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

This Fungus EATS Radiation — And Scientists Want to Send It to Mars

December 12, 2025 • 11 mins
In the deadliest place on Earth, where radiation can kill you in minutes, scientists found something growing on the walls — and it wasn't dying… it was thriving.

READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/chernobyl-fungus-eats-radiation/

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#WeirdDarkness #Chernobyl #Nuclear #Radiation #Science #Fungus #NASA #Space #Mystery #StrangeScience
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Russia's Mind-Controlled Pigeon Army Is Real — And It's Already Flying

December 12, 2025 • 4 mins
A Russian tech company claims it can upload flight commands directly into a bird's brain — and convince the pigeon it was its own idea.

READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/russia-mind-controlled-pigeons

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#WeirdDarkness #MindControl #Biodrones #BrainChips #Russia #Surveillance #Neurotechnology #SpyTech #Pigeons #ScienceNews
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ADVENT OF EVIL: Thursday, December 11 – The Sequence

December 11, 2025 • 25 mins
The advent calendar arrived nine days ago. No sender. No explanation. Just twenty-four numbered doors and a carved face with empty eyes that seemed to know exactly who Matthew Klein used to be.Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard.Three people are dead. A teenage boy has been twisted into a puppet for murder. A phantom child wrapped in ash and embers stalks the shadows, demanding obedience. And Matthew Klein — the man who ra...
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What If Everything We Believe About The Krampus Is Wrong?

December 11, 2025 • 61 mins
Hollywood says Krampus is an ancient Christmas demon with roots in pagan mythology — but there's no evidence any of that is true. The real story of how this monster came to be is stranger than any legend. #HolidayHorrors

IN THIS EPISODE: We’re all familiar with the poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas” – better known as, “Twas The Night Before Christmas”. But while we know the poem, we can’t be quite as sure about who wrote it. (The Chri...
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He Spent 20 Years in Prison Planning the Perfect Revenge

December 11, 2025 • 310 mins
After twenty years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, George Miller walks out a free man — and the gangster who framed him starts receiving dead rats in the mail. Ace Dinelli can run, but he can't escape a revenge and “Final Reckoning” two decades in the making. | #RetroRadio EP0570

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Little Green Death” (March 1...
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The Man Whose Face Matched a 1,000-Year-Old Stone God

December 11, 2025 • 290 mins
“Jobo” — a big-boned, simple-minded man from Texas – bears a striking resemblance to the mysterious stone figures of Easter Island. When an archaeologist (and later his daughter) catch wind of this uncanny likeness, each sets off on their own journey to uncover what it might mean. Along the way they encounter strange and compelling clues — including shiny silver medallions — that hint at an astonishing connection between Jobo and t...
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ADVENT OF EVIL: Wednesday, December 10 – Throughline

December 10, 2025 • 27 mins
The advent calendar arrived nine days ago. No sender. No explanation. Just twenty-four numbered doors and a carved face with empty eyes that seemed to know exactly who Matthew Klein used to be.Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard.Three people are dead. A teenage boy has been twisted into a puppet for murder. A phantom child wrapped in ash and embers stalks the shadows, demanding obedience. And Matthew Klein — the man who ra...
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Hundreds of People Have Reported Seeing Santa — Here's What They Might Actually Be Encountering

December 10, 2025 • 51 mins
#HolidayHorrors | Hundreds of people have reported encounters with what looks exactly like Santa Claus — and they weren't children dreaming on Christmas Eve. If the real Santa doesn't exist, what are these witnesses actually seeing... and why does it want to be seen?

IN THIS EPISODE: Many of us are familiar with the flip side of Father Christmas – the darker entity who visits and kidnaps bad children, Krampus. But when it comes to t...
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95% of Us Believe in Aliens — But We're All Afraid to Admit It

December 10, 2025 • 48 mins
A massive new study reveals that almost everyone believes intelligent extraterrestrial life exists, yet we vastly underestimate how many of our friends and neighbors share this belief — hiding our convictions like a shameful secret even though nearly all of us feel the same way.

READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/95-percent-believe-aliens

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THE TWELVE SLAYS OF CHRISTMAS: What If a Killer Used This Christmas Song as a Murder To-Do List?

December 9, 2025 • 20 mins
After his wife divorced him at Christmas, a man snapped — and used the classic holiday carol as a twisted blueprint for a cross-country killing spree.
It’s a short holiday horror story from horror author Jon Allen. And it’s a gruesome one! This story ain’t holly or jolly!
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“The Twelves Slays of Christmas” by Jon Allen (no link available)

"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes...
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ADVENT OF EVIL: Tuesday, December 09 – Scales of Disobedience

December 9, 2025 • 26 mins
The rules were clear. The warnings were given. And when the clock struck midnight, Matthew Klein discovered that his defiance would not be answered with his own suffering — but with the screams of a loved one.

Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTer...
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A Couple Bought a Bargain House in Scotland — Then People Started Dying

December 8, 2025 • 295 mins
A doctor begins treating a woman who insists that a glowing, supernatural figure — the Shining Man — has been appearing to her. She claims this radiant entity warns her of danger and even predicts deaths. At first the doctor chalks it up to stress and hallucination… until he starts encountering disturbing coincidences that match her visions. The deeper he digs, the more he’s pulled into a mystery that blurs the line between psychic...
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True Christmas Mysteries That Still Haunt Investigators

December 8, 2025 • 49 mins
From an inexplicable force that turned a woman to ashes in her farmhouse, to strange phenomena that transformed a quiet English town into a UFO hotspot, these chilling Christmas mysteries continue to baffle investigators and haunt communities long after the holiday decorations were packed away.

IN THIS EPISODE: A nurse was found dead in her bed - and her boyfriend and his nine-year-old son vanished, leaving behind only a truck full ...
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ADVENT OF EVIL: Monday, December 08 – Waves of Consequence

December 8, 2025 • 32 mins
Matthew Klein woke up believing the nightmare was over. He walked into work with hope in his heart for the first time in days, convinced he had finally broken free from the darkness that had invaded his life. But hope is a fragile thing in Marshport — and the shadows that have been watching Matthew do not forgive so easily. There are rules to this game. Rules that were made clear. And those who break them will discover that consequ...
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TOMBS IN SPACE: Did Russian Cosmonauts Die While Still In Space?

December 8, 2025 • 162 mins
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space — but two brothers in Italy had already recorded transmissions from Soviet spacecraft that were never supposed to exist. | #WDRadio WEEK OF DEC 07, 2025
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HOUR ONE: Did lost cosmonauts make it into space before Yuri Gagarin? (The Tombs in Space) *** Don't take a gift from Gracie Watson's grave... or her life-like statue might cry tears of blood. (Gracie’s Ghost) *...
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No One Had Lived in the Gatehouse for Forty Years — So Who Was the Pleading Voice?

December 8, 2025 • 284 mins
A teenage girl recovering from an illness begins hearing a disembodied voice begging to be let into a ruined building on the property. Her father and the family’s minister investigate the ruins to uncover the source of the voice. | “The Pleading Voice” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0567

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Pleading ...
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His Daughter Brought Him Back To Life for Only One Reason... Revenge

December 7, 2025 • 309 mins
A reporter arrives in a small country town investigating rumors that a man has returned from the dead. He uncovers that the supposedly resurrected man was actually murdered, and his daughter resurrected him via sorcery for vengeance. As the reporter digs deeper, he becomes entangled in a web of revenge and dark supernatural secrets. | “Lazarus Rising” from CBC’s Nightfall | #RetroRadio EP0566

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Ap...
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ADVENT OF EVIL: Sunday, December 07 – An Irreversible Decision

December 7, 2025 • 30 mins
Matthew confesses the calendar's dark pattern to Pastor Hart and learns that the ashen specter of his late brother Steven has been appearing to others, spreading his buried secrets throughout Marshport—and when door number seven crosses an unforgivable line, he makes an irreversible decision that may be more dangerous than the calendar itself.

Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

#WeirdDarkness #...
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The Floating Hells: Britain's Prison Ships on the Thames

December 7, 2025 • 46 mins
Before convicts were shipped to Australia, they rotted aboard decommissioned warships anchored in the Thames — floating dungeons so brutal that a condemned man called them "a college of villainy" where every prisoner graduated "a master of arts in scoundrelism."

IN THIS EPISODE: It was in 1975 when the first skull of what was believed to be Bigfoot was found. But the owner of the skull hadn’t been dead too long, for the local people...
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ADVENT OF EVIL: Saturday, December 06 – Mason’s Impossible Knowledge

December 6, 2025 • 28 mins
The bloody cross from door number five finally reveals its victim, and when Matt opens door six to find a miniature lion, he races to prevent another tragedy—only to come face-to-face with a masked killer in a deadly confrontation.

Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #Cr...
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