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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September 1, 2025 • 78 mins
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From toddlers casually chatting with deceased relatives to the ghostly cries of orphaned children still echoing through abandoned buildings, tonight's stories explore the unsettling connection between children and the paranormal through real accounts from terrified parents, witnesses, and those who were once haunted children themselves.
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From toddlers casually chatting with deceased relatives to the ghostly cries of orphaned children still echoing through abandoned buildings, tonight's stories explore the unsettling connection between children and the paranormal through real accounts from terrified parents, witnesses, and those who were once haunted children themselves.
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September 1, 2025 • 120 mins
When the Salem witch trials reached their peak of hysteria in 1692, 81-year-old Giles Corey became the only person in American history to receive a court-ordered execution by crushing, defiantly gasping "more weight" as stones were piled on his chest over two agonizing days. His gruesome death, carried out in a public pit where neighbors could watch, helped turn the tide against the witch trials as witnesses realized no true servan...
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August 31, 2025 • 45 mins
In 1931, Peter Kürten walked to the guillotine and asked if he would hear his own blood gushing from his neck after decapitation, calling it "the pleasure to end all pleasures" - the final words of a man who had murdered at least 10 people and committed 68 crimes with absolutely no remorse.
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August 31, 2025 • 294 mins
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Alexander Jordan, terrified of being buried alive during cataleptic fits, rigs a mausoleum with safety measures. His nephew’s greed, aimed at securing the inheritance, triggers a lethal chain of events. Will the safeguards work—or will his nightmare come true? | #RetroRadio EP0497
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Alexander Jordan, terrified of being buried alive during cataleptic fits, rigs a mausoleum with safety measures. His nephew’s greed, aimed at securing the inheritance, triggers a lethal chain of events. Will the safeguards work—or will his nightmare come true? | #RetroRadio EP0497
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August 31, 2025 • 21 mins
You've been calling history's greatest villain by a stolen name that actually belongs to Jesus Christ, and this case of cosmic identity theft reveals a bigger truth about the battle over what to call you. Tonight, discover why names matter more than you think, who's trying to rename you right now, and why the real name of God's enemy changes everything about how you understand your own identity.
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August 31, 2025 • 5 mins
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“Catfish Invaded River”, by Jax Robertson, age 8
“Locked In The School” by Dessa Mattingly, age 8
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
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“Catfish Invaded River”, by Jax Robertson, age 8
“Locked In The School” by Dessa Mattingly, age 8
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com
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August 30, 2025 • 41 mins
What if aliens are deliberately hiding from us because making contact means certain death? From the chilling Dark Forest Theory to NASA insiders claiming ETs walk among us, discover why we haven't found aliens yet—and the disturbing possibility that they're already here, watching us through microscopic probes we can't even detect.
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August 30, 2025 • 24 mins
At Camp Resting Stone's grand reopening, counselors warn the young campers about Skinless Gutts—the ghost of a man who died in a tragic accident twenty-two years ago. But when a fierce storm traps everyone at the isolated camp, the kids learn that some ghost stories are told for a reason.
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August 30, 2025 • 55 mins
In the 1950s, Britain secretly operated Room 801 — a hidden UFO investigation unit tracking thousands of sightings while publicly denying its existence. But the story goes far deeper: from Sir Peter Horsley's alleged meeting with an alien called "Mr. Janus" to Dorothy Kilgallen's explosive report about a recovered crashed UFO, and the mysterious 1964 Penkridge incident where military forces allegedly recovered an extraterrestrial c...
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August 29, 2025 • 13 mins
Original Article: https://weirddarkness.com/wow-signal-1977-space-mystery-explained/
For 72 seconds in 1977, something spoke to Earth from the depths of space. Nearly five decades later, scientists are finally closing in on what sent that message – and the answer might be more unsettling than aliens.
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For 72 seconds in 1977, something spoke to Earth from the depths of space. Nearly five decades later, scientists are finally closing in on what sent that message – and the answer might be more unsettling than aliens.
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August 29, 2025 • 305 mins
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A typist who accused of murdering the author she works for. But here’s the twist — she claims the real killer wasn’t a person — it was a character from his novel, fighting for its own survival. | #RetroRadio EP0496
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A typist who accused of murdering the author she works for. But here’s the twist — she claims the real killer wasn’t a person — it was a character from his novel, fighting for its own survival. | #RetroRadio EP0496
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August 29, 2025 • 12 mins
Original Article: https://weirddarkness.com/utah-bull-mutilation-reproductive-organs-2025/
In July 2025, a Utah rancher discovered his prized bull lying dead in a remote field, its body intact except for one disturbing detail that would reignite decades of speculation about one of the American West’s most enduring mysteries.
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In July 2025, a Utah rancher discovered his prized bull lying dead in a remote field, its body intact except for one disturbing detail that would reignite decades of speculation about one of the American West’s most enduring mysteries.
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August 29, 2025 • 15 mins
Original article: https://weirddarkness.com/girlfriend-sells-boyfriend-myanmar-scam/
A 19-year-old Chinese man thought he’d found love with a stylish teenager at a pool hall. Four months later, he emerged from a Myanmar scam compound deaf, traumatized, and 22 pounds lighter – sold into slavery by the girl who claimed to love him.
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A 19-year-old Chinese man thought he’d found love with a stylish teenager at a pool hall. Four months later, he emerged from a Myanmar scam compound deaf, traumatized, and 22 pounds lighter – sold into slavery by the girl who claimed to love him.
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August 29, 2025 • 312 mins
“The Lost Special” centers around the baffling disappearance of a privately hired train (“a special”) during its run from Liverpool to London. The train, carrying just a handful of individuals, vanishes inexplicably after passing a junction—it doesn’t show up where it should, and neither the tracks nor the train can be found. | #RetroRadio EP0495
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August 28, 2025 • 28 mins
(Bonus Episode) “The Time Snatcher” by Randall Garrett | A time-traveling gunslinger races against the clock to stop a rogue agent from rewriting history in the gritty, dangerous world of the Old West.
Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ – February, 1957
Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ – February, 1957
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August 28, 2025 • 49 mins
A father watches helplessly through shatterproof windows as a demon-masked intruder hunts his deaf son, teenage daughter, and wife through their darkened home while he remains locked outside.
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August 28, 2025 • 7 mins
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A remote cattle ranch in Argentina has become ground zero for a series of attacks so bizarre that hardened farm workers refuse to patrol at night, and local veterinarians can't explain why dozens of calves are being found drained of blood through surgically precise wounds.
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A remote cattle ranch in Argentina has become ground zero for a series of attacks so bizarre that hardened farm workers refuse to patrol at night, and local veterinarians can't explain why dozens of calves are being found drained of blood through surgically precise wounds.
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August 28, 2025 • 31 mins
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From Salem's gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are butchered with machetes for having red eyes, the pattern of witch hunts remains horrifyingly consistent: torture until confession, murder for being different, and children weaponized against their own families. What most people don't rea...
From Salem's gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are butchered with machetes for having red eyes, the pattern of witch hunts remains horrifyingly consistent: torture until confession, murder for being different, and children weaponized against their own families. What most people don't rea...
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August 27, 2025 • 18 mins
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A British train driver’s mysterious condition has left him unable to achieve unconsciousness for nearly two years, defying medical understanding and pushing the boundaries of human endurance.
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A British train driver’s mysterious condition has left him unable to achieve unconsciousness for nearly two years, defying medical understanding and pushing the boundaries of human endurance.
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August 27, 2025 • 310 mins
The Shadow finds his way to the ghost town of Bad Creek, where the only other residents in the lonely hotel are the eerie—sometimes deadly—ghostly guardians of a nearby gold mine. | #RetroRadio EP0494
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00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Tortured Twins” (January 18, 1977)
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