Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A routine trip to claim an inheritance becomes a waking nightmare when a young couple discovers their own coffins waiting for them at a lonely, decaying estate. 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 Ap...

For a few terrifying hours in the summer of 1955, two Kentucky families emptied their guns into small, glowing creatures that swarmed their farmhouse and simply would not die — and to this day, no one agrees on whether they fought off aliens, owls, or something the mind conjured out of the dark. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/kellyhopkinsville READ or DOWNLOAD the...

“The House And The Brain”: A skeptical scientist who swears the supernatural is nonsense spends one night in a house no tenant will stay in—and discovers a terror that follows him out the door. 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...

The astronomer who says an alien light sail may have passed Earth in 2017 now leads a government team asked to figure out what the military's mystery orbs really are. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/loeb-ufo-council 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...

Called to a shuttered Queens elementary school over a foul smell, an exterminator opened the ash dump and found a shoe, then a foot — a man's body wedged in the chimney, still unidentified. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/school-chimney-body Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get...

“Crazy Town”: Two bomber pilots who rain death on defenseless villages crash behind the walls of a hidden asylum, where a soft-spoken madman insists they've finally come home to the only community where killers like them belong. 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 1917, a dead Mark Twain "wrote" a novel through a Ouija board — and the lawsuit that followed forced everyone to ask who really owns a book authored from the afterlife. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ghostwriting READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/366f2sny FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Did Mark Twain write a n...

The man appointed to lead one of FEMA's most important disaster-response offices had told podcast audiences he was once physically teleported roughly fifty miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/fema-teleport RELATED ARTICLE FROM APRIL 2026: https://weirddarkness.com/fema-teleportation/ Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify...

Five months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the FBI now believes none of the ransom notes tied to her disappearance are genuine — including the two her family thought were real. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260701 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. G...

A search of a Budapest apartment turned up skulls, a severed hand, a lower leg, and a heart in a jar — and the hospital orderly who lived there told police he had prepared and eaten human body parts. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BudapestCannibal Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast app...

A man who met a woman through online video gaming flew from Canada to Salinas, hid a set of knives and restraints inside a fake Amazon box, and knocked on her door just before ten at night. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/salinas-amazon-attack Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Ge...

A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream. 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)…...

A roadside stop near Independence Mall led Philadelphia police and the FBI into an Olney basement stacked with chemicals, a 55-gallon drum plumbed into the ground, and an unsigned letter that name-checks Ted Bundy — inside a house tied to two women who vanished years apart. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/horsch Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart...

When the supernatural seeps into our world, it doesn’t just leave behind fear—it can also leave sickness. From shadowy visitors to ominous dreams, some eerie paranormal encounters suggest that the price of witnessing the unknown may be paid in flesh and blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SupernaturalSickness READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:...

A gigantic cigar-shaped craft shadowed a NATO airliner over the Atlantic in 1963, the same year similar motherships appeared over Australia, Canada, and the skies of a Britain overrun by headless creatures and desecrated churches. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/1963DarkForces READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p87km...

Short-staffed and well past midnight, a young nurse accepts an overnight shift in the one hospital room everyone else refuses to enter — and she experiences something unlike she has before. IN THIS EPISODE: “Silent Ward” by Keith Conrad MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com Originally aired: June 29, 2026 EPISODE PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/SilentWard

Decades of alien encounters may not point to other worlds at all, but to a ruined future Earth — where the last survivors of humanity travel back to our present, disguised as the aliens we expect, to harvest the DNA that might save their dying species. ========== HOUR ONE: A Virginia pilot encounters a mysterious golden orb during a skydive flight! *** For those who claim to have spoken with extra...

A skeptical reporter is sent to debunk England's most famous UFO hotspot — but the more nights he spends on Star Hill, the harder it becomes to dismiss what he sees, and the woman who keeps appearing there may be asking him to believe in far more than he ever bargained for. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps....

In a world that has finally outlawed war, every boy must still report for combat at fifteen — and Tom is about to learn exactly what that means. TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8scp4f “The Invisible Enemy” by Arnold Castle, originally published in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” October 1954 https://weirddarkness.com/invisibleenemy

A bumbling, newly dead ghost can't remember the gestures that would let it leave — so a kindly skeptic offers to help, never guessing what the way out would cost. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/inexperiencedghost READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2x3w7t7v FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A classic from H.G. Wells e...

A broke private eye rides south to explain away a little girl's imaginary friend, and walks out of a pine-country farmhouse convinced the old man pushing her on the swing has been dead for years. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-oldmanonsutterlane TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p84f78k THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: In February 1989, Andy and Li...

A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift might carry. 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...

Five prisoners are kept awake for fifteen days in a sealed chamber — and what the researchers find when they open the door no longer wants to be set free. A blockbuster film series trails a string of real-life deaths its cast can't explain. On the back roads of Maryland, a half-goat figure waits for teenagers who wander too far. And one ordinary night in El Paso, a couple walks out of their home —...

A writer obsessed with the occult and forbidden knowledge uncovers a nightmarish secret lurking within a long-abandoned church—one that watches, waits, and is drawn to the dark. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/haunterofthedark READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9ecf8y FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’m back with...

A New York teenager lit a piece of paper, threw it at a sleeping homeless man on a Manhattan subway, and stepped back onto the platform as the doors closed behind him.  SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/carrero-subway-fire Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listen...