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
December 21, 2025 • 33 mins
Four ghosts, one night, and a transformation so complete it's been pointing people toward a baby in a manger for nearly 200 years.
SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirdddarkness.com/cotu-gospelaccordingtoscrooge
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#COTU, #ChurchOfTheUndead, #AChristmasCarol, #CharlesDickens, #EbenezerScrooge, #ChristmasSermon, #ChristianSermon, #GospelMessage, #Redemption, #ChurchOfT...
SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirdddarkness.com/cotu-gospelaccordingtoscrooge
Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2025.
#COTU, #ChurchOfTheUndead, #AChristmasCarol, #CharlesDickens, #EbenezerScrooge, #ChristmasSermon, #ChristianSermon, #GospelMessage, #Redemption, #ChurchOfT...
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December 20, 2025 • 37 mins
Thirty years ago, Matthew Klein escaped a fire that killed his family. He's been running ever since. Now, with five doors left on a cursed advent calendar and a demon named Zurvan orchestrating chaos across Marshport, the flames have finally caught up. His friends are dead. His wife believes him a liar. His son has been poisoned by demonic whispers. And as Christmas Eve draws near—the culmination of Zurvan's ancient celebration—Mat...
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December 20, 2025 • 24 mins
When ten-year-old Stephen was grabbed by invisible hands and dragged toward the foot of his bed, his parents dismissed it as a nightmare—but years later, his mother revealed a terrifying secret she'd been hiding since she was ten herself.
Episode 8 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Thing At The Foot Of The Bed”, “The Mystery of St. Luke’s Church”, “The Guttenberg Poltergeist”, “The Tickling T...
Episode 8 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Thing At The Foot Of The Bed”, “The Mystery of St. Luke’s Church”, “The Guttenberg Poltergeist”, “The Tickling T...
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December 20, 2025 • 48 mins
From a ghost who returned a missing child only to reveal he'd been dead for years, to a bride whose body was found hidden in a chest fifty years after she vanished, these true Christmas hauntings prove the holidays have a dark side.
IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a few ghost stories that all center around the Christmas season. (True Tales of Christmas Ghosts) *** We’ll look at a haunting in Rhode Island, where people claim to see a mys...
IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a few ghost stories that all center around the Christmas season. (True Tales of Christmas Ghosts) *** We’ll look at a haunting in Rhode Island, where people claim to see a mys...
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December 20, 2025 • 19 mins
She got exactly what she wanted for Christmas—a beautiful doll with purple fingernails—but what the doll wanted was something far more sinister.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…
”Frosted” by Ally Mathews: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6
“When I Was In Your Tummy”: https://tinyurl.com/rbcqqoo
“Purpl...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…
”Frosted” by Ally Mathews: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6
“When I Was In Your Tummy”: https://tinyurl.com/rbcqqoo
“Purpl...
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December 20, 2025 • 6 mins
“CREATURES WERE STIRRING” by Scott Donnelly
When Santa's sleigh crashes outside a haunted house full of zombie children, ghosts, and a blood-thirsty mouse, he quickly learns that sending away his reindeer and elf was a terrible mistake.
#scarystories #halloweenstories #halloweenkids #storiesforkids #kidsstories #scarystoriesforkids #microterrors
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroT...
When Santa's sleigh crashes outside a haunted house full of zombie children, ghosts, and a blood-thirsty mouse, he quickly learns that sending away his reindeer and elf was a terrible mistake.
#scarystories #halloweenstories #halloweenkids #storiesforkids #kidsstories #scarystoriesforkids #microterrors
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroT...
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December 19, 2025 • 39 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 19, 2025 • 32 mins
On December 16, 1897, a celebrated actor gave a struggling performer a sovereign out of kindness — and the next evening, that same coin paid for the knife that would kill him outside the stage door he still haunts to this day.
Episode 7 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Ghost of William Terris”, “Christmas Hauntings”, “Calvert Mansion”, “The Dana House”, “I Am Your Brother”
SOURCES AND ESSENTI...
Episode 7 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Ghost of William Terris”, “Christmas Hauntings”, “Calvert Mansion”, “The Dana House”, “I Am Your Brother”
SOURCES AND ESSENTI...
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December 19, 2025 • 60 mins
Every year, goblin-like creatures called Kallikantzaroi stop sawing through the World Tree, crawl up from the underworld, and spend the twelve days of Christmas stealing babies, destroying homes, and terrorizing anyone unlucky enough to cross their path, pooping all over the place while they are at it.
IN THIS EPISODE: If your kids think Elf on a Shelf is creepy – just tell them that kids in Greece and its surrounding countries are ...
IN THIS EPISODE: If your kids think Elf on a Shelf is creepy – just tell them that kids in Greece and its surrounding countries are ...
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December 19, 2025 • 22 mins
While Santa delivers presents to good children in Belgium and Holland, his demonic helper Black Peter stuffs the naughty ones into a sack full of hungry rats, drags them back to his coal mine on a cart pulled by plague-ridden undead rams, and forces them to dig coal forever — or until he gets hungry enough to eat them.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podca...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podca...
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December 19, 2025 • 307 mins
In “The Imposter”, a woman, despite having no theatrical background, is suddenly inspired to write a full-length play — with the ghostly help of a long-dead actor. When the play turns out to be a hit, she tries to take all the credit for it. But the real author’s spirit isn’t having it and demands that her name be removed from the marquee. | #RetroRadio EP0571
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show O...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show O...
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December 18, 2025 • 24 mins
When twelve-year-old Nick signed up to be a "Bigfoot Buster" on Christmas Eve, he never expected to come face-to-face with the real creature at his front door — wearing the park ranger's coat and picking flesh from its teeth.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by...
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December 18, 2025 • 42 mins
In the Christmas of 1965, a nine-year-old boy receives an Advent calendar that opens itself each night, revealing a shadowy figure drawing closer to his home — in a town where a child has been snatched and murdered every Christmas Eve for three years.
“THE ADVENT CALENDAR HORROR” by Michael Whitehouse #WeirdDarkness #HolidayHorrors
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a short story of fiction I bring back every Christmas simply called “The Advent C...
“THE ADVENT CALENDAR HORROR” by Michael Whitehouse #WeirdDarkness #HolidayHorrors
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a short story of fiction I bring back every Christmas simply called “The Advent C...
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December 18, 2025 • 38 mins
In 1953, a museum caretaker reached out to touch an elderly stranger's shoulder — and his hand passed through thin air as the man vanished, leaving behind a blue book that had belonged to a lawyer who died thirty years before.
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE DEATH COACH” and 6 More True Paranormal Christmas Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 6 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The York Museum Ghost”, “The S...
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE DEATH COACH” and 6 More True Paranormal Christmas Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 6 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The York Museum Ghost”, “The S...
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December 18, 2025 • 31 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
On Christmas Eve 2008, eight-year-old Leticia opened the door expecting Santa Claus — instead, she found her aunt's ex-husband in a custom-fitted suit, armed with five handguns and a homemade flamethrower, ready to deliver his final gift to the family.
IN THIS EPISODE: (Christmas archives episode from December 13, 2020): We’ll look at some of the history of Santa and his cohorts – and how they have all not been as jolly as we know t...
IN THIS EPISODE: (Christmas archives episode from December 13, 2020): We’ll look at some of the history of Santa and his cohorts – and how they have all not been as jolly as we know t...
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December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
A painter wished the aviator in cabin 8 a Merry Christmas, but when he turned back seconds later, the man with the scarred neck had vanished — and naval records confirm no one matching his description ever served aboard the HMS Glory.
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE LAST WISH OF JIM CURRAN” and 5 More Ghostly Holiday Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 5 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Aircraft Carrier...
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE LAST WISH OF JIM CURRAN” and 5 More Ghostly Holiday Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 5 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Aircraft Carrier...
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December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
While children in America might fear getting coal in their stockings, kids in other parts of the world are warned about demons who beat them bloody, a giant cat that devours the lazy, and an ogress who cooks and eats disobedient children for her Christmas dinner.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCE...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCE...
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December 17, 2025 • 26 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 16, 2025 • 23 mins
When my brother convinced our parents to leave the old Santa animatronic in the basement instead of displaying it upstairs, it wrapped its power cord around his neck in the dark — but not before whispering exactly what it wanted.
IN THIS EPISODE: My parents own a Santa animatronic – I think it tried to kill us! *** (Originally aired December 18, 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry” by Jameson Cumi...
IN THIS EPISODE: My parents own a Santa animatronic – I think it tried to kill us! *** (Originally aired December 18, 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry” by Jameson Cumi...
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