Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

By Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror ExpertTrue CrimeFictionDrama
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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

  • Unknown Broadcast | Echoes at Midnight: Stories of Dreams, Corpses, and the Old Country
    A business trip becomes time travel when Gabriel Carson reaches the village where his parents' hidden past is still unfolding. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Old Country, I Saw Myself Running, Nightmare, and The Visiting Corpse. More than two hours of old-time radio mystery and suspense explore family secrets, disturbing dreams, and fractured identity. CBS Radio Mystery Theater's The Old Country turns a journey abroad into a confrontation with inherited danger. Four vintage dramas ask how well you know your own history—and whether waking up is enough to leave a nightmare behind.

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    2 hr 13 min
  • Cutting Deep Into Horror | Bitter Feast (2010) — Dark Foodie Horror, Chef Revenge & Thanksgiving Scares
    A celebrity chef turns a brutal review into a reason for revenge in Bitter Feast (2010). Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi explore this culinary horror thriller on Cutting Deep into Horror, with full spoilers for its captivity story and cooking challenges. Burnout, public humiliation, and obsession turn food into a weapon as chef and critic fight over who deserves judgment. Dark humor and tension make it an uneasy Thanksgiving watch. What happens when criticism gets answered with force? Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: 41% off with SPOOKY at https://cozyearth.com/discount...

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    2 hr
  • Withdrawal — Cursed Rock-Star Horror Story: Fame, Obsession, and a Deadly Encore
    Sammy Scar's old hit suddenly becomes a streaming sensation, and the crowds waiting for him grow disturbingly intense. Withdrawal by John Stoney Cannon follows a faded rock star whose unexpected comeback carries an ominous refrain: they're here for you. This Weekly Spooky music-horror story mixes celebrity obsession, nostalgia, and occult menace as familiar songs start to feel like warnings. Sammy values his privacy, but renewed fame may demand more than another performance. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...

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    59 min
  • This Week in Horror History | Creepshow, Dracula & Ravenholm
    Creepshow brings comic-book carnage, Bram Stoker's Dracula embraces Gothic romance, and Half-Life 2's Ravenholm turns a shooter into survival horror. This Week in Horror History also visits Interview with the Vampire, Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf, Spielberg's Duel, and Supernatural's Home. Birthdays include Roy Scheider, Radha Mitchell, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Burgess Meredith, with Slumber Party Massacre as the recommendation. Find vampires, highway menace, and haunted memories to watch or play. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: 41% off with SPOOKY at CozyEarth.com.

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    24 min
  • Terrifying & True | Dark Realities of the First Thanksgiving: Survival, Plague, and a Fragile Peace
    The 1621 harvest feast grew from survival and uneasy diplomacy between the Wampanoag and Plymouth colonists. Terrifying & True follows the epidemic before the Mayflower, the winter of hunger, and negotiations involving Samoset, Squanto, and Massasoit. Corn, trade, and a mutual-defense agreement helped sustain an alliance; later violence at Wessagusset exposed its limits. Explore how a complicated encounter became the First Thanksgiving legend, and whose losses the familiar story leaves out. Sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: 41% off with SPOOKY at https://cozyearth.com/discount...

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Unknown Broadcast | Graves & Revenants: Classic Horror Stories of Plague, Vengeance, and the Unquiet Dead
    A haunted inheritance comes with one rule: guard the dead man's mausoleum. Unknown Broadcast presents Shadows from the Grave, scripted by James Agate Jr., with Funeral Fires, Make Ready My Grave, and No Grave Can Hold Me. More than two hours of old-time radio horror and mystery explore vengeance and obligations that outlive the people who made them. CBS Radio Mystery Theater's Shadows from the Grave follows a photographer and his wife into an estate troubled by spirits. Four vintage dramas make a locked tomb and a promise to the dead feel like very dangerous responsibilities.

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    2 hr 15 min
  • 6 Years of Weekly Spooky: Building a Horror Podcast Powerhouse
    How does a weekly scary-story show grow into a near-daily horror feed? Arts and culture reporter Andrew Shearer joins Henrique Couto to mark six years of Weekly Spooky, from its Halloween 2019 launch to a wider mix of fiction, folklore, and film discussion. Hear production stories, the realities of making a living in podcasting, and influences including Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone. Terrifying & True and This Week in Horror History show how the format expanded. Go behind the microphone for a conversation about creative work, sustaining a schedule, and finding an audience.

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    59 min
  • Gone Hunting: Werewolf Revenge Under a Full Moon
    Two hunters follow a blood trail and discover that what they shot was not an ordinary animal. Gone Hunting by Morgan Moore turns a quiet farmhouse dinner into a werewolf revenge story. Mitchell McCormick and RJ try to hide their mistake, but a visitor at the door brings the consequences home. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes transformation horror, family danger, and the panic of realizing a locked house may offer little protection. The hunt is over; the reckoning is beginning. Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: 25% off with SPOOKY at https://savorista.com/discount...

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    42 min
  • This Week in Horror History | Gojira, Carrie, They Live
    Gojira (Godzilla, 1954), Carrie (1976), and John Carpenter's They Live (1988) lead This Week in Horror History for November 3–9. Atomic monsters, psychic revenge, and alien conspiracy meet The Twilight Zone's Escape Clause, the game Silent Hill Origins, and The Prowler. Silent Night, Deadly Night brings holiday slasher controversy; Doctor Sleep supplies the recommendation. Birthdays include Bram Stoker, Tom Savini, Famke Janssen, and Parker Posey. Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: 25% off with SPOOKY at https://savorista.com/discount...

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    22 min
  • Terrifying & True | The Donner Party: Cannibalism and Survival in the Sierra Nevada
    A shortcut costs the Donner Party precious weeks, and heavy snow closes the Sierra Nevada passes before they can reach California. Terrifying & True follows the winter of 1846–1847 from the Hastings Cutoff to starvation, cannibalism, the Forlorn Hope snowshoe escape, and rescue attempts. Families wait at Truckee Lake and Alder Creek while rescuers struggle through the mountains. The episode also examines Lewis Keseberg's lasting notoriety and Virginia Reed's warning about the route. Discover the decisions and human losses behind a survival story often reduced to its darkest detail.

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    59 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…

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