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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September 9, 2025 15 mins
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A coordinated pod of killer whales continues their strange obsession with destroying rudders off European coasts, leaving sailors stranded and scientists searching for answers.
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A man repeatedly meets a woman at different stages of life as he changes jobs – and the woman appears to grow younger and younger each time he meets her. It’s “The Unborn” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater! | #RetroRadio EP0505

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On September 1, 1969, strange lights descended on the small town of Sheffield, Massachusetts, witnessed by approximately 40 residents including children, shop owners, and even the police chief's son. The mysterious aerial phenomenon would spark decades of debate, dividing the community between those who believed something extraordinary happened that night and those who wished the whole thing would just go away.

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An 80-year-old Japanese woman wired thousands of dollars to a fake astronaut who claimed he was under attack in space and desperately needed money to purchase oxygen.
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In 1940s Italy, a desperate mother believed that turning three women into soap and tea cakes would save her son from dying in World War II.

HOUR ONE: "It was a terrible sight… I have seen horrible sights, but never anything like this.” Those were the words of the local undertaker after seeing the results of a triple murder laying before him in 1932 Pennsylvania. (The Axe Murders of Lykens) *** A gypsy once told Leonarda that all of ...
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Two men buy a cheap house with a dark past: it was the scene of a murder, and now something odd is going on. A strange man taps at the windows, seemingly the ghost of a hanged man—is he here to warn them… or haunt them? Sleep No More presents, “Browdean Farm!” | #RetroRadio EP0504

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In a world left in ruins, a lone survivor discovers he finally has all the time he ever wanted—to read, undisturbed and alone.

“Time Enough at Last” by Lynn Venable; originally published in “IF Worlds of Science Fiction” January 1953
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Attorney reveals Defense Department officials committed perjury while hiding DNA-tested non-human remains and back-engineered spacecraft

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From thunder and burglars to fake ghosts and even tree frogs, newspapers throughout history documented thousands of cases where people literally dropped dead from terror. These disturbing accounts reveal how the human body can turn fear itself into a fatal weapon, with victims ranging from soldiers frightened by pra...
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In 1835, a New York newspaper convinced thousands of readers that the moon teemed with bat-winged humanoids, walking beavers, and unicorns, creating the most successful media hoax in American history. The techniques that fooled Yale professors and missionaries nearly two centuries ago are the same ones being used to deceive you today, just wearing modern clothes and confirming what you already want to believe.

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When security guards spotted children in Victorian clothing dancing in circles at midnight on a muddy construction site, they approached to investigate - only to watch the kids vanish into thin air, leaving no footprints in the mud where they'd been playing. And that’s just one ghostly incident on the A616 – Britain’s most haunted road.

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A desperate publishing house receives a manuscript from an author who's been dead for two years - a first-person account of Hell that mysteriously cannot be copied, printed, or recorded by any earthly means. CBC’s Nightfall presents, “The Book of Hell!” | #RetroRadio EP0503

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Military veterans prepare to expose classified UAP encounters as Congress demands answers about decades of hidden UFO programs.
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“The Curse of the Bones” by Kieran Cryderman, age 6
“The Wedding Day” by Heidi Bauman-Smith, age 5
“The Thing In My Closet” by Carrick Wells, age 8
“Alien Alert” by Alora, age 9

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Before Tolkien turned them into noble archers, medieval people believed elves were dangerous beings who shot invisible arrows that caused mental illness, stabbing pains, and livestock death.

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When homely police officer Bert discovers that his face is his worst enemy in the dating world, he decides the women who reject him deserve a fate worse than a bad date—and his handsome partner Charlie might be too distracted by his own infatuation to notice the pattern until it's too late. CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, “Somebody Stop Me!”...
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The US military secretly doused dozens of American cities with toxic chemical clouds during the Cold War, and residents are still dying from mysterious cancers decades later.
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Recently discovered 1933 home movie footage (below) shows what really happened when the world's tallest man met a four-year-old girl on their shared birthday.

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When a mysterious elderly salesman arrives at his door claiming to sell encyclopedias, a lonely introvert discovers the book contains impossible knowledge about his life - including his date of death and the identity of the father he never knew. But the price of learning his true heritage will force him to make a choice between the quiet life he's always known or something darker than anything he could ever imagine.

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In this quirky mystery, a mummy — yes, an actual mummy — lands on private detective Barrie Craig’s desk, quite literally. That bizarre delivery sets Craig on the trail of a very modern-day murder, blending the supernatural with classic detective work. | #RetroRadio EP0501

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