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

June 07, 2025 Fear Daily — 1990s Monsters and Rust Belt Horror Feed Drop
A lost online bulletin board in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt holds accounts of monsters, hauntings, cults, and unexplained terror. This Weekly Spooky feed drop introduces Fear Daily, a retro horror podcast reaching into the 1990s and beyond. Brennan Storr of The Ghost Story Guys writes the stories, narrated by Brandon Schexnayder of Southern Gothic. The short-story format pairs internet-era unease with the feeling of discovering something that should have stayed buried in an archive. Sample the show here, then follow its trail of unsettling reports: https://podfollow.com/fear-dai...

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25 min
June 06, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | Wishmaster (1997) – Djinn Horror, Gore, and 90s Cameo Chaos
What does a wish cost when the djinn controls the wording? Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Wishmaster (1997), Robert Kurtzman's gore-filled horror film starring Andrew Divoff and Tammy Lauren. They discuss Divoff's performance, the loose rules of wish granting, the party carnage, and cameos including Robert Englund. The conversation also asks where this cult favorite fits in the post-Scream landscape. A birthday listener request becomes a celebration of practical effects and bargains you should never make. Full spoilers. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/

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1 hr 59 min
June 04, 2025 Meeting the Family - Gothic Vampire Horror Inside a Twisted Aristocratic Bloodline
Pricilla Mirren's engagement to Breckin Hawthorne promises to unite two powerful Strickfield families. Meeting his relatives will show her what that promise really means. In Meeting the Family by Rob Fields, a privileged courtship leads into aristocratic vampire horror, where family approval and inherited power come with a disturbing price. Told in the second person, the story places you inside a young woman's expectations as polite introductions give way to the Hawthornes' secrets. How much of yourself would you surrender to belong? April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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32 min
June 02, 2025 Terrifying & True | The Herrmann Family Poltergeist — Seaford’s 1958 Haunting Mystery
Bottles pop open and objects reportedly move inside an ordinary Seaford, Long Island, home. The Herrmann family's 1958 disturbances draw police, reporters, and parapsychologists into a case nicknamed 'Popper.' Terrifying & True follows Detective Joseph Tozzi's investigation and the competing explanations for the events. Was a child responsible, were witnesses mistaken, or did the reports suggest something harder to explain? Hear how a suburban household became a national paranormal story, and why the presence of investigators did not settle the argument over its cause.

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1 hr 2 min
June 01, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | In a Lonely Place — Four Radio Horror Stories of Isolation and Death
Former pilot Dix Steele reconnects with a detective friend in Los Angeles, where a killer has made the streets unsafe. Robert Montgomery stars in In a Lonely Place, adapted from Dorothy B. Hughes' novel, in this Unknown Broadcast collection. Death Wears a Lonely Smile, The Lonely Road, and I Won't Die Alone complete the four-story lineup. Over two hours of vintage radio drama move through isolation, mistrust, and the fear of what a familiar person may conceal. Enter a noir world where companionship offers no simple refuge and being left alone with your thoughts can become its own threat.

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2 hr 26 min
May 30, 2025 Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe – A Haunting Tale of Obsession and Madness
Egaeus cannot stop thinking about his cousin Berenice's teeth. As her illness worsens, his fixation reduces the woman he knows to one terrible detail. This dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's Berenice brings a Gothic tale of obsession, unreliable memory, and bodily dread to Weekly Spooky. The secluded family home offers little protection from a mind that cannot release its chosen object. Hear Poe's first-person account unfold toward a discovery the narrator himself struggles to understand. What can an obsession make someone overlook—and what might it make him do?

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34 min
May 29, 2025 Valmont: The Black Raven Chronicles — Chapter 1: Resurrection in Black Raven
Afraig Valmont wakes bloodied and bound in an interrogation room, facing questions about a resurrection he cannot explain. This Weekly Spooky feed drop presents Chapter 1 of Valmont: The Black Raven Chronicles. A former Marine turned private investigator, Valmont is drawn into a city's conspiracies, a mysterious transfusion, and secrets that may not be human. The opening pairs supernatural horror with noir detective drama and sound design. Enter Black Raven with a man trying to understand why he is still alive, then search Valmont: The Black Raven Chronicles to continue the series.

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15 min
May 28, 2025 A Plant Called Death - Terrifying Forest Horror with a Lovecraftian Twist
His wife wants to find a flower called Death. He would rather spend their vacation by a pool. Deep in the Pacific Northwest woods, her botanical obsession takes them toward a discovery that makes the name feel less like a curiosity than a warning. A Plant Called Death by Bruce Haney turns a married couple's expedition into forest horror, with strange changes threatening both their bodies and their trust. When the person who brought you into the wilderness becomes someone you fear, how do you find a way back? Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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49 min
May 26, 2025 Monthly Spooky | Murder by Mushroom, Haunted Dudleytown, and Eerie Disappearances
Erin Patterson's death cap mushroom trial and Dudleytown, Connecticut, lead the May 2025 Monthly Spooky. Henrique and Michelle discuss the Australian poisoning allegations as the case unfolded, then explore how an abandoned settlement acquired its cursed-town legend. Graffiti naming missing toddler William Tyrrell adds another mystery. Across true crime, paranormal storytelling, and conversation, the hosts consider how incomplete information and repeated stories shape public fear. Hear the headlines in context. April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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2 hr 26 min
May 25, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | Crystal Gazer — Fortune Tellers, a Cursed Bell and Deadly Plans
A wealthy man sees his own murder inside a fortune teller's crystal ball. Can Augustus Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, untangle the vision before it comes true? The Crystal Gazer, adapted from Jacques Futrelle, opens this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection, followed by Premonition, Borrowed Future, and Death Is the Judge. Over two hours of vintage radio mystery and suspense bring together apparent second sight, dangerous schemes, and a cursed Chinese bell. Follow a detective's test of the supernatural—and people willing to gamble with the future.

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2 hr 7 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…