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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He Fled a Louisiana DWI Stop Into a Swamp, and the Alligator Objected | #WeirdDarkLAUGHS
Today at 3:46 AM

Louisiana troopers stopped a banged-up Toyota Supra on Interstate 310 on June 7th, and the driver's escape attempt ran through two swamps, one alligator, and a sheriff's drone.

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Alien Implant | The Magnetic Object Roger Leir Pulled From Tim Cullen's Arm
Today at 2:00 AM

A terrifying vision, a terrifying UFO encounter, and evidence of the encounter buried in his arm – if true, Tim Cullen’s story could change everything we think we know about extraterrestrials.

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

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/433fftc2

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Tim Cullen’s life changed forever after a chilling dream in 1978. It wasn’t long after that he had bizarre encounters with UFOs, was abducted by aliens, and found a strange piece of metal embedded in his a...


The Three-Year Investigation Into a Loves Park Boy's Death | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Today at 12:43 AM

A three-year-old who could not sit up, walk, or speak arrived at a Rockford hospital with a brain bleed in July of 2023, and Loves Park detectives would spend nearly three years trying to learn how it happened.

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I’m A Police Officer And I Forced A Sane Man Into An Asylum | And More Fictional Horror Tales!
Today at 12:00 AM

A candlemaker guards one dying flame through the night while ravenous things in the dark demand the soul of a frozen stranger. An old woman stares through a second-floor window with no ledge to stand on, and the shadow man behind her inches closer with every passing night. And a small-town officer commits a man to a psychiatric hold for claiming a five-year-old suicide was really a murder — until the same vision starts playing out in front of his own eyes.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I have three stories in this episode for you! Andrew Pendragon pens th...


Sasquatch Sightings in Ontario's Least Wild Corner | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Yesterday at 6:46 PM

In one of Ontario's least forested regions, a witness reported two creatures scavenging garbage at dawn — and when they knocked on wood to scare them off, something knocked back.

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Buried Alive, Basement Stalkers, and a Cannibal's Dinner | True Reddit Horrors
Yesterday at 12:00 AM

A coffin lid scratched from the inside, a stalker hiding in the basement, and a plate of "fresh venison" served by a man who was never a hunter — Redditors share the true moments that still keep them up at night.

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

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Is My Son a Demon? | Grandpa Died After the Boy Went to Bed, Then It Happened Again! | #RetroRadio
Last Thursday at 11:45 PM

“The Enchanted Child”: A polite little boy keeps pushing away his favorite dessert at Sunday dinner — and every time he does, somebody in the family doesn't live to see Monday.

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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 Enchanted Child” (January 20, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.132 = House of Mystery, “The Ghost Who Forgot Halloween” (October 27, 1945) ***WD
01:18:31.060 = Incredible But True, “The Stowaway” (195...


The Fear-Memory Machinery Hiding Only in Female Brains | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Thursday at 4:47 PM

A tiny tagging system nobody had ever studied in the brain turned out to be hard at work locking in fear — and only in the females in the lab.

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Cape Coral Man Tried to Burgle an RV on His Way to Court for Burglary | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Last Thursday at 2:37 AM

A Florida man heading to court for a burglary charge stopped to attempt another burglary along the way, telling police he just wanted a shirt to wear in front of the judge.


SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/burglary-commute/

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The Murder Castle | America's First Serial Killer H.H. Holmes And His Deadly Hotel
Last Thursday at 12:00 AM

Behind the walls of H.H. Holmes' "World's Fair Hotel" waited trap doors, gas chambers, and a basement of acid vats — and more than a century after the Murder Castle burned, something still lingers at 63rd and Wallace.

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

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/57djvd7f

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: It’s one of the most infamous and macabre subjects of Chicago history – it even served as inspiration for TV’s “American Horror Story: Hotel”. It’s what has becom...


He Summons the Dead, And Steals Daughters | Sophia And The Pilgrim | #RetroRadio
Last Wednesday at 10:57 PM

A skeptical census taker's idle curiosity about a mystic who can summon the dead draws his old friend's beautiful, restless daughter into the stranger's orbit — and she may never come back.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Sophia And The Pilgrim” (June 19, 1978) ***WD
00:46:22.976 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “The Boat Hook” (April 15, 1992)
01:29:50.477 = Calling All Cars, “T...


Johnny Ringo Died Against a Tree With a Colt in His Hand — But Why?
Last Wednesday at 12:05 AM

Two months after walking away from the Tombstone feud a free man, Johnny Ringo was found dead against a tree with a Colt in his hand. He had survived the Hoodoo War, jail breaks, and a showdown with Doc Holliday — but no one can agree on what finally killed him.

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

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/24j5xybk

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A gentleman gunslinger who could quote Shakespeare, Johnny Ringo was a mythic gunslinger who died a...


BLACK MAGIC: Locked Away for a Hatchet Murder, She Came Home to Raise the Dead | #RetroRadio
Last Tuesday at 11:50 PM

Twenty years after she was locked away for taking a hatchet to her own sister, fragile Ann Pettigrew comes home obsessed with one desire — and on a storm-lit night, with candles burning and a circle drawn on the floor, she works a forbidden rite to summon back the only man she ever loved, no matter what comes walking up the veranda steps to answer.

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CH...


Ghost Story: They Killed Him on the Road, Now He Follows Them Everywhere. | #RetroRadio
Last Tuesday 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
Last Tuesday 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
Last Monday 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
Last Monday 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!
Last Monday 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
Last Monday 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
Last Monday 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
06/06/2026

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
06/06/2026

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
06/06/2026

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
06/06/2026

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
06/06/2026

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.

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The Ninth Volume: Did It Hold the Fate That Already Destroyed a World Exactly Like Ours? | #RetroRadio
06/06/2026

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
06/06/2026

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

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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
06/05/2026

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
06/05/2026

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
06/05/2026

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.

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A Dead Man's Hands: Can Severed Hands Still Commit Murder? | #RetroRadio
06/04/2026

“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
06/04/2026

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

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The Widow, the Stranger, and the Voice from the Grave | #RetroRadio
06/04/2026

“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
06/04/2026

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. 

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The Paracas Conehead Skulls and a DNA Test That Found No Answer | #WeirdDarkNEWS
06/03/2026

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.

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Lasers, Bed Bugs, and Google's 32 Million Mosquitoes | #WeirdDarkNEWS
06/03/2026

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.

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A Tent Cut Open at Midnight on a Tillamook County Trail | #WeirdDarkNEWS
06/03/2026

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. 

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