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Nov. 19, 2025

I'm From a Small Town That No Longer Exists: Small-Town Horror & Government Cover-Up

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 history. I’m from a Small Town That No Longer Exists — by Michael Kelso. You can purchase books from this auth...
Nov. 18, 2025

This Week in Horror History | Sleepaway Camp, Sleepy Hollow & Salem’s Lot

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 summer camp with Sleepaway Camp (1983), the infamous 1980s slasher movie whose shocking final twist made ...
Nov. 17, 2025

Terrifying & True | Thanksgiving in a Haunted Wilderness: The Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and the First Feast

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 story behind the celebration we remember every Thanksgiving. In this Thanksgiving horror history ep...
Nov. 16, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Echoes at Midnight: Stories of Dreams, Corpses, and the Old Country

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 and years, and the land remembers him better than he remembers himself. Roots grip deeper than bon...
Nov. 14, 2025

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Bitter Feast (2010) — Dark Foodie Horror, Chef Revenge & Thanksgiving Scares

Bitter Feast (2010) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. 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...
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Nov. 12, 2025

Withdrawal — Cursed Rock-Star Horror Story: Fame, Obsession, and a Deadly Encore

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 encore where the ticket price is breath and blood. Withdrawal — by John Stoney Cannon. Get comfy, m...
Nov. 11, 2025

This Week in Horror History | Creepshow, Dracula & Ravenholm

Creepshow, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm anchor a date-driven week of horror history spanning films, games, television, and Stephen King. Also inside: Interview with the Vampire, Cycle of the Werewolf, Duel, Supernatural’s “Home,” horror birthdays, and a Slumber Party Massacre recommendation. Inside this episode Creepshow (Nov 10, 1982): Romero + King bring EC-comics mayhem to multiplexes. Interview with the Vampire (Nov 11, 1994): Velvet-and-venom epic opens #1 and rewri...
Nov. 10, 2025

Terrifying & True | Dark Realities of the First Thanksgiving: Survival, Plague, and a Fragile Peace

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. We unpack the mutual-defense treaty, the practical lifelines of corn, fish, and eels, the political subt...
Nov. 9, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Graves & Revenants: Classic Horror Stories of Plague, Vengeance, and the Unquiet Dead

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 ominously proclaims that he will die within a week. Uncle George's peculiar insistence on guarding...
Nov. 7, 2025

6 Years of Weekly Spooky: Building a Horror Podcast Powerhouse

Arts and culture reporter Andrew Shearer joins Henrique Couto for a sixth-anniversary account of how Weekly Spooky grew from a Halloween 2019 launch into a near-daily horror feed. You’ll hear behind-the-scenes production stories, the chapters of Henrique’s podcasting journey (“Making a Living in Podcasting,” “Behind the Curtain of Creativity”), and the classic influences—Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone—that shaped Weekly Spooky’s voice. Plus: how new segments like Terrifying & True and ...
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Nov. 5, 2025

Gone Hunting: Werewolf Revenge Under a Full Moon

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, and what stalks the tree line when the moon is high. This Weekly Spooky horror podcast episode delivers...
Nov. 4, 2025

This Week in Horror History | Gojira, Carrie, They Live

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, Deadly Night (1984). We wrap with a Weekly Recommendation and U. S. streaming info to watch tonight. Inside ...
Nov. 3, 2025

Terrifying & True | The Donner Party: Cannibalism and Survival in the Sierra Nevada

The true story of the Donner Party—cannibalism and survival in the Sierra Nevada. In winter 1846–1847, nearly 90 pioneers were snowbound at Truckee/Donner Lake after betting on the Hastings Cutoff and losing critical weeks in the Wasatch Mountains and Great Salt Lake Desert. What followed—starvation, the Forlorn Hope snowshoe escape, and cannibalism—became America’s most infamous saga of westward migration. This documentary-style episode of Terrifying & True traces the route from Springfield, I...
Nov. 2, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Ghosts Beyond the Veil: Seven Spooky Horror Stories for Día de los Muertos

Unknown Broadcast keeps vigil for All Souls’ Day—a night of old time radio horror stories (old-time radio / OTR horror), vintage radio drama, and midnight radio suspense in a true ghost stories podcast ritual. Between stations the names return, and someone answers from the far side. Step closer; listen softer. Some signals aren’t meant for the living—yet here we are. 🕯️ Home is Where the Ghost Is — We don’t say their name out loud; the house remembers it for us. 👻 The Dead Alive — A knock at a ...
Nov. 1, 2025

Ghosts Beyond the Veil: Seven Horror Stories for Día de los Muertos

Ghosts Beyond the Veil brings together a complete horror collection shaped by ghost lore and supernatural suspense, murder, disappearance, and investigation, and Halloween-night atmosphere, with each included story retaining its own premise and identity. 💀 When Halloween fades and Día de los Muertos begins, Weekly Spooky keeps the candles burning for the restless dead. Join us this November 1st for seven chilling stories of ghosts, haunted places, and spirits that refuse to stay buried. Each t...
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Oct. 31, 2025

A Warm Place — Halloween Supermarket Slasher and Possession Horror

After hours in a nearly empty supermarket, Nancy receives supernatural warnings as a masked figure begins hunting through the aisles on Halloween night. With mature themes, intense scares, and suspenseful horror storytelling, prepare for a night full of dread and darkness. Nancy encounters supernatural warnings, a haunting masked figure, and something that craves warmth in this unforgettable scary story perfect for the spooky season. Featuring Shane Migliavacca, writer of the series’ very firs...
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Oct. 30, 2025

Halloween Night at Grimm Manor — Haunted-House Scavenger Hunt Horror

It’s the day before Halloween—aka Halloween Eve/Mischief Night—and we’re taking you straight into a haunted house where dares turn deadly and ghosts don’t just whisper… they play by house rules. In Grimm Manor, a backwoods Strickfield legend, a stubborn challenge becomes a nightmare scavenger hunt with a single key, ticking clocks, and the specter of midnight closing in. Expect high-octane teen bravado, crackling Halloween atmosphere, and old-world spirits with unfinished business. Content note...
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Oct. 29, 2025

Asylum of the Dirt Babies — Halloween Possession and Killer-Craft Revenge

A cruel prank inside Locust Grove Asylum awakens grave-born Dirt Babies and traps a group of young people inside their Halloween revenge. Deep within the decaying halls of Locust Grove Asylum, a cruel prank unleashes an ancient evil — and this Halloween, the Dirt Babies have returned. Middle school misfits, goth teens, and a grieving babysitter all collide when a cursed patch of grave dirt births tiny, homicidal creatures with a thirst for vengeance. What began as a twisted Halloween dare soon...
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Oct. 28, 2025

Tricks and Treats 2025 — Three Halloween Horror Stories by Keith Tomlin

Jack Scratch presents three Halloween stories involving an unholy trick-or-treat ritual, a vengeful zombie dog, and thieves who open a cursed chamber. This special episode of Weekly Spooky, Tricks and Treats 2025, delivers three blood-chilling tales of terror told by your favorite infernal host, Jack Scratch. These interconnected Halloween stories explore the darkest corners of small-town evil, from child-snatching cultists to vengeful zombie dogs and serial-killer soulmates. 👻 Rebirth – A swe...
Oct. 27, 2025

Monthly Spooky | Halloween Urban Legends: Poisoned Candy, Haunted Houses & Spooky Stories

Halloween myths, poisoned candy, haunted houses, urban legends—we dive into the season’s biggest fears and the fun behind them. Henrique and Michelle unpack the poisoned Halloween candy panic, how it started, and why it stuck, then romp through haunted attractions and strange encounters that keep October deliciously spooky. We round it out with a quick October horror watch-list and some eerie stories from the internet’s favorite campfire. Inside this episode - Tiny little skeletons to set the m...
Oct. 26, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Devil’s Gold, The Walking Dead & Five More Classic Radio Hauntings

Hello, my dear, allow me to slip into your feed this Halloween with a haunted signal of old-time radio horror stories and spine-chilling Halloween tales. These aren’t just whispers in the static—they’re ghostly warnings from a world where shadows speak and the dead walk again. 🎃 Devil’s Gold — A soldier finds an ancient curse buried beneath war-torn soil… and the price for greed is damnation. 🪓 The Devil’s Workshop — A small-town tale of madness and murder where sinister tools make sinister han...
Oct. 25, 2025

Edgar Allan Poe’s Greatest Horror Stories — A Halloween Compilation of Spooky Classics

Light your candles and brace yourself for over seven haunting hours of Halloween horror stories—a monumental celebration of spooky season and the chilling genius of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s most scary stories and spooky tales of madness, obsession, and death, all steeped in gothic atmosphere and mature themes. Perfect for Halloween night, a dark autumn drive, or those long October evenings when you crave horror stories that still send shivers down the spine nearly two centuries later. Perfect fo...
Oct. 24, 2025

Cutting Deep Into Horror | The Blair Witch Project (1999): Found-Footage Folklore and Fear

The Blair Witch Project (1999) follows three student filmmakers into the Maryland woods, where invented folklore and deteriorating footage make an unseen threat feel real. We unpack its unsettling folklore, improvisational performances, and the way fear, survival, and group dynamics collapse in the Burkittsville woods. Directed by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez, this cult landmark still crawls under the skin more than two decades later. Inside this episode - Into the Woods — Setting the sta...
Oct. 23, 2025

Vampire Night, The Final Yes & Blood and Snow — Three Horror Novellas

Settle in for a feature-length horror story triple bill—full novellas packed with vampires, blood-soaked nightlife, and a blizzard-born revenant. Perfect for Halloween, spooky season binges, and anyone hunting scary stories that go for the throat without filler. • Vampire Night — Joe Ruston Cleveland after dark turns carnivorous when a sunglasses-at-midnight predator and his razor-smiled companions drift from a one-way joyride into a neon strip-club nightmare, leaving a trail of sharp-toothed m...