Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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By: Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor

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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Ghost Story: They Killed Him on the Road, Now He Follows Them Everywhere. | #RetroRadio
Today at 12:41 AM

A scheming wife and her spineless lover pull off the perfect murder of her wealthy husband — until the dead man starts turning up in the snow, at the bar, waiting in the shadows, and refuses to stay buried.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “In Another Place” (January 16, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.460 = The Clock, “Ghost Story” (December 13, 1955) ***WD
01:13:5...


The 1977 Broadcast Where an Alien Hacked Into The Airwaves And Took Possession of British TV
Today at 12:00 AM

In 1977, a calm, otherworldly voice broke into the British evening news across five transmitters at once, identified itself as an alien envoy, and warned humanity to abandon nuclear weapons before time ran out. Was it a hoax, or first contact?

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AlienVoicesOnTVAndRadio

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrxcfak4

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: While scientists at SETI are continually monitoring for extraterrestrial contact from the cosmos, ordinary people are already hearing from them – via radio and television. (Aliens Voices Ov...


Quimbanda: The Black Magic Shrine in a Hackney Office Block | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Yesterday at 8:44 PM

Security cameras filmed a live goat led into a black-and-red room in a Hackney office block — the working shrine of an Afro-Brazilian religion that feeds its spirits in blood.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/hackney-goat-shrine

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A Runaway Named Gabriela, the Family That Took Her In, and the Truth Revealed in Joinville
Yesterday at 8:15 PM

A girl named Gabriela walked into a church in Joinville, Brazil, claiming she had fled an abusive home. Fourteen months later a family was preparing to adopt her until the truth was revealed about who Gabriela really was.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/gabriela-joinville

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SHAPE-SHIFTERS & SKIN-STEALERS: The World's Most Disturbing Therianthrope Legends!
Yesterday at 5:00 AM

Some monsters don't lurk in the dark — they wear a familiar face and sit down at your table. | June 07, 2026 #WDRadio
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HOUR ONE: In the 1960s, Brian Leathley-Andrew investigated and reported on numerous cases of strange objects in the sky, trying to get to the truth of what people were seeing. But when sinister events began happening to him, he knew he had to walk away from his career in Ufology – or the government might make him go away. (UFO Hunter Becomes The Hunted) *** Saying the disappearance of David Glenn Lewis is bizarre doesn’t even begin to scratch the su...


The Devil Made Me Do It, and Why That Plea Never Holds | #COTU
Yesterday at 12:52 AM

An Alabama prosecutor called the murder of a mother and her two children one of the most demonic crimes he had ever seen, and for fifty years other killers have gone a step further and told police a demon made them do it.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-devilmademedoit/

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PENNSYLVANIA’S PARANORMAL SKIES: UFOs, Eerie Lights, Frozen Time, And a Werewolf
Yesterday at 12:00 AM

For over a century, Pennsylvania has been a hotspot for UFO encounters that baffle experts and leave witnesses questioning reality. From glowing discs in remote lakes to crafts that defy physics, the Keystone State’s skies are filled with the mysterious, paranormal, and extraterrestrial.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):  https://weirddarkness.com/PennsylvaniaUFOs

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ye247nxk

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Pennsylvania has always been a land of mysteries in the skies. It has become one of the most intriguing destinations for UFO sig...


“Exorcism”: The Christmas Feast That Turned to Blood and Bone | #RetroRadio
Last Sunday at 11:40 PM

Two wealthy couples settle in for a lavish Christmas dinner at a lovingly restored country cottage, until the lights die, the wine turns to blood, and the house itself seals them inside with something that remembers what once happened within its walls.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Laughing Maiden” (January 13, 1978)
00:45:48.046 = BBC Radio 4/Radio 7 Ghost...


Bride of Death: Slain on the Road to His Own Wedding, the Earl Comes Courting Anyway | #RetroRadio
Last Sunday at 4:30 AM

A betrothal feast turns to terror when the man who comes courting Lady Margaret may be the same Earl of Dunbar who was stabbed to death on the road to claim her — and a Highland prophecy that the last of her line would be the bride of death seems to be coming true.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radi...


Arne Johnson Blamed a Demon for Killing The Landlord | Did The Devil Make Him Do It? “The Conjuring”
Last Sunday at 1:14 AM

A regular nineteen-year-old with no criminal record stabbed his landlord to death with a pocketknife, then later claimed the demon he'd taunted into possessing him — instead of his fiancée's eleven-year-old brother — had crawled out of a well and into his body to commit the murder.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/arnejohnson

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The third Conjuring film is based on the true story of Arne Cheyenne Johnson who c...


Aiden Bevins Was Buried Under the House for a Year in Aberdeen | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Saturday at 11:28 PM

A missing-child call about a six-year-old girl led Aberdeen detectives to her four-year-old brother, dead and buried in a tote beneath the house for nearly a year.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/jacob-bevins

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Washington's Exorcist Removed for Calling UFOs Demons | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Saturday at 8:30 PM

Nineteen years as the Archdiocese of Washington's exorcist ended within a week of Monsignor Stephen Rossetti posting a video that called most UFO sightings demonic.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/exorcist-ufos

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A Myrtle Beach Detective Drew His Gun Over Microwaved Fish | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Saturday at 6:21 AM

A 46-year-old Myrtle Beach detective drew his department-issued handgun on a patrolman over the smell of microwaved fish, and a felony charge and the end of his career followed within days.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/fish-felon-debiase

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Souderton Firefighter Set Three Fires, Then Helped Fight Two | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Saturday at 5:37 AM

Pennsylvania authorities say a 29-year-old volunteer firefighter set three fires in roughly thirty hours, then responded to two of them alongside the company he served.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/justin-sholly

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Baltimore Worker Killed After Telling Driver Someone Was Waiting for Her Parking Spot
Last Saturday at 2:56 AM

A 71-year-old Baltimore traffic investigator stopped to tell a driver another car was waiting for her parking spot, and the favor cost him his life six weeks later.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/parking-spot-killing

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The Ninth Volume: Did It Hold the Fate That Already Destroyed a World Exactly Like Ours? | #RetroRadio
Last Saturday at 1:09 AM

A young geologist drilling four miles into a Rocky Mountain ridge breaks through into a sealed chamber and finds something impossible: a fully furnished modern house, twelve billion years old, holding a library that has already written the history of a world exactly like ours — including the volume that tells how it ends.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radi...


The Red Eyes of the Mothman | The Creature That Predicted a Disaster in Point Pleasant
Last Saturday at 12:00 AM

For more than a year, a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes and folded wings terrorized Point Pleasant, West Virginia—and just weeks after the sightings stopped, the Silver Bridge collapsed and killed 46 people, leaving the town to wonder whether the Mothman had been a monster, a warning, or something far worse.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/RedEyesOfMothman

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8s2fxt

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most everyone is familiar with the King James Bible, bu...


Aaron Spencer's Murder Charge Dropped Over a Lost SD Card
Last Friday at 5:27 PM

An Arkansas father who shot the man accused of abusing his 13-year-old daughter walked free after a sheriff's deputy lost the one piece of footage that might have shown what happened on that highway.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/aaron-spencer-dismissed

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"I Just Killed the Man of Sin" | Actor James Handy Killed By Girlfriend's Son | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Friday at 2:31 PM

A man called 911 in Tarzana to report he had just killed someone, and the person bleeding in the front yard turned out to be a character actor whose face millions had seen in Top Gun: Maverick and Jumanji.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/james-handy-death

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Ghost Flames, Burned Bigfoot, and UFOs Ablaze | When Fires Are Paranormal
Last Friday at 12:00 AM

A forest lookout sits alone in a glass tower at 2AM and spots flames crowning two distant pines — a fire only he can see. By dawn there's no smoke, no ash, no scorched earth... and no fire at all. From phantom flames that burn and vanish to the burned Bigfoot pulled from a Nevada blaze and the UFOs caught streaking through wildfire smoke, tonight we wander into the strange and unsettling things that appear when the forests burn.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/ghostflames

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A Dead Man's Hands: Can Severed Hands Still Commit Murder? | #RetroRadio
Last Thursday at 11:30 PM

“Hands of Death”: A wheelchair-bound collector of murder relics decides the only things missing from his macabre collection are a murderer and a victim — so he engineers his own killer brother's downfall to acquire both. But the dead don't always stay in their boxes, and a pair of severed hands may yet keep a promise of vengeance.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Ope...


Scientists Baked Sourdough From the Yeast Inside Ötzi the Iceman | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Thursday at 10:42 PM

Researchers in Italy spent three months baking sourdough from yeast they pulled out of the meltwater inside a 5,300-year-old murder victim.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/otzibread

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The Widow, the Stranger, and the Voice from the Grave | #RetroRadio
Last Thursday at 1:41 AM

“Brothers of the Angle”: A grieving widow believes a stranger can carry messages from her dead husband — messages only the couple could have known. But in a story about baiting hooks and landing fortunes, the real question is who's fishing, and who's the catch.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Brothers of the Angle” (December 19, 1977) ***WD
00:46:4...


The Perfect Murder That Fell Apart Over a Pair of Glasses | Leopold, Loeb, and Victim Bobby Franks
Last Thursday at 12:00 AM

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb should never have been friends, they were too different from on another. But they did have one thing in common – they both agreed to create the perfect murder – and a mundane pair of eyeglasses would be their undoing. 

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/BobbyFranks

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The Paracas Conehead Skulls and a DNA Test That Found No Answer | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Wednesday at 10:51 PM

Scientists ground a tooth from a 2,000-year-old elongated skull into powder to settle whether the Paracas Coneheads were human, and the genetic machines still came up short.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/paracas-skulls

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Lasers, Bed Bugs, and Google's 32 Million Mosquitoes | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Wednesday at 6:53 PM

One engineer built an AI laser to roast every mosquito in his house, Google wants federal permission to release 32 million more, and the agency built to stop pests can't clear bed bugs out of its own offices.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BugWars

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A Tent Cut Open at Midnight on a Tillamook County Trail | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Wednesday at 12:45 PM

Two women camping along a public trail on the Fourth of July woke near midnight to a man cutting through their tent, and for nearly two years no one knew who he was.

The FBI believes there may be more victims. Investigators have asked anyone who thinks they were harmed by McLenithan, or who knows anything about other possible crimes involving him, to contact the bureau at (503) 224-4181 or to submit a tip at http://tips.fbi.gov. 

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/TillamookTent

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A Meteor Exploded Over New England and Fell Into Cape Cod Bay | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Wednesday at 12:15 PM

A double boom rattled homes across New England on a Saturday afternoon, and the cause turned out to be a five-foot meteor breaking apart miles above the coast before its remains splashed into Cape Cod Bay.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/CapeCodMeteor

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The Knife-Wielding Specter That Stalked a Four-Year-Old's Bedroom Every Night | #RetroRadio
Last Wednesday at 2:39 AM

A young Long Island couple discovers that the knife-wielding ghost stalking their cellar and terrorizing their four-year-old son may not be the threat they assumed.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ghost With a Knife” (December 16, 1977) ***WD
00:47:13.694 = Beyond Midnight, “The Party” (1968-1970) ***WD
01:18:25.389 = MindWebs, “The Night He Cried” (1975-1984)
01:39:31.543 = Voice In The Night, “Neckla...


Andrew Ure: The 1818 Scientist Who Tried to Reanimate a Hanged Murderer | The Real Frankenstein
Last Wednesday at 12:00 AM

Back in 1818, the same year *Frankenstein* hit the shelves, a Scottish professor named Andrew Ure decided to see if electricity could actually bring a dead body back to life—so he hooked up a freshly executed murderer to a current and watched in fascination as the corpse twitched, "breathed," and even made terrifying expressions that sent witnesses into a panic.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript):
https://weirddarkness.com/AndrewUre

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In...


EXECUTION: The Nazis Tried to Hang Her But She Wouldn’t Die | #RetroRadio
06/02/2026

In Nazi-occupied France, German officers repeatedly try to execute a young French woman by hanging — but each time, she returns alive. The woman becomes less a normal person than an allegorical embodiment of France/liberty/resistance: the Nazis can murder bodies, but they cannot kill the spirit they are fighting.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The De...


His New Office Had a Fan, a Bad Chair and Spiders Creeping in the Vent and His Skin | Horror Fiction
06/02/2026

A stressed-out new office worker's encounters with increasingly massive spiders takes a deeply disturbing turn when the creatures start following him home.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SpidersUnderYourSkin

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If creatures with eight legs wig you out, the hairs of your body are going to stand straight up when I tell the story from Jonathan Byrd called “The Spiders Under Your Skin. But first, I’ll start with a short one. It’s written by Melody Grace, and it’s called “There’s Something Off About The Lights Next Door”.
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ANCIENT GIANTS | Giant Bones, the Nephilim, and Noah's Strange Glowing Birth
06/02/2026

The bones Spanish conquistadors pulled from the Ecuadorian earth were far too large to belong to any man they had ever seen, and the strange trail those giants leave behind runs straight back to the fallen Watchers of Genesis and the towering Nephilim they fathered.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AncientGiants
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Ancient giants in Ecuador were supposedly killed by fire from the sky. Tales of giants in North America. The stories of...


The Fire Spook: Nova Scotia's Strangest Poltergeist Case | #WDRadio
06/01/2026

May 31, 2026: They say the fires at Caledonia Mills started on their own, but anyone who spent a night there knew something far more sinister was at work.
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HOUR ONE: “The Witching Hour of 3AM” *** You don’t have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don’t need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military bases. (The Military And The Mysterious) *** The corpse of a murderer winds up doing advertising for a drug store. (The Murder of Maggie Walker) *** In 1922, an otherwise unremarkable farmhous...


The S.S. Andrea Doria | The Cursed Wreck That Keeps Killing the Divers Who Find It
06/01/2026

In 1956, Italy's most opulent ocean liner went down off Nantucket after a head-on collision in the fog, taking 46 lives and earning a place among the worst maritime disasters in history. But the dying didn't stop there — in the seven decades since, the wreck dubbed the "Mt. Everest of Wreck Diving" has claimed roughly 18 more souls, swallowing the divers drawn to its depths and feeding whispers that something down there is cursed.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/andreadoria

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Movies like Shaun of the Dead, Night of the...


The Mysterious Yucatán Cave the Mayans Warned Them Belonged to the Dead | #RetroRadio
06/01/2026

Two American relic hunters ignore every warning and dig their way into a flooded Yucatán cavern the locals swear belongs to the dead — who, as it turns out, keep very careful inventory.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Lost Tomorrows” (December 05, 1977) ***WD
00:47:01.586 = Big Town, “Fatal Joke” (March 01, 1949) ***WD
01:16:27.616 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House”...


The Russian Bear That Hypnotized an Astronaut From Orbit | #RetroRadio
05/31/2026

A friendship gift from across the Iron Curtain rode into orbit with five American astronauts, and the only thing that came back was the teddy bear.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Teddy Bear” (November 30, 1977)
00:44:19.048 = The Eleventh Hour, “The Bitter End” (1963-1965)
01:09:54.163 = Escape, “The Fourth Man” (July 07, 1949)
01:38:40.425 = Everyman’s Theater, “This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940...


A Dead Dog Returned Alive After Going Into Mel's Hole | A Paranormal Pit More Than 80,000 Feet Deep
05/31/2026

On a remote ridge in Washington sits a nine-foot pit that has no measurable bottom, swallows everything thrown into it without ever filling, plays decades-old music through any radio brought near it, and—according to those who've used it to dispose of their dead—occasionally gives the dead back, alive and walking out of the forest still wearing the collars they were buried in. (LAST STORY IN THE EPISODE)

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/MelsHole

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The next time that you hear a conspiracy theory, take the...


LISTENER TERRORS: An Evil Kitten, a Vampire Delivery, and a Werewolf Attack! | #MicroTerrors
05/30/2026

A killer kitten. A coffin at the door. A werewolf in the closet. Three horror stories — all written by kids!

Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1655277373

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Christmastime at Mockingbird Hill | The Worst Family Massacre in Arkansas History
05/30/2026

Ronald Gene Simmons turned Christmas week into a nightmare, methodically murdering 16 people—including his own family—before calmly surrendering to the police.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The story of serial killer Ronald G. Simmons from the audiobook, “Murderous Minds, Vol2” by Ryan Becker. (Weekend Murder Spree of Ronald G. Simmons) *** Long before the disastrous Philadelphia Experiment, partially based on Nikola Tesla’s technology, Tesla is rumored to have discovered by accident the secrets of traveling through time and the inherent dangers of tampering with the c...