{"podcast":{"title":"Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season","slug":"weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630","podcast_index_feed_id":692630,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5621141/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.weeklyspooky.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/58fa5100916ce89aa01e342df5e21c72.jpg","author":"Henrique Couto","episode_count":1000,"summary":"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 ears!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T18:19:21.071139+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630"},"episode":{"title":"Branch Manager: Deep Woods Horror Story & Supernatural Folklore","slug":"branch-manager-deep-woods-horror-story-supernatural-folklore","published_at":"2026-07-08T09:00:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/branch-manager-deep-woods-horror-story-supernatural-folklore","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/branch-manager-deep-woods-horror-story-supernatural-folklore--72856711","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72856711/ep407_branch_manager.mp3","summary":"Tonight on Weekly Spooky, we dive into nature horror from Algonquin Park’s cursed wilderness. “Branch Manager” — a gruesome, darkly funny supernatural folklore tale from Gary D up in Ontario, Canada aka Blue Fire Raging — follows three Toronto telemarketing workers seeking escape in the Canadian deep woods. What begins as beer and campfire jokes turns into a nightmare when something ancient, hungry, and rooted in revenge awakens. Perfect cryptid encounter storytelling with late night horror that blends true wilderness with paranormal dread. Kenny, Dave, and Karl just want to get away from their miserable call centre jobs with a relaxing camping trip, but the forest has other plans. At first, it’s only fog, roadkill, strange sounds, and branches snapping in the dark. Then the tent is shredded. Kenny’s friends vanish. Deep scrape marks carve through the campsite. And somewhere beyond the firelight, the trees themselves seem to be crawling, listening, hunting, and waiting for the next sound. This story delivers camping horror, wilderness horror, killer tree horror, creature feature terror, Canadian forest horror, and the kind of bloody, bizarre, dark comedy that makes a simple walk in the woods feel like a death sentence. If you love scary stories, horror stories, monster stories, campfire horror, survival horror, nature revenge horror, supernatural folklore, and creepy tales about what might be watching from the treeline, this one digs its roots in deep. Inside this episode: a camping trip gone horribly wrong, a sound-sensitive forest monster, missing campers, supernatural revenge from nature, gruesome body horror, dark humor, and one very angry collection of trees that may finally be done letting humanity swing the axe. Listen now for a brutal and unforgettable horror f…","meta_description":"Tonight on Weekly Spooky, we dive into nature horror from Algonquin Park’s cursed wilderness. “Branch Manager” — a gruesome, darkly funny supernatural fol…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1916,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/episodes/branch-manager-deep-woods-horror-story-supernatural-folklore/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/branch-manager-deep-woods-horror-story-supernatural-folklore.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}