Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Dive into a chilling Christmas horror story in this novella-length special from Weekly Spooky . Set in the snowy, eerie town of Strickfield , this episode combines cozy small-town Christmas vibes with truly scary, supernatural urban legends . Follow Bill and his family as they uncover the dark secrets of the haunted Christmas Carnival , a place where the rides still run and sinister forces lurk be...

Christmas Eve in a small-town church takes a terrifying turn in this chilling holiday horror story . “The Pageant” brings you into the heart of Christmas traditions gone wrong , filled with suspense , mature themes , and dark secrets lurking beneath the carols and candlelight. Janet Monroe , caught up in the high-stakes drama of running the church’s Christmas pageant, confronts eerie happenings an...

Looking for a chilling Christmas horror story with ghosts, storms, and a cursed secret? This holiday horror episode of Weekly Spooky takes you to the Florida coast on Christmas Eve, where there’s no snow—just black water, violent wind, and something in the dark that refuses to let go. Chet Miller is a grieving widower spending Christmas alone in Nokomis, Florida, the TV off and a vintage Christmas...

The first week of December isn’t just for cozy rom-coms and twinkling lights. On this episode of This Week in Horror History , we dig into the spooky side of December 1–7 , charting travel nightmares, cursed deserts, classic Universal monsters, and a knife-clawed college mascot turning school spirit into a bloodbath. We kick things off with Turistas (2006) , the mid-2000s travel horror where a dre...

A Victorian Christmas looks cozy on greeting cards—glowing candle-lit trees , shimmering tinsel, children gathered around the fire. But behind the snow-globe charm was a season of deadly house fires, toxic decorations, poisoned sweets, and experimental electric lights that turned “old-fashioned Christmas” into a very real nightmare. In this episode of Terrifying & True , we dig into the true h...

Tonight, my dear, the dial drifts into places where time kinks, debts come due, and footsteps follow just out of sight. Settle in with Unknown Broadcast —your portal to classic OTR chills, old-time radio horror stories , and radio suspense that still breathe in the dark. Listen close… the night is speaking. 🕰️🌉 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge — A rope, a river, and a heartbeat that refuses to s...

Looking for scary Christmas horror stories to binge while you decorate the tree? This feature-length Christmas horror podcast special from Weekly Spooky packs 10 terrifying holiday horror tales into one nonstop marathon of killer Santas, haunted Christmas traditions, deadly blizzards, cursed letters, and creepy toy stores . Perfect for anyone who loves Christmas horror movies , ghost stories for C...

This Black Friday, Cutting Deep into Horror takes you back to where modern terror truly began: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) . Hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi break down Tobe Hooper’s legendary shocker — a film that reshaped horror with its brutal realism, suffocating Texas heat, and one of cinema’s most terrifying families. Perfect for the Thanksgiving weekend, this episode explo...

Thanksgiving horror story on the Weekly Spooky podcast : a snow-dusted asylum turns festive decorations and Jenga games into a slasher-mystery nightmare. Patients go missing. A “therapy” session ends in blood. And seven broken teeth point to a cover-up thicker than gravy. If you’re craving holiday horror , asylum terror , and killer-on-the-loose suspense for your Thanksgiving drive—or to hide from...

This Week in Horror History is your winter horror watchlist, breaking down Christmas horror movies, winter thrillers, and classic ghost stories for the week of November 26–December 2 . In this episode of the Weekly Spooky horror podcast , host Henrique Couto revisits Misery (1990) , Scrooge / A Christmas Carol (1951) , Violent Night (2022) , deep-cut sequel The Descent Part 2 (2009) , and cult ant...

Thanksgiving horror, turkey-day traditions, haunted mansions, Sin Eater folklore. Henrique & Michelle serve cozy table talk (leftovers, cranberry, Black Friday) before carving into eerie headlines and a feast-themed deep dive into the Sin Eater —perfect for the season of big meals and bigger myths. Inside this episode Turkey-day talk: best leftovers (mashed-potato + cranberry sandwich), Black...

We return with old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR , and radio suspense for a pre-Thanksgiving vigil, my dear—where family tables creak, footsteps count down to doom, and a song in the parlor hushes murderous hearts. Tonight’s reliquary opens to four chillers, a clutch of shadows to keep the knives honest and the lights low.  🕰️ Family Ties — The portrait smiles, the phone rings, and blood...

We’re serving up a full plate of  Thanksgiving horror stories —killer turkeys, cursed family dinners, and cozy traditions that turn disturbingly dark. This feature-length Thanksgiving horror podcast special is made for holiday travel, late-night cooking, or hiding from your relatives while you lose yourself in a long, chilling anthology of spooky tales. Inside this Weekly Spooky Thanksgiving horro...

Weekly Spooky horror podcast presents a chilling small-town disappearance tale of possession, control, and a ruthless government cover-up . In the rural Midwest , people begin staring without blinking , neighbors vanish and return… wrong, and a hovering light seals the town off from the world. What follows is a desperate run through cornfields , soldiers, fences, and a mystery scrubbed from histor...

Step into late November with This Week in Horror History , the horror podcast that digs into the spooky anniversaries hiding between Thanksgiving and Christmas. In this episode, we dive into a full week of genre milestones for November 18–25 , from cult slashers and gothic ghost stories to Stephen King adaptations, survival horror gaming, and a haunting cannibal romance. We kick things off at summ...

Every November we hear the cozy legend of the First Thanksgiving —Pilgrims, turkey, and a peaceful feast in the New World. But the real story behind Thanksgiving is much darker. Long before it became a holiday, the land around Plymouth was a plague-ravaged, haunted wilderness , where the Pilgrims saw the Devil in every tree… and the Wampanoag saw spirits in every swamp. This is the terrifying true...

Ah, hello, my dear. You’ve wandered into Unknown Broadcast—your little doorway to old-time radio horror stories , classic OTR chills, and the hush of radio suspense that never quite died. Tonight, the dial slips and the past answers. Don’t fret if the voice sounds close; some things sit beside you when you press play. My dear, listen very carefully. 🧳 The Old Country — A son returns across oceans...

This week on Cutting Deep into Horror , hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into Bitter Feast (2010) —a brutally underrated foodie horror thriller perfect for the Thanksgiving season. When a celebrity chef snaps after a vicious review, a simple cooking critique becomes a nightmarish showdown of revenge, obsession, and culinary torture . We break down why Bitter Feast has become a cult...

Weekly Spooky horror podcast delivers an original cursed song and rock-star possession tale soaked in ’80s fame and occult obsession . When faded idol Sammy Scar surges back to stardom, the crowds chant in perfect unison, a buried B-side resurfaces, and a whisper won’t stop saying, “They’re here for you.” From Sunset Strip glare to Times Square neon, this celebrity horror spirals toward a deadly e...

This Week in Horror History dives into a loaded week: Creepshow hits wide release, Interview with the Vampire and Bram Stoker’s Dracula redefine luxe gothic on the big screen, Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm sneaks survival horror into AAA gaming, and Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf howls through November. We spotlight Supernatural ’s early heart-stopper “Home,” roll birthdays for genre icons, compar...

The First Thanksgiving wasn’t a cheerful myth—it was born from starvation, epidemic, and uneasy diplomacybetween the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620–1621. In this Terrifying & True deep-dive, we peel back comforting legend to confront the Great Dying, the stark winter that followed the Mayflower landfall, and the fragile accord brokered through Samoset, Squanto, and Massasoit. W...

In this episode of Mystery Theater, we delve into the sinister world crafted by Wilkie Collins, exploring a chilling tale titled "Shadows from the Grave." The story is introduced by our host, Hyman Brown, who sets the stage for an intriguing exploration of mortality and the supernatural. We meet Xavier Yardley Zenith, a young photographer who inherits a mysterious estate from his Uncle George, who...

Arts & culture reporter Andrew Shearer (USA TODAY Network) sits down with filmmaker and creator Henrique Couto for a candid, anniversary deep-dive into how Weekly Spooky grew from a Halloween 2019 launch into a must-hear horror podcast. They unpack the October blitz of 32 episodes in 31 days , what it takes to publish nearly five days a week , and how the show evolved into a sustainable busine...

Werewolf horror collides with hunting gone wrong in a full-moon revenge tale that turns a quiet farmhouse into a home-invasion nightmare . Two friends take a shot in the dark woods and trigger a relentless payback— amber eyes at the window , claws at the door, and a family debt that must be paid before dawn. Expect cinematic suspense , survival horror , and a sharp morality play about guilt, guns,...

This Week in Horror History is your weekly horror podcast tracking classic anniversaries and where to watch. For Nov 3–9 , we hit Gojira (Godzilla, 1954) , Carrie (1976) , They Live (1988) , The Twilight Zone: “Escape Clause” (1959) , Silent Hill Origins (2007) , and cult slasher The Prowler (1981) —plus birthdays for Bram Stoker and Tom Savini and a holiday-horror flashpoint with Silent Night, De...