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

May 23, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | Carrie (1976) – The Prom Horror Masterpiece
Carrie White's prom night remains one of horror cinema's most painful catastrophes. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Carrie (1976), Brian De Palma's Stephen King adaptation starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. They discuss De Palma's camera choices, Carrie's mother, the cruelty of the prom sequence, and the film's appeal as a first step into horror. Their prom memories join a tribute to Priscilla Pointer in the May remembrance series. Telekinesis, religious fear, and teenage humiliation drive this full-spoiler conversation. More Do You Even Movie?: https://doyouevenmovie.com/

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2 hr 22 min
May 21, 2025 Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp - Terrifying Southern Cryptid Horror
Garrett Jenkins hates Dead Ore Swamp, but taking a date to Brackett's Thumb is a local tradition. He and Toni Rising slip away from their graduation party for one last night together—and find out why the swamp's legend endures. Gator Boy of Dead Ore Swamp by David O'Hanlon brings a reptilian threat into a Southern coming-of-age nightmare. The couple's private escape becomes a creature-feature fight for survival, with dark humor and a town's ugly history beneath the water. Some traditions are worth breaking before they break you. April Fool: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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46 min
May 19, 2025 Terrifying & True | The Vanishing of Brandon Swanson — A Minnesota Road Mystery
Brandon Swanson calls his parents after driving into a ditch on a Minnesota road. He walks toward distant lights while his father searches, then the call abruptly ends. Terrifying & True reconstructs the 19-year-old's disappearance on May 14, 2008, the mistaken belief that he was near Lynd, and the search around waterways and rural terrain. The episode examines how a phone conversation offered so much detail yet no clear account of what happened next. It also follows the case's connection to Brandon's Law. Trace the geography and questions behind an enduring missing-person mystery.

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26 min
May 18, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | The Chain & Night Melody — Deadly Letters, Murder Schemes and Greed
A chain letter turns resentment into a dangerous experiment with another person's fear. The Chain joins A Pair of Green Eyes, Night Melody, and Money Money Money in this four-story Unknown Broadcast collection. More than two hours of vintage radio suspense bring ominous messages, greed, desire, and money into the same unsettling evening. In the Suspense tale The Chain, a woman's attempt to pass misfortune onward threatens consequences she cannot control. Hear how an ordinary object or a seemingly small choice can become the thing a character cannot stop thinking about.

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2 hr 12 min
May 16, 2025 Do You Even Movie? | Final Destination (2000) The Fear of Fate – A Tribute to Tony Todd
A premonition saves passengers from a plane disaster, but death keeps finding them. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Final Destination (2000), James Wong's supernatural thriller starring Devon Sawa and Ali Larter. The hosts discuss its origins as an X-Files idea, elaborate death scenes, a removed romance, and Tony Todd's brief but memorable performance. Their tribute to Todd also explores why the film made everyday accidents feel newly threatening. Revisit the opening catastrophe and the rules of a fate that refuses to be cheated. Full spoilers. More: https://doyouevenmovie.com/

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1 hr 58 min
May 14, 2025 I Was Stalked by a Deer-Skull Monster from the Woods
Something with a deer skull for a head is moving beyond the porch of a quiet mountain home. When it starts hunting the person inside, the house becomes a trap. I Was Stalked by a Monster from the Woods by Michael Kelso turns a glimpse at the treeline into a desperate survival story. A skeletal predator closes the distance while the narrator searches for a way to outthink it. Doors and walls may buy time, but how long can they hold against something built to hunt? Author: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Signed April Fool copies: https://weeklyspooky.com/april...!

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30 min
May 12, 2025 Terrifying & True | Annie Börjesson: The Unsolved Death on a Scottish Beach
Annie Börjesson was found dead on a beach at Prestwick, Scotland, in December 2005. Her family questioned the official account and sought answers about her final movements near the airport. Terrifying & True follows the timeline, disputed interpretations of the evidence, and the struggle to obtain records. It also examines cover-up and mistaken-identity theories as claims, without treating them as established explanations. This account centers on the gap between an official conclusion and the questions left with those who knew Annie. What can the surviving record actually tell us?

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53 min
May 11, 2025 Unknown Broadcast | The Silent Horror: Hugh B. Cave’s New Guinea Jungle Nightmare
Painter Tom Dawson flees a betrayal for a remote valley in New Guinea. There, his watch is mistaken for magic, and a village chief threatens to kill him if it stops. Unknown Broadcast presents The Silent Horror, Escape's adaptation of a story by Hugh B. Cave. What began as a gift from Elizabeth becomes the fragile thing keeping Tom alive. As illness makes it harder to keep winding the watch, its ticking turns into a countdown he cannot afford to lose. Hear a vintage radio adventure where a moment of silence could be fatal—and an offer of help is tangled with the fear of trusting again.

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31 min
May 09, 2025 Catholic Hymn by Edgar Allan Poe — Gothic Poetry Dramatic Reading
A voice turns to Mary, Queen of Angels, for guidance through sorrow and darkness. This brief dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's Catholic Hymn, also known as Hymn, offers a quieter encounter with the author of The Raven. Prayer, memory, and the hope of protection give the poem its solemn movement. Listen for the images of light that answer the speaker's hours of care, and for a devotional side of Poe beyond his tales of terror. A three-minute literary interlude for listeners exploring Gothic poetry, nineteenth-century verse, and the emotional range of a familiar writer.

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4 min
May 07, 2025 I Love the Cold — Winter Roadside Entity and Blizzard Transformation Horror
Jerod Styles' late-night rideshare ends off an icy road with an elderly passenger, dead batteries, and a storm that seems to hide someone waiting for them. I Love the Cold by Jonathan Lumpkin turns a blizzard survival story into a frightening invitation to surrender. The car still runs, but phones and other devices fail. A fire reveals shapes in the snow, while a stranger's comforting presence makes the danger harder to resist. Cold, isolation, and unreliable memory close around a driver who needs to keep moving. What if the thing that could kill you feels like the warmth you need?

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29 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…