Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Award-winning podcast featuring true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the 'Best Storytellers in Podcasting' by Podcast Business Journal. New episodes are released seven days a week.
Episodes
The Crabacabra: The Monster I Accidentally Made!
A bored kid trapped in a powerless, sweltering house sneaks into his father's off-limits basement lab, where a machine that turns AI drawings into living creatures is about to make his worst summer unforgettable.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/165527
“SOMETHING WATCHES FROM THE TREES: True Paranormal Encounters In The Wilderness” #WeirdDarkness
You ever get that feeling like you’re being watched when you’re out in the woods? Turns out, some people know they were — and what they saw was anything but normal.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ParanormalWildernessREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/zyutdd7jFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: There are numerous bizarre
Their Coffins Were Waiting: Funeral Arrangements Completed | #RetroRadio
A routine trip to claim an inheritance becomes a waking nightmare when a young couple discovers their own coffins waiting for them at a lonely, decaying estate.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Appr
The Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident | The Night Two Families Shot At Little Green Men
For a few terrifying hours in the summer of 1955, two Kentucky families emptied their guns into small, glowing creatures that swarmed their farmhouse and simply would not die — and to this day, no one agrees on whether they fought off aliens, owls, or something the mind conjured out of the dark.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/kellyhopkinsvilleREAD or DOWNLOAD the fu
The House With the Green-Eyed Shadow and the Man Who Won't Die | #RetroRadio
“The House And The Brain”: A skeptical scientist who swears the supernatural is nonsense spends one night in a house no tenant will stay in—and discovers a terror that follows him out the door.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS
Harvard Alien Hunter Avi Loeb to Lead White House UFO Council | #WeirdDarkNEWS
The astronomer who says an alien light sail may have passed Earth in 2017 now leads a government team asked to figure out what the military's mystery orbs really are.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/loeb-ufo-councilLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening app
An Exterminator Found a Body in a Queens School Chimney | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Called to a shuttered Queens elementary school over a foul smell, an exterminator opened the ash dump and found a shoe, then a foot — a man's body wedged in the chimney, still unidentified.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/school-chimney-bodyLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a
Crazy Town: Where Killers Are Sane and the Sane Are Mad | #RetroRadio
“Crazy Town”: Two bomber pilots who rain death on defenseless villages crash behind the walls of a hidden asylum, where a soft-spoken madman insists they've finally come home to the only community where killers like them belong.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https:/
Who Owns a Novel a Ghost Claims to Have Ghostwritten?
In 1917, a dead Mark Twain "wrote" a novel through a Ouija board — and the lawsuit that followed forced everyone to ask who really owns a book authored from the afterlife.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ghostwritingREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/366f2snyFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Did Mark Twain write a new
The FEMA Official Who Said He Teleported to a Waffle House – HAS BEEN FIRED | #WeirdDarkNEWS
The man appointed to lead one of FEMA's most important disaster-response offices had told podcast audiences he was once physically teleported roughly fifty miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/fema-teleportRELATED ARTICLE FROM APRIL 2026: https://weirddarkness.com/fema-teleportation/Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, i
FBI Now Believes Every Nancy Guthrie Ransom Note Is Fake | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Five months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the FBI now believes none of the ransom notes tied to her disappearance are genuine — including the two her family thought were real.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260701Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get
The Budapest Orderly, the Skin Mask, and a Heart in a Jar | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A search of a Budapest apartment turned up skulls, a severed hand, a lower leg, and a heart in a jar — and the hospital orderly who lived there told police he had prepared and eaten human body parts.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BudapestCannibalLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps.
A Gamer's Fake Amazon Delivery Ended in a Salinas Stabbing | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A man who met a woman through online video gaming flew from Canada to Salinas, hid a set of knives and restraints inside a fake Amazon box, and knocked on her door just before ten at night.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/salinas-amazon-attackLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get
The Shared Nightmare: Tell Me Your Dreams | #RetroRadio
A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00
A 55-Gallon Drum, a Ted Bundy Note, and Two Missing Women in Philly | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A roadside stop near Independence Mall led Philadelphia police and the FBI into an Olney basement stacked with chemicals, a 55-gallon drum plumbed into the ground, and an unsigned letter that name-checks Ted Bundy — inside a house tied to two women who vanished years apart.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/horschLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Ra
Supernatural Sickness, Paranormal Poison | The Link Between Paranormal Activity and Sudden Illness
When the supernatural seeps into our world, it doesn’t just leave behind fear—it can also leave sickness. From shadowy visitors to ominous dreams, some eerie paranormal encounters suggest that the price of witnessing the unknown may be paid in flesh and blood.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SupernaturalSicknessREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: ht
1963: The Year UFOs, Beasts, and Dark Forces Swept Three Continents
A gigantic cigar-shaped craft shadowed a NATO airliner over the Atlantic in 1963, the same year similar motherships appeared over Australia, Canada, and the skies of a Britain overrun by headless creatures and desecrated churches.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/1963DarkForcesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p87kmst
The Hospital Room That Swallows Sound — and the Nurse Sent In Alone
Short-staffed and well past midnight, a young nurse accepts an overnight shift in the one hospital room everyone else refuses to enter — and she experiences something unlike she has before.IN THIS EPISODE: “Silent Ward” by Keith ConradMORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.comOriginally aired: June 29, 2026EPISODE PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/SilentWard
Are UFO Aliens Actually Humans From a Ruined Future Earth? | #WDRadio June 28, 2026
Decades of alien encounters may not point to other worlds at all, but to a ruined future Earth — where the last survivors of humanity travel back to our present, disguised as the aliens we expect, to harvest the DNA that might save their dying species.==========HOUR ONE: A Virginia pilot encounters a mysterious golden orb during a skydive flight! *** For those who claim to have spoken with extrate
Star Hill: The Reporter Sent to Warminster to Debunk UFOs — and Did the Opposite | #RetroRadio
A skeptical reporter is sent to debunk England's most famous UFO hotspot — but the more nights he spends on Star Hill, the harder it becomes to dismiss what he sees, and the woman who keeps appearing there may be asking him to believe in far more than he ever bargained for.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. G
How a Civilization Ended War by Sending Every Teenager Through One | Science Fiction
In a world that has finally outlawed war, every boy must still report for combat at fifteen — and Tom is about to learn exactly what that means.TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8scp4f“The Invisible Enemy” by Arnold Castle, originally published in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” October 1954https://weirddarkness.com/invisibleenemy
The Ghost Who Never Learned to Vanish | The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells
A bumbling, newly dead ghost can't remember the gestures that would let it leave — so a kindly skeptic offers to help, never guessing what the way out would cost.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/inexperiencedghostREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2x3w7t7vFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A classic from H.G. Wells enti
THE OLD MAN ON SUTTER LANE: True Crime Reimagined | #MurderNoir
A broke private eye rides south to explain away a little girl's imaginary friend, and walks out of a pine-country farmhouse convinced the old man pushing her on the swing has been dead for years.EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-oldmanonsutterlaneTRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p84f78kTHE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: In February 1989, Andy and Lisa
He Gave His Eyes to the Man Who Sent Him to Die | #RetroRadio
A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift might carry.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Ap
“The Russian Sleep Experiment” Creepypasta, plus 4 TRUE Horrors!
Five prisoners are kept awake for fifteen days in a sealed chamber — and what the researchers find when they open the door no longer wants to be set free. A blockbuster film series trails a string of real-life deaths its cast can't explain. On the back roads of Maryland, a half-goat figure waits for teenagers who wander too far. And one ordinary night in El Paso, a couple walks out of their home —
“THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK” by H.P. LOVECRAFT (Classic Horror)
A writer obsessed with the occult and forbidden knowledge uncovers a nightmarish secret lurking within a long-abandoned church—one that watches, waits, and is drawn to the dark.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/haunterofthedarkREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9ecf8yFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’m back with a c
Hiram Carrero Sentenced for Setting a Sleeping Homeless Man on Fire | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A New York teenager lit a piece of paper, threw it at a sleeping homeless man on a Manhattan subway, and stepped back onto the platform as the doors closed behind him. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/carrero-subway-fireLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listenin
Nancy Guthrie's Ransom Notes Now Tied to Her Abductor | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Investigators now believe the two February ransom notes sent to the Guthrie family came from the person who took Nancy — and one of them said she was already dead. *** ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CAN CONTACT THE FBI AT 1-800-CALL-FBI, OR THE PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AT 520-351-4900.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260627Look for this podcast on Apple Podcas
The Jellyfish Drones an F-15 Pilot Saw Before Ejecting Over Iran | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Pulled out of Iran after his Strike Eagle went down, an American fighter pilot told intelligence officers he had watched a cluster of drones hover and move together as one body, like a jellyfish, in the seconds before he ejected.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/f15-jellyfishLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Rad
DubBot, Dublin's Robot Cop, Retires After Zero Arrests | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Dublin, Ohio spent $67,548 on a five-foot, four-hundred-pound robot that patrolled a parking garage for nearly ten months and never made an arrest, wrote a ticket, or flagged a single incident.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/dubbotREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora,
Whitewater’s Haunted History | Supernatural to Second Salem
A grieving farmer's seance vow and a healer's vision of buried iron built the world's only school for talking to the dead — and left the town of Whitewater steeped in legends of witches, haunted cemeteries, and things that crawl out of the lake.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedWhitewaterREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarknes
“WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN” and “THE ALONE SHOW COVERUP” | Horror Fiction
The circus came overnight, but when it left, three boys were dead—and I was no longer human. *** There are contestants from TV’s reality show “Alone” whom you’ve never seen—because they never made it back.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CircusCameToTownCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:29.387 = When The Circus Came To T
The Atomic Crabs of Bikini Atoll | #RetroRadio
Two downed pilots wash up on a deserted Pacific island and discover that the atomic bomb tests there have bred something monstrous in the lagoon — and it's coming ashore. | Mysterious Traveler: “Strange New World”Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.
The Vanishing Bride and the Government's Secret Experiment | #RetroRadio
His fiancée disappears without a trace the night they were supposed to set their wedding date, and the deeper Peter digs, the closer he gets to a secret the government would rather keep buried.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS
Did Jacques St. Germain Cheat Death for Hundreds of Years?
A mysterious gentleman who never aged, never ate, and never seemed to die charmed the high society of two centuries — until police found his wine bottles filled with blood.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stgermainREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WD20260625-StGermain.txtFEATURED STORIES IN THIS
Marceli Gottardo Beaten to Death in a Serra "Exorcism" | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A woman screamed inside a Serra apartment for the better part of an hour, and the man with her told police he beat her to drive out the demons he believed had taken hold.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/marceli-gottardoLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening
Moorpark Father Gets One Year for Incest After His Daughter's Suicide | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Stephen Chavez got his eighteen-year-old daughter drunk and had sex with her two days after she moved across the country to live with him; she died by suicide five months later, and a Ventura County judge gave him one year in jail.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/makayla-settlesLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn
Teen Daughter Arrested For Fatally Stabbing Both Parents And The Dog | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Police reached a home in Meerstad at 2:45 in the morning and found a married couple stabbed to death, the family dog wounded, and the couple's 15-year-old daughter in custody a short distance away.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/meerstad-murdersLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. G
A Magician Named Hidden Vanished, and the Search Ended at Mount Cougal | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Gold Coast illusionist drove into the rainforest before dawn, switched off his phone, and was found ten days later in the bushland he loved.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/magician-hidden-foundLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod
The Bell Witch's Final Laugh | The Only Ghost Ever Known to Murder a Man
The spirit had vowed to put John Bell in his grave, and on a December morning in 1820 a coma, a smoky vial of black poison, and a dead barn cat proved she meant every word.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/bellwitchfinallaughREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yfpsnbfwFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Did a malevolent sp
The Church of Hell: The Tenant Who Was Frightened to Death | #RetroRadio
David and Jane Francis come home from a European holiday to find the wealthy widow who'd sublet their country house dead of fright — and the rooms left behind tell of melted mirrors, scorched floors, and a circle burned into the wood that no living tenant should have known how to draw.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other pod
JUKEBOX WEIRDO | Send Me Your Weirdest Idea, I'll Turn It Into a Song!
Step right up, Weirdos! Got a strange idea rattling around in your skull — a haunting nobody believes, a cryptid your uncle swears he saw, some true-crime case that still keeps you up at night? Jukebox Weirdo turns it into a real, honest-to-goodness song. You bring the weird, you pick the band off the Weird Darkness Records roster, and I write it and produce it — with your name on the idea. And if
The Looking Glass Girl: What Did They Do To Her? | #RetroRadio
Two young Parisians dreaming of artistic greatness stumble upon a squalid countryside farm, where one becomes fatally transfixed by a strange, silent girl the family keeps like livestock — and the price of his masterpiece may be more than either of them can imagine.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a lis
Proof the Men in Black Are Real, Hidden in Federal Records
A Phoenix musician snapped two clear photos of a flying saucer in 1947 — then government agents with hidden names showed up, took his negatives, and made the evidence vanish into federal archives forever.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RhodesMIBREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8z656hFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISOD
Florida Man Who Saw the Anti-Christ Tried to Steal a Medical Helicopter | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A pickup driver who told troopers he had just seen the anti-Christ ran past every first responder on a closed stretch of I-75 and yanked open the pilot's door of the helicopter sent to airlift the two people he had badly injured.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/antichrist-helicopter-heistLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pando
A Teacher, a Whole-Life Order, and the Baby He Was Adopting | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Jamie Varley told police his adopted son drowned in the bath, but the baby's hair was dry, his nappy was still on, and a post-mortem found forty injuries.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/babyprestonLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://p
Leah Anderson Shot in the Head, Teen Brother Charged in Thornton | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A 21-year-old Plymouth State student was shot in the head inside her own family's home, and the person charged with pulling the trigger is her teenage brother.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/leah-andersonLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: ht
Three Inmates Killed a Child Murderer Inside HMP Wakefield | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Three men walked into Kyle Bevan's cell at one of England's most secure prisons, stabbed him more than 25 times, tucked his body into bed to look asleep, and walked out four minutes and 39 seconds later.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/three-inmates-wakefieldLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other po
Nancy Guthrie: A New Ransom Note and Three Debunked Theories | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A ransom note sent five days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home opened with an apology for her death — and offered to return her body for a price.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/Guthrie20260622Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listeni
The Horned Man of Dawstone Road: Heswall Crashes
Across four decades on Heswall's Dawstone Road, drivers and a motorcyclist reported a seven-foot horned figure that seized their vehicles and threw them into the sandstone wall.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DawstoneDemonREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2en5ubwwFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Dawstone Road is whe
Royston House: The Mansion That Forbids Mirrors | #RetroRadio
A young woman hired to care for an invalid widow in a crumbling Hudson River mansion soon learns why her brooding employer forbids every mirror in the house—and why the dogs are always watching.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS
A Slit Throat on 85th Street: The Bay Ridge Killing of Maria Santos Flores
A 36-year-old bartender came home from her overnight shift in Brooklyn, and within hours her teenage son and her sister found her dead on the floor with her neck cut.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/santos-floresLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps h
A Boy in the Crocodile Pit and the Stranger Arrested Over It. | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A three-year-old visiting Johnson's of Old Hurst ended up inside the crocodile enclosure, was pulled out by a member of the family that runs the zoo, and the stranger arrested over it was assessed as unfit for police interview.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/croc-enclosure-boyLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn
Kansas City Highway Shooting Spree Leaves One Dead, Suspect Still at Large | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Five drivers were shot along Interstate 70 the evening Kansas City opened its World Cup, and the man police are hunting has not been found.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/kc-world-cup-shootingsLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.l
Who Was Mr Kipper, the Man Suzy Lamplugh Met Before Vanishing? | #WDRadio June 21, 2026
On a bright July afternoon in 1986, twenty-five-year-old London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office to show a house to a client her diary noted only as "Mr Kipper," and she was never seen again.==========HOUR ONE: It is considered by many, Britain’s most well-known disappearing person case. Even now, over three decades later, people in the UK are still fascinated and intrigued by the unexpl
The 62nd Demon of Solomon: The True History of Valak
Centuries before Hollywood dressed it in a nun's habit, the demon Valak prowled the pages of forbidden grimoires as a winged boy astride a two-headed dragon, commanding legions of serpents to do his bidding.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):https://weirddarkness.com/valekREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/24s8nzb9FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE:
A Doctor Discovers Her Immigrant Patients Aren't Human | #RetroRadio
A young doctor returns to her childhood slum to open a free clinic, but when a dying patient vanishes from her examination room and his grieving cousin swears the boy has simply gone home, she begins to wonder what kind of people she's really been treating.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and the Fountain of Youth: A Hawthorne Mystery | #RetroRadio
Four aged friends gather in an eccentric doctor's shadowed study, where he offers each of them a single glass of water he swears was drawn from the Fountain of Youth.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Time
Something Unseen Scared These Criminals Straight
A burglar, a car thief, a pickpocket, and a roof full of teenagers all heard the same thing in the dark — a voice that wasn't there, telling them to get out before it was too late.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/somethingunseenREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7mzj4apFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Creepy, paranor
Noah's Ark Searchers Win Turkish Permits for the Durupinar Site | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Turkish team has government clearance to drill, scan, and lower a drone beneath a boat-shaped mound near Mount Ararat that some believe is the wreck of Noah's Ark.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/NoahsArk2026Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps her
Skeleton Bridge: The Rope Jump That Killed Maria Eduarda | #WeirdDarkNEWS
On a Saturday morning in São Paulo, three instructors hoisted Maria Eduarda over the edge of an abandoned bridge — and her safety rope never left the platform.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/MariaEduardaRodriguesLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps
Anna Kepner's Stepbrother Jailed Ahead of Cruise Murder Trial | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A federal judge ordered sixteen-year-old Timothy Hudson jailed until trial for the killing of his stepsister Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship, finding that no monitor could be trusted to contain him.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/AnnaKepner20260619Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other po
12-Year-Old Faked Her Kidnapping to Extort Her Parents in Brazil | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A 12-year-old in southern Brazil told her family kidnappers had beaten her and would kill her unless they paid — and police spent sixteen hours hunting captors who never existed.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/12-year-old-fake-kidnappingLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a lis
America's Notorious Body Dump Sites and the Strangest Corpse Discoveries
From the Texas Killing Fields and Gilgo Beach to a corpse left decomposing in a hotel water tank and three infants found frozen in a family freezer, these are the notorious dump sites where killers hide their victims — and the strangest places human remains have ever turned up.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/BodyDumpSitesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this
The Haunted Crossroads: A Hanged Woman's 200-Year Curse | #RetroRadio
A lonely Massachusetts crossroads has been claiming the lives of lawmen for over two hundred years—each one stabbed in the back in a spot so open no killer could possibly reach him, while the only sound in the dark is a woman's cold laughter.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps
The Gorbals Vampire and Mass Hysteria
In 1954, hundreds of Glasgow schoolchildren armed with makeshift weapons stormed the Southern Necropolis, hunting a towering, iron-toothed vampire they believed had already claimed two victims.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/GorbalsVampireREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4xtvswmmFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Wha
What Lives in the Pool Behind Witchwater Green? | #RetroRadio
A fragile young mother, alone with her infant daughter in a remote old mill, becomes certain that something is moving in the deep black pool behind her bedroom wall, and that the villagers fighting to keep it filled know exactly what it wants.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening app
Peru Cops Dressed as World Cup Mascots to Raid a Lima Drug House | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Two Green Squad officers pulled on the foam heads of Clutch the Bald Eagle and Maple the Moose, hefted a battering ram, and went hunting for a drug dealer who loved football a little too much.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/mascot-raidLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list
BREAKING: Body Found in Lexington Woods Where Elena Moore Vanished | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Elena Katherine Moore left her Lexington gym on foot the night of June 11th, and six days later searchers found a body in the woods wearing the same olive-green hoodie.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/elena-katherine-mooreLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listen
The Doodler: San Francisco's 1970s Serial Killer May Still Be Alive | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Six gay men were stabbed to death near San Francisco's Ocean Beach in the mid-1970s, and the detective working the case today believes their killer is still alive in the East Bay.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/doodler-sfLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listen
CBS Poll Finds Millions Think Aliens Have Already Visited Earth | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A new CBS News poll shows that most Americans believe intelligent life exists beyond Earth, and one in five think contact with extraterrestrials has already happened.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/alien-contact-pollLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening a
Yesterday’s Giant: A Nevada Nuclear Test Wakes a Family of Neanderthal Giants | #RetroRadio
A nuclear test deep beneath the Nevada desert stirs something that should have died out two hundred thousand years ago, and when two old colleagues climb into the mountains to find it, only one of them grasps what it will cost to bring a living giant back down.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of
The Hartford Circus Fire: 167 Dead in Under Ten Minutes
Because the canvas roof had been waterproofed with gasoline, the small flame that touched it on July 6, 1944 swept across the Hartford circus big top in seconds, and most of the 167 people it killed were children.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HartfordCircusFireREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39d8nfwhFEATURED STOR
Riverside Doctor Admits Groping Three Patients, Loses License | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Newport Beach physician who ran a Riverside skin-care clinic pleaded guilty to the sexual battery of three patients during their exams, and he will never hold a medical license again.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SannoufiLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free li
The $500,000 T. Rex Handbag That Was Mostly Chicken | #WeirdDarkLAUGHS
A Paris auction house expected half a million dollars for the world's first lab-grown Tyrannosaurus rex handbag, and the bidding gave out at a hundred and fifty thousand for a purse paleontologists say is mostly chicken.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/trexpurseLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other
Queen of Thieves: A Widow, a Swindler, and a Cursed Copper Idol | Ranee of Rajputana #RetroRadio
At her own party, a wealthy widow watches her trusted investment counselor's fingers close around a small copper idol — the Queen of Thieves — as if the little goddess had reached out of the shadows and chosen him for her own.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://w
Spontaneous Human Combustion | They Found Only Her Skull and Foot; Her Room Left Unscorched
Sometime before dawn on July 2, 1951, a 67-year-old St. Petersburg widow was reduced to ash in her own armchair while the room around her sat almost untouched, leaving behind little more than a shrunken skull, a piece of spine, and a single foot still resting in its slipper.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaryHardyReeserREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this e
STAR WARS: Return of the Jedi | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio
Thirteen years after The Empire Strikes Back, the long-delayed finale arrived in 1996 — six episodes that brought the original trilogy to a close. Funding cuts had stalled production for more than a decade, but the conclusion was completed at last, with Anthony Daniels returning one final time as C-3PO, joined by Brock Peters as Darth Vader, John Lithgow's Yoda, and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. Sti
A Ghost Who Forgot Why He Came, a Dying Wife, a Final Anniversary | #RetroRadio
A dying woman swears there's a prowler downstairs, but what her husband finds in the dark kitchen is a timid little ghost who can't remember why he's come.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approxima
HEAVEN'S GATE | Purple Shrouds, Matching Shirts, Black and White Nikes, And $5.75 Each
When the Hale-Bopp comet swung past Earth in 1997, thirty-nine people put on matching black shirts and brand-new Nikes, swallowed a lethal mix of barbiturates and vodka, and lay down beneath purple shrouds to die — certain their souls were about to board the alien ship they believed was hiding in the comet's tail.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/heavensgateREAD or DO
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