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
December 20, 2025 • 6 mins
“CREATURES WERE STIRRING” by Scott Donnelly
When Santa's sleigh crashes outside a haunted house full of zombie children, ghosts, and a blood-thirsty mouse, he quickly learns that sending away his reindeer and elf was a terrible mistake.
#scarystories #halloweenstories #halloweenkids #storiesforkids #kidsstories #scarystoriesforkids #microterrors
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroT...
When Santa's sleigh crashes outside a haunted house full of zombie children, ghosts, and a blood-thirsty mouse, he quickly learns that sending away his reindeer and elf was a terrible mistake.
#scarystories #halloweenstories #halloweenkids #storiesforkids #kidsstories #scarystoriesforkids #microterrors
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroT...
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December 19, 2025 • 39 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 19, 2025 • 32 mins
On December 16, 1897, a celebrated actor gave a struggling performer a sovereign out of kindness — and the next evening, that same coin paid for the knife that would kill him outside the stage door he still haunts to this day.
Episode 7 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Ghost of William Terris”, “Christmas Hauntings”, “Calvert Mansion”, “The Dana House”, “I Am Your Brother”
SOURCES AND ESSENTI...
Episode 7 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Ghost of William Terris”, “Christmas Hauntings”, “Calvert Mansion”, “The Dana House”, “I Am Your Brother”
SOURCES AND ESSENTI...
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December 19, 2025 • 60 mins
Every year, goblin-like creatures called Kallikantzaroi stop sawing through the World Tree, crawl up from the underworld, and spend the twelve days of Christmas stealing babies, destroying homes, and terrorizing anyone unlucky enough to cross their path, pooping all over the place while they are at it.
IN THIS EPISODE: If your kids think Elf on a Shelf is creepy – just tell them that kids in Greece and its surrounding countries are ...
IN THIS EPISODE: If your kids think Elf on a Shelf is creepy – just tell them that kids in Greece and its surrounding countries are ...
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December 19, 2025 • 22 mins
While Santa delivers presents to good children in Belgium and Holland, his demonic helper Black Peter stuffs the naughty ones into a sack full of hungry rats, drags them back to his coal mine on a cart pulled by plague-ridden undead rams, and forces them to dig coal forever — or until he gets hungry enough to eat them.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podca...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podca...
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December 19, 2025 • 307 mins
In “The Imposter”, a woman, despite having no theatrical background, is suddenly inspired to write a full-length play — with the ghostly help of a long-dead actor. When the play turns out to be a hit, she tries to take all the credit for it. But the real author’s spirit isn’t having it and demands that her name be removed from the marquee. | #RetroRadio EP0571
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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December 18, 2025 • 24 mins
When twelve-year-old Nick signed up to be a "Bigfoot Buster" on Christmas Eve, he never expected to come face-to-face with the real creature at his front door — wearing the park ranger's coat and picking flesh from its teeth.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by...
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December 18, 2025 • 42 mins
In the Christmas of 1965, a nine-year-old boy receives an Advent calendar that opens itself each night, revealing a shadowy figure drawing closer to his home — in a town where a child has been snatched and murdered every Christmas Eve for three years.
“THE ADVENT CALENDAR HORROR” by Michael Whitehouse #WeirdDarkness #HolidayHorrors
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a short story of fiction I bring back every Christmas simply called “The Advent C...
“THE ADVENT CALENDAR HORROR” by Michael Whitehouse #WeirdDarkness #HolidayHorrors
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a short story of fiction I bring back every Christmas simply called “The Advent C...
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December 18, 2025 • 38 mins
In 1953, a museum caretaker reached out to touch an elderly stranger's shoulder — and his hand passed through thin air as the man vanished, leaving behind a blue book that had belonged to a lawyer who died thirty years before.
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE DEATH COACH” and 6 More True Paranormal Christmas Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 6 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The York Museum Ghost”, “The S...
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE DEATH COACH” and 6 More True Paranormal Christmas Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 6 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The York Museum Ghost”, “The S...
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December 18, 2025 • 31 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
On Christmas Eve 2008, eight-year-old Leticia opened the door expecting Santa Claus — instead, she found her aunt's ex-husband in a custom-fitted suit, armed with five handguns and a homemade flamethrower, ready to deliver his final gift to the family.
IN THIS EPISODE: (Christmas archives episode from December 13, 2020): We’ll look at some of the history of Santa and his cohorts – and how they have all not been as jolly as we know t...
IN THIS EPISODE: (Christmas archives episode from December 13, 2020): We’ll look at some of the history of Santa and his cohorts – and how they have all not been as jolly as we know t...
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December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
A painter wished the aviator in cabin 8 a Merry Christmas, but when he turned back seconds later, the man with the scarred neck had vanished — and naval records confirm no one matching his description ever served aboard the HMS Glory.
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE LAST WISH OF JIM CURRAN” and 5 More Ghostly Holiday Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 5 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Aircraft Carrier...
#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE LAST WISH OF JIM CURRAN” and 5 More Ghostly Holiday Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Episode 5 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The Aircraft Carrier...
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December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
While children in America might fear getting coal in their stockings, kids in other parts of the world are warned about demons who beat them bloody, a giant cat that devours the lazy, and an ogress who cooks and eats disobedient children for her Christmas dinner.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCE...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCE...
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December 17, 2025 • 26 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 16, 2025 • 23 mins
When my brother convinced our parents to leave the old Santa animatronic in the basement instead of displaying it upstairs, it wrapped its power cord around his neck in the dark — but not before whispering exactly what it wanted.
IN THIS EPISODE: My parents own a Santa animatronic – I think it tried to kill us! *** (Originally aired December 18, 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry” by Jameson Cumi...
IN THIS EPISODE: My parents own a Santa animatronic – I think it tried to kill us! *** (Originally aired December 18, 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry” by Jameson Cumi...
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December 16, 2025 • 33 mins
For decades, a ghostly woman in chains appeared in the upstairs bedroom of Victoria's oldest home, pleading for help — until workmen digging near the front porch uncovered her skeleton buried seven feet deep in quicklime.
Episode 4 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
IN THIS EPISODE: “Strange Happenings at Tod House”, “Professor Gladstone and The Murderer”, “The Mackey Haunting”, “The Dug Hill Booger”, “The Old Roya...
Episode 4 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
IN THIS EPISODE: “Strange Happenings at Tod House”, “Professor Gladstone and The Murderer”, “The Mackey Haunting”, “The Dug Hill Booger”, “The Old Roya...
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December 16, 2025 • 27 mins
In the 15th century, a wealthy man was excommunicated by the Pope, driven mad in exile, and killed by a bolt of lightning just as he was about to taste human flesh — now he rides with Santa every Christmas, drooling over the naughty children on the list.
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…
“Rememb...
Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…
“Rememb...
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December 16, 2025 • 23 mins
Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror
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December 15, 2025 • 84 mins
Long before Dickens penned A Christmas Carol, our ancestors gathered around midwinter fires to tell tales of spirits and monsters lurking in the darkness. Tonight, we explore why Christmas and ghost stories have been intertwined for thousands of years — then share true accounts that prove the tradition is very much alive. #HolidayHorrors
IN THIS EPISODE: Earlier this month I shared some true reports of people seeing Kris Kringle – o...
IN THIS EPISODE: Earlier this month I shared some true reports of people seeing Kris Kringle – o...
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December 15, 2025 • 27 mins
For four years, an unseen entity tormented the Bell family of Tennessee — pulling hair, slapping faces, filling the house with phantom voices — until Christmas 1820, when it finally got what it wanted: John Bell dead and his daughter's life in ruins. #12NightmaresOfXmas
Episode 3 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
IN THIS EPISODE: “Merry Christmas From The Bell Witch”, “The Murder of Thelma Todd”
SOURCES AND ESSENT...
Episode 3 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
IN THIS EPISODE: “Merry Christmas From The Bell Witch”, “The Murder of Thelma Todd”
SOURCES AND ESSENT...
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