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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October 15, 2026 • 301 mins
A clerk at the American consulate in Hong Kong turns down a marriage proposal from the wealthy woman who's been bankrolling his roulette system in Macau, then agrees to one last ride with her in the big yellow rickshaw her family has kept for years.
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00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Power Of Evil” (December 22, ...
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October 15, 2026 • 66 mins
What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste — the ghost ship found drifting at sea with no crew, no lifeboat, and no answers?
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaryCeleste
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mxz7xmku
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Mary Celeste was discovered abandoned near the Azores Islands on December ...
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaryCeleste
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Mary Celeste was discovered abandoned near the Azores Islands on December ...
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October 15, 2026 • 306 mins
A classic tale by M.R. James adapted for radio theater. On a stormy night by the fire, a grandmother forbids her grandchildren to pick a single blackberry in the little lane past Collins's cottage, and when they beg for the reason, she tells them about the hill at the top of it.
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00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “It Has To...
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October 15, 2026 • 12 mins
Elliot leaves his phone charging on the kitchen counter and takes the stairs down from his fifth-floor Chicago apartment to pick up a package in the lobby, and there's no door at the bottom.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheStairway
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Stairway” by Keith Conrad (originally published at http://www.auditoryanthology.com)
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EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheStairway
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Stairway” by Keith Conrad (originally published at http://www.auditoryanthology.com)
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October 14, 2026 • 12 mins
In 1894, Will Purvis dropped through the trapdoor at Columbia, Mississippi, and the noose let go, leaving him alive on the ground. The crowd voted to postpone the hanging, and in 1917 a dying farmer confessed to his part in the murder and said Purvis had nothing to do with it.”
From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Da...
From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Da...
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October 14, 2026 • 13 mins
On February 22nd, 1964, Boston hypnosis specialist Benjamin Simon regressed Barney Hill to the night of the drive while Betty sat out in the waiting room, and over ten taped regression sessions, five apiece, each of them described being taken aboard a craft and examined. Betty also drew a map of stars she said she'd been shown, and in 1968 an Ohio schoolteacher named Marjorie Fish began five years of building models out of beads an...
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October 14, 2026 • 43 mins
From hearing your own blood and battling endless earworms to noseless societies, double-faced men, and the deadly myths of virgin cures, tonight we dive deep into the eerie, bizarre, and tragic extremes of the human body.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AnatomicalAnomalies
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmjxrb
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EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AnatomicalAnomalies
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October 14, 2026 • 15 mins
Betty and Barney Hill left Howard's Restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire at 10:05 on the night of September 19th, 1961; a light kept pace with their car down U.S. Route 3, and by the time the kitchen clock in Portsmouth read shortly after five, neither of them could remember a thirty-five-mile stretch of the drive. Betty called Pease Air Force Base two days later, and in November two NICAP members who drove up to Portsmouth worke...
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October 14, 2026 • 18 mins
Her nephew sent her exotic plants from every port of call across the solar system, but there was something about his latest gift from Venus that made the old captain uneasy.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FloweringEvil
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Flowering Evil” by Margaret St. Clair (Planet Stories Summer 1950)
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EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FloweringEvil
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Flowering Evil” by Margaret St. Clair (Planet Stories Summer 1950)
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October 13, 2026 • 14 mins
On August 6th, 1890, William Kemmler became the first man put to death in the electric chair. After seventeen seconds, a doctor said he was dead, and then the witnesses saw his chest rising and falling.
From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions
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From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions
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October 13, 2026 • 321 mins
A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “...
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00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “...
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October 13, 2026 • 302 mins
A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.
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00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD
00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Pas...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD
00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Pas...
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October 13, 2026 • 91 mins
In November 1971, John List shot his mother, his wife, and his three children inside their Westfield, New Jersey, mansion, then walked out the next morning and stayed free for nearly 18 years. Criminologists at Birmingham City University later went through three decades of British cases like his and found that most of the men responsible had steady jobs, everything from surgeons to postmen to serving police officers, and few of the...
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October 13, 2026 • 7 mins
In 1991 a New York appeals court ruled a house in Nyack haunted as a matter of law, and a survey posted on October 12th says more than half of Americans could be talked into buying a house they knew was haunted. Of the four states said to have laws on it, only two mention the paranormal in a statute, and in both of them the seller doesn't have to bring it up.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/...
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/...
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October 13, 2026 • 27 mins
A Western Alliance ship circles Mars at the equator and again from pole to pole, and Captain Thomas H. Griswold, already picturing his name in the history books, finds no buildings and no ruins below, only iron ore and long straight canals that the young civilian expert aboard calls evidence of something.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/werecivilized
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “We're ...
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/werecivilized
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October 12, 2026 • 15 mins
In 1887, Roxalana Druse became the last woman New York ever hanged, on a secondhand gallows that used a falling 213-pound weight to jerk her into the air. Her neck didn’t break, and fifteen minutes passed before the doctors pronounced her dead.
From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirdd...
From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirdd...
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October 12, 2026 • 93 mins
Witnesses around the world describe the same faceless man in a wide-brimmed hat, and they say once he appears to one person in a house, another family member is often next.ADDITIONAL
ARTICLE ABOUT THE HAT MAN: https://weirddarkness.com/hat-man/
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE ABOUT SHADOW PEOPLE: https://weirddarkness.com/shadow-people/
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HatManAndShadowPeop...
ARTICLE ABOUT THE HAT MAN: https://weirddarkness.com/hat-man/
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE ABOUT SHADOW PEOPLE: https://weirddarkness.com/shadow-people/
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HatManAndShadowPeop...
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October 12, 2026 • 66 mins
Martha Whitman doesn't think her six-year-old son Osmond is as sick as his doctors and his father say, so she makes him a deal: she'll throw his pills down the kitchen drain, morning and night, and he'll tell his father he's been taking them.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stickman
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Stick Man” by Donte-highwater: https://www.inkitt.com/howard23, https...
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stickman
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Stick Man” by Donte-highwater: https://www.inkitt.com/howard23, https...
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October 12, 2026 • 135 mins
A Fresno, California, family set up a camera by the garage after their dogs kept barking into the dark, and the next morning's footage showed two pale figures with no arms anyone could make out, walking across the front lawn on long legs that seem to bend backward.
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HOUR ONE: There are roads on Long Island that are much more than a line between two points. Some roads contain legends that travel with you on your jour...
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HOUR ONE: There are roads on Long Island that are much more than a line between two points. Some roads contain legends that travel with you on your jour...
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October 11, 2026 • 43 mins
Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were born joined at the waist in Moscow in January of 1950; their mother was told they’d died of pneumonia, and Soviet scientists kept the girls for experiments, packing one sister in ice while they took the other’s temperature. Decades later, the British journalist who befriended them came to believe one twin had all the traits of a psychopath and the other had become an empath.
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