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

April 14, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | The Smile: A Giant Face over a Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse
A gigantic smile hangs over a Chesapeake Bay lighthouse, and the writer watching it believes it is draining his life. Bill Fenchurch summons his estranged wife Grace to the isolated refuge, where even his skeptical uncle can see the impossible shape. Unknown Broadcast presents G. Frederick Lewis’s “The Smile,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama of maritime danger and psychological dread. Bill grows weaker while Grace searches for an explanation beyond the lighthouse window. Is the face an omen, an obsession, or something the bay itself can explain?

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49 min
April 12, 2024 Do You Even Movie? | Dead of Winter (1987) Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall
An audition at a snowbound mansion promises a struggling actress her big break in “Dead of Winter” (1987). Instead, the role comes with secrets she may not survive. Henrique Couto and David Denoyer discuss Arthur Penn’s Hitchcock-like thriller, with Mary Steenburgen in three roles alongside Roddy McDowall and Jan Rubes. They discuss its betrayals and escalating threats with full spoilers. Do You Even Movie? turns a cozy winter watch into a conversation about performance, deception and the danger of being cast as someone else.

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1 hr 13 min
April 10, 2024 The Last Flight Out — A Stranger’s Grief Aboard a Haunted Flight
A stranger’s memories make an ordinary flight feel increasingly impossible in Charles Campbell’s “The Last Flight Out.” Sheila Baker boards Delta Flight 752 from Atlanta to Seattle and meets elderly Otis Thornton, whose family history carries a grief he cannot set down. As turbulence shakes the cabin over the Cascades, his story and the journey begin to converge. This supernatural aviation tale combines the intimacy of a conversation between seatmates with the terror of losing control far above the ground. What has Otis brought aboard that cannot stay in the past?

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38 min
April 08, 2024 Terrifying & True | Good Hart Murders: The Robison Family, Joseph Scolaro & a Case Never Tried
Six members of the Robison family were killed at their Good Hart cottage in 1968, but the case never reached trial. Terrifying & True follows the delayed discovery beside Lake Michigan and the investigation into Richard Robison’s business dealings. Financial questions, firearms evidence and conflicting accounts focused attention on employee Joseph Scolaro III, who was never charged in the family’s deaths. The episode examines the divide between investigators’ confidence and a case that produced no verdict. What kept the evidence from becoming a prosecution? We're telling that story tonight.

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19 min
April 07, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | The Sand Castle — A Beachside Ritual and a Family’s Hidden Grief
A young woman builds the same sandcastle every day, then lets the tide erase it. Retired teacher Jeremy Denham meets Maureen Hart while birdwatching at an island sanctuary and begins to sense the grief behind her ritual. Unknown Broadcast presents Elspeth Eric’s “The Sand Castle,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater psychological drama about memory, bereavement and a family’s long silence. Shorebirds, a missing flag and a beach remembered from childhood draw Jeremy toward a loss Maureen cannot leave behind. What does rebuilding the castle allow her to keep?

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48 min
April 05, 2024 Old West Horror & Historical Mysteries — Calamity Jane vs. Dracula, Ashland & Poe
Calamity Jane faces Dracula in a collection that crosses historical true crime, Gothic satire and weird Western horror. Five segments include the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, both parts of John Oak Dalton’s “Calamity Jane vs. Dracula,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” and Dan Wilder’s “Satan’s Shotgun.” Hear a Kentucky murder investigation, vampires in Deadwood and a gunslinger’s infernal revenge alongside Poe’s unsettling military hero. A two-hour collection pairs frontier monsters with real criminal history and Poe’s grotesque humor.

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2 hr 3 min
April 03, 2024 Horton’s New Diary — A Cursed Journal Makes Every Wish Real
A bullied teenager discovers that his new diary can rewrite reality in Rob Fields’s “Horton’s New Diary.” Richie Horton wants relief from school torment and a chance at a better life. The journal from Tinker’s delivers, but its answers twist ordinary wishes into obsession and violence. When people around him begin changing, Richie must find a way to stop a story that keeps writing itself into their lives. This Strickfield cursed-object tale turns private teenage fantasies into consequences no one else remembers choosing. Some thoughts are safer left off the page.

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24 min
April 01, 2024 Terrifying & True | Mary Morris Murders: Two Houston Women, Four Days & an Unsolved Mystery
Two Houston-area women named Mary Morris were murdered four days apart in October 2000. Was their shared name a clue or a coincidence? Terrifying & True examines the deaths of Mary Lou Morris and Mary McGinnis Morris, the phone calls surrounding the cases and the theory that a hired killer targeted the wrong woman. That explanation remains unproved, and the episode follows the gaps between suspicion and evidence. Two families lost someone; a memorable theory did not give either of them an answer. What, if anything, connects the murders? We're telling that story tonight.

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17 min
March 31, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | In Fear and Trembling: Mary Astor in a Mansion Mystery of Jealousy and Murder
Mary Astor plays a woman whose nightmares begin to resemble a murder plan in “In Fear and Trembling.” Lucia fears that her husband Gilbert and half-sister Beverly want her dead. A bitter medicine, an absent housekeeper and the isolation of a seaside mansion give every reassurance a darker meaning. Unknown Broadcast presents J. Donald Wilson’s Suspense drama, where jealousy and foreboding make the household difficult to trust. This Gothic crime mystery asks whether Lucia is recognizing a real threat—or whether fear has made the evidence mean something else.

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33 min
March 29, 2024 10 Ghost Stories — Haunted Houses, Restless Spirits & Cursed Technology
Ten ghost stories bring nearly four hours of haunted places, restless spirits and cursed technology. Featured tales include “The Spirit of Langley Pond,” “Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s,” “The Dead Thing Under the House,” “Ghosts in the Machine” and “Cry Baby Bridge,” alongside five more hauntings. Charles Campbell, L. F. Falconer, David O’Hanlon, Rob Fields, A.N. Onimus, Dennis Freeman, Shane Migliavacca, Joe Solmo and Dan Wilder turn familiar homes, screens and local legends into places where the dead still have unfinished business. Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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3 hr 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…