Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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Long before Dickens penned A Christmas Carol, our ancestors gathered around midwinter fires to tell tales of spirits and monsters lurking in the darkness. Tonight, we explore why Christmas and ghost stories have been intertwined for thousands of years — then share true accounts that prove the tradition is very much alive. #HolidayHorrors IN THIS EPISODE: Earlier this month I shared some true repor...

For four years, an unseen entity tormented the Bell family of Tennessee — pulling hair, slapping faces, filling the house with phantom voices — until Christmas 1820, when it finally got what it wanted: John Bell dead and his daughter's life in ruins. #12NightmaresOfXmas  Episode 3 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series! IN THIS EPISODE: “Merry Christmas From The Bell Witch”, “The Mur...

For forty-one years, the halls of Martingdale echoed with unexplained footsteps and banging doors every Christmas Eve — until the night we stayed to watch, and the dead finally showed us what happened. Hello, children – it’s Santa! I ho ho ho hope you like my podcast!  If you like the stories I’m telling in my podcast, please tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can...

Get the print version of the novel:  https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil Fourteen doors have been opened. Fourteen horrors have been unleashed upon Marshport. And now, for the first time, the calendar has changed its pattern. Behind door fourteen, Matthew Klein found something he hadn't encountered before — a second door. Locked. Immovable. And behind it, the unmistakable drone of flies, buzzin...

A mysterious man collapses on the steps of a church with no identification and no explanation — but when patients near him start making impossible recoveries, a nurse discovers his gift comes with a devastating price. IN THIS EPISODE: “The Healing Touch” by Keith Conrad Fully Produced Version: https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/01/28/tales-from-the-blue-line-the-healing-touch/  MORE Stories Li...

Edward Blair only wanted a quick, quirky feature story from a secluded Japanese shrine—but what he found was a girl who defied explanation, a priest with powers beyond science, and a warning about the dangerous cost of controlling the universe. “The Shrine” by Walt Sheldon – originally published in Fantastic Universe, December 1956 MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com Fully Pr...

#WDRadio WEEK OF DEC 14, 2025 | From an ancient Greek cave where Hercules supposedly descended into the underworld, to a 13th-century castle built to seal a bottomless pit full of demons, these locations around the world are believed by many to be actual gateways to Hell. HOUR ONE: 

Of course a lot of people likely don’t believe in heaven or hell and many will dismiss such things as mythical tale...

Two centuries ago, a desperate young servant girl buried a piece of amber in the frozen Nova Scotia earth and summoned something with rows of gleaming teeth and an ungodly stench. Every Christmas Eve since, it returns to collect its payment — in flesh. STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES… “Mary Culhane and the Dead Man”: http://bit.ly/2PbAYPa “The Stench of Christmas” by Lea Story: https://amzn.to/348...

It was Christmastime — a season of peace, light, and goodwill — which made the slow unraveling of their minds all the more disturbing. IN THIS EPISODE: Despite being in the middle of the first World War, on Christmas Day, 1914 British and German soldiers sang carols together, exchanged gifts with the enemy combatants, and supposedly even played a soccer game against each other in order to celebrat...

Episode 2 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series! In this episode: “The USS Constellation”, “Lord Combermere Returns”, “The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall”, “The Ghost of Anne Boleyn”, “The Eilean Mor Lighthouse”, “The Mystery of the Mary Celeste”, “The Palatine Light” SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS… All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side...

Matthew Klein now knows the truth. The advent calendar was not some random antique that found its way to his doorstep by chance. It was built with purpose. Built with intent. Constructed from the charred remains of his childhood home — and from the cursed spirit board that destroyed his family thirty years ago. Wilbur Ward, the neighbor who ran toward the flames that Christmas Eve, saw something i...

The runaway has returned. After thirty years of silence, thirty years of a carefully constructed life built on the ashes of his real identity, Matthew Klein stands once again on Damson Way. But the boy who fled Bayville on Christmas Eve, 1995 no longer exists. His house is gone — nothing but a snow-covered void between two aging homes. His family is gone — consumed by flames that he alone escaped....

Episode 1 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series! In this episode: "The Flash Flood", "The Haunting of Hundley House", "The Messenger of Donner Pass", "House of Plenty" SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS… All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults: https://amzn.to/3uT2vMA Music by Midnight Syndicate: https://...

Santa Claus is supposed to bring joy and gifts — but these killers used the beloved red suit to bring terror and death. From Christmas party massacres to serial killers hiding behind the jolly disguise, these are the true crimes that prove not every Santa belongs on the nice list. IN THIS EPISODE: A Christmas party turns tragic when a young bride suggests a game of hide-and-seek… then disappears f...

He hated the Whos and their Christmas cheer, so he devised a plan to make the holiday disappear — but what the Grinch discovered that night would change his shriveled heart forever. PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK in your social media so others can enjoy the episode! https://weirddarkness.com/grinch/ Requested by one of my Darkness Syndicate members (Patreon)! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =...

A celebrity psychic threatens legal action against a rival medium for using "Psychic Sal" — and the response from her target might be the greatest comeback in the history of the paranormal profession. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/psychic-sal-trademark-battle WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #Psychic #Paranormal #SallyMorgan #Psyc...

A veteran truck driver with nearly 50 years on the road sees something in a Texas field that defies everything he thought he knew about the natural world. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/texas-highway-bigfoot WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #Bigfoot #Sasquatch #BigfootSighting #Cryptid #TexasBigfoot #Cryptozoology #Paranormal #Crea...

“THE SNOWMAN” by Scott Donnelly In a quiet suburban neighborhood, Danny wakes to a snowy surprise, hoping for a day off school to play in the winter wonderland. But a rivalry brews between his family and the seemingly perfect Barlows across the street. A failed attempt at building a snowman leaves Danny's family feeling defeated, until a chilling twist turns a harmless snowman into something paran...

The Lawson Family Christmas Massacre: On Christmas morning 1929, a North Carolina farmer sent his teenage son on an errand to town — then systematically murdered his wife and six children before turning the gun on himself.  CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = A Walk Through The Snow00:05:16.290 = Show Open 00:06:30.833 = The Making of Charlie Lawson 00:18:53.776 = **...

The sequence has been revealed. YES. L. M. 2. 3. What Matthew and his brother Steven unleashed with a spirit board thirty years ago left its fingerprints on the calendar's tenth door — a message hidden in plain sight, waiting for him to finally understand. Now the calendar has made its intentions unmistakable. A small cloth flag bearing the colors of Bayville, New York emerged from door eleven. Ma...

In the deadliest place on Earth, where radiation can kill you in minutes, scientists found something growing on the walls — and it wasn't dying… it was thriving. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/chernobyl-fungus-eats-radiation/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #Chernobyl #Nuclear #Radiation #Science #Fungus #NASA #Space #Mystery #Str...

A Russian tech company claims it can upload flight commands directly into a bird's brain — and convince the pigeon it was its own idea. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/russia-mind-controlled-pigeons WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness #MindControl #Biodrones #BrainChips #Russia #Surveillance #Neurotechnology #SpyTech #Pigeons #ScienceN...

The advent calendar arrived nine days ago. No sender. No explanation. Just twenty-four numbered doors and a carved face with empty eyes that seemed to know exactly who Matthew Klein used to be. Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard. Three people are dead. A teenage boy has been twisted into a puppet for murder. A phantom child wrapped in ash and embers stalks the shadows, demanding obedienc...

Hollywood says Krampus is an ancient Christmas demon with roots in pagan mythology — but there's no evidence any of that is true. The real story of how this monster came to be is stranger than any legend. #HolidayHorrors IN THIS EPISODE: We’re all familiar with the poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas” – better known as, “Twas The Night Before Christmas”. But while we know the poem, we can’t be quite a...