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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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Unknown Broadcast | Jealousy, Keys & Red Marks: Four...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/01/04

Ah, there you are. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, and radio suspense for those who like the dark close and the volume low, my dear. Tonight the valves warm and the quiet learns to talk:🔥 Hell Hath No Fury — Fame can’t drown jealousy; a private curtain falls where the applause can’t reach.🌒 The Night Reveals — Smoke on a coat, matches in a pocket; small sparks confess what lips refuse.🔑 Lady With a Key — Footsteps where no one should walk, a lock that

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120:01

Small Town Secrets: Five Horror Stories of Hidden...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/01/03

Small town horror stories hit different—because everyone knows your name… and everyone is hiding something. In this Weekly Spooky Vault compilation, we dig into Small Town Secrets where quiet streets cover up occult rituals, missing people, backwoods monsters, and ancient things that should’ve stayed buried. Lock your doors, kill the lights, and listen close—because the scariest part is how normal it all looks in daylight.• I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening — Michael

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55:42

Best of 2025: I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snow Storm

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/01/02

Kick off the Best of 2025 with one of the most intense episodes we released on the Weekly Spooky horror podcast—a brutal winter survival horror story where a long-haul trucker gets trapped at a lonely truck stop after a sudden blizzard buries the world in white.The bathroom run turns into a nightmare when his tracks vanish, the store is locked and dark, and something moves in the storm—something too big, too patient, and too wrong to be a deer. Back in his cab, with fuel running low and the wind

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44:44

Saint Jimmy: Y2K Panic Meets New Year’s Eve

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/31

Weekly Spooky rings in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror story that spirals into a Y2K nightmare—and it all starts with a stupidly simple discovery: crank two radios loud enough, hit the right tone, and you can rip open a hole in time.Sixteen-year-old Jimmy and his cousin Phillip start pulling lost junk from the void… until grief turns curiosity into obsession. One phone call becomes a lifeline. One step through the portal becomes a disaster. And one panicked, brain-melting decision in the

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22:53

This Week in Horror History | New Year Horror —...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/30

New Year’s horror, horror movie history, and messages from the other side—welcome to This Week in Horror History, the weekly horror podcast where we track what happened on these dates across film, books, and cult classics.In this episode, Henrique Couto follows a haunting thread that runs straight through the holiday: a phone that calls from the future, a killer hiding in the power grid, a cursed ghost anthology, and the original “new year, new monster” that’s been chasing us since 1818.This week in

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140:31

Monthly Spooky | New Years True Crime, Bigfoot on...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/29

Monthly Spooky true crime + paranormal to close out the year: a chilling wrongful conviction case tied to a 1987 Times Square-area murder that stole decades from two lives—and the long road to exoneration when the truth finally surfaced.Inside this episode:The New Year’s Eve case: The wrongful convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren after a 1987 murder near Times Square, including intense police pressure, a pivotal witness, and the fallout that followed for decades.The turning point: How a later

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183:24

Unknown Broadcast | Bells Before Midnight: Six Horror...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/28

Ah, there you are, my dear. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR ghost tales, and radio suspense for these last nights before New Year’s Eve—when clocks get louder and promises come due. Sit close to the speaker and let the tubes warm. Inside tonight’s program:👼 Angel of Death — Grief invites a visitor who never uses the front door.🔔 Calling All Souls — A name answered at midnight… by someone who shouldn’t know it.🕯️ Two Birds with One Stone — Jealousy drafts

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162:08

6 Scary New Year Tales of Devils, Vampires, Zombies &...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/27

Ring in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror stories marathon built for maximum dread: devil bargains, vampires in the dark, zombie chaos, and a paranormal case file that turns the end of the year into a blood-soaked countdown. If you’re searching for scary New Year stories, NYE horror, or a horror anthology podcast to binge, this is your midnight companion—six twisted tales that get meaner as the clock runs out.Inside this New Year’s Eve compilation (in airing order):• Even the Devil Tells the

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206:16

After Christmas Horror Stories: Scary Christmas...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/26

Looking for after Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories to keep the season creepy on December 26? Tonight on the Weekly Spooky feed, we’re dropping a holiday horror podcast double feature—two full-length Christmas horror novellas built for the quiet, eerie day after Christmas, when the decorations are still up… and the darkness feels closer.This episode is a post-Christmas horror marathon packed with supernatural dread, winter nightmares, and the kind of holiday terror that hits

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80:43

Otis Slays Christmas: Killer Santa Slasher at Kmart

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/24

Weekly Spooky drops a Christmas Eve horror story soaked in ’90s slasher energy and last-minute retail panic. In Etawah, Oklahoma (1996), Otis Kilgore walks into the Big K like it’s a church—new car, new haircut, new plan—convinced a cashier named Diane has been sending him secret messages. But when the store “messes with” his routine, Otis spirals into a holiday meltdown that turns Blue Light Specials into red-hot violence.What starts as awkward small-town obsession becomes a full-tilt killer Santa

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21:39

This Week in Horror History | The Exorcist, The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/23

Step into This Week in Horror History and relive the nightmare fuel of December 22–28: a Christmas-week collision of alien infiltration, true-case exorcism lore, and paranoia-soaked sci-fi horror.This episode digs into:Dec 25, 1998 — The Faculty: the ultimate ’90s teen alien horror—teachers acting wrong, bodies getting swapped, and the school turning into a trap.Dec 22, 1978 — Deep-Cut Spotlight: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: a remake that doesn’t just update the story—it infects it with urban

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100:38

Terror at Christmas: Jack Scratch’s Hellish Holiday!

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/23

Weekly Spooky unleashes a Christmas horror anthology where the lights are twinkling… and the afterlife is weaponized. When Jack Scratch throws open the curtains on Hell’s “operations,” you don’t get fire-and-brimstone pageantry—you get clipboards, procedures, and punishments dressed up in tinsel.Tonight’s holiday horrors include:The Santa Experiment — a confused man wakes in a dying Christmas postcard town… and a Santa with an axe starts closing the distance.Christmas Bones — at the peak of a

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70:34

Terrifying & True | Santa’s Stolen Bones: The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/22

Dive into Christmas true crime, Santa Claus history, and holiday folklore with the real medieval relic heist that helped shape the legend of Santa. In 1087, sailors from Bari, Italy break into the tomb of St. Nicholas in Myra (modern Turkey)—and the world’s most famous Christmas icon gets a disturbingly real origin story.Inside the candlelit crypt, witnesses claim the tomb is flooded with mysterious liquid—the “manna” of St. Nicholas—and the thieves interpret it as a sign the saint approves. But

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234:55

Unknown Broadcast | Christmas Horror Stories of...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/21

Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, radio suspense, and Christmas ghost stories for the longest nights of the year. A special holiday edition, my dear: later nights for cold frights. We unwrap mislaid presents, whispered confessions, and footsteps in new snow; a Yule of shivers where favors come due and the past waits in a frost-rimmed mirror. Come nearer to the speaker. The tree lights hum. Somewhere between the carols and the wind, a voice promises a gift… and the

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246:32

Christmas Horror Stories: 3 Scary Holiday Novellas

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/20

Christmas horror stories marathon time, my spookies. Tonight on Weekly Spooky, you’re getting a full holiday horror novella triple-feature—three long, nasty winter tales where tinsel and terror share the same oxygen.This is cozy-season listening with sharp teeth: a haunted mall after-hours, a slumber-party movie night that opens the wrong door, and a Christmas event at an orphanage that won’t stay sweet for long. If you’re hunting for scary Christmas stories, holiday horror, and a bingeable horror

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296:43

Scary Christmas Stories: 7 Christmas Horror Tales to...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/20

If you’re hunting for Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories that feel like a warm holiday glow… right before the lights go out—welcome to the final Xmas compilation of the year on the Weekly Spooky feed. Expect holiday horror, supernatural dread, and the kind of winter nightmares that make you double-check the chimney, the gift tags, and the shadows in the tree.Inside this compilation:• All I Want For Christmas - Is my Mother to Stop Haunting Me! — A family that “goes all in” on

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41:48

The Naughty Claus: Killer Santa Christmas Horror Story

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/19

It’s Christmas Eve, the lights are bright, the carols are fake, and something wrong is crawling down the chimney of a normal night. In this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror story, Allison just wants to survive the holidays long enough to buy a last-minute gift… but a filthy, broken “Santa” has other plans — and he’s working off a Naughty List that doesn’t forgive and doesn’t forget.Inside this episode:A big-box store nightmare where the doors feel like they’ve locked themselvesA killer Santa with an

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113:47

Cutting Deep into Horror | Dead End (2003) Christmas...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/19

If you’re hunting for a Christmas horror movie that isn’t cozy or cute, Dead End (2003) is a nasty little gift waiting on a snowy back road. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi sink into the cult Christmas chiller where the Harrington family’s Christmas Eve shortcut becomes an endless nightmare of cursed highways, ghostly women in white, and a hearse that feels like it’s driving straight out of the afterlife.Recorded as a holiday special (Henrique

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An Angel of Death Christmas: A Scary Holiday Horror...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/18

Looking for a Christmas horror story that hits like a slasher, moves like a thriller, and burns like a nightmare? This week on Weekly Spooky, the holidays turn deadly in the Strickfield universe when a toxic chemical crash on a snowy Ohio highway ignites neon green fire—and something comes shambling out of it.Detective Chantel Devereux thinks the worst is over… until the “accident” echoes into the next year and the body count starts climbing in ways that don’t make sense—melted flesh, missing

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49:21

A Christmas Romance: A Witch’s Curse Horror Story

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2025/12/17

Dive into this chilling Christmas horror story where a centuries-old witch's curse entwines with a doomed romance. From the icy Middle Ages to modern-day Strickfield, discover how true love battles a dark, supernatural force in a tale filled with eerie twists and mature themes.Unwrap a spooky story perfect for fans of horror stories and chilling holiday tales during the spooky season. Join us as we explore love, betrayal, and curses this Christmas Eve, where some romances end not in joy, but in

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