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
July 12, 2025 • 82 mins
When mysterious orbs of light start appearing in photographs at haunted locations, a psychic medium claims they're messages from the dead — but paranormal investigators armed with science have a far less supernatural explanation that might burst your spiritual bubble.
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IN THIS EPISODE: America’s foremost exorcist, Theophilus Riesinger, faced off with Lucifer himself in t...
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IN THIS EPISODE: America’s foremost exorcist, Theophilus Riesinger, faced off with Lucifer himself in t...
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July 12, 2025 • 597 mins
A dead inventor leaves behind a mysterious scarlet satchel — and when it opens, death comes calling for those who betrayed him. Listen to Dark Fantasy with “The Man With The Scarlet Satchel! | #RetroRadio EP0461
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Blood Red Roses” (July 12, 1976)
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Blood Red Roses” (July 12, 1976)
00:45:24.2...
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July 11, 2025 • 64 mins
Throughout history, humans have devised punishments so agonizing that victims would beg for death's mercy — from the Assyrians who draped flayed skin on city walls to Civil War soldiers forced to ride wooden horses until they split apart.
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IN THIS EPISODE: If you are concerned about a family member’s excessive drinking, what do you do? Hold an intervention? Call Alcoholi...
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IN THIS EPISODE: If you are concerned about a family member’s excessive drinking, what do you do? Hold an intervention? Call Alcoholi...
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July 11, 2025 • 582 mins
Stranded at a desolate station after dark, a group of travelers must confront chilling legends of a phantom train — and the deadly secret that rides with it. | #RetroRadio EP0460
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Loser Take All” (July 01, 1976)
00:45:56.198 = BBC Ghost Story, “The Ghost T...
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Loser Take All” (July 01, 1976)
00:45:56.198 = BBC Ghost Story, “The Ghost T...
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July 10, 2025 • 22 mins
Four elderly friends, given a miraculous second chance at youth by the mysterious Dr. Heidegger's fountain water, prove that some people are doomed to repeat the follies of their past no matter how many chances they get.
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathanial Hawthorne: http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/30/33.pdf
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“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathanial Hawthorne: http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/30/33.pdf
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July 10, 2025 • 7 mins
A Chinese park is hiring full-time forest monsters to scare tourists, grunt at passersby, and get paid $89 a day with accident insurance and zero dignity.
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July 9, 2025 • 96 mins
The CIA spent decades experimenting with psychic spies who could remotely view enemy secrets, and creating mind control programs that may have created assassins. The chilling possibility is that these programs never really ended.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It was kept secret for years that the U.S. government spent millions of dollars and decades of research and experiments looki...
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IN THIS EPISODE: It was kept secret for years that the U.S. government spent millions of dollars and decades of research and experiments looki...
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Three detectives enter a mansion plagued by phantom cats, but the greatest danger may be whoever — or whatever — is controlling them. | #RetroRadio EP0459
A trio of detectives get involved in a sinister case surrounding a supposedly haunted mansion plagued by eerie feline phenomena. They are drawn into investigating unexplained catlike scrabbling sounds echoing through empty halls, shadows that slink across walls — and the unnerving...
A trio of detectives get involved in a sinister case surrounding a supposedly haunted mansion plagued by eerie feline phenomena. They are drawn into investigating unexplained catlike scrabbling sounds echoing through empty halls, shadows that slink across walls — and the unnerving...
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July 9, 2025 • 4 mins
When your marriage ends over Sasquatch… and the judge sides with the cryptid
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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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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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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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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976)
00:45:49.743 =...
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976)
00:45:49.743 =...
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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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