Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Across five decades and three continents, killers have handed police the same explanation for the bodies they left behind – a demon made them do it. Can demonic possession be blamed for murder, or is it just the ultimate excuse for the inexcusable? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DevilInTheMirror READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddar...

An old television set starts picking up broadcasts from years that haven't happened yet, and what the couple watching sees convinces them that some futures are worth killing to prevent. 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 &...

Theoretical mathematician Charles T. Moore seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Rawlings for an unusual problem—he claims his mathematical breakthrough has given him an uncontrollable ability that terrifies him. The weary doctor, dreaming of retirement and chicken farms, assumes he's dealing with another routine delusion until certain details of Moore's story start sounding disturbingly familiar. EPIS...

For twenty-five years, exorcists have been sending a New York psychiatrist the cases they can't explain, and they chose him because they expected him to say no. ========== HOUR ONE: Different peoples build their identity around different facets of their culture: the Italians around their food, the Greeks around their architecture, America around expanding waistlines. The Isle of Man, however, has...

At twelve, Julie stared at a clawed arm at the end of her bed for seven seconds and then went back to reading, and the two decades that followed are why a UFO investigator spent weeks taking her statement. DEEP-DIVE ARTICLE about Archer Avenue & Resurrection Mary: https://weirddarkness.com/resurrection-mary/ EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/EncountersOfJulie READ...

Two sisters walking the Overbury downs at dusk spot a quaint red brick house at the bend of the road in Brickett Bottom, and only one of them can see 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/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approxima...

Fifty dollars a month for a furnished mansion in the country seems like the bargain of a lifetime, right up until they hear organ music in the house where no organ can be found.  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 ST...

Sam invented a brooding anti-hero for the pilot script she is already late delivering, and the man standing in the background of her footage, the one nobody on the crew hired, is dressed exactly like him. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-worldofherown SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith Conrad ( https://www.auditoryanthology.com ) WeirdDarkness®...

The man who bought the twenty-room house next door to the Powells keeps no car, no telephone, and every light in the place burning through the night, and a neighbor's dog that trots up his front walk drops dead on it without a mark. 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: ht...

Two friends went bare-handed catfishing in an Oklahoma river in July of 2022, and one of them left the water convinced the other had been trying to feed him to Bigfoot. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/BigfootKilledMyFishingBuddy READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7r7pdn FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: An Oklahoma...

Five days ago the prosecutor told a judge that serious felony charges were headed to the grand jury as part of the Siders case, but refused to say what those chargers were. On Friday the indictments came back, and the answer has made this case even darker and more evil than it was before. I need to place a trigger warning on this one, because it even shocked me when the news broke.  SOURCES, LINKS...

Something has been scratching at the pantry door since he was ten years old, and now that he's inherited the house, it has started leaving claw marks. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-monsterinthepantry SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Monster In The Pantry” by Christopher Maxim: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Cop...

Scout Brooks has spent one day training to become an intergalactic hero, preparing to rescue Professor Nog's old friend Farrow from a hostile alien race holding him captive somewhere among the stars. But as the mission prepares to launch, someone has been secretly watching Fort Nogs from the shadows outside — and their intentions remain a mystery. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,...

A drug said to turn victims into compliant “zombies,” some of the strangest true crime cases ever recorded, the bizarre history of chastity belts, the terrifying legend of Baba Yaga, and the mysterious Oera Linda manuscript. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):   https://weirddarkness.com/ZombieCrimes READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckk7x3v FEA...

In a castle sunk so deep beneath the trees that no daylight has ever reached it, a man who has never seen the sun or heard a human voice starts climbing the one ruined tower that rises above the forest, having decided it is better to see the sky once and die than to live without ever seeing it at all. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-theoutsiderlovecraft SOURCES...

A man boards the 4:15 out of London in December of 1856, shares a locked compartment with a fellow passenger the whole way, and steps off to find that everyone insists he traveled alone. 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 &...

A Bigfoot skeptic driving Colorado's Highway 149 on July 28th reported a dark figure stepping out of the treeline to look at her, and the only evidence is two barefoot impressions in the dirt. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SlumgullionPassBigfoot LORI AND BILL BOWLING’S VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIeemwcMlNc Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify...

Vinton County's prosecutor filed two motions explaining why the mother and the grandmother in the case should stay in jail, and in one of them he mentioned charges nobody outside the courthouse has seen yet. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260820 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other p...

A woman from Cleveland moved to Wisconsin, took the surname of Watts – a man serving five life sentences for killing his entire family – and filed to marry him. Women have been doing this for well over a century, and the ones who later walked away have almost never been asked why. BOOK: “They Told Me My Newborn Died – They Lied” by Darren Marlar: https://amzn.to/4ihvu3k EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes...

A humanoid robot barista set a world record on its first weekend behind the counter in Beijing, and the balance of power between humans and machines now rests almost entirely on how politely people behave in line. WEIRD DARKROAST COFFEE: https://weirddarkness.com/coffee/ (Yes, it’s a real thing!) SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/RobotBarista Look for this podcast on App...

A string of bizarre deaths, a secret defense program, and whispers of alien black goo — coincidence or cover-up? Is this mind-controlling, horrifying substance behind one of the strangest unsolved conspiracies in modern history? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/blackgoo READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p95hnc5 FEATU...

Murdoch Glourie has walked the halls of his family's Scottish castle every midnight for two hundred years, and now an American grocery millionaire has bought the place and means to ship it – ghost included – to Florida. 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://weirdda...

A midwife is driven north to a castle at the top of the world to deliver a baby, and when she reaches the birthing room there is no cradle in it. She has brought hundreds of children into the world, but never one she was ordered not to save. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-snowqueenschildren SOURCES and RESOURCES:  “The Snow Queen’s Children” by Louise Latham,...

In 2006 Ukraine, beams split the sky. Time stopped. Something inhuman came to Earth — and took people from their homes. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/UkraineUFOs SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Ukraine Alien Abduction” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p82rjjp VIDEO: UFO Spotted Near Explosion In Ukraine: https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-spo...

A trapeze flyer chasing a somersault no one has ever landed shares a drink with a circus fire eater who calls himself Lou Cipher, and walks away believing a bargain has been struck. 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...