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by Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening.
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- Today22 min
This Week in Horror History | Legendary Terror & Cosmic Nightmares June 15–21
Horror history gets iconic, aquatic, gothic, apocalyptic, and completely unhinged this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 15–21 with motel terror, shark sequels, dark superhero nightmares, zombie blockbuster chaos, and one wild space-vampire cult classic that brings cosmic horror crashing down on Earth.This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror, summer blockbusters, gothic comic-book horror, zombie disaster cinema, and 1980s Cannon Films madness, including the New York premiere of Psycho, the U.S. release of Jaws 2, the theatrical arrival of Batman Returns, the blockbuster zombie outbreak of World War Z, and the Deep-Cut Spotlight on Tobe Hooper’s bizarre 1985 space vampire epic Lifeforce.Inside this episode:• Psycho rewrites the rules of horror moviegoing, turns the Bates Motel into a nightmare landmark, and makes one ordinary shower one of the most famous crime scenes in cinema.• Jaws 2 drags audiences back to Amity Island for more shark terror, seaside panic, and one of horror’s most frustrating “nobody believes the guy who is right” sequel setups.• Batman Returns transforms Gotham into a twisted Christmas horror fairy tale full of sewer lairs, circus gangs, stitched leather, abandoned children, corporate monsters, Catwoman, and the Penguin.• World War Z reimagines the zombie apocalypse as global disaster cinema, with the undead moving less like slow corpses and more like a rushing human flood.• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Lifeforce, Tobe Hooper’s strange, ambitious, and deeply excessive Cannon Films cult classic about Halley’s Comet, alien vampires, life-draining seduction, plague victims, and London falling apart under cosmic horror.Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf, John Carl Buechler, and Nicole Kidman, a creepy look at how horror became a massive summer marketing event, and a weekly recommendation for Hammer’s Dracula, also known as Horror of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.From Norman Bates and shark-infested beaches to Gotham monsters, zombie swarms, Halley’s Comet, space vampires, Hammer horror, and Cannon Films insanity, this week proves horror history can be classic, blockbuster-sized, cult, strange, seductive, and absolutely impossible to ignore.🎧 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
- Yesterday38 min
Terrifying & True | Highway of Tears: Missing Women & Dark Canadian Lore
Highway 16 in northern British Columbia looks, at first glance, like any other remote road: mountains, forests, rivers, small towns, and long stretches of empty pavement. But for decades, this corridor became known by a much darker name — the Highway of Tears.This episode of Terrifying & True investigates the real history behind one of Canada’s most devastating true crime cases: the disappearances and murders of women and girls along Highway 16 and nearby routes, many of them Indigenous. Officially, the RCMP’s Project E-PANA includes eighteen cases, but families, advocates, and Indigenous organizations have long argued that the true number may be higher.We examine the victims, the isolated geography, the lack of safe transportation, the failures of policing and media attention, and the systemic conditions that allowed danger to persist for decades. This is not a story about one cursed road or one simple explanation. It is a story about grief, survival, ignored warnings, and families who refused to let their loved ones disappear from memory.The Highway of Tears remains one of the most haunting examples of how true crime can expose something larger than a single mystery: a pattern of violence, silence, and systemic failure that continues to demand answers.We’re telling that story tonight.🎧 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
- 2 days ago2h 24m
Unknown Broadcast | Gothic Horror Fiction & Graves, Gallows, Curses
Four eerie tales of gothic horror and betrayal unfold tonight. A desert archaeological dig uncovers fresh horror instead of ancient history. Then Owl Creek Bridge becomes a nightmare of illusion, escape, and doom. Witchcraft, stagecraft, and murder collide in flames and suspicion. Finally, The Whistler arrives with a crime story where the cleverest plan may already be waiting to betray you. Expert narration. Immersive darkness. Spine-tingling twists.🪦 Dig Me DeadlyA desert excavation turns into a murder investigation when a body is found where no fresh corpse should be. Detective Claudia Trubshaw follows the trail through sand, bones, secrets, and suspicious academics in a classic radio mysterywhere the past is not nearly as dead as everyone hoped.🌉 An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeA condemned man stands beneath the beams of Owl Creek Bridge, waiting for the rope to fall. What follows is one of the great nightmares of old-time radio suspense: a desperate escape, a race toward home, and the terrible question of how much life can pass through a mind in its final instant.🔥 Fire Burn and Cauldron BubbleTheater, superstition, jealousy, and murder stir together in this eerie Suspense drama from John Dickson Carr. A performance becomes a trap, an obsession becomes dangerous, and the old language of witchcraft seems to whisper from just behind the curtain.🔪 Double CrossIn this Whistler tale, a criminal scheme twists back on itself when deception becomes the deadliest weapon in the room. A robbery, a setup, and a supposed perfect plan all move toward the same destination: the moment when betrayal stops being clever and starts being fatal.Four stories. Four graves opening. One broadcast that was never buried deep enough.🎧 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
- 3 days ago1h 56m
Dark Fantasy Horror Fiction: Witches, Cults & Feral Legends
Supernatural horror stories, creature attacks, dark fantasy nightmares, vampire hunters, witchcraft, death cults, feral forest legends, and occult monster terror collide in this eerie Weekly Spooky compilation built for fans of scary stories, horror fiction, paranormal thrillers, folk horror, supernatural action, dark magic, cannibal legends, and cursed wilderness mysteries.These stories crawl through haunted forests, secret schools, forgotten hills, and poisoned realms where the old rules of the world break apart. A gentle hermit discovers an ancient corruption spreading through the woods. A supernatural federal agent spends New Year’s Eve fighting undead servants and a death god. A folklore writer follows a century-old Oregon mystery into the trees… and finds out some legends are hungry enough to survive.Inside this episode:• New Year’s Evil: A Paranormal Thriller from the Case Files of Caroline QuinnA half-vampire federal troubleshooter returns to her old supernatural school on New Year’s Eve, only to find the campus overtaken by cultists, undead creatures, and a possible death god resurrection. It’s occult action horror with monsters, government secrets, superpowered students, and a countdown to midnight. • Hermit — by Mike MannIn a strange fantasy realm, an ancient woodland healer discovers black ichor infecting animals, trees, and the balance of nature itself. Her desperate warning leads her toward a village where fear, cruelty, dark magic, and monstrous transformation await. • Fool’s Hill — by Bruce HaneyA folklore writer investigating old Oregon witch legends uncovers a century-long pattern of disappearances, mutilated bodies, strange screams in the woods, and a hill with a terrible reputation. What begins as local legend becomes a grim folk-horror mystery about curiosity, cannibal survival, and the stories people should have left buried. If you love supernatural horror podcasts, scary folklore stories, dark fantasy horror, occult mysteries, vampire hunters, haunted woods, death cult horror, folk horror, and creature-feature nightmares, this compilation delivers a strange, bloody trip into worlds where the monsters may be ancient, human, undead, or something much worse.🎧 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
- 4 days ago11 min
Shadow, A Fable by Edgar Allan Poe - Gothic Horror Story of Death, Plague & Dread
Edgar Allan Poe gothic horror comes creeping through the darkness in Shadow, a Fable, a chilling classic tale of death, plague, ancient dread, and supernatural terror from one of horror’s most legendary authors.In this eerie and poetic nightmare, a group of men gather in the shadow of death, surrounded by sickness, silence, and the terrible certainty that something unseen is waiting just beyond the light. As their fear grows and the room seems to close in around them, Poe pulls us into a world where grief becomes a presence, darkness feels alive, and the voice of the grave may be closer than anyone dares believe.If you love classic horror stories, Edgar Allan Poe, gothic fiction, haunted atmosphere, literary horror, dark fantasy, and old-fashioned scary stories perfect for Halloween season or year-round chills, this episode of Weekly Spooky delivers a short but unforgettable descent into dread.Turn down the lights, my spookies… because in Poe’s world, the shadow is never just a shadow.Shadow, a Fable — by Edgar Allan Poe🎧 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
- 5 days ago19 min
America’s Loch Ness Monster: Lake Creature on Camera | Thursday Thrills
Cryptid folklore meets modern surveillance this week on Thursday Thrills. We dive into Champ, America's answer to the Loch Ness Monster, and explore the eerie lake-monster legends that refuse to fade—especially after alleged new footage surfaced on Lake Champlain. From high-tech underwater searches to centuries-old hidden-creature encounters, we ask: what makes these stories persist, and what happens when folklore gets caught on camera?Join us as we look at the darkness beneath the surface.🎧 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
- 6 days ago35 min
Summer of the Demon pt 2: Cursed Objects & Horror Revelations
Cursed objects awaken fresh horror in Part 2 of Summer of the Demon. After surviving the jersey’s return, Peewee wakes in Greg’s room to meet his parents—who reveal the obsession started at Tinkers, a mysterious junk shop. Their confession changes everything: the curse isn’t contained. The darkness at Camp Red Feather intensifies as secrets unravel and the real horror emerges. Mature themes, supernatural escalation, and eerie family revelations await in this terrifying chapter of the Weekly Spooky horror fiction anthology.Back at Camp Red Feather, the Demon strikes again, turning a pool party into a blood-soaked nightmare and proving that no one tied to the championship game is safe. Peewee wants answers, but every clue points back to Greg Branlake, Mick “The Demon” Knight, and the supernatural force hidden inside that 00 jersey.Then Greg’s sister Jessica arrives at camp, determined to help uncover the truth about her brother’s death, his journals, and the mysterious “Vicious Vixen” who may know more than anyone realizes. But before Peewee and Jessica can escape Camp Red Feather, the Demon returns in broad daylight—and this time, he is ready to tear through everyone on the field.This second chapter of Rob Fields’ sports horror slasher miniseries delivers cursed object terror, demonic revenge, summer camp carnage, supernatural football horror, and a brutal cliffhanger that pushes Peewee closer to a showdown he may not survive.Listen now for a scary summer horror story where the Demon is back on the field… and he’s still playing to kill.Summer of the Demon: Part 2 — by Rob Fields🎧 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
- 1 weeks ago24 min
This Week in Horror History | Gremlins, Ghostbusters, The Shining & Killer Dessert Horror — June 8–14
Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monsters, haunted hotels, supernatural comedy, demonic hauntings, creepy mirrors, and one killer dessert that may be eating America alive.This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural blockbusters, 1980s horror, haunted-house horror, and strange consumer-satire body horror, including the release of Gremlins, the same-day arrival of Ghostbusters, the wider theatrical expansion of The Shining, the hit sequel The Conjuring 2, and the mirror-filled nightmare of Poltergeist III.Inside this episode:• Gremlins turns one cute little mogwai into small-town monster chaos and helps push Hollywood toward the PG-13 rating.• Ghostbusters brings haunted libraries, demonic possession, rooftop apocalypse, and paranormal exterminators into one of the biggest supernatural comedy franchises ever.• The Shining expands wider in U.S. theaters, pulling more audiences into Stanley Kubrick’s cold, hypnotic nightmare inside the Overlook Hotel.• The Conjuring 2 sends Ed and Lorraine Warren to the Enfield haunting and introduces one of modern horror’s most memorable demonic figures.• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Poltergeist III, the strange 1988 sequel that traps Carol Anne inside a haunted Chicago high-rise full of mirrors, elevators, cold hallways, and unfinished supernatural business.Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Jurgen Prochnow, and Adrienne Barbeau, a creepy look at how horror sneaks into family homes, hotels, corporate towers, grocery aisles, and blockbuster comedy, and a weekly recommendation for Larry Cohen’s weird, gross, and sharply satirical cult classic The Stuff.From mogwai mayhem and ghost exterminators to haunted reflections, demonic forces, the Overlook Hotel, and a mysterious dessert that might be consuming its customers from the inside out, this week proves horror can invade almost anything: your home, your hotel room, your movie theater, your refrigerator, and your appetite.🎧 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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