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

August 22 4 Scary Stories | Serial Killers, Witches, Werewolves & Supernatural Monsters
A robbery interrupts a witch's ritual, a seductive stranger demands murder, and a criminal job brings a giant gummy worm into play. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn bad decisions into supernatural traps, from cursed brothers to a blizzard pursuit of Strickfield's Queen of Hearts serial killer. Crime and Bedevilment, Roxie, Sick With Rage, and The Worm Has Turned deliver over 90 minutes of witchcraft, monstrous hunger, and revenge. Stories by Joe Solmo, Charles Campbell, Rob Fields, and David O'Hanlon. When the criminals meet something worse than themselves, who gets out alive?

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1 hr 43 min
August 21 Cutting Deep into Horror | Tonight She Comes (2016): Blood Rituals & Body Horror
Tonight She Comes (2016) starts with a blood-covered killer and a cabin in the woods, then plunges into an occult ritual with its own grotesque rules. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the slasher on Cutting Deep into Horror, tracing its blood runes, absurd characters, gory effects, and Friday the 13th Part VII homage. They also recall discovering it through Movies at the Asylum and explore how Felicity changes the story's center of gravity. Full spoilers, including the ending: find out why this splatter comedy's most revolting choices may be more deliberate than they seem.

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1 hr 40 min
August 20 Clown Panic 2016: When Weird Experiences Become Urban Legends | Thursday Thrills
The 2016 killer clown panic began with reports from South Carolina woods and spread into threats, hoaxes, and copycat encounters. Ten years later, Henrique Couto follows the Greenville County sightings through news coverage and social media to arrests, school scares, and Penn State's student clown hunt. Thursday Thrills separates the unsubstantiated earliest claims from the real consequences of viral fear. Police could not confirm those first woodland clowns, yet people elsewhere began putting on masks. How did a story about hidden strangers become a nightmare people acted out in public?

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19 min
August 19 The Darkness Under Clear Lake: A Sunken Relic Possesses a Missing Swimmer
Brian disappears beneath Clear Lake and returns clutching a carved relic, his body waterlogged and his strength no longer human. In Bruce Haney's The Darkness Under Clear Lake, a camping trip with Michelle and friends becomes a fight against possession and something waiting underwater. The object will not let Brian go, and getting it away from him may be the survivors' only chance. This Weekly Spooky horror story blends a cursed artifact, body horror, and a lakeside reunion poisoned by old tensions. Michelle has to stop what he brought ashore without becoming the next person to touch it.

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40 min
August 18 This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf
Blade, The Exorcist III, and An American Werewolf in London lead This Week in Horror History for August 17–23, 2026. Revisit Wesley Snipes' Daywalker, William Peter Blatty's supernatural detective story, the home invasion of You're Next, and Rebecca Hall's haunted grief in The Night House. Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps takes the spotlight with alien parasites and undead fraternity brothers. Horror birthdays round out the calendar before Rick Baker's werewolf transformation earns this week's recommendation. Build a watchlist that moves from vampire action to full-moon tragedy.

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24 min
August 17 Terrifying & True | The Pale Crawler: How The Rake Became a Cryptid Legend
The Pale Crawler looks like a creature caught between a human and an animal, but The Rake began as a deliberately written horror story. Terrifying & True traces Operation Crawler, alleged Illinois and Kentucky encounters, and the viral trail-camera images that helped turn creepypasta into cryptid folklore. Misidentified wildlife, pareidolia, sleep paralysis, and staged footage offer ways to examine the claims without treating them as proof. Follow the monster from online fiction to reported woodland sightings, and discover how a shared story can start shaping what people think they see.

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43 min
August 16 Unknown Broadcast | No Boat Comes Back: Classic OTR Mystery
An island promises refuge, but the people arriving bring danger with them. Unknown Broadcast collects four classic old-time radio mysteries: The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island. A trader enters a struggle over power on a Pacific island, a fugitive faces a murderous pursuer, and a weary Marine imagines a world without hunger or war. A hunted killer's passage to Skull Island completes more than two hours of tropical suspense. White beaches and warm water offer little comfort when escape from the mainland means leaving every route home behind.

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2 hr 13 min
August 15 4 Scary Stories | Haunted House, Cursed Object, Serial Killers & Cannibal Monsters
A one-dollar bowl brings home a ghost, and two serial killers choose a family with something monstrous on the menu. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn a first date, a yard-sale bargain, a country dinner, and a party in the woods into deadly mistakes. First Date and Thrifting Fail—We're Now Haunted! lead from a haunted mansion to an object that refuses to stay discarded; The Dinner Guests and Party in the Woods unleash predators with an appetite for human flesh. Stories by Rob Fields, Bruce Haney, Shane Migliavacca, and Joe Solmo. Listen for the moment an invitation becomes a trap.

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1 hr 19 min
August 14 Cryptids Around the Campfire: Werewolf, Bigfoot, Chupacabra & Wendigo | Halloween Marathon
Railroad workers report a werewolf in Defiance, Ohio. Black-Eyed Children ask to come inside. Seven Terrifying & True investigations gather Bigfoot, the Fouke Monster, Chupacabra, Indrid Cold, and more for over three hours of campfire listening. Follow Ohio's Grassman to Salt Fork State Park, trace changing Chupacabra accounts, and explore the UFO lore around Point Pleasant. The Wendigo segment distinguishes Algonquian traditions from later fiction. Reported encounters, hoaxes, and disputed evidence stay in context as each story reveals how a local fear becomes a legend that travels.

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3 hr 32 min
August 13 Jeff the Killer: Origins of the “Go to Sleep” Creepypasta | Thursday Thrills
Jeff the Killer's pale face and 'Go to sleep' became creepypasta shorthand for a nightmare. Thursday Thrills follows the fictional killer's origin stories and the image edits that turned him into internet folklore. Henrique Couto traces Sesseur, GameFuelTV, Japanese image boards, prettyFACE, and the 'White Powder' trail, then examines how a false story about a bullied girl became attached to the face. Jane the Killer and Homicidal Liu show the legend branching into new characters. Explore how altered pictures, conflicting memories, and rumors helped a made-up killer acquire a past.

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20 min

About Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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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…