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

October 06 This Week in Horror History | Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Werewolf by Night & Lamb (Oct 5–11)
October 5-11 brings Leatherface, Marvel monsters, and Icelandic folk horror to your Halloween watchlist. This Week in Horror History revisits The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's early release history, the monster hunt of Werewolf by Night, Freddy's Nightmares on television, and Quarantine's trapped reporter. Our deep cut, Lamb, finds an impossible child on a remote farm; weekly pick Trick 'r Treat turns Halloween traditions into deadly rules. Plus birthdays for Clive Barker, Sigourney Weaver, Guillermo del Toro, and Stephen Moyer. Discover cult horror, found-footage panic, and a reason to leave the pumpkins lit.

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23 min
October 05 Terrifying & True | Harry Houdini's Final Halloween: Death, Seances & the Secret Code
(00:00:00) Harry Houdini’s Final Halloween — Welcome
(00:03:03) The 1936 Houdini Seance — Setting the Test
(00:06:54) Harry Houdini: Escape Artist to Spiritualism Skeptic
(00:15:58) Arthur Conan Doyle & Houdini’s Spiritualism Dispute
(00:22:49) Margery: Mina Crandon & Houdini’s Psychic Tests
(00:28:50) Houdini’s Final Tour & Halloween Death (1926)
(00:39:37) Houdini Murder Myths — Evidence Versus Speculation
(00:41:01) Bess Houdini’s Secret Code & the Afterlife Test
(00:48:14) Houdini’s Halloween Legacy & the 2026 Centenary
(00:49:47) Bess Houdini’s Final Seance Decision (1936)

Harry Houdini died on Halloween, October 31, 1926. For the 100th anniversary in 2026, explore his secret code for testing messages from the dead—and the mediums he fought to expose. This spooky season, Terrifying & True follows the stomach-punch legend, Arthur Conan Doyle's Spiritualism, Arthur Ford's disputed message and Bess Houdini's final 1936 seance. Hear archival recordings of Houdini, Conan Doyle and Bess herself as we separate documented history from supernatural claims. Could the world's greatest escape artist expose a fake message from beyond the grave? We're telling that story tonight.

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53 min
October 04 Unknown Broadcast | Werewolf Stories & Deadly Revenge: Halloween Radio Horror
(00:00:00) Welcome — Werewolf Tales & Old-Time Radio Horror
(00:01:05) The Night of the Wolf — CBS Radio Mystery Theater
(00:45:23) The Red Forest — Escape: Forest-Fire Suspense
(01:15:41) The Beast Must Die — Suspense
(01:46:19) The Master’s Tree — The Whistler
(02:16:57) The Werewolf — The Weird Circle
(02:46:59) W Is for Werewolf — Dark Fantasy
(03:12:47) Outro — More Classic Radio Horror

Unknown Broadcast brings werewolf stories and deadly revenge to Halloween listening. In The Beast Must Die, a grieving father hunts the driver who killed his son; in The Red Forest, a motorist faces a wildfire. This six-story collection blends supernatural horror with human danger.

Hear The Night of the Wolf, The Red Forest, The Beast Must Die, The Master's Tree, The Werewolf, and W Is for Werewolf, from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, The Whistler, The Weird Circle, and Dark Fantasy. Turn down the lights for a night of old-time radio suspense, where the monster isn't always supernatural.

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3 hr 15 min
October 03 Strickfield After Dark | 4 Halloween Horror Stories: Ghosts & Grimm Manor
(00:00:00) Welcome — Strickfield Halloween Horror Stories
(00:01:52) Ghost in the Graveyard — Abigail Tomlin Cemetery Horror
(00:35:23) Halloween Night at Grimm Manor — Haunted Mansion Game
(02:29:13) A New Halloween Legend — Castalia Mirren’s Occult Horror
(04:05:36) Mad as Hell — Strickfield Serial-Killer Fiction
(04:53:37) Outro — More Strickfield Scary Stories

A forbidden cemetery game from urban legends draws three boys into a ghost's path, and a dare at Grimm Manor becomes a midnight contest with its dead owners. Strickfield After Dark gathers four Halloween horror stories by Rob Fields into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction. Hear Ghost in the Graveyard, Halloween Night at Grimm Manor, A New Halloween Legend, and Mad as Hell. Haunted houses, an occult book, and a human killer's violent code turn this Ohio town's traditions into threats. Two rivals must work together inside the manor, but can they put their feud aside before the game ends?

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4 hr 56 min
October 02 Folklore Friday | Vampire Legends & Dark Folklore for Halloween
(00:00:00) D.L. Wainright — Folklore, Faith & Childhood Urban Legends
(00:06:40) Slender Man, the Backrooms & Internet Folklore
(00:09:49) Weekly Spooky — Scary Stories, True Crime & Folklore
(00:13:17) Halloween All Year — Horror Fans & Spooky Season
(00:18:56) The Butter Street Monster — Germantown, Ohio Folklore
(00:24:49) Preserving Dayton’s Haunted History & Local Legends
(00:28:24) Helltown & Ohio’s Haunted Places
(00:35:05) Eclipse Monsters — Wolves & Sky-Dog Folklore
(00:41:51) Romanian Strigoi — Vampire Folklore & Word Origins
(00:46:10) Vampire Movie Rules Versus Romanian Strigoi Lore
(00:52:43) Strigoi Defenses — Romanian Vampire Folklore
(00:55:47) New England Vampire Beliefs & Food for the Dead
(01:01:16) The Strigoi at the Village Party — A Romanian Folktale
(01:10:47) Vampire Warnings & Village Traditions
(01:19:45) Halloween, Holidays & Changing Traditions
(01:23:38) Strigoi Shapeshifting — Owls, Cats & Vampire Legends
(01:27:40) Werewolf Folklore, Witchcraft & Lycanthropy
(01:32:48) Satan, Demonization & Religious Folklore
(01:41:51) Trickster Folklore — Monsters, Morals & Social Rules
(01:47:10) Brotherhood of the Wolf & Folklore in Horror Films
(01:57:28) Goth Culture, Horror Fans & Finding Your People

Why do vampire legends still frighten us? Henrique Couto welcomes folklorist and author D.L. Wainright to explore Romanian strigoi, Dracula, graveyard rituals, and New England vampire beliefs. This Folklore Friday conversation follows garlic, sunlight, shapeshifting, and a party guest hiding a disturbing secret beneath the table. Along the way: Ohio's Butter Street Monster, La Llorona, Slender Man, werewolves, and Halloween traditions. Discover how familiar monsters change as we share their stories—and which old fears still follow us into spooky season.

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2 hr 5 min
October 01 Deadname: She Stole the Wrong Life — A Halloween Horror Story
(00:00:00) Welcome — Deadname: Halloween Identity Horror
(00:03:49) Deadname — A Halloween Horror Story by Morgan Moore
(00:29:25) Outro — Story Credits & More Halloween Horror

A nameless young woman steals another girl's identity in Deadname, a Halloween horror story by Morgan Moore. With no memory of her past, she sees a costume and mask as a chance to belong. But at a Halloween party, someone is watching—and he thinks he knows her.
A stolen life. A stranger's obsession. One night behind the wrong mask. This psychological horror story brings slasher suspense to spooky season. Follow Weekly Spooky for more scary stories.
Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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32 min
October 01 Stingy Jack: The Halloween Legend Behind the Jack-o'-Lantern | Thursday Thrills
(00:00:00) Welcome — Stingy Jack & Irish Halloween Folklore
(00:03:46) Meet Stingy Jack — The Devil & the Coin Bargain
(00:07:36) Stingy Jack’s Second Devil Bargain — The Tree
(00:10:17) Stingy Jack’s Fate — An Irish Folklore Legend
(00:11:46) Jack of the Lantern — The Turnip & Burning Coal
(00:13:37) Turnip Lanterns Before Pumpkins — Irish Halloween Customs
(00:16:04) Closing — Welcoming Halloween & Thursday Thrills

Stingy 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 with a terrible catch. Discover the carved turnip lanterns once used to frighten passersby, and the dark folklore behind that familiar pumpkin grin. What happens when outsmarting the Devil leaves you with nowhere to go? Light your first pumpkin and join Thursday Thrills for Halloween folklore, mischievous scares and a little light against the dark.

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19 min
September 30 I'm a Firefighter and What I Found in the Last Fire Creeped Me Out | Halloween Ghost Story
(00:00:00) Welcome — A Firefighter’s Halloween Ghost Story
(00:03:42) I’m a Firefighter and What I Found in the Last Fire Creeped Me Out — Michael Kelso
(00:47:53) Outro — Story Credits & More Halloween Horror

A firefighter finds a notebook in the ashes of a burned cabin. Inside, Joe describes an isolated childhood, a forbidden railroad tunnel, and the Halloween night he dared to go trick-or-treating. His first taste of freedom leads toward a new family—but a shadow from home refuses to let him go. Michael Kelso's Halloween ghost story follows a boy caught between the life he wants and a haunting presence that keeps whispering one demand: home. What survived the fire, and why was the notebook protected? Hear this supernatural horror story on Weekly Spooky, narrated by Henrique Couto. Written by Michael Kelso.

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51 min
September 29 This Week in Horror History | Night of the Living Dead, Near Dark & Halloween 6 - Sep 28-Oct 4
(00:00:00) Welcome — Horror History: September 28–October 4
(00:01:56) Hell Fest (2018) — Haunted-Attraction Slasher
(00:04:12) Halloween 6 (1995) — The Curse of Michael Myers
(00:06:39) Night of the Living Dead (1968) — Romero’s Zombie Landmark
(00:10:22) The Twilight Zone (1959) — Where Is Everybody?
(00:12:19) Weekly Spooky Story Preview — The Firefighter’s Notebook
(00:14:43) Near Dark (1987) — Kathryn Bigelow’s Vampire Western
(00:18:11) Horror Birthdays — Naomi Watts, Neve Campbell & More
(00:20:26) Then & Now — Fear Across Horror History
(00:21:11) Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) — Halloween Watchlist

September 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 Hell Fest's killer hiding inside a Halloween attraction. Step into The Twilight Zone, discover the vampire western Near Dark, and meet our weekly pick, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Plus birthdays for Naomi Watts, Monica Bellucci, Neve Campbell, and Liev Schreiber. Explore the horror anniversaries behind your next spooky-season movie night. Not every mask is a costume.

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25 min
September 28 Monthly Spooky | Halloween Countdown: Ghost Stories & Midnight Spook Shows
(00:00:00) Welcome — September’s Halloween Countdown & Spooky News
(00:02:31) Opening Conversation — Henrique’s New Car
(00:07:12) Weekly Spooky App Plans & October Extras
(00:15:41) Midnight Spook Shows — A Preview of This Month’s Horror History
(00:17:22) A Bat in a Sleeping Woman’s Mouth — Virginia News Report
(00:26:10) Loch Ness on Google Earth — A New Nessie Sighting Claim
(00:36:16) Ghost Rumors in an Indian School — Fear & Mass Anxiety
(00:46:52) A Real Cat Burglar — Washington’s Bobcat Break-In
(00:56:31) Pentagon UFO Files — UAP Reports & Released Videos
(01:05:47) Poland’s “Vampire” Grave — Archaeology & Burial Folklore
(01:15:04) A New England Ancestry Trip — Family History Conversation
(01:16:24) Crocodile Found on Long Island — Animal Rescue News
(01:27:38) Maine Bigfoot Sighting Debunked — A Man in a Costume
(01:32:20) Midnight Ghost Show History — Dr. Creep & Theater Horror
(01:38:57) Elwynn Charles Peck — Origins of the Midnight Ghost Show
(01:52:00) Spook Show Publicity — William Castle & The Tingler
(01:57:48) The Decline of Midnight Ghost Shows — Television & Changing Audiences
(02:08:03) Spook Shows’ Legacy — Haunted Attractions & Horror Hosts
(02:11:56) September Horror Picks — Buddy, Insidious & MST3K
(02:16:38) Chell’s Reddit Ghost Story — A Strange Figure on a Country Road
(02:21:38) October at Weekly Spooky — Halloween Listening & Closing

Halloween 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 Loch Ness Monster sighting, ghost rumors in Indian schools, a Polish 'vampire' burial and a Bigfoot mystery with a human explanation. A creepy roadside encounter rounds out this Monthly Spooky hangout. Join us for paranormal mysteries, cryptids, vampire folklore and horror history as we count down to Halloween. What would you see when the theater lights go out?

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2 hr 24 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…