Weekly Spooky: Scary Stories & Urban Legends

Weekly Spooky: Scary Stories & Urban Legends

Love horror podcasts? Crave Halloween all year long? Welcome to Weekly Spooky—the anthology series that brings you terrifying tales every single week. Hosted by filmmaker and storyteller Henrique Couto, each episode delivers spooky stories, urban legends, and original horror dramas designed to send shivers down your spine. Packed with dark humor, chilling characters, and bone-rattling soundscapes, Weekly Spooky captures the spirit of Halloween with every terrifying tale. From eerie creepypastas to spine-tingling suspense, this is your ultimate destination for scares, terror, and weekly doses of the unknown. Whether you’re into spooky legends, midnight rendezvous, or twisted morality plays, this horror anthology delivers thrills for horror lovers of all kinds. Warning: Not safe for kids. Mature content and disturbing themes throughout. Visit WeeklySpooky.com for exclusive content and more haunting fun.

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July 16, 2025 54 mins
From womanizer to walking organ donor… Calvin Mirren’s downfall was legendary in Strickfield.

Now, thanks to Hellweaver’s Second Chance Compact, he’s back in time — before the night three women drugged him and sold his kidneys on the black market.

But changing your fate isn’t easy when your enemies are also your lovers.

In this sexy, blood-soaked chapter, Calvin tries to seduce, outsmart, and maybe even love the very women who once de...
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Before Deadly Second Chances continues, revisit the origins of two of Strickfield’s most dangerous figures: Calvin Mirren, the privileged predator brought low, and Hellweaver, the cosmic goddess of chaos. This special triple-feature brings together their most defining stories.

🎃 Story 1: The Halloween Heist
Calvin Mirren thought he was unstoppable—a rich, predatory playboy from Strickfield’s most powerful family, secretly filming hi...
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From eerie cradle-switching fairies to the tragic murder of Bridget Cleary, changeling legends have haunted folklore for centuries. In this episode, we explore the chilling mythology behind these tales—and the real-world horrors that occurred when belief blurred with brutality. Are changelings just fairy tales… or something far darker?

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Ah, my dear, tonight we stray from logic.From science. From certainty.These stories come from the edge—where the human mind tries to make sense of shadows… and fails.

I’ve brought you four tales for those who’ve ever doubted what they saw—or feared that what they saw was real.

🔹 Beyond Reason
A brilliant man fixates on a rival—until his obsession twists into something lethal.But can the mind kill with thought alone?

🔹 The Derelict
A s...
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🌴 “This island didn’t have a murder rate until you people showed up!”

Life’s A Beach Month continues in full slasher style! This week, Henrique & David are heading to the Bahamas for another blood-soaked vacation—this time revisiting one of the most iconic (and outrageous) 90s horror sequels ever made: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)!

Set two years after the events of the original, Julie and Ray try to escape their ...
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An all-new chapter in the Weekly Spooky horror event of the summer!

Jensen Mirren was wealthy, wild, and dangerous — a gothic femme fatale from Strickfield’s notorious Mirren family. But when obsession over a college love triangle pushed her into darkness, she paid the ultimate price… and died by venom.

Now, Hellweaver has brought her back to life with one offer: change your fate, or lose your soul forever.

Jensen plans to avoid Zach ...
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Before Deadly Second Chances continues, we return to two twisted tales that introduce Jensen Mirren—not as a villain, but as someone whose obsession, jealousy, and desire for control bring about monstrous consequences.

💋 Story 1: People Can Lick Too
Zach and his girlfriend Jensen Mirren are deep into a physical relationship when a shocking moment from Zach’s past crashes into the present. An infamous urban legend—“People can lick to...
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In 1996, 22-year-old Carrie Culberson vanished from Blanchester, Ohio, after a violent encounter with her abusive ex-boyfriend. No body was ever found, yet a jury convicted him of her murder. In our 100th episode of Terrifying and True, we tackle this haunting case—submitted by our friend and listener Wolf Dan—and explore the investigation, trial, and the legacy of one of Ohio’s most disturbing disappearances.

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Ah, my dear, the summer sun does strange things.It thins the veil. Warms the bones. Wakes the dead.
And tonight, I’ve gathered four tales of summer’s shadow—where heat meets horror, and long days lead to longer nights.

🔹 The Summer People
Mike and Jane think they’ve found the perfect writing retreat in Granville… until the townsfolk’s smiles start to feel like traps.
And when they try to leave, the town has other plans.
🔹 Summer Thund...
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Fireworks and sunshine won’t save you now…
This summer, Weekly Spooky returns with its Summer Scares 2025 anthology—seven terrifying tales from fan-favorite authors that will leave you sweating, screaming, and second-guessing every sound after dark. From haunted swimming holes to demonic dive bars, each story is a uniquely horrifying way to celebrate the Fourth of July.
🔥 Featured Stories:
  1. The Spirit of Langley Pond by Charles Ca...
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Deadly Second Chances – Part One: AIDS MaryAn all-new 5-part Weekly Spooky horror saga begins!

AIDS Mary — one of Strickfield’s most feared and tragic figures — is offered a terrifying opportunity: go back to the day her life was destroyed and try to stop the monster she became. But tampering with fate has consequences… and some paths are soaked in blood no matter how many times you walk them.

Can Mary rewrite her destiny… or is her ...
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Before she rises again in Deadly Second Chances, revisit the full horror of Strickfield’s most feared legend—AIDS Mary. In this special double-feature catch-up episode, we present the original two stories that introduced her deadly path.

💀 Story 1: AIDS Mary
Mary Anne Wright was an ordinary college freshman in love. But a horrific night of sexual violence changed her forever. Infected with an experimental strain of the AIDS virus, M...
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This month on Monthly Spooky, Henrique and Michelle unravel some of the most chilling real-life horrors, folklore, and bizarre news stories from around the world.

🍄 Death Cap Murder Trial — A woman in Australia stands accused of poisoning her in-laws with foraged mushrooms in what may be one of the most unusual triple homicide cases in recent years. Was it accidental… or calculated?

☠️ The Island of Ghosts — Once a quarantine zone f...
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Hello again, my dear.

Tonight, I ask you to do something very simple:
Turn out the lights.

Now listen closely… because in this episode, we descend into the places light forgets—where silence has a voice, and fear finds you by feel alone.

These four tales are stitched together by the same creeping thread: darkness. The kind that hides your worst thoughts. Or worse… listens to them.

🔹 In the Dark
A man alone in a sealed room with a single...
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🦈 “This time… It’s personal!”

We’re kicking off Life’s A Beach Month—our annual dive into the most outrageous, overlooked, and sun-soaked summer flicks out there! And what better way to start than with one of the wildest sequels of all time?

Henrique & David head to the Bahamas to take on JAWS: The Revenge (1987)—the fourth and final entry in the legendary shark saga. When Ellen Brody’s son is killed by a shark in Amity, she esc...
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She just wanted internship experience… but what she got was a front-row seat to a living nightmare.

In this chilling horror story from Michael Kelso, a young woman takes a summer job at a failing museum of cryptids and oddities in a forgotten small town. But when a mysterious new exhibit arrives, her life is changed forever—by a creature that doesn’t just bite… it transforms.

Now trapped behind bars, mutated into something monstrous,...
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For centuries, shadowy figures have haunted our dreams—but none as eerily consistent or terrifying as The Hat Man. From global folklore to modern sleep paralysis nightmares, thousands claim to see the same dark figure. Is it a shared hallucination… or something real?

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Ah… my dear, you’ve returned.
Good.
Because tonight, we dive into a most delicious emotion—hate.

Some say love makes the world go ‘round.
But hate?
Hate digs the graves.

I have four stories for you tonight. Each one festering with resentment, rotted by revenge, and humming with the energy of something much worse than anger.

🔹 I Hate HaroldHarold’s neighbors hate him. His coworkers hate him. And his own wife? Oh… you’ll see.
But don’t feel...
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Sink your teeth into this chilling compilation episode of Weekly Spooky, featuring five full-blooded vampire tales that twist together romance, revenge, teenage horror, and action-packed supernatural battles.

🩸 Featured Stories Include:
  1. Convenience Store Vampire by Douglas WaltzArthur thought his late shift at the gas station was dull—until a mysterious woman with a secret turned his world upside down. A tale of eerie romance th...
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A wildlife documentary crew heads into the Colombian jungle to film Pablo Escobar’s infamous cocaine hippos—only to find something far more deadly. As tensions rise between a passionate conservationist and a ruthless poacher, the real threat emerges from the water: a bloodthirsty pod of hippos that’s not just invasive… it’s unstoppable.

In Stay Hungry by David O’Hanlon, bullets fly, bodies drop, and the jungle runs red in this bruta...
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