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
November 11, 2025 • 16 mins
A 54-year-old Army veteran who traveled the country with the world's most infamous possessed doll died in his hotel room, and the internet exploded with theories.
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November 11, 2025 • 45 mins
Mathematical Proof ENDS Simulation Theory Forever... But That's Just The Beginning of What This Means.
IN THIS EPISODE: Scientists just used pure mathematics to prove something that sounds impossible — that our universe cannot be, and never could be, a computer simulation... but that's only touching the surface of what this means for other aspects of our reality.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Scientists just used pure mathematics to prove something that sounds impossible — that our universe cannot be, and never could be, a computer simulation... but that's only touching the surface of what this means for other aspects of our reality.
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November 10, 2025 • 308 mins
A retired sea captain inherits a lonely seaside cottage — and the skull of a murdered woman that refuses to rest. When he tries to throw it into the sea, the thing comes back screaming… and it wants revenge. | “The Screaming Skull” from CBC Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0553
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ripple Effect” (February 04, 1977)
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ripple Effect” (February 04, 1977)
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November 10, 2025 • 55 mins
In 1846, 87 pioneers took what they thought was a shortcut to California—but a series of fatal decisions, impossible terrain, and early snowstorms trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where starvation drove survivors to unspeakable acts, and some say the tortured spirits of those who perished still haunt Donner Pass to this very day.
IN THIS EPISODE: The tragic demise of the Donner Party has become infamous. But what led to ...
IN THIS EPISODE: The tragic demise of the Donner Party has become infamous. But what led to ...
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November 10, 2025 • 8 mins
A man in Germany lived with a disturbing secret from his youth for six decades before finally making things right.
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November 10, 2025 • 4 mins
A Kentucky woman expected her prescription refill – the shipping company had different body parts in mind.
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November 10, 2025 • 100 mins
Week of November 09, 2025: Hundreds vanish without a trace in America's national parks each year, found miles from where they disappeared in impossible locations—if they're found at all.
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HOUR ONE: Colorado’s best urban legends! *** A pitch black room at an inn, yields to a strange glow. (Comfort At The Comet Inn) *** Each year, hundreds of people simply disappear from parks and forests. What happened to them – and where ar...
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HOUR ONE: Colorado’s best urban legends! *** A pitch black room at an inn, yields to a strange glow. (Comfort At The Comet Inn) *** Each year, hundreds of people simply disappear from parks and forests. What happened to them – and where ar...
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November 10, 2025 • 18 mins
During her routine midnight shift at Memorial Hospital, Nurse Laura Bennett encounters a colleague in an old-fashioned uniform who reveals she's been trapped working the same night shift for decades, experiencing different eras but never able to leave—and warns Laura she could be next.
IN THIS EPISODE: “Shift Walker” by Keith Conrad
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IN THIS EPISODE: “Shift Walker” by Keith Conrad
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November 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Scientists arrive on Mars to conduct nuclear experiments on what everyone assured them was a completely dead and worthless planet, but what they discover in the smoke and fire will fill them with such overwhelming guilt that they'll abandon everything and flee home in shame.
IN THIS EPISODE: “Hang Head, Vandal!” by Mark Clifton (Amazing Stories, April 1962)
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IN THIS EPISODE: “Hang Head, Vandal!” by Mark Clifton (Amazing Stories, April 1962)
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November 9, 2025 • 43 mins
Recent government hearings have made UFOs and aliens front-page news, and now a Catholic priest says he'd baptize extraterrestrials if asked. But I think before agreeing so quickly to the idea, this priest needs to be asking some really big theological and spiritual questions.
SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-alienbaptism
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November 9, 2025 • 354 mins
The full-length, unabridged audiobook narrated by Weird Darkness host, Darren Marlar. | No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. Envying us. When massive cylinders fell from the sky and buried themselves in the English countryside, curious crowds gathered to witness what they thought was a meteorite. But when those cylinders unscrewed f...
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November 8, 2025 • 49 mins
On a freezing February morning in 1855, the terrified residents of Devon, England discovered miles of cloven hoof prints burned into fresh snow—tracks that climbed over rooftops, passed through locked gates, squeezed through four-inch pipes, and seemed to deliberately stop at people's front doors.
IN THIS EPISODE: One morning in 1855, citizens of the English town of Devon were surprised to find strange footprints about town in the s...
IN THIS EPISODE: One morning in 1855, citizens of the English town of Devon were surprised to find strange footprints about town in the s...
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November 8, 2025 • 297 mins
A dead professor, a remote Scottish island, and a secret population of large-headed telepaths with the ability to control human minds – two scientists uncover a government eugenics conspiracy that's already spreading far beyond the island's shores. Vincent Price stars in this chilling 1970s tale where the real horror isn't what's been created, but what's already walking among us. | #RetroRadio EP0552
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All ...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All ...
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November 8, 2025 • 9 mins
“The Creepy Doll” by Joey Sweet, age 9
“The Fish” by Mad Alexander, age 10
“Frankenstein’s New Butt” by Millie, age 6
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
Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://...
“The Fish” by Mad Alexander, age 10
“Frankenstein’s New Butt” by Millie, age 6
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
Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://...
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November 7, 2025 • 85 mins
The shocking true story of a 13-year-old boy's demonic possession in 1949 that terrified priests and inspired the most frightening film ever made.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Part One: The Boy They Called Roland Doe
00:02:55.822 = Show Open
00:04:58.617 = Part Two: The Boy Who Played With Darkness
00:20:24.106 = ***Part Three: Forty-Eight Witnesses to the Impossible
00:43:59.220 = ***Part Four: The ...
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Part One: The Boy They Called Roland Doe
00:02:55.822 = Show Open
00:04:58.617 = Part Two: The Boy Who Played With Darkness
00:20:24.106 = ***Part Three: Forty-Eight Witnesses to the Impossible
00:43:59.220 = ***Part Four: The ...
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November 7, 2025 • 288 mins
A Scottish ghost cursed to haunt his castle for 200 years finally gets his chance at redemption when an American grocery tycoon ships the entire structure—and its supernatural resident—across the Atlantic, where romance, mistaken identity, and an ancient blood feud collide in sunny Florida. | Globe Theater, “The Ghost Goes West” | #RetroRadio EP0551
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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November 7, 2025 • 50 mins
When a Maine radio reporter counted 30 unmarked jets laying persistent white trails across the sky in 45 minutes and an air traffic controller admitted off-record he'd been ordered by "higher civil authority" to reroute commercial flights away from a military exercise no one would explain, it sparked a global debate that would divide scientists, military officials, and millions of observers across 14 countries for the next two deca...
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November 7, 2025 • 3 mins
A $70 online psychic reading nearly destroyed a marriage in China when a wife believed a stranger's predictions over her husband's protests.
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November 7, 2025 • 8 mins
A foreclosure auction led to a grim discovery in a Texas townhome where neighbors noticed warning signs but never knocked on the door.
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November 6, 2025 • 45 mins
A family's day at Sydney's Luna Park ended in flames when a Ghost Train fire killed seven people—including six children—but the last photograph taken before the tragedy has sparked theories of something far more sinister than an accident.
IN THIS EPISODE: Some of the most unsettling of urban legends can take place in some of the happiest places on earth. Ghostly children swinging in a playground, phantom-like warriors coming out at ...
IN THIS EPISODE: Some of the most unsettling of urban legends can take place in some of the happiest places on earth. Ghostly children swinging in a playground, phantom-like warriors coming out at ...
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