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
October 30, 2025 • 286 mins
Tonight on Weird Darkness, I'm sharing the complete audiobook novelization of John Carpenter's Halloween—a chilling adaptation that delves even deeper into the mind of pure evil than the film ever could.
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IN THIS EPISODE: A rare and haunting treasure: the long-out-of-print novelization of John Carpenter's 1978 horror...
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IN THIS EPISODE: A rare and haunting treasure: the long-out-of-print novelization of John Carpenter's 1978 horror...
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October 29, 2025 • 64 mins
We are fascinated by Bigfoot when we read about him in books or see him on TV—but what would you do if you came face-to-face with an 800-pound creature in the wild, and discovered that the terror is so overwhelming that grown men break down sobbing and can never bring themselves to hunt in the woods again?
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October 29, 2025 • 283 mins
A mad scientist kidnaps a woman and steals a gorilla from the zoo, his plan is to transplant the woman’s brain into the gorilla. | The Shadow, “The House of Horror” | #RetroRadio EP0545
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October 29, 2025 • 299 mins
A woman plagued by terrifying nightmares that she'll die on her 28th birthday seeks help from a psychiatrist to understand what the recurring dreams mean—and to identify the faceless figure who keeps trying to push her off a ledge. | CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Happy Death Day” | #RetroRadio EP0544
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October 28, 2025 • 46 mins
In the summer of 1972, railroad workers in Defiance, Ohio, reported being attacked and stalked by a towering, hairy creature that police and newspapers dubbed the “Werewolf of Defiance.”
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IN THIS EPISODE: Defiance Ohio is a small town that reported a rash of werewolf sightings in the early 1970's, and it's a legend t...
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IN THIS EPISODE: Defiance Ohio is a small town that reported a rash of werewolf sightings in the early 1970's, and it's a legend t...
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October 28, 2025 • 46 mins
From mothers who poisoned their children to nurses who became serial killers, these are the most disturbing cases of caregivers who made their victims sick for attention, sympathy, and personal gain.
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IN THIS EPISODE: We’ll look at the disturbing case of Dee Dee Blanchard who suffered from a horrible mental condition...
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IN THIS EPISODE: We’ll look at the disturbing case of Dee Dee Blanchard who suffered from a horrible mental condition...
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October 28, 2025 • 295 mins
A dying man pays $15,000 to steal a priceless painting from a museum, believing that possessing "The Woman in Red" will somehow grant him immortality beyond the grave. | CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0543
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October 28, 2025 • 58 mins
A nurse working the night shift froze in a doorway when she saw a towering dark figure looming over her patient's bed moments before death arrived.
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IN THIS EPISODE: A nurse working the night shift froze in a doorway when she saw a towering dark figure looming over her patient's bed moments before death arrived. *** ...
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IN THIS EPISODE: A nurse working the night shift froze in a doorway when she saw a towering dark figure looming over her patient's bed moments before death arrived. *** ...
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Nicolas Flamel, the alchemist from Harry Potter, was a real 14th-century Parisian bookseller who became legendary for supposedly discovering the secret to immortality—and some believe he faked his death in 1418 and is still alive today.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s what every non-muggle dreams of… to be able to turn any me...
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s what every non-muggle dreams of… to be able to turn any me...
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October 27, 2025 • 12 mins
A routine radar stealth test in the Pacific takes a catastrophic turn when a lightning strike causes seven warships, including the USS Gerald R. Ford, to vanish from the ocean.
“Contact Lost” by Keith Conrad
Fully Produced Version:
https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/06/17/contact-lost-by-keith-conrad/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OD1TsCGHUw
“Contact Lost” by Keith Conrad
Fully Produced Version:
https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/06/17/contact-lost-by-keith-conrad/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OD1TsCGHUw
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October 27, 2025 • 91 mins
WDRadio Week of October 26, 2025 | The night is coming. Porch lights and decorations won't change what moves through the darkness on October 31st. Every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume hanging in a store window, every carved pumpkin glowing on a doorstep - they're echoes of something that began long before any of us were born, something older and more terrifying than most people realize...
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October 26, 2025 • 23 mins
In a world where handmade art is humanity’s last stand against the machine, the unveiling of a mysterious new artist named Orville threatens to shatter everything — because Orville isn’t human.
“Mr. Replogle's Dream” by Evelyn E. Smith (Fantastic Universe December, 1956)
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https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/03/20/mr-replogles-dream-by-evelyn-e-smith/
“Mr. Replogle's Dream” by Evelyn E. Smith (Fantastic Universe December, 1956)
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https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/03/20/mr-replogles-dream-by-evelyn-e-smith/
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October 26, 2025 • 64 mins
In 1656, Croatian stonemason Jure Grando was buried alive after defying powerful monks, only to rise from his grave and terrorize his village for sixteen years—knocking on doors that meant death would soon follow, violating his widow night after night, and when villagers finally opened his coffin in 1672, they found him grinning with tears streaming down his face, immune to wooden stakes, screaming as they sawed through his neck in...
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October 26, 2025 • 47 mins
EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/mothmanharbingerofdoom/
SYNOPSIS: Hosts Ghost and Ghoul Friend conduct an in-depth analysis of Darren Marlar's Weird Darkness episode "Mothman: Harbinger of Doom," exploring the concentrated year of terror that gripped Point Pleasant, West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The discussion examines over 100 credible witness accounts of the seven-foot winged creature wi...
SYNOPSIS: Hosts Ghost and Ghoul Friend conduct an in-depth analysis of Darren Marlar's Weird Darkness episode "Mothman: Harbinger of Doom," exploring the concentrated year of terror that gripped Point Pleasant, West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The discussion examines over 100 credible witness accounts of the seven-foot winged creature wi...
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October 25, 2025 • 71 mins
A dog vanishes chasing glowing red eyes in the darkness, couples are pursued at over 100 miles per hour by something with massive wings, and a terrified mother watches a gray humanoid creature shuffle onto her porch and peer through the windows—all in the same night that would mark the beginning of Point Pleasant's year of terror.
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October 25, 2025 • 304 mins
When Tony reconnects with his old friend Sam after five years, he discovers Sam has transformed into "Kato"—a practitioner of dark arts who claims supernatural powers and harbors a disturbing obsession with Tony's wife. As strange events unfold and Tony's marriage begins to unravel, he must confront whether his old friend has truly become what he claims to be: the Son of Satan himself. | CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Son of Satan” | ...
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October 25, 2025 • 292 mins
Alone in a dark, deserted theatre after closing time, a man expecting romance instead finds himself trapped in a deadly soundscape—where every whisper, echo, and recorded voice could be his last. | BBC Fear on 4, “Hearing Is Believing” | #RetroRadio EP0541
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October 25, 2025 • 23 mins
When Shawn and Lucy wake up in a nightmarish forest under a purple moon, they must navigate a world of screaming voices and dead trees while searching for a way back home — before they become permanent residents of Anthony Moran's unfinished horror story.
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/
Hear all four episod...
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/
Hear all four episod...
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October 24, 2025 • 47 mins
An astronomer who's spent his career searching for alien life explains why he's confident extraterrestrials exist throughout the universe—yet remains skeptical that any UFO sighting has ever been proof of their visit to Earth.
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IN THIS EPISODE: If you ever attended grade school in the United States, you no doubt are ...
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October 24, 2025 • 26 mins
When mortgage rates and home prices drive potential buyers to the breaking point, haunted houses start looking surprisingly appealing.
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