Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A complete stranger walked a 4-year-old girl out the rear exit of a Long Island laundromat in the middle of a Saturday afternoon — with her mother still inside. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/patchogue-laundromat-kidnapping WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

For years, I thought I was dealing with migraines… or maybe vertigo. Turns out, it’s neither. It’s something I couldn’t explain — a strange, heavy pressure in my head that shuts everything down without warning. In this video, I think I’ve finally come up with an official name for it.

Deep in the rural backwoods of Ohio, Connecticut, and Michigan, locals whisper about pale, emaciated creatures with grotesquely oversized heads that prowl lonely roads after dark — and the eyewitnesses who claim to have encountered them say whatever they are, they are anything but legend. | #WDRadio March 29, 2026 HOUR ONE: In parts of Africa it’s not the werewolf you need to look out for, but the...

Last week was a lot — computer problems, server issues, a demonetization I still don't fully understand, and a health situation I've been misreading for years. I'm okay, but some things are changing, and I wanted to be straight with you about all of it. I'll talk about what I've figured out regarding how my brain actually works, why Morning Weird Darkness isn't coming back, what's staying, what's...

Four stories from the golden age of science fiction — and none of them end where you think they will. A morgue ship drifting through the wreckage of a space war pulls in something extraordinary. A telethink researcher in the Florida Keys gets a warning from the stars — too late. A beer truck driver spends a sleepless weekend with something he accidentally created in his kitchen sink. And on a plan...

A terrified young woman is convinced that invisible forces are closing in on her family — and she's right, but not for any reason anyone could have predicted. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0614 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = I Love a Mystery, “Thing That Cries In The Night” (October 31, 1949) 00:13:13.023 = I Love a Mystery, “Thing Th...

“Hexed” | A newlywed American woman in Ceylon becomes convinced she is cursed — but the most dangerous thing on the island may be the secret she's been keeping from her husband. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0613 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Hexed” (July 05, 1977) ***WD 00:45:45.100 = 5 Minute Mysteries,...

In a quiet Kansas town in 1912, a well-liked postmaster was shot through his own kitchen door in cold blood — and the investigation that followed would drag his widow, his mail carrier, his best friend, and half the town through a tangle of affairs, threats, and accusations that raised more questions than it ever answered. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PARANORMAL PUNK SO...

“The Lake” and “The Rage of the Monster” by Grant Hart, Age 7 *** “The Shadow” by Emery Garner, Age 8 *** “The Infected Foot” by Brenton, Age 10 *** “The Deep Curse” by Avery Jensen, Age 7 ***  Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com ! Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott...

Deep in the woods surrounding Ohio's Silver Creek Metro Park, multiple witnesses have come face to face with something massive, bipedal, and terrifyingly fast — and whatever it is, it isn't Bigfoot. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PARANORMAL PUNK SONG BASED ON THIS EPISODE: https://weirddarkness.com/music-dogmanofsilvercreek IN THIS EPISODE: Ohio has its own strange creatu...

In the chaos of war, soldiers have faced not only human adversaries, but terrifying encounters with cryptids and mysterious entities on the front lines. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* IN THIS EPISODE: War brings out the worst in men – and sometimes it brings it out the monsters as well. (Monsters and the Military) *** Haunting the corridors of the Preston School of Indust...

A sitting congresswoman with security clearance says the government has footage of events it cannot explain — and she is planning to go public the moment the official order arrives. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/anna-paulina-luna-ufo-disclosure-update/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #Wei...

“Gravestone”: When three women on a winter hike stumble into a snow-covered graveyard and one accidentally dances on a grave, what follows will make them question everything they thought they knew about the boundary between the living and the dead. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0612 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery The...

When a man calling himself William Rutledge uploaded footage of a secret Apollo 20 mission to YouTube, what the world saw — a crashed alien mothership and a mummified extraterrestrial body on the Moon's dark side — would shake the internet to its core. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SONG INSPIRED BY THIS EPISODE: "Mona Lisa On The Moon" = https://weirddarkness.com/music-m...

Scientists discovered that sharks near the Bahamas are absorbing cocaine, caffeine, and painkillers from polluted waters — and the sharks appear to be handling their drug problem significantly better than the tourism industry that caused it. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/high-tide WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyrigh...

YouScientists insist the Joro spider is harmless, shy, and beneficial — which is exactly what someone would say right before it moved into your garage. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/JoroSpiders2026 WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

“Elmer Versus The Mutant Rats”: When a small-town manure hauler's quiet vacation gets interrupted by rats the size of chihuahuas, it turns out that's just the beginning — because something much, much bigger is living underneath the entire town. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0611 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater...

From a woman whose pacemaker simply fell out to a man who arrived at the emergency room with a golf club through his arm, real doctors, nurses, and first responders share the jaw-dropping, one-in-a-million cases that left even the most seasoned medical professionals struggling to explain what they were seeing. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* IN THIS EPISODE: Watch any amou...

A college student's obsession with the Mandela Effect takes a deeply personal turn when he realizes his best friend, his mother, and every piece of evidence all agree on one thing — a girl he remembers perfectly simply never existed. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* IN THIS EPISODE: I’m pulling an old Creepypasta Thursday episode off the shelves and dusting it off for you....

Within months of Trump ordering the full declassification of all government UFO files, five American scientists and researchers with documented ties to classified programs have died, vanished, or been found dead. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarknes.com/five-dead-ufo-scientists WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird...

Doctors said she had no chance, her husband began the funeral preparations, and then a pothole on an Indian highway changed everything — or, as doctors later explained, maybe it changed nothing at all. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/braindeadpothole HUMOROUS column episode, “Mind of Marlar”: https://weirddarkness.com/potholebringsm...

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury | In a future where everyone stays indoors and stares at screens, one man's simple evening walk is enough to get him arrested. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0610 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” (June 28, 1977) ***WD 00:46:35.629 = Theater F...

The website is fighting back. The good news — the problems are partly due to high traffic, which means you people keep showing up and I appreciate that more than I can say. The bad news — bots and spiders are crashing the party. Between server overloads, bot invasions, and what may or may not be an actual spider problem, Weird Darkness is running at reduced capacity this week. Morning episodes and...

When Alison Conklin woke up with a stranger's heart beating in her chest, she also woke up with a stranger's appetite — a lifelong meat eater who suddenly couldn't stomach the thought of it, along with memories of songs she'd never heard and moments she'd never lived. She's not alone. Nearly 90 percent of transplant recipients in one study reported personality changes after surgery — new food crav...

As of March 24, 2026, Nancy Guthrie's location and condition remain unknown. Anyone with information is asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), call 520-351-4900, text 88-CRIME, or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov . Investigators now believe someone was casing Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home weeks before she was kidnapped — and the FBI's own analysis of her doorbell camera is what poi...