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.
Episodes
July 7, 2025 • 583 mins
A teenage girl suspects her mysterious new neighbor is a vampire — but is it paranoia, or has the Boogey Man finally come for her? It’s “The Bogey Man Will Get You” from Stay Tuned For Terror! | #RetroRadio EP0456
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976)
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976)
00:45:49.743 =...
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July 7, 2025 • 88 mins
HOUR ONE: Love, money, divorce, anger, and murder. One Pennsylvania family had it all and then some in the late 1800’s. (The Butler County Tragedy) *** Count Saint Germain and Jacques Saint Germain, John and Wayne Carter, the Casket Girls of New Orleans. Despite many years between all of their lives, they all still have one grisly thing in common. All were thought to be, and possibly were, real vampires tied to the Big Easy… a plac...
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July 6, 2025 • 80 mins
A 16th-century witch hunter believed each person is caught between a guardian angel and their own personal demon — one who knows their deepest habits and weaknesses — and he mapped out the seven princes of Hell who rule over humanity's sins.
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IN THIS EPISODE: You might have heard someone say during a severe storm, “it’s raining cats and dogs out there!” Of course, it was...
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IN THIS EPISODE: You might have heard someone say during a severe storm, “it’s raining cats and dogs out there!” Of course, it was...
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July 6, 2025 • 22 mins
“Prison of a Billion Years” by CH Thames: A condemned murderer escapes from a maximum-security prison built a billion years in Earth's past, taking a reporter hostage into a lifeless world where the only escape leads to an impossible paradox.
From Imagination Science Fiction Magazine, April 1956
From Imagination Science Fiction Magazine, April 1956
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July 6, 2025 • 19 mins
While scientists race to freeze brains and extract memories by 2125, they've overlooked one terrifying question: what happens when you successfully download everything except the one thing that makes you... YOU?
SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-downloadbrain
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From a chair that killed 60 people to a haunted doll that demands written apologies, these stolen and cursed artifacts have exacted terrible revenge on those who dared to take them — through death, illness, and supernatural torment that forced their terrified owners to return them with desperate warnings to others.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It was Labor Day, 1980 when Cynthia Cl...
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July 5, 2025 • 74 mins
From childhood bedrooms to adult homes across the country, these people share their terrifying true stories of malevolent spirits, shadow figures, and ghostly attachments that have followed them through every stage of life — proving that some hauntings never end.
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IN THIS EPISODE: People who are haunted for years or even decades non-stop can never lead a normal life. Ima...
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IN THIS EPISODE: People who are haunted for years or even decades non-stop can never lead a normal life. Ima...
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July 5, 2025 • 14 mins
When new kid Ash moves to a small Michigan town, the local teens warn of a terrifying creature stalking the woods near their isolated cabin – the legendary Dogman.
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
Other narrations, podcasts, and audi...
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
Other narrations, podcasts, and audi...
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A group of people escape to a secluded island for a relaxing weekend… only to discover they’ve stumbled upon the lair of a mad doctor. As they begin to unravel the island’s secrets, their getaway turns into a chilling struggle for survival! Hear “Weekend” from Macabre! | #RetroRadio EP0455
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A lonely signalman haunted by ghostly warnings at a desolate railway cutting begins to fear that death is coming — and he may be the next to greet it.
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre s...
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre s...
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A skeptical young man who boasts he fears nothing accepts a challenge to spend the night in a castle's infamous haunted chamber, where the true terror isn't what lurks in the shadows — but the darkness itself.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #ThrillerThursday and this time I’m bringing you a tale from H.G. Wells… a haunted house story entitled, “The Red Room.” It’s a great short ...
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #ThrillerThursday and this time I’m bringing you a tale from H.G. Wells… a haunted house story entitled, “The Red Room.” It’s a great short ...
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July 3, 2025 • 583 mins
A mysterious flying saucer imparts a secret to a lonely woman — and the message is so profound the government interrogates her to get it… but she risks everything to protect the secret. | #RetroRadio EP0454
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Unthinkable” (June 14, 1976)
00:47:01.620 = ...
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Unthinkable” (June 14, 1976)
00:47:01.620 = ...
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July 2, 2025 • 82 mins
From a grieving six-year-old who lost his father to the monster who murdered eight innocent nursing students, this is the chilling story of how Richard Speck's traumatic childhood forged one of America's most notorious killers.
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IN THIS EPISODE: When police found eight nursing students bruta...
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IN THIS EPISODE: When police found eight nursing students bruta...
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July 2, 2025 • 583 mins
When four aging guests drink from a mysterious fountain promising youth, their second chance at life reveals they’ve learned nothing from the first. | #RetroRadio EP0453
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Free The Beast” (June 10, 1976)
00:46:14.259 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, ...
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Free The Beast” (June 10, 1976)
00:46:14.259 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, ...
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July 1, 2025 • 59 mins
They were fathers, bakers, business owners… and cold-blooded killers hiding in plain sight.
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IN THIS EPISODE: By all observable accounts, Herb Baumeister was an admire-able family man, living on a beautiful million-dollar estate and farm with his lovely wife and three children. But they were also sharing that estate with a very dark secret that would eventually be reveal...
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IN THIS EPISODE: By all observable accounts, Herb Baumeister was an admire-able family man, living on a beautiful million-dollar estate and farm with his lovely wife and three children. But they were also sharing that estate with a very dark secret that would eventually be reveal...
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July 1, 2025 • 594 mins
A doomed marriage, a forbidden affair, and a murder on the Seine lead to a chilling descent into madness and guilt when the corpse of a weak husband refuses to stay buried in “The Corpse That Would Not Die” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater! | #RetroRadio EP0452
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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June 30, 2025 • 74 mins
For decades, drivers on a dark San Jose road have reported terrifying encounters with pale figures who emerge from the shadows, armed and screaming, chasing away anyone who dares venture too close to their hidden territory.
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IN THIS EPISODE: If I say the words “headless horseman” it immediately brings up the image of a man on a black steed carrying a pumpkin instead of h...
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IN THIS EPISODE: If I say the words “headless horseman” it immediately brings up the image of a man on a black steed carrying a pumpkin instead of h...
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June 30, 2025 • 588 mins
When a corrupt prosecutor sends an innocent man to the gallows, a ghostly blue ribbon becomes the chilling symbol of justice from beyond the grave. | #RetroRadio EP0451
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Blue Justice” (June 03, 1976)
00:46:14.801 = The Key, “Extension of Time” (1956) ***WD
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Blue Justice” (June 03, 1976)
00:46:14.801 = The Key, “Extension of Time” (1956) ***WD
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NASTY GNOMES, EVIL IMPS, AND TERRIFYING TOMMYKNOCKERS #WeirdDarknessRadio WEEK OF June 29, 2025
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HOUR ONE: Did she drown? Did she commit suicide? Despite her death in 1889, we still don’t know how Maggie Hourigan died. (The Mystery of Maggie Hourigan) *** In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children’s science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon, which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales....
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HOUR ONE: Did she drown? Did she commit suicide? Despite her death in 1889, we still don’t know how Maggie Hourigan died. (The Mystery of Maggie Hourigan) *** In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children’s science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon, which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales....
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June 29, 2025 • 79 mins
In 1979, Scottish forestry worker Robert Taylor encountered a strange metallic craft in Dechmont Woods that physically attacked him — leaving behind torn clothing, mysterious ground markings, and enough evidence to convince police to open the only criminal investigation in UFO history.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Hundreds of years after his death, the tomb of William Longespee was...
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