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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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23:11

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

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/11

The Monster Squad, Cujo, The Fly, The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 10 through August 16. As summer horror starts giving way to spooky season, we’re beginning the Halloween horror pregame with classic monsters, Stephen King terror, haunted-house mysteries, Jason Voorhees, cosmic horror, rabid-animal survival, and one of David Cronenberg’s greatest body-horror transformations. Inside this episode:August 10, 2001

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41:46

Terrifying & True | The Man With a Hole in His...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/10

William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin stand at the center of one of the most famous and ethically troubling stories in the history of human experimentation. After an accidental musket blast on Mackinac Island in 1822 tore through St. Martin's ribs, lung, diaphragm and stomach, Army surgeon Beaumont saved his life. The wound healed into a permanent gastric fistula - a living opening through which Beaumont could observe human digestion directly.Beginning in 1825, Beaumont tied food to silk thread and

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124:23

Unknown Broadcast | Storm Horror: Hurricane & Night...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/09

Unknown Broadcast rides a wall of wind into four old-time radio horror and radio suspense stories where the weather closes every exit. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler tune in with hurricanes, flooded waters, wartime peril, and crimes that refuse to stay buried. Come in out of the rain if you like. The signal has already locked the door behind you.☂ Hurricane — A desperate pair reaches an isolated beach house and discovers the storm outside may be safer than the armed

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133:59

4 Scary Travel Horror Stories | Wendigo, Ghost Ship,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/08

Four scary travel horror stories unleash a Wendigo, a rat-infested ghost ship, a doomed passenger flight, and an escaped serial killer stalking a summer highway. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with this complete horror fiction anthology packed with supernatural terror, survival horror, cannibalism, killer animals, and roadside nightmares.A routine airplane journey becomes a terrifying supernatural loop when violent turbulence, a grieving old man, and the cries of a dead child lead

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103:10

Cutting Deep into Horror | Hell House LLC (2015) —...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/07

Join filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi as Cutting Deep into Horror keeps Summerween rolling and gets an early jump on Halloween season with Hell House LLC (2015), Stephen Cognetti’s cult found footage horror movie about a Halloween haunted attraction inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This spoiler-filled Hell House LLC review and ending discussion digs into the movie’s mockumentary setup, haunted-house scares, creepy clown mannequins, cult rumors, basement terror, and the opening-night

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20:31

Solar Eclipse 2026: Supernatural Folklore & Celestial...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/06

On August 12, 2026, daylight will vanish along a path crossing Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and beyond—and old stories say the Moon may not be the only thing responsible. In this Thursday Thrills episode, Henrique Couto follows the monsters once blamed for eating the sun: celestial dragons driven off by drums, the severed immortal head Rahu, the Norse wolves Sköll and Hati, a ravenous black squirrel, and the Eternal Bat that gnaws at the edge of the world.It is a fun, eerie ride through solar eclipse

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14:45

Let-Down: Body Horror Through a Child's Perspective

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/05

Body horror stories rarely get more disturbing than “LET DOWN” by Morgan Moore, a narrated horror story told through the innocent perspective of a six-year-old girl who cannot speak and is trying to care for her hungry baby brother.Her family is collapsing under sickness, poverty, neglect, and her father’s gambling addiction. When the food and baby formula run out, she remembers one simple fact: mothers make milk. Armed with a child’s incomplete understanding and a pair of kitchen scissors, she

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23:02

This Week in Horror History | The Sixth Sense,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/04

The Sixth Sense, Piranha, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Antropophagus, Lady Killer, and The Bat headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 3 through August 9. As summer horror reaches its hottest, strangest stretch, we’re starting our early Halloween horror pregame with killer fish, emotional ghost stories, murderous housewives, hurricane-party paranoia, forbidden cult cinema, and Vincent Price lurking inside a classic old-dark-house mystery. Inside this episode: August 3, 1978 —

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39:27

Terrifying & True | USS Indianapolis Sinking: Sharks,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/03

The USS Indianapolis sinking remains one of the most devastating naval disasters of World War II. On July 30, 1945, Japanese submarine I-58 torpedoed the heavy cruiser in the Philippine Sea after it completed a secret mission delivering components for the Little Boy atomic bomb to Tinian.Indianapolis sank in about twelve minutes. Nearly nine hundred sailors and Marines reached the water alive, but only 316 of the nearly twelve hundred people aboard survived. For more than three days, the survivors

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144:59

Unknown Broadcast | Classic Old Time Radio Horror:...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/02

Unknown Broadcast returns with a full night of classic old time radio horror, vintage radio suspense, OTR mystery, Golden Age radio drama, and eerie anthology storytelling from four legendary radio programs: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler.Tonight’s transmission features “A Choice of Witnesses,” “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” “The King’s Birthday,” and “Patients for the Doctor” — four classic radio dramas about blackmail, murder, moral corruption, survival horror, killer

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115:52

4 Scary Animal Horror Stories | Werewolf, Killer...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/08/01

Four scary animal horror stories unleash killer hippos, a rage-fueled werewolf, a shape-shifting monster dog, and a demon-possessed cat. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology filled with supernatural creatures, deadly animal attacks, cursed pets, survival horror, and dark comedy.A documentary crew travels deep into the Colombian jungle to investigate Pablo Escobar’s infamous cocaine hippos—but the expedition becomes a blood-soaked fight for survival

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190:31

Disappearances & Lost Colonies | True Crime Mystery...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/31

As Halloween season creeps closer, Terrifying & True begins the descent into darker stories with a special compilation of disappearances, ghost ships, lost colonies, missing people, wilderness mysteries, and unexplained cases that still haunt history.This is Vanished Without a Trace — a chilling collection of scary true stories about the places where people entered the dark and never came back.Inside this special Terrifying & True compilation:The Lost Colony of Roanoke — An entire English

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19:04

Hungry Ghost Month: Supernatural Folklore from Asia |...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/30

Hungry Ghost Month runs August 13 through September 10 in 2026, with the fifteenth-day Hungry Ghost Festival falling on August 27. Why do some getai and wayang performances in Singapore and Malaysia leave the entire front row empty?Thursday Thrills explores the Chinese ghost folklore, religious traditions and regional beliefs behind seats reserved for unseen guests. Henrique traces the differences among the seventh lunar month, the Daoist Zhongyuan Festival, Buddhist Yulanpen or Ullambana

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40:52

The Ties That Bind: Vampire Love Triangle Horror Story

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/29

A vampire love triangle, paranormal romance, and deadly second chance collide in “The Ties That Bind” by Rob Fields—a mature vampire horror story set in the supernatural town of Strickfield. Buster Crane has never forgotten his childhood first love, Talia Mirren. He also cannot stop loving Romy Jillian, the mysterious woman whose pale skin, cold touch, and missing reflection reveal a terrifying secret: Romy is a vampire.When Talia unexpectedly returns during Buster’s first year at Strickfield

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20:20

This Week in Horror History | The Lost Boys, Jason...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/28

The Lost Boys, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Fright Night, The Village, and The Collector headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering July 27 through August 2. Summer horror gets vampiric, supernatural, folklore-soaked, and dangerously familiar as we revisit an iconic 1980s vampire movie, the resurrection of Jason Voorhees, M. Night Shyamalan’s isolated village nightmare, a brutal home-invasion trap thriller, and a modern Métis horror novel about a loved one who returns

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126:40

Monthly Spooky | Creepy Carnival Animatronics, Hooga...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/27

Summerween arrives with a laugh you can hear from across the midway. In this July edition of Monthly Spooky, Henrique Couto and Michelle dive into Laughing Sal, the towering carnival animatronic whose haunting mechanical cackle became American folklore. They explore how this six-foot funhouse nightmare evolved from a popular midway attraction into a cryptid-like legend—appearing in movies, museums, and paranormal stories. Discover the strange history behind one of America's creepiest cursed objects

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196:19

Unknown Broadcast | Halloween in July: Classic Old...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/26

Halloween in July begins with classic old time radio horror, vintage suspense, gothic mystery, witchcraft, Lights Out terror, and spooky season nightmares. Unknown Broadcast returns with an extra-large Halloween-in-summer transmission featuring six eerie radio dramas from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, The Whistler, Lights Out, and The Mysterious Traveler. This classic OTR horror lineup includes Here Goes the Bride, Ancient Sorceries, The Lord of the Witch Doctors, Mirage, Cat Wife,

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112:21

Summerween: 4 Halloween Horror Stories with Bigfoot,...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/25

Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in July with four complete narrated Halloween horror stories featuring Bigfoot, vampires, zombies, demons, supernatural folklore, and terrifying encounters after dark. In this special Weekly Spooky horror compilation, a night watchman is hunted across a remote wind farm by a violent Sasquatch, a centuries-old vampire couple spends its anniversary inside a shopping mall after closing, a bicycle courier risks his life delivering supplies during the zombie apocalypse,

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83:47

Cutting Deep into Horror | Found Footage Horror: The...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/24

Join filmmaker Henrique Couto as Cutting Deep into Horror explores The Houses October Built (2014)—a found footage nightmare about five friends hunting the most extreme haunted houses across America. Discover how this supernatural folklore film captures real haunted-house horror, extreme-tourism fears, and the dark secrets lurking behind roadside attractions. Perfect for early Halloween spooky season listening.Henrique is joined by Rachael Redolfi for a spoiler-filled review of director Bobby Roe’s

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24:06

Shark Week Horror: Jersey Shore Attacks & Unsolved...

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween ·

2026/07/23

Just in time for Shark Week 2026, Thursday Thrills dives into true shark attacks, megalodon legends, terrifying sea monsters, and the bizarre unsolved murder exposed when a captive tiger shark regurgitated a human arm.We revisit the 1916 Jersey Shore and Matawan Creek attacks, the Black Demon of Baja, and Sydney's infamous Shark Arm case.Along the way, meet the Stronsay Beast, centuries-old Greenland sharks, river-roaming bull sharks, and sand tiger embryos that eat their siblings before birth. It

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