Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales
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...
Lady Frankenstein Returns: A Vampire Horror Chase (Scary Supernatural Thriller)
Vampire horror story meets supernatural thriller in this scary story of a daylight predator and a mother-daughter escape that turns into a high-speed chase. When Madelyne “Maddy” Donnerly recognizes a towering vampire woman in a parking lot, panic hits fast—because the monster from last winter is back, and she’s moving like she already knows who she wants.
What follows is mall horror, small-town dread, and a desperate run for safety as buried family secrets start clawing their way to the surface. Set in the <...
This Week in Horror History | Nosferatu, Angel Heart, The Mangler, Zodiac & Pontypool (Mar 2–8)
This Week in Horror History (Mar 2–8) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for early-March nights that still feel like winter. This week we’ve got silent-era vampire plague dread, occult noir doom, a killer laundry machine, and a true-crime obsession spiral—plus a Deep-Cut where language itself becomes the infection.
Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Mar 2–8
Mar 4, 1922 — Nosferatu
Silent-era plague-vampire terror that still fee...
Terrifying & True | Bonnie Hood Murder at Camp Nelson Lodge (1990): The California Double Jeopardy Case
A remote mountain lodge in the Sierra Nevada. A busy wedding weekend. And a violent break-in after midnight that leaves one woman dead and a key witness barely alive.
On August 19, 1990, in Camp Nelson, California, Bonnie Hood (46) is shot and killed inside a cabin at Camp Nelson Lodge, a secluded retreat in Tulare County. Her handyman, Rudy Manuel, is shot in the head—but survives long enough to describe what he says happened. Investigators initially believe it’s a robbery… until the detail...
Unknown Broadcast | The Coin That Won’t Spend: Four OTR Tales of Theft, Dread, and Deep Water
Unknown Broadcast is your strange little frequency of old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery—the kind of signal that crackles with laughter one second and turns cold the next. Tune the dial just a hair too far…and you’ll catch the stories that weren’t meant to survive the night.
Tonight’s broadcast drifts from absurd crime to buried dread, from cursed good fortune to open-water peril—four classic radio tales where greed, fear, and bad timing all make the same sound: f...
Edgar Allan Poe Horror & Mystery Stories: Murders in the Rue Morgue and Classic Tales of Terror
Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories and mystery tales—a bingeable gothic anthology packed with macabre suspense, dark humor, revenge, and one of the most famous detective stories ever written. If you’re searching for Edgar Allan Poe short stories, classic horror, Victorian gothic, old-time spooky literature, or a murder mystery with a locked-room vibe, this compilation is built for you.
Inside this episode (in order):
Cutting Deep Into Horror | Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985): Henry Lee Lucas Horror and True-Crime Exploitation
A true-crime horror deep dive into a grim, under-seen cult title: Confessions of a Serial Killer (shot in 1985, directed by Mark Blair)—a film rooted in the Henry Lee Lucas mythology, where the horror isn’t a monster… it’s a man calmly telling you what he did.
In this episode, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down what makes this movie so unsettling: the low-rent, almost-documentary texture; the blunt confessional structure; and the way it drags you through a nightmare that feels too plausible to dismis...
On The Ice: Fishing Horror Story - A Monster Beneath the Frozen Lake!
Ice fishing turns into a frozen-lake nightmare in this chilling winter horror tale. A widower heads out onto thick, steel-strong ice for a quiet day on the lake—testing every step like his grandpa taught him—until the silence becomes unnatural, the surface starts to crack, and something black and slick glides beneath his fishing hole.
What begins as a peaceful survival routine spirals into supernatural terror tied to old local secrets: an abandoned lakeside development, whispers of missing children, and a backwoods history that never stayed buried. When...
This Week in Horror History | End-of-Winter Dread — The Crazies, Get Out & The Invisible Man (Feb 23 - Mar 1)
This Week in Horror History (Feb 23–Mar 1) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation for that weird stretch where winter won’t let go. This week we’ve got small-town paranoia, social terror, a survival nightmare in the pines, and love at the end of the world—plus a Deep-Cut that turns disbelief into the monster.
Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Feb 23–Mar 1
Feb 26, 2010 — The Crazies
Romero-era paranoia without zombies: a small...
Monthly Spooky | Evil Ghost Baby Exorcism, Boston Skull Mystery, and the New England Vampire Panic
This time on Monthly Spooky, Henrique & Michelle tear into spooky news, true crime weirdness, and classic American vampire lore—the kind of stories that feel like they should be fake… but we're not so lucky.
Inside this episode:
Galway exorcism: the headline that sounds impossible—“poltergeist of dead baby torments family”—and why it set the tone for the night. Rhode Island UFO sighting: a pilot report of an unexplained object over Rhode Island, and the eternal question—do you believe? Las Vegas escaped tou...
Unknown Broadcast | Signals from the Dead Air: Four Classic Radio Horror Tales of Revenge and Ruin
Unknown Broadcast slips into the Weekly Spooky feed again—bringing old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery that feels like you found a station you were never meant to tune in.
Tonight’s signal carries four tales where grifts rot into consequences, quiet rooms turn hostile, and the universe starts enforcing its own rules… with a smile:
📻 “Medium Rare” (CBS Radio Mystery Theater) — A fake medium sells comfort to the grieving—until the dead decide they’re done being good customers. Wha...
Edgar Allan Poe Horror Stories: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and More Classic Gothic Tales
Classic Edgar Allan Poe horror stories—gothic terror, madness, murder, and psychological dread—all in one chilling anthology. If you love classic horror, dark literature, and Victorian-era nightmares, this Poe compilation is built for you: guilt that won’t stay buried, revenge sealed behind bricks, obsession that rots the mind, and survival-horror fear sharpened to a razor’s edge.
Inside this episode:
• The Black Cat — a confession soaked in alcohol-fueled violence, guilt, and the uncanny feeling that somethin...
Deals with the Devil: Horror Stories of Demons, Curses, and Dark Bargains
Devil deals, cursed bargains, crossroads temptation, and payback from hell — this Weekly Spooky horror compilation is packed with supernatural revenge, demonic contracts, and the kind of “too good to be true” offers that always come with blood in the fine print.
Tonight’s theme: Deals with the Devil. Four stories. Four bargains. And every single one of them comes due.
Stories in this compilation (in order):
“The Deal Was Great, But The Payments Are Hell” — Joe Solmo: A paranoid man on the run thi...
Road Trip: Snowbound in a Small-Town Bar With Monsters and a Militia
Road trip horror meets supernatural action in a snow-choked small town where bad decisions don’t stay personal for long. Caroline Quinn—government “Troubleshooter,” part vampire, and currently running from her own heartbreak—heads west to disappear for two weeks… only to end up in Germfask, Michigan, a place with failing cell service, bitter cold, and a neon sign that simply says BEER.
Inside a rural dive called The Den, the locals aren’t just unfriendly—they’re organized. Armed. Watching. And when Caroline realizes she didn’...
This Week in Horror History | Freaks, House on Haunted Hill and Army of Darkness (Feb 16–22)
This Week in Horror History (Feb 16–22) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for long winter nights. This week we’ve got haunted-house showmanship, toy-factory dread, medieval deadites, and vampire rock-star chaos—plus a studio-era Deep-Cut that still feels like a dare.
Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Feb 16–22
Feb 17, 1959 — House on Haunted Hill
William Castl...
Terrifying & True | Stanley Hotel: The Shining Origin and America’s Most Haunted Hotel
The Stanley Hotel isn’t just a famous haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado—it’s a place where real disaster and pop-culture horror fused into one unstoppable legend. Tonight, we trace the true story that begins with a stormy night in 1911, when acetylene gas silently pooled inside Room 217… and a single candle turned the west wing into a blast zone. A young head chambermaid, Elizabeth Wilson, is hurled through collapsing floors—and somehow survives.
From there, the Stanley’s history becomes a slow-burn n...
Unknown Broadcast | Love and Death on the Air: Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories
Unknown Broadcast slips into the Weekly Spooky feed again—bringing you old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio thrills where love curdles into obsession, reputations become weapons, and the truth arrives late… if it arrives at all.
Tonight’s broadcast features four chilling tales:
🎭 A Matter of Love and Death — A celebrity collides with someone unknown… and a “romance” turns into a trap with the spotlight as the knife.🔥 Love, Honor, or Murder — When the line between devotion and violence vanishes, every motive...
Valentine’s Day Horror Stories Marathon: 6 Scary Tales of Love and Murder
Valentine’s Day horror stories meet slasher mayhem in this binge-ready Valentine’s Day marathon of scary stories, romantic horror, and love gone wrong. If you’re searching for a Valentine’s horror podcast, creepy Valentine’s stories, or a slasher anthology packed with obsession, stalking, and revenge—this collection is your perfect date-night nightmare.
Tonight, love doesn’t whisper… it fixates. It follows. It leaves candy hearts that read like threats.
Stories in this marathon...
Cutting Deep into Horror | Pearl (2022) Mia Goth’s Stardom Nightmare, Ti West’s X Prequel
Psychological horror breakdown time. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into Ti West’s Pearl (2022) — the candy-colored prequel to X that turns ambition, isolation, repression, and rage into a full-blown descent. We talk Mia Goth’s star-making performance, why the film feels like a twisted classic-Hollywood fever dream, and how the story’s backdrop of 1918 rural life, sickness, and war-era anxiety amplifies Pearl’s need to be seen… and her capacity to snap.
This is a spoiler-friendly discussion that balances analysis with fun commentary: the movie’s look, tone, character psychology, an...
Will You Be My Undead Valentine? - Zombie Horror Novella: An Undead Love Story of Murder and Revenge
A Valentine’s Day horror novella set in 1958 small-town America, where young love collides with abuse, obsession, and the grave. August Hannig and Becky Sue “Bex” Brewer find each other at a winter Grange dance—two outsiders bonded by forbidden romance and a shared hunger to escape the crushing rules of Dorset. But when Bex’s violent father tightens his grip, the night turns into a nightmare… and love doesn’t just die—it comes back wrong.
This is a darkly romantic zombie revenge tale packed with retro Am...
This Week in Horror History | Valentine’s Week Horror — Watch Something SCARY with Love!
Love isn’t soft this week — it’s sharp. In Valentine’s Week Horror History (Feb 9–15), we trace the anniversaries where romance curdles into obsession, suburbia turns sinister, and the holiday’s heart-shaped sheen hides something mean underneath.
Inside this episode (Quick Hits + Spotlight):
Feb 11, 1981 — My Bloody Valentine: blue-collar slasher dread in a mining town where the tunnels feel alive and the “tradition” is murder. (U.S. this week: free via Kanopy / buy-rent on major VOD.) Feb 13, 2009 — Friday the 13th (reboot): Jason’s modern-era brutality — fast, nasty, and built like a g...
Terrifying & True | The Lost Franklin Expedition: Arctic Horror and the Northwest Passage Mystery
In 1845, Sir John Franklin and 129 men sailed into the Arctic chasing the Northwest Passage—and vanished into a white maze of ice, darkness, and slow collapse. This episode follows the chilling, evidence-anchored timeline of the Lost Franklin Expedition, from the first quiet graves at Beechey Island to the brutal trap of Victoria Strait, where the ice held two war-built ships like insects in amber: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
We trace the expedition’s last clear message—the Victory Point...
Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Horror Stories of Missing Men and Mute Fate
Unknown Broadcast — old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio mystery drift into the Weekly Spooky feed again… and this one is packed with vanishings, fatal coincidences, and the kind of doom that arrives right on schedule.
Tonight’s broadcast contains four tales:
🕯️ “The Man is Missing” — A routine look turns into a cold realization: someone was here… and now they’re gone. When the search begins, the truth won’t stay put—shifting from clues to contradictions, from certainty to dread.🚢 “A Shipment of Mute Fate” — A ship in port, a...
Valentine’s Day Horror Stories: 8 Scary Tales of Love Gone Wrong
Looking for Valentine’s Week horror that isn’t cheesy romance? This Weekly Spooky compilation is pure anti-Valentine’s Day energy: first dates from hell, toxic love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge, and monsters that don’t take “no” for an answer. Perfect for a date-night scare, a breakup binge, or anyone searching for love gone wrong horror stories and scary stories for Valentine’s week—without the cute stuff.
Tonight’s lineup (in order):
Till De...
I Hate Driving a Truck in Winter, but Not Just Because of the Weather: Something Hunting in the Dark
A fog-thick highway. An empty box truck with no traction. One split-second swerve… and you’re tumbling off the road into trees, glass, blood, and a headlight that can’t cut through the gloom.
What happens next isn’t a simple winter driving nightmare—it’s a survival horror encounter in the woods below the berm, where the fog feels alive, the air reeks of death, and something huge moves on two legs like it owns the night.
Trapped in a wreck, hurt badly, and invisible to...
This Week in Horror History | Rings, The Prodigy, The Messengers + In the Mouth of Madness (Feb 2–8)
This Week in Horror History (Feb 2–8) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for long winter nights. This week we’re talking cursed media, home-invasion dread, and the kind of slow-burn paranoia that makes you stare at your own hallway a little too long.
Inside this episode
Horror releases from Feb 2–8
Feb 2, 2007 — The MessengersA glossy stu...
Terrifying & True | The Vanishing Village of Angikuni Lake: Arctic Mystery and UFO Folklore
A remote Arctic camp. Tents standing open in the wind. A half-finished mitten, needle still threaded—like someone stood up mid-stitch and never returned. The legend of Angikuni Lake is one of the most chilling “vanishing village” mysteries ever told: an Inuit camp along the Kazan River corridor in Nunavut—found eerily intact… but empty.
In the campfire version, everything is wrong in the most cinematic way: food left behind, supplies untouched, dogs silent on their lines, and even a grave disturbed—stones set carefully in...
Unknown Broadcast | Four Classic OTR Thrillers of Poison, Trains, and Hidden Greed
Unknown Broadcast slips into your Weekly Spooky feed with classic old-time radio horror stories, radio suspense, and vintage OTR mystery—the kind of tales that start with a simple temptation… and end with someone realizing they should’ve left well enough alone.
💎 Leave Well Enough Alone — A marriage, a growing doubt, and a trail of jewelry that turns love into obsession… until the truth hits like a knife you never saw coming. ☠️ The Diary of Doctor Pritchard — A doctor with a reputation… a chemist’s bottle… and a poison that...
BANNED! Snowed-In Horror Convention Slasher: The Complete Winter Miniseries
Snowed-in slasher horror, murder mystery, and winter survival terror collide in BANNED!—the complete 4-part horror miniseries binge. When a brutal blizzard traps a packed horror convention inside a remote ski lodge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the weekend refuses to shut down… even as the atmosphere turns tight, paranoid, and dangerously claustrophobic.
This is a full compilation—all four parts back-to-back—built for listeners who love classic slasher vibes, locked-room tension, backstage convention chaos, and th...
Best of 2025: 4 Scary Tales of Backwoods Survival, Killer Creatures, and a Summoned Hellhound
Buckle up for a wilderness horror compilation packed with scary stories of remote trails, isolated campsites, and nature that turns predatory. If you love horror podcast narration with survival terror, monster horror, and “we-shouldn’t-be-here” dread… this one’s for you.
Tonight’s collection features four tales where the map runs out, the sun goes down, and the woods start paying attention.
• Fortune Falls — by David O’HanlonTwo college friends camp where they shouldn’t, chasing a perfect sunrise at a hidden waterfall—unt...
BANNED! Part 4: Blizzard Horror Convention Slasher Finale
Winter slasher horror, murder mystery, and survival terror collide in the final chapter of BANNED! as the High Point Ski Lodge disappears under a relentless blizzard and the Horror Snow-In reaches its breaking point.
With the body count climbing and the storm sealing every road out, the killer’s plan shifts from lurking to finishing—dragging the weekend toward a confrontation nobody can walk away from unchanged. Headliner Vickie Valentine is pushed past her limits as something dangerous inside her threatens to surface, and the lodge’s desp...
This Week in Horror History | Stephen King Week: The Shining + Rose Red (Jan 26–Feb 2)
Travel back through January 26–February 2 with This Week in Horror History—a horror history podcastcountdown of horror movie anniversaries, a Stephen King milestone, and winter-week picks built for being snowed in.
Quick Hits (Jan 26–Feb 2):
Jan 26, 1996 — Screamers: killer machines evolve fast on a war-torn planet. Where to watch: Free w/ ads on TubiTV, plus rent at the usual suspects, or watch free with your Amazon Prime membership.Jan 27, 1989 — Parents: suburban dinner-tab...
Monthly Spooky | Haunted Castles & Stolen Corpses
Haunted castles, ghost stories, eerie history, and true crime weirdness—this month’s Monthly Spooky with Henrique & Michelle goes full winter-night mode with paranormal legends, unsettling discoveries, and a real-life disaster shaped by brutal weather.
Inside this episode:
Chillingham Castle (UK): infamous haunting claims, grim history, and why it’s often called one of the most haunted places around.Chillingham cattle: the strange, preserved lineage tied to the castle’s eerie reputation.Mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabia: an unsettling preservation story that feels like a nature...
Unknown Broadcast | Snowbound Radio Horror: Classic Winter Tales of Ice, Whiteouts, and Cold Death
Unknown Broadcast returns with old-time radio horror stories and classic OTR suspense—a winter-loaded anthology where snowstorms swallow roads, ice keeps secrets, and the cold feels alive. If you love radio suspense, ghost story anthologies, and classic mystery-thriller drama, this one is built for headphones on a dark night.
🧊 “The Ice Palace” — A glittering winter miracle with a rotten core… and something inside it that shouldn’t ever thaw.🥶 “Death Has a Cold Breath” — A stranger’s journey turns fatal when the night air itself seems...
Scary Road Trip Horror Stories: 5 Highway Tales of Hitchhikers, Monsters, and Motels
Scary stories for road trips, late-night drives, and anyone who’s ever felt the world get wrong somewhere between exits. In this Weekly Spooky horror podcast compilation, we’re digging into the creepiest vault picks built around roadside terror, travel nightmares, and the kind of highway horror that follows you long after the headlights fade.
Inside this episode (in order):
I used to drive a delivery truck, until the incident — by Michael Kelso A routine delivery route turns into a nightmare when the road gets quiet, the cab fe...
Best of 2025: Deadly Second Chances - Supernatural Horror Story Binge
A Best of 2025 fan-favorite returns in one killer collection: Deadly Second Chances—the summer mini-series that drops you into the Strickfield universe where second chances come with teeth.
In Perdition, the Hellweaver discovers an ancient pact that could finally set her free… but only if she offers five doomed souls the chance to rewind their lives—and watches them choose who they really are when fate gives them one more turn of the key. No interference. No do-overs. Just consequences.
From cursed revenge and corrup...
BANNED! Part 3: The Killer Goes Public!
Slasher horror, murder mystery, and winter survival terror collide as the Horror Snow-In at High Point Ski Lodge continues under a tightening blizzard lockdown—and the killer behind BANNED stops treating this like a secret.
With police struggling to reach the lodge and the convention refusing to shut down, headliner Vickie Valentine is forced to keep smiling through the fear… even as something old and dangerous stirs inside her. Meanwhile, Robbie Redden turns the weekend into a performance—pushing the murders from the shadows into places they were never...
This Week in Horror History | Tremors, Split & The Blair Witch Project (Jan 19–Jan 25)
A horror history podcast trip through January 19–25, when the winter slump gets mean and the genre leaves fresh footprints in the snow. This week’s creepy calendar run includes classic creature feature chaos, a modern psychological thriller hit, a creepy doll shocker, a claustrophobic space-horror video game, and a found-footage landmark that changed horror marketing forever.
Inside this episode (Quick Hits):
Jan 19 (1990): Tremors — a creature feature that burrowed its way into cult legend.Jan 20 (2017): Split — Shyamala...
Terrifying & True | The Caretos de Entrudo – Portugal’s Carnival Demons
Portugal folklore turns feral in the mountain village of Podence, where the only warning is the clatter of cowbellsricocheting off stone walls. Then the Caretos burst from the dark—men (and now women and kids, too) swallowed in ragged ribbons of red, yellow, and green, faces erased behind blood-red demon masks, hips loaded with heavy bell harnesses that turn every lunge into a metallic scream. It’s Carnival… but it moves like a hunt.
This is Entrudo—a tradition believed to reach back to pr...
Unknown Broadcast | Four Horror Stories of Fate, Knife-Edges, and Mistaken Identity
Step into Unknown Broadcast — classic old-time radio horror stories and vintage radio suspense pulled from the dark, stitched together, and left to play in the corners of your feed. Tonight, four nightmares unfold: a royal smile that means life… a desperate man pushed into crime… a murder heard in the dark… and an island where gunfire answers the tide.
👑 “The Queen of Darkness” — In a kingdom where a queen still holds real power, Josephine Denison’s charm hides something colder: ambition, jealousy, and a court that learns too late what her favor cost...
Haunted Houses & Cursed Finds Six Ghost Stories of Possession, Poltergeists, and True Terror
If you’re craving haunted house horror stories, ghost stories, and paranormal encounters that escalate fast—this compilation is your next late-night listen. From a historic inn with a locked room and a German priest’s shadow, to an abandoned murder house that turns viral for all the wrong reasons… these tales spiral through possession, poltergeist chaos, cursed objects, and the kind of dread that follows you home.
Inside this compilation (in order):
• Horror at the Hexagon House Inn — Bill Spears<...
