Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Investigators now believe the two February ransom notes sent to the Guthrie family came from the person who took Nancy — and one of them said she was already dead. ***  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CAN CONTACT THE FBI AT 1-800-CALL-FBI, OR THE PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AT 520-351-4900. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260627 Look for this podcast on Apple Pod...

Pulled out of Iran after his Strike Eagle went down, an American fighter pilot told intelligence officers he had watched a cluster of drones hover and move together as one body, like a jellyfish, in the seconds before he ejected. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/f15-jellyfish Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn R...

Dublin, Ohio spent $67,548 on a five-foot, four-hundred-pound robot that patrolled a parking garage for nearly ten months and never made an arrest, wrote a ticket, or flagged a single incident. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/dubbot READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pando...

The circus came overnight, but when it left, three boys were dead—and I was no longer human. *** There are contestants from TV’s reality show “Alone” whom you’ve never seen—because they never made it back. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CircusCameToTown CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:29.387 = When The Circus Came...

A grieving farmer's seance vow and a healer's vision of buried iron built the world's only school for talking to the dead — and left the town of Whitewater steeped in legends of witches, haunted cemeteries, and things that crawl out of the lake. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedWhitewater READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkn...

Two downed pilots wash up on a deserted Pacific island and discover that the atomic bomb tests there have bred something monstrous in the lagoon — and it's coming ashore. | Mysterious Traveler: “Strange New World” 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...

His fiancée disappears without a trace the night they were supposed to set their wedding date, and the deeper Peter digs, the closer he gets to a secret the government would rather keep buried. 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...

A mysterious gentleman who never aged, never ate, and never seemed to die charmed the high society of two centuries — until police found his wine bottles filled with blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stgermain READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WD20260625-StGermain.txt FEATURED STORIES IN T...

A woman screamed inside a Serra apartment for the better part of an hour, and the man with her told police he beat her to drive out the demons he believed had taken hold. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/marceli-gottardo Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listeni...

Stephen Chavez got his eighteen-year-old daughter drunk and had sex with her two days after she moved across the country to live with him; she died by suicide five months later, and a Ventura County judge gave him one year in jail. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/makayla-settles Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Tune...

Police reached a home in Meerstad at 2:45 in the morning and found a married couple stabbed to death, the family dog wounded, and the couple's 15-year-old daughter in custody a short distance away. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/meerstad-murders Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps....

A Gold Coast illusionist drove into the rainforest before dawn, switched off his phone, and was found ten days later in the bushland he loved. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/magician-hidden-found 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://p...

The spirit had vowed to put John Bell in his grave, and on a December morning in 1820 a coma, a smoky vial of black poison, and a dead barn cat proved she meant every word. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/bellwitchfinallaugh READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yfpsnbfw FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Did a malevolent...

David and Jane Francis come home from a European holiday to find the wealthy widow who'd sublet their country house dead of fright — and the rooms left behind tell of melted mirrors, scorched floors, and a circle burned into the wood that no living tenant should have known how to draw. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other po...

Step right up, Weirdos! Got a strange idea rattling around in your skull — a haunting nobody believes, a cryptid your uncle swears he saw, some true-crime case that still keeps you up at night? Jukebox Weirdo turns it into a real, honest-to-goodness song. You bring the weird, you pick the band off the Weird Darkness Records roster, and I write it and produce it — with your name on the idea. And if...

Two young Parisians dreaming of artistic greatness stumble upon a squalid countryside farm, where one becomes fatally transfixed by a strange, silent girl the family keeps like livestock — and the price of his masterpiece may be more than either of them can imagine. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a li...

A Phoenix musician snapped two clear photos of a flying saucer in 1947 — then government agents with hidden names showed up, took his negatives, and made the evidence vanish into federal archives forever. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RhodesMIB READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8z656h FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPI...

A pickup driver who told troopers he had just seen the anti-Christ ran past every first responder on a closed stretch of I-75 and yanked open the pilot's door of the helicopter sent to airlift the two people he had badly injured. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/antichrist-helicopter-heist Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pan...

Jamie Varley told police his adopted son drowned in the bath, but the baby's hair was dry, his nappy was still on, and a post-mortem found forty injuries. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/babypreston 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:/...

A 21-year-old Plymouth State student was shot in the head inside her own family's home, and the person charged with pulling the trigger is her teenage brother. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/leah-anderson 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:...

Three men walked into Kyle Bevan's cell at one of England's most secure prisons, stabbed him more than 25 times, tucked his body into bed to look asleep, and walked out four minutes and 39 seconds later. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/three-inmates-wakefield Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other...

A ransom note sent five days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home opened with an apology for her death — and offered to return her body for a price. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/Guthrie20260622 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free liste...

Across four decades on Heswall's Dawstone Road, drivers and a motorcyclist reported a seven-foot horned figure that seized their vehicles and threw them into the sandstone wall. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DawstoneDemon READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2en5ubww FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Dawstone Road is...

A young woman hired to care for an invalid widow in a crumbling Hudson River mansion soon learns why her brooding employer forbids every mirror in the house—and why the dogs are always watching. 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 CHAPTE...

A 36-year-old bartender came home from her overnight shift in Brooklyn, and within hours her teenage son and her sister found her dead on the floor with her neck cut. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/santos-flores 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...