Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
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▶ WebplayerAward-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 Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
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Sep 29, 2026 · 8:53
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…
Sep 29, 2026 · 17:09
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…
Sep 29, 2026 · 5:02:30
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…
Sep 29, 2026 · 1:02:12
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…
Sep 28, 2026 · 1:28:21
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,…
Sep 28, 2026 · 30:09
In January of 1995, Christa Pike led a fellow Job Corps student named Colleen Slemmer onto the University of Tennessee's agricultural campus and came back with a piece of…
Sep 27, 2026 · 1:21:07
Since 2006, at least 2,000 people from Los Angeles to Tehran have claimed that the same stranger visits them in their dreams, a man not one of them says they've ever met in…
Sep 27, 2026 · 10:37
In August of 2018, a spiritual guidance counselor from Bristol went on ITV's This Morning to announce that she was ready to start a family with the ghost she'd met in the…
Sep 27, 2026 · 1:25:36
The story was written as a serial, published one chapter at a time from October 1921 to June 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. And because it was written during this…
Sep 27, 2026 · 5:04:00
Left alone at a Ninth Avenue bus stop on the day a U.N. ambassador is kidnapped, a detective's girlfriend picks up a ringing pay phone and hears a stranger tell her the ransom is…
Sep 26, 2026 · 58:39
At London's Highgate Cemetery, visitors report ghostly figures among the Victorian tombs, and in New Orleans, people say Voodoo queen Marie Laveau still walks the cemetery where…
Sep 26, 2026 · 11:42
Gwen Archer's new house has crooked shutters, cracked windows, and dozens of bent nails in her bedroom wall where the girl who lived there before hung her paintings and photos.…
Sep 26, 2026 · 13:29
Dr. Homer Green used his invention, a perfect regeneration treatment that lets your body always heal any damage to it perfectly, on himself. That was on September 11, 1943. Now…
Sep 26, 2026 · 4:59:15
Oliver Carsons has spent three nights trying to stay awake in a locked, barred bedroom, and every night a tall man with a face like a skull comes in to tell him he'll pay for…
Sep 26, 2026 · 1:20:47
When the sun sets over the Navajo reservation, ancient legends come alive — and those who’ve seen the skinwalkers will never forget the eyes watching from the shadows. EPISODE…
Sep 25, 2026 · 5:02:08
A 53-year-old computer executive lets his 29-year-old boss push a receptionist of 31 years out the door, then chases the company's youth craze onto the tennis court with a heart…
Sep 25, 2026 · 18:30
A college professor's ordinary morning visit is interrupted when he suddenly finds himself alone in a strange, blurred world where nothing seems quite real—except for a few…
Sep 25, 2026 · 5:00:51
A struggling young doctor answers a newspaper ad for a strong, steady-nerved beetle expert, and the lawyer who hires him at a hundred pounds a day won't tell him what the job is.…
Sep 25, 2026 · 34:56
A 1950s passenger plane vanishes without a trace – then lands 35 years later with 92 skeletons still buckled in their seats. What is the truth of the story? EPISODE BLOG PAGE…
Sep 24, 2026 · 18:24
Each night, Tom slips into a world of violent, unshakable nightmares — and every morning, the names and faces from his dreams show up in tragic news stories. EPISODE BLOG PAGE…
Sep 24, 2026 · 1:04:54
What really happened inside the Borden house that bloody summer morning — and could Lizzie’s silence have been hiding more than just guilt? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
Sep 23, 2026 · 21:58
Eight million dollars in thousand-dollar interplanetary bills is already checked through the counter in Pauker's luggage, the take from the Brinks-Interplanetary job he set up…
Sep 23, 2026 · 15:39
Years before anyone counted the women missing from 417 W. Chew Avenue, Raymond Horsch was trading drugs and cash for access to the Kensington crematorium at the center of…
Sep 23, 2026 · 1:02:06
As the 1900 hurricane flooded Galveston, the Sisters at St. Mary's roped the orphans to their own bodies, and Walmart employees working on that ground today say they've heard a…
Sep 22, 2026 · 5:00:52
A woman whose migraines have already cost her a husband and two children lets psychic healer Bryce Bond hypnotize her back through her past lives, and each life she lands in puts…
Sep 22, 2026 · 17:19
Kate takes her first week of night shifts at a small hospital in rural Mississippi, and by the third night the hallways are running long, the nurse who trained her can't remember…
Sep 22, 2026 · 42:07
In 1916, Marion Lambert was found dead in the snow with cyanide on her hand. Today her ghost still lingers for justice and closure. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
Sep 21, 2026 · 4:59:13
A Washington legal secretary kneels on a Georgetown sidewalk with a dying stranger who names his killer only as the man in black, and by morning the police have no body, no…
Sep 21, 2026 · 1:14:10
The classic story from sci-fi legend, H.P. Lovecraft. A surveyor sent to map a valley west of Arkham for a new reservoir walks out onto five acres of gray dust where nothing…
Sep 21, 2026 · 1:49:59
The ferryman at Oliver's Ferry wouldn't carry anyone across the narrows after dark, and two centuries later that is still the first thing told about the place. | #WDRadio HOUR…
Sep 21, 2026 · 1:00:49
Carl Higdon went into the Medicine Bow National Forest for elk in October 1974, and what he described afterward has been picked apart by physicians, hypnotists and skeptics ever…
Sep 20, 2026 · 37:28
A cartoon says I have no soul, a hair-dye company says I'm going extinct, and a folklorist in Illinois says you should rub my head. I've been a redhead for fifty-seven years, and…
Sep 20, 2026 · 1:45:04
A London land agent sent to appraise two Highland fields for a wealthy client takes an interest in the crooked hill on the horizon, and learns that the village has no owner's…
Sep 20, 2026 · 5:04:19
Three months out of Dundee and anchored to unbroken Arctic ice, a whaling crew starts hearing something come aboard at night and go straight down into the captain's locked cabin.…
Sep 20, 2026 · 1:23:55
When a detective’s daughter vanished in 1930s Denver, it looked like a kidnapping — but what unfolded behind closed doors was a domestic nightmare involving poison, deception,…
Sep 19, 2026 · 5:00:50
A man who can't bear to be touched, let alone loved, comes home one night convinced that something in the house has grown fond of him. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts,…
Sep 19, 2026 · 20:50
Livia is the three-time champion of her school's scary story contest, and then a new boy shows up in fourth grade with a book he's already published and a red notebook he never…
Sep 19, 2026 · 16:26
Everybody on the block knew the tall man in the black cloak who never spoke and shut his eyes whenever a woman passed him on the sidewalk, and nobody thought to wonder why until…
Sep 19, 2026 · 1:01:18
More aircraft and people vanish here than in the Bermuda Triangle – but no one can explain why. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/NevadaTriangle…
Sep 18, 2026 · 7:12
Dr. James Graham is building the ultimate weapon, and on an ordinary quiet evening a small, harmless-looking stranger knocks on his door asking only for a few minutes of…
Sep 18, 2026 · 5:06:28
There's only one way out of the Forever Alley, a cop was parked in front of it all night, and the man inside still vanished. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,…
Sep 18, 2026 · 14:36
SANParks has now confirmed that elephants trampled a suspected poacher in Kruger National Park and that his body was found intact, which is the one detail the version of his…
Sep 18, 2026 · 1:26:40
Six years after seven men were machine-gunned in a Chicago garage, a captured gangster named the killers to the FBI, and J. Edgar Hoover spent two years denying he had ever said…
Sep 17, 2026 · 14:19
Elizabeth Siders pleaded not guilty Wednesday to twenty-three counts across two Vinton County indictments, and her attorney declined to say whether the mother of the sixteen…
Sep 17, 2026 · 58:12
Few know of the original short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic horror film, “The Birds” - but it’s that story that I’m sharing with you tonight. THE STORY: On…
Sep 17, 2026 · 9:08
Philadelphia police have finally described, on the record, the video from 417 W. Chew Avenue in which Raymond Horsch tightens a zip tie around a handcuffed woman's neck; two more…
Sep 17, 2026 · 5:06:58
Two men on a hunting vacation in the Adirondacks wake to find a small metal box sitting in their cabin doorway, a tag on top calling it a free promotional model of a brand-new…
Sep 17, 2026 · 48:12
The staff of Thelma Todd's old café on the Pacific Coast Highway still see a blonde woman near the steps to the garage, which is the last place anyone saw the actress alive in…
Sep 16, 2026 · 16:18
The overnight crew at a small farm-town TV station spent two hours broadcasting a late-night talk show that nobody in their world had made. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
Sep 16, 2026 · 5:01:31
A young engineer brings his pregnant wife home to the Philippine mountains, where his grandmother insists the only thing that will quiet his beheaded grandfather's ghost is the…
Sep 16, 2026 · 1:03:17
Get the full story in my book, "Two Lost Hours: The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction, 65 Years Later" at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJY8N8CT Sixty-five years ago this week, a…
Sep 15, 2026 · 30:32
Test pilot Steve Weston chased something impossible at the edge of Earth's atmosphere and returned ten hours later – yet only with enough fuel for ten minute flight. He returns,…
Sep 15, 2026 · 5:09:11
A physicist who has spent five years and twenty million dollars chasing one missing equation leaves his attaché case in a highway diner, where the seventeen-year-old at the cash…
Sep 15, 2026 · 15:10
Philadelphia homicide detectives are working through 50 hard drives pulled from a boarded-up house in Olney where a violent pornographer lived for two decades, and among the…
Sep 15, 2026 · 28:24
A 27-year-old who spent three years building AI at two of the industry's leading labs quit on a Tuesday and said the people he'd worked beside privately expect the technology…
Sep 15, 2026 · 59:41
The Wild West wasn’t all shootouts and saloons – but when danger came, it carved legends in blood, bullets, and bone. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
Sep 14, 2026 · 9:34
A forensic report found Gary Siders Sr. incompetent to stand trial and beyond restoring, the prosecutor stipulated to it without objection, and the same two lawyers who expect…
Sep 14, 2026 · 30:00
The Pilton Super Opener opens a can in no time at all, and nobody at the company, least of all the man who designed it, can say where the can disappears to in the process.…
Sep 14, 2026 · 1:46:22
During the Black Death, medieval Europeans bathed in vinegar, slept on rotting straw, dumped waste in the streets — and still couldn’t figure out why everyone was dying.…
Sep 14, 2026 · 53:11
New Orleans high society adored the charming Jacques St. Germain, right up until they started asking why a man who claimed to be forty could describe the 1700s like he'd lived…
Sep 13, 2026 · 5:02:33
A movie actress worn down by a lifetime of asthma puts her hand in a bald doctor's and agrees to let him remove her head, on his promise that a prettier one is on the way. Look…
Sep 13, 2026 · 42:13
In 1896 the visitors pedaled airships. In 1952 they were blond and worried about the bomb. Today they're gray, from forty light-years away, and worried about the climate.…
Sep 13, 2026 · 1:21:22
Four thousand light-years from Earth, a survey ship deep inside the Crab Nebula picks up something on its locator that no human built, and within the hour both crews understand…
Sep 13, 2026 · 3:00:42
An actress found with her throat cut on Christmas morning, a socialite on trial for arsenic, a child butchered in Bradford, and not one of the cases found the end of the rope.…
Sep 12, 2026 · 5:02:09
A young intern at a state asylum wires a homemade telepathy set to the forehead of a dying, illiterate mountain man whose ravings describe palaces of fire he could never have…
Sep 12, 2026 · 1:26:35
A man with a past he won't discuss buys a house deep in the woods, miles from anyone, and starts keeping a record of what comes out of the trees at night; the one he calls Skinny…
Sep 12, 2026 · 11:14
Three MicroTerrors listeners wrote in with their own scary stories: a girl who sneaks out at night to see the T-Rex every parent in town warns about, a free doll on the sidewalk…
Sep 11, 2026 · 5:01:42
Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, a bedridden heiress alone in a New York townhouse asks the operator to ring her husband's office, gets crossed into a stranger's…
Sep 11, 2026 · 56:58
She claimed she could predict your death to the exact day — and somehow, she was always correct. But how did she know? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
Sep 11, 2026 · 1:34
On Friday, September 11th, three weeks before anyone could buy it, I played the entire audiobook of my new book live on Patreon, start to finish, with the chat open the whole…
Sep 11, 2026 · 1:22:46
Sorting through the papers of his late great-uncle, a Providence professor of ancient languages, Francis Thurston finds a clay bas-relief of a winged, tentacled thing, a file of…
Sep 11, 2026 · 34:21
Our alien visitors have changed their looks, their home planets, and their warnings every generation or so – always right in step with what we happened to believe at the time.…
Sep 10, 2026 · 5:01:51
A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see. Look for…
Sep 10, 2026 · 16:34
In a kingdom where the accused settle their own guilt by opening one of two identical doors, a starving tiger waiting behind one and a bride behind the other, a young courtier…
Sep 10, 2026 · 34:04
In the mid-1970s, David Bowie became convinced something was living in his swimming pool – and instead of a priest, he called a witch. A few years later and a few hundred miles…
Sep 9, 2026 · 5:16:24
A bank robber who chose permanent exile on Mars over fifteen years in a cell has spent a decade freezing in the mines, and a stolen spaceship is about to take him back to Earth.…
Sep 9, 2026 · 13:23
Halfway through a routine night shift, ER nurse Megan finds the monitor at her station reporting a steady heartbeat, even breathing, and normal blood pressure for bed seven, a…
Sep 9, 2026 · 12:54
About three and a half hours after her last reported group text about the Lindsay Clancy trial, police were called to a Frankfort, Illinois home where prosecutors say a mother…
Sep 9, 2026 · 5:02:53
A healthy, happy lawyer dozing on his porch after tennis is told he's dead, and the only man who can take his place has just decided he likes living and refuses to die. Look for…
Sep 9, 2026 · 44:54
A school bus driver in Circleville, Ohio was told in block letters to end an affair or her husband would die, and he did. Decades later a New Jersey couple paid $1.3 million for…
Sep 9, 2026 · 31:26
What if the imaginary friend you had as a child wasn’t imaginary at all — but something lingering, watching… and very real? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
Sep 8, 2026 · 2:05:12
A restoration contractor who makes his living not asking questions takes a job scrubbing three and a half centuries of dried blood off the floors, walls, and fifty-foot ceiling…
Sep 8, 2026 · 41:50
From popes and painters to witches and bluesmen, these are the damned souls who bartered with the Devil — and paid in madness, torment, and blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes…
Sep 7, 2026 · 5:06:18
A merchant seaman on his first voyage walks out of a candlelit shop in Libya with a solid gold coin he can't pawn, sell, gamble away, or throw into the sea, and then a shipmate…
Sep 7, 2026 · 1:35:26
In the woods of Chatham County, North Carolina, a 40-foot circle of bare dirt known as The Devil’s Tramping Grounds has grown nothing for nearly three centuries, and the soil…
Sep 7, 2026 · 1:19:09
Victor told his brother he would be dead by ten minutes after nine that morning, because half a century earlier, in a jungle after Tet, something wearing the shape of a child had…
Sep 7, 2026 · 1:15:59
What if the reason we’ve never heard from alien civilizations is because we’re the ones destined to wipe them all out — without even realizing it? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes…
Sep 6, 2026 · 5:21:11
A magazine writer who has spent a week seducing an ironmaster's wife in a Pennsylvania mill town accepts her husband's offer of a midnight tour of the blast furnaces, the night…
Sep 6, 2026 · 4:59:21
A young heiress starts getting stomach cramps after her kindly cousins move in with her, and the only one who warns her is the imaginary playmate she made up as a child. Look for…
Sep 6, 2026 · 6:08
The ashes were still warm just before six in the morning, and by the time they had driven home for a camera and come back half an hour later, the star, the log, the bones and…
Sep 6, 2026 · 51:09
A century after 11-year-old Janette Lawrence was brutally murdered walking home from a babysitting job, her ghost is still seen wandering the streets of Madison — seeking justice…
Sep 5, 2026 · 12:26
Three Micro Terrors listeners, ages seven to twelve, wrote this week's stories: a boy wakes up on the first morning of spring break to a kitchen that's a little too tidy and…
Sep 5, 2026 · 11:04
The tracking data showed the flock flying in a formation that spelled out a word, Butcher, and two weeks later the fisherman who first reported them, Jonathan Butcher, was dead…
Sep 5, 2026 · 5:00:39
A cash-strapped couple inherits Great Aunt Hester's country manor on one sole condition: her cat, Saladin, lives out its days there in the style to which it's accustomed, and the…
Sep 5, 2026 · 45:35
A Massachusetts jury spent a week unable to decide whether Lindsay Clancy was responsible for killing her three children; seventy-two years ago Maine never asked that question…
Sep 5, 2026 · 57:06
Since the 1800s, people in the Florida swamps have described a seven-foot figure draped in moss and swamp grass that lies still enough to pass for a fallen log – until it stands…
Sep 4, 2026 · 5:13:27
Three Army scientists in a shack on the Jersey cliffs bounce the first radio signal off the moon, and a few nights later the generators start switching themselves on at midnight.…
Sep 4, 2026 · 8:15
The creature's teeth were already in his face when he woke in a quiet bedroom beside a woman he was almost certain he knew, with the mud and blood from the tunnel still on his…
Sep 4, 2026 · 45:44
Before she became a blood-soaked legend of sleepovers and slumber party dares, Bloody Mary was a mirror-bound matchmaker — until something far more sinister took her place.…
Sep 3, 2026 · 10:30
The contact killing job came in like any other, a name and an address and half the money up front… but the address was her own. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):…
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