Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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

It Was 50 Feet Long And Climbing Out of a Ravine! A Living Dinosaur? | Monster of Partridge Creek

March 5, 2026 • 57 mins
In 1903, two hunters tracking moose through the frozen Yukon wilderness stumbled upon a massive furrow in the mud — thirty feet long, flanked by clawed footprints the size of a man — and followed the trail straight to something that shouldn't exist. What a French traveler, a gold prospector, and a Jesuit priest would witness clambering out of a remote Arctic ravine defies every assumption about what still roams the Canadian wild.

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The Secret To A LongMarriage (At Least For Us)

March 5, 2026 • 14 mins
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The Boston Massacre Ghosts, Patsy Cline's Fatal Premonition, and Belushi's Haunted Bungalow

March 5, 2026 • 28 mins
From a colonial massacre site that refuses to stay quiet to a comedian who may still be entertaining guests in his Hollywood bungalow — March 5th is stranger than it should be. | The Morning Weird Darkness

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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A Ghost, An Open Grave, and a Secret He Carried for 20 Years | “Silent Witness”

March 5, 2026 • 301 mins
A banker who sacrificed love for career discovers that twenty years of buried guilt can dig its own grave. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0595

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Silent Witness” (May 30, 1977)
00:44:15.215 = Creeps By Night, “Six Who Did Not Die” (July 11, 1944) ***WD
01:11:49.174 = The Crime Club, “A Deed Indeed” (August 21, 1947) ***...
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Yee Naaldlooshii, The Skinwalker | The Truth Behind the Navajo's Most Dangerous Witch

March 4, 2026 • 51 mins
Deep within Navajo culture lives a creature that was once human — a witch who murdered their own family to gain the power to shapeshift, possess the living, and control the dead.

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

IN THIS EPISODE: The Navajo believe there are places where the powers of both good and evil are present and that those powers can be harnessed for either. And the masters of these powers are the skinwa...
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The Asked ChatGPT "Could It Kill Someone?" — Then She Did It Twice

March 4, 2026 • 10 mins
A 21-year-old South Korean woman allegedly used ChatGPT to research lethal drug combinations before slipping fatal doses into the drinks of multiple men across two months.

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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Worst School Fire Ever, Spy Poisoned on a Park Bench, A U.S. President Killed By His Own Speech

March 4, 2026 • 36 mins
One man's completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don't know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire. And it's a day to triple-check your...
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The Confession Trap | Brendan Dassey, Kimberly Long, and the Innocent Who Admitted to Murder

March 3, 2026 • 35 mins
There are cases that make people question everything they thought they knew about how justice works — and then there are cases like these. The names Brendan Dassey and Kimberly Long have been argued over in courtrooms, in living rooms, and in comment sections for years, by people who cannot let go of the nagging sense that something went terribly wrong. And wrapped around both of their stories is a question that researchers, attorn...
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A Dragonfly Sees Time in Slow Motion — The Science Behind Animal “Frame Rates”

March 3, 2026 • 7 mins
Some animals process hundreds of visual “frames” every second, while others barely register one — and research shows it depends on how fast they live.

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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NASA Veteran Says Aliens Exist — But They’ve Never Been Here

March 3, 2026 • 9 mins
After more than five decades building spacecraft to search for life, one senior NASA engineer says the universe is probably alive — just not visiting Earth.*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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My (Sort Of) Day Off (Kinda) | When Inspiration Strikes vs. Consistency

March 2, 2026 • 5 mins
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PRIORITY EARLY RELEASE! West Point's Sealed Room, Dillinger's Haunted Jail & the Murdered Exorcist

March 2, 2026 • 43 mins
Four Mounties ambushed in a barn, a bank robber who escaped an escape-proof jail whose ghost never did, a murdered exorcist, a barracks room sealed shut for fifty years, and meat falling from a clear Kentucky sky — just another March 3rd. | The Morning Weird Darkness

If you have information on the murder of Father Alfred Kunz, the Dane County Sheriff's Office can be reached at 608-284-6900, or at tips@danesheriff.com.

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Something Small, Something Evil | Demonic Gnomes That Terrorize and Torment the Living

March 2, 2026 • 88 mins
Two different families moved into the same rural farmhouse years apart, never spoke to each other, and both reported the same three-foot creature lurking near the barn. | #WDRadio

WEEK OF November 17-23, 2024
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HOUR ONE: Did she drown? Did she commit suicide? Despite her death in 1889, we still don’t know how Maggie Hourigan died. (The Mystery of Maggie Hourigan) *** In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children’s science-fiction no...
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Taking a Day Off | Monday, March 02, 2026

March 1, 2026 • 43 secs
The title of this episode says it all. 🤪
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The Alien Visitors Came in Peace | A Small Town Exterminator Had Other Ideas! (FICTION)

March 1, 2026 • 12 mins
When a strange extraterrestrial visitor arrives in small-town Willow Grove seeking peaceful contact, one man's violent act of "pest control" forces the community to confront a deadly question: what makes someone human, and what makes them vermin?

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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He's Had the Same Nightmare His Whole Life... And It's Getting Worse! | "The Dream Snake" FICTION

March 1, 2026 • 16 mins
A man recounts his lifelong recurring nightmare of being stalked by an unseen serpent through the African grasslands, where each dream brings the creature closer to catching him. | “The Dream Snake” by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales, February 1928)

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A Late-Night Editor Discovered a Pattern in the Footage, and It Terrified Her | SHORT FICTION

March 1, 2026 • 11 mins
A late-night video editor begins noticing mysterious shadowy figures lurking in the background of news footage — and slowly realizes every person those shadows appear near ends up dead. | “Editing Room Shadows” by Keith Conrad

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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A Genius, a Billionaire, and a Billiard Ball: A Perfect Crime Hidden in Plain Sight! | FICTION

February 28, 2026 • 49 mins
When scientist Edward Bloom demonstrated humanity's first anti-gravity device to the world, a single billiard ball punched through his chest at the speed of light — and the only question that remains is whether the man who aimed it knew exactly what would happen.

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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“The Creeper”, “Truth Or Dare”, “The Nightmare of Teddy”, “The Haunted Woods”, “The Graveyard Gold”

February 28, 2026 • 17 mins
Five creepy tales sent in by kids! | Micro Terrors

Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors

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She Survived the Sinking — But Lost Her Mind | “And The Deep Shuddered”

February 28, 2026 • 283 mins
A visitor touring an asylum encounters a serene white-haired woman who believes she is still aboard a doomed ocean liner — and the truth behind her delusion is far more heartbreaking than it first appears. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0594

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Countess” (May 26, 1977)
00:45:11.826 = The Zero Hour, “The Price of Ad...
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