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by Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
Weekly Spooky delivers original horror fiction, true crime, haunted folklore, paranormal mysteries, cryptids, and horror history throughout the week. Hosted by filmmaker and narrator Henrique Couto, the feed combines cinematic scary 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 & True, Thursday Thrills, Unknown Broadcast, This Week in Horror History, Cutting Deep Into Horror, Monthly Spooky, and seasonal story compilations. During Halloween and spooky season, discover haunted-house stories, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, urban legends, ghost stories, monster encounters, and long-form horror marathons for late-night listening, fall drives, and Halloween parties. Mature themes included.
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- Today3h 4m
Unknown Broadcast | The Murder Ship & The Sea Phantom: Old-Time Radio Horror
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 ghostly encounters. Who can you trust when you can't see what's ahead?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com
- Yesterday4h 57m
The Monsters' Halloween Revue | 7 Scary Stories: Pumpkin Man & Werewolves
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 Moore, and Rob Fields. Every invitation sounds tempting. What will accepting it cost?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com
- 2 days ago4h 7m
The Dead Don't Stay Silent: 9 Macabre True Crime Stories
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 reveal when the living won't tell the truth? We're telling that story tonight.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com
- 3 days ago20 min
Thursday Thrills | Flatwoods Monster to Mothman: A West Virginia Cryptid Road Trip
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 really reveal—and why do these monster stories still pull us into the dark?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com
- 4 days ago45 min
Intruder in the Night: A Babysitter’s Nightmare | Halloween Horror Story
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 figure in a steel helmet steps out of the shadows. What happened that night will become part of the buried legend of the Mad Gasser of Couto Basin.Blending historical horror, home invasion suspense, masked-intruder dread, and a poison-gas nightmare, Intruder in the Night is a tense scary story for listeners building their Halloween horror queue.Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com
- 5 days ago19 min
This Week in Horror History | Jennifer's Body, Blair Witch, Hardware & The Addams Family
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. R. Martin, then add Underworld's vampire-Lycan war to your Halloween watchlist.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
- 6 days ago48 min
Terrifying & True | Lizzie Borden: The Axe Murders, Trial and Unsolved Mystery
Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the 1892 axe murders, yet a notorious nursery rhyme still casts her as the killer. Terrifying & True returns to Fall River, Massachusetts, to examine the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden and the evidence presented at her 1893 trial. From the disputed barn alibi and burned dress to the handleless hatchet, follow the clues that fueled suspicion without securing a conviction. We trace the murder timeline and alternate theories, separating the historical record from folklore to ask what investigators could prove—and why the killings remain unsolved.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
- 1 weeks ago3h 11m
Unknown Broadcast | Rural Horror: Harvest of Death & Ghost in the Garden
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 toward a secret that grows more dangerous with every step. ⚓ Wild Oranges - A remote grove offers beauty, isolation, and a welcome that turns sharply hostile. ⚡ Needle in the Haystack - One tiny clue hides inside a rural maze where a killer expects it to stay lost. ☾ Harvest of Death - A season of gathering becomes a grim accounting when old motives ripen at last. ✦ The Ghost in the Garden - A quiet garden keeps blooming around an apparition that refuses to be uprooted. ◆ Cornelia - A curious living presence takes root and grows far beyond anyone's control. Our rural horror signal fades at dusk; the ghost stories will remain in the garden until you return.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
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About Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween
Weekly Spooky delivers original horror fiction, true crime, haunted folklore, paranormal mysteries, cryptids, and horror history throughout the week. Hosted by filmmaker and narrator Henrique Couto, the feed combines cinematic scary 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 & True, Thursday Thrills, Unknown Broadcast, This Week in Horror History, Cutting Deep Into Horror, Monthly Spooky, and seasonal story compilations. During Halloween and spooky season, discover haunted-house stories, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, urban legends, ghost stories, monster encounters, and long-form horror marathons for late-night listening, fall drives, and Halloween parties. Mature themes included.
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