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
From the 1981 Boston sightings, to Steven King’s monster, to John Wayne Gacy's horrific murders, we have plenty of reasons to loath these nightmare entertainers.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Why do clowns creep us out? We’ll look at some of the reasons. We’ll review real creepy clown sightings – it happens a lot more than you might think! Plus, we’ll also look at some true cases of...
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IN THIS EPISODE: Why do clowns creep us out? We’ll look at some of the reasons. We’ll review real creepy clown sightings – it happens a lot more than you might think! Plus, we’ll also look at some true cases of...
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July 8, 2025 • 594 mins
A terrified woman claims a demon with a face is behind a grisly axe murder — but the truth is far more horrifying! Hear the tale from Stay Tuned For Terror! | #RetroRadio EP0458
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Forty-Five Minutes to Murder” (June 28, 1976) ***WD
00:46:28.130 = Ripley’s B...
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Forty-Five Minutes to Murder” (June 28, 1976) ***WD
00:46:28.130 = Ripley’s B...
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A mysterious black goo oozing from a ship’s rudder turned out to be a previously unknown life form — because of course it did. Say hello to ShipGoo001!
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In 1896-1897, thousands of Americans across 19 states witnessed mysterious airships with strange occupants, bright lights, and impossible technology – decades before the Wright Brothers' first flight and 50 years before Roswell – in what became history's first documented mass UFO sighting.
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IN THIS EPISODE: When students at a Catholic primary school in Uganda began exhib...
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July 7, 2025 • 600 mins
A lonely teenage girl invents an imaginary friend to cope with isolation. As real-life companions enter her world, the imaginary friend turns hostile — manifesting physically and attacking to preserve its existence in her make-believe realm. Hear “Child of Fate” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater! | #RetroRadio EP0457
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July 7, 2025 • 12 mins
A young servant girl's mysterious drowning sets a cynical private detective on a twisted path through false confessions, midnight conspiracies, and shadows that seem to move on their own in this chilling noir investigation.
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THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: (Greenwich, New York – 1889) When 19-year-old servant Maggie Hourigan vanished...
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THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: (Greenwich, New York – 1889) When 19-year-old servant Maggie Hourigan vanished...
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July 7, 2025 • 583 mins
A teenage girl suspects her mysterious new neighbor is a vampire — but is it paranoia, or has the Boogey Man finally come for her? It’s “The Bogey Man Will Get You” from Stay Tuned For Terror! | #RetroRadio EP0456
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976)
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976)
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July 7, 2025 • 88 mins
HOUR ONE: Love, money, divorce, anger, and murder. One Pennsylvania family had it all and then some in the late 1800’s. (The Butler County Tragedy) *** Count Saint Germain and Jacques Saint Germain, John and Wayne Carter, the Casket Girls of New Orleans. Despite many years between all of their lives, they all still have one grisly thing in common. All were thought to be, and possibly were, real vampires tied to the Big Easy… a plac...
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July 6, 2025 • 80 mins
A 16th-century witch hunter believed each person is caught between a guardian angel and their own personal demon — one who knows their deepest habits and weaknesses — and he mapped out the seven princes of Hell who rule over humanity's sins.
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IN THIS EPISODE: You might have heard someone say during a severe storm, “it’s raining cats and dogs out there!” Of course, it was...
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IN THIS EPISODE: You might have heard someone say during a severe storm, “it’s raining cats and dogs out there!” Of course, it was...
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July 6, 2025 • 22 mins
“Prison of a Billion Years” by CH Thames: A condemned murderer escapes from a maximum-security prison built a billion years in Earth's past, taking a reporter hostage into a lifeless world where the only escape leads to an impossible paradox.
From Imagination Science Fiction Magazine, April 1956
From Imagination Science Fiction Magazine, April 1956
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July 6, 2025 • 19 mins
While scientists race to freeze brains and extract memories by 2125, they've overlooked one terrifying question: what happens when you successfully download everything except the one thing that makes you... YOU?
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From a chair that killed 60 people to a haunted doll that demands written apologies, these stolen and cursed artifacts have exacted terrible revenge on those who dared to take them — through death, illness, and supernatural torment that forced their terrified owners to return them with desperate warnings to others.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It was Labor Day, 1980 when Cynthia Cl...
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July 5, 2025 • 74 mins
From childhood bedrooms to adult homes across the country, these people share their terrifying true stories of malevolent spirits, shadow figures, and ghostly attachments that have followed them through every stage of life — proving that some hauntings never end.
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IN THIS EPISODE: People who are haunted for years or even decades non-stop can never lead a normal life. Ima...
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IN THIS EPISODE: People who are haunted for years or even decades non-stop can never lead a normal life. Ima...
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July 5, 2025 • 14 mins
When new kid Ash moves to a small Michigan town, the local teens warn of a terrifying creature stalking the woods near their isolated cabin – the legendary Dogman.
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Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
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A group of people escape to a secluded island for a relaxing weekend… only to discover they’ve stumbled upon the lair of a mad doctor. As they begin to unravel the island’s secrets, their getaway turns into a chilling struggle for survival! Hear “Weekend” from Macabre! | #RetroRadio EP0455
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A lonely signalman haunted by ghostly warnings at a desolate railway cutting begins to fear that death is coming — and he may be the next to greet it.
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre s...
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre s...
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A skeptical young man who boasts he fears nothing accepts a challenge to spend the night in a castle's infamous haunted chamber, where the true terror isn't what lurks in the shadows — but the darkness itself.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #ThrillerThursday and this time I’m bringing you a tale from H.G. Wells… a haunted house story entitled, “The Red Room.” It’s a great short ...
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #ThrillerThursday and this time I’m bringing you a tale from H.G. Wells… a haunted house story entitled, “The Red Room.” It’s a great short ...
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July 3, 2025 • 583 mins
A mysterious flying saucer imparts a secret to a lonely woman — and the message is so profound the government interrogates her to get it… but she risks everything to protect the secret. | #RetroRadio EP0454
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Unthinkable” (June 14, 1976)
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Unthinkable” (June 14, 1976)
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July 2, 2025 • 82 mins
From a grieving six-year-old who lost his father to the monster who murdered eight innocent nursing students, this is the chilling story of how Richard Speck's traumatic childhood forged one of America's most notorious killers.
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IN THIS EPISODE: When police found eight nursing students bruta...
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July 2, 2025 • 583 mins
When four aging guests drink from a mysterious fountain promising youth, their second chance at life reveals they’ve learned nothing from the first. | #RetroRadio EP0453
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Free The Beast” (June 10, 1976)
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Free The Beast” (June 10, 1976)
00:46:14.259 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, ...
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