Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

In 1959, a quiet missionary village in Papua New Guinea became the site of one of history’s most astonishing UFO encounters—where a priest and his flock not only witnessed a hovering craft but exchanged waves with the humanoid figures aboard. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/PriestAndUFO FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The English and Americans...

“Northern Lights”: Two scientists built a time machine, and the cold thing that crawled back into the laboratory had every intention of staying. 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 Approximate)… 00:0...

Since August 2025, a crowdsourced tracking app has logged more than 9,000 sightings of unidentified objects within 10 miles of US shorelines, with clusters off California, Florida, and naval training zones. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/UnderwaterUFOs Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcas...

A Belgian woman vanished from her Canary Islands home on a Sunday night in May, and four days later investigators were sifting through a landfill. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/oosterlinck 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.lin...

Sharon Hoggatt came home to a planter she hadn't moved, a deadbolt no one had locked, and a growing sense that either her husband was losing his memory or someone else was inside their house. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/hoggatt-intruder Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a...

A writer is gifted the rope that hanged a notorious highwayman, and from that night forward, something with a face like impure wax begins following him through London — into his dreams, into his work, and finally into the jury box of a murder trial he was never meant to survive. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast a...

Long before the modern UFO craze, cowboys, trappers, and even future U.S. presidents reported eerie lights, sky-borne serpents, and crashed crafts with mysterious hieroglyphs—suggesting that the Wild West may have had more than just outlaws lurking in the night. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/CowboysAndAliens FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If...

A man broke through a hospital wall and was found in a Pennsylvania park after telling police he needed a walk. Oh, yeah... and he was naked. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/naked-punxsutawney-man 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://p...

Australian psychologists invented a secret army of genetically engineered super-raccoons to find out who was actually telling the truth on their conspiracy surveys. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/fake-conspiracy-study Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listenin...

Five words from a faceless machine end Walter Hayes's career — and send him down a spiral where the only solution he can see is to be worth more dead than alive. 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 A...

Centuries ago, fear and superstition led to bizarre and cruel witch trials, where the accused faced impossible tests—from floating in water to being weighed against Bibles — that often sealed their grim fate. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/CondemnedAsAWitch FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We’ve all heard of the Salem Witch Trials – but accusat...

A Louisiana father shot seven of his own children and their cousin dead inside two Shreveport homes on the morning of April 19, 2026, then drove to his former Army mentor's doorstep to die. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/elkins Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of fre...

Between March 6 and March 10, eight witnesses across Portage County reported the same thing — an upright figure, eight feet tall, moving through the river corridors east of Akron. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ohio-bigfoot-flap-2026 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list...

A curving Mississippi lake road after sundown, a wedding present on the passenger seat, and a quiet island resort across the water where the ferryman takes fifty cents — exact change only. 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 &am...

Two pairs of everything — body parts — turn up in three southern counties before anyone thinks to ask the quiet woman on the hog farm what was buried out behind the barn. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-twopairsofeverything THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: THE VIOLA HYATT CASE (1959, ALABAMA)Viola Hyatt was a 30-year-old farm woman living with her father Mar...

A self-proclaimed witch in 1800s England used fake magic and poison to con her victims - until one murder too many brought her deadly schemes crashing down. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/YorkshireWitch FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: What if we just discovered we're sharing Earth with another intelligent species? Scientists have found somethi...

A mother in Jonesboro called the sheriff's office on April 17, 2025, about her 13-year-old's autism school - and a search warrant pulled video the prosecutor would eventually play in open court. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/jonesboro-fight-club Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps...

An 84-year-old Georgia man with Alzheimer's has not been produced in a Brooklyn courtroom for over two years, and a judge wants to know exactly where he is. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/charrington 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...

In a single week of May 2026, the Pentagon posted 162 declassified UFO files online, American pastors went public about being warned in closed-door briefings that disclosure was coming, sworn congressional testimony placed non-human craft already in U.S. government hands, and a Steven Spielberg film called Disclosure Day moved toward its June release. The researchers who have spent decades on this...

Two travelers seek refuge from a thunderstorm in a forbidding old house — where a mad woman's laughter, a warning to stay away from the bookcase, and a corpse that crumbles at a touch are only the beginning of what waits in the dark. 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: h...

In the heart of Hagley Wood, a skeleton hidden inside a hollow tree sparked decades of eerie graffiti, whispered conspiracies, and chilling rumors that she may have been a WWII spy silenced forever. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/SpyWitchWych FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Was a woman found dead in a wych elm tree in wartime England actually...

A 911 call from a Wisconsin mobile home sent deputies to a fourteen-year-old girl who weighed thirty-five pounds and had not seen a doctor in five years. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/stepmom-starves-daughter 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 h...

Rayshawna Dowdell allegedly left her 11- and 6-year-old daughters alone in a cluttered Katy home for six weeks while ordering them meals from out of state. PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/uber-eats-mom-katy 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...

An English butcher murdered his wife the day his exorcism ended, the Son of Sam blamed his neighbor's dog, and a forked-tongued occultist who called himself Pazuzu buried bodies in his backyard — and every one of them swore it was the demon who did it. | #WDRadio May 10, 2026 ========== HOUR ONE: “The devil made me do it.” It’s an excuse that has been used so often by so many that it has lost its...

An archaeology professor fixates on a stranger across the restaurant, his wife admits to a skill she's kept hidden for the twenty years they've been married, and what the two of them overhear at the man's table suggests he isn't from this planet.  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listenin...