Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasti...
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The Mystery of the Tangled Way | #RetroRadio
A young scholar’s visit to his reclusive uncle on a lonely Shetland island leads him into a nightmare of black rituals, impossible memories, and a mys...
Deals With the Devil: Five True Encounters Across History | #WDRadio July 26, 2026
A blues legend, a saint, a haunted squire, and a possessed tailor — five people who, across four centuries, were each said to have come face to face w...
MY WIFE HAS A REMOVABLE FACE: She Cleans It Every Night Behind a Locked Door | #MidnightInTheMacabre
On their third date she told him her face was removable, that she had to clean it every night behind a locked door, and that he must never look at wha...
The Blood Keeper Still Walks a Massachusetts Graveyard | #MidnightInTheMacabre
An insomniac walking a Massachusetts cemetery after midnight spots a light in the groundskeeper's shack, and finds nine men in blue shrouds beside a f...
The House On Chimney Pot Lane: The Jungle In The Den, The Lion In The Wall | #RetroRadio
A Broadway couple buys the vacant Connecticut house no agent in town will touch, covers the den wall with a floor-to-ceiling photograph of an African...
STARDUST: You Should Keep Your Opinions About Aliens To Yourself | #MicroTerrors
Mikka thinks space is boring and aliens are a punchline, and by the end of fifth period she has said so out loud to exactly the wrong person.
NEVER TRUST A PRETTY FACE: The Woman on Dawkins Lane | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A beautiful young woman knocks on an old soldier's door one summer evening asking to use his phone — and the six-year-old hiding in the back bedroom k...
A Psychic in Wisconsin, a Body in a Creek, and a Case Reopened
A Louisiana woman vanished from her home in pink pajamas, a K9 search went cold, and a medium she'd never met told her daughters exactly where to find...
Paranormal Flames That Chased An Alabama Family
In the summer of 1958, phantom fires struck the Tuck family's Talladega, Alabama home more than fifty times — bread igniting on its own, single garmen...
A Drop of Blood and Plastic Fork Solve Arlington Killing: The Irasema Chavez Case #WeirdDarkNEWS
Fourteen years after Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than a hundred times in her Arlington apartment, a single drop of blood on her bedroom television...
Grandmother's Grimoire: Bloodied Feathers and Hidden Journals | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Two sisters flying to Puerto Rico to clear out their grandmother's house find a shoebox of bloodied feathers in the kitchen cupboard, and thirty handw...
The Del Rio Smiling Sisters: A Detective Takes the Stand | #WeirdDarkNEWS
In an update to the Caroline Peña murder case, the lead detective has testified that while Kitty Diaz drove the car and threw punches during the assau...
Haunted America: The Famous and the Forgotten
From the vengeful Bell Witch to the lingering spirits of Gettysburg, America is packed with haunted spots that refuse to let go of their ghosts – whet...
The Beauty Queen Who Woke Up in the Year 3000 | #RetroRadio
“Adventure of the Beauty Queen”: A woman wakes to a voice from a thousand years in the future, telling her a machine has searched all of history for b...
“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce (1893) | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A coroner's inquest convenes over a mutilated body in a lonely California cabin, where the only witness swears the thing that killed his friend was st...
Bet With The Angels: Lou Marvin Died, Then Started Picking Winners | #RetroRadio
A lifelong friend's death leaves Jason Clark hearing that friend's voice picking winners at the track, an unbroken streak that draws the attention of...
The Siders Family's Other House and Their Years Off the Grid | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Before sixteen children were found in a single room in Hamden, the Siders family left behind another house in Gallia County — and a renovator says he...
Alcatraz on the Inside: Life in America's Toughest Prison | Surviving The Rock
Al Capone begged his way into the prison band, Robert Stroud spent eleven years in the hospital, and every inmate at Alcatraz learned fast that on the...
THEY LIVE: The Alien Mimics Said to Be Hiding in Human Skin
A 2023 book collects accounts of shapeshifting strangers, reptilian visitors, and living doubles, arguing the aliens John Carpenter put on screen may...
The Anitra: The Waterlogged Boat That Haunted Professor Anders | #RetroRadio
A waterlogged model boat that keeps appearing wherever Professor Anders goes — dripping, shivering, impossible to be rid of — carries a name, a drowni...
Toddler Bound and Left Face-Down for 12 Hours in Lanett, Alabama | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A 2-year-old in Chambers County was found bound at the wrists, legs, and ankles and left face-down on a bed for more than half a day, and one of the t...
Eight Hours Trapped in a Porta-Potty | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A man climbed into the waste tank beneath a portable toilet to fish out a dropped bottle of Mountain Dew, and stayed there long enough to require powe...
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A murderer insists he is perfectly sane, even as he explains in careful detail how he killed the old man and hid the body beneath the floorboards.
The Martians Who Landed in Kentucky and Met a Moonshiner | #MidnightInTheMacabre
When Martian invaders armed with deadly alien weapons arrive in the Kentucky hills to test their arsenal on unsuspecting humans, they make the fatal m...
Markheim and the Voice Whispering Murder | #RetroRadio
A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that th...
True Hitchhiking Horror Stories: Killers, Victims, and Ghosts Thumbing Rides
A serial killer who kept his victims' heads, a woman held under a waterbed for seven years, and a phantom passenger who vanishes from the back seat —...
Alabama Teen Charged With Stabbing His Parents Over a Facebook Post | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Baldwin County 911 call brought deputies to a Daphne family's front yard, where a mother lay dead and a father had run house to house leaving bloody...
A Match Date, a Bottle of Wine, and a Woman Climbing Through the Window | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Pennsylvania man came home to an opened bottle of wine, a bedroom light he swore he'd left off, and the woman he'd stopped dating months earlier sho...
Spend the Night With the Dead: America's Haunted AirBNBs
You can rent a bedroom where a little girl in a yellow dress still hums lullabies, a miner's casita in a Texas ghost town, or a schoolhouse tucked ins...
Charlie Charlie, the Playground Ouija Board With a Body Count of Claims | #WDRadio
Two crossed pencils, a sheet of paper marked yes and no, and a name spoken twice — and by the time an Italian priest was called into a Calabrian prima...
THE SHADOW, “The Crystal Globe” | #RetroRadio
A fortune-teller's crystal globe shows his clients a single vision of their own deaths — and one by one, they begin to make it come true.
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The Mandrake's Shriek and the Deaths at Wicklow Manor | #RetroRadio
A film crew arrives at Wicklow Manor to shoot on location, where a centuries-old legend says a mandrake's shriek lures the heartbroken to their deaths...
Mel's Hole: The Bottomless Pit That Gives Its Dead Back | #COTU
Everyone hears "bottomless pit" and braces for a sermon about hell — this one goes somewhere stranger, to the only hole in all of Scripture that keeps...
Childish Laughter: The Ghost Girl In The Red Pinafore | #RetroRadio
A chemist, lost on a lonely country road at nightfall, keeps glimpsing a laughing little girl no one else in the isolated mansion will admit exists.
THE PACK: A Werewolf Horror Story | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A nervous first visit to his girlfriend's rural Alberta home turns into a late-night hunting trip with her father, and something in the pines is watch...
Torso in the Thames: The Unsolved Ritual Murder of a Boy Named Adam
A child's mutilated torso surfaced from the Thames near Shakespeare's Globe in 2001, and more than two decades later no one has been convicted of kill...
NIGHT OF THE INSECTOID: The Signal Max Sent Into Space | #MicroTerrors
Max spends his Friday nights broadcasting homemade radio signals toward the Kuiper Belt hoping to reach alien life, and one summer evening, something...
Black Sludge: The Last Shift at the Late-Night Cafe
A late-shift barista alone in a small-town cafe finds himself watched by a bald, mud-smeared stranger in a spotless black suit — a man who leaks somet...
The Bloody Benders: America's First Serial Killer Family
Travelers on the Kansas trail stopped at a lonely inn run by a family of Spiritualists — and the ones who sat in the seat nearest the curtain were nev...
New Series Coming This Friday: Midnight in the Macabre
Something new is coming to Weird Darkness. Starting this Friday night, horror fiction gets its own identity — a dedicated series called Midnight in th...