The Dark Paranormal

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In part one of this chilling two-part listener experience, Catherine shares the beginning of a lifetime touched by trauma, loss, and unsettling paranormal encounters that seem to appear at the darkest moments of her life. From a children’s hospital ward where a mysterious little girl in a dirty nightgown whispers impossible knowledge, to locked rooms, resident...

Welcome, to this week's Dark Minisode In today's listener account, a lifelong pattern of unexplained paranormal experiences begins in early childhood and follows the narrator across multiple homes, states, relationships, and stages of life. From strange shapes in the dark and unsettling apparitions to phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, unseen children, oppressive energies, unexplained...

Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today, we travel the haunted length of the Natchez Trace Parkway, from its ancient footpaths and violent frontier past to the ghost stories still whispered around Witch Dance, Natchez Under-the-Hill, and the infamous King’s Tavern in Mississippi. Blending dark folklore, Southern Gothic history, highwaymen, occult legend, and alleged supernatural encounters, this episo...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In this truly chilling listener account, a family moves into an old rural farmhouse in southern Alberta, hoping for space, quiet, and a fresh start surrounded by fields, barns, and open land. But it soon becomes clear that something about the property is deeply wrong. From strange noises, to doors opening on their own to unexplained footsteps, flickering light...

Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode. For today's Dark Minisode, we hear about a listener with a lifelong sensitivity to unseen presences that leads back to one terrifying summer night in Tennessee, when a teenage girl’s safe bedroom becomes the centre of an experience she has never been able to explain. What begins as a familiar sense of being watched turns into something far more personal, a...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Today, we have our 2nd ever trilogy ending (hopefully), as we hear once more from the submitter of the 2 "Demon On My Shoulder" submissions, Alex. We learn that the entities they once named the Algea seem to shift, retreat, and then evolve into something far more unpredictable. From unexplained footsteps and impossible door slams, this true paranormal...

Welcome to this week's Dark Minisode. In today's Dark Minisode, a self-described skeptic with a career built on data, logic, and measurable truth moves into a converted apartment, hoping for a quiet fresh start. But after receiving a small carved figure from a friend as a housewarming gift, her world begins to fracture. Reality becomes malleable, and a growing sense that something in the a...

Welcome, to Dark Realms. Today, after a Patreon suggestion, we step onto one of Liverpool’s most iconic streets and discover why Bold Street has become synonymous not just with culture and creativity—but with something far more unsettling. In this episode, we explore the shadowed history that stretches between St Luke’s Church and The Lyceum, uncovering a layered past tied to trade, exploitation,...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Today we sincerely have one of the most disturbing experiences we've ever received, as an anonymous listener shares a lifetime of frightening experiences shaped by childhood trauma, haunted spaces, astral encounters, spiritual sensitivity, and the terrifying sense that unseen forces can attach themselves to pain we have never fully healed. Spanning ghostly...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Our first minisode of the season finds a listener looking for a quiet life in Keswick, the Lake District, but that life is slowly overshadowed by a series of deeply disturbing events that begin in a renovated garden workshop. What starts as an ordinary discovery in an old outbuilding soon gives way to experiences that challenge one woman’s firmly grounded view of the w...

Welcome back. to the Dark Paranormal. From a remote lakeside home in rural Quebec to a lifetime of unsettling moments that never quite made sense, this chilling listener submission explores what it feels like to grow up in a place that never seemed entirely empty. In this episode, Kris shares a series of eerie experiences spanning childhood to early adulthood, each one marked by strange disturbanc...

Welcome, to a Pre Season Dark Realms Special. Step into one of Britain’s most chilling landscapes as this Pre-Season Special of Dark Realms explores the eerie folklore, layered history, and persistent unease surrounding Cannock Chase. From ancient earthworks and war cemeteries to whispered sightings of black-eyed children, the Pig-man, and wolf-like figures in the trees, this episode examines how...

Welcome, to the season finale. of The Dark Paranormal;. In this season finale, The Dark Paranormal steps into territory we have never covered before. Over the past months, we were contacted by a support group whose members — people who have faced the darkest moments a human being can experience — began noticing something they couldn’t explain. Something that arrived in the cold. Something that kep...

Welcome, to our final Dark Minisode of the season. For the final Minisode of the season, Mars shares a deeply personal account of childhood paranormal experiences shaped by trauma, intuition, and the lingering sense that dark forces can attach themselves to places and people during life’s most painful moments. From shadowy figures and unexplained voices to unsettling energies felt by others around...

Welcome back to Dark Realms. In this Dark Realms season finale, we explore the Scole Experiments, one of the most controversial and debated chapters in modern paranormal research. Set in a cellar in the village of Scole, Norfolk, a small séance group claimed to produce astonishing physical phenomena including moving lights, spirit communication, mysterious photographs, apported objects, and possib...

Welcome, to the Penultimate Episode, of this Seasons Dark Paranormal. Today, a lifetime of buried memories is finally brought into the light as one listener shares a deeply personal account of an unsettling presence that seemed to follow her from childhood into adulthood. What begins as something strangely familiar slowly develops into a decades-long shadow over the most intimate moments of her li...

Welcome, to our penultimate Dark Minisode of the season. After a brutal divorce leaves a listener isolated and desperate for somewhere to begin again, their only option is to move into a cheap, fully furnished rental on Lea Park Vale—only to discover that some old houses do not stay empty for long. What begins as a fresh start, soon becomes a slow descent into dread, as the line between fear and r...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. When our listener Ben moved from the Northumberland coast into an old inland house with his grandmother, he expected to feel the change, and the strange atmosphere that often comes with ageing buildings. What followed was something far darker. What begins with unsettling discoveries and a house that never seemed to let light fully in, slowly builds into a terr...

Welcome, to this week's Dark Minisode. In this weeks Minisode, Jamie shares a chilling series of unexplained events that haunted his family home for more than a decade. What begins with bedroom doors opening in the night slowly builds into a disturbing pattern, and a house that seemed to grow darker with every passing year. Set in a former mining village in Northeast England, Jamie's paran...

Welcome back, to Dark Realms. In today's show, we explore the eerie and deeply unsettling case of Helen Duncan, the Scottish medium often remembered as Britain’s “last witch,” whose séances, spirit claims, and wartime notoriety drew the attention of the British state at the height of World War II. Moving through a world of darkened séance rooms, grief-stricken families, government secrecy, and...

Welcome back to The Dark Paranormal. When a paranormal investigator decides to purchase a reportedly haunted house in the remote Ozark Mountains, the goal is simple: create a personal “paranormal laboratory” to study unexplained phenomena over years rather than a single night. But what begins as a rational experiment soon blurs the line between investigation and experience. In this chilling accoun...

Welcome back to a Dark Minisode. Today, our listener Sam shares a collection of unsettling experiences spanning years of retail work inside a once-enclosed mall and its modern replacement plaza. From motion-activated toys triggering on their own, objects flying across empty stores, and furniture shaking without cause, the strange activity appears to have followed her across multiple workplaces. Wi...

Welcome back to The Dark Paranormal. When Isey moved into an old house in the south of England as a teenage father, he expected sleepless nights — but not the kind that would leave him questioning reality. What began as subtle unease soon centred around his young son’s nursery, where unexplained disturbances and an overwhelming sense of presence changed the atmosphere of their home, and the struct...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. On today's Dark Minisode, when a newly engaged listener receives a mysterious wooden statue as a gift, they initially believe it to be a symbol of protection. However a visit from spiritually sensitive friends reveal a chilling possibility — that the object may be more than light, protective and decorative. What follows is a terrifying transformation In this episod...

Welcome back to Dark Realms. Today's Dark Realms episode explores a brutal Norman fortress built by William the Conqueror to dominate a conquered city—and uncovers three of its lesser-known yet most terrifying hauntings. Beyond the familiar royal spectres lies something far darker, diabolical chilling presences, desperate prayers carved into stone, and modern day witnesses reporting unseen tou...