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

January 06 This Week in Horror History | M3GAN, The Relic, The Terror & Resident Evil 4 (Jan 5–11)
M3GAN makes protection dangerous, The Relic turns a museum into a hunting ground, and Dan Simmons' The Terror reimagines the Franklin expedition. This Week in Horror History covers January 5–11 with Resident Evil 4, the apartment nightmare The Sentinel, and the occult time-travel chaos of Warlock. Films, a novel, and a survival horror game offer ways to lose control of familiar spaces. Find a killer doll, a lurking creature, or your next eerie read. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth sheets, pajamas, and loungewear. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off your first order at CozyEarth.com.

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23 min
January 05 Terrifying & True | 1993 Hamar-Daban Mystery: Siberia’s “Dyatlov Pass” Tragedy
Six members of Lyudmila Korovina's hiking group died during an August 1993 emergency in Siberia's Hamar-Daban Mountains. Valentina Utochenko survived. Terrifying & True follows the storm, her account of the final hours, and the recovery that fed comparisons with Dyatlov Pass. Weather and exposure are considered alongside speculative explanations, with disturbing retellings kept separate from what the evidence supports. This mountain mystery asks how much can be reconstructed from one survivor's testimony and a remote site. Follow the human ordeal behind the legend of deaths on the slope.

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30 min
January 04 Unknown Broadcast | Jealousy, Keys & Red Marks: Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories
Jealousy survives the applause, smoke raises suspicion, and a key opens a door that feels unsafe. Unknown Broadcast gathers Hell Hath No Fury, The Night Reveals, Lady With a Key, and The Red Mark. Four old-time radio dramas move through fame, troubling clues, secrecy, and a reckoning. More than two hours of vintage suspense turn intimate details into warnings: matches in a pocket, an expression, or footsteps where nobody is expected. Listen for criminal motives and the consequences of trust as these mysteries unfold. A witch watches an actor whose ambitions put his wife in danger.

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2 hr 16 min
January 03 Small Town Secrets: Five Horror Stories of Hidden Cults, Monsters, and Dark Rituals
A town restoration hides a threat, and a factory deal exposes dangerous secrets. Five Weekly Spooky tales gather I Was Sent to a Small Town Where Strange Things Were Happening by Michael Kelso, The Devil Reaps the Harvest by John Oak Dalton, Eh, Real Monsters from NEPA by Michelle Antisocial, Sin by Rob Fields, and The God Tongue by Dan Wilder. Around two hours of small-town horror move from New England to Pennsylvania and Strickfield, mixing missing people, occult temptation, and backwoods creatures. Look behind ordinary streets, where knowing everyone's name does not mean knowing them.

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2 hr 1 min
January 02 Best of 2025: I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snow Storm
A blizzard traps a long-haul trucker at a dark, locked truck stop. His tracks vanish in the snow, fuel runs low, and a horned shape keeps approaching the cab. I Was Hunted by a Cryptid in a Snowstorm by Michael Kelso returns for Weekly Spooky's Best of 2025. This winter survival horror story turns the truck from shelter into a target as something learns how to reach the driver inside. Listen for creature terror and the dread of waiting alone through the storm. Author books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... More stories: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho...

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56 min
December 31, 2025 Saint Jimmy: Y2K Panic Meets New Year’s Eve
Two radios playing the right tones open a tear in time. Jimmy discovers the trick as a teenager with his cousin Phillip, but years of experiments take a darker turn when grief makes the past irresistible. Saint Jimmy by Dan Wilder follows their discovery toward New Year's Eve 1999, when attempts to fix a loss threaten to break far more than one life. This Weekly Spooky story mixes time-travel horror, cosmic comedy, and Y2K anxiety with a human wish to hear a loved one's voice again. Every adjustment can change the world on the other side. Would you step through if you could not undo it?

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45 min
December 30, 2025 This Week in Horror History | New Year Horror — Kwaidan, Witchboard & One Missed Call (Dec 29–Jan 4)
Kwaidan's ghosts, Ghost in the Machine's electronic killer, and One Missed Call's ominous voicemail carry horror across the new year. Henrique Couto explores December 29–January 4 on This Week in Horror History, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the spirit-board danger of Witchboard. Japanese ghost cinema meets technological fear and the consequences of creation in a watchlist built around messages nobody should answer. Find a classic to read or a late-night film. Episode sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off at https://savorista.com/discount...

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23 min
December 29, 2025 Monthly Spooky | New Years True Crime, Bigfoot on I-80, & Conjuring House Lawsuit
Eric Smokes and David Warren lost decades to wrongful convictions for a 1987 killing near Times Square. This December 2025 Monthly Spooky follows their fight to clear their names and convictions vacated in 2024. The conversation also covers a Bigfoot report near I-80, an ancient Scottish burial discovery, Kansas City jazz-bar ghost claims, oarfish omens, and controversy around the Conjuring House. True crime and paranormal headlines share the episode, with reported sightings kept distinct from court outcomes. Explore the human cost of a false story and why other stories are hard to test.

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2 hr 21 min
December 28, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | Bells Before Midnight: Six Horror Stories of Farewells, Guilt, and the End
A condemned man turns to the dead as guilt and jealousy haunt six vintage radio mysteries. Unknown Broadcast gathers Angel of Death, Calling All Souls, Two Birds with One Stone, So Soon, Murder Is a Lonely Business, and The Haunted Hotel. Over three hours of old-time radio suspense move between ghost-story atmosphere and crime, with farewell and guilt tying the year-end selection together. Visitors, alibis, and hotel corridors offer uneasy invitations as each drama unfolds. Settle in for a night of classic audio storytelling, where a quiet room can make a remembered voice feel close.

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3 hr 4 min
December 27, 2025 6 Scary New Year Tales of Devils, Vampires, Zombies & Paranormal Evil!
New Year's revelry turns deadly in six Weekly Spooky tales. Dan Wilder brings Even the Devil Tells the Truth Sometimes, Satan's Shotgun, Stakes n' Shoguns, and Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York. A Few Cold Ones by David O'Hanlon and New Year's Evil: A Paranormal Thriller from the Case Files of Caroline Quinn by Mike Ashkewe complete the lineup. Over two and a half hours of horror fiction mix devil bargains, an undead avenger, hotel hostages, vampires, and alien zombies. Caroline Quinn faces an apocalyptic threat as festivities unravel. The countdown gives these monsters a stage.

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2 hr 43 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…