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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April 21, 2026 • 287 mins
An English archaeologist talks a terrified French sacristan out of a priceless medieval scrapbook for pocket change — and finds out that night why the old man was so eager to sell. | #RetroRadio EP0636
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In January 2000, something massive drifted through the night sky over southwestern Illinois – so big and strange that a handful of small-town cops, watching from different locations, tracked it in real time over their radios, completely baffled by what they were seeing.
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The strange sighting of a UFO in the year 2000 still has people looking to the skies of southwestern Illinois. *** “Frankenstein” A...
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The strange sighting of a UFO in the year 2000 still has people looking to the skies of southwestern Illinois. *** “Frankenstein” A...
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April 21, 2026 • 292 mins
“Physician Of The Dead”: A scientist in revolutionary Paris believed the severed head keeps thinking after the blade falls, and the night he finally proved it was the night he learned whose voice was waiting in the sack. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0635
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April 20, 2026 • 121 mins
In the remote Canadian wilderness, an ill-fated hunting trip turns into a nightmare when one of the guides vanishes into the night, leaving behind only his screams of burning feet and a trail of something far more terrifying than any beast of the forest.
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” wh...
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” wh...
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April 20, 2026 • 313 mins
“The Old Die Rich”: They found him in an alley, dead of hunger, with seventeen thousand dollars sewn into the lining of his coat. He wasn't the first. He wouldn't be the last. Every one of them old. Every one of them starved. Every one of them carrying a bank book whose entries went back fifty years — in ink only months old. Private investigator Mark Weldon has chased the pattern across the city, and the pattern keeps leading back ...
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April 20, 2026 • 88 mins
A Missouri family's terrifying 90-minute encounter with a hovering UFO that manipulated trees with invisible force and left behind physical evidence so compelling it drew legendary researcher J. Allen Hynek to investigate. | #WDRadio APRIL 19, 2026
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HOUR ONE: A Missouri mobile home at the end of a dead-end path finds itself a part of a worldwide UFO frenzy in the summer of 1973 – with sightings of spacecraft, strange anomal...
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HOUR ONE: A Missouri mobile home at the end of a dead-end path finds itself a part of a worldwide UFO frenzy in the summer of 1973 – with sightings of spacecraft, strange anomal...
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April 19, 2026 • 66 mins
Last Wednesday, somewhere over Iowa, I watched a shiny object make a ninety-degree turn inside a cloud and then reverse course back into it. I don't know what I saw. But I know that the two responses most Christians would have to a sighting like mine are both wrong — and Scripture actually commands a third way that almost nobody practices.
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00:00:00.000 = The Unidentified Flying Obje...
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April 19, 2026 • 58 mins
A woman shattered by her brother's death and haunted by the promise he made the night he died finds herself wondering if the strange and impossible things her young son says and knows are somehow more than coincidence.
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: JohnlockedDancer brings the original short story, “I’m a Freebatch Shipper”. *** Cole Smallwood sent me his creepy tale called “The Beastly Dog Pack”. *** John Parrish submitted his f...
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: JohnlockedDancer brings the original short story, “I’m a Freebatch Shipper”. *** Cole Smallwood sent me his creepy tale called “The Beastly Dog Pack”. *** John Parrish submitted his f...
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April 18, 2026 • 41 mins
A condemned man awakens in the pitch-black dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition, and as his eyes slowly adjust to the darkness, he discovers that the blade of a massive swinging pendulum is descending toward him — one slow arc at a time.
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April 18, 2026 • 41 mins
A beloved Breton nobleman harbors a secret so monstrous that when his devoted wife finally pries it from him, her discovery sets in motion a betrayal that will leave him trapped — neither fully man nor fully beast — with no way back to the life he once knew.
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April 17, 2026 • 105 mins
The legend of Dracula didn't spring from one man's imagination — it was forged from centuries of real blood, real terror, and monsters who actually walked the earth.
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Where did Bram Stoker get his idea for Dracula? Hint – it was not, as many believe, Vlad the Impaler. (Bram Stoker’s Inspiration) *** Ronald Gene Simmons went on a 16 person murder spree – and 14 of them were his own family. (Serial Kil...
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Where did Bram Stoker get his idea for Dracula? Hint – it was not, as many believe, Vlad the Impaler. (Bram Stoker’s Inspiration) *** Ronald Gene Simmons went on a 16 person murder spree – and 14 of them were his own family. (Serial Kil...
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April 17, 2026 • 309 mins
“Three O’Clock”: A watchmaker spends six weeks secretly building a bomb to kill his wife — but on the day he sets it to blow, two burglars tie him up in the very basement where the clock is ticking. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0633
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Area 13” (August 26, 1977) ***WD
00:44:07.927 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Scare...
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00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Area 13” (August 26, 1977) ***WD
00:44:07.927 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Scare...
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April 16, 2026 • 54 mins
Wes Craven didn't invent the idea of dying in your sleep during a nightmare — he read about it in the newspaper. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, dozens of young Hmong refugees in America went to sleep and never woke up, and nobody could explain why. The CDC investigated. Doctors were baffled. And the victims themselves had seen it coming — they were afraid to sleep. The real nightmare came first. Freddy Krueger came second.
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April 16, 2026 • 297 mins
“The Leech”: When a desperate man kills his lover's husband to finally set them free, he discovers that getting rid of a body is far easier said than done — and the dead have a terrifying way of refusing to stay gone. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0632
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Return to Pompeii” (August 22, 1977)
00:45:31.192 = Mystery Hou...
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00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Return to Pompeii” (August 22, 1977)
00:45:31.192 = Mystery Hou...
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In January of 2015, a neighbor in Apple Valley, Minnesota glanced through a front window and saw what he thought were mannequins on the floor. They weren't. David Crowley, his wife Komel, and their five-year-old daughter Rani had been dead for nearly a month — and a black handgun lay nearby. Investigators called it a murder-suicide. But Crowley wasn't just any filmmaker — he was the man behind Gray State, an independent film depict...
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April 15, 2026 • 297 mins
“Let Me See Your Face”: When a writer takes a room at a quiet Rouen hotel, a mysterious woman glimpsed alone in the moonlit garden at midnight awakens in him a fascination so powerful, no warning — and no fear — can stop him from seeking her face. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0631
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Instrument” (August 19, 1977...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Instrument” (August 19, 1977...
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April 14, 2026 • 53 mins
On the afternoon of August 6, 1848, the HMS Daedalus was cutting through the gray waters of the south Atlantic when something surfaced alongside the ship — something enormous, something alive, and something that no man aboard had ever seen before. The officers who witnessed it were not excitable young sailors prone to ghost stories. They were Royal Navy men, educated and disciplined, with careers and reputations built on precision ...
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April 14, 2026 • 38 mins
Six children were bludgeoned and stabbed to death in their beds in a Churchill’s Grove home while their mother slept in a Milwaukee motel room — unaware that her husband had already decided that if he couldn't have her, no one would have anything. The night of January 7th, 1978 would leave a wound in Rockford, Illinois that never fully closed. Neighbors still whisper about it. The house is still there. And according to at least one...
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April 14, 2026 • 296 mins
“The Dead Walk at Night”: A man who murders his blind uncle to claim his inheritance thinks he has escaped justice clean — until the dead man's cane begins tapping its way down the darkened staircase toward his room. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0630
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April 13, 2026 • 101 mins
Poltergeist activity remains one of the most misunderstood and disputed phenomena in paranormal research. Unlike traditional hauntings, poltergeist cases — a term derived from the German words for "noisy ghost" — involve flying objects, spontaneous fires, unexplained sounds, and even physical assaults on the living. But are these terrifying events caused by restless spirits, or could the source of the chaos be something far closer ...
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