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

March 10, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | The Old Ones are Hard to Kill: Deathbed Confession and a Dangerous New Boarder
An elderly landlady hears a dying boarder confess to murder—and soon has another tenant asking careful questions. Ada Canby would prefer to stay out of police business, but the confession may free a man who has spent years in prison. Unknown Broadcast presents “The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill,” a CBS Radio Mystery Theater mystery about kindness, curiosity and an underestimated woman. Her new boarder seems charming and helpful. The more he wants to know about the dead man, the less comfortable her own house becomes. Can Ada discover what he wants before he knows what she heard?

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45 min
March 08, 2024 The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe — Full Gothic Short Story Audiobook
An epidemic drives a frightened narrator to a cottage beside the Hudson River, where he sees a creature of impossible size. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Sphinx” turns a quiet retreat into a nightmare of perception: death reports fill the visitor’s thoughts, and a skull-marked shape seems to descend the distant hillside. His host sees reason for a different explanation. This complete Gothic short-story reading explores how isolation and dread can distort what appears directly before our eyes. Is the landscape hiding a monster, or is fear changing the scale of the world?

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15 min
March 06, 2024 Catching a Buzz — A Viral Dare and a Flesh-Eating Fly Infestation
Strange flies swarm Kohler after Halloween, and a reckless candy-snorting dare gives them a way inside. David O’Hanlon’s “Catching a Buzz” follows babysitter Clarrisa Hart and a town facing far more than an ordinary insect problem. Wounds become breeding grounds, animals suffer and a shadowy figure appears wherever the swarm gathers. This parasitic body-horror story combines a viral challenge, gruesome infestation and a possible supernatural plague. Cold weather should bring relief from flies. In Kohler, it may only make them more desperate for somewhere warm.

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39 min
March 04, 2024 Terrifying & True | Junko Furuta — The Kidnapping, Murder, and Sentences That Outraged Japan
Junko Furuta was seventeen when she was abducted in 1988 and held captive for weeks before her murder. Terrifying & True examines the investigation, the failures that left her without help and the juvenile sentences that sparked anger in Japan. Written by Morgan Moore, this episode keeps Junko’s life and the people responsible in view while exploring the case’s lasting impact. The horror extends beyond the perpetrators to the opportunities for intervention that were missed. How did so many chances to help pass without bringing her to safety? We're telling that story tonight.

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20 min
March 03, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | One Hundred in the Dark: A Stolen Sapphire and a Clubroom Test of Trust
A sapphire ring disappears at a supper party, and the hostess offers the thief one hundred counts of darkness to return it. Unknown Broadcast presents Owen Johnson’s “One Hundred in the Dark,” a Suspense adaptation built around an apparently simple social mystery. A clubroom debate about unsolved crimes leads into a gathering where every guest has something to lose by being suspected. No one needs to move very far; everyone has time to listen. This vintage detective puzzle turns a polite attempt to avoid scandal into a test of friendship, pride and trust.

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33 min
March 01, 2024 Horror 421 Interviews Henrique Couto — Weekly Spooky & Independent Filmmaking
How do you keep making horror when the budget is small and the release schedule never stops? Charles Campbell turns the microphone on Weekly Spooky creator Henrique Couto in this Horror 421 interview. Their conversation explores independent filmmaking, podcast production and the work behind bringing scary stories to an audience. Henrique discusses the projects competing for his time and the practical choices that keep them moving. A creator conversation for listeners curious about the voice behind Weekly Spooky and the relationship between making movies and making audio horror.

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1 hr 4 min
February 28, 2024 Till Death Do Us Part: Whitney Mirren’s Cursed Bouquet & Red Wedding Revenge
A Strickfield wedding becomes a supernatural reckoning when betrayal follows the bride down the aisle. In Rob Fields’s “Till Death Do Us Part,” Whitney Mirren reaches her ceremony with secrets surrounding her fiancé and family. A blood-red bouquet turns vows of devotion into something far harder to escape. This ghost-bride horror story mixes infidelity, possession and a wedding party trapped with the consequences of its own behavior. The flowers are beautiful, the doors are closing, and the promise to stay together may last much longer than anyone intended.

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25 min
February 26, 2024 Monthly Spooky | Valentine's Gifts Gone Wrong, Mothman and Roasted Groundhog!
Mothman shares the crypt with disastrous Valentine’s gifts and some very strange headlines in Monthly Spooky’s February 2024 conversation. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore Point Pleasant’s winged-figure legend, an Alabama mother’s unusual twin delivery and a Florida lawsuit involving an exploding toilet. Romantic expectations, paranormal claims and roasted-groundhog talk give the hosts plenty to question. Cryptid folklore and romantic disasters offer several reasons to be glad your own day was ordinary.

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2 hr 6 min
February 25, 2024 Unknown Broadcast | The Devil in the Summer House: Impossible Murder, Ghost Letter and Recorded Confession
A letter apparently sent by someone long dead leads an attorney back to a murder concealed for twenty-five years. Unknown Broadcast presents John Dickson Carr’s “The Devil in the Summer House,” a Suspense mystery framed by an abandoned Hudson estate and a storm. Joe Parker and Captain Burke find an old phonograph record promising to explain the shooting once accepted as suicide. A garden, a house full of witnesses and a recorded voice become pieces of an impossible crime. What did everyone hear that afternoon—and what did nobody actually see?

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34 min
February 21, 2024 Terror on Your Radio Dial: Two Boys Contact a Ghost Through an Old Radio
Two boys tune an old radio to a dead man’s voice in Bruce Haney’s “Terror on Your Radio Dial.” In 1992 Boring, Oregon, Josh finds a fellow ghost hunter in Mike, whose family has moved into the notorious Gitter House. A strange greeting through the radio offers the evidence Josh has always wanted. Now the boys plan to record it with a cassette player and a borrowed tape. This haunted-house story turns childhood curiosity and analog static into a dangerous experiment. Some signals are easier to find than to silence once they know you are listening.

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27 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…