Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

On this date, a Persian king lost his throne and his eyesight courtesy of his in-laws, a secret alliance changed the course of a revolution, a famous impostor fooled the world for decades, and a princess found out she was queen while sitting in a tree. | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 6TH | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. EPISODE...

IN THIS EPISODE: A painter accepts an invitation to a remote cottage beside an ancient forest — but the deeper he ventures into the woods, the more he realizes something within them has been waiting for him. It’s a classic tale from Algernon Blackwood entitled “Ancient Lights”. *** After a 17th-century landowner testifies against a suspected witch, generations of his family begin dying in the same...

A woman in Michigan dropped off a bag of donations at Goodwill, and nestled inside a shirt — right there between the old blouses and the coffee mugs — was an actual human skull, and somehow the weirdest part is that Goodwill and the medical examiner can't agree on whether it's real. Officer T. Gilbreath of the Chelsea Police Department is handling the case. Anyone with information can call 734-475...

A Clifton man allegedly fled police in a Kia Rio, then called them to gloat about it, which went about as well as you'd expect. PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/nj-man-brags-to-cops-gets-arrested WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS, #DumbCriminals, #CrimeFails, #TrueCrime, #PoliceChase, #NewJersey, #CrimeNews, #StupidCri...

A hilltop crucifixion of children, the biggest gold nugget ever yanked out of the ground, unexpected and deadly tornadoes in February, and a round of golf for space cases. | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 5TH | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD EPISODE PAGE: https://WeirdDarkness.com/MWD20260205 (includes video of ABC’s “Turn On” from 1969) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird D...

When Death himself arrives at a dying millionaire's bedside, the two strike an unthinkable bargain — they swap places. | “Come Away, Death” | #RetroRadio EP0583 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Come Away Death” (April 21, 1977) ***WD 00:46:28.211 = Beyond Midnight, “Death Wish” (September 20, 1968) ***WD 01:12:4...

A 19-year-old hitchhiker had just 12 hours to live when she escaped through a bathroom window — her captor, a NASA engineer with top-secret Pentagon clearance, had already drained nearly half her blood. IN THIS EPISODE: John Brennan Crutchley was no ordinary rapist and murderer. He added vampirism into his modus operandi. (The True Story of the Vampire Rapist) *** The spooklight phenomenon caused...

A Shanghai woman's battle against a "demon-revealing" traffic mirror led to a rash of car accidents, police intervention, and mirrors sealed in cement. READ, PRINT, SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/fengshui-traffic-mirror/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #WeirdDarkNEWS #FengShui #Shanghai #China #DemonRevealingMirror #ChineseFolklore #Chine...

A Missouri  man allegedly threatened to kill someone because he was denied access to a soft drink, proving that brand loyalty can be taken too far. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/pepsi-murder-threat WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #WeirdDarkNEWS #TrueCrime #BizarreCrime #StrangeNews #MissouriCrime #Pepsi #MurderThreat #StalkingArr...

From mass ritual suicide to mass hysteria, unanimous elections to ancient manuscripts that proved the Bible's accuracy, February 4th has a body count — and a weirdness count — that spans centuries and continents. | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools...

A British filmmaker says a Trump insider leaked plans for a historic UFO disclosure speech timed to the Roswell anniversary — but the claim has more red flags than evidence. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/trump-ufo-july WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #WeirdDarkNEWS #UFO #UFOs #UAP #Aliens #Disclosure #Trump #Roswell #UFOdisclosur...

Some believe it was a lone gun experiment. Others believe the whole incident was something from the paranormal. And still others say it was a case of mass hysteria. Who or what exactly was the Mad Gasser of Mattoon? IN THIS EPISODE: In the fall of 1944, the quiet town of Mattoon, Illinois, was gripped by fear as an enigmatic figure known as the 'Mad Gasser' unleashed mysterious gas attacks, leavin...

A 24-year-old in Toulouse, France  needed emergency surgery after inserting a live  World War I  artillery shell into his rectum, which honestly raises more questions than it answers. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/buttbomb WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS, #WWI, #BombSquad, #HospitalEvacuation, #StrangeNews, #Weird...

From a vengeful saint's ghost striking down a Viking conqueror to an occult-obsessed music producer who foresaw death at a séance and then walked straight into his own dark prophecy, February 3rd is one of history's most unsettling dates. | IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, FEBRUARY 03 | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. NOTE: Some o...

Peter Stumpp was arrested accused of being an "insatiable bloodsucker” - which, in 1589, meant he was being accused of being a werewolf. Even stranger… Peter readily admitted to being one. IN THIS EPISODE: For years the doctors couldn’t figure out why Wally was coughing so much, why his skin cracked and bled, turning the bedsheets red. They prescribed ointments, antibiotics, decongestants, pain ki...

A poor family in a remote Indian village claims a wandering sadhu cursed their house after being denied bread, and now fires erupt without warning or explanation in a home with no electricity. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/IndiaFirePoltergeist WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS, #MysteryFires, #SadhuCurse, #FirePolte...

A year after her controlling husband's death, a terrified widow watches priceless jewels appear one by one on her dressing table — gifts, she believes, from beyond the grave. | House of Mystery, “Gift From The Dead” | #RetroRadio EP0582 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Book of Abaca” (April 19, 1977) ***WD 0...

Some dates in history collect oddities the way a junk drawer collects batteries and old keys — you open it up and wonder how all of this ended up in the same place. FEBRUARY 2ND is one of those. We've got soldiers looking up at an impossible sky, archaeologists crawling into a forgotten tomb full of mummies, a castaway whose stubbornness saved his life, a secret society that terrorized an island f...

In a future where war has been replaced by government-sanctioned murder, a veteran hunter is assigned his seventh victim — a young woman sitting in the open with no spotters, no gun, and no will to fight back. As he gets to know her, he finds himself falling for the one person he's supposed to kill. | The Seventh Victim | #RetroRadio EP0581 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00...

#WDRadio WEEK OF FEBRUARY 01, 2026 ========== HOUR ONE: It all started one night in June 2018. The screams coming from underneath the house. It was so intense, the homeowners simply abandoned the property. I’ll even share audio of the screams so you can decide for yourself if it’s real. (Screams From The Basement) *** Weirdo family member Elis Helmersson shares a story passed down the generations...

Mark thought he was just another overworked TV writer burning the midnight oil, but when his dead colleague sends him an email with a lost episode eerily mirroring his own life, he realizes some scripts aren’t meant to be written—or watched. IN THIS EPISODE: “The Lost Episode” by Keith Conrad MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com =====Originally aired: February 01, 2026 EPISODE...

Double-crossed, beaten bloody, and staring down a title fight he can’t win, Larry Filmore’s last night on Dornel IV might be his last night anywhere. Might as well start a bar brawl. IN THIS EPISODE: “Slaughter On Dornel IV” by Ivar Jorgensen – originally published by ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ April, 1957 MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com =====Originally...

A former intelligence officer suggests biblical angels were extraterrestrials, but what if the equation is backwards — and the "aliens" people encounter today are actually the fallen angels Scripture has warned us about for millennia? CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Wrong Question 00:02:02.118 = Show Open 00:04:06.744 = Chariots Of The Gods And What Ezekiel S...

A man who once loved animals more than anything confesses from death row how a single act of drunken cruelty against his beloved black cat set him on an inescapable path toward madness, murder, and supernatural vengeance. IN THIS EPISODE: Would you stay at your grandparents’ house if their entire neighborhood was haunted? (“Grandpa and Grandma’s House”) *** When it comes to hardened criminals in t...

Three kids write three nightmare stories for us! A doll with razor-sharp teeth wants to play, a creature called The Chootman stalks a cabin sleepover, and somewhere in an abandoned New York subway, a government experiment waits for its next victim! “CREEPY DOLLS” Written by Phoebe Costa, age 12 “THE CHOOTMAN” Written by Wyatt Borden, age 8 “GMO” Written by Aster, age 10 Find more family-friendly f...