Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Halloween watchlist essential! We sink our claws into one of the most iconic horror films ever made: Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street . Hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Freddy Krueger ’s terrifying debut, exploring how this razor-fingered dream stalker redefined the slasher genre and haunted a generation of horror fans. Inside this episode, Henrique and Rachael s...

True Halloween Horrors for your Spooky Season! In this chapter, let's delve into the urban legends that brought forward what is now known as 'The Satanic Panic‘, from the first sensational cases and flawed investigations to the media frenzy and courtrooms that followed.  We’ll look at how fear, politics, and culture combined to create a moral wildfire, one that still echoes in today’s conspiracy m...

Looking for a terrifying Halloween horror story? An ancient vampire rises again to feed during Halloween week in Ohio. When  Countess Elizabeth Bathory —the infamous Blood Countess —returns from the grave, a night of trick-or-treating turns into a nightmare of blood, immortality, and revenge. As the town descends into chaos, a teen vampire hunter and a girl from Hell must face the most powerful pr...

It's Halloween time and our latest scary story dives into a cannibal killer who hunts his victims, blending horror with a chilling culinary obsession.' When a devoted husband vanishes during his evening run, his wife Cora refuses to accept the police’s easy answers. Her desperate search pulls her into a nightmare of blood , muscle, and madness —where primal hunger meets the modern world. Alongside...

It’s Spooky Season—prime time for a wall-to-wall Halloween horror binge. This full audio compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast packs 9 scary stories of monsters, urban legends, ghostly vengeance, and October-night mayhem. Hit play for a cinematic mix of pumpkin curses, headless riders, haunted towns, and parties from hell—perfect for late-night listening, trick-or-treat routes, or fall...

This Halloween , jump into the eerie tale of Elmer McCurdy —a true crime deep dive into urban legends and America’s carnival underbelly. In 1976, a seemingly innocuous Halloween haunt took a terrifying turn when a “mannequin” on a Long Beach dark ride wasn’t a prop—it was a real human corpse . In 1976 , a TV crew at The Pike’s Laff in the Dark discovered human bone after a stunt arm snapped. Foren...

Old-Time Radio (OTR) horror anthology featuring CBS Radio Mystery Theater , Escape , Lights Out , Murder at Midnight , Suspense , and The Whistler —six restored classics in one episode for fans of vintage radio drama , noir thrillers , and classic horror stories . Gather close, my dear. The dial warms, the room cools, and the old ghosts speak. ⚖️ Guilty as Charged (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, by G....

Halloween turns an urban legend into a living nightmare. This scary, feature-length horror story follows a dying teen who enters an experimental trial—then a violent assault twists a cure into something new. The whispers name her AIDS Mary , a lipstick-leaving shadow who walks frat houses and midnight streets, where mirrors fog with warnings and victims fade in days. If you crave Halloween horror...

Halloween is here—and so are the scary horror stories you crave. Tonight’s nightmare follows four boys on BMX bikes through spooky season mayhem: a house party gone wrong, a sinister scavenger hunt , and the legend of a pumpkin-headed scarecrow who carves his way across town. As whispers spread from the playground to the dumpster behind the corner store and into a cemetery mausoleum , the truth hi...

Experience the chilling haunt at a renovated funeral parlor this Halloween! Tonight’s feature-length episode delivers one of the season’s darkest  scary stories , steeped in haunted house chills and mature themes . When Freddy and Odalys try to turn an abandoned funeral parlor into apartments, they discover the walls are stuffed with mummified animals, curses, and whispers that never stop. As they...

For your spooky season! Halloween scary stories, vampire battles, supernatural showdowns, and long, immersive horror podcasts, this feature-length nightmare is for you.  Kick off 31 Days of Halloween with a Full-Length Horror Story that drips with blood, fangs, and supernatural terror. Madelyne’s Revenge unleashes vampires, monsters, and a spider-girl heroine in a battle that could decide the fate...

Dive into  scary Halloween stories with our bingeable horror anthology featuring 11 chilling tales perfect for October nights . Discover  spooky stories that explore everything from small-town mischief and cursed pumpkin spice to retro drive-in frights and eerie waterpark terror. Press play and let the jack-o’-lantern glow transform your experience this spooky season . In this episode (in order):...

Discover the eerie origins of Halloween from Samhain rituals to modern trick-or-treating! Kick off spooky season with  Monthly Spooky as we uncover the origins of Halloween —from ancient Samhain rites to the folklore behind trick-or-treat , jack-o’-lanterns (yes, turnips first!), towering bonfires , and why bats became icons of the night. We connect old-world customs to the traditions you love tod...

Come closer, my dear. Tonight the glass trembles, the sea goes sightless, and a tree learns your name. We’ll drink, we’ll listen, and we’ll see what answers when we call out in the dark. 🍷 A Drink with Dionysius — A small-time schemer toasts his luck and finds a warhead at the bottom of the bottle. Greed, old flames, and the kind of deal that stains the soul. 😱 Terror Stricken ( The Whistler ) —...

A Cornerstone of Horror Cinema! Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi cut deep into Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) —the raw, relentless, cabin-in-the-woods classic that jump-started a whole splatter language. We unpack how Raimi’s scrappy camera attacks, Tom Sullivan’s gnarly makeup/stop-motion, and Bruce Campbell’s live-wire performance forged a cult juggernaut on a shoestring. We also trace the...

Looking for a slasher story that cuts deep? This Weekly Spooky  episode drags you straight into the woods, where an innocent boys’ camping trip becomes a fight for survival. At the abandoned North Fork campground, an old drifter on a battered red bicycle stalks the trails with booby traps, bear snares, and a machete sharp enough to end the night . Bottle rockets and s’mores quickly give way to raz...

Halloween 2025 is a week away—perfect time for true ghost stories about America’s haunted backroads. This Terrifying & True deep dive uncovers the nationwide pattern behind one eerie place-name: Spook Hollow . We track the Dutch origin of “spook,” the Appalachian meaning of “hollow,” and how frontier fear spawned murdered-peddler tales, haunted bridges, cemetery guardians, and roadside apparit...

Welcome back, my dear. Tonight we slip past the velvet edge where conscience and consequence share a heartbeat. Greed calls from the deep; a confession rots in the light; a noir mind stumbles behind the curtain; and summer itself says farewell with a ghost’s restraint. 💔 You Can Die Again — A remorseful man confesses to murder, but his story frays under questioning, memory unspooling like thread...

“Cutting Deep into Horror” dives headfirst into Paul W.S. Anderson’s cult-classic sci-fi horror Event Horizon (1997). Hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi unpack how a “haunted house in space” premise, Catholic-guilt undertones, and that infamous “I don’t need eyes to see” line still rattle nerves. We track the film’s bomb-then-cult trajectory, the ‘90s horror landscape post- Scream , and wh...

Welcome to  Weekly Spooky , the horror podcast that brings you chilling scary stories, supernatural encounters, and dark urban legends every week! In this terrifying new tale, horror author Rob Fields takes us deep into the haunted town of Strickfield. When Lucibella Taibon, Elder Princess of Hell , crosses through Ravenhenge into the mortal world, the summer heat feels like Heaven compared to the...

On July 4, 1984, police dogs uncovered a shallow grave in the quiet town of Northport, Long Island. Inside lay the mutilated body of 17-year-old Gary Lauwers—stabbed more than 30 times in a drug-fueled frenzy by his friend Ricky “The Acid King” Kasso. Within days, the story became national news, sparking headlines of Satanic sacrifice and cementing Kasso as the terrifying face of America’s 1980s S...

My dear, the night is a ledger—debits in blood, credits in whispers. Stars tilt the scale, luck frays at the edge, and footsteps in the dark always find their way to a door you don’t want to open. Tonight, five vintage radio chillers trace the thin line between chance and destiny—perfect for fans of classic old-time radio anthologies and atmospheric suspense. ✨ Death in the Stars A ruthless horos...

Fire in the Sky (1993) explained — the chilling alien-abduction film based on Travis Walton’s true story. On Cutting Deep into Horror , hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down why the UFO sequence still shocks, how director Robert Lieberman builds dread, and where movie dramatization diverges from the real Arizona logging-crew case. We compare the film to Walton’s account, spotlight th...

Summer, 1984—at the height of the Satanic Panic. Ricky is a motor-mouthed teen who wants proof the Devil is listening. In a moonlit patch of woods, a dare turns into a ritual and a killing. What follows is darker: Ricky props the body in a lawn chair with sunglasses, invites classmates to look, and turns terror into spectacle—boombox hissing, insects buzzing, and bravado curdling into dread as wor...

Resurrection Mary is Chicago’s most famous ghost—and one of America’s most chilling vanishing hitchhiker legends . For nearly a century, terrified drivers on Archer Avenue have reported picking up a mysterious young woman in white… only for her to vanish near Resurrection Cemetery . In this deep dive, we unravel the true story behind the ghost: a chilling mix of paranormal sightings , tragic death...