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

July 26, 2024 Do You Even Movie? | Monster Man (2003): Road-Trip Monster-Truck Horror
Two friends and a hitchhiker find themselves hunted by a monstrous driver in a giant truck in “Monster Man” (2003). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Michael Davis’s road-trip horror comedy, starring Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich and Michael Bailey Smith. They discuss its outrageous stunts, gruesome humor, straight-to-video appeal and memories of catching it on Showtime, with road-trip stories of their own. Do You Even Movie? takes a full-spoiler ride through an early-2000s creature feature where the vehicle is almost as alarming as the man behind the wheel.

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1 hr 25 min
July 24, 2024 Portals Part 4 of 5 — The Team Attacks a Vampire Nuclear Plant
The Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant becomes a battleground as Arial Mirren and her friends fight Mayor Gunter’s vampires. In Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 4,” breaking out of captivity is only the start: the team must stop the machinery that lets this undead Earth raid other worlds. Arial’s emerging powers, Bella’s speed and the Donnerly cousins’ inventions give them a chance, but their first attack may not be enough. Vampire horror and dark-fantasy action drive the penultimate chapter toward a dangerous decision. Begin with Part 1 to follow the complete saga.

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33 min
July 22, 2024 Terrifying & True | Sleep Paralysis: Shadow People, the Old Hag & the Science of REM Sleep
Awake, unable to move and certain someone is beside the bed: sleep paralysis can make a familiar room feel threatening. Terrifying & True explores the overlap between waking awareness and REM sleep, alongside accounts of shadow people, chest pressure and the figure known as the Old Hag. The episode places frightening experiences beside the folklore used to explain them, without treating a sensed presence as proof of a supernatural visitor. Why do these waking nightmares feel so physical—and why do similar figures appear in stories across cultures? We're telling that story tonight.

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21 min
July 21, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | Deadline for Death — A Dead Gangster’s Promise and a Witness in Hiding
A condemned gangster promises that the witness who betrayed him will die within a month of his execution. Sam Rogers knows Johnny Promise’s reputation and hides in a hotel, watching the calendar and suspecting every visitor. Unknown Broadcast presents “Deadline for Death,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater thriller about a threat that seems to survive its maker. A barber’s razor, a new lock and footsteps outside the room turn daily routines into possible assassination attempts. Can Sam outlast the deadline, or has waiting behind a locked door become another kind of trap?

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53 min
July 19, 2024 Beloved Physician by Edgar Allan Poe — A Surviving Poem Fragment for Marie Louise Shew
Edgar Allan Poe’s “Beloved Physician” survives as a fragment honoring the tireless care of Marie Louise Shew. Its brief lines linger on an unsteady pulse, devotion through long hours and the exhaustion of someone who keeps giving. Henrique Couto pairs the reading with a childhood memory of discovering Poe at his school library and carrying that new fascination into a gathering storm. This short literary episode offers a quieter corner of Poe’s work: gratitude, vulnerability and the presence of a caregiver, rather than the machinery of a conventional horror tale.

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4 min
July 17, 2024 Portals Part 3 of 5 — The Dracula Curse That Created Vampire Earth
How did an entire Earth fall to vampires? Imprisoned beneath Strickfield’s nuclear plant, Arial Mirren and her friends begin to learn the answer. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 3” follows Mayor Patrick Gunter’s pursuit of power toward the haunted Carnovasch Estate and a forbidden connection to Dracula. The revelations explain why the captives’ own world is at risk—and why escape alone will not end the threat. This middle chapter blends vampire mythology, political ambition and alternate-world horror. Start with Part 1 before entering the darkest history of vampire Strickfield.

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35 min
July 16, 2024 Terrifying & True | The Shrink Next Door: Marty Markowitz & Dr. Isaac Herschkopf
Marty Markowitz sought a psychiatrist’s help, then found Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf occupying more and more of his life. Terrifying & True examines the real story behind “The Shrink Next Door,” following a relationship that crossed from therapy into control over family ties, money, work and a home. The episode explores isolation, professional authority and the difficult process of recognizing manipulation by someone trusted to provide care. How can years of small concessions leave a person feeling like a guest in his own life—and what does it take to reclaim it? We're telling that story tonight.

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20 min
July 14, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | The Boiling Sea: An Undersea Volcano Traps a Wartime Cargo Ship in the Pacific
A cargo ship crossing the wartime Pacific encounters a threat rising from beneath the sea. Strange heat and violent water herald an undersea eruption, leaving the crew surrounded by steam, volcanic debris and an ocean too dangerous to enter. Unknown Broadcast presents Vincent McHugh’s “The Boiling Sea,” an Escape adventure that turns geological catastrophe into maritime survival suspense. Staying aboard may be their only chance, but the vessel must withstand conditions no ordinary voyage prepares them for. There is no safe shore in sight, and the water itself has become the enemy.

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33 min
July 12, 2024 To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe: Maria Clemm, Virginia & Love Beyond Death
Love for a mother-in-law becomes a tribute to a lost wife in Edgar Allan Poe’s “To My Mother.” Addressed to Maria Clemm, the poem honors the woman who was both Poe’s aunt and Virginia’s mother. Its intimate argument gives the word “mother” a meaning shaped by devotion, care and the person they both loved. This brief spoken-word reading reveals tenderness beneath Poe’s familiar association with terror, inviting listeners into a poem about family and love that survives bereavement. A quiet literary interlude for anyone drawn to the emotional life behind the Gothic stories.

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3 min
July 10, 2024 Portals Part 2 of 5 — A Rescue Mission Across Vampire Strickfield
A giant vampire bat has carried Arial Mirren into the night, and her friends must reach her across the rooftops of an undead Strickfield. Rob Fields’s “Portals: Part 2” turns a rescue into a larger mission: find what is opening the doors between worlds before more people are taken as food. Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren and the others bring very different abilities to a town where the mayor commands an army of vampires. This dark-fantasy chapter expands the team’s fight beyond survival toward the source of the invasion. Begin with Part 1 for the full adventure.

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33 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…