Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A man at the end of his rope keeps meeting a dead acquaintance out on his morning running trail, and by the time he notices his own reflection has gone missing, something on that trail has already started chasing him. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-thefinishline SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Finish Line” by Mark Towse, submitted directly to WeirdDarkness.com. Vi...

A 911 call from a trailer on Hattie Lane brought paramedics to a fourteen-year-old girl who weighed thirty-five pounds, and a year later three of the four adults who lived in that home have been convicted. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/HattieLaneHorror20260829 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and oth...

A high school kid wakes from a near-fatal bike crash to find a strange, perfect dreamworld waiting behind his eyelids — and a familiar face there who's been waiting far longer for him to arrive. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-theonetheyneverletout SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Mind Mirror” by Calvin Levitt: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p84zu89 WeirdDarkness® i...

A gust of wind shuts John Greenwood out of his own Christmas Eve party, and the constable who finds him climbing back in through a broken window says the house has been empty and shut up for years. 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 CHA...

A family in Gary, Indiana, spent a winter reporting things in their rented house that a priest, a caseworker, and a police captain all ended up putting on the record without rational explanation. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Ammons READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2s3wxytm FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From m...

A private eye takes a dead girl's case for a father who can't afford him, and comes home with a box of gardenias that have been cut for a month and still smell fresh. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-gardeniasonadeadlane TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/55nmcphx THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: The story in this episode is a fictionalized dramatizati...

A young London couple rent a room in a house that has stood unlivable for four hundred years, and the one woman who has ever managed to live there tells them the tenants who never left are already expecting them. 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....

In March 2000, a 23-year-old from North Carolina left a note about Jack Kerouac, packed her Jeep, and drove west toward a mountain she'd only read about – and what searchers found in the woods nine days later still has no explanation. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LeahRoberts READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6mna...

The indictment read aloud in a Vinton County courtroom Wednesday names how Gary Siders Jr. is related to the child he is accused of abusing, his bond went up by a quarter of a million dollars in the same hearing, and two felony cases no news outlet has reported sit on a docket two counties away. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260827 Look for this podcast o...

A government hunter tasked with tracking down escaped experiments begins to realize the monsters he captures may not be the only things he should fear. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-containmentfailure SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Hunt Down The Government’s Mistakes” by Devon Hoover: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39m68p6w WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark....

A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished from the moving train, leaving behind a dead young man with no ticket, no labels in his clothing, and six American watches in his pockets. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other p...

Nobody in the Victorian era who claimed to see a ghost described lace and corsets – that look came from the magazine trade that discovered ghost stories were cheap to print and easy to cut to length. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VictorianGhosts READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4p69wekw FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EP...

Deron Lewis-Payne asked a chatbot about law enforcement response times and how to get ammunition as a felon; the phone holding those questions ended up in the federal record, and he's serving 121 months. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/WDN20260826-ChatGPTBankRobber Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and...

Philadelphia police say a man in a white doll mask spent the early morning of August 12th chasing strangers around City Hall, and on the night of August 25th, U.S. Marshals took him into custody at a Las Vegas apartment complex roughly two thousand miles away. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/wdn20260826-chuckymask Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHear...

Five batches of declassified UAP records have gone up on a Department of War website since May, and two national surveys fielded in the same July stretch came back eighteen points apart on whether Americans think officials are still holding something back. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ufonewseffect Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amaz...

A couple in southern Brazil spent fourteen months raising a traumatized girl who had escaped an abusive home with no documents and no family, and the daughter they threw a birthday party for is a thirty-eight-year-old convicted of fraud and sitting in the women's prison in Joinville. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/joinville-false-child/ Look for this podcast on Apple...

Clearing out his late mother's attic, a man finds a box holding his uncle's folded RUC uniform and a small leather notebook – the private diary of a West Belfast detective working the worst months of the Troubles, who by his second entry has started writing about a hooded figure that keeps appearing at his crime scenes. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-belfastco...

The Alaskan Hotel has stood in Juneau since 1913, and the guests who ask for Room 315 by name do not always stay the night. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AlaskanHotel READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4r83875s FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Alaskan Triangle is already known for strange and bizarre activity –...

In colonial Massachusetts, a dying woman made her husband lock her gowns and jewels in an attic trunk and swear that her sister would never open it – a promise Henry James turned into one of the coldest ghost stories he ever wrote. 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: htt...

A collector of rare books finds a shop hidden among the side streets where every shelf stands empty except for one table of leather volumes about murder, and the old proprietor keeps his best one on a back shelf – untitled, buckled shut, and handwritten in a script that changes from section to section. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ancienttome SOURCES and RES...

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...