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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween
by Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert
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| Date | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 3 | #166 |
About the show
Weekly Spooky is your year-round Halloween podcast for scary stories: original horror fiction, urban legends, haunted places, cryptids and dark folklore, alongside true crime, paranormal mysteries and horror history.
Hosted by filmmaker and narrator Henrique Couto, the feed combines cinematic horror 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 scary stories of haunted houses, 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.
Latest episodes
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Folklore Friday | Vampire Legends & Dark Folklore for Halloween
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Deadname: She Stole the Wrong Life — A Halloween Horror Story
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Stingy Jack: The Halloween Legend Behind the Jack-o'-Lantern | Thursday Thrills
October 1, 2026 · 18 minStingy Jack and the Halloween legend behind the jack-o'-lantern welcome October with a bargain gone wrong. Henrique Couto follows an Irish folktale from a coin trapped beside a silver cross to the Devil stranded in a tree—and a promise…
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I'm a Firefighter and What I Found in the Last Fire Creeped Me Out | Halloween Ghost Story
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This Week in Horror History | Night of the Living Dead, Near Dark & Halloween 6 - Sep 28-Oct 4
September 29, 2026 · 24 minSeptember 28-October 4 brings zombies, vampires, and Michael Myers to your Halloween watchlist. This Week in Horror History revisits Night of the Living Dead's farmhouse siege, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and the Thorn cult, and…
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Monthly Spooky | Halloween Countdown: Ghost Stories & Midnight Spook Shows
September 28, 2026 · 2 hr 23 minHalloween ghost stories meet the lost world of midnight spook shows. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the glowing ghosts, stage illusions and blackout scares that turned movie theaters into haunted attractions. Then dig into a claimed…
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Unknown Broadcast | Locked Rooms & Ghost Stories: Halloween Radio Horror
September 27, 2026 · 3 hr 20 minUnknown Broadcast opens six doors into old-time radio horror and suspense for Halloween. Parents are trapped downstairs while their toddler wanders alone above them in The Cellar Door; a dying man tells of a hidden room and its ghosts in…
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Ordinary Places, Human Monsters | 7 Halloween Horror Stories
September 26, 2026 · 4 hr 59 minA grocery store's night shift faces a summoned beast. A water-park date becomes a parasitic outbreak. Ordinary Places, Human Monsters gathers seven Halloween horror stories into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction, from workplace…