Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes convinced the woman renting the cabin above his is a murderer — and only he knows what she's done. 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...

Three kids track down a forgotten swimming hole behind the abandoned Duncan Quarry, rediscover it for the summer — and find out why everyone stopped coming. 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://pod.link/1655277373 Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games...

Between 1997 and 2006, an overweight pizza delivery man named Ronald Dominique strangled 23 men across rural Louisiana, and almost no one has ever heard his name. A deep-dive article on all of the obscure legends featured in the first section of tonight's podcast:  https://weirddarkness.com/obscure-legends/ EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/BayouStrangler READ or DOWN...

Two researchers built a mathematical model of human cannibalism and discovered, after considerable effort, that the answer is no. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/average-meal 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://pod.link/1078714736 *No...

Christa Pike carried a piece of Colleen Slemmer’s skull back to the Job Corps dorm as a souvenir, and on September 30th, 2026, Tennessee is scheduled to execute her for the murder that produced it. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/christa-pike Music by Shadows Symphony. Weird Darkness theme music by Alibi Music. LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this p...

Flying jackets, faces frozen mid-scream, a coven convinced they needed David Bowie's blood, and a demon that crashed a text at exactly 666 megabytes — these are the paranormal encounters the famous swear actually happened to them. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CelebrityGhostEncounters READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny...

Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too real — man-sized vampire bats with an appetite for human blood. "Temple of Vampires," an installment of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery (originally aired January 02-27, 1950), follows adventurers Jack, Doc, and Reggie as they fly toward Central A...

A young samurai's forbidden love for a warlord's daughter follows him past the grave, when her returning ghost lures him into a fatal embrace no sacred charm can 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 & TIME STAMPS (Al...

A mother of five bled out on a Del Rio street on a Thursday afternoon, and by that evening the two sisters accused of killing her were caught on camera grinning in handcuffs. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/caropena 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 a...

When the Pritchard family moved into 30 East Drive, they thought a broken pipe was flooding the kitchen. But the hooded thing they came to call the Black Monk would flood their home with water, drag their daughter up the stairs, and become one of the most violent hauntings England has ever recorded. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/blackmonk READ or DOWNLOAD the full...

A man who searched his estranged father's name once a year for closure instead found a 1998 arrest record naming himself as the victim. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/cody-jacob/ 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://pod.link/107871473...

A nightgown-clad stranger in a flying saucer repeats two nonsense words to everyone who'll listen—but only a lonely hospital cleaner can understand what he's really saying, and the warning is one no one wants to believe. 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://weirdd...

The most evil among us are sometimes sentenced to death — but by cutting their lives short, are we unknowingly creating malevolent entities that haunt us forever? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DeathRowGhosts READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr3vu756 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The most evil of lawbreakers in...

When a corporate jet is torn through a fold in space and time, its passengers find themselves offered a second chance a thousand years from home — if they're willing to leave everything behind. 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 CHAPTER...

Eleven federal agencies spent sixty days working Chicago and Rockford under one flag, and when it ended they had 305 fugitives in custody and 24 children — many of them kidnapped — back home. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/OperationNewDawn Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a...

A house built on a history of war, death, and dark magic—what lurks within the walls of 63 Maple Street may be more than just restless spirits. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/63MapleStreet READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck2wx6x LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radi...

In 1872, the children of a Newburyport schoolhouse watched a bloodless child's hand press against the window glass — and then the dead boy it belonged to began walking their halls. | #WDRadio JULY 05, 2026 HOUR ONE: What caused complete darkness to engulf the New England town of Newburyport in 1871 – and what were the strange lights seen by dozens of students and their teacher? *** Engineers worki...

Real animals have grown to draconic sizes, taken to the skies on thirty-foot wings, and even weaponized explosions from inside their own bodies—but could nature ever assemble all three into a living, fire-breathing dragon? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/realdragons READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2kepzd3u FEATURED...

A mild-mannered chemistry teacher weighing a lucrative job offer against the quiet life he loves finds his decision complicated when a woman claiming to be from the Pleiades strolls into his house and refuses to leave, insisting to move in. “A Matter of Ethics” by Russ Winterbotham, originally published by Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, April 1955 EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):...

A locked-room death, a fragile heiress convinced her dead mother is beckoning her from the top of the marble stairs, and three witnesses who all swear they've seen the ghost as well. 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 & TIM...

An old villager's tale about a beautiful, undead noblewoman feels like harmless folklore to two visiting American brothers — right up until the night one of them meets her. 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 (...

Every state in the Union has its own creepy collection of urban legends — haunted playgrounds and vampires, cryptids and cursed roads, black-eyed children and shape-shifting monsters — and we're crossing all fifty to find the eeriest tale each one has to tell. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/StateLegends READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://...

The 1975 film that emptied the beaches was built on real horror — the 1916 Jersey Shore attacks that killed four, the unsolved disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, and the science of why great whites bite at all. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/jaws READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jaws FEATURED STORIES IN THIS...

A bored kid trapped in a powerless, sweltering house sneaks into his father's off-limits basement lab, where a machine that turns AI drawings into living creatures is about to make his worst summer unforgettable. 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://pod.link/16552...

You ever get that feeling like you’re being watched when you’re out in the woods? Turns out, some people know they were — and what they saw was anything but normal. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ParanormalWilderness READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/zyutdd7j FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: There are numerous biza...