right on schedule.Tonight’s broadcast contains four tales:🕯️ “The Man is Missing” — A routine look turns into a cold realization: someone was here… and now they’re gone. When the search begins, the truth won’t stay put—shifting from clues to contradictions, from

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190:44

Valentine’s Day Horror Stories: 8 Scary Tales of Love...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/06

Looking for Valentine’s Week horror that isn’t cheesy romance? This Weekly Spooky compilation is pure anti-Valentine’s Day energy: first dates from hell, toxic love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge, and monsters that don’t take “no” for an answer. Perfect for a date-night scare, a breakup binge, or anyone searching for love gone wrong horror stories and scary stories for Valentine’s week—without the cute stuff.Tonight’s lineup (in order):Till Death Do Us Part — by Rob Fields — A wedding day should be

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38:54

I Hate Driving a Truck in Winter, but Not Just...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/04

A fog-thick highway. An empty box truck with no traction. One split-second swerve… and you’re tumbling off the road into trees, glass, blood, and a headlight that can’t cut through the gloom.What happens next isn’t a simple winter driving nightmare—it’s a survival horror encounter in the woods below the berm, where the fog feels alive, the air reeks of death, and something huge moves on two legs like it owns the night.Trapped in a wreck, hurt badly, and invisible to everyone rushing past overhead,

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22:22

This Week in Horror History | Rings, The Prodigy, The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/03

This Week in Horror History (Feb 2–8) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for long winter nights. This week we’re talking cursed media, home-invasion dread, and the kind of slow-burn paranoia that makes you stare at your own hallway a little too long.Inside this episode✅ Quick Hits: Horror releases from Feb 2–8Feb 2, 2007 — The MessengersA glossy studio haunted-house/farm nightmare where the land doesn’t

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40:23

Terrifying & True | The Vanishing Village of Angikuni...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/02

A remote Arctic camp. Tents standing open in the wind. A half-finished mitten, needle still threaded—like someone stood up mid-stitch and never returned. The legend of Angikuni Lake is one of the most chilling “vanishing village” mysteries ever told: an Inuit camp along the Kazan River corridor in Nunavut—found eerily intact… but empty.In the campfire version, everything is wrong in the most cinematic way: food left behind, supplies untouched, dogs silent on their lines, and even a grave

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129:48

Unknown Broadcast | Four Classic OTR Thrillers of...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/02/01

Unknown Broadcast slips into your Weekly Spooky feed with classic old-time radio horror stories, radio suspense, and vintage OTR mystery—the kind of tales that start with a simple temptation… and end with someone realizing they should’ve left well enough alone. 💎 Leave Well Enough Alone — A marriage, a growing doubt, and a trail of jewelry that turns love into obsession… until the truth hits like a knife you never saw coming. ☠️ The Diary of Doctor Pritchard — A doctor with a reputation… a

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177:02

BANNED! Snowed-In Horror Convention Slasher: The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/01/31

Snowed-in slasher horror, murder mystery, and winter survival terror collide in BANNED!—the complete 4-part horror miniseries binge. When a brutal blizzard traps a packed horror convention inside a remote ski lodge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the weekend refuses to shut down… even as the atmosphere turns tight, paranoid, and dangerously claustrophobic.This is a full compilation—all four parts back-to-back—built for listeners who love classic slasher vibes, locked-room tension, backstage

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212:44

Best of 2025: 4 Scary Tales of Backwoods Survival,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/01/30

Buckle up for a wilderness horror compilation packed with scary stories of remote trails, isolated campsites, and nature that turns predatory. If you love horror podcast narration with survival terror, monster horror, and “we-shouldn’t-be-here” dread… this one’s for you.Tonight’s collection features four tales where the map runs out, the sun goes down, and the woods start paying attention.• Fortune Falls — by David O’HanlonTwo college friends camp where they shouldn’t, chasing a perfect sunrise at a

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51:40

BANNED! Part 4: Blizzard Horror Convention Slasher...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/01/28

Winter slasher horror, murder mystery, and survival terror collide in the final chapter of BANNED! as the High Point Ski Lodge disappears under a relentless blizzard and the Horror Snow-In reaches its breaking point.With the body count climbing and the storm sealing every road out, the killer’s plan shifts from lurking to finishing—dragging the weekend toward a confrontation nobody can walk away from unchanged. Headliner Vickie Valentine is pushed past her limits as something dangerous inside her

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