Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

byHenrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror Expert

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Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales!Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included.Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ea...

Episodes(40 episodes)

Undead Triange: Undead Love, High School Betrayal & Zombie Flesh-Eating Payback

A teen zombie horror story erupts into bloody chaos when a wild new girl at Strickfield High becomes the target of jealousy, murder, and undead revenge. In “Undead Triangle” by Rob Fields, Meredith Ridley is strange, fearless, reckless, and impossible to ignore—but when Lita Hallaway decides Meredith has crossed the wrong line, a deadly rivalry turns into something much worse than high school drama.After a brutal attack in the Backwoods of Strickfield, Meredith rises from the lake changed forever: undead, hungry, and ready to settle the score. But she is not the only m...

Published: May 13, 2026Duration: 30m 53s

This Week in Horror History | Firestarter, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla & 28 Weeks Later — May 11–17

This Week in Horror History for May 11–17 brings together a loaded week of horror movie anniversaries, Stephen King adaptations, Universal Monsters, zombie outbreak horror, slasher sequels, kaiju blockbusters, and modern home-invasion terror.Inside this episode:• May 11, 1936 — Dracula’s DaughterUniversal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula’s legacy into a chilly story of blood, inheritance, repression, and the desperate hope that evil might be cured.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.<br...

Published: May 12, 2026Duration: 22m 38s

Terrifying & True | Setagaya Family Murders: Japan’s Most Chilling Unsolved True Crime Case

The Setagaya Family Murders remain one of Japan’s most disturbing and baffling unsolved true crime cases: a brutal family killing, an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence, and a killer who somehow vanished anyway.On December 30, 2000, in Setagaya, Tokyo, the Miyazawa family — Mikio, Yasuko, Niina, and Rei — spent what should have been an ordinary night at home before New Year’s. Sometime between late night and the next morning, an intruder entered from the park side of the house and murdered all four mem...

Published: May 11, 2026Duration: 30m 47s

Unknown Broadcast | Black Magic, Killer Cargo & Classic Radio Terror: Four Old-Time Horror Stories

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying a midnight cargo of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, supernatural mystery, occult terror, and dreadful little accidents that refuse to stay buried.Tonight’s transmission gathers four vintage nightmares from the shadowed side of the dial: black magic on a college campus, death crawling loose aboard a ship, a lonely woman’s diary curdling into terror, and a fatal road accident that becomes something far more twisted. The host is here. The tea is w...

Published: May 10, 2026Duration: 2h 10m 29s

Backwoods Horror and Road Trip Nightmares: 4 Scary Stories of Gas Stations, Ozark Terror, and Dead-End Towns

Backwoods horror, road trip terror, gas station nightmares, isolated towns, Ozark creatures, and middle-of-nowhere survival collide in this brutal collection of four creepy horror stories. If you love roadside dread, rural secrets, desperate escapes, strange towns, and stories where one wrong turn changes everything, this episode is built to leave dirt under your nails and headlights in your nightmares.Tonight’s lineup takes you from a father-daughter road trip that veers into pure nightmare, to a security job in a town where something ancient is waiting beneath a church, to a vicious Ozark creature feature soaked in blood an...

Published: May 9, 2026Duration: 2h 13m 22s

Best of 2025 | Typhoid Mary: The Shocking True Story of New York’s Silent Killer

Typhoid Mary: The Shocking True Story of New York’s Silent Killer is one of the most eerie, gripping, and unexpectedly timely episodes of Terrifying & True. In this Best of 2025 revisit, we return to the haunting real case of Mary Mallon, the woman history would remember as Typhoid Mary—an apparently healthy cook linked to deadly typhoid fever outbreaks across New York and Long Island.At the center of this unforgettable historical mystery is a terrifying idea: what if the person spreading disease shows no s...

Published: May 8, 2026Duration: 55m 30s

Concrete Evidence: A Creepy Summer Job Horror Story About a House with Secrets

A strange man. A summer job that sounds too easy. A locked shed. A half-built pink concrete house. And three teenage friends who slowly realize they may be helping a killer build something far more horrifying than a home.In this gruesome and darkly funny episode of Weekly Spooky, a group of broke teenagers near Toronto, Ontario are desperate for summer work when they meet Frank Chopski — a bizarre, wild-eyed stranger with a rusty truck, a creepy little pink teddy bear, and an offer that seems impossible to refuse. Ten dollars an ho...

Published: May 6, 2026Duration: 33m 53s

This Week in Horror History | Friday the 13th, House of Wax & The Burning Camp Slashers — May 4–10

This Week in Horror History for May 4–10 dives into a killer week of horror movie history, slasher movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror comics, survival horror games, and classic monster adventure. This episode revisits the bloody legacy of Friday the 13th, the 2005 remake of House of Wax, the serial-killer comic-book mystery Nailbiter, the retro survival-horror game Crow Country, and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight: The Burning, one of the most brutal and underrated 1980s camp slasher movies.Inside this episode:May...

Published: May 5, 2026Duration: 22m 17s

Terrifying & True | The Fox Sisters Haunting: Behind Spiritualism’s Most Famous Ghost Hoax

The Fox Sisters, Hydesville, and the birth of modern Spiritualism began with something terrifyingly simple: a knock in the dark.In 1848 Hydesville, New York, two young sisters, Maggie and Kate Fox, claimed they could communicate with a mysterious spirit inside their family farmhouse. What started as eerie nighttime rappings soon became a national obsession, drawing neighbors, skeptics, journalists, believers, and grieving families desperate for proof that death was not the end. The phenomenon helped ignite one of the most influential supernatural movements in American history: ...

Published: May 4, 2026Duration: 39m 18s

Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Fate, Prison, Murder, and Madness

Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, psychological terror, crime, fate, and uncanny dread. This transmission begins with The Lady Was a Tiger, a tale of false safety, hidden danger, and a man caught in a tightening web of murder, espionage, and betrayal, where home itself starts to feel like a trap.🐅 The Lady Was a Tiger — What seems safe turns lethal, what feels like home becomes a prison, and danger wears a human face...

Published: May 3, 2026Duration: 2h 23m 54s

Aliens, Time Rips, Cult Books, and Multiverse Terror: 4 Cosmic Horror Stories of Apocalypse and Weird Chaos

Cosmic horror, alien invasion nightmares, interdimensional warfare, occult terror, time-travel chaos, and apocalypse-driven weird fiction crash together in this wildly twisted Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love reality-breaking horror stories, ancient evil, multiverse destruction, cult books, and strange creatures from beyond human understanding, this collection delivers a full dose of bizarre, blood-soaked nightmare fuel.Tonight’s lineup moves from a New Year’s Eve time-rip disaster into a funeral where killer clowns play by rules all their own, then into a last-ditch battle to stop multiversal annihilation, and finally down a rain-slick spiral of crime, occult corruption, and a mo...

Published: May 2, 2026Duration: 2h 13m 23s

Cutting Deep into Horror | One Cut of the Dead (2017): Japan’s Genius Zombie Horror Comedy, Filmmaking Chaos & Cult Movie Heart

What starts as a scrappy Japanese zombie movie quickly becomes one of the most inventive, hilarious, and unexpectedly heartfelt horror-comedies of the last decade.This week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into One Cut of the Dead (2017), Shinichiro Ueda’s brilliant cult favorite about zombies, chaos, low-budget filmmaking, and the beautiful disaster of trying to make art when everything is falling apart.At first glance, One Cut of the Dead looks like a strange, messy, low-budget zombie movie. But stick with it, because th...

Published: May 1, 2026Duration: 1h 41m 48s

COME ON IN: The Door Beneath the House - Secret Tunnel Horror Story

A creepy old house. A terrifying basement. A hidden Underground Railroad tunnel beneath the floor. And one frightened boy who makes the worst possible choice: he decides to see where it leads.In this terrifying episode of Weekly Spooky, Curtis Tucker is afraid of the unfinished basement in his family’s old home — the cold concrete, the rotting doors, the flickering light, and the strange wooden shed tucked away in the corner. When his father reveals that the shed hides a tunnel once used as part of the Underground Railroad, Curtis’s fear turns...

Published: Apr 29, 2026Duration: 38m 13s

This Week in Horror History | Godzilla, The Craft & Found Footage Horror History (April 27 - May 3)

This Week in Horror History for April 27–May 3 dives into a packed week of horror movie history, horror release date anniversaries, cult horror films, monster movies, vampire cinema, Stephen King adaptations, teen witch horror, found-footage horror, fake true crime, and killer-plant sci-fi horror — from Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956), The Hunger (1983), Creepshow 2 (1987), and The Craft (1996) to this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007). If you love classic horror movies, ’80s horror, ’90s horror, gothic vampire films, anthology horror, cult classics, scary movie anniversaries, horror trivia, an...

Published: Apr 28, 2026Duration: 19m 49s

Monthly Spooky | America’s Most Haunted Lake? Ghost Stories, Dark History & Bizarre Spooky News

Lake Lanier’s haunted history takes center stage in this episode of Monthly Spooky, as we dive into one of America’s most infamous bodies of water: a man-made Georgia lake built over abandoned communities, graves, tragedy, folklore, and decades of eerie legends. Is Lake Lanier truly haunted, or is its chilling reputation the result of real history, preventable danger, and stories too disturbing to sink quietly beneath the surface?Inside this episode:• Lake Lanier’s dark origins — flooded towns, displaced communities, cemeteries, and the unsettling history behind one of the...

Published: Apr 27, 2026Duration: 2h 24m 29s

Unknown Broadcast | Five Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Love, Murder, and Suspense

Unknown Broadcast slips back into the Weekly Spooky feed with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, murder, supernatural bargains, gothic dread, crime, and dark escape drama. This episode opens with Mother Love, a chilling Radio Mystery Theater tale in which Paula Richards, devastated by the certainty that she can never bear a child, turns to a fortune teller and dealer in the macabre for a bargain that promises hope at a terrible price.🕯️ Mother Love — Desperation, longing, and the supernatural curl together in a story...

Published: Apr 26, 2026Duration: 2h 22m 4s

Cryptids, Chupacabras, Demon Dogs, and Future Monsters: 4 Scary Horror Stories of Beasts and Survival

Cryptid horror, monster stories, demon dogs, chupacabra terror, survival horror, and futuristic creature nightmares collide in this brutal Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love creature features, deadly folklore beasts, wilderness horror, paranormal monsters, and stories where something inhuman is hunting in the dark, this episode is stacked with claws, teeth, blood, and pure nightmare energy.Tonight’s lineup runs from a summoned hellhound with murder on its leash, to a terrifying mystery stalking the African wild, to a school trip that turns into a face-to-face encounter with El Chupacabra, and finally to a far-future wasteland filled with mutant mo...

Published: Apr 25, 2026Duration: 3h 19m 27s

Best of 2025: Richard Speck: The True Story of the 1966 Chicago Nurse Murders

Richard Speck and the 1966 Chicago nurse murders remain one of the most horrifying chapters in Chicago true crimehistory. In this Best of 2025 revisit, Terrifying & True returns to one of its most gripping and disturbing deep dives: the night eight young student nurses were terrorized and murdered inside their South Side townhouse, and the long shadow that crime cast over America.This episode follows the full arc of the case, from Speck’s violent early life and downward spiral into crime, to the sweltering July night that ended in unimaginable br...

Published: Apr 24, 2026Duration: 1h 35m 7s

Chemically Imbalanced: A (Sort-of) Love Story - Love Potion Gone Wrong Horror Story

A love potion experiment goes horribly wrong in this twisted college horror story set at Strickfield University, where obsession, jealousy, and chemistry turn into a bloody nightmare. When a synthetic hormone transforms a brilliant student into a ravenous, lovesick monster, one desperate guy finds himself trapped in a science building with the very woman he’s been chasing for years—and now she wants him in the worst possible way.This episode blends mad science horror, infected romance, body horror, and dark comedy into a fa...

Published: Apr 22, 2026Duration: 28m 29s

This Week in Horror History | Silent Hill, Stephen King, George Romero, Cult Horror & More (April 20–26)

This Week in Horror History for April 20–26 dives into a packed week of horror release dates, anniversaries, cult favorites, and modern genre hits—from Vacancy (2007) and Silent Hill (2006) to The Hand (1981), Until Dawn (2025), and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, The Dark Half (1993). If you love horror movie history, release date anniversaries, cult horror films, Stephen King adaptations, George A. Romero, video game horror movies, and hidden gems worth revisiting, this episode is built for you. Inside...

Published: Apr 21, 2026Duration: 18m 21s