Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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 Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.

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August 22, 2025 58 mins
In 1953, dogs and livestock in Bladenboro, North Carolina began turning up dead with their skulls crushed flat and their bodies completely drained of blood, while witnesses reported seeing a massive cat-like creature that made sounds like a woman screaming. Over 70 years later, similar attacks still occur in the area, and despite massive hunts involving over a thousand people, no one has ever caught or identified what's killing the...
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(BONUS AUDIO) In a future where population is strictly controlled and children require government permission, Frank and Lucy Sturt must say goodbye forever to their only son Hal, who's been selected for the prestigious but mysterious Leidner Project. When Hal's girlfriend arrives with unexpected news after his departure, the three devise a desperate plan to preserve something precious in a world where even love is regulated. | “One...
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When a veteran ice road trucker warns the convoy leader about a ghostly truck with red headlights that brings deadly winter storms, everyone laughs it off as an old timer's tall tale. But out on the melting ice roads, where trucks can disappear in seconds and the radio fills with static and hysterical laughter, some legends prove terrifyingly real.

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When five teenagers used a Ouija board in an abandoned house, the message they received should have sent them running — instead, they foolishly asked for more.

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“Weird Things” by Gene Stewart: https://genestewart.com

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Jon van der Decken, for blasphemy or arrogance, is condemned to sail the famous cursed ship forever. He’s allowed to come ashore briefly once every seven years. During one of these visits, he encounters a minister and his beautiful daughter — and ominously plans to kill her. A fictional story based on the real-life ghost story – it’s “The Flying Dutchman” from Witch’s Tale! | #RetroRadio EP0488

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Scientists discovered that Ouija boards can access hidden knowledge in our unconscious minds with 65% accuracy, while the device's dark history includes mysterious deaths, documented possessions, and unexplained phenomena that still baffle researchers today.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE AND SOURCES…
https://weirddarkness.com/ouija-board-dark-history-true-stories/

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A Pentagon scientist's testimony about alien classifications has members of Congress questioning everything they thought they knew about government secrecy.

READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/Eric-Davis-Four-Aliens

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A 76-year-old man rushes through the dark with a suitcase, desperate to catch a train to meet his beautiful young girlfriend in New York City — except she doesn't exist, and he'll be dead within hours.

READ, HEAR, or WATCH: https://weirddarkness.com/meta-ai-chatbot-death/

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From the real case that inspired The Exorcist to a man who murdered his wife after priests claimed to cast out 40 demons, these documented exorcisms didn't just fail—they ended in starvation, madness, and brutal death.

IN THIS EPISODE: Demonic possession… it’s real – and sometimes even more terrifying than even Hollywood can portray. A demon can take hold in a variety of ways and show itself in a variety of forms. And sometimes, whe...
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A psychic detective investigates a Surrey manor haunted by a vicious poltergeist — and meets his match.

A 19th‑century ghost‑buster (i.e., a psychic detective) named Flaxman Low is called to a manor in Surrey, England. The estate’s owner believes the place is being terrorized by a violent and aggressive poltergeist. When he arrives, Low finds himself going toe-to-toe with this malevolent entity—and things quickly escalate. It’s a su...
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MGK believes he inherited alien DNA from his mother's abduction, citing his unnaturally fast-healing skin, his confusion about whether his age exists, and his repeated UFO sightings as proof he's not fully human.

READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/alienmgk/

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A Florida congresswoman's military encounter with something that outmaneuvered F-15 fighters has opened doors to classified briefings about phenomena that operate outside known physics — and the photographs that convinced her mankind didn't create them.


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A performance artist posing as a cryptozoologist tried to charge $9.31 admission to view his fake Bigfoot corpse at the New York State Fair — until part of his photo evidence proved him to be a hoaxer.

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A WWII destroyer escort vanished from Philadelphia's naval yard in a flash of green light, only to reappear with crew members grotesquely fused to its metal hull — or so claimed the disturbed man whose elaborate hoax fooled even the U.S. Navy.
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HOUR ONE: Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Ph...
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In 1931, a lonely Illinois widow and her three children vanished after she fell for a charming stranger's love letters—only for police to discover their bodies in the concrete dungeon he'd built behind his West Virginia home.

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Churches will preach about God's love all day long, but they won't tell you that Jesus warned about hell more than He promised heaven — or why the phrase 'go to hell' rolls off your tongue so easily but never comes from the pulpit.

SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-gotohell

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Set in the Dark Ages, a young Jewish woman — recently widowed on her wedding night — receives guidance from her deceased husband’s ghost. He tells her she is destined to become Queen of the Khazars, but there’s a test she must overcome first. | #RetroRadio EP0486

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Deep-Dive Article About Plague Weddings: https://weirddarkness.com/plague-weddings-1918/

During the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, desperate communities forced their poorest and most vulnerable members to marry each other, often complete strangers, in cemeteries, believing these morbid ceremonies would convince God to end the plague.

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A Wisconsin woman’s transformation from graphic designer to international fugitive reveals one of the strangest contract killing cases in modern criminal history.

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