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

SKINWALKER RANCH: Utah’s Infamous Paranormal Portal Where Science Meets the Supernatural

June 17, 2025 • 65 mins
In the heart of Utah's Uinta Basin stands a ranch where government scientists have spent millions trying to explain cattle that vanish mid-step, creatures immune to bullets, and glowing portals that may be doorways to other worlds.

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THE WOMAN IN GREY: A Phantom Willed Into Existence, Exacting Her Manifested Malice!

June 16, 2025 • 311 mins
At a dull dinner party, a man conjures up an imaginary companion—“a woman in grey”—claiming she’ll haunt those he dislikes so he doesn’t have to deal with them. His fabrication starts having real consequences: people he dislikes begin to die, and he suspects his own creation has taken on a chilling existence! Hear the tale from Sleep No More! | #RetroRadio EP0437

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CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK DEATH: Pus, Pee, and Plague Doctors – Medieval Medicine’s Worst Moments

June 16, 2025 • 104 mins
#WeirdDarknessRadio WEEK OF JUNE 15, 2025: During the Black Death, medieval Europeans bathed in vinegar, slept on rotting straw, dumped waste in the streets — and still couldn’t figure out why everyone was dying.
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HOUR ONE: During the bubonic plague in the early Middle-Ages, those who became sick and were even suspected of having the plague, were forced to relocate to a quarantined island – Poveglia Island. The gruesomeness...
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THE ABDUCTIONS OF LYNDA JONES: Missing Time, Alien Pregnancy, Men In Black, and Decades of Terror

June 15, 2025 • 61 mins
Over four decades, Lynda Jones experienced multiple alien abductions beginning with a terrifying 1979 encounter that left her with 90 minutes of missing time, mysterious pregnancies she never remembered, and recurring visits from sinister men in trilby hats.

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SUBMERGED SECRETS: Why Do 50% of UFO Sightings Happen Near Water? Are There Aquatic Aliens?

June 15, 2025 • 55 mins
While most people look to the skies for UFOs, the real alien activity might be happening in the unexplored depths beneath our oceans.

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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 such as haunted lo...
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THE HIDDEN POISON: A Lesson on Trust and Divine Protection From The Tylenol Murders #COTU

June 15, 2025 • 20 mins
In the autumn of 1982, seven innocent people in Chicago died after taking what they thought was safe medicine — but the poison hidden inside those Tylenol capsules reveals a chilling truth about the spiritual dangers that lurk behind things that appear perfectly normal in our daily lives.

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DANCING WITH THE DEAD: And More True Crime Cases That Defy All Logic

June 14, 2025 • 59 mins
When a pizza delivery man becomes an unwilling bank robber with a bomb around his neck, a radiology technician dances with his dead girlfriend's corpse for seven years, and a teenager secretly lives in a family's walls – you know you've entered the realm of true crime cases so bizarre they make fiction look perfectly reasonable.

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DEATH LAUGHS LAST: Justice Wears a Grin in the Dark, and Vengeance Waits With a Smile!

June 14, 2025 • 301 mins
A man carries out what he believes is a flawlessly executed killing. But soon after, he begins to unravel—plagued by guilt, paranoia, or fate — learning too late that no crime goes unpunished. Death, it seems, has the final laugh. Hear the story from The Sealed Book! | #RetroRadio EP0436

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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ASSASSINATION IN TIME: Can They Save Lincoln From His Historic Fate? Should They?

June 14, 2025 • 284 mins
A young couple travels back in time and discovers a plot to assassinate President Lincoln—forcing them to choose between altering history or letting fate run its course. | #RetroRadio EP0435

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Assassination” (April 20, 1976)
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STEVE KILBURN: The Most Detailed Alien Abduction Ever Recorded – And The Alien Medical Exam Was Real

June 14, 2025 • 60 mins
When Steven Kilburn couldn't shake the feeling of dread that gripped him every time he drove a particular stretch of Maryland road, hypnotic regression revealed he had been abducted by alien beings who performed medical experiments on him and then erased his memory of the encounter. 

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SOLAR ECLIPSES AND THE MOTHMAN CHRONICLES: Bad Omens, An Ancient Curse, and a Famous Cryptid

June 13, 2025 • 72 mins
Ancient solar eclipses once rewrote history and terrified civilizations, but when a winged creature with glowing red eyes began stalking Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966, it brought with it a trail of disasters that some believe stems from a 200-year-old Native American curse.

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OIL OF DOG: Man’s Best Friend Becomes Mankind’s Worst Ingredient | Paranormal & Crime Old Time Radio

June 13, 2025 • 302 mins
A medicine man teaches a desperate soul how to concoct a deadly potion and the lucrative business of unwanted infants disposal – until an unfortunate accident brings their prosperous enterprise to an explosive end. Hear the tale from The Black Mass! | #RetroRadio EP0434

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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(Bonus Episode!) SECOND CENSUS: An Odd Visitor’s Door-to-Door Deception

June 12, 2025 • 25 mins
When a mysterious "census taker" begins visiting a quiet suburban neighborhood asking strange questions and displaying impossible abilities, three physicist friends realize they're dealing with something far more dangerous than government bureaucracy.

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“THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” by Edgar Allan Poe | Classic Horror From The Original Bard of Terror!

June 12, 2025 • 20 mins
In the height of a deadly plague, Prince Prospero locks himself and a thousand nobles inside his lavish abbey for a decadent masquerade ball, believing wealth and walls can cheat death—until an uninvited guest in blood-red robes proves that no one can escape their final dance.

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(BONUS) THEY TOOK MY DOG: Because He Knew Too Much #MindOfMarlar

June 12, 2025 • 7 mins
Find more episodes like this, posted almost every day of the week, by searching for "Mind of Marlar" in the podcast app you're using right now!

They say there’s no evidence of aliens — but I’d show you the truth myself if it were safe to take off my aluminum hat.

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THE MURDEROUS HARPE BROTHERS: A Reign of Terror By America’s First Serial Killers

June 12, 2025 • 104 mins
In the lawless Kentucky frontier of the 1790s, two brothers unleashed a reign of terror so savage that even hardened outlaws were sickened by their bloodlust—culminating in an act so heinous that one brother murdered his own crying infant daughter by smashing her head against a tree.

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CHECKS FROM THE BEYOND: Her Husband Disappeared, Presumed Dead – So How Is He Sending Money To Her?

June 11, 2025 • 290 mins
When a desperate lawyer vanishes without a trace, his wife begins receiving mysterious checks—signed by her supposedly dead husband. | #RetroRadio EP0433

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Strange Passenger” (April 15, 1976)
00:46:37.019 = Green Hornet, “Numbers Make a Racket” (August 29, ...
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THE NORTHWOOD MURDERER: Serial Killer Franklin Evans and the Ghosts of Bussey's Woods

June 11, 2025 • 83 mins
In the summer of 1872, when elderly drifter Franklin Evans arrived at his sister's New Hampshire farmhouse, no one suspected that the shambling vagabond was actually a monster who had been stalking and butchering children across New England for nearly a decade—until his own grand-niece became his final victim and the truth about the unsolved Joyce murders finally came to light.

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THE EXORCISM OF GOTTLIEBIN DITTUS: The True Story of A Girl Possessed By Over 1,000 Demons

June 11, 2025 • 75 mins
When the orphaned Dittus family moved into a ramshackle apartment in the German village of Möttlingen, they unleashed a two-year supernatural nightmare that would see young Gottliebin possessed by over 1,000 demons who forced nails and metal objects through her skin while an entire community watched in horror.

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WISHES CAN BE FATAL: Her Innocent Looking Embroidery Is Supernatural And Deadly | Paranormal & Crime

June 10, 2025 • 288 mins
A spiteful elderly woman living in a nursing home resorts to the supernatural power of her needlepoint to control — and exact vengeance on — her wicked daughter‑in‑law. | #RetroRadio EP0432

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