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
ANATOMICAL ANOMALIES: Monsters, Myths, and Medical Mysteries of Human Anatomy
From hearing your own blood and battling endless earworms to noseless societies, double-faced men, and the deadly myths of virgin cures, tonight we dive deep into the eerie, bizarre, and tragic extremes of the human body.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AnatomicalAnomaliesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmjxrbFEAT
#TwoLostHours | "Do You Believe In Flying Saucers Now?"
Betty and Barney Hill left Howard's Restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire at 10:05 on the night of September 19th, 1961; a light kept pace with their car down U.S. Route 3, and by the time the kitchen clock in Portsmouth read shortly after five, neither of them could remember a thirty-five-mile stretch of the drive. Betty called Pease Air Force Base two days later, and in November two NICAP membe
FLOWERING EVIL: Something Was Killing Animals Near Her Hothouse | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Her nephew sent her exotic plants from every port of call across the solar system, but there was something about his latest gift from Venus that made the old captain uneasy.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FloweringEvilSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Flowering Evil” by Margaret St. Clair (Planet Stories Summer 1950)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, W
#BotchedExecutions | William Kemmler, The First Man In The Electric Chair
On August 6th, 1890, William Kemmler became the first man put to death in the electric chair. After seventeen seconds, a doctor said he was dead, and then the witnesses saw his chest rising and falling.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeirdDark
THE FAMILIAR GHOST: The Footsteps That Followed Captain Barton Home | #RetroRadio
A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl A
A WARDEN FOR ALL SAINTS: The Black Figurine From The Dig In Syria | #RetroRadio
A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “
FAMILY ANNIHILATORS: John List And The Psychology Of Familicide
In November 1971, John List shot his mother, his wife, and his three children inside their Westfield, New Jersey, mansion, then walked out the next morning and stayed free for nearly 18 years. Criminologists at Birmingham City University later went through three decades of British cases like his and found that most of the men responsible had steady jobs, everything from surgeons to postmen to serv
LEGALLY HAUNTED: The Nyack Ruling And The Buyers Who'd Move In Anyway | #WeirdDarkNEWS
In 1991 a New York appeals court ruled a house in Nyack haunted as a matter of law, and a survey posted on October 12th says more than half of Americans could be talked into buying a house they knew was haunted. Of the four states said to have laws on it, only two mention the paranormal in a statute, and in both of them the seller doesn't have to bring it up.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: http
WE'RE CIVILIZED: Taking Mars In The Name Of Earth And God | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A Western Alliance ship circles Mars at the equator and again from pole to pole, and Captain Thomas H. Griswold, already picturing his name in the history books, finds no buildings and no ruins below, only iron ore and long straight canals that the young civilian expert aboard calls evidence of something.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/werecivilizedSOURCES and RESOU
#BotchedExecutions | Roxalana Druse, The Last Woman Hanged In New York
In 1887, Roxalana Druse became the last woman New York ever hanged, on a secondhand gallows that used a falling 213-pound weight to jerk her into the air. Her neck didn’t break, and fifteen minutes passed before the doctors pronounced her dead.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://we
THE HAT MAN: The Shadow That Spreads From One Family Member To The Next
Witnesses around the world describe the same faceless man in a wide-brimmed hat, and they say once he appears to one person in a house, another family member is often next.ADDITIONALARTICLE ABOUT THE HAT MAN: https://weirddarkness.com/hat-man/ADDITIONAL ARTICLE ABOUT SHADOW PEOPLE: https://weirddarkness.com/shadow-people/EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HatManAndShad
STICK MAN: A Mother's Secret And The Boy In The Mudroom | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Martha Whitman doesn't think her six-year-old son Osmond is as sick as his doctors and his father say, so she makes him a deal: she'll throw his pills down the kitchen drain, morning and night, and he'll tell his father he's been taking them.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stickmanSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Stick Man” by Donte-highwater: https://www.inkitt.com/howard23
THE FRESNO NIGHTCRAWLERS: And The Pale Things Crawling Across The Midwest #WDRadio
A Fresno, California, family set up a camera by the garage after their dogs kept barking into the dark, and the next morning's footage showed two pale figures with no arms anyone could make out, walking across the front lawn on long legs that seem to bend backward.==========HOUR ONE: There are roads on Long Island that are much more than a line between two points. Some roads contain legends that t
MASHA AND DASHA: Conjoined, Controlled, And Confiscated By The Soviets
Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were born joined at the waist in Moscow in January of 1950; their mother was told they’d died of pneumonia, and Soviet scientists kept the girls for experiments, packing one sister in ice while they took the other’s temperature. Decades later, the British journalist who befriended them came to believe one twin had all the traits of a psychopath and the other had beco
SAY IT THREE TIMES: Bloody Mary, The Secret, And Who Is Really Answering | #COTU
A Scottish poet published the rules in 1786: a candle, a mirror, an apple, and the face of your future husband looking over your shoulder. The girls who play it now chant a dead woman's name in a dark bathroom instead, a book that sold thirty million copies turned the same trick into a self-help plan, and some of us have carried it into the prayer closet without noticing.Listen through the end for
CREEGER THE CREEPER: Locked In The Grove City Library After Dark | #MidnightInTheMacabre
The doors are locked, the library is dark, and ten-year-old Lucy is about to find out she isn't the only one still inside behind those locked doors.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CreegerSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Creeger the Creeper” by Scott Donnelly, written for http://www.MicroTerrors.com.WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Mid
#BotchedExecutions | John Lee, The Man They Couldn't Hang
On the morning he was to hang at Exeter in 1885, John Lee told his warders he'd dreamed the scaffold wouldn't work. Then the hangman pulled the lever again and again, and the trapdoor under Lee never opened.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeir
WARD SIX: The Only Man In Town Worth Talking To Was Locked Up | #RetroRadio
A small-town Russian doctor who's given up on his filthy hospital starts spending hours in the ward for the insane out back, talking philosophy with one of the patients.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 T
ALIEN HAND SYNDROME: The Uncontrollable Monster At The End Of Your Arm
For more than a century, doctors have been recording patients whose hands act on their own, from unbuttoning a shirt to closing around the patient's own throat. Hollywood was making movies about murderous hands by the 1930s, decades after the reality of it was discovered.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AlienHandSyndromeREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this ep
#BotchedExecutions | Wallace Wilkerson And The Firing Squad That Missed
In March 1879, the Supreme Court said a firing squad wasn't cruel and unusual punishment. Two months later in Provo, Wallace Wilkerson refused the blindfold, the rifles missed his heart, and he took 27 minutes to die.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexec
THE DARK REALM: Something Is Floating At The Edge Of The Jungle | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Seventeen months after the war's official end, a six-man survey crew of ex-servicemen hikes into the jungle behind Co Khao to lay markers for a French power company, and on their first night, after a ball of blue light crosses the twilight sky, they find a smooth black sphere hanging a foot off the ground at the edge of the trees.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Dark
A HORROR STORY: The Diary Behind The Chimney Brick On Common Street | #RetroRadio
In 1829 New Orleans, a shoemaker whose slippers are the softest in town turns down the fabric a wealthy father brings in for his daughter's debut and insists on using his own material.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 & TIM
EDMUND KEMPER: The Co-Ed Killer Had A University Parking Sticker
Santa Cruz students were told to accept rides only from cars with a university parking sticker, and Edmund Kemper, a six-foot-nine man who'd killed his grandparents at fifteen, had one because his mother worked on campus.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/EdmundKemperREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/59bkpj6yFEATURED ST
SIDERS CASE: Grandfather's Charges Dismissed, Grandmother May Have Dementia | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Vinton County judge has dismissed all 16 counts against Gary Siders Sr. while keeping jurisdiction over him for a possible civil commitment; his wife's lawyer now wants a dementia specialist, and the lawyer for the mother of the 16 children won't say whether she's pregnant again.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20261008Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW: Ichabod Crane And The Headless Horseman | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut rides home alone from an autumn party at the Van Tassel farm on a borrowed plow horse named Gunpowder, along the same roads the people of Sleepy Hollow say belong at night to the ghost of a Hessian trooper, still out looking for the head a cannonball took from him.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LegendOfSleepyHollowSOURCES and R
THE EXPLODING HEART: A Father's Ghost And An Impossible Operation | #RetroRadio
In 1957, a young surgeon finds an aneurysm the size of a grapefruit on the chest X-rays of the man his sister is about to marry, and that night his dead father sits down across the fire to talk the case through.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.ti
#BotchedExecutions | Half-Hangit Maggie And The Man Who Survived Three Ropes
Margaret Dickson was hanged in Edinburgh in 1724 and began moving in her coffin when the men taking her home stopped for a drink. In 1803, in Sydney, three ropes in a row failed to hang Joseph Samuel.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeirdDarkne
THE SINISTER MEN IN BLACK: Fake Reporters, Missing Negatives, Tapped Phones
Two men who said they were newspaper reporters spent forty-five minutes inside Danny Gordon's house while he was chasing the Wytheville, Virginia, UFO sightings, one asking the questions while the other walked the rooms with a camera, and the paper they named had no record of either man.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SinisterMIBREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript
THE TOY BOX FROM TOMORROW: Mimsy Were The Borogoves | #MidnightInTheMacabre
In the spring of 1942, seven-year-old Scott Paradine was playing hooky down by the creek when a scorched metal box tumbled down the bank, packed with toys no store on Earth had ever stocked – an abacus whose beads slid off in a direction no grown-up could follow, a crystal cube full of tiny people who did whatever he thought at them, and a doll whose insides didn't match any anatomy chart. Scott a
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN: The Psychic Detective Who Finds What He Steals | #RetroRadio
Lord Carnavan's wife lends a visiting sheikh her carved Indian jewel box for one afternoon, and the morning after she wears her diamond necklace to Buckingham Palace, the necklace is gone from the locked box and her husband wants the psychic detective next door on the case.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. G
#BotchedExecutions | Christa Pike And The Woman Who Woke Up In Her Coffin
Tennessee gave Christa Pike two doses of pentobarbital on September 30th, 2026, and she survived both. In 1650, Anne Greene hung for almost half an hour at Oxford, and when the anatomists opened her coffin, she was breathing.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar, https://amzn.to/4yLF5oo, source
HOMICIDAL SLEEPWALKING: The Sleepwalker’s Alibi – Is It Possible To Murder Without Waking?
You go to bed like any other night… but by morning, someone is dead — was it a dream, or did you kill while still deep in sleep?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HomicidalSleepwalkingREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckud24pFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: At least 68 cases of sleepwalking murder have reached a court
SIX FRIGHTENED MEN: The Shapeshifting Terror of Pollux V | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Six members of a space expedition find themselves hunted by a shapeshifting monster that appears from nowhere on a desolate alien world, seeming to pick them off one by one.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SixFrightenedMenSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Six Frightened Men” by Randall Garrett (Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ June 1957)Weir
THE HOROSCOPE RACKET: The Astronomers Who Took On The Casinos Of Mars | #MidnightInTheMacabre
The skyrockets at a Mars casino town's Marsy Gras keep ruining $1,000 photographs of the night sky at the Mars Observatory, so the astronomers start offering tourists free horoscopes, and every one warns the reader he'll lose consistently at Harvey's Club.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HoroscopeRacketSOURCES and RESOURCES: “$1,000 A Plate” by Jack McKenty: https://
DAVID GRUSCH ON JOE ROGAN: Reptilians, Greys, And Bodies Like 'Greek Gods'
On The Joe Rogan Experience, former intelligence officer David Grusch described video of human-looking bodies at a crash site, passed along a secondhand account of a deadly clash with living reptilians, and alleged a criminal ring inside a federal agency. Author Timothy Alberino says most of it should come as no shock to longtime UFO researchers, and Grusch predicts the evidence he says exists, no
THE CASE OF THE BURNING SKULL: The Shadow Hunts A Glowing Skeleton
The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.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
I DRIVE FOR CERBER: Hellish Commutes Made Heavenly | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Jim's DUI keeps him off Uber, so he signs up with a rideshare app called Cerber, and his first fare, a seven-and-a-half-foot man who never lets Jim see his face, pays $1,279.37 for one ride to Fort Miley.A NOTE FROM DARREN: I thought I’d bring back a classic from my flagship podcast, Weird Darkness. I often get comments on YouTube, on Facebook, or receive an email saying that someone liked a certa
HELLHOUNDS IN AMERICA: From Pike County To Palm Springs | #WDRadio
Britain has told stories of the Black Shuck for centuries, but witnesses in the United States describe huge black dogs of their own, one chasing two men back to their car on a Wisconsin river island and another pushing its front paws through the screen of a Michigan boy's bedroom window.HOUR ONE: Love, money, divorce, anger, and murder. One Pennsylvania family had it all and then some in the late
CHANCE OF A GHOST: The Fake Medium And The Voice She Didn't Fake | #RetroRadio
Sonia Gale makes her living faking séances with rigged wires and trick voices, until a dead man's voice at her table tells a client where the money is hidden and Sonia swears she had nothing to do with 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/
LA PATASOLA: From Beauty to Beast – The One-Legged Vampire of Columbia’s Jungle
In Colombian folklore, La Patasola moves fast on just one leg, and she's said to show herself to hunters, miners, and unfaithful husbands as a beautiful young woman, then lead one of them away from his companions and into the deepest part of the jungle.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LaPatasolaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkne
ALIEN PRESENCES: The Baby From The Burning Wreck In The Ravine | #RetroRadio
Leaving Antelope Crossings, Nebraska, for a family funeral in 1958, a childless couple watch something spin out of the sky and into a ravine, and the only thing they find alive down there is a crying baby boy.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
HOME SWEET HAUNTED HOME: True Stories of Haunted Houses People Have Owned or Sold
The Amityville house and the Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring have both been sold, and so has a Los Angeles home that a retired LAPD detective ties to his own father and the Black Dahlia murder.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HomeSweetHauntedHomeREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7zyfsmyFEATURED STO
NIGHT VISITOR: The Dead Daughter In The Guest Room At Amphipolis | #RetroRadio
Not long after a couple in ancient Macedonia buries their only daughter, their old servant looks in on a guest from the king's court and finds the girl asleep beside him.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
DON'T FEED IT: The Hungry Thing That Fell On A New York Farm | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A grayish-black disk the size of a truck tire turns up in the ditch by a professor's front lawn in upstate New York, and whatever touches it, from a clod of dirt to the end of a spade, dissolves into it; by the next day, it's eight feet across. A blowtorch, and a sledgehammer don't do any better against it. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DontFeedItSOURCES and RESOU
THE GROVE CITY WEREWOLF: A Monster Lurks In Ohio’s Greatest Hometown | #MicroTerrors
When a mysterious curfew grips the small town of Grove City, Ohio, young Sean discovers during his Halloween weekend visit that the recent string of vicious attacks might be connected to local legends about monsters lurking in the shadows.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 he
HAUNTED HALLS AND CURSED CLASSROOMS: True Ghost Stories From America’s Most Haunted Colleges
From phantom students and haunted dorm rooms to ghostly professors and cursed frat houses, these college campuses prove that “school spirit” can have more than one meaning – where classes might get dismissed, but some students never leave.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedCollegesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.u
"THE THING AT NOLAN" by Ambrose Bierce, Reimagined | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A work of fiction. Based on "The Thing at Nolan" by Ambrose Bierce (1891), retold in a present-day setting. | Charles May walked into the woods with a spade and never came home, and while his son sat in a hospital bed under arrest for killing him, five men eight miles away in Nolan swore they'd watched Charles walk through a store that same afternoon with his head split open.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (inc
THE LATE DEPARTURE: The Eleven O'Clock Train That Wouldn't Leave King's Cross | #RetroRadio
A 43-year-old London workaholic with high blood pressure races to King's Cross for the eleven o'clock train home, and the train won't leave the station.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)
VILE VORTICES: The Bermuda Triangle, Sea Serpents, And Ghost Ships
Five Navy bombers vanished on a routine training flight in 1945, and so did a rescue plane sent out to find them; the Bermuda Triangle is one of 12 Vile Vortices Ivan Sanderson mapped around the globe, and the oceans have their own sea serpents and ghost ships too.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VileVorticesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https
THE FAILED EXECUTION: Christa Pike Survives, And So Do The Conspiracies | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Tennessee gave Christa Pike two full doses of pentobarbital at Riverbend on Wednesday night, and she was still snoring behind a closed curtain when the witnesses were led out; she's alive in a hospital, the governor has called off the state's last execution of the year and ordered an outside review, and nobody has said whether Tennessee will try again to execute her.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSI
DON’T SHOOT: The Biggest Mistake In Hollywood | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A physicist invents a machine capable of doing the impossible – and makes the mistake of showing it to a Hollywood mogul who immediately sees dollar signs. What begins as a scientific breakthrough soon becomes an experiment neither man can quite control. A man has to have a place to confess a horrible sin … and this is as good as any other!EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarknes
THE THING AT NOLAN: A Murder Trial With No Body | #RetroRadio
In the Missouri Ozarks of 1879, Charles May walks into the woods to dig a ditch on the morning his son swears he'll make him pay for a bloody nose, and he never walks back out.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
LILITH'S DAUGHTERS: Succubus Encounters From Rome To Reddit
Succubus visits run from the days of a future pope and his secret lover, Meridiana, to a Bakersfield, California, bedroom recently, where a young man says something held him down and laughed at him. What are sex demons? And could your girlfriend be one?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SexDemonsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarknes
YOU CUT OFF THE WRONG LEG: Ohio Woman Sues After Wrong-Leg Amputation | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Sharon Jacks went into Selby General Hospital in Marietta, Ohio, to lose her cancerous right leg below the knee, and her lawsuit, filed September 15th against the hospital and eight other defendants, says she woke up without her left leg, while the surgeon's mark was still on the right – the leg that was supposed to be amputated.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/YouCutOf
THE MAN WHO FOUND OUT: A Newspaper Skeptic Goes Looking For Atlantis | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A syndicated columnist who's made a career out of exposing fakes forces his way into an old oceanographer's glass bathysphere to debunk the six-mile-long structure at the bottom of the Bartlett Deep.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ManWhoFoundOutSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Man Who Found Out” by Roger Dee (Fantastic Universe, September 1954)WeirdDarkness® is a registe
THIS IS NOT MY MOMMA: A Stranger In Her Mother's Dress At A Detroit Funeral Home | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Fifteen days after Kimberlly Moore died, her daughter went to a Detroit funeral home to put on her mother's nails and lashes and found another woman dressed in her clothes; the funeral home says it has Kimberlly's ashes waiting in an urn, and the family wants proof they're really hers.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ThisIsNotMyMommaLook for this podcast on Apple Podcas
THE FAVOR OF WOMEN: Earth Has Fifteen Days Of Fuel Left | #RetroRadio
In the year 3978, Earth is fifteen days from running out of the fuel it runs on, and the only planet that can sell it more is ruled by a queen who stopped selling a year ago.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 (
HIDEOUS HAUNTING HUMANOIDS OF TEXAS: Goat Man, Human Bats, Blue Men, La Malacosa, and Other Horrors
People across Texas have been reporting creatures built like men for generations, from a hulking figure with glowing red eyes watching a family's ranch house near Amarillo in 1970 to a white humanoid with wings that a driver says overtook his car on Interstate 37 thirty years later.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TexasHumanoidsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of
"LIKE A ZOMBIE BITE": A Stranger Bit A Chunk Out Of A Seattle Woman's Forehead | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Diana Gonzalez says a stranger on the steps of the Arctic Club Hotel in downtown Seattle called her "the inferior race", grabbed her, and bit a piece of flesh about an inch across out of her forehead; on Monday, a judge ordered a competency evaluation for the woman charged, 36-year-old Kamilia Chadli.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/LikeAZombieBiteLook for this podcast
PAGED FROM ROOM 316: The Patient That Time Forgot | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Just after midnight, a night-shift nurse starts getting pages from Room 316, a room that came down with the rest of its wing during the hospital's renovation.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/PagedFromRoom316SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Patient That Time Forgot” by Keith Conrad, from http://www.auditoryanthology.comWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2
No Thursday Night Runs At The Firehouse | #RetroRadio
Arch Oboloer’s “Night”: Chicago firemen tell one of their own why their station hasn't made a Thursday-night run in twenty years, in Arch Oboler's play about a single night across America in June 1945.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
TERRIFYING TRUE FOREST HORROR STORIES: There Is Nowhere To Run To In The Woods
People living and working in remote areas often encounter things far creepier than just silence. These are real-life stories of unsettling encounters, from faces at the window to gruesome discoveries deep in the woods.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ForestHorrorREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8cuh5yFEATURED STORI
Fort Worth's Goat-Man And The Summer Texas Went Monster Hunting | #WDRadio
In July 1969, six frightened people told Fort Worth police they'd been attacked near Greer Island on Lake Worth by something half-man and half-goat, covered in fur and scales, and within days hundreds of armed hunters were combing the woods for a creature nobody has been able to put a name to in the more than fifty years since.==========HOUR ONE: “Jerry Meets A Sasquatch” *** Greer Island, a small
Will Christa Pike Be Executed On September 30th? Tennessee’s First Female Execution In 200 Years
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