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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WAIT... I'M... AUTISTIC? | Something Curious I Might've Learned About Myself Last Night.
After taking an online personality assessment, I discovered I exhibit very high traits associated with autism — not a formal diagnosis, but an explana...
Lobotomized: 8 Lives Ruined by History's Cruelest And Most Invasive Procedure
A young woman institutionalized for disagreeing with her parents, a 12-year-old boy punished for daydreaming, even a Kennedy daughter silenced to prot...
NAKED MEAT MARKET ROBBERY: Police Found His Underwear, His Knife, and a Dollar Bill
A 25-year-old Lake City man allegedly proved that you don't need pockets to pull off a robbery — just a face covering, a weapon, and zero shame - alon...
Two Strangers, One Face: The 1903 Case That Made Fingerprints the Gold Standard
In 1903, a man arrived at Leavenworth Prison claiming he'd never been there before — but the staff found his exact double already serving a life sente...
This Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail Trend Will Literally CRACK OPEN Your Stomach #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Moscow corporate party turned into a medical emergency when a celebrity chef's flashy "cryo-show" cocktail expanded inside a man's stomach like an i...
She Had Strange Powers — Betraying Her Was His Worst Mistake
A mysterious woman with unexplainable powers saves a half-blind gold prospector in the Klondike wilderness and follows him back to civilization — but...
Bigfoot Tracks Plus Railroad Tracks? Their Mysterious and Unexplained Connection!
From an 1856 "ape-man" found near railroad tracks in Maine to the famous Jacko capture of 1884, Bigfoot sightings have an uncanny habit of occurring a...
This Egyptian Mummy Has Been Feasting for 6,000 Years In Her Pyramid
A restless English tourist discovers a hidden entrance to an unopened Egyptian pyramid — and stumbles into a royal banquet where mummies wake every th...
Can Children Really See With Their "Third Eye?"
From Germany to India to suburban England, thousands of parents are paying hefty fees for courses that promise to awaken their children’s “third eye”...
Scientists Have Found Octopus CITIES; Are We About To Be Ruled By Octopods?
An Oxford biologist believes that after humans inevitably go extinct, octopuses may rise to become the next great civilization builders — and they've...
The Demonic Haunting on Lindley Street: The Poltergeist That Attacked in Front of Several Witnesses
It might be lesser-known that Amityville, or the hauntings of the Smurl family, or numerous other investigations made famous by Ed and Lorraine Warren...
No Way Out: They Entered an Abandoned Building. One by One, They Vanished.
When a crew filming in an abandoned building encounters strange disappearances and shifting hallways, they quickly realize they're trapped in a realit...
The Star: What Happens When a Rogue Star Enters Our Solar System? | H.G. Wells
A mysterious new star appears in the night sky after colliding with Neptune, the resulting fireball begins a journey toward the inner Solar System. Ea...
Jesus in Toast? Mary in a Grilled Cheese? A Christmas Song With 184 Birds?
That viral claim about "The 12 Days of Christmas" being a secret Catholic catechism turns out to be the perfect example of how our brains can trick us...
ZURVAN: Why Roman Soldiers Built Temples to This Lion-Headed, Snake-Wrapped Demon
The True Story Behind Zurvan - The Demon From The Novel, "Advent of Evil"
In Persian Mithraism, there was a deity associated with time an...
Santa Was Cornered by a Helper Monkey, The Elves Had to Rescue Him
“OPERATION: CORNERED KRINGLE” By Scott Donnelly
#scarystories #halloweenstories #halloweenkids #storiesforkids #kidsstories #scarystories...
Harvard's Secret Experiment Opened a Door To Another Dimension That Should Have Stayed Closed
I was just a janitor mopping floors when a Harvard professor invited me to witness history – the opening of the first wormhole. What came next cost me...
Real Paranormal Incidents That Took Place at Christmastime
Charles Dickens didn't invent the Christmas ghost story — he was continuing a tradition that stretched back centuries. These true tales of holiday hau...
ADVENT OF EVIL: Wednesday, December 24 – Reliquary (The Final Chapter)
Twenty-three days ago, a mysterious advent calendar arrived on Officer Matthew Klein's doorstep — no sender, no return address, just a heavy wooden bo...
The Haunting of Edge Hill | England's Most Documented Christmastime Ghost Sighting
On Christmas Eve 1642, shepherds witnessed something impossible — two phantom armies fighting a brutal battle in the sky over Edge Hill. When investig...
The Babs Switch School Fire: The Oklahoma Schoolhouse Fire That Turned Christmas Into a Funeral
When Santa's costume caught fire at a small-town Christmas program in 1924, the crowd rushed to the only door — but it opened inward, and they couldn'...
Something Was Wrong With Mom's Christmas Nutcracker
There's a reason that 100-year-old nutcracker was marked 80% off. And on Christmas Eve, my mom and I found out exactly what it was.
STORY...
Portland 1973, A Mother's Final Christmas: The Neighbor Who Gave Five Orphans a Christmas
On Christmas Eve 1973, a woman hiding from her ex-husband was found — and five children woke up without parents on Christmas morning.
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The Christmas UFO Invasion Witnessed by the Military
Over three nights in December 1980, during the Christmas weekend, dozens of military personnel at a British air base witnessed something in the woods...
Krampus Chased Me: This European Tradition Would Be Illegal in America
In Austria, naughty children don't get coal — they get beaten by a goat-horned demon who might drown them in a river.
Ho ho ho, kids! If...
ADVENT OF EVIL: Tuesday, December 23 – Right Back To Where You Started
Twenty-two days ago, a mysterious advent calendar arrived on Officer Matthew Klein's doorstep — no sender, no explanation, just twenty-four doors and...
She Fulfilled Her Promise To Return As a Ghost – And Did So In a Completely Different State
When the Kubis family moved into their Milwaukee home in 1913, they didn't know the previous owner had made a deathbed promise to return—and she was a...
Six Serial Killers Woke Up at the North Pole at Christmastime
When six of history's most infamous serial killers mysteriously wake up at the North Pole on Christmas Eve, Santa offers them one final chance at rede...
I Was Forced to Shovel Snow Alone Next to an Abandoned House at Christmastime
On Christmas Eve, a teenager shoveling snow beside an abandoned house with a deadly history becomes convinced that Death himself is watching from its...
ADVENT OF EVIL: Monday, December 22 – Death Rising
The demon has a name — Zurvan. For thirty years it waited, dormant within the charred fragments of a spirit board, sealed inside an advent calendar bu...
Have Yourself a Very Mothman Christmas
In November 1966, a winged creature with glowing red eyes began terrorizing the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia — and thirteen months late...
The Clown Puppet That Took Their Daughters
She asked for a doll, but the gift waiting under the tree had other plans for her — and her sisters.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stor...
Christmastime Monsters That Are Scarier Than Krampus
Long before Santa slid down chimneys, other figures roamed the winter nights — and they weren't bringing presents. They were bringing punishment.
ADVENT OF EVIL: Sunday, December 21 – Consider Yourself Punished
Matthew Klein watched his son Logan hold a spirit board—just as Matt himself did thirty years ago—and speak in a voice that didn't belong to a ten-yea...
The Perfect Christmas Tree Has a Curse Attached
When Mrs. Hostutler finally found the perfect Christmas tree, she never stopped to wonder why it was growing out of a grave.
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“A CHRISTMAS CAROL” by Charles Dickens – Full-Length Audio Book Narrated by Darren Marlar
On Christmas Eve, a bitter old miser receives a terrifying warning from his dead business partner: change your ways or spend eternity in chains. Befor...
A Christmas Carol: The Christian Sermon Charles Dickens Didn't Realize He Wrote
Four ghosts, one night, and a transformation so complete it's been pointing people toward a baby in a manger for nearly 200 years.
SERMON...
ADVENT OF EVIL: Saturday, December 20 – Full Circle
Thirty years ago, Matthew Klein escaped a fire that killed his family. He's been running ever since. Now, with five doors left on a cursed advent cale...
It Happened to Me at Ten. Then Mom Told Me Her Secret.
When ten-year-old Stephen was grabbed by invisible hands and dragged toward the foot of his bed, his parents dismissed it as a nightmare—but years lat...
These Ghostly Hauntings Only Happen at Christmas
From a ghost who returned a missing child only to reveal he'd been dead for years, to a bride whose body was found hidden in a chest fifty years after...