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.

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Taiwan Woman Uses Megaphone to Insult Neighbors for Two Years — and a Judge Finally Had Enough

February 23, 2026 • 6 mins
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She Reported Her Toddler Missing At 3 AM | Neighbors Say The Child Vanished Weeks Earlier

February 23, 2026 • 9 mins
A mother's 3 a.m. call sent police racing to find a missing toddler in Enterprise, Alabama — but the neighbors on her street had already noticed something was wrong long before anyone called 911.

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Anyone with information is asked to contact the Enterprise Police Department at (334) 347-2222

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The Man Three Gallows Couldn't Kill | Assassination Fears, Broken Reality, a Kidnapped Racing Legend

February 23, 2026 • 28 mins
From a gallows that refused to open three times to children barricaded inside a burning orphanage with no way out — February 23rd has more than its share of stories that don't sit quietly. | The Morning Weird Darkness

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Was He a Murderer or Just Misunderstood? | The Terrifying Truth of Oliver's Ferry

February 23, 2026 • 109 mins
A Scottish ferryman refused to take travelers across the water after dark — and the ones who stayed the night were never seen again. | #WDRadio WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 2026
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HOUR ONE: A 178-year-old mystery comes to the surface in a Philadelphia suburb. (Grandfather's Ghost Story Leads to Mass Grave) *** Recently a wrecking crew began tearing down and old building in Rhode Island. But the big burly men on the crew got so frigh...
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The Shelton Brothers | Shot In His Own Parking Lot And Still Haunting The Bar Decades Later

February 22, 2026 • 59 mins
The Shelton brothers rose from Wayne County farm boys to run one of the most powerful criminal empires in Illinois history — defying the Chicago Outfit, surviving ambushes, and collecting enemies until the bullets finally caught up with them, though the killers were never found, and at least one of the brothers apparently never left the bar where he died.

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15,000 City-Killers: What Space Rocks Teach Us About Trusting God

February 22, 2026 • 21 mins
NASA admits 15,000 asteroids big enough to erase a major city are out there right now — untracked, unnamed, and aimed at Earth’s neighborhood — and the Bible has something to say about that.

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A Proper English Home Hiding a Horrifying Crime | “Ladies In Retirement”

February 21, 2026 • 285 mins
A quiet English cottage, a devoted companion, and two childlike old women hide a dark secret — and as suspicion creeps closer, one desperate mind begins to crack under the weight of murder and fear. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0591

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Matter of Customs” (May 19, 1977)
00:45:49.830 = Peril, “Squeeze Play” (1953) **...
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Two Rich Kids, One Dead Boy, and the "Perfect Crime" That Wasn't So Perfect! | Leopold And Loeb

February 21, 2026 • 80 mins
Two privileged young men, driven by arrogance and a twisted sense of superiority, plotted the 'perfect crime.’ But the brutal murder of Bobby Franks left behind a trail of evidence and ghost that refuses to rest.

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IN THIS EPISODE: Leopold and Loeb believed themselves to be more intelligent than everyone and planned to commit the perfect murder. But it would be their pride that b...
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The Witch of Witcherly Corners | “The Child’s Cats Paw”

February 21, 2026 • 298 mins
A lonely little girl's imaginary conversations with her cat take a surprising turn when the cat begins talking back — and together they decide to meddle in the lives of the adults around them. | #RetroRadio EP0590

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Child’s Cats Paw” (May 17, 1977)
00:45:24.503 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Death Talks Out Of Turn” (Jun...
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Don't Ever Mess With a Bird's Nest; We Learned That The Hard Way! | The Buffest Bird Around

February 21, 2026 • 12 mins
A boy's attempt to befriend a bird nesting outside his bedroom window turns into a full-blown feathered vendetta when his parents keep destroying the nest. | “The Buffest Bird Around” by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors

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Five Cops Chased A Flying Saucer for 86 Miles | The Air Force Told Them It Was Venus

February 20, 2026 • 66 mins
In the early morning hours of April 17, 1966, five law enforcement officers from four different agencies watched in disbelief as a massive, glowing, football-shaped craft silently hovered over a Pennsylvania shopping center parking lot — the same object two Ohio sheriff's deputies had just chased at speeds exceeding 100 mph across 86 miles of highway. When the Air Force investigated, they had a simple explanation: the officers had ...
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Trump Orders Government to Release ALL UFO and Alien Files — And Obama Triggers It

February 20, 2026 • 24 mins
A casual podcast question to Barack Obama set off a chain of events that ended with a presidential order to release decades of classified government files on extraterrestrial life and UFOs — and what’s already in those files is far stranger than most people realize.

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He Built a Brain-Damaging Weapon to Prove It Was Harmless — It Wasn't

February 20, 2026 • 10 mins
A Norwegian government scientist tried to disprove Havana Syndrome by testing a microwave weapon on himself — and ended up with neurological damage that sent Pentagon officials flying to Oslo.

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Spring-Heeled Jack, a White House ghost, Hoodie Hoo Day, and more February 20th Creeps and Weirdness

February 20, 2026 • 39 mins
A fire-breathing creature that terrorized London for decades and was never identified, a child who died in the White House in 1862 and by credible report has been seen in the hallways ever since, and a sold-out concert in Rhode Island that turned into one of the deadliest nightclub fires in American history — plus an opera composer who hid under his blankets for a day and woke up a legend. | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD

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She Received a Stranger's Heart — And Inherited Her Memories | “Tissue Memory”

February 19, 2026 • 285 mins
When Anna receives a heart transplant, she expects a second chance at life — not a front-row seat to someone else's. But the memories flooding in from her donor's past are growing darker by the day, and the line between whose life she's living is starting to disappear. | #RetroRadio EP0589

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Bottom of the World” (May 0...
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Time Portals And Invisible Barriers | Are Veiled Worlds Surrounding Us... Gateways to The Past?

February 19, 2026 • 71 mins
From invisible walls that stop cars and people cold, to centuries of witnesses watching ancient Roman armies march through a lake that shouldn't be dry — something unexplained is breaking through the boundary between our world and whatever lies beyond it.

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IN THIS EPISODE: Ever since President Zachary Taylor died suddenly in 1850 after just 16 months in office, many have suspect...
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NASA's 15,000 Hidden “City-Killers”: The Asteroid Threat Nobody’s Talking About

February 19, 2026 • 7 mins
3I/ATLAS grabbed the headlines — but NASA says the real danger is the 15,000 space rocks already aimed at Earth that we haven’t found yet.

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3I/ATLAS grabbed the headlines — but NASA says the real danger is the 15,000 space rocks already aimed at Earth that we haven’t found yet.
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"Louisville Lassie": The Neighborhood Dog That Led Police to a Missing Toddler

February 19, 2026 • 5 mins
On January 7th, a dog no one could later identify walked up to a Louisville police officer mid-search and led him straight to a missing 3-year-old locked inside a car.

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She Turned an ER Into a Contamination Zone - No One Knows Why | February 19, Morning Weird Darkness

February 19, 2026 • 28 mins
From a volcano that toppled a Russian dynasty to a nurse who developed a mysterious bone disease after drawing a single patient's blood, February 19 has spent nearly two thousand years quietly collecting catastrophes. | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD

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BATH | The Deadliest Attack on a School in American History, And Most People Have Never Heard of It!

February 18, 2026 • 54 mins
Andrew Kehoe’s twisted vendetta against a small Michigan town led to a tragedy so horrifying, its echoes still haunt Bath, Michigan to this day—both in memory and hauntings.

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IN THIS EPISODE: After spending ten years in prison, Sam Sheppard was acquitted of his wife's murder. But for some, questions remain. (The Shocking Twists Of The Sam Sheppard Case) *** “If this stone is rea...
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