Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

By Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror ExpertTrue Crime Fiction Drama

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

November 01 Unknown Broadcast | When the Veil Won’t Close: Ghost Stories After Halloween
Unknown Broadcast keeps Halloween’s chill alive with four old-time radio mysteries of grief, witchcraft and the boundary between life and death.

✦ The Dead Deserve to Rest — A widow trusts a promise of contact beyond the grave.

☾ Ancient Sorceries — A strange village seems to recognize a traveler who has never visited.

◆ The Furnished Floor — A widower rebuilds the home he shared with his late wife.

✧ Apparition — A dead husband’s apparent return threatens an inheritance.

Dim the lights for All Souls season and classic radio suspense. The signal fades, but someone upstairs is still listening.

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2 hr 22 min
October 31 Mischief Night: A Halloween Carol | Trick-or-Treat Horror
Three masked trick-or-treaters. One empty candy bowl. In “Mischief Night: A Halloween Carol,” Eliza Jordan turns away children who insist they’re owed an offering. A storm traps her at home, her phone disappears, and her horror-movie marathon begins showing scenes from her own life. Now something with claws is inside the house. This scary Halloween story turns a lonely night on the couch into a supernatural home invasion—and makes “trick or treat” a threat.

Written by Shane Migliavacca. Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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42 min
October 31 Madelyne’s Halloween Odyssey | 4 Halloween Horror Stories
Halloween in Strickfield opens doors that should stay shut. A bridge ghost holds missing children, a midnight movie leads to a vampire world, a ruined carnival hides a trip to 1955, and the Candy House returns for one deadly night. Follow Madelyne and her friends through nearly six hours of connected horror stories, where every local legend brings a new threat.

“Return to the Cry Baby Bridge” — Written by Rob Fields.
“The Portal” — Written by Rob Fields.
“The Last Carnovasch” — Written by Rob Fields.
“The Legend of the Lone Candy House” — Written by Rob Fields.
Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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5 hr 48 min
October 30 Halloween Radio 2026 | 24 Spooky Songs for Your Halloween Party
Your Halloween party has a new soundtrack: 24 spooky songs from 14 artists, hosted by Henrique Couto. Weekly Spooky Radio 2026 brings together horror-inspired rock, monster pop, eerie electronics and occult chants in two-song sets, with Henrique back at the mic between each pair. Hear The Goldstars, DEATH CAT, Inglorious Kate, Gelatin Skelatin and more as ghosts, vampires, Frankenstein and werewolves take over the playlist. With more than 90 minutes of music, this Halloween bonus show is ready for pumpkin carving, costume prep, handing out candy or a late-night monster dance party.

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1 hr 53 min
October 30 A Pact Realized on Halloween | A Deal with the Devil
Felicia Bates refused the devil’s offer to bring back her husband. Then she wakes on Halloween with Gabriel alive beside her—and the tragedy that destroyed their family apparently erased. She never agreed to a bargain. So why has her wish come true? In this supernatural horror story set in Strickfield, a grieving, spider-powered heroine must uncover the price of an impossible second chance. “A Pact Realized on Halloween” blends demonic bargains, dark fantasy and a mother’s desperate fight for her family.

Written by Rob Fields. Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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1 hr 26 min
October 29 The House on Telford Circle | A Haunted Halloween Reunion
Amanda and Felipe barely escaped the Sullivan house as teenagers. Now a Halloween birthday reunion brings them back with two old friends. A child is crying upstairs, and the woman who died there remembers their first visit. “The House on Telford Circle” is a haunted house horror story of old costumes, unfinished romances and a search for answers in a home with a murderous past. The four friends came to revisit a childhood nightmare. Will the house let them leave again?

Written by Bruce Haney. Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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1 hr 11 min
October 29 Sleepy Hollow’s Headless Horseman: A Halloween Ghost Story | Thursday Thrills
Sleepy Hollow’s Headless Horseman turns Ichabod Crane’s ride home into a nightmare. Join Henrique Couto as he follows Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from Brom Bones’ ghost stories at an autumn feast to a silent rider and a desperate race for the church bridge. Explore the real Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and an older German headless-rider legend collected by the Brothers Grimm. What was chasing Ichabod—and would the churchyard really keep him safe? Settle in for Halloween ghost stories, dark folklore and the eerie sound that lingers after the chase.

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19 min
October 28 Neighborhood Nightmares | 3 Scary Halloween Stories: Don’t Open the Door
Jack Scratch returns with three scary Halloween stories from Millhaven, where every invitation has a price. A widower’s bargain to save his wife comes due. A trick-or-treater meets Mr. Pickles, a beautiful cat whose owner obeys a murderous voice. Two police officers enter a Halloween party—and the doorway disappears. Keith Tomlin’s “Jack Scratch’s Neighborhood Nightmares” brings together “The Debt,” “The Voice” and “The Choice,” narrated by Henrique Couto. This supernatural horror anthology turns porch lights, candy bowls and familiar homes into traps. Jack promises a tour. He never promises a way home.

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1 hr 9 min
October 27 Candy Haul | A Goblin’s Halloween Horror Story
Candy Haul by Tyler Belmont turns trick-or-treating into a goblin Halloween horror story. Twelve-year-old Daniel wants the biggest candy haul in the neighborhood, and his new friend Ivan has the most convincing costume he has ever seen. But when Ivan steals his candy wagon and disappears into the woods, Daniel follows—and the path home vanishes. Now a grinning trickster is setting the rules, and his appetite goes far beyond sweets. Can Daniel survive the games and find his way out? Narrated by Henrique Couto, this tale of childhood Halloween nostalgia turns vicious for fans of scary Halloween stories.

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22 min
October 27 This Week in Horror History | Saw, The Walking Dead, Ghostwatch & SIGNALIS (Oct 26–Nov 1)
From October 26–November 1, Halloween horror history turns trusted broadcasts into nightmares. Revisit Saw’s locked-room terror, The Walking Dead’s zombie TV debut, and the BBC’s Ghostwatch, where familiar presenters made a fictional haunting feel real. Explore SIGNALIS and its damaged memories, then separate Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds radio broadcast from the nationwide panic myth. Celebrate Cary Elwes, Winona Ryder, Peter Jackson and Toni Collette, and 35 years of Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs. Join Henrique Couto for horror movie anniversaries and a Halloween watchlist with teeth.

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20 min

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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…