The Dark Paranormal

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...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In part one of this chilling two-part listener experience, Catherine shares the beginning of a lifetime touched by trauma, loss, and unsettling paranormal encounters that seem to appear at the darkest moments of her life. From a children’s hospital ward where a mysterious little girl in a dirty nightgown whispers impossible knowledge, to locked rooms, resident...

Welcome, to this week's Dark Minisode In today's listener account, a lifelong pattern of unexplained paranormal experiences begins in early childhood and follows the narrator across multiple homes, states, relationships, and stages of life. From strange shapes in the dark and unsettling apparitions to phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, unseen children, oppressive energies, unexplained...

Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today, we travel the haunted length of the Natchez Trace Parkway, from its ancient footpaths and violent frontier past to the ghost stories still whispered around Witch Dance, Natchez Under-the-Hill, and the infamous King’s Tavern in Mississippi. Blending dark folklore, Southern Gothic history, highwaymen, occult legend, and alleged supernatural encounters, this episo...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In this truly chilling listener account, a family moves into an old rural farmhouse in southern Alberta, hoping for space, quiet, and a fresh start surrounded by fields, barns, and open land. But it soon becomes clear that something about the property is deeply wrong. From strange noises, to doors opening on their own to unexplained footsteps, flickering light...

Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode. For today's Dark Minisode, we hear about a listener with a lifelong sensitivity to unseen presences that leads back to one terrifying summer night in Tennessee, when a teenage girl’s safe bedroom becomes the centre of an experience she has never been able to explain. What begins as a familiar sense of being watched turns into something far more personal, a...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Today, we have our 2nd ever trilogy ending (hopefully), as we hear once more from the submitter of the 2 "Demon On My Shoulder" submissions, Alex. We learn that the entities they once named the Algea seem to shift, retreat, and then evolve into something far more unpredictable. From unexplained footsteps and impossible door slams, this true paranormal...

Welcome to this week's Dark Minisode. In today's Dark Minisode, a self-described skeptic with a career built on data, logic, and measurable truth moves into a converted apartment, hoping for a quiet fresh start. But after receiving a small carved figure from a friend as a housewarming gift, her world begins to fracture. Reality becomes malleable, and a growing sense that something in the a...

Welcome, to Dark Realms. Today, after a Patreon suggestion, we step onto one of Liverpool’s most iconic streets and discover why Bold Street has become synonymous not just with culture and creativity—but with something far more unsettling. In this episode, we explore the shadowed history that stretches between St Luke’s Church and The Lyceum, uncovering a layered past tied to trade, exploitation,...

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Today we sincerely have one of the most disturbing experiences we've ever received, as an anonymous listener shares a lifetime of frightening experiences shaped by childhood trauma, haunted spaces, astral encounters, spiritual sensitivity, and the terrifying sense that unseen forces can attach themselves to pain we have never fully healed. Spanning ghostly...

Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Our first minisode of the season finds a listener looking for a quiet life in Keswick, the Lake District, but that life is slowly overshadowed by a series of deeply disturbing events that begin in a renovated garden workshop. What starts as an ordinary discovery in an old outbuilding soon gives way to experiences that challenge one woman’s firmly grounded view of the w...

Welcome back. to the Dark Paranormal. From a remote lakeside home in rural Quebec to a lifetime of unsettling moments that never quite made sense, this chilling listener submission explores what it feels like to grow up in a place that never seemed entirely empty. In this episode, Kris shares a series of eerie experiences spanning childhood to early adulthood, each one marked by strange disturbanc...