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, 2024 Do You Even Movie? | Humanoids from the Deep (1980): Roger Corman’s Sea-Monster Horror
Sea monsters attack a California fishing town in “Humanoids from the Deep” (1980), the opening pick for Do You Even Movie?’s Roger Corman tribute. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Barbara Peeters’s creature feature, its controversial production and Corman’s exploitation legacy. Doug McClure, Ann Turkel and Vic Morrow face a coastal nightmare where the creatures’ intentions make the violence especially disturbing. David’s birthday selection comes with full spoilers and discussion of sexual assault, child deaths and animal deaths.

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1 hr 15 min
June 05, 2024 Cesspool: A Love Story — A Swimming Pool Monster Turns Summer Deadly
Swimming pools become feeding grounds in David O’Hanlon’s “Cesspool: A Love Story.” Pool cleaner Andre expects summer work and a chance with Lila, but a coworker’s death points toward something moving through the water beneath Barrister Bend. As a tentacled predator reaches the neighborhood pools, a backyard party becomes the worst place to gather. This gory aquatic creature feature mixes teenage comedy, romance and a race to get out of the water. Andre knows how to clean a pool. Nothing in the job prepared him for what has started using it to hunt.

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45 min
June 03, 2024 Terrifying & True | Oak Island Money Pit: Treasure Hunters, Flood Tunnels & Natural Sinkholes
Oak Island’s Money Pit has kept treasure hunters digging through flooded shafts, disputed clues and increasingly elaborate theories. Terrifying & True explores the Nova Scotia mystery, from the popular story of the first discovery to searches for pirate treasure and the idea of engineered flood tunnels. The episode weighs those claims against natural explanations and the long human cost of pursuing something no one can clearly identify. Each excavation adds another layer to the island’s story. Is there a hidden fortune below—or a mystery sustained by the search itself? We're telling that story tonight.

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21 min
June 02, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | No Rest for the Dead — A Doctor’s Death and Calls from a Corpse
A doctor’s death draws Grace Denning into a mystery involving her father’s medical-research agreement and a caller who should already be dead. Unknown Broadcast presents “No Rest for the Dead,” an Inner Sanctum drama in which a missing letter opener, a medical-school corpse and suspicious visitors complicate an apparent accident. Grace follows the clues from a funeral home toward a darkened office, unsure whether she is being helped or manipulated. This vintage murder mystery gives the familiar question of who benefits a stranger companion: who is making those telephone calls?

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28 min
May 31, 2024 Murder Mansion — Escape-Room Detective Bethany Martinson Trapped in Grimm Manor
An escape-room expert seeks shelter from a July storm and finds a mansion full of puzzles that can kill. Rob Fields’s complete four-part “Murder Mansion” traps Bethany Martinson inside Grimm Manor with rival detectives, a hidden fortune and rooms designed to punish the curious. When death interrupts the household, her talent for solving games becomes a very practical survival skill. This feature-length Strickfield mystery blends haunted-house horror with locked-room suspense. Bethany has beaten difficult escape rooms before. This one offers no comfortable way to quit.

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1 hr 39 min
May 29, 2024 Sin: Laney Listor’s Blood Ritual to Free the Demon Goddess Hellweaver
A hidden book offers a violent runaway a new scripture—and a demon goddess willing to answer. In Rob Fields’s “Sin,” Laney Listor uses Strickfield Academy as a refuge until an occult discovery draws her toward Hellweaver, imprisoned in the realm of Perdition. The promise of power comes with rituals that demand far more than belief. This explicit supernatural horror story explores devotion, corrupted authority and the making of a dangerous new figure in the Strickfield universe. Laney already knows how to hurt people. What might she become with something monstrous guiding her?

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41 min
May 27, 2024 Monthly Spooky | Haunted Highways, Killer Worms and Haunted Apartments!
America’s haunted roads turn an ordinary drive into a tour of roadside legends in Monthly Spooky’s May 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle also explore unsettling buildings, haunted apartments and a report involving dangerous worms. Local ghost stories and strange-news claims give the hosts room for curiosity, skepticism and macabre humor as the conversation moves from places people fear to places they still have to live and travel. An archive visit to the crypt with plenty to think about on the drive home.

Michelle’s zombie comic: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ch...

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2 hr 33 min
May 26, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | Life Ends at Midnight: A $1,500 Debt, Life Insurance and a Murder Deadline
Walter Bates needs $1,500 before midnight, but his mother has barely enough to keep the household going. An elderly boarder’s life-insurance policy gives him a terrible idea. Unknown Broadcast presents Robert Tallman’s “Life Ends at Midnight,” a Suspense crime drama starring Fay Bainter, with Tony Barrett as Walter. A family’s financial desperation becomes a race to turn someone else’s death into money. The clock keeps moving while Walter tries to make an impossible deadline seem manageable. This vintage noir story follows a man whose solution may be more dangerous than the debt.

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33 min
May 24, 2024 Do You Even Movie? | Urban Legend (1998): Campus Folklore Slasher
A campus killer turns urban legends into murder methods in “Urban Legend” (1998). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Jamie Blanks’s slasher, starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart and Jared Leto. They compare favorite folklore, discuss the late-1990s horror boom after “Scream” and celebrate the film’s appeal as a late-night cable discovery. Do You Even Movie? brings full spoilers to Pendleton University, where stories students have laughed off become reasons to check the back seat. Familiar warnings become deadly when someone acts them out.

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1 hr 49 min
May 22, 2024 I Never Believed the Stories About the Abandoned Mining Town. Until... — A Park Ranger’s Nightmare
A missing family’s camper leads a Nevada park ranger toward a mining town everyone is told to avoid. Michael Kelso’s “I’m a Park Ranger Who Never Believed the Stories About the Abandoned Mining Town. Until...” follows blood, strange footprints and a cry for help into ruins that are not empty. With his radio failing, the ranger must decide how far to follow the trail. This wilderness creature-horror story turns a search for stranded visitors into a nightmare beneath a forgotten settlement.

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40 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…