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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

von Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert

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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 & 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 scary stories of haunted houses, 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.

Explore the complete world of Weekly Spooky at weeklyspooky.com and follow the podcast for new nightmares throughout the week.

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  1. Madelyne’s Halloween Odyssey | 4 Halloween Horror Stories

    Halloween in Strickfield opens doors that should stay shut. A bridge ghost holds missing children, a midnight movie leads to a vampire world, a ruined carnival hides a trip to 1955, and the Candy House returns for one deadly night. Follow M

  2. Halloween Radio 2026 | 24 Spooky Songs for Your Halloween Party

    Your Halloween party has a new soundtrack: 24 spooky songs from 14 artists, hosted by Henrique Couto. Weekly Spooky Radio 2026 brings together horror-inspired rock, monster pop, eerie electronics and occult chants in two-song sets, with Hen

  3. A Pact Realized on Halloween | A Deal with the Devil

    Felicia Bates refused the devil’s offer to bring back her husband. Then she wakes on Halloween with Gabriel alive beside her—and the tragedy that destroyed their family apparently erased. She never agreed to a bargain. So why has her wish c

  4. The House on Telford Circle | A Haunted Halloween Reunion

    Amanda and Felipe barely escaped the Sullivan house as teenagers. Now a Halloween birthday reunion brings them back with two old friends. A child is crying upstairs, and the woman who died there remembers their first visit. “The House on Te

  5. Sleepy Hollow’s Headless Horseman: A Halloween Ghost Story | Thursday Thrills

    Sleepy Hollow’s Headless Horseman turns Ichabod Crane’s ride home into a nightmare. Join Henrique Couto as he follows Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from Brom Bones’ ghost stories at an autumn feast to a silent rider and a

  6. Neighborhood Nightmares | 3 Scary Halloween Stories: Don’t Open the Door

    Jack Scratch returns with three scary Halloween stories from Millhaven, where every invitation has a price. A widower’s bargain to save his wife comes due. A trick-or-treater meets Mr. Pickles, a beautiful cat whose owner obeys a murderous

  7. Candy Haul | A Goblin’s Halloween Horror Story

    Candy Haul by Tyler Belmont turns trick-or-treating into a goblin Halloween horror story. Twelve-year-old Daniel wants the biggest candy haul in the neighborhood, and his new friend Ivan has the most convincing costume he has ever seen. But

  8. This Week in Horror History | Saw, The Walking Dead, Ghostwatch & SIGNALIS (Oct 26–Nov 1)

    From October 26–November 1, Halloween horror history turns trusted broadcasts into nightmares. Revisit Saw’s locked-room terror, The Walking Dead’s zombie TV debut, and the BBC’s Ghostwatch, where familiar presenters made a fictional haunti

  9. Monthly Spooky | Halloween Haunts, Ghost Stories & Poltergeists

    Halloween haunts and ghost lore get a skeptical twist on Monthly Spooky. Henrique Couto and Michelle revisit Pennsylvania's Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride, then open Eric Elfman's The Very Scary Almanac (1993) for Borley Rectory ghost stor

  10. Unknown Broadcast | Halloween at Midnight: 8 Old Time Radio Horror Stories

    Unknown Broadcast opens Halloween at Midnight with eight old-time radio horror and mystery tales. Light the jack-o'-lantern. Something is listening. The Demon Spirit: Love turns to possession. The Loup-Garou: A werewolf legend in the bayou.

  11. The Walls Remember | 4 Halloween Horror Stories: Haunted Houses & Dirt Babies

    Four Halloween horror stories prove some places never forget. Renovating a former funeral home unleashes what was hidden in its walls. A masked killer escapes a sanitarium. A craft project made with graveyard soil becomes a living nightmare

  12. 12:01 | Halloween Horror: One Minute to Raise the Dead

    In “12:01: An Anna Wu Story” by Mike Ashkewe, Halloween horror begins with stolen body parts and a warning to go home. Ice-powered agent Anna Wu follows the evidence to a hidden butcher-shop laboratory in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. A doorway t

  13. Cutting Deep Into Horror | Halloween (1978): Why Michael Myers Still Scares Us

    John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) turns a quiet neighborhood into a place where Michael Myers could be hiding anywhere. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Donald Pleasence’s obsessive Dr. Loomis, D

  14. Clinton Road: The Ghost Boy of New Jersey’s Haunted Road | Thursday Thrills

    Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey, has a ghost story that begins with pocket change: toss a coin into the water, and a boy beneath the bridge is said to send it back. Join Henrique Couto for a Halloween ride through the ghost-boy leg

  15. Trickster in Training | Halloween Horror at a Witch’s Door

    On Devil’s Night, two masked teenage thieves pick the wrong house in “Trickster in Training” by Charles Campbell. Clement wants easy money; Miller just wants to keep up. At the end of a long dirt road, Felicia Fields answers their knock—and

  16. This Week in Horror History | Halloween, 30 Days of Night & Dark Night of the Scarecrow (Oct 19–25)

    From October 19–25, horror history turns your Halloween watchlist into a nightmare. Revisit John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the sunless vampire siege of 30 Days of Night, and Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Venture into Inns

  17. Terrifying & True | Ghostwatch: The BBC Halloween Hoax and Its Real Fallout

    Ghostwatch put a fictional haunting inside the familiar frame of BBC television. On Halloween night in 1992, Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene helped a scripted drama look like a live ghost hunt. Some viewers believed it. The backlash was

  18. Unknown Broadcast | The Dead Come Back: Ghost Stories & Old-Time Radio Horror

    Unknown Broadcast brings eight old-time radio tales of death, guilt, and ghostly revenge. A living man is mistaken for dead; a killer sees his victim walking behind him. The Dead Come Back features Only the Dead Remember, Dead of Night, Dea

  19. Through the Veil | 7 Halloween Horror Stories: Haunted Houses & Cursed Masks

    Seven Halloween horror stories open doors that should stay locked. A haunted house sends photographs no one took. A yard-sale mask gives a child deadly invisible playmates. An impossible hospital, a creature stalking a camping trip, and a s

  20. A Halloween Fate Foretold | Witches, a Banshee & Haunted House Horror

    Three kisses before dawn will reveal a young witch’s future husband—but Tiffany Hawthorn wants to choose her own fate. A Halloween Fate Foretold by Rob Fields follows Tiffany and the skeptical Baxter Donnerly from a drive-in date into an ab

  21. Don’t Go Into the Corn: Haunted Corn Mazes & Hayrides | Thursday Thrills

    Haunted corn mazes and Halloween hayrides turn a cozy fall outing into a walk you might not want to finish alone. Henrique Couto follows an imagined night from cider and pumpkins to a wagon drop-off, a suspicious scarecrow, and something mo

  22. I’m Banking On It | A Halloween Vampire Story

    On Halloween night, a hungry vampire comes knocking at a bankrupt blood bank in “I’m Banking On It” by Tyler Belmont. Paralegal Trevor Gillespie is stuck guarding the place, and his unwanted visitor needs an invitation. Trevor has legal ord

  23. 60 Halloween Movie Picks for 2026 | Hidden Gems & Horror Classics

    Need Halloween movies to watch? Henrique Couto and David Denoyer build your 2026 Halloween watchlist with 60 picks, from nostalgic gateway horror to underrated discoveries and seasonal favorites. Revisit Coraline, Scream, and Creepshow, the

  24. This Week in Horror History | Evil Dead, The Ring & The Haunting of Hill House (Oct 12–18)

    October 12-18 brings haunted houses, cursed videotapes, and Deadites to your Halloween watchlist. This Week in Horror History marks 45 years since The Evil Dead's first public screening, revisits The Ring's U.S. release, and explores the fa

  25. Terrifying & True | Hex Hollow Murder: Killing to Break a Curse

    The Hex Hollow murder began with a search for a book and a lock of hair. In 1928, three attackers killed Pennsylvania farmer Nelson Rehmeyer, believing he had cursed them. Their attempt to burn away the evidence failed. Follow the York Coun

  26. Unknown Broadcast | Cursed Relics: Cursed Objects & Old-Time Radio Horror

    Unknown Broadcast unlocks six old-time radio tales of cursed objects, greed, and supernatural dread. A singer enters a pharaoh's tomb, a killer seeks a giant ruby at Kali's shrine, and a necklace carries a deadly past. Cursed Relics feature

  27. Monster Mash to Apocalypse | 8 Halloween Horror Stories: Zombies, Vampires & Aliens

    Eight Halloween horror stories turn one cruel trick into a monster apocalypse. A zombie-city beer delivery, Elizabeth Bathory's blood hunt, a vampire hunter's mission, Hell in 2099, and a punk band's alien encounter keep raising the stakes.

  28. Cutting Deep into Horror | Hellraiser (1987): Pinhead, Desire & Body Horror

    Hellraiser (1987) turns desire into body horror. Henrique and Rachael revisit Clive Barker's original film, from Pinhead and the Cenobites to the Lament Configuration puzzle box. Are these beings evil, or do they operate beyond human morali

  29. Three Twisted Halloween Treats | Ghost Stories & Pumpkin Horror

    Three scary Halloween stories by Gary D turn a boarded-up house, an attic game, and a pumpkin patch into a night of ghostly dread and grotesque surprises. In “Off Her Rocker,” two boys discover their abandoned clubhouse isn’t empty. “Bones

  30. Halloween Home Haunts: Your Neighbor Built a Nightmare | Thursday Thrills

    Halloween home haunts turn ordinary yards into neighborhood haunted houses—and sometimes the decorations answer back. Henrique Couto celebrates handmade Halloween displays, the West Carrollton Stranger Things house, Haunt 31’s plywood-tombs

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