Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Rosemary’s Baby was a hit novel that became an iconic film, only to bring woe to nearly everyone who made it. We’ll look at the film which many people believe to be cursed. We’ll look at some real-life cases of women who believed they were pregnant with a demon child! And how can you tell if YOU are pregnant with the child of Lucifer? IN THIS EPISODE: The movie, The Sixth Sense, has become a world...

Twenty years after a Civil War tragedy burned his mansion to the ground, a vengeful father's ghost still waits by the river bend for the girl who will replace the daughter he lost. | “The Phantom House” | #RetroRadio EP0580 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Phantom House” (April 14, 1977) ***WD 00:45:18.483 =...

An unsinkable ship disappears into the Arctic void, a serial killer blames his neighbor's possessed Labrador, laughter becomes a contagion, and England decides that being dead isn't a good enough excuse to avoid punishment. IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 30TH | The Morning Weird Darkness WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. NOTE: Some of this content may ha...

Sadly, the past is gone and cannot be changed – nor can we see into the future to prepare for what’s to come. We live in the here and now, and that is a constant. Or… is it? We’ll look at the mystery of time slips. What happens when ordinary people suddenly find themselves walking through streets, shops, and landscapes from decades past — and then snap back to the present with no explanation? IN T...

A Brisbane woman discovered a massive carpet python coiled on her chest in the middle of the night, handled it herself like a true Australian, and admitted she would have been more terrified if it had been a toad. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/python-chest/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #WeirdDarkNEWS #Python #SnakeInBed #Austr...

When an American couple rents a charming Scottish cottage to escape tragedy, they discover a chilling local legend: the marble statues of two murderous knights rise from their tombs every Halloween night and return to the home that was once theirs. | Man-Sized In Marble | #RetroRadio EP0579 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Myster...

RETRACTION/ERROR: I am wrong about the fireball sighting taking place last night/this morning... it actually took place January 24, but somehow I missed that and thought it only just happened. Sorry about that! On this day, a pope proved that "What Would Jesus Do?" apparently includes physical assault, Edgar Allan Poe earned nine dollars for immortality, and Karl Benz invented both the automobile...

The story of how early Mormon leaders allegedly believed six-foot-tall Quakers were living on the moon is stranger , funnier, and more complicated than the memes suggest — and it involves a newspaper  hoax , bat-men, a German professor who saw cities on the lunar surface, and a game of telephone spanning four decades. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Six Foot Quak...

A family Thanksgiving gathering turned deadly when investigators say a North Carolina mother laced a bottle of wine with a chemical that slowly converts to cyanide  inside the human body — and the investigation has now reopened an 18-year-old  cold case . READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/mom-poisons-daughters-thanksgiving-wine WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weir...

A former financial security analyst who spent a decade at the Bank of England has warned Governor Andrew Bailey to prepare for total financial instability within hours of any official confirmation of non-human intelligence . #WeirdDarkNews READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/alien-disclosure-market-crash WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness...

From a royal dance floor that turned into a fire trap to a man fined for driving 8 miles an hour, history really woke up confused on this day. | IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 28 | The Morning Weird Darkness WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited,...

When a Connecticut farm couple nurses an injured extraterrestrial visitor back to health, they have no idea they're caught between a grateful guest from the stars and a government that wants to take him by force. | “The Meteorite” #RetroRadio EP0578 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Meteorite” (April 11, 1977...

A deep-sea oil executive discovers that delegating a catastrophic emergency to subordinates works best when someone actually answers the intercom. IN THIS EPISODE: "The Engineer" by Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (Infinity Science Fiction, February 1956) MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com =====Originally aired: January 27, 2026 EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://we...

When a French priest accused a shepherd of witchcraft and beat him with a stick, the shepherd sued for defamation—forcing a courtroom full of witnesses to testify about the song-requesting poltergeist that started the whole mess. IN THIS EPISODE: A witch ends up in court – not as the defendant, but as the plaintiff! (The Litigating Witch Case) *** As you may have heard, nothing sells like sex and...

When an unusually quiet night in the ER takes a terrifying turn, nurse Ally and her colleagues find themselves treating patients with injuries—and clothing—straight out of history, but as the chaos mounts, one chilling question remains: where did they come from? IN THIS EPISODE: "Out of Time” by Keith Conrad MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com =====Originally aired: January 2...

When a plumber's death gives us bathroom slang and a pop star's pomade turns him into a human torch, you know it's going to be a weird morning. | IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 26 | The Morning Weird Darkness WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited,...

A suburban husband who never wanted to attend a séance discovers he's the rarest kind of medium — and a dead Napoleonic soldier discovers he's the perfect host. | #RetroRadio EP0577 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Sensitive” (April 05, 1977) ***WD 00:45:09.178 = Dark Venture, “Miser” (December 09, 1946) 01:...

In 1922, a French family was overjoyed when their missing toddler was found 250 miles away — until a headless body wearing her clothes was discovered near their farm. Are changelings and doppelgangers real? You might choose tobelieve so after hearing about the strange disappearance of Pauline Picard.  IN THIS EPISODE: Are changelings and doppelgangers real? You might choose to believe so after hea...

Nearly thirty years after the alleged UFO crash in Varginha, Brazil, witnesses just gathered at the National Press Club to share testimony about creatures, military cover-ups, and a soldier's mysterious death — and for the first time, a neurosurgeon described standing four minutes with a captured being. #WeirdDarkNEWS READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/varginha-ufo-crash-brazil/ WeirdDarknes...

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 26: This morning: television's first star had a wooden face, Cleveland's most famous lawman met his match in a phantom with a scalpel, and Winston Churchill found a very creative loophole during Prohibition. | The Morning Weird Darkness WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with...

A mayor vows to hunt down a murderer and end a deadly plague — never suspecting the trail of clues will lead straight back to himself. | “So Shall Ye Reap” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0576 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “So Shall Ye Reap” (April 04, 1977) ***WD 00:44:58.382 = Strange Wills, “...

From skeletal faces in TV static to well-dressed spirits standing in hallways, these late-night witnesses share the terrifying things they saw while the rest of the house slept. | #WDRadio | WEEKEND OF JANUARY 25, 2026 ========== HOUR ONE: Investigators noted the hair on the alleged victim's arms was singed, and the skin burned. The grass where he claimed to have had the encounter was also scorche...

A priest walking home alone heard an army approaching and hid behind the trees. When he looked out, he saw women bouncing on saddles of red-hot nails and dead knights riding in black fire. IN THIS EPISODE: On January 1st, 1091, an army of the dead came to Normandy. For one priest, it would be a night that he would never forget. (The Medieval Walking Dead) *** Despite what we are led to believe fro...

A brilliant computer engineer believed God commanded him to build an operating system — and his tragic story forces us to confront how we treat the broken among us. SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-terrydavis Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2025. #WeirdDarkness #TempleOS #TerryDavis #MentalHealth #ChristianPodcast #TrueStory #Schizophrenia #Fa...

When a man saw something lurking in New Orleans City Park in 2010, he had no idea the natives who lived there centuries ago had described the exact same creature. IN THIS EPISODE: The creature had dark or black skin covered in masses of “skin or fins” that looked like algae growing all over its body.  It seemed to have gills or matted hair that looked like gills on its face and head; two yellow ey...