The Dark Paranormal

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. This experience, like others we've discussed previously, is one written across an entire lifetime of seeing, sensing and being followed by things most of us will never have to face. Its author describes herself as a beacon to the other side, drawing in everything from curious spirits to entities shaped by hatred, grief and something far more ancient. Each...

Welcome to a Dark Minisode. Today we hear from Rachel in Sale, who tell us about the experiences she's had, as a self labelled sceptic, in her new home, that was her grandmothers old home. It's a genuine insight in to the literal and psychological barriers that are placed between ourselves... and the resolution of a mystery. Stay safe, Kevin. We’re giving a full weeks trial of our Patreon...

Welcome, to another Dark Realm. High above the streets of Manhattan stands a mansion older than the United States itself. The Morris–Jumel Mansion has spent more than two centuries collecting stories that refuse to die. Today, we explore the documented history behind Manhattan’s oldest surviving home...before descending into the chilling legends of three spirits said to haunt its halls. A terrifyi...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. On today's show, a childhood shaped by addiction, fear and constant tension becomes the backdrop to an encounter that has never left its witness. As the atmosphere inside one family home grows increasingly oppressive, strange voices, impossible sightings and an overwhelming feeling of being watched begin affecting more than one member of the household. Yea...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Today's Dark Minisode follows a listener from British Columbia whose recurring nightmares slowly began to bleed into waking life, leaving her convinced she was being watched wherever she went. As fear took hold during two of the darkest periods of her life, unexpected encounters and deeply personal moments leave her questioning whether trauma alone could explain wh...

Welcome to the Dark Paranormal Today’s show is audio only, which I explain at the start (not a software issue thankfully but a choice) as today is the first of our 3-6-9 “famous” experiences, touched on in the pre season episode, today we look at Gotlieben Dittus. A woman who lived in a quiet German village on the edge of the Black Forest, her terrifying ordeal drew the attention of a reluctant pa...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Today our listener, Sam, takes an evening management job at a newly opened drive-through coffee shop in Glasgow, balancing her education, work and raising her one-year-old son. At first, the strange occurrences are easy to dismiss as faulty equipment or an old building settling into its new purpose. But as unsettling experiences begin to overlap with unexpected revelat...

Welcome to Dark Realms, Today we explore the history behind the inn before descending into its labyrinth of caves to examine three of its most disturbing alleged hauntings: the mysterious little girl who appears to visitors with no known historical identity, the unsettling Shadow Man whose silent presence drives people away, and the infamous entity said to lurk in the deepest cellars. Whether thes...

Welcome to The Dark Paranormal. Fot our second episode,we've opted to use Anonymous's" experience as more of a short-meets-discussion around both potential hereditary hauntings and 'abilities', and an alternate view on the use of a ouija board. It's a "mulling over the darkness" which in truth was needed to hone some skills (i.e prove content can be delivered on the...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. For our first Minisode of Season 25, a retired train driver finally shares the terrifying experience he has kept almost entirely secret since he was nineteen. Assigned to an ageing cab rumoured to be haunted, his first shift takes a disturbing turn inside a notorious tunnel, leaving him to wonder whether two very different presences had accompanied him that night, on w...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal, For our debut episode, after a childhood shaped by grief, religious fear and the belief that something evil lived within her, "Sarah" spent years distancing herself from faith. But a chance encounter with a kind elderly priest offered her something she had rarely known: patience, understanding and the feeling of truly being heard. As their unlikely fri...

As the title suggests, despite my best efforts the debut needs to be delayed until Monday 13th for the general feed, and Sunday for the Patreon feed. I ventured in to the “Dunning Kruger” effect with my unfounded confidence in video editing and after 16 hours of flailing have no choice but to wait for our video wizard team member to be healthy enough to deliver the episode you deserve to hear/watc...

Welcome, to the calm before the storm. In this special pre-season episode of The Dark Paranormal, we’re joined by the wonderful Charlie and Tyler, hosts of Believing the Bizarre , for a brilliant conversation built around two chilling experiences they’ve brought with them. Each story is shared in full, before we step back and discuss the details, and the lingering questions they leave behind. It’s...

Welcome, to the Season 24 Finale. For the Season Finale, an anonymous academic returns from Italy with what appears to be a fake religious relic — a small brass reliquary capsule bought for a few euros at an antiques market in Padova. But when strange disturbances follow her home, she begins to suspect the object was never meant to be admired, opened, or acknowledged. With an intriguing blend of h...

Welcome, to the Season 24 Dark Minisode Finale. When one of our more sceptical listeners returns to her childhood home due to her mother's illness, she expected sorrow, paperwork, and difficult memories. What she didn't, was an old presence from her past that seems to re-emerge. Through a familiar smell and an unsettling sense of dread, she is forced to confront emotions she thought had be...

Welcome to the penultimate episode of S24 of The Dark Paranormal. After the death of her mother, our listener Claire returns alone to the Derbyshire home she grew up in to begin clearing out decades of belongings. In a spare-room wardrobe, she discovers a hidden box containing old letters and a face-down photograph. The letters suggest Claire’s mother had once been involved in some kind of secret...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. On Today's Dark Minisode, our listener Arthur describes being sent into the sealed basement archive of a failed document storage company outside of Leeds, expecting nothing more than dust, barcodes, and forgotten office equipment. But deep beneath that industrial estate, behind a locked security cage, something begins to defy explanation. What starts as a simple an...

Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today we travel to Dorset, England, to explore the chilling folklore of Sandford Orcas Manor — a Tudor house near Sherborne long associated with some of Britain’s most unsettling ghost stories. Known as “the house that collected ghosts,” the manor’s legends include mysterious apparitions, unexplained figures, and disturbing encounters said to have unfolded within its...

Welcome back, to the Dark Paranormal., Today we have a planned treat, as we give you the English translation of the first ever submission to our Spanish language sister show "Osuridad Paranormal". Today, Ricardo shares the deeply unsettling story of a family conflict that appears to awaken something far darker than ordinary neighbourly resentment. After a dispute with the people living beh...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. For today's Dark Minisode, Zane from Colorado shares his unsettling experience as a live-in manager at a remote alpine property near Cortina d’Ampezzo in Northern Italy. Left alone during the 2020 lockdown to maintain the empty hotel, Zane expects isolation, silence, and the usual groans of an ageing building — but what begins with Zane relishing the opportunity, s...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Where to begin...well, today's experience comes to us from our listener Sarah, who shares a lifelong haunting that begins with a disturbing childhood encounter in Manchester and follows her across years, homes, and continents. From an unsettling warning about being “born under the black star” to terrifying nocturnal phenomena, unexplained cold spots, shado...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Brianna shares a terrifying college haunting from a small Christian university in Texas, where one seemingly harmless board game left her overwhelmed by dread before the night had even begun. What follows is a deeply unsettling account of instinct, warning signs, unseen presence, animalistic fear, and the disturbing possibility that something dark can be invited in eve...

Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today, we enter the shadowed corridors of an unfinished Gothic house hidden deep in a Cotswold valley. Built in the 19th century and abandoned before it could ever truly become a home, Woodchester is a place where bare stone, missing floors, empty rooms and Catholic Gothic ambition have combined to create one of England’s most unsettling haunted locations. From appari...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Today we conclude Catherine’s story as it moves beyond childhood trauma and into adulthood, where grief, danger, motherhood, and unexplained spiritual protection collide in a deeply emotional true paranormal account. As she struggles to rebuild her life after unimaginable loss, Catherine begins to sense that the dead may not simply be watching from afar, but s...

Welcome to a Dark Minisode Today we hear from Johan, a listener who shares the extraordinary story of the lifelong connection he had with his twin sister, Abigail — a bond that seemed to go far beyond instinct, coincidence, or ordinary sibling closeness. From childhood moments of unexplained awareness to terrifying flashes of danger and impossible shared emotions, their connection shaped the way J...