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 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 has given him an uncontrollable ability that terrifies him. The weary doctor, dreaming of retirement and chicken farms, assumes he's dealing with another routine delusion until certain details of Moore's story start sounding disturbingly familiar.EPISO
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 to say no.==========HOUR ONE: Different peoples build their identity around different facets of their culture: the Italians around their food, the Greeks around their architecture, America around expanding waistlines. The Isle of Man, however, has pi
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 why a UFO investigator spent weeks taking her statement.DEEP-DIVE ARTICLE about Archer Avenue & Resurrection Mary: https://weirddarkness.com/resurrection-mary/EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/EncountersOfJulieREAD or
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 it.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
The Green Light (Organ) | #RetroRadio
Fifty dollars a month for a furnished mansion in the country seems like the bargain of a lifetime, right up until they hear organ music in the house where no organ can be found. 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 STAM
The Laptop Was Closed When The Scene Was Rewritten | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Sam invented a brooding anti-hero for the pilot script she is already late delivering, and the man standing in the background of her footage, the one nobody on the crew hired, is dressed exactly like him.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-worldofherownSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith Conrad (https://www.auditoryanthology.com)WeirdDarkness® is a
The Neighbor – The Man Who Doesn't Eat Or Sleep | #RetroRadio
The man who bought the twenty-room house next door to the Powells keeps no car, no telephone, and every light in the place burning through the night, and a neighbor's dog that trots up his front walk drops dead on it without a mark.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: htt
Bigfoot Made Me Kill My Fishing Buddy
Two friends went bare-handed catfishing in an Oklahoma river in July of 2022, and one of them left the water convinced the other had been trying to feed him to Bigfoot.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/BigfootKilledMyFishingBuddyREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7r7pdnFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: An Oklahoma man
Siders Case – DISGUSTING and HORRIFYING UPDATE: New Grand Jury Charges | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Five days ago the prosecutor told a judge that serious felony charges were headed to the grand jury as part of the Siders case, but refused to say what those chargers were. On Friday the indictments came back, and the answer has made this case even darker and more evil than it was before. I need to place a trigger warning on this one, because it even shocked me when the news broke. SOURCES, LINKS,
THE MONSTER IN THE PANTRY: The House He Inherited Had a Resident With Claws | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Something has been scratching at the pantry door since he was ten years old, and now that he's inherited the house, it has started leaving claw marks.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-monsterinthepantrySOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Monster In The Pantry” by Christopher Maxim: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyri
SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode Four
Scout Brooks has spent one day training to become an intergalactic hero, preparing to rescue Professor Nog's old friend Farrow from a hostile alien race holding him captive somewhere among the stars. But as the mission prepares to launch, someone has been secretly watching Fort Nogs from the shadows outside — and their intentions remain a mystery.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, i
Zombie Drugs, Strange Crimes, and Chastity Belts
A drug said to turn victims into compliant “zombies,” some of the strangest true crime cases ever recorded, the bizarre history of chastity belts, the terrifying legend of Baba Yaga, and the mysterious Oera Linda manuscript.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ZombieCrimesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckk7x3vFEATURE
THE CLIMB UP THE BLACK TOWER – Lovecraft's “The Outsider” | #MidnightInTheMacabre
In a castle sunk so deep beneath the trees that no daylight has ever reached it, a man who has never seen the sun or heard a human voice starts climbing the one ruined tower that rises above the forest, having decided it is better to see the sky once and die than to live without ever seeing it at all.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-theoutsiderlovecraftSOURCES a
Last Train to Claybrough – The 4:15 Express | #RetroRadio
A man boards the 4:15 out of London in December of 1856, shares a locked compartment with a fellow passenger the whole way, and steps off to find that everyone insists he traveled alone.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 & T
Colorado Motorist Reports a Bigfoot Near Slumgullion Pass | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Bigfoot skeptic driving Colorado's Highway 149 on July 28th reported a dark figure stepping out of the treeline to look at her, and the only evidence is two barefoot impressions in the dirt.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SlumgullionPassBigfootLORI AND BILL BOWLING’S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIeemwcMlNcLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, i
The Siders Case: New Felony Charges Head To A Grand Jury | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Vinton County's prosecutor filed two motions explaining why the mother and the grandmother in the case should stay in jail, and in one of them he mentioned charges nobody outside the courthouse has seen yet.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260820Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other pod
Chris Watts and the Women Who Marry Men Who Will Die in Prison
A woman from Cleveland moved to Wisconsin, took the surname of Watts – a man serving five life sentences for killing his entire family – and filed to marry him. Women have been doing this for well over a century, and the ones who later walked away have almost never been asked why.BOOK: “They Told Me My Newborn Died – They Lied” by Darren Marlar: https://amzn.to/4ihvu3kEPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes s
Beijing's Robot Barista Made 202 Cups in an Hour and Needs No Coffee Breaks | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A humanoid robot barista set a world record on its first weekend behind the counter in Beijing, and the balance of power between humans and machines now rests almost entirely on how politely people behave in line.WEIRD DARKROAST COFFEE: https://weirddarkness.com/coffee/ (Yes, it’s a real thing!)SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/RobotBaristaLook for this podcast on Apple
THE BLACK GOO CONSPIRACY: Is an Alien Substance Responsible for a Wave of Suspicious Deaths?
A string of bizarre deaths, a secret defense program, and whispers of alien black goo — coincidence or cover-up? Is this mind-controlling, horrifying substance behind one of the strangest unsolved conspiracies in modern history?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/blackgooREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p95hnc5FEATURED
THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Scottish Castle Shipped to Florida | #RetroRadio
Murdoch Glourie has walked the halls of his family's Scottish castle every midnight for two hundred years, and now an American grocery millionaire has bought the place and means to ship it – ghost included – to Florida.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://weirddar
THE SNOW QUEEN’S CHILDREN – And The Room Without A Cradle | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A midwife is driven north to a castle at the top of the world to deliver a baby, and when she reaches the birthing room there is no cradle in it. She has brought hundreds of children into the world, but never one she was ordered not to save.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-snowqueenschildrenSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Snow Queen’s Children” by Louise Latham, sub
DUBNO EXTRATERRESTRIALS: Terrifying TRUE Stories of ALIEN ABDUCTION and UFO Encounters In Ukraine
In 2006 Ukraine, beams split the sky. Time stopped. Something inhuman came to Earth — and took people from their homes.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/UkraineUFOsSOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Ukraine Alien Abduction” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p82rjjpVIDEO: UFO Spotted Near Explosion In Ukraine: https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-spotted
THE QUADRUPLE – A Trapeze Flyer's Faustian Bargain | #RetroRadio
A trapeze flyer chasing a somersault no one has ever landed shares a drink with a circus fire eater who calls himself Lou Cipher, and walks away believing a bargain has been struck.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 S
THE CLOWN DOLL – And The Laughter From The Closet | #MidnightInTheMacabre
He hated the clown doll his great aunt left him, so he locked it in the closet, which is exactly where the laughing came from.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-clowndollSOURCES and RESOURCES: “I’ve Always Hated Dolls” by Devin Hoover: https://www.creepypasta.com/ive-always-hated-dolls/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midni
Death On The Road | #RetroRadio
Jim Harker kills a traffic constable on a fog-blind road at midnight and drives away without reporting it, and from that night forward every trip down that same stretch of road brings the sound of a police siren only he can hear.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:
A HAUNTING IN SANDTOWN – The Ghost of Mary Jane Reed
On the night of June 24th, 1948, seventeen-year-old switchboard operator Mary Jane Reed went out on a first date in Oregon, Illinois and was never seen alive again, and nearly eighty years later the little river town is still arguing over who killed her – and still reporting that she never quite left.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaryJaneReedREAD or DOWNLOAD the f
Six Hours Alone With the Baby and Nothing Left to Eat | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A man whose hunger has never once been satisfied agrees to babysit for six hours… but the food runs out in two hours.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ImAGluttonSOURCES and RESOURCES: “I’m a Glutton” by R. A. Brewster: https://www.creepypasta.com/im-a-glutton/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM),
SOMETHING BEHIND YOU: Phantom Riders and Angry Ghost Lights | #WDRadio
Across the country there are roads where the locals will tell you not to drive alone at night, because something out there takes an interest in the cars that pass.==========HOUR ONE: A Malaysian Haunted House To Sell *** The brutal death of an African slave brings a curse upon the wooden chest he was ordered to construct. (The Conjure Chest) ***
In Tuscaloosa, Alabama there is a home built by sla
CURSES CARVED IN STONE: The Dark Side of Egyptian Hieroglyphics
The ancients didn’t just fear death — they weaponized it, leaving behind curses in hieroglyphics meant to haunt anyone brave enough to look.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CursesCarvedInStoneREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3cfn27cpFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: They say grief lingers in the house where children
THE BLACK DOOR – Locked From the Inside | #RetroRadio
In a fog-bound London mansion emptied of its furniture and its servants, a young man lives alone beneath a wax-sealed black door at the top of the stairs that his father's instructions forbid him to open until his twenty-first birthday.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:
Whatever Is In The Old Man’s Composter Was Breathing | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Nothing will grow in his fields — but the old man next door drives home at midnight with his headlights off, and whatever he unloads makes his crops thrive.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-fertilizerSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Fertilizer” by RehnWriter: https://www.creepypasta.com/fertilizer/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.M
THE TULLY NEST AFFAIR: Circles in the Water Before Crop Circles
Something lifted out of Horseshoe Lagoon on a north Queensland banana farm in January 1966, and what it left floating on the surface was still there days later when the reporters, the air force, and ufologists arrived to investigate it.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TullyNestAffairREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2
Feeding of the Faithful: Sbirro’s Specialty of the House | #RetroRadio
Speciality of the House: Sbirro's has no menu, no sign and no interest in new customers, and the handful of men who eat there have taken a solemn oath never to speak of the one dish that keeps them coming back.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.tin
The Mars "Jellyfish" In Curiosity's Gale Crater Photo | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A three-year-old Curiosity frame from Gale Crater went viral this week after a space enthusiast flagged a small dark shape standing on the horizon, one that does not appear in the images shot moments before it, and NASA has not commented on it publicly.BOOK: “They Told Me My Newborn Died – They Lied”: https://amzn.to/4xyPmn1SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/MarsJellyfish
The Unholy Miracle: Made, Not Born | #RetroRadio
Harry and Sarah Kemp paid ten thousand dollars for a ten-month-old baby and never once asked what they were buying.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)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028
I Followed Her Home | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A cubicle crush turns dangerous when an office worker starts hearing a voice that isn't his own, and it wants him to reach Claira by any means necessary.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ifollowedherhomeSOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Followed Her Home” by Christopher Maxim: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright
SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode Three
Scout Brooks just wanted to survive his first day of seventh grade. Instead, he found himself recruited into a mysterious after-school club, named 'The Chosen One' by the strange Professor Nog, and handed a box of secrets he's not allowed to talk about. Meanwhile, somewhere far beyond the stars, a man named Farrow remains a prisoner of creatures no one back on Earth even knows exist.https://weirdd
CAPS AND GOWNS AND CASKETS: True Stories of Murders Taking Place at Graduation
They wore caps and gowns to celebrate the future — but before the night was over, some would lie dead in pools of blood, their dreams buried with them.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/capsgownscasketsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4d8r6tb9FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Graduation is a special time in just about
Cemetery Niche Thefts Span Nine States, Florida Deputies Say | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Orange County deputies have linked three people from the Indianapolis area to roughly twenty break-ins at Central Florida cemetery niches, where the jewelry families left beside their loved ones' ashes was taken, and all three are still at large.BOOK: "They Told Me My Newborn Died - They Lied": https://amzn.to/4i0XVT1SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/CemeteryNicheTheftsL
The Demon Cavefish Hiding Beneath Alabama's Area 51 | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A two-inch, eyeless fish with no color and a broken sight gene turned up in a single pool under the Army base locals call Alabama's Area 51 – inside a cave scientists had been watching for thirty years.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/demoncavefishLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps.
Something Blind And Hungry Is In The Sub-Basement | #RetroRadio
“Sub-Basement”: Down in the black tunnels beneath the store, the doors have sealed shut, the watchman is lying with his throat torn open, and whatever did it is dragging itself toward them through the dark — blind, patient, and hungry after a wait of ten thousand years.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a
THE KERSEY TIME SLIP: Three Boys Who Walked Into the 1400s
In 1957, three teenage naval cadets were sent to map a Suffolk village they had never seen, and came back describing a place that didn't belong to its own century. It's remembered now as the Kersey Time Slip – and decades on, no one can agree on what those three boys actually walked into.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/KerseyTimeslipREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcr
Six Months In, the FBI Is Back Behind Nancy Guthrie's House | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Six months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the same agents who caught the case are back on the strip of open desert behind it – and a retired FBI agent says the ground they are working was compromised on the very first day.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260813Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pand
FLIGHT 19: Six Aircraft, Twenty-Seven Men, Nothing Ever Found
Five Navy bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale in December 1945 on a three-hour training flight, and the search for what happened to them has now run for eighty years.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Flight19READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2cwkje7zFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In 1945, “Flight 19” vanished in t
THE DREAM WOMAN: A Knife, a Nightmare, and the Fear of Sleep | #RetroRadio
There is a man not yet sixty with the face of someone eighty, who sleeps only by daylight and spends every night awake with a buckhorn knife within his reach, ever since a woman came to him in a 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/OTRC
The Real Mummy's Curse in the Online Human Remains Trade | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A team of researchers went looking at what gets bought and sold under the heading of "mummified remains", and what they found sitting on ordinary shopping and social media sites turned into a peer-reviewed warning about what those centuries-old body parts can still do to the living.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/mummytradecurseLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts,
Melissa Casias: A Gunshot, a Gun Nearby, and a Death Left Undetermined | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A woman who worked at one of the most secure laboratories in the country walked away down a rural New Mexico highway on a summer afternoon, and the questions that opened that day have only multiplied since.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/casiasLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Ge
DEATH SPELL: A Beautiful Wife and a Fatal Spell | #RetroRadio
“Death Spell” – A wealthy man swears his beautiful wife is quietly working a spell to kill him, every doctor insists he's in perfect health, and the struggling artist who moves onto his estate is about to learn what a person's own belief can do to them.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free lis
THE HEIDI WYRICK HAUNTING: She Was 3 Years Old – Her Imaginary Friend Had Been Dead for 15 Years!
A three-year-old girl's imaginary friend turned out to be a real man – one who had been dead for fifteen years before she was born.BOOK: “They Told Me My Newborn Died – They Lied: A Global History of Stolen Babies” by Darren Marlar: https://amzn.to/45fNXptEPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/heidiwyrickREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirdda
Something in the Grain of the Old Pine Table | #RetroRadio
“The Kitchen Table” – A young couple pays a suspiciously low price for a neglected old farmhouse and lovingly begins restoring the home’s long-buried kitchen — never guessing that the house has been waiting a very long time for someone willing to listen to what it needs to say.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast app
SIXTEEN HOURS: The Time Traveler With a Warning From The Future | #MidnightInTheMacabre
On a quiet ER night shift, a badly burned stranger in a strange metallic suit is wheeled in, gasps a warning about a catastrophe that's coming, and then vanishes from the gurney — leaving behind a device counting down to a disaster only one nurse knows is on its way.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-sixteenhoursSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith
GODS, GRIFTERS, AND ARMAGEDDON: Lies and Lures of Cult Leaders
What happens when self-declared prophets, alien messengers, and doomsday fanatics build secret empires in plain sight — and convince others to follow them to the end of the world?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cultsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utz5hrfdSOURCES and RESOURCES:New York Post - “Inside Manhattan’s se
86 HOURS AWAKE: My Coffee Addiction | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A lifelong night owl pushes their sleepless habit a few nights too far, and what starts happening once he finally closes his eyes is the reason he’s now sworn off sleep for the rest of his life.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-coffeeaddictionSOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Have a Coffee Addiction” by Ashley IngrahamWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©
Madame LaLaurie: The Devil of the French Quarter | #WDRadio
Madame Delphine LaLaurie was one of the most admired socialites in New Orleans, and the Royal Street mansion she left behind is still called the most haunted address in the French Quarter.==========HOUR ONE:
Winnie had two trunks when she arrived at the train station – trunks that contained the severed body parts of her two best friends. She had murdered them, it seems, all in the name of love. (
DON’T STOP THE CAR: Haunted Highways, Cursed Curves, and Phantom Hitchhikers
America’s roads may look empty at night — but behind the headlights and mile markers, restless spirits are still trying to find their way home.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DontStopTheCarREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y5pypsk7FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Spooks are known to haunt houses, castles, cemeteries
The Clock That Spoke of Murder | #RetroRadio
“The Speaking Clock”: In a Bond Street antique shop where a hundred clocks tick out of time and one of them speaks with a dead man's voice.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)…00:00:00.000
Cold Orbs Over the Gulf of Oman in New Pentagon UFO Files | #WeirdDarkNEWS
The Pentagon's fifth batch of declassified UAP files arrived in early August, forty-one newly released records reaching as far back as 1950. Among them is gun-camera footage of four-foot "cold orbs" hovering over the Gulf of Oman, and video of a black sphere that blinks out over the Pacific before drifting back into frame.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/UFOTranche05Loo
The Stone Angel of Northumberland Avenue | #MidnightInTheMacabre
In a town where nothing interesting ever happens, there's one grave marker the locals won't let their children near on Halloween night.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-stoneangelSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Angel Statue Stole my Soul” by Kat HallWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally ai
INSECT: Trapped With The Monster! | #RetroRadio
A young scientist's growth-ray experiment leaves his terrified wife and a delivery boy trapped in a locked laboratory with a monstrous, six-foot creature they're certain will devour them — while the truth about what they're facing waits until the very last moment.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list
Whatever You Do, Don’t Let Them In: Chilling True Encounters With Black Eyed Kids
They look like lost children… until you see their eyes — and realize you’ve just opened the door to something inhuman.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/dontlettheminREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yath5y6wFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Described as childlike beings with eerie coal black eyes, no iris or pupils, an
More Than 50 Decomposing Bodies Inside a Chicago Funeral Home | #WeirdDarkNEWS
State regulators arrived at South Chicago Chapel for a routine license check and walked out having ordered the removal of more than fifty unrefrigerated human remains, some infested with rodents and maggots, from a funeral home whose director had already been shut down once before.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SouthChicagoChapelLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts
Dismembered Man Found In Three Suitcases: Orlando Stepson Charged | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Orange County deputies say a 71-year-old man reported missing near Orlando turned up dismembered inside three suitcases dumped along White Road, and that the man now charged with his murder was his own stepson.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/WhiteRoadSuitcasesLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other
Arctic Encounter: The Silence At The Top Of The World | #RetroRadio
Two enemy fighter pilots—one American, one Soviet—crash side by side in the frozen Arctic, drained of all power by something that fell from the stars and is patiently waiting for them to freeze.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneInRadio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS
A Diner Open 25 Hours a Day | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A driver who never stops on the long haul home pulls off a Massachusetts highway at midnight for a burrito, and finds a spotless chrome diner whose sign promises it's open twenty-five hours a day.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-diner25hoursSOURCES and RESOURCES:“A Diner Open 25 Hours a Day” by Christopher Maxim: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/WeirdDa
SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode Two
Scout Brooks just wanted to survive his first day of seventh grade. Instead, he found himself recruited into a mysterious after-school club, named 'The Chosen One' by the strange Professor Nog, and handed a box of secrets he's not allowed to talk about. Meanwhile, somewhere far beyond the stars, a man named Farrow remains a prisoner of creatures no one back on Earth even knows exist.Look for this
The Many Hauntings Of The S.K. Pierce Mansion
A murdered woman still haunts her room, a drunken boarder bursts from the shadows, and something in the basement wants to be found — welcome to the S.K. Pierce Mansion.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SKPierceMansionSOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Many Hauntings of the S.K. Pierce Mansion” from SlightlyOddFitchburg.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p85u74e, https://weir
Seoul's Pet Tarot Readers Decode What the Dog Is Thinking | #WeirdDarkNEWS
In an upscale Seoul district, a fortune-teller deals a custom tarot deck to greyhounds, turtles, and anxious owners who pay 20,000 won a session to find out what their pets have been secretly worried about.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/pettarotLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps.
The New Forest Vampire Who Left Lambs at Church Doors | #WeirdDarkNEWS
For six months, slaughtered lambs and severed deer heads kept turning up on the doorsteps of New Forest churches, always with an inverted cross set close by, and some of the people who found them stopped going to worship altogether. When police finally caught the man behind it, he gave the court his name as Count Dracula. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/NewForestVampir
Coming Home – Not Everything on Camera Was in the Script | #MidnightInTheMacabre
In 2016, a first-time director captured something on film he never intended to, and the people who've heard about what's buried in that footage tend to wish they hadn't.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-cominghomeSOURCES and RESOURCES:“Coming Home” by JRT McMahon: https://www.creepypasta.com/coming-home/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, W
Missing 411: The People Who Vanish From America's Wild Places
Thousands have stepped off marked trails and into America's wilderness never to be seen again, and the retired lawman who spent years cataloguing them found the same strange details surfacing case after case.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Missing411READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/34vb6kexFEATURED STORIES IN THIS E
Window to Oblivion: The Flight That Fell Through Time | #RetroRadio
A Marine pilot vanished over the Atlantic in 1945 with no wreckage, no body, and no explanation — and more than thirty years later, forty people would swear he was still alive.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
Four Arrested After a Newborn Nearly Starved in Florahome: The Cannon Case | #WeirdDarkNEWS
I swear, I could start a whole new podcast called "They Shouldn't Be Parents" with these stories coming from all directions. So sad. A follow-up welfare visit to a six-week-old in Florahome, Florida ended with the baby in intensive care and four adults from the same household in jail, after deputies described the conditions inside as among the worst child neglect they had ever encountered.SOURCES,
The Siders Case: Elizabeth Awaits a Ruling, Attorney Disputes Photos | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Elizabeth Siders' attorney tells a national television audience that the photos and video claiming to show inside the house may not be genuine. The judge in her case still has not ruled on whether she will be evaluated at all.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260806Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn R
The Marksman's Ring And The Nurse Who Turned Him Down | #RetroRadio
“The Girl He Left Behind”: A young nurse turns down her soldier sweetheart's marriage proposal but keeps the ring he insists she hold onto, and when word arrives that he was killed on the drive back to base, she discovers that the dead do not always accept being refused.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get
The Static Between Frames | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A TV studio worker wakes up to the same day he already lived — and he's the only person in the building who knows it.IN THIS EPISODE: “Frame By Frame” by Keith ConradMORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.comLook 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.
Jesse Butler Walks Free in Stillwater as DA Vows to Go Federal | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Stillwater high school student who pleaded no contest to raping and strangling two of his ex-girlfriends finished his youthful offender probation this week without a single day in prison, and a newly sworn district attorney is now asking the federal government to take the case Oklahoma no longer can.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/jessebutler20260805Look for this pod
THE GREAT AIRSHIP HOAX OF 1909: History’s Non-Existent Flying Machine
In 1909, all eyes turned to Worcester, Massachusetts, as a well-dressed businessman claimed he’d built a flying machine — and the world wanted to believe him so badly, they saw it in the sky whether it was there or not.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/airshiphoaxREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ye27xce4FEATURED STORI
The Clockwork Confession (Ninety-Three-Year-Old Man) | #RetroRadio
An aging millionaire’s fixation on a battered toy car draws his family into a tense mystery rooted in a tragedy from the past.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)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open0
The Birth of the Nebraska Sea – The Ocean That Ate the Midwest | #MidnightInTheMacabre
It started with dust instead of smoke over an empty stretch of Colorado in the summer of 1973, and by the time anyone understood what the land was actually doing, the middle of the country had already begun to drop.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-nebraskaseaSOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Great Nebraska Sea” by Allan Danzig (Galaxy Magazine August 1963)WeirdDarkness
(AUG 04, 2026 UPDATE) Siders Case: Grandfather Freed, All Four Now Seek Competency | #WeirdDarkNEWS
One Siders defendant walks free on a signature bond. The last of the four asks a judge whether she's fit to stand trial at all.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260804Siders Case: Vinton County Child Endangerment Case, July 15 Coverage – Weird DarkNEWSThe Siders Family's Other House and Their Years Off the Grid – Weird DarkNEWS, July 22The 16 Siders Children:
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