Weekly Spooky: Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky: Scary Stories for Halloween

Join Henrique Couto on Weekly Spooky for Halloween Horror Stories! Original ghost stories, urban legends, ghost stories, folklore and creepypasta-style tales for adults narrated twice a week for adults. Hosted by filmmaker and storyteller Henrique Couto. Expect cinematic sound design, dark humor, chilling characters, and twist endings—capturing the Halloween vibe all season long. From haunted houses, cursed objects, and witches to werewolves, vampires, cryptids, demons, and the uncanny, each episode delivers bite-size frights perfect for bedtime chills, night drives, or late-night binges. We also drop seasonal specials and campfire-style ghost tales to fuel your spooky season. New episodes every Monday and Wednesday. Not for kids—mature themes and disturbing content. Explore more at WeeklySpooky.com for exclusive stories, bonus audio, and merch.

Episodes

September 29, 2025 139 mins
Discover the eerie origins of Halloween from Samhain rituals to modern trick-or-treating!

Kick off spooky season with Monthly Spooky as we uncover the origins of Halloween—from ancient Samhain rites to the folklore behind trick-or-treat, jack-o’-lanterns (yes, turnips first!), towering bonfires, and why bats became icons of the night. We connect old-world customs to the traditions you love today, separating myth from history so you ...
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Come closer, my dear. Tonight the glass trembles, the sea goes sightless, and a tree learns your name. We’ll drink, we’ll listen, and we’ll see what answers when we call out in the dark.
  • 🍷 A Drink with Dionysius — A small-time schemer toasts his luck and finds a warhead at the bottom of the bottle. Greed, old flames, and the kind of deal that stains the soul.
  • 😱 Terror Stricken (The Whistler) — Fear begins as a whisper and ends ...
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A Cornerstone of Horror Cinema!

Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi cut deep into Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981)—the raw, relentless, cabin-in-the-woods classic that jump-started a whole splatter language. We unpack how Raimi’s scrappy camera attacks, Tom Sullivan’s gnarly makeup/stop-motion, and Bruce Campbell’s live-wire performance forged a cult juggernaut on a shoestring. We also trace the Michigan-to-Tennessee origin story (...
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Looking for a slasher story that cuts deep? This Weekly Spooky episode drags you straight into the woods, where an innocent boys’ camping trip becomes a fight for survival. At the abandoned North Fork campground, an old drifter on a battered red bicycle stalks the trails with booby traps, bear snares, and a machete sharp enough to end the night.

Bottle rockets and s’mores quickly give way to razor-wire, pitfall spikes, and the kind ...
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Halloween 2025 is a week away—perfect time for true ghost stories about America’s haunted backroads. This Terrifying & True deep dive uncovers the nationwide pattern behind one eerie place-name: Spook Hollow. We track the Dutch origin of “spook,” the Appalachian meaning of “hollow,” and how frontier fear spawned murdered-peddler tales, haunted bridges, cemetery guardians, and roadside apparitions—prime Halloween podcast listeni...
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Welcome back, my dear. Tonight we slip past the velvet edge where conscience and consequence share a heartbeat. Greed calls from the deep; a confession rots in the light; a noir mind stumbles behind the curtain; and summer itself says farewell with a ghost’s restraint.
  • 💔 You Can Die Again — A remorseful man confesses to murder, but his story frays under questioning, memory unspooling like thread in a dark room. (Written for rad...
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“Cutting Deep into Horror” dives headfirst into Paul W.S. Anderson’s cult-classic sci-fi horror Event Horizon (1997). Hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi unpack how a “haunted house in space” premise, Catholic-guilt undertones, and that infamous “I don’t need eyes to see” line still rattle nerves. We track the film’s bomb-then-cult trajectory, the ‘90s horror landscape post-Scream, and why the movie’s gothic production desig...
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Welcome to Weekly Spooky, the horror podcast that brings you chilling scary stories, supernatural encounters, and dark urban legends every week!

In this terrifying new tale, horror author Rob Fields takes us deep into the haunted town of Strickfield. When Lucibella Taibon, Elder Princess of Hell, crosses through Ravenhenge into the mortal world, the summer heat feels like Heaven compared to the firestorm she carries inside. Her miss...
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On July 4, 1984, police dogs uncovered a shallow grave in the quiet town of Northport, Long Island. Inside lay the mutilated body of 17-year-old Gary Lauwers—stabbed more than 30 times in a drug-fueled frenzy by his friend Ricky “The Acid King” Kasso. Within days, the story became national news, sparking headlines of Satanic sacrifice and cementing Kasso as the terrifying face of America’s 1980s Satanic Panic.

But was this really th...
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My dear, the night is a ledger—debits in blood, credits in whispers. Stars tilt the scale, luck frays at the edge, and footsteps in the dark always find their way to a door you don’t want to open.

Tonight, five vintage radio chillers trace the thin line between chance and destiny—perfect for fans of classic old-time radio anthologies and atmospheric suspense.

Death in the Stars
A ruthless horoscope foretells the end for a powerful m...
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Fire in the Sky (1993) explained — the chilling alien-abduction film based on Travis Walton’s true story. On Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down why the UFO sequence still shocks, how director Robert Lieberman builds dread, and where movie dramatization diverges from the real Arizona logging-crew case. We compare the film to Walton’s account, spotlight the cast (D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick...
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Summer, 1984—at the height of the Satanic Panic. Ricky is a motor-mouthed teen who wants proof the Devil is listening. In a moonlit patch of woods, a dare turns into a ritual and a killing. What follows is darker: Ricky props the body in a lawn chair with sunglasses, invites classmates to look, and turns terror into spectacle—boombox hissing, insects buzzing, and bravado curdling into dread as word spreads and the cops close in.

Thi...
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Resurrection Mary is Chicago’s most famous ghost—and one of America’s most chilling vanishing hitchhiker legends. For nearly a century, terrified drivers on Archer Avenue have reported picking up a mysterious young woman in white… only for her to vanish near Resurrection Cemetery.

In this deep dive, we unravel the true story behind the ghost: a chilling mix of paranormal sightings, tragic deaths, and urban legends that span decades....
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My dear, the dial glows in a dark room where classic old-time radio horror breathes again—vintage OTR suspense, murder mystery, and supernatural dread from the golden age of radio drama.

🌫️ Terror on the Heath
A moor-side reincarnation riddle from the vintage radio vault—identity, obsession, and a past-life murder mystery that won’t stay buried (hosted by E.G. Marshall).

🚂 Journey into Fear
Eric Ambler’s espionage thriller from Escap...
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September 5, 2025 155 mins
Here come the lights, the laughter… and the dread. “Fairground Frights” is a bumper-pack of seven horror stories from Weekly Spooky that turns the carnival midway into a gauntlet of cursed curios, vengeful spirits, and wishes you’ll regret the second you make them. Step into a clown’s funeral where the punchline won’t stay buried. Duck into a toy store after dark, where smiling dolls sharpen their grins. Beat an unbeatable arcade c...
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In the rain-soaked woods below Knocknarea in Sligo, Ireland, a man raised human but born fae bargains with the Fair Folk to save his unborn child. Armed with “cold iron” bullets, a stolen sprite, and a prophecy learned from a carnival crone’s mirror, he confronts an emerald pillar of flame and an ancient court that claims his bloodline. Irish folklore collides with modern terror as love, identity, and iron lore decide the fate of a...
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On a sweltering July night in 1966, Richard Speck forced his way into a South Side Chicago townhouse filled with young student nurses. By morning, eight women were dead—strangled, stabbed, and terrorized in what became known as the Chicago Nurse Massacre. Only one survivor lived to tell the tale, her testimony etching this crime into history.

In this episode of Terrifying & True, we unravel the story of Richard Speck—his violent...
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My dear, the walls around us are never as silent as they seem. Beneath the earth, behind locked doors, even within painted frames—there are whispers waiting to be heard, and horrors waiting to be seen.

Tonight, we descend into five tales where stone, sea, and shadow conceal unspeakable truths… and where murder leaves its mark in the most unexpected places.

🕳️ The Thing in the Cave
Deep underground, something stirs. And once it finds ...
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The bell has rung, spookies… and tonight’s lesson is terror. Weekly Spooky presents eight chilling horror stories that turn classrooms, hallways, and campuses into places of fear:
  • The Chain of Time by Killian Crane — A strange artifact traps its victims in an endless cycle of dread.
  • Suspended by Rob Fields — A punishment twists into supernatural terror when discipline goes too far.
  • A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay by Jeff Carpenter — By...
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A Chicago hitman is gunned down in 1925 and dumped in a farm grave with a prayer for revenge. A century later, the first day at a small-town high school erupts into full-on possession: shadows walk without bodies, students cling to ceilings, phones glitch, Latin growls through the halls, and a serpent of sulfur chooses its host.

Chelsea Rizzoli just wants to survive the bell. Ethan Crow is gripping a Winchester, and something ancien...
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