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 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
October 26 Monthly Spooky | Halloween Haunts, Ghost Stories & Poltergeists
Halloween haunts and ghost lore get a skeptical twist on Monthly Spooky. Henrique Couto and Michelle revisit Pennsylvania's Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride, then open Eric Elfman's The Very Scary Almanac (1993) for Borley Rectory ghost stories, poltergeist accounts and UFO encounters. Spooky news brings new claims about the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film and a runaway inflatable pumpkin. Plus: Night of the Demons, Mischief Night (2013), and an eerie, unverified Reddit tale of a father who seems to arrive home while he's still at work. Settle in for a Halloween hangout full of spooky stories and laughs.

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2 hr 33 min
October 25 Unknown Broadcast | Halloween at Midnight: 8 Old Time Radio Horror Stories
Unknown Broadcast opens Halloween at Midnight with eight old-time radio horror and mystery tales. Light the jack-o'-lantern. Something is listening.

The Demon Spirit: Love turns to possession.
The Loup-Garou: A werewolf legend in the bayou.
Ghost Hunt: A DJ enters a haunted house.
Mask for Kinsella: A new face hides an old identity.
Don't Tell Me About Halloween: A witch returns to her husband.
Murder Comes at Midnight: An escaped killer comes calling.
The Evil Eye: A lover fears his gaze is a curse.
Alley Cat (Cat Wife): A marriage takes an unnatural turn.

Your Halloween horror marathon ends when the signal says it does.

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4 hr 3 min
October 24 The Walls Remember | 4 Halloween Horror Stories: Haunted Houses & Dirt Babies
Four Halloween horror stories prove some places never forget. Renovating a former funeral home unleashes what was hidden in its walls. A masked killer escapes a sanitarium. A craft project made with graveyard soil becomes a living nightmare. The Walls Remember brings nearly six hours of haunted-house horror, slasher suspense, and tiny monsters in In the Witch House Walls, Another Mischief Night, Dirt Babies, and Asylum of the Dirt Babies. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Shane Migliavacca, and Bruce Haney. Narrated by Henrique Couto. Follow Weekly Spooky and spend Halloween somewhere you can't escape.

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5 hr 53 min
October 23 12:01 | Halloween Horror: One Minute to Raise the Dead
In “12:01: An Anna Wu Story” by Mike Ashkewe, Halloween horror begins with stolen body parts and a warning to go home. Ice-powered agent Anna Wu follows the evidence to a hidden butcher-shop laboratory in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. A doorway to the dead will open for just one minute at midnight—and someone is building a body for whatever comes through. Can an investigator used to preserving crime scenes stop a forbidden resurrection? Narrated by Henrique Couto, this paranormal thriller blends occult mystery, body horror and a race against the clock for fans of scary Halloween stories.

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59 min
October 22 Cutting Deep Into Horror | Halloween (1978): Why Michael Myers Still Scares Us
John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) turns a quiet neighborhood into a place where Michael Myers could be hiding anywhere. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Donald Pleasence’s obsessive Dr. Loomis, Debra Hill’s teenage characters and Dean Cundey’s use of shadows and empty space. Why does the Shape’s slow, silent pursuit still get under our skin? From Carpenter’s unforgettable score to the final-girl debate, this spoiler-filled horror movie review explores the craft and psychology that make Carpenter’s slasher classic a Halloween-season essential.

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2 hr 15 min
October 22 Clinton Road: The Ghost Boy of New Jersey’s Haunted Road | Thursday Thrills
Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey, has a ghost story that begins with pocket change: toss a coin into the water, and a boy beneath the bridge is said to send it back. Join Henrique Couto for a Halloween ride through the ghost-boy legend, a reported reflection in the creek, and tales of a phantom pickup whose headlights vanish. Explore local folklore collected by Weird NJ, the real history of Clinton Furnace, and Henrique’s memories of spooking friends on dark car rides. If you love haunted roads, ghost stories and Halloween urban legends, wait until you hear that little metallic tap.

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18 min
October 21 Trickster in Training | Halloween Horror at a Witch’s Door
On Devil’s Night, two masked teenage thieves pick the wrong house in “Trickster in Training” by Charles Campbell. Clement wants easy money; Miller just wants to keep up. At the end of a long dirt road, Felicia Fields answers their knock—and smiles when a gun goes off. Now her bag of Halloween candy comes with a terrible lesson. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this supernatural horror story turns an armed robbery into a witch’s night of reckoning. If you love scary Halloween stories with wicked comeuppance, step inside a secluded house where the person opening the door is the one you should fear.

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36 min
October 20 This Week in Horror History | Halloween, 30 Days of Night & Dark Night of the Scarecrow (Oct 19–25)
From October 19–25, horror history turns your Halloween watchlist into a nightmare. Revisit John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the sunless vampire siege of 30 Days of Night, and Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Venture into Innsmouth with Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, then discover why Dark Night of the Scarecrow still chills 45 years after its CBS debut. Plus, celebrate Bela Lugosi, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Raimi and Mia Goth, and revisit The Simpsons’ first Treehouse of Horror. Join Henrique Couto for slasher classics, cosmic horror and a cornfield that never feels empty.

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21 min
October 19 Terrifying & True | Ghostwatch: The BBC Halloween Hoax and Its Real Fallout
Ghostwatch put a fictional haunting inside the familiar frame of BBC television. On Halloween night in 1992, Michael Parkinson and Sarah Greene helped a scripted drama look like a live ghost hunt. Some viewers believed it. The backlash was real. Explore the hidden appearances of Pipes, the broadcast's unnerving tricks, and the argument over trust that followed. Original program audio and BBC Bite Back excerpts bring the scare and its contemporary criticism into focus. How did a made-up ghost leave viewers questioning the safety of their own living rooms?

We're telling that story tonight.

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1 hr 22 min

About Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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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…