Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The skyrockets at a Mars casino town's Marsy Gras keep ruining $1,000 photographs of the night sky at the Mars Observatory, so the astronomers start offering tourists free horoscopes, and every one warns the reader he'll lose consistently at Harvey's Club. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HoroscopeRacket SOURCES and RESOURCES: “$1,000 A Plate” by Jack McKenty: https:...

On The Joe Rogan Experience, former intelligence officer David Grusch described video of human-looking bodies at a crash site, passed along a secondhand account of a deadly clash with living reptilians, and alleged a criminal ring inside a federal agency. Author Timothy Alberino says most of it should come as no shock to longtime UFO researchers, and Grusch predicts the evidence he says exists, no...

The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house. 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS...

Jim's DUI keeps him off Uber, so he signs up with a rideshare app called Cerber, and his first fare, a seven-and-a-half-foot man who never lets Jim see his face, pays $1,279.37 for one ride to Fort Miley. A NOTE FROM DARREN: I thought I’d bring back a classic from my flagship podcast, Weird Darkness. I often get comments on YouTube, on Facebook, or receive an email saying that someone liked a cert...

Britain has told stories of the Black Shuck for centuries, but witnesses in the United States describe huge black dogs of their own, one chasing two men back to their car on a Wisconsin river island and another pushing its front paws through the screen of a Michigan boy's bedroom window. HOUR ONE: Love, money, divorce, anger, and murder. One Pennsylvania family had it all and then some in the late...

Sonia Gale makes her living faking séances with rigged wires and trick voices, until a dead man's voice at her table tells a client where the money is hidden and Sonia swears she had nothing to do with it. 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us...

In Colombian folklore, La Patasola moves fast on just one leg, and she's said to show herself to hunters, miners, and unfaithful husbands as a beautiful young woman, then lead one of them away from his companions and into the deepest part of the jungle. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LaPatasola READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddark...

Leaving Antelope Crossings, Nebraska, for a family funeral in 1958, a childless couple watch something spin out of the sky and into a ravine, and the only thing they find alive down there is a crying baby boy. 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://weirddarkness.tin...

The Amityville house and the Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring have both been sold, and so has a Los Angeles home that a retired LAPD detective ties to his own father and the Black Dahlia murder. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HomeSweetHauntedHome READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7zyfsmy FEATURED...

Not long after a couple in ancient Macedonia buries their only daughter, their old servant looks in on a guest from the king's court and finds the girl asleep beside him. 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (Al...

A grayish-black disk the size of a truck tire turns up in the ditch by a professor's front lawn in upstate New York, and whatever touches it, from a clod of dirt to the end of a spade, dissolves into it; by the next day, it's eight feet across. A blowtorch, and a sledgehammer don't do any better against it.  EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DontFeedIt SOURCES and RES...

When a mysterious curfew grips the small town of Grove City, Ohio, young Sean discovers during his Halloween weekend visit that the recent string of vicious attacks might be connected to local legends about monsters lurking in the shadows. 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 h...

From phantom students and haunted dorm rooms to ghostly professors and cursed frat houses, these college campuses prove that “school spirit” can have more than one meaning – where classes might get dismissed, but some students never leave. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedColleges READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny...

A work of fiction. Based on "The Thing at Nolan" by Ambrose Bierce (1891), retold in a present-day setting. | Charles May walked into the woods with a spade and never came home, and while his son sat in a hospital bed under arrest for killing him, five men eight miles away in Nolan swore they'd watched Charles walk through a store that same afternoon with his head split open. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (in...

A 43-year-old London workaholic with high blood pressure races to King's Cross for the eleven o'clock train home, and the train won't leave the station. 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximat...

Five Navy bombers vanished on a routine training flight in 1945, and so did a rescue plane sent out to find them; the Bermuda Triangle is one of 12 Vile Vortices Ivan Sanderson mapped around the globe, and the oceans have their own sea serpents and ghost ships too. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VileVortices READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: htt...

Tennessee gave Christa Pike two full doses of pentobarbital at Riverbend on Wednesday night, and she was still snoring behind a closed curtain when the witnesses were led out; she's alive in a hospital, the governor has called off the state's last execution of the year and ordered an outside review, and nobody has said whether Tennessee will try again to execute her. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERS...

A physicist invents a machine capable of doing the impossible – and makes the mistake of showing it to a Hollywood mogul who immediately sees dollar signs. What begins as a scientific breakthrough soon becomes an experiment neither man can quite control. A man has to have a place to confess a horrible sin … and this is as good as any other! EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkne...

In the Missouri Ozarks of 1879, Charles May walks into the woods to dig a ditch on the morning his son swears he'll make him pay for a bloody nose, and he never walks back out. 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAM...

Succubus visits run from the days of a future pope and his secret lover, Meridiana, to a Bakersfield, California, bedroom recently, where a young man says something held him down and laughed at him. What are sex demons? And could your girlfriend be one? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SexDemons READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkn...

Sharon Jacks went into Selby General Hospital in Marietta, Ohio, to lose her cancerous right leg below the knee, and her lawsuit, filed September 15th against the hospital and eight other defendants, says she woke up without her left leg, while the surgeon's mark was still on the right – the leg that was supposed to be amputated. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/YouCutO...

A syndicated columnist who's made a career out of exposing fakes forces his way into an old oceanographer's glass bathysphere to debunk the six-mile-long structure at the bottom of the Bartlett Deep. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ManWhoFoundOut SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Man Who Found Out” by Roger Dee (Fantastic Universe, September 1954) WeirdDarkness® is a regi...

Fifteen days after Kimberlly Moore died, her daughter went to a Detroit funeral home to put on her mother's nails and lashes and found another woman dressed in her clothes; the funeral home says it has Kimberlly's ashes waiting in an urn, and the family wants proof they're really hers. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ThisIsNotMyMomma Look for this podcast on Apple Podc...

In the year 3978, Earth is fifteen days from running out of the fuel it runs on, and the only planet that can sell it more is ruled by a queen who stopped selling a year ago. 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS...

People across Texas have been reporting creatures built like men for generations, from a hulking figure with glowing red eyes watching a family's ranch house near Amarillo in 1970 to a white humanoid with wings that a driver says overtook his car on Interstate 37 thirty years later. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TexasHumanoids READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript...