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.

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NAZI GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON THE LOCH NESS MONSTER: Goebbels Mocks Nessie, Allies Fight Back

October 21, 2025 • 47 mins
When Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels declared the Loch Ness Monster a hoax to mock British intelligence and Mussolini claimed Italy bombed Nessie to death, the Allies fired back with the ultimate counter-propaganda: the lake monster survived and became a war hero.

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GHOSTS OF THE CATACOMBS: A Seance Among Six Million Dead

October 21, 2025 • 300 mins
Deep in Rome's ancient catacombs, among six million Christian dead, a terrified medium channels the spirit of martyred Saint Agnes—revealing the exact location of a hidden treasure buried centuries ago. Now a skeptical scientist has the chance to prove whether her visions are real, if he dares to dig where the ghost has directed. | Front Page Drama, “Ghost of the Catacombs” | #RetroRadio EP0539

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SPACE'S TRASH CAN OVERFLOWS: Mystery Object Crashes in Australian Outback

October 21, 2025 • 9 mins
A burning object crashes near a remote mining site, sparking an international investigation into what fell from the crowded skies above.


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Scientists Calculate Earth's Death Date to the Exact Day and We Have 999,997,996 Years to Prepare

October 21, 2025 • 9 mins
A NASA supercomputer has determined when our planet becomes a lifeless wasteland, and the specificity is somehow more disturbing than the news itself.

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She Faked a Pregnancy with a Reborn Doll – Then It Got Worse

October 21, 2025 • 5 mins
A gender reveal party, hospital photos, and a newborn named Bonnie Leigh – everything seemed real until someone walked into the wrong room.


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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON: A Science Fiction Masterpiece That Still Makes Readers Cry

October 20, 2025 • 90 mins
Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and wants nothing more than to be smart. When scientists offer him an experimental surgery that has already transformed a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius, Charlie sees his chance—but becoming intelligent means finally understanding the cruel truth about the world around him.

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My WIFE DIED – Then She Became a ZOMBIE in Haiti: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction | Unsolved Mysteries

October 20, 2025 • 294 mins
In the moonlit shadows of Haiti, a young bride falls victim to a jealous curse. Three months after her wedding, Helen Strong is dead... or is she? When her husband discovers her grave has been opened and the casket stolen, he follows a terrifying trail into the sugarcane fields—where he finds his wife among the living dead, working mindlessly alongside other zombies. | #RetroRadio EP0538

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A CARNIVAL OF CORPSES! The Shadow Uncovers a Traveling Carnival’s Horrifying Secret!

October 20, 2025 • 315 mins
Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they discover a terrifying secret: the “statues” in the exhibit aren’t statues at all — they’re actually dead people substituted in for the displays. | #RetroRadio EP0537

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Self-Proclaimed Prophet Who Predicted Trump Shooting Now Claims Alien Mothership to Fly Over Vatican

October 20, 2025 • 11 mins
A man who described Donald Trump being shot in the ear months before it happened has a new vision, and this one involves lights in the sky.

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Baseball’s Most Haunted Hotel: The Pfister’s Century of Terror

October 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Professional athletes would rather sleep in an Airbnb than risk another night in baseball’s most infamous haunted hotel.

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Haunter of the Ring: The Cursed Ring That Turned a Loving Wife Into a Killer

October 20, 2025 • 39 mins
A young husband's life becomes a nightmare when his devoted wife begins trying to kill him in moments she can't remember—and the only clue is a strange ring she can no longer remove.

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IN THIS EPISODE: A classic horror story from 1934 written by American writer Robert E. Howard!

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A Man's Fear of Being Buried Alive Turns to Horror | "The Premature Burial", Edgar Allan Poe horror

October 20, 2025 • 40 mins
A man plagued by catalepsy lives in constant terror of the one fate worse than death itself—being buried alive—until the night his worst nightmare becomes reality.

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IN THIS EPISODE: “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe was originally published in “The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper” in 1844.
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10,000 Human Skeletons Per Year: The Disturbing Truth About The Origin of Medical School Bones

October 20, 2025 • 116 mins
#WDRadio WEEK OF OCT 19, 2025 | In the late 1800s, a journalist uncovered the shocking secret of how medical schools obtained their teaching skeletons: hidden factories in London, Paris, and New York that processed unclaimed morgue bodies and exotic specimens from travelers into 10,000 anatomical skeletons per year, using acid baths, boiling tanks, and skilled anatomists who rarely assembled bones from the same person.
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The Real Danger of Using a Fortune Teller Isn’t Just The Fortune You Pay

October 19, 2025 • 53 mins
Two psychics drained their victims of over $600,000 by claiming to remove deadly curses, but the real danger wasn't supernatural at all.

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Man Vs Machine: A Human Boxer Defends His Title Against a Robot Fighter Favored To Win

October 18, 2025 • 28 mins
A robot enters the ring to fight for the middleweight championship, but it’s not the title belt that hangs in the balance so much as what he’s being encouraged to say to the crowd when he wins… if he wins.

“Title Fight” by William Gault (Fantastic Universe December 1956)
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The Most Feared Outlaw in Texas Couldn't Hold a Gun: The Legend of Black Eagle & The Hobo Chicken

October 18, 2025 • 306 mins
A mild-mannered hobo named Chicken is mistaken for the legendary outlaw Black Eagle and must maintain the deadly charade when forced to lead a train robbery he has no idea how to execute. | CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0536

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The Moment of Decision: The Story Too Disturbing For “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”

October 18, 2025 • 58 mins
When a retired magician and an arrogant estate owner clash over property changes, their feud escalates to a deadly wager—one that traps a man in an ancient torture device with only an hour to escape, while his fate hangs on whether his rival will open the door in time.

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The Hitchhiker: Every 100 Miles, the Same Man Was Waiting

October 18, 2025 • 305 mins
A cross-country driver realizes the hitchhiker he keeps impossibly encountering along his route might be the only one of them who's still alive. | Mercury Summer Theater of the Air | #RetroRadio EP0535

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“THE GRAVE CITY LIBRARY” (Part 3 of 4) by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors

October 18, 2025 • 17 mins
Armed with a mysterious leather-bound manuscript and help from a library employee, Shawn and Lucy venture into an abandoned office on Halloween to uncover the truth about the Grove City Library's dark secret.

This is a sequel to last year’s Halloween hit saga, “The Grove City Werewolf!” We recommend you listen to that story first: https://weirddarkness.com/grovecity/


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Mothman To Invisible Entities: True Stories of Cryptid Encounters

October 17, 2025 • 116 mins
When a police speed camera picked up invisible humanoids sprinting at 40 mph, it became just one of dozens of credible cryptid encounters reported by multiple witnesses worldwide.

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