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)

Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016): Blood Rituals & Body Horror

Tonight She Comes (2016) is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher for horror fans building their Halloween watchlists—a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare that mutates into occult body horror, splatter comedy, and resurrection horror. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the outrageous independent horror film that has stayed with them for a decade and explain why its strangest choices are far more deliberate than they first appear. Henrique and Rachael trace the story from its apparently unstoppable, blood-covered killer and intentionally foolish slasher characters to a rural family pr...

Published: Aug 21, 2026Duration: 1h 39m 23s

Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban Legends | Thursday Thrills

Ten years after the 2016 killer clown panic, Weekly Spooky’s Thursday Thrills returns to the creepy clown sightings that began near Fleetwood Manor Apartments in Greenville County, South Carolina. In August 2016, children and residents reported clowns in the woods—mysterious figures allegedly displaying money, flashing green lights or lasers, making strange noises, and trying to persuade children to follow them toward an abandoned house near a pond. Deputies searched the wooded area and increased patrols, but contemporary reporting says they found no clown, no costume, no hidden camp, and no physical evidence proving the earliest claims.The story did not...

Published: Aug 20, 2026Duration: 18m 54s

The Darkness Under Clear Lake: Cursed Objects & Body Horror Story

A cursed object awakens beneath Clear Lake's surface, transforming a peaceful camping trip into a supernatural nightmare. When Brian discovers a carved relic hidden in dark, grass-choked waters, he disappears—and returns transformed, impossibly strong and impossibly wrong. Bruce Haney's "The Darkness Under Clear Lake" is a haunting tale of body horror, halloween style dread, and the price of curiosity in cursed folklore.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join<...

Published: Aug 19, 2026Duration: 39m 35s

This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf

Blade, The Exorcist III, An American Werewolf in London, You’re Next, The Night House, and Night of the Creeps headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 17 through August 23. Our late-summer Halloween horror pregame continues with Marvel vampires, supernatural possession, haunted-house grief, masked home invaders, alien parasites, reanimated corpses, and one of the greatest werewolf transformations ever filmed. Inside this episode:August 17, 1990 — The Exorcist III opens in U.S. theaters William Peter Blatty returns to the world of The Exorcist with a rain-soaked supernatural detective story starring George C. S...

Published: Aug 18, 2026Duration: 23m 5s

Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake Became a Cryptid Legend

The Pale Crawler is a modern cryptid legend and Halloween Favorite tied to The Rake, a creepypasta deliberately created online in 2005. What began as an anonymous forum experiment soon became a wave of alleged humanoid sightings, viral trail-camera images, Reddit stories and YouTube horror. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we trace Operation Crawler and the birth of The Rake creepypasta, the alleged Effingham, Illinois and rural Kentucky encounters, the notorious Louisiana “swamp monster” trail-camera hoax, and the internet feedback loop that transformed a collaborative horror story into modern folklore. We also examine ordinary explanations behind many Pale Crawl...

Published: Aug 17, 2026Duration: 42m 5s

Unknown Broadcast | No Boat Comes Back: Classic OTR Mystery

Unknown Broadcast sails beyond the last reliable chart for four classic OTR tales of island horror, radio mystery, and tropical suspense. The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island promise refuge, fortune, or paradise—and collect a different price from every visitor.The beaches are white, the water is warm, and the boats all seem to be pointed the wrong way.☀ The Beach of Falesa — A trader arrives on a remote Pacific island seeking a future and finds a web of fear, power, violence, and voodoo waiting ashore.✧ The Far-Away Island —...

Published: Aug 16, 2026Duration: 2h 13m 0s

4 Scary Stories | Haunted House, Cursed Object, Serial Killers & Cannibal Monsters

Four scary stories unleash a haunted house, a cursed yard-sale object, escaped serial killers, and flesh-eating cannibal monsters. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with ghost stories, paranormal activity, haunted objects, home-invasion horror, supernatural creatures, and terrifying encounters in the woods.A first date leads two Strickfield teenagers into an abandoned haunted mansion where a ghost child watches from the window. Trapped inside the Carnovasch Estate, they follow the spirit into a dark basement and uncover a two-hundred-year-old secret sealed behind a brick wall. Then a young...

Published: Aug 15, 2026Duration: 1h 18m 19s

Cryptid Encounters & True Crime | Bigfoot, Chupacabra, Wendigo Halloween Marathon

Seven chilling cryptid encounters and true crime folklore stories uncovered just in time for Halloween: From Bigfoot sightings in 1970s Ohio to Chupacabra terror in Puerto Rico, explore supernatural folklore that shaped America's scariest legends. This immersive horror marathon weaves Wendigo mythology, the Black-Eyed Children, the Fouke Monster, and Indrid Cold into a cinematic deep dive across cursed regions and paranormal hotspots—perfect for Halloween preparation with expertly narrated, eerie storytelling that blurs fact and fright.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes...

Published: Aug 14, 2026Duration: 3h 31m 55s

Jeff the Killer: Creepypasta Supernatural Folklore Uncovered | Thursday Thrills

Jeff the Killer is one of the internet's most recognizable creepypasta horror icons - but where did that pale, smiling face actually come from? As Halloween 2026 and spooky season begin creeping closer, Thursday Thrills investigates the original Jeff the Killer image, the conflicting 2008 and 2011 origin stories, and the mystery hidden behind the words "Go to sleep." Henrique Couto follows the trail through Sesseur's Newgrounds closet ritual, GameFuelTV's infamous creepypasta, Japanese image boards, the prettyFACE and "White Powder" edits, fake-broadcast horror, Jane the Killer, Homicidal Liu, false identities, and the rumor that the face belonged to a bullied girl wh...

Published: Aug 13, 2026Duration: 19m 38s

Odd Egg: Weird Experiences Turn Grotesque in Spooky Season Body Horror

Spooky season body horror hatches in “Odd Egg” by Alex Grass, a weird creature-horror story about a carton of free eggs, a smiling stranger, and something impossible waiting inside the final shell. After Roger from the mysterious Keystone Cooperative Growers Association leaves Maryellen a dozen farm-fresh eggs and promises that a god lives inside them, breakfast takes a grotesque turn. Eleven shells are empty. The last produces a tiny human head on six spiderlike legs—and the thing does not stay tiny for long. As it grows, feeds, and changes, Maryellen is pulled into a nightmare of bod...

Published: Aug 12, 2026Duration: 32m 24s

This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: The Monster Squad, Cujo & The Fly

The Monster Squad, Cujo, The Fly, The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 10 through August 16. As summer horror starts giving way to spooky season, we’re beginning the Halloween horror pregame with classic monsters, Stephen King terror, haunted-house mysteries, Jason Voorhees, cosmic horror, rabid-animal survival, and one of David Cronenberg’s greatest body-horror transformations. Inside this episode:August 10, 2001 — The Others opens in U.S. theatersNicole Kidman waits inside a fogbound mansion where every curtain must r...

Published: Aug 11, 2026Duration: 23m 11s

Terrifying & True | The Man With a Hole in His Stomach: Beaumont’s Human Experiments

William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin stand at the center of one of the most famous and ethically troubling stories in the history of human experimentation. After an accidental musket blast on Mackinac Island in 1822 tore through St. Martin's ribs, lung, diaphragm and stomach, Army surgeon Beaumont saved his life. The wound healed into a permanent gastric fistula - a living opening through which Beaumont could observe human digestion directly.Beginning in 1825, Beaumont tied food to silk thread and lowered it into St. Martin's stomach, extracted gastric juice through tubes, measured temperature and recorded the effects of illness...

Published: Aug 10, 2026Duration: 41m 46s

Unknown Broadcast | Storm Horror: Hurricane & Night of the Storm

Unknown Broadcast rides a wall of wind into four old-time radio horror and radio suspense stories where the weather closes every exit. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler tune in with hurricanes, flooded waters, wartime peril, and crimes that refuse to stay buried. Come in out of the rain if you like. The signal has already locked the door behind you.☂ Hurricane — A desperate pair reaches an isolated beach house and discovers the storm outside may be safer than the armed standoff within. ⚓ Flood on the Goodwins — A harrowing wartime crossing of the Engl...

Published: Aug 9, 2026Duration: 2h 4m 23s

4 Scary Travel Horror Stories | Wendigo, Ghost Ship, Airplane Horror & Serial Killer

Four scary travel horror stories unleash a Wendigo, a rat-infested ghost ship, a doomed passenger flight, and an escaped serial killer stalking a summer highway. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with this complete horror fiction anthology packed with supernatural terror, survival horror, cannibalism, killer animals, and roadside nightmares.A routine airplane journey becomes a terrifying supernatural loop when violent turbulence, a grieving old man, and the cries of a dead child lead toward an unavoidable crash. Then a championship basketball team’s cannibalistic pact goes horribly wrong after one member consumes something inhuman an...

Published: Aug 8, 2026Duration: 2h 13m 59s

Cutting Deep into Horror | Hell House LLC (2015) — Halloween Haunt Found Footage Horror

Join filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi as Cutting Deep into Horror keeps Summerween rolling and gets an early jump on Halloween season with Hell House LLC (2015), Stephen Cognetti’s cult found footage horror movie about a Halloween haunted attraction inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This spoiler-filled Hell House LLC review and ending discussion digs into the movie’s mockumentary setup, haunted-house scares, creepy clown mannequins, cult rumors, basement terror, and the opening-night catastrophe that turned a seasonal haunt into a nightmare. If you’re alr...

Published: Aug 7, 2026Duration: 1h 43m 10s

Solar Eclipse 2026: Supernatural Folklore & Celestial Monsters | Thursday Thrills

On August 12, 2026, daylight will vanish along a path crossing Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and beyond—and old stories say the Moon may not be the only thing responsible. In this Thursday Thrills episode, Henrique Couto follows the monsters once blamed for eating the sun: celestial dragons driven off by drums, the severed immortal head Rahu, the Norse wolves Sköll and Hati, a ravenous black squirrel, and the Eternal Bat that gnaws at the edge of the world.It is a fun, eerie ride through solar eclipse folklore, ancient mythology, totality, strange animal behavior, doomsday legends, and the oldest fea...

Published: Aug 6, 2026Duration: 20m 31s

Let-Down: Body Horror Through a Child's Perspective

Body horror stories rarely get more disturbing than “LET DOWN” by Morgan Moore, a narrated horror story told through the innocent perspective of a six-year-old girl who cannot speak and is trying to care for her hungry baby brother.Her family is collapsing under sickness, poverty, neglect, and her father’s gambling addiction. When the food and baby formula run out, she remembers one simple fact: mothers make milk. Armed with a child’s incomplete understanding and a pair of kitchen scissors, she tries to solve the problem herself.This gruesome horror short story blends psychological horror, graphic...

Published: Aug 5, 2026Duration: 14m 45s

This Week in Horror History | The Sixth Sense, Piranha & Bodies Bodies Bodies (Aug. 3–9)

The Sixth Sense, Piranha, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Antropophagus, Lady Killer, and The Bat headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 3 through August 9. As summer horror reaches its hottest, strangest stretch, we’re starting our early Halloween horror pregame with killer fish, emotional ghost stories, murderous housewives, hurricane-party paranoia, forbidden cult cinema, and Vincent Price lurking inside a classic old-dark-house mystery. Inside this episode: August 3, 1978 — Piranha releases in the United StatesJoe Dante turns the post-Jaws killer-animal boom into a fast, funny, and surpr...

Published: Aug 4, 2026Duration: 23m 2s

Terrifying & True | USS Indianapolis Sinking: Sharks, Survival and Captain McVay

The USS Indianapolis sinking remains one of the most devastating naval disasters of World War II. On July 30, 1945, Japanese submarine I-58 torpedoed the heavy cruiser in the Philippine Sea after it completed a secret mission delivering components for the Little Boy atomic bomb to Tinian.Indianapolis sank in about twelve minutes. Nearly nine hundred sailors and Marines reached the water alive, but only 316 of the nearly twelve hundred people aboard survived. For more than three days, the survivors drifted across miles of open ocean with little food, almost no fresh water and failing life jackets. They endured burns...

Published: Aug 3, 2026Duration: 39m 27s

Unknown Broadcast | Classic Old Time Radio Horror: Leiningen vs the Ants, CBS Radio Mystery Theater & Suspense

Unknown Broadcast returns with a full night of classic old time radio horror, vintage radio suspense, OTR mystery, Golden Age radio drama, and eerie anthology storytelling from four legendary radio programs: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler.Tonight’s transmission features “A Choice of Witnesses,” “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” “The King’s Birthday,” and “Patients for the Doctor” — four classic radio dramas about blackmail, murder, moral corruption, survival horror, killer army ants, Nazi-occupied Europe, hidden resistance, psychological suspense, medical horror, and a lonely mountain doctor whose patients may not be there by accident.<...

Published: Aug 2, 2026Duration: 2h 24m 59s