Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasti...
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CREEPY SWAMP LEGENDS OF LOUISIANA: Menacing Monsters, Gruesome Ghosts, and Vindictive Voodoo Curses
In the heart of Louisiana’s swamps, ancient curses, ghostly hitchhikers, and bloodthirsty cryptids rise from the mist – proving the bayou’s darkest le...
Six Skulls, A Jar Marked Gacy's Brain, And The Woman He Wrote To For 13 Years | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Wisconsin woman told Madison police that the man she dated for two months back in 2013 had never stopped writing to her, and the detectives who sear...
BATMAN: Death Of The Dream Master | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Bruce Wayne keeps catching glimpses of a green-haired man in the crowds of Gotham City, which would be unremarkable except that Batman watched the Jok...
The Avenging Ghost of Kitty Morgan | #RetroRadio
Kitty Morgan designed every room of the mansion her lover built in the Adirondacks, and when he ended it between them, she made him a promise about th...
THE FOUR GEORGES OF UFOLOGY: Why Did Extraterrestrials Choose Them?
They didn’t just claim contact — they said they were chosen… and the names of the Four Georges are now etched into UFO history like warning signals th...
Alien Abduction Reported In Small Georgia College Town | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A report of an alien abduction came out of downtown Statesboro, Georgia, filed with police the same afternoon it happened, somewhere between four and...
THE SHOWERS: This Time the Wolf Is Real. | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A lifelong teller of tall tales spends years retelling his high school teacher's ghost story about a place in rural Nebraska called the showers, right...
Raven Mockers: The Cherokee Spirits That Steal A Dying Man's Time | #WDRadio
Something arrives at a Cherokee deathbed wearing the face of a very old man or woman, and the witches and demons want nothing to do with it. They call...
WHEN THE DEMONIC HAT MAN VISITS: Shadow People Haunting Millions, Terrifying All
They say he watches from the shadows, always wearing a hat — but the Hat Man isn’t just another shadow person… he’s something far more terrifying.
SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode Five
The thrilling conclusion! Scout Brooks and Mandy Lee have fought their way across the alien world of Thryos, battling monstrous Throats in a desperate...
SIDERS CASE: Gallia County Investigated The Children Twice, Then Closed Both | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Redacted juvenile court records released this week show the county went to court over the Siders children in 2020 and again in 2021, documented roache...
THE DEVIL’S BREW: A Rookie, A Beanball, And A Stranger With A Contract | #RetroRadio
A rookie phenom hitting .392 takes a fastball to the head, and comes out of the coma carrying a stranger's offer he can't shake and a batting slump he...
DEADLY DIGITAL DECEPTION: The Tragic Case of Renae Marsden – They Killed Her, But Won’t Be Charged
A young woman’s tragic death at a notorious cliffside sparks an investigation that uncovers far more than anyone expected.
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Trump's UFO Advisor Says Aliens Wouldn't Care Who Is President | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Avi Loeb chairs the Trump administration's UAP Science Advisory Council, and he told an interviewer this week that anything crossing interstellar spac...
THE FINISH LINE: Don’t Fight It | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A man at the end of his rope keeps meeting a dead acquaintance out on his morning running trail, and by the time he notices his own reflection has gon...
Hattie Lane Horror: Three Convicted In Wisconsin Starvation Case | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A 911 call from a trailer on Hattie Lane brought paramedics to a fourteen-year-old girl who weighed thirty-five pounds, and a year later three of the...
The One They Never Let Out | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A high school kid wakes from a near-fatal bike crash to find a strange, perfect dreamworld waiting behind his eyelids — and a familiar face there who'...
LOCKED OUT: Seven Years Late To His Own Christmas Party | #RetroRadio
A gust of wind shuts John Greenwood out of his own Christmas Eve party, and the constable who finds him climbing back in through a broken window says...
Latoya Ammons And The Demon House Of Gary, Indiana
A family in Gary, Indiana, spent a winter reporting things in their rented house that a priest, a caseworker, and a police captain all ended up puttin...
Gardenias on a Dead Line: True Crime Reimagined | #MurderNoir
A private eye takes a dead girl's case for a father who can't afford him, and comes home with a box of gardenias that have been cut for a month and st...
The House And Brain | #RetroRadio
A young London couple rent a room in a house that has stood unlivable for four hundred years, and the one woman who has ever managed to live there tel...
Leah Roberts Vanished Chasing Kerouac Into The North Cascades
In March 2000, a 23-year-old from North Carolina left a note about Jack Kerouac, packed her Jeep, and drove west toward a mountain she'd only read abo...
Siders Case: Indictment Identifies Gary Jr. As The Victim's Uncle | #WeirdDarkNEWS
The indictment read aloud in a Vinton County courtroom Wednesday names how Gary Siders Jr. is related to the child he is accused of abusing, his bond...
CONTAINMENT FAILURE: Hunting Down Failed Experiments | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A government hunter tasked with tracking down escaped experiments begins to realize the monsters he captures may not be the only things he should fear...
A BODY WITH NO TICKET: Murder On The Manchester Express | #RetroRadio
A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished f...
Dickens, Seances, and Why Ghosts Still Wear Victorian Clothes
Nobody in the Victorian era who claimed to see a ghost described lace and corsets – that look came from the magazine trade that discovered ghost stori...
An Omaha Bank Robbery Was Planned With Help From ChatGPT – And Failed | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Deron Lewis-Payne asked a chatbot about law enforcement response times and how to get ammunition as a felon; the phone holding those questions ended u...
Philadelphia's Chucky Mask Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Philadelphia police say a man in a white doll mask spent the early morning of August 12th chasing strangers around City Hall, and on the night of Augu...
The UFO Files Went Public And Distrust Hit A New High | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Five batches of declassified UAP records have gone up on a Department of War website since May, and two national surveys fielded in the same July stre...
The Woman Who Faked Being 12 to Get Adopted in Joinville | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A couple in southern Brazil spent fourteen months raising a traumatized girl who had escaped an abusive home with no documents and no family, and the...
The Figure In Black And The Belfast Cop Who Hunted Him | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Clearing out his late mother's attic, a man finds a box holding his uncle's folded RUC uniform and a small leather notebook – the private diary of a W...
The Alaskan Hotel: Room 315, Time Slips, and Blood on the Walls
The Alaskan Hotel has stood in Juneau since 1913, and the guests who ask for Room 315 by name do not always stay the night.
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The Locked Trunk: A Colonial Ghost Story from Henry James | #RetroRadio
In colonial Massachusetts, a dying woman made her husband lock her gowns and jewels in an attic trunk and swear that her sister would never open it –...
THE ANCIENT TOME OF VENGEANCE – The Last Book In A Dying Man's Shop | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A collector of rare books finds a shop hidden among the side streets where every shelf stands empty except for one table of leather volumes about murd...
THE DEVIL IN THE MIRROR: Criminals Who Blamed Demons – Can Demons Make You Commit Crimes?
Across five decades and three continents, killers have handed police the same explanation for the bodies they left behind – a demon made them do it. C...
FUTURE FEAR: Some Futures Are Better Left Unwatched | #RetroRadio
An old television set starts picking up broadcasts from years that haven't happened yet, and what the couple watching sees convinces them that some fu...
The Psychiatrist and the Woman from Mars | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Theoretical mathematician Charles T. Moore seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Rawlings for an unusual problem—he claims his mathematical breakthrough ha...
Richard Gallagher, the Psychiatrist Who Screens for Demons #WDRadio
For twenty-five years, exorcists have been sending a New York psychiatrist the cases they can't explain, and they chose him because they expected him...
HAUNTED, HUNTED, AND ABDUCTED: The 20-Year Nightmare of Julie – A True Story of Terror
At twelve, Julie stared at a clawed arm at the end of her bed for seven seconds and then went back to reading, and the two decades that followed are w...
The Maydew Sisters and the House in Brickett Bottom (Paxton’s House) | #RetroRadio
Two sisters walking the Overbury downs at dusk spot a quaint red brick house at the bend of the road in Brickett Bottom, and only one of them can see...