Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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. 7h ago

    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

    Unknown Broadcast | Rural Horror: Harvest of Death & Ghost in the Garden

  2. 1d ago

    7 Halloween Horror Stories: Cursed VHS, Slashers & Video Store Horror

    Seven Halloween horror stories rewind the season into nearly five hours of cursed VHS tapes, video store nightmares, slasher killers, occult rituals, late-night horror television, and supernatural scary stories. Weekly Spooky presents Rituals, Reels & Rentals, a retro Halloween horror compilation for listeners who love horror fiction podcasts, 1980s horror nostalgia, cursed media, vintage video stores, Samhain folklore, and long-form scary stories. These tales move from an ancient graveyard spell on Halloween 1986 to a brutal sacrificial party, a horror host who can reach through the television, vampires stalking an all-night rental shop, a storm-soaked video store slasher, a cursed black-and-white VHS tape, and an occult cassette that can erase people from existence itself. If your Halloween podcast queue includes VHS horror, supernatural fiction, slasher stories, cursed movies, retro media horror, and old-school video store atmosphere, press play and settle in. Inside this Halloween horror compilation: • “Halloween 198666” by Dan Wilder - On Halloween night in 1986, two friends find an ancient spell book and take a very bad idea into a snowy graveyard. Their attempt at forbidden magic turns a raven, a stolen offering, and a teenage crush into a winged demonic nightmare with an extremely 1980s sense of humor. • “The Halloween Party” by Keith Tomlin - Amber is abducted on the way to a Halloween party and wakes inside an abandoned factory where a ritualistic killer is making sacrifices to the Dark Lord. Then Clyde arrives, and the night reveals a second visitor whose connection to Hell may be worse than the slasher himself. • “PHANTASMAGORIA” by Morgan Moore - Young Stephen secretly stays awake for an all-night Samhain horror marathon hosted by the terrifying Moloch. The late-night horror show becomes much more than television when its host selects one viewer for a ritual that can reach straight through the screen. • “Special Halloween Hours” by Rob Fields - Charlee Brewster takes the overnight Halloween shift at Strickfield Video and discovers that the store really does serve every kind of customer. A birthday hunt for a rare horror tape becomes a chase involving vampires, wolves, a Harley, and the most dangerous movie rental of the night. • “Deadly Rental - A Valley Halloween Tale” by Charles Campbell - In 1983, a violent storm traps employees and customers inside Valley Video. A strange caller keeps asking “trick or treat,” the power dies, and a costumed killer turns the rental shop into a bloody Halloween slasher scene with one final trick waiting behind the counter. • “The Strickfield Slasher” by Rob Fields - A rare black-and-white VHS tape purchased from Tinker’s brings an infamous Strickfield slasher movie to a Halloween party at the exact house connected to its legend. Soon the killer is no longer confined to the screen, and reality itself starts looking like the movie. • “ERASURE” by Morgan Moore - A seven-year-old helps his older brother secretly rent an R-rated gore movie by swapping VHS tapes. At midnight, something crawls out of the VCR - an occult entity capable of doing more than killing people. It can erase them from photographs, memories, history, and existence itself. Across seven stories, tapes rewind, televisions stare back, killers step off screens, and Halloween rituals turn entertainment into an occult doorway. This is a long-form Halloween horror anthology for fans of scary stories, retro horror, cursed media, supernatural thrillers, slashers, horror hosts, video store nostalgia, and dark fiction built for spooky-season listening. Follow Weekly Spooky on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or your favorite podcast app, and come back every Wednesday for a brand-new scary story. Keep listening through Halloween season for more horror fiction, monsters, folklore, slashers, ghosts, and supernatural nightmares. 🎧 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

    7 Halloween Horror Stories: Cursed VHS, Slashers & Video Store Horror

  3. 2d ago

    Isolation & Murder: 7 True Crime Horror Stories | Survival Folklore

    As Halloween approaches prepare yourself with a four-hour-plus True Crime compilation featuring seven true stories of haunted places, unsolved murder, wilderness disaster, cannibalism, and survival. The Stanley Hotel, the Hinterkaifeck murders, the Good Hart murders, Bonnie Hood's death at Camp Nelson, the Hamar-Daban expedition, Alfred Packer, and the Donner Party form one escalating journey into places where distance becomes part of the danger. The night begins at Colorado's Stanley Hotel, where a real explosion in Room 217 became the foundation of an enduring ghost story. From there, we enter Germany's isolated Hinterkaifeck farm, where six people were murdered and evidence suggested that someone continued using the property after their deaths. In northern Michigan, the Robison family's lakeside cottage becomes the scene of the still-unsolved Good Hart murders. At California's Camp Nelson Lodge, the killing of Bonnie Hood leads to a surviving eyewitness, an acquitted suspect, a second homicide, and a suspected murder-for-hire arrangement that was never proved in court. Then the walls disappear. In Siberia's Hamar-Daban Mountains, a sudden storm kills six members of a hiking expedition and leaves one traumatized survivor to explain their final moments. In Colorado, Alferd 'Alfred' Packer returns alone from a winter expedition with a changing story about the five men who did not survive. The compilation concludes with the Donner Party, whose disastrous westward journey became one of America's most infamous accounts of starvation and cannibalism. Beyond its gruesome reputation is a larger story about failed decisions, delayed rescue, moral collapse, extraordinary sacrifice, and the human refusal to surrender. 🎧 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

    Isolation & Murder: 7 True Crime Horror Stories | Survival Folklore

  4. 3d ago

    Bihl Manor: Supernatural Folklore Behind Ohio's Cursed House | Thursday Thrills

    Supernatural folklore and cursed houses collide at Bihl Manor. Before HGTV renovates Ohio's deadliest home, we uncover the paranormal history at 1213 Buckland Avenue in Fremont. From Jerome Bihl's piano shop empire to reported deaths, funeral viewings, and decades as a paranormal investigation hotspot, Henrique Couto traces the haunting that made this manor infamous—and why investigators won't leave. 🎧 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

    Bihl Manor: Supernatural Folklore Behind Ohio's Cursed House | Thursday Thrills

  5. 4d ago

    Anger Issues: Werewolf Curse & Supernatural Folklore Unleashed!

    This Halloween season, Weekly Spooky returns to Strickfield for a savage werewolf horror story about rage, lycanthropy, transformation, and a curse that doesn’t wait for the full moon. Danielle Boyd transforms whenever her anger explodes—but unlike most werewolves, Danielle remains fully aware of the monster she becomes. After a Strickfield High cheerleader is brutally killed, monster hunter Headmistress Hiltonson becomes convinced Danielle is responsible. Using the mysterious rejuvenating waters hidden beneath Strickfield, Hiltonson goes undercover as a student to hunt the werewolf from inside the school. But Danielle’s strange immunity to silver, a second werewolf stalking the night, and a school already crawling with supernatural secrets suggest that this hunt may be much more complicated than it appears. “Anger Issues” by Rob Fields is a bloody, darkly funny supernatural horror story packed with werewolf transformations, full-moon terror, monster hunting, high-school horror, violent creature battles, and the continuing mythology of Strickfield. As Halloween draws closer, the monsters are getting restless—and in Strickfield, sometimes the difference between girl and beast is just one very bad day. 🎧 Turn out the lights, settle in, and get ready for another scary story from Weekly Spooky. 🎧 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

    Anger Issues: Werewolf Curse & Supernatural Folklore Unleashed!

  6. 5d ago

    This Week in Horror History | IT, Hellraiser & True Blood

    Start the Halloween pregame with IT, Hellraiser, True Blood, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Loved Ones as major horror anniversaries return from September 7 through September 13. This Week in Horror History heads into spooky season with Stephen King's Pennywise and Derry, Clive Barker's Lament Configuration and Cenobites, HBO vampires, no-combat survival horror, prom-night terror, and The X-Files' paranormal conspiracy. This weekly horror release-date and anniversary roundup revisits the movies, television, games, creators, and cult classics that shaped the genre while building an early-September Halloween watchlist: vampire horror, Stephen King adaptations, supernatural horror movies, survival-horror games, giallo legends, prom-night horror, monster-of-the-week television, and fall horror listening.Inside this episode: September 7, 2008 - True Blood - Alan Ball's HBO vampire hit brings Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Bon Temps, and supernatural politics out of the coffin.September 8, 2010 - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Frictional Games turns Brennenburg Castle into a landmark no-combat survival-horror nightmare built on darkness, sanity, running, and hiding.September 8, 2017 - It - Andy Muschietti sends the Losers Club into Derry's sewers to face Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise in a record-breaking Stephen King blockbuster.September 11, 1987 - Hellraiser - Clive Barker opens the Lament Configuration and unleashes the Cenobites in his feature-directing debut and the start of a horror franchise.September 13, 2009 - The Loved Ones - Sean Byrne's Australian prom-night nightmare premieres internationally at TIFF, where a rejected invitation becomes a private dance no one should attend.Plus: a horror birthday roll honoring Dario Argento, David Arquette, Brian De Palma, and Roald Dahl; and a Weekly Recommendation for The X-Files, Chris Carter's paranormal-conspiracy classic and an ideal early-autumn binge.From Pennywise beneath Derry and Cenobites beyond the puzzle box to Bon Temps vampires, Brennenburg Castle, and a pink-satin torture prom, this September 7-13 horror history roundup is your Halloween pregame: a spooky-season warm-up for scary-movie marathons, cult-horror fans, survival-horror gamers, paranormal-TV devotees, and anyone counting down to October one nightmare at a time. 🎧 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 | IT, Hellraiser & True Blood

  7. 6d ago

    Terrifying & True | The Golem of Prague: Jewish Folklore's Clay Monster

    The Golem of Prague is one of the most famous monsters in Jewish folklore: a silent giant shaped from clay, awakened by sacred Hebrew letters, and ordered to defend Prague's Jewish community. But did Rabbi Judah Loew - the Maharal of Prague - really create a supernatural protector, and could the golem's body still be hidden in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue? This pre-Halloween Terrifying & True investigation traces the golem legend from Psalm 139 and the Babylonian Talmud to Sefer Yetzirah, medieval Jewish mysticism, the older golem of Chelm, and the famous Prague story. We separate documented religious tradition from later folklore, literary invention, and horror imagery while preserving the eerie question at the center: what happens when human beings create power without judgment? Long before the golem became a stone-faced monster in movies, games, and Halloween culture, it was an unfinished human form - a body close enough to life to become unsettling. Rabbinic texts describe a created man who cannot speak. Medieval traditions connect artificial creation with combinations of the twenty-two Hebrew letters and the 231 gates. Early modern stories place the runaway servant not in Prague, but in Chelm, where a creature built to obey grows too large for its maker to control. The episode then enters the Old-New Synagogue and the legend of Rabbi Loew. The historical Maharal was a major Jewish thinker who met Emperor Rudolf II, but no surviving writing from the rabbi, his disciples, or contemporary Prague chronicles records a clay guardian. The Prague connection emerged through nineteenth-century literature, while Yudl Rosenberg's 1909 book decisively shaped the now-familiar story of Yossele, the golem created to defeat blood libels - false antisemitic accusations that had caused real persecution and violence - and protect a threatened community. As Halloween season approaches, this deep dive explores why the golem remains one of folklore's most powerful supernatural legends - and why it is more than a simple monster story. It is a tale of antisemitic persecution, communal fear, sacred language, obedience, artificial life, and the terrifying responsibility of a creator. From Prague's locked attic and rumors of a Nazi intruder to Paul Wegener's silent-film monster and modern comparisons with robots and artificial intelligence, the golem keeps receiving new commands. Inside this episode: The meaning of golem in Psalm 139, rabbinic tradition, and the story of Rava's silent created manSefer Yetzirah, sacred Hebrew letters, medieval Jewish mysticism, and the corrected 231 gatesThe older golem of Chelm and the changing traditions of emet, met, and the removable shemRabbi Judah Loew, Emperor Rudolf II, the Old-New Synagogue, and the real history of Jewish PragueYudl Rosenberg's 1909 literary hoax and the protector created to fight false blood-libel accusationsThe synagogue attic, the Nazi-intruder rumor, Paul Wegener's film, classic monsters, robots, and AI Was the Golem of Prague an ancient protector waiting in a synagogue attic - or a modern legend assembled from sacred texts, persecution, folklore, and the human fear of creations that obey too well? 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 Golem of Prague: Jewish Folklore's Clay Monster

  8. Sep 6

    Unknown Broadcast | Deadly Lessons: Old Time Radio Horror & Suspense

    Begin the march toward Halloween with six classic old time radio horror, mystery, suspense, and science fiction dramas from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, Escape, The Whistler, Quiet Please, and The Weird Circle. Deadly Lessons brings together Fred Gwynne, Marian Haley, William Conrad, John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Margo, Elsa Lanchester, Wyllis Cooper, and Charles Dickens in stories of gambling debts, Black Hills gold, seances, revenge, experimental flight, time travel, and buried testimony. As September darkens and Halloween draws closer, open the book, take your seat, and listen carefully. The signal has already written your name in the margin. ☠ CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Last Lesson - Fred Gwynne and Marian Haley star in Sam Dann's darkly comic mystery about a compulsive gambler, dangerous debts, a marriage for money, and a wealthy daredevil wife who refuses to make his escape easy. First broadcast October 13, 1975. ⚓ Escape - The Notebook - John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, and William Conrad enter 1870s Dakota Territory, where two miners carrying news of a Black Hills gold strike are hunted by a stranger willing to kill for their claim. First broadcast July 26, 1953. ⚡ Suspense - Finishing School - Margo and Elsa Lanchester lead a Gothic school mystery about a newly hired teacher, a student's death by fright, and secret seances that may be calling the dead back to life. Network broadcast December 30, 1943. ☾ The Whistler - The Black Book - A ballet star's triumphant opening night becomes a carefully staged nightmare when the rival he once crippled returns with a meticulous plan for revenge. Broadcast April 28, 1947. ✦ Quiet Please - One for the Book - Wyllis Cooper's strange science fiction time-travel tale sends Air Force pilot Max Westlake through a Mach 12 experimental flight from 1957 back to 1937, where he comes face to face with an earlier version of himself. Broadcast November 21, 1948. ◆ The Weird Circle - Dr. Manette's Manuscript - Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities becomes classic radio Gothic horror as Dr. Manette's prison manuscript exposes cruelty, captivity, and the vengeance waiting to be collected. Broadcast November 28, 1943. This three-hour classic radio drama collection is made for late-night listeners who love vintage mystery, old time radio horror, supernatural fiction, Gothic suspense, science fiction thrillers, and eerie Halloween-season listening.The transmission closes the book, but the last page is still turning by itself. 🎧 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 | Deadly Lessons: Old Time Radio Horror & Suspense
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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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