Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert
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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. Explore the complete world of Weekly Spooky at https://weeklyspooky.com/ and follow the podcast for new nightmares throughout the week.

  1. 1h ago

    Terrifying & True | Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel: The Truth Behind the Elevator Video

    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 case while separating evidence from the haunted-hotel folklore that grew around it. We examine the Cecil Hotel's dark history, Elisa's final days at Stay on Main, the LAPD search, the elevator doors that remained open, the rooftop-access question, the open tank hatch, and the Los Angeles County medical examiner's conclusion: accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder listed as a significant contributing condition. The silent elevator footage became one of the defining creepy videos of modern true crime. Viewers searched it for a hidden pursuer, a ghost, an edited-out figure, the Elevator Game, or proof that the Cecil Hotel was cursed. Early reports made the roof sound unreachable and suggested Elisa could not have entered a sealed tank alone. But court filings and the maintenance worker's sworn account reveal a more grounded - and still deeply frightening - story. As Halloween season approaches, Elisa Lam's story continues to circulate through haunted-hotel lists, paranormal theories, real-life horror collections, Netflix documentaries, and true crime podcasts. This episode explores why the official explanation never satisfied the internet, how web sleuths transformed ambiguity into modern folklore, and what is lost when a vulnerable young woman becomes only the figure in a red hoodie. Inside this episode: Elisa Lam's 2013 disappearance from the Cecil Hotel and Stay on MainWhat the viral elevator video actually shows, including the door-hold controlThe rooftop water tank, open hatch, and possible access routesThe medical examiner's accidental-drowning ruling and toxicology evidenceRichard Ramirez, Jack Unterweger, the Black Dahlia claim, and the Cecil Hotel's haunted reputationThe Elevator Game, Dark Water parallels, Netflix, web sleuths, and modern folklore Was the Cecil Hotel case ever an impossible locked-room mystery - or did millions of viewers build a supernatural story from everything the camera could not show?  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

    Terrifying & True | Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel: The Truth Behind the Elevator Video

  2. 1d ago

    Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman

    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 watcher hears the timetable come alive again. ✦ Orient Express — A businessman bound for Istanbul finds an armed stranger in his compartment and is pulled into a rushing night of Balkan intrigue. ⚑ The Signalman — A haunted railway worker receives impossible warnings beside a dark tunnel, each one arriving just ahead of disaster. ✉ Ticket to Nowhere — A driver hears a passenger boast of a fortune and quietly changes the destination from a country lodge to murder. The radio suspense is over, but the last train is still approaching—and this station has not existed for years. 🎧 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

    Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman

  3. 2d ago

    4 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves & Supernatural Monsters

    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 thief begins transforming into a bloodthirsty werewolf-like monster.  Then a mysterious woman named Roxie overwhelms Jake Blackmon with an unnatural attraction before disappearing from his life. When she returns and orders him to kill, Jake discovers that Roxie is not human—and that other men may already be trapped beneath the same supernatural influence.  Next, emotionless Strickfield vigilante Raigen Devereux battles a dangerous fever while hunting the Queen of Hearts serial killer through a raging blizzard. Bodies marked with playing cards, preserved human hearts, a kidnapped former fiancé, and a deeply personal connection transform the investigation into a deadly confrontation between two killers.  Finally, an ex-con named Penn accepts a criminal job and discovers that his employer murders victims for their tattooed skin. Trapped inside an unfinished high-rise with a skin-suit serial killer, Penn receives unexpected supernatural help when a magical tattoo transforms a bag of candy into an enormous, flesh-dissolving gummy worm monster.    Tonight’s Scary Stories: “Crime and Bedevilment: The Falling Out of Two Brothers” by Joe Solmo An occult crime-horror story featuring two thieves, a secret coven, an ancient magical collar, and a robbery that unleashes a savage werewolf curse. “Roxie” by Charles Campbell A supernatural seduction story about a mysterious nonhuman woman who charms ordinary men into committing murder on her behalf. “Sick With Rage” by Rob Fields A Strickfield serial-killer thriller featuring Raigen Devereux, the Queen of Hearts killer, stolen human hearts, a missing former fiancé, and a deadly investigation during a blizzard. “The Worm Has Turned” by David O’Hanlon A darkly funny supernatural monster story involving criminals, stolen tattooed skin, a magical amulet, National Gummi Worm Day, and one gigantic candy creature with a taste for killers. These four terrifying tales combine serial-killer horror, supernatural crime, witchcraft, occult rituals, cursed transformations, werewolf horror, supernatural seduction, murder investigations, preserved human hearts, skin-suit killers, giant monsters, body horror, revenge, survival horror, and dark comedy. Perfect for listeners searching for scary stories, horror audiobooks, horror fiction podcasts, serial-killer stories, supernatural thrillers, witchcraft horror, occult horror, werewolf stories, crime horror, murder mysteries, monster stories, giant-creature horror, body horror, dark-comedy horror, Strickfield stories, Summerween entertainment, and Halloween podcasts. The summer nights are hot, but somewhere a blizzard is hiding a killer, an ancient collar is waiting for its next victim, and an innocent bag of candy is preparing to become something enormous. 🎧 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 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves & Supernatural Monsters

  4. 3d ago

    Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016): Blood Rituals & Body Horror

    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 Rachael trace the story from its apparently unstoppable, blood-covered killer and intentionally foolish slasher characters to a rural family protecting its cabin with glowing blood runes. The mystery soon explodes into an occult resurrection ritual involving virgins, non-virgins, menstrual blood, a pentagram, and one revolting chalice. They also revisit discovering the movie through the Movies at the Asylum theatrical series, discuss The Asylum, Sharknado, and low-budget B-movie culture, and break down the film’s sleeping-bag homage to Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. As Weekly Spooky ramps up toward Halloween season, the conversation digs into the movie’s grotesque humor, gory special effects, supernatural rules, and deliberately blurred ideas of protagonist and antagonist. Why does Felicity gradually become the closest thing the story has to a protagonist? How can a movie this absurd still follow a carefully constructed internal logic? And why does its spectacularly gruesome rebirth ending feel earned rather than random? For listeners filling a spooky-season podcast queue with slashers, strange indie horror movies, occult rituals, and unforgettable body horror, Tonight She Comes is one nightmare that refuses to stay buried. Inside this episode: Discovering Tonight She Comes during the Movies at the Asylum theatrical seriesThe supernatural slasher and cabin-in-the-woods setupDeliberately foolish characters, horror clichés, and genre self-awarenessThe Friday the 13th Part VII sleeping-bag kill homageBlood runes, virgin blood, menstrual blood, and the resurrection ritualWhy Felicity becomes the closest thing the film has to a protagonistGory effects, occult body horror, and the unforgettable rebirth endingFull spoilers throughout. 🎧 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

    Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016): Blood Rituals & Body Horror

  5. 4d ago

    Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban Legends | Thursday Thrills

    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 patrols, but contemporary reporting says they found no clown, no costume, no hidden camp, and no physical evidence proving the earliest claims. The story did not remain an unexplained neighborhood scare for long. Television coverage, online reporting, recycled photographs, viral videos, and social media carried the South Carolina reports across the country. Soon, new killer clown sightings were being reported in other towns and states. Police investigated clown-related threats, schools responded to rumors and hoaxes, public events changed plans, and deliberate copycats began wearing clown masks near roads, schools, apartment complexes, and darkened tree lines. The earliest reports may never have been substantiated—but the fear surrounding them produced very real consequences. People were arrested in connection with false reports, threats, trespassing, weapons, and public intimidation. What may have begun as a misunderstanding, rumor, prank, or unidentified encounter became a nationwide case of mass panic. The scary clown urban legend was no longer merely a story people shared online. Frightened strangers began putting on costumes and performing the nightmare themselves. On the tenth anniversary of the panic, Henrique Couto follows the true story behind the clown sightings from Greenville County to documented copycat incidents in Kentucky and Alabama, an Ohio false report, Penn State’s enormous student clown hunt, corporate reactions from Target and McDonald’s, and the international spread of the craze. Were there ever really clowns hiding in those first South Carolina woods? Or did America become so frightened of the story that people began supplying their own masks, threats, and terrifying encounters? As Halloween approaches and the 2026 spooky season begins, this carefully sourced Halloween podcast episode blends horror history, internet folklore, spooky stories, urban legends, unexplained sightings, and the eerie real-world consequences of viral fear. It is a perfect listen for fans who come to Weekly Spooky for weekly horror stories, creepy mysteries, scary Halloween stories, modern folklore, and the clown panic explained without rumor being presented as established fact. Maybe there was never a clown waiting in those first South Carolina woods. Maybe there was. But once the story escaped, the legend no longer needed to be true. It only needed enough people to believe it—and enough others willing to become it. 🎧 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

    Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban Legends | Thursday Thrills

  6. 5d ago

    The Darkness Under Clear Lake: A Sunken Relic Possesses a Missing Swimmer

    Brian vanishes beneath Clear Lake and returns hours later clutching a carved relic—waterlogged, impossibly strong, and violently changed. Brian and Michelle plan a quiet end-of-summer camping trip, only to find Michelle’s former best friends Kristin, Hailey, and Bella in the neighboring site. Old tensions soften into drinking, swimming, and one last celebration before school resumes. Then Brian dives into the lake looking for lost objects and finds something resembling carved petrified wood beneath the dark grass. The relic will not let him release it or swim to the surface. When he finally reappears, his body is bloated with water and his personality is gone. He attacks the women with supernatural strength, opens the object into a small box, and transforms the lake into an alien landscape beneath a green sky. Michelle must get the relic away from him without touching it while something in the water tugs at the survivors from below. Bruce Haney’s “The Darkness Under Clear Lake” blends cursed-object horror, possession, an end-of-summer lake trip, body horror, warped reality, and friendship tested by an underwater threat. The richer description names Brian, Michelle, Kristin, Hailey, and Bella while keeping the origin and full power of the sunken box unknown. Story by Bruce Haney. 🎧 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

    The Darkness Under Clear Lake: A Sunken Relic Possesses a Missing Swimmer

  7. 6d ago

    This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf

    Blade, The Exorcist III, An American Werewolf in London, You’re Next, The Night House, and Night of the Creeps lead this August 17–23 horror-history guide. The release-date calendar revisits William Peter Blatty’s rain-soaked supernatural detective story The Exorcist III, Rebecca Hall’s haunted grief in The Night House, Wesley Snipes’ debut as Marvel’s vampire-hunting Daywalker in Blade, and the masked home invasion of You’re Next. Each film offers a different route into the Halloween pregame: possession, architectural dread, vampire action, and survival horror. The deep-cut spotlight belongs to Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps, where alien parasites, reanimated fraternity brothers, college chaos, and Tom Atkins with a flamethrower collide. Horror birthdays celebrate Taissa Farmiga, Peter Weir, Ray Bradbury, and Park Chan-wook. The weekly recommendation is John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London, with Rick Baker’s landmark transformation effects, full-moon tragedy, dark comedy, and undead warnings making it essential spooky-season viewing. 🎧 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

    This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf

  8. Aug 17

    Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake Became a Cryptid Legend

    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” trail-camera hoax, and the internet feedback loop that transformed a collaborative horror story into modern folklore. We also examine ordinary explanations behind many Pale Crawler sightings, including mangy deer, low-light misidentification, pareidolia, sleep paralysis, pranks and staged footage. As Halloween season approaches, the Pale Crawler has become a perfect spooky-season urban legend: a blank-faced humanoid said to crawl on all fours, rise taller than a person and vanish into the woods. Like Slender Man and other internet-born monsters, it survives because every eyewitness account, comment and viral video makes the story feel a little more real. Inside this episode: • Operation Crawler and The Rake’s 2005 creepypasta origin • The alleged Effingham, Illinois and Kentucky Pale Crawler encounters • The 2010 Louisiana swamp-monster trail-camera hoax • Reddit, YouTube, TikTok and the rise of r/CrawlerSightings • Pareidolia, sleep paralysis and misidentified wildlife • How an internet monster entered modern Halloween folklore Was the Pale Crawler created by the internet—or did the internet merely give an older fear a name, a shape and a blank white face? 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

    Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake Became a Cryptid Legend
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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. Explore the complete world of Weekly Spooky at https://weeklyspooky.com/ and follow the podcast for new nightmares throughout the week.

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