Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Deep within Navajo culture lives a creature that was once human — a witch who murdered their own family to gain the power to shapeshift, possess the living, and control the dead. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* IN THIS EPISODE: The Navajo believe there are places where the powers of both good and evil are present and that those powers can be harnessed for either. And the m...

A 21-year-old South Korean woman allegedly used ChatGPT to research lethal drug combinations before slipping fatal doses into the drinks of multiple men across two months. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/chatgpt-killer WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

One man's completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don't know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire....

There are cases that make people question everything they thought they knew about how justice works — and then there are cases like these. The names Brendan Dassey and Kimberly Long have been argued over in courtrooms, in living rooms, and in comment sections for years, by people who cannot let go of the nagging sense that something went terribly wrong. And wrapped around both of their stories is...

Some animals process hundreds of visual “frames” every second, while others barely register one — and research shows it depends on how fast they live. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/animals-time-perception-study WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

After more than five decades building spacecraft to search for life, one senior NASA engineer says the universe is probably alive — just not visiting Earth.*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/aliens-exist-nasa-lee WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

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Four Mounties ambushed in a barn, a bank robber who escaped an escape-proof jail whose ghost never did, a murdered exorcist, a barracks room sealed shut for fifty years, and meat falling from a clear Kentucky sky — just another March 3rd. | The Morning Weird Darkness If you have information on the murder of Father Alfred Kunz, the Dane County Sheriff's Office can be reached at 608-284-6900, or at...

Two different families moved into the same rural farmhouse years apart, never spoke to each other, and both reported the same three-foot creature lurking near the barn. | #WDRadio WEEK OF November 17-23, 2024 ========== HOUR ONE: Did she drown? Did she commit suicide? Despite her death in 1889, we still don’t know how Maggie Hourigan died. (The Mystery of Maggie Hourigan) *** In 1958 Gavin Gibbons...

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When a strange extraterrestrial visitor arrives in small-town Willow Grove seeking peaceful contact, one man's violent act of "pest control" forces the community to confront a deadly question: what makes someone human, and what makes them vermin? *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://take.supersurvey.com/QGZCRXPVS HELPFUL LINKS & RESOU...

A man recounts his lifelong recurring nightmare of being stalked by an unseen serpent through the African grasslands, where each dream brings the creature closer to catching him. | “The Dream Snake” by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales, February 1928) More stories like this: https://weirddarkness.com/AuditoryAnthology *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Take the Weird Darkness Sur...

A late-night video editor begins noticing mysterious shadowy figures lurking in the background of news footage — and slowly realizes every person those shadows appear near ends up dead. | “Editing Room Shadows” by Keith Conrad *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://take.supersurvey.com/QGZCRXPVS MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditorya...

When scientist Edward Bloom demonstrated humanity's first anti-gravity device to the world, a single billiard ball punched through his chest at the speed of light — and the only question that remains is whether the man who aimed it knew exactly what would happen. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://take.supersurvey.com/QGZCRXPVS IN THIS...

Five creepy tales sent in by kids! | Micro Terrors 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 Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com = = = =...

A visitor touring an asylum encounters a serene white-haired woman who believes she is still aboard a doomed ocean liner — and the truth behind her delusion is far more heartbreaking than it first appears. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0594 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Countess” (May 26, 1977) 00:45:1...

A mysterious figure in a wide-brimmed hat and trench coat has been appearing in bedrooms across the world for centuries — and scientists are uncovering disturbing patterns in who sees him and why. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://take.supersurvey.com/QGZCRXPVS IN THIS EPISODE: Thousands of people across dozens of countries have report...

A North Carolina mother vanished on a Christmas shopping trip in 2001 — and when she was finally found alive 24 years later, living just two and a half hours from home, the story got even stranger. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/missing-mom-found-alive-24-years WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkne...

Sean McDermott had a spider problem, a box of matches, and a loveseat he couldn't care less about preserving. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/spider-arson-mcdermott WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

A séance predicted England's most haunted house would burn — and on February 27th, 1939, it did. A man who claimed aliens abducted him spent the rest of his short life trying to explain what happened, and never quite got there. Also: Barbra Streisand cloned her dead dog twice. February 27th is that kind of day. | The Morning Weird Darkness *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* W...

Between 1081 and 1903, roughly 20 Japanese Buddhist monks voluntarily endured a grueling three-year process of starvation and isolation — sealing themselves alive inside stone tombs in pursuit of becoming Buddha in their own bodies. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://take.supersurvey.com/QGZCRXPVS IN THIS EPISODE: One of the greatest mo...

A Gold Coast couple had their Lexus stolen by masked home invaders and got slapped with a $6,000 fine because the thief driving their stolen car couldn't be bothered to buckle up. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/stolen-car-seatbelt-fine WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #Weird...

A small-time hustler gets more than he bargained for when a mysterious stranger who claims to be the devil offers him wealth, power, and everything he's ever wanted — all for a price he may not be willing to pay. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0593 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Transmutations, Inc” (May 24,...

Cannock Chase, a 26-square-mile stretch of Staffordshire woodland already infamous for child murders and ghostly apparitions, has logged more paranormal sightings in the first eight weeks of 2026 than in all of 2025 combined. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/cannock-chase-bigfoot-2026 WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyrig...

A tent sliced open from the inside, the man who witnessed the real exorcism that inspired The Exorcist, the silent film that invented horror, a 13-year-old reported missing who was already gone — and a $400 security deposit claimed on a van that had just been a bomb. It all happened on a February 26th sometime in the past. | The Morning Weird Darkness *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of Thi...