Weekly Spooky: Scary Halloween Stories
Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky stories that explore urban legends and spooky season tales! Get something scary on Weekly Spooky. Folklore and creepypasta-style tales with mature themes 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...
Episodes
Unknown Broadcast | Gavel, Greed & the Web: Six Horror Stories of Knives, Goblets, and Guilt
Old-Time Radio (OTR) horror anthology featuring CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out, Murder at Midnight, Suspense, and The Whistler—six restored classics in one episode for fans of vintage radio drama, noir thrillers, and classic …
AIDS Mary: Patient Zero — A Halloween Urban Legend Scary Story
Halloween turns an urban legend into a living nightmare. This scary, feature-length horror story follows a dying teen who enters an experimental trial—then a violent assault twists a cure into something new. The whispers name her AIDS Mary,…
Sickle Jack, the Harvester of Souls - Halloween Horrors
Halloween is here—and so are the scary horror stories you crave.Tonight’s nightmare follows four boys on BMX bikes through spooky season mayhem: a house party gone wrong, a sinister scavenger hunt, and the legend of a pumpkin-headed scarecr…
In the Witch House Walls - A Haunted House Halloween Horror Story
Experience the chilling haunt at a renovated funeral parlor this Halloween!Tonight’s feature-length episode delivers one of the season’s darkest scary stories, steeped in haunted house chills and mature themes.When Freddy and Odalys try to …
Madelyne’s Revenge — A Halloween Vampire Horror Story
For your spooky season! Halloween scary stories, vampire battles, supernatural showdowns, and long, immersive horror podcasts, this feature-length nightmare is for you. Kick off 31 Days of Halloween with a Full-Length Horror Story that drip…
Halloween Horrors: 11 Urban Legends & Scary Tales for Spooky Season
Dive into scary Halloween stories with our bingeable horror anthology featuring 11 chilling tales perfect for October nights. Discover spooky stories that explore everything from small-town mischief and cursed pumpkin spice to retro drive-i…
Monthly Spooky | Halloween Origins: Samhain, Trick-or-Treat & Jack-O’-Lanterns
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, jac…
Unknown Broadcast | Four Horror Stories of Paranoia, Blind Voyages, and a Cursed Tree
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 toast…
Cutting Deep into Horror | The Evil Dead (1981) Sam Raimi’s Scariest Film Deep Dive
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…
The Old Man with the Red Bicycle - A Scary Campground Slasher Story
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 battere…
Terrifying & True | Urban Legends of Spook Hollow: Ghost Stories from America’s Haunted Roads
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 “s…
Unknown Broadcast | Greed, Guilt & the Black Curtain: Four Horror Stories of Money, Murder, and Memory Loss
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 farew…
Cutting Deep into Horror | Event Horizon (1997) — Haunted Spaceship, Hell Clues & Ending Explained
“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 …
A New Beginning: Demon Princess of Hell Arrives
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 Str…
Terrifying & True | The Acid King Murder: Ricky Kasso, Satanic Panic, and the Killing of Gary Lauwers
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 K…
Unknown Broadcast | Dark Destinies and Long Nights: Five Horror Stories of Death and Fate
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 t…
Cutting Deep into Horror | Fire in the Sky (1993) — Alien Abduction, Trauma & Small-Town Panic
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 Rober…
What Ricky Did on his Summer Vacation - Satanic Panic 1984
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 …
Terrifying & True | Resurrection Mary: The True Story of Chicago’s Vanishing Hitchhiker Ghost | Uncovering Urban Legends
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 …
Unknown Broadcast | Terror on the Heath and at the Gallows: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Suspense
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 HeathA moor-side reincarnation riddl…
Fairground Frights: 7 Carnival Nightmares
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 …
Abandonment Issues - The Changeling’s Bargain: Irish Fae Horror at Knocknarea
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…
Terrifying & True | Born to Raise Hell: Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago Nurse Massacre
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 …
Unknown Broadcast | Terror in Caves and Castles: Five Horror Stories of Murder and Madness
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 whe…
Back to School Nightmares: 8 Horror Stories of Classrooms, College, and Carnage
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…
Academia Demonia - Back-to-School Demonic Horror
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…
Monthly Spooky | Yuba County Five Mystery, Creepy Closet Note, and Venomous Sea Slugs
This month on Monthly Spooky, we investigate the unsolved 1978 Yuba County Five disappearance in Northern California—four friends found under tragic, baffling circumstances and the enduring question of Gary Mathias. Was it panic, hypothermi…
Unknown Broadcast | Inside the Mind of Killers: Five Horror Stories of Murder and Madness
My dear, the word killer carries a weight that chills the marrow. But killers are never the same—some hide in plain sight, some return when least expected, and others linger like a shadow you can’t escape.Tonight, we descend into five tales…
Introducing: They're Not Shadows - Terrifying True Ghost Stories You’ve Never Heard
👻 Feed Drop: They’re Not Shadows – Real Ghost Stories, Campfire StyleThis week, we’re sharing a special episode from one of our favorite spooky storytelling shows: They’re Not Shadows.Every episode delivers a mix of real paranormal stories…
Manuscript Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe
Step aboard… if you dare.This is Manuscript Found in a Bottle, Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling nautical tale of shipwreck, spectral vessels, and the slow descent into madness at sea.First published in 1833, this eerie story launched Poe’s litera…
The Hellhowler - Demon Dogs, Dark Secrets, and a Deadly Summoning
A chilling case file unfolds when paranormal investigator James Becker is hired to help a frightened woman in the wealthy Heaven’s Hills development. But what begins as whispers of howls in the night quickly spirals into blood, betrayal, an…
Terrifying & True | Severed Feet on the Shore: The Bizarre Mystery Haunting British Columbia
Over 20 severed human feet have mysteriously washed ashore along the coastlines of British Columbia and Washington since 2007—each one inside a sneaker. With no matching bodies, and no clear foul play, the phenomenon captured global attenti…
Unknown Broadcast | Walking Corpses, Midnight Murders, and Other Chilling Horror Stories
My dear, there are nights when the air feels heavier… when the darkness clings to you like damp earth. On such nights, the dead may walk, killers may strike unseen, and strange lights may beckon you to your doom.This evening, we have five s…
Do You Even Movie? | BLADE (1998) Wesley Snipes’ Daywalker, Blood Rave & How It Revived Superhero Movies
🗡️ “There are worse things out tonight than vampires.”We’re rolling through August’s infamous “Dumping Ground” Month with a cult-defining banger you can truly sink your teeth into. This week, Henrique and David hit Los Angeles for a late-9…
Things Come in Threes - Backwoods Monster Chase
Three look-alike cousins. One runaway pup. And the Backwoods of Strickfield after dark… what could go wrong? When Daisy May’s dog bolts into the trees, Mouse (Maddy), Eileen, and Daisy May give chase—and stumble into something hungry lurkin…
Terrifying & True | Typhoid Mary: The Deadly True Story of New York’s Invisible Killer
She looked healthy. She cooked for the wealthy. But wherever Mary Mallon went, death followed.This is the chilling, true story of Typhoid Mary — the first identified “healthy carrier” in U.S. history — whose trail of invisible contagion swe…
Unknown Broadcast | Buried Secrets and Midnight Killers: Three Stories to Die For
My dear, the dead may rest easy—but the living rarely do.Tonight, we unearth three chilling tales where suspicion creeps like a fog, justice arrives cloaked in night, and innocence proves no protection at all. Each story drips with dread, p…
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Prepare to be disturbed…In this chilling reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, we dive into one of Poe’s most gruesome and scientifically provocative stories. What happens when a man is mesmerized at the moment …
Fortune Falls - Ax Murder in the Oregon Wilderness
Summer of ’76. Two best friends. One secluded campsite. And an ax-wielding killer lurking in the woods…This week on Weekly Spooky, we bring you a brutal, blood-soaked tale of survival and terror in the wilds of Oregon. When Janine and Rose …
Terrifying & True | Murder by Potatoes – The Unsolved Killing of Donna Doll and Illinois’ Strangest Cold Case
In 1970, 21-year-old Donna Doll vanished from the Northern Illinois University campus. Nine days later, her body was found in a cornfield—with no signs of trauma, no shoes, and nearly six pounds of boiled potatoes in her stomach. Was it a c…