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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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144:07

Monthly Spooky | The Great Moon Hoax, Halloween...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/31

Halloween season is almost here, and Monthly Spooky is kicking off the countdown with haunted houses, Bigfoot, UFOs, cryptids, unexplained mysteries—and bat people living on the Moon.In the August 2026 edition of Monthly Spooky, Henrique Couto and Michelle are getting ready for Halloween with another strange trip through paranormal news, ghost stories, cryptid sightings, UFO and UAP reports, weird history, unexplained phenomena and creepy mysteries before diving into one of the most wonderfully

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124:35

Unknown Broadcast | What the Darkness Saw: Classic...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/30

Unknown Broadcast opens its eyes to four classic OTR mysteries about blindness, eyewitness testimony, and the dangerous distance between seeing and being believed. The Blind Witness, The Country of the Blind, Eyewitness, and With My Own Eyes turn perception itself into the scene of the crime.Look closely. Then look again.The signal has been known to move things while you blink.◖ The Blind Witness — A blind man becomes the unseen witness to a paid killing—and the one loose end two professionals did

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293:41

Halloween Horror Stories | Vampires, Body Horror &...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/29

Five Halloween horror stories unleash headless folklore, haunted drive-ins, supernatural transformation, vampires, and body horror in a nearly five-hour scary-story audiobook from Weekly Spooky. Halloween Changes You is a long-form Halloween horror compilation about masks that become identities, second lives that demand a price, and monsters who discover that becoming something new may be easier than becoming human again. Presented in story order, this Halloween fiction anthology moves from an

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248:46

When Legends Turn Deadly: True Crime Meets Cryptid...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/28

When Legends Turn Deadly is a nearly five-hour Terrifying & True true crime and folklore marathon featuring eight stories about monsters, cultural memory, Spiritualism, murder, extremist violence, and fatal belief. The Hat Man, the Deer Woman, Djinn, the Melonheads, the Fox sisters, the Greenbrier Ghost, the murder of Jeffrey Hall, and the exorcism of Anneliese Michel form one escalating journey from modern nightmare to documented human tragedy. The journey begins between dreaming and waking,

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19:04

Halloween Horror Nights 2026: The Architecture of...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/27

Universal Orlando holds the first of its two 2026 Premium Scream Nights on August 27, followed by the regular Halloween Horror Nights event opening on August 28 - and this week's Thursday Thrills goes inside the architecture of fear. Rather than rank haunted houses before they open, Henrique Couto asks what a walk-through attraction can do to our bodies and imaginations that a horror movie cannot.The answer begins inside a real haunted-house experiment, where visitors wore heart-rate monitors while

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32:20

The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things |...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/26

Halloween insect horror, body horror, and revenge horror crawl together in this grotesque Weekly Spooky scary story about bullying, karma, and a punishment with thousands of legs. A man wakes in a windowless basement with a reinforced glass aquarium locked around his head—packed with fire ants, carpenter ants, crickets, centipedes, millipedes, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and something even fouler.The nightmare is not random. Years earlier, he and his best friend Dave turned another child’s

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23:25

This Week in Horror History | Candyman, Until Dawn,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/25

Horror history is already leaning toward Halloween as Candyman, Until Dawn, Don't Breathe, The Last Exorcism, and Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions mark major anniversaries from August 24 through August 30. This Week in Horror History turns late summer into a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with slasher games, home-invasion suspense, supernatural urban legends, documentary-style exorcism horror, occult detective stories, and a devilish Stephen King recommendation for spooky season. This weekly

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48:17

Terrifying & True | Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel: The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/24

Elisa Lam's death at the Cecil Hotel remains one of the internet age's most haunting true crime mysteries, even though the case received an official ruling. In January 2013, the twenty-one-year-old Canadian traveler disappeared from the notorious downtown Los Angeles hotel after appearing in the now-famous Cecil Hotel elevator video. Nineteen days after she was last publicly seen, she was found inside a rooftop water tank. This pre-Halloween true crime investigation follows the documented Elisa Lam

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129:59

Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express &...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/23

Unknown Broadcast boards four old-time radio train mysteries where every timetable points toward danger. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler send us through a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a supernatural railway warning, and one very expensive ride to nowhere. Your ticket is already punched. Please do not ask who is sitting in the empty compartment.▣ The Train Stops — At a forgotten station where no passenger train should stop, an old railway

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102:40

4 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/22

Four scary stories unleash serial killers, witchcraft, a werewolf curse, supernatural seduction, and a gigantic killer gummy worm. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with occult rituals, crime horror, murder mysteries, supernatural monsters, body horror, and dark comedy.Two criminal brothers follow a wealthy woman home expecting an easy robbery. Instead, they interrupt a secret witchcraft ritual involving an ancient enchanted collar—and one

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99:23

Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016):...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/21

Tonight She Comes (2016) is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher for horror fans building their Halloween watchlists—a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare that mutates into occult body horror, splatter comedy, and resurrection horror. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the outrageous independent horror film that has stayed with them for a decade and explain why its strangest choices are far more deliberate than they first appear. Henrique and

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18:54

Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/20

Ten years after the 2016 killer clown panic, Weekly Spooky’s Thursday Thrills returns to the creepy clown sightings that began near Fleetwood Manor Apartments in Greenville County, South Carolina. In August 2016, children and residents reported clowns in the woods—mysterious figures allegedly displaying money, flashing green lights or lasers, making strange noises, and trying to persuade children to follow them toward an abandoned house near a pond. Deputies searched the wooded area and increased

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39:35

The Darkness Under Clear Lake: Cursed Objects & Body...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/19

A cursed object awakens beneath Clear Lake's surface, transforming a peaceful camping trip into a supernatural nightmare. When Brian discovers a carved relic hidden in dark, grass-choked waters, he disappears—and returns transformed, impossibly strong and impossibly wrong. Bruce Haney's "The Darkness Under Clear Lake" is a haunting tale of body horror, halloween style dread, and the price of curiosity in cursed folklore.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉

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23:05

This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer:...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/18

Blade, The Exorcist III, An American Werewolf in London, You’re Next, The Night House, and Night of the Creeps headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 17 through August 23. Our late-summer Halloween horror pregame continues with Marvel vampires, supernatural possession, haunted-house grief, masked home invaders, alien parasites, reanimated corpses, and one of the greatest werewolf transformations ever filmed. Inside this episode:August 17, 1990 — The Exorcist III opens

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42:05

Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/17

The Pale Crawler is a modern cryptid legend and Halloween Favorite tied to The Rake, a creepypasta deliberately created online in 2005. What began as an anonymous forum experiment soon became a wave of alleged humanoid sightings, viral trail-camera images, Reddit stories and YouTube horror. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we trace Operation Crawler and the birth of The Rake creepypasta, the alleged Effingham, Illinois and rural Kentucky encounters, the notorious Louisiana “swamp monster”

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133:00

Unknown Broadcast | No Boat Comes Back: Classic OTR...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/16

Unknown Broadcast sails beyond the last reliable chart for four classic OTR tales of island horror, radio mystery, and tropical suspense. The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island promise refuge, fortune, or paradise—and collect a different price from every visitor.The beaches are white, the water is warm, and the boats all seem to be pointed the wrong way.☀ The Beach of Falesa — A trader arrives on a remote Pacific island seeking a future and finds a web of

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78:19

4 Scary Stories | Haunted House, Cursed Object,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/15

Four scary stories unleash a haunted house, a cursed yard-sale object, escaped serial killers, and flesh-eating cannibal monsters. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with ghost stories, paranormal activity, haunted objects, home-invasion horror, supernatural creatures, and terrifying encounters in the woods.A first date leads two Strickfield teenagers into an abandoned haunted mansion where a ghost child watches from the window. Trapped

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211:55

Cryptid Encounters & True Crime | Bigfoot,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/14

Seven chilling cryptid encounters and true crime folklore stories uncovered just in time for Halloween: From Bigfoot sightings in 1970s Ohio to Chupacabra terror in Puerto Rico, explore supernatural folklore that shaped America's scariest legends. This immersive horror marathon weaves Wendigo mythology, the Black-Eyed Children, the Fouke Monster, and Indrid Cold into a cinematic deep dive across cursed regions and paranormal hotspots—perfect for Halloween preparation with expertly narrated, eerie

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19:38

Jeff the Killer: Creepypasta Supernatural Folklore...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/13

Jeff the Killer is one of the internet's most recognizable creepypasta horror icons - but where did that pale, smiling face actually come from? As Halloween 2026 and spooky season begin creeping closer, Thursday Thrills investigates the original Jeff the Killer image, the conflicting 2008 and 2011 origin stories, and the mystery hidden behind the words "Go to sleep." Henrique Couto follows the trail through Sesseur's Newgrounds closet ritual, GameFuelTV's infamous creepypasta, Japanese image

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32:24

Odd Egg: Weird Experiences Turn Grotesque in Spooky...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/12

Spooky season body horror hatches in “Odd Egg” by Alex Grass, a weird creature-horror story about a carton of free eggs, a smiling stranger, and something impossible waiting inside the final shell. After Roger from the mysterious Keystone Cooperative Growers Association leaves Maryellen a dozen farm-fresh eggs and promises that a god lives inside them, breakfast takes a grotesque turn. Eleven shells are empty. The last produces a tiny human head on six spiderlike legs—and the thing does not stay

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