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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February 26, 2026 • 77 mins
Between 1081 and 1903, roughly 20 Japanese Buddhist monks voluntarily endured a grueling three-year process of starvation and isolation — sealing themselves alive inside stone tombs in pursuit of becoming Buddha in their own bodies.
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February 26, 2026 • 6 mins
A Gold Coast couple had their Lexus stolen by masked home invaders and got slapped with a $6,000 fine because the thief driving their stolen car couldn't be bothered to buckle up.
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February 26, 2026 • 285 mins
A small-time hustler gets more than he bargained for when a mysterious stranger who claims to be the devil offers him wealth, power, and everything he's ever wanted — all for a price he may not be willing to pay. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0593
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Transmutations, Inc” (May 24, 1977)
00:45:44.565 = Theater 1030, “T...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Transmutations, Inc” (May 24, 1977)
00:45:44.565 = Theater 1030, “T...
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February 26, 2026 • 9 mins
Cannock Chase, a 26-square-mile stretch of Staffordshire woodland already infamous for child murders and ghostly apparitions, has logged more paranormal sightings in the first eight weeks of 2026 than in all of 2025 combined.
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The Real “Exorcist” Priest Dies, Horror Cinema Is Born and a Terrorist Demands His $400 Deposit Back
February 26, 2026 • 26 mins
A tent sliced open from the inside, the man who witnessed the real exorcism that inspired The Exorcist, the silent film that invented horror, a 13-year-old reported missing who was already gone — and a $400 security deposit claimed on a van that had just been a bomb. It all happened on a February 26th sometime in the past. | The Morning Weird Darkness
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February 25, 2026 • 60 mins
A Nordic alien connected to U.S. defense personnel delivered a chilling warning to author Whitley Strieber that he's never forgotten: never go to war with the Grays — because they'll never let you win, and they'll never let you stop fighting.
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IN THIS EPISODE: A towering figure with green eyes delivered a message about the Grays that defense officials didn’t want to discuss — an...
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February 25, 2026 • 7 mins
A Utah mother who self-published a book to help children cope with losing a parent is now on trial for allegedly poisoning the parent those children lost.
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February 25, 2026 • 5 mins
A man allegedly shot his own father six times in the back, then drove to a casino — where he ended up naked, flipping off a cop, and under arrest.
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February 25, 2026 • 33 mins
On this date, a Persian king was dethroned and executed by his own son — who had every brother killed to secure power and was himself dead of plague before the year ended — and that is just where February 25th gets started. | The Morning Weird Darkness
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February 25, 2026 • 294 mins
A murderer who thought he'd gotten away with the perfect crime discovers — too late — that his victim had a plan of her own. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0592
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Wine, Women, and Murder” (May 20, 1977) ***WD
00:45:46.094 = The Sealed Book “Murder Must Be Paid For” (August 05, 1945)
01:15:15.158 = The Shadow, “Joey’s C...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Wine, Women, and Murder” (May 20, 1977) ***WD
00:45:46.094 = The Sealed Book “Murder Must Be Paid For” (August 05, 1945)
01:15:15.158 = The Shadow, “Joey’s C...
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February 24, 2026 • 94 mins
A woman's body was pulled from the icy depths of Lake Crescent after three years — her flesh transformed into soap, her face unrecognizable, and her identity a mystery that would unravel one of the most sensational murder trials in Washington state history.
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February 24, 2026 • 6 mins
A South African family decided that a death certificate was simply not dramatic enough proof of death, so they upgraded their documentation strategy significantly.
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February 24, 2026 • 7 mins
A Wisconsin man stole an ambulance — with a patient inside — while completely naked, and somehow that's not even the strangest part of the story.
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February 24, 2026 • 43 mins
Young women hired to paint watch dials with radium were told the glowing substance was harmless — even as their jaws crumbled and their bones slowly turned to dust from the inside out.
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IN THIS EPISODE: During World War I, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. But after the girls — who literally glowed in the da...
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February 24, 2026 • 39 mins
For centuries and across nearly every culture on earth, enormous black dogs with glowing red eyes have appeared to the living as omens of death — and the people who dismissed the legend rarely lived long enough to regret it.
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IN THIS EPISODE: One of our Weirdo family members has asked if I wouldn’t consider doing an episode on man’s best friend – but as this is Weird Darkness I ...
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February 24, 2026 • 6 mins
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February 23, 2026 • 9 mins
A mother's 3 a.m. call sent police racing to find a missing toddler in Enterprise, Alabama — but the neighbors on her street had already noticed something was wrong long before anyone called 911.
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The Man Three Gallows Couldn't Kill | Assassination Fears, Broken Reality, a Kidnapped Racing Legend
February 23, 2026 • 28 mins
From a gallows that refused to open three times to children barricaded inside a burning orphanage with no way out — February 23rd has more than its share of stories that don't sit quietly. | The Morning Weird Darkness
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February 23, 2026 • 109 mins
A Scottish ferryman refused to take travelers across the water after dark — and the ones who stayed the night were never seen again. | #WDRadio WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 2026
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HOUR ONE: A 178-year-old mystery comes to the surface in a Philadelphia suburb. (Grandfather's Ghost Story Leads to Mass Grave) *** Recently a wrecking crew began tearing down and old building in Rhode Island. But the big burly men on the crew got so frigh...
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HOUR ONE: A 178-year-old mystery comes to the surface in a Philadelphia suburb. (Grandfather's Ghost Story Leads to Mass Grave) *** Recently a wrecking crew began tearing down and old building in Rhode Island. But the big burly men on the crew got so frigh...
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February 22, 2026 • 59 mins
The Shelton brothers rose from Wayne County farm boys to run one of the most powerful criminal empires in Illinois history — defying the Chicago Outfit, surviving ambushes, and collecting enemies until the bullets finally caught up with them, though the killers were never found, and at least one of the brothers apparently never left the bar where he died.
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