Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

byHenrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert

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Weekly Spooky delivers original horror fiction, true crime, haunted folklore, paranormal mysteries, cryptids, and horror history throughout the week.Hosted by filmmaker and narrator Henrique Couto, the feed combines cinematic scary 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 haunted-house stories, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, urban legends, ghost stories, monster encounters, and long-form horror marathons for late-night listening...

Episodes(40 episodes)

Bihl Manor: Supernatural Folklore Behind Ohio's Cursed House | Thursday Thrills

Just as HGTV prepares to open Bihl Manor for A Very Haunted Renovation, Thursday Thrills visits the reputedly haunted house at 1213 Buckland Avenue in Fremont, Ohio. Henrique Couto traces the turn-of-the-century manor from the Bihl family and piano-shop owner Jerome Bihl through Clarence and Daisy Wolfe, funeral viewings, reported deaths inside the home, its later years as a Lucas County children's group residence, and its transformation into an overnight paranormal investigation site.Then we walk the house floor by floor: Daisy's active room, a piano said to play alone, the red-haired boy on the staircase, children laughing in...

Published: Sep 10, 2026Duration: 19m 19s

Anger Issues: Werewolf Curse & Supernatural Folklore Unleashed!

This Halloween season, Weekly Spooky returns to Strickfield for a savage werewolf horror story about rage, lycanthropy, transformation, and a curse that doesn’t wait for the full moon. Danielle Boyd transforms whenever her anger explodes—but unlike most werewolves, Danielle remains fully aware of the monster she becomes.After a Strickfield High cheerleader is brutally killed, monster hunter Headmistress Hiltonson becomes convinced Danielle is responsible. Using the mysterious rejuvenating waters hidden beneath Strickfield, Hiltonson goes undercover as a student to hunt the werewolf from inside the school. But Danielle’s strange immunity to silver, a second werewolf stalki...

Published: Sep 9, 2026Duration: 52m 56s

This Week in Horror History | IT, Hellraiser & True Blood

Start the Halloween pregame with IT, Hellraiser, True Blood, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Loved Ones as major horror anniversaries return from September 7 through September 13. This Week in Horror History heads into spooky season with Stephen King's Pennywise and Derry, Clive Barker's Lament Configuration and Cenobites, HBO vampires, no-combat survival horror, prom-night terror, and The X-Files' paranormal conspiracy.This weekly horror release-date and anniversary roundup revisits the movies, television, games, creators, and cult classics that shaped the genre while building an early-September Halloween watchlist: vampire horror, Stephen King adaptations, supernatural horror movies, survival-horror games, giallo legends, prom-night...

Published: Sep 8, 2026Duration: 20m 48s

Terrifying & True | The Golem of Prague: Jewish Folklore's Clay Monster

The Golem of Prague is one of the most famous monsters in Jewish folklore: a silent giant shaped from clay, awakened by sacred Hebrew letters, and ordered to defend Prague's Jewish community. But did Rabbi Judah Loew - the Maharal of Prague - really create a supernatural protector, and could the golem's body still be hidden in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue? This pre-Halloween Terrifying & True investigation traces the golem legend from Psalm 139 and the Babylonian Talmud to Sefer Yetzirah, medieval Jewish mysticism, the older golem of Chelm, and the famous Prague story. We separate documented religious...

Published: Sep 7, 2026Duration: 49m 42s

Unknown Broadcast | Deadly Lessons: Old Time Radio Horror & Suspense

Begin the march toward Halloween with six classic old time radio horror, mystery, suspense, and science fiction dramas from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Suspense, Escape, The Whistler, Quiet Please, and The Weird Circle. Deadly Lessons brings together Fred Gwynne, Marian Haley, William Conrad, John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Margo, Elsa Lanchester, Wyllis Cooper, and Charles Dickens in stories of gambling debts, Black Hills gold, seances, revenge, experimental flight, time travel, and buried testimony.As September darkens and Halloween draws closer, open the book, take your seat, and listen carefully. The signal has already written your name in the margin.<...

Published: Sep 6, 2026Duration: 3h 23m 18s

8 Halloween Horror Stories: Haunted Hayrides, Corn Mazes & Scarecrows

Eight Halloween horror stories lead down a dark country road in this nearly five-hour Weekly Spooky horror story compilation. The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride packs scary Halloween stories about haunted hayrides, corn mazes, scarecrows, witches, pumpkin monsters, ghosts, folk horror, Southern Gothic revenge, and rural slasher terror. Presented in story order, this Halloween fiction anthology moves from swamp-born pumpkin folklore and a child-eating Halloween legend into witchcraft, harvest killers, haunted cornfields, restless ghosts, bayou vengeance, and a final haunted attraction where one broken rule turns manufactured fear into the real thing. Inside this...

Published: Sep 5, 2026Duration: 4h 53m 43s

Cutting Deep into Horror | The Ritual (2017): Folk Horror, Survivor’s Guilt & the Forest Monster

The Ritual (2017) is a modern folk-horror favorite that transforms a memorial hike through the Swedish wilderness into a terrifying combination of survival horror, psychological horror, occult worship, mythology, and creature-feature terror. In this spoiler-filled episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfirevisit director David Bruckner’s rain-soaked forest nightmare and explain why it belongs in any horror fan’s Halloween-season watchlist and spooky-season podcast queue. After Rob is murdered during a robbery, Luke joins Hutch, Dom, and Phil on a hiking trip...

Published: Sep 4, 2026Duration: 1h 54m 17s

Japan's Haunted Temple Gate to Hell: Supernatural Folklore | Thursday Thrills

Kyoto's legendary underworld well is receiving a rare public viewing. On September 4, Rokudo Chinno-ji begins a three-day special opening tied to the launch of Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword, whose director says the real Kyoto temple is central to the game's world. But the place did not need a video game to become one of Japan's eeriest crossroads.At Rokudo Chinno-ji, visitors pull a rope through a small opening to ring a bell hidden behind a wall. Temple tradition says the Mukaegane, or welcoming bell, can be heard in the realm of the dead. Behind the main...

Published: Sep 3, 2026Duration: 18m 34s

I Do Not Know You: Tape Recorder Death Prophecy & Cursed Objects Horror

Scary Halloween stories meet analog horror in “I Do Not Know You” by Tyler Belmont, a supernatural horror tale about a vintage tape recorder that knows its listener’s secrets—and announces the exact moment he is going to die.Jerry Scott runs a consumer-electronics store and collects the analog machines the modern world has left behind. Then an unmarked package appears inside his shop. The tape recorder within greets him by name, recalls private details from his life, and warns that an inhuman visitor will arrive in five minutes. When a tall figure in a fedora and long coa...

Published: Sep 2, 2026Duration: 24m 27s

This Week in Horror History | IT Chapter Two, Suspiria, Outlast & Pontypool

September opens the door to Halloween as IT Chapter Two, Suspiria, Outlast, The Possession, and Pontypool mark major horror anniversaries from August 31 through September 6. This Week in Horror History becomes a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with Pennywise and Derry, witchcraft and bloody dance, survival-horror gaming, haunted-object folklore, demonic possession, infected language, and a supernatural war among angels. This weekly horror release-date roundup revisits the films, games, creators, and dark legends that shaped the genre while giving Halloween fans an early-September watchlist for spooky season: supernatural horror movies, witch films, Stephen King adaptations, found-footage scares, survival horror games, cult...

Published: Sep 1, 2026Duration: 21m 35s

Monthly Spooky | The Great Moon Hoax, Halloween Hauntings, Bigfoot & UFOs

Halloween season is almost here, and Monthly Spooky is kicking off the countdown with haunted houses, Bigfoot, UFOs, cryptids, unexplained mysteries—and bat people living on the Moon.In the August 2026 edition of Monthly Spooky, Henrique Couto and Michelle are getting ready for Halloween with another strange trip through paranormal news, ghost stories, cryptid sightings, UFO and UAP reports, weird history, unexplained phenomena and creepy mysteries before diving into one of the most wonderfully bizarre media sensations of the nineteenth century: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835.Beginning in August 1835, newspaper readers were treated to astonishing reports su...

Published: Aug 31, 2026Duration: 2h 24m 7s

Unknown Broadcast | What the Darkness Saw: Classic OTR Mystery

Unknown Broadcast opens its eyes to four classic OTR mysteries about blindness, eyewitness testimony, and the dangerous distance between seeing and being believed. The Blind Witness, The Country of the Blind, Eyewitness, and With My Own Eyes turn perception itself into the scene of the crime.Look closely. Then look again.The signal has been known to move things while you blink.◖ The Blind Witness — A blind man becomes the unseen witness to a paid killing—and the one loose end two professionals did not expect.▲ The Country of the Blind — A sighted mo...

Published: Aug 30, 2026Duration: 2h 4m 35s

Halloween Horror Stories | Vampires, Body Horror & Headless Folklore

Five Halloween horror stories unleash headless folklore, haunted drive-ins, supernatural transformation, vampires, and body horror in a nearly five-hour scary-story audiobook from Weekly Spooky. Halloween Changes You is a long-form Halloween horror compilation about masks that become identities, second lives that demand a price, and monsters who discover that becoming something new may be easier than becoming human again. Presented in story order, this Halloween fiction anthology moves from an intimate chase through the woods to an afterlife movie marathon, a funeral-home reckoning, a mutant spider origin, and a full-scale vampire battle over love, family, and survival. <...

Published: Aug 29, 2026Duration: 4h 53m 41s

When Legends Turn Deadly: True Crime Meets Cryptid Folklore

When Legends Turn Deadly is a nearly five-hour Terrifying & True true crime and folklore marathon featuring eight stories about monsters, cultural memory, Spiritualism, murder, extremist violence, and fatal belief. The Hat Man, the Deer Woman, Djinn, the Melonheads, the Fox sisters, the Greenbrier Ghost, the murder of Jeffrey Hall, and the exorcism of Anneliese Michel form one escalating journey from modern nightmare to documented human tragedy. The journey begins between dreaming and waking, where people across cultures report a faceless silhouette in a wide-brimmed hat. Science points to sleep paralysis and suggestion; folklore and online testimony have turned...

Published: Aug 28, 2026Duration: 4h 8m 46s

Halloween Horror Nights 2026: The Architecture of Fear | Thursday Thrills

Universal Orlando holds the first of its two 2026 Premium Scream Nights on August 27, followed by the regular Halloween Horror Nights event opening on August 28 - and this week's Thursday Thrills goes inside the architecture of fear. Rather than rank haunted houses before they open, Henrique Couto asks what a walk-through attraction can do to our bodies and imaginations that a horror movie cannot.The answer begins inside a real haunted-house experiment, where visitors wore heart-rate monitors while researchers studied the strange overlap between fear and enjoyment. Their findings showed a group-level inverted-U association across three recorded scare points...

Published: Aug 27, 2026Duration: 19m 4s

The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things | Halloween Insect Horror

Halloween insect horror, body horror, and revenge horror crawl together in this grotesque Weekly Spooky scary story about bullying, karma, and a punishment with thousands of legs. A man wakes in a windowless basement with a reinforced glass aquarium locked around his head—packed with fire ants, carpenter ants, crickets, centipedes, millipedes, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and something even fouler.The nightmare is not random. Years earlier, he and his best friend Dave turned another child’s suffering into entertainment, forcing their victim to swallow insects and endure humiliations that never stopped hurting. Now the past has placed both men...

Published: Aug 26, 2026Duration: 32m 20s

This Week in Horror History | Candyman, Until Dawn, Don't Breathe & Lord of Illusions

Horror history is already leaning toward Halloween as Candyman, Until Dawn, Don't Breathe, The Last Exorcism, and Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions mark major anniversaries from August 24 through August 30. This Week in Horror History turns late summer into a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with slasher games, home-invasion suspense, supernatural urban legends, documentary-style exorcism horror, occult detective stories, and a devilish Stephen King recommendation for spooky season. This weekly horror release-date roundup revisits the movies, games, creators, and dark legends that helped shape the genre while giving Halloween fans an early fall watchlist filled with cult horror, supernatural thrillers...

Published: Aug 25, 2026Duration: 23m 25s

Terrifying & True | Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel: The Truth Behind the Elevator Video

Elisa Lam's death at the Cecil Hotel remains one of the internet age's most haunting true crime mysteries, even though the case received an official ruling. In January 2013, the twenty-one-year-old Canadian traveler disappeared from the notorious downtown Los Angeles hotel after appearing in the now-famous Cecil Hotel elevator video. Nineteen days after she was last publicly seen, she was found inside a rooftop water tank. This pre-Halloween true crime investigation follows the documented Elisa Lam case while separating evidence from the haunted-hotel folklore that grew around it. We examine the Cecil Hotel's dark history, Elisa's final days at...

Published: Aug 24, 2026Duration: 48m 17s

Unknown Broadcast | Train Mysteries: Orient Express & The Signalman

Unknown Broadcast boards four old-time radio train mysteries where every timetable points toward danger. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler send us through a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a supernatural railway warning, and one very expensive ride to nowhere. Your ticket is already punched. Please do not ask who is sitting in the empty compartment.▣ The Train Stops — At a forgotten station where no passenger train should stop, an old railway watcher hears the timetable come alive again.✦ Orient Express — A businessman bound for Istanbul finds an armed...

Published: Aug 23, 2026Duration: 2h 9m 59s

4 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves & Supernatural Monsters

Four scary stories unleash serial killers, witchcraft, a werewolf curse, supernatural seduction, and a gigantic killer gummy worm. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with occult rituals, crime horror, murder mysteries, supernatural monsters, body horror, and dark comedy.Two criminal brothers follow a wealthy woman home expecting an easy robbery. Instead, they interrupt a secret witchcraft ritual involving an ancient enchanted collar—and one thief begins transforming into a bloodthirsty werewolf-like monster. Then a mysterious woman named Roxie overwhelms Jake Blackmon with an unnatural attraction bef...

Published: Aug 22, 2026Duration: 1h 42m 40s