Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales
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. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included. Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ears!
Episodes
January 7, 2026 • 49 mins
Weekly Spooky horror podcast kicks off a brand-new New Year miniseries with a snowbound slasher mystery set inside a remote ski lodge where a horror convention is about to become a hunting ground.
Seven years ago, a furious fan named Robbie Redden drove hours to meet an actress he idolized—only to be humiliated, thrown out, and branded with one unforgettable word. Now, as a fresh convention weekend begins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsu...
Seven years ago, a furious fan named Robbie Redden drove hours to meet an actress he idolized—only to be humiliated, thrown out, and branded with one unforgettable word. Now, as a fresh convention weekend begins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsu...
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January 6, 2026 • 22 mins
Start the year with killer dolls, museum monsters, Arctic dread, and survival horror at full sprint. In this week’s This Week in Horror History (January 5–11), we’re tracking the releases that shaped modern fear—then diving deep into one of the meanest “new apartment” nightmares of the 1970s.
Quick Hits (Jan 5–11):
Quick Hits (Jan 5–11):
- M3GAN (2023) — the AI “best friend” who decides safety means control… permanently.Where to watch (U.S., this week): ...
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January 5, 2026 • 29 mins
Dive into chilling stories and eerie folklore with this terrifying true mystery from Siberia...A true crime / survival mystery in August 1993, seven hikers entered the Hamar-Daban Mountains of Buryatia (near Lake Baikal)—and only one walked back out. What happened on that windswept ridge has been called the “Buryat Dyatlov Pass”: a sudden storm, a frantic descent, and then a cascade of bizarre symptoms—foaming at the mouth, blood, ...
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January 4, 2026 • 135 mins
Ah, there you are. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, and radio suspense for those who like the dark close and the volume low, my dear. Tonight the valves warm and the quiet learns to talk:
- 🔥 Hell Hath No Fury — Fame can’t drown jealousy; a private curtain falls where the applause can’t reach.
- 🌒 The Night Reveals — Smoke on a coat, matches in a pocket; small sparks confess what lips refus...
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January 3, 2026 • 120 mins
Small town horror stories hit different—because everyone knows your name… and everyone is hiding something. In this Weekly Spooky Vault compilation, we dig into Small Town Secrets where quiet streets cover up occult rituals, missing people, backwoods monsters, and ancient things that should’ve stayed buried. Lock your doors, kill the lights, and listen close—because the scariest part is how normal it all looks in daylight.
• I Was S...
• I Was S...
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January 2, 2026 • 55 mins
Kick off the Best of 2025 with one of the most intense episodes we released on the Weekly Spooky horror podcast—a brutal winter survival horror story where a long-haul trucker gets trapped at a lonely truck stop after a sudden blizzard buries the world in white.
The bathroom run turns into a nightmare when his tracks vanish, the store is locked and dark, and something moves in the storm—something too big, too patient, and too wrong ...
The bathroom run turns into a nightmare when his tracks vanish, the store is locked and dark, and something moves in the storm—something too big, too patient, and too wrong ...
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December 31, 2025 • 44 mins
Weekly Spooky rings in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror story that spirals into a Y2K nightmare—and it all starts with a stupidly simple discovery: crank two radios loud enough, hit the right tone, and you can rip open a hole in time.
Sixteen-year-old Jimmy and his cousin Phillip start pulling lost junk from the void… until grief turns curiosity into obsession. One phone call becomes a lifeline. One step through the portal ...
Sixteen-year-old Jimmy and his cousin Phillip start pulling lost junk from the void… until grief turns curiosity into obsession. One phone call becomes a lifeline. One step through the portal ...
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This Week in Horror History | New Year Horror — Kwaidan, Witchboard & One Missed Call (Dec 29–Jan 4)
December 30, 2025 • 22 mins
New Year’s horror, horror movie history, and messages from the other side—welcome to This Week in Horror History, the weekly horror podcast where we track what happened on these dates across film, books, and cult classics.In this episode, Henrique Couto follows a haunting thread that runs straight through the holiday: a phone that calls from the future, a killer hiding in the power grid, a cursed ghost anthology, and the original “...
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December 29, 2025 • 140 mins
Monthly Spooky true crime + paranormal to close out the year: a chilling wrongful conviction case tied to a 1987 Times Square-area murder that stole decades from two lives—and the long road to exoneration when the truth finally surfaced.
Inside this episode:
Inside this episode:
- The New Year’s Eve case: The wrongful convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren after a 1987 murder near Times Square, including intense police pressure, a pivotal witness,...
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December 28, 2025 • 183 mins
Ah, there you are, my dear. Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR ghost tales, and radio suspense for these last nights before New Year’s Eve—when clocks get louder and promises come due. Sit close to the speaker and let the tubes warm. Inside tonight’s program:
- 👼 Angel of Death — Grief invites a visitor who never uses the front door.
- 🔔 Calling All Souls — A name answered at midnight… by some...
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December 27, 2025 • 162 mins
Ring in the new year with a New Year’s Eve horror stories marathon built for maximum dread: devil bargains, vampires in the dark, zombie chaos, and a paranormal case file that turns the end of the year into a blood-soaked countdown. If you’re searching for scary New Year stories, NYE horror, or a horror anthology podcast to binge, this is your midnight companion—six twisted tales that get meaner as the clock runs out.
Inside this Ne...
Inside this Ne...
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December 26, 2025 • 206 mins
Looking for after Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories to keep the season creepy on December 26? Tonight on the Weekly Spooky feed, we’re dropping a holiday horror podcast double feature—two full-length Christmas horror novellas built for the quiet, eerie day after Christmas, when the decorations are still up… and the darkness feels closer.
This episode is a post-Christmas horror marathon packed with supernatural dre...
This episode is a post-Christmas horror marathon packed with supernatural dre...
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December 24, 2025 • 80 mins
Weekly Spooky drops a Christmas Eve horror story soaked in ’90s slasher energy and last-minute retail panic. In Etawah, Oklahoma (1996), Otis Kilgore walks into the Big K like it’s a church—new car, new haircut, new plan—convinced a cashier named Diane has been sending him secret messages. But when the store “messes with” his routine, Otis spirals into a holiday meltdown that turns Blue Light Specials into red-hot violence.
What sta...
What sta...
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December 23, 2025 • 21 mins
Step into This Week in Horror History and relive the nightmare fuel of December 22–28: a Christmas-week collision of alien infiltration, true-case exorcism lore, and paranoia-soaked sci-fi horror.
This episode digs into:
This episode digs into:
- Dec 25, 1998 — The Faculty: the ultimate ’90s teen alien horror—teachers acting wrong, bodies getting swapped, and the school turning into a trap.
- Dec 22, 1978 — Deep-Cut Spotlight: Invasion of the Body Snatchers:...
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December 23, 2025 • 100 mins
Weekly Spooky unleashes a Christmas horror anthology where the lights are twinkling… and the afterlife is weaponized. When Jack Scratch throws open the curtains on Hell’s “operations,” you don’t get fire-and-brimstone pageantry—you get clipboards, procedures, and punishments dressed up in tinsel.
Tonight’s holiday horrors include:
Tonight’s holiday horrors include:
- The Santa Experiment — a confused man wakes in a dying Christmas postcard town… and a Santa with an ...
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December 22, 2025 • 70 mins
Dive into Christmas true crime, Santa Claus history, and holiday folklore with the real medieval relic heist that helped shape the legend of Santa. In 1087, sailors from Bari, Italy break into the tomb of St. Nicholas in Myra (modern Turkey)—and the world’s most famous Christmas icon gets a disturbingly real origin story.
Inside the candlelit crypt, witnesses claim the tomb is flooded with mysterious liquid—the “manna” of St. Nichol...
Inside the candlelit crypt, witnesses claim the tomb is flooded with mysterious liquid—the “manna” of St. Nichol...
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December 21, 2025 • 234 mins
Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, radio suspense, and Christmas ghost stories for the longest nights of the year. A special holiday edition, my dear: later nights for cold frights. We unwrap mislaid presents, whispered confessions, and footsteps in new snow; a Yule of shivers where favors come due and the past waits in a frost-rimmed mirror. Come nearer to the speaker. The tree lights hum. Somewhere be...
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December 20, 2025 • 246 mins
Christmas horror stories marathon time, my spookies. Tonight on Weekly Spooky, you’re getting a full holiday horror novella triple-feature—three long, nasty winter tales where tinsel and terror share the same oxygen.
This is cozy-season listening with sharp teeth: a haunted mall after-hours, a slumber-party movie night that opens the wrong door, and a Christmas event at an orphanage that won’t stay sweet for long. If you’re hunting ...
This is cozy-season listening with sharp teeth: a haunted mall after-hours, a slumber-party movie night that opens the wrong door, and a Christmas event at an orphanage that won’t stay sweet for long. If you’re hunting ...
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December 20, 2025 • 296 mins
If you’re hunting for Christmas horror stories and scary Christmas stories that feel like a warm holiday glow… right before the lights go out—welcome to the final Xmas compilation of the year on the Weekly Spooky feed. Expect holiday horror, supernatural dread, and the kind of winter nightmares that make you double-check the chimney, the gift tags, and the shadows in the tree.
Inside this compilation:
• All I Want For Christmas - Is ...
Inside this compilation:
• All I Want For Christmas - Is ...
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December 19, 2025 • 41 mins
It’s Christmas Eve, the lights are bright, the carols are fake, and something wrong is crawling down the chimney of a normal night. In this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror story, Allison just wants to survive the holidays long enough to buy a last-minute gift… but a filthy, broken “Santa” has other plans — and he’s working off a Naughty List that doesn’t forgive and doesn’t forget.Inside this episode:
- A big-box store nightmare wh...
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