Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

In 1656, Croatian stonemason Jure Grando was buried alive after defying powerful monks, only to rise from his grave and terrorize his village for sixteen years—knocking on doors that meant death would soon follow, violating his widow night after night, and when villagers finally opened his coffin in 1672, they found him grinning with tears streaming down his face, immune to wooden stakes, screamin...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED:  https://weirddarkness.com/mothmanharbingerofdoom/ SYNOPSIS: Hosts Ghost and Ghoul Friend conduct an in-depth analysis of Darren Marlar's Weird Darkness episode "Mothman: Harbinger of Doom," exploring the concentrated year of terror that gripped Point Pleasant, West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The discussion examines over 100 credible witness accounts...

A dog vanishes chasing glowing red eyes in the darkness, couples are pursued at over 100 miles per hour by something with massive wings, and a terrified mother watches a gray humanoid creature shuffle onto her porch and peer through the windows—all in the same night that would mark the beginning of Point Pleasant's year of terror. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help pe...

When Tony reconnects with his old friend Sam after five years, he discovers Sam has transformed into "Kato"—a practitioner of dark arts who claims supernatural powers and harbors a disturbing obsession with Tony's wife. As strange events unfold and Tony's marriage begins to unravel, he must confront whether his old friend has truly become what he claims to be: the Son of Satan himself. | CBS Radio...

Alone in a dark, deserted theatre after closing time, a man expecting romance instead finds himself trapped in a deadly soundscape—where every whisper, echo, and recorded voice could be his last. | BBC Fear on 4, “Hearing Is Believing” | #RetroRadio EP0541 Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE CHAPTERS & TIME STA...

When Shawn and Lucy wake up in a nightmarish forest under a purple moon, they must navigate a world of screaming voices and dead trees while searching for a way back home — before they become permanent residents of Anthony Moran's unfinished horror story. This is a sequel to last year’s Halloween hit saga, “The Grove City Werewolf!” We recommend you listen to that story first: https://weirddarknes...

An astronomer who's spent his career searching for alien life explains why he's confident extraterrestrials exist throughout the universe—yet remains skeptical that any UFO sighting has ever been proof of their visit to Earth. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS EPISODE: If you ever attended grade school in...

When mortgage rates and home prices drive potential buyers to the breaking point, haunted houses start looking surprisingly appealing. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/buying-haunted-house-2025/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. #W...

A three-year-old disappeared near a swollen river during torrential rains in Honduras. When he came back the next day with a head wound, his family had a disturbing explanation for why his clothes were bone dry. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/honduran-boy-dry-clothes-el-duende Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.c...

A physicist sealed six volunteers in a room while thousands of BBC listeners attempted to telepathically read their minds. PRINT VERSION to READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/1927-telepathy-radio-experiment/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS EPISODE: In February 1927, a renowned physicist who helped...

It began as proof for the skeptic — and ended as evidence for the damned. Transcript, Pics, and Videos: https://weirddarkness.com/IfYouDontBelieve A skeptic named Vince installs home surveillance cameras and immediately catches terrifying oddities around his wife Deanna: something yanking her leg in bed, doors moving, sheets whipping, and shadows crossing doorways. As Deanna grows fearful—and stra...

A casual admission at an Army summit may have finally solved one of 2024's strangest mysteries… or maybe not. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/military-contractor-admits-nj-ufo-panic/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarknes...

THE BUGA SPHERE: Mysterious Metal Orb With Ancient Warning Message Divides Scientist A metallic sphere falls from Colombian skies bearing cryptic symbols that some claim warn of Earth’s destruction while skeptics call it humanity’s latest UFO hoax. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/buga-sphere-alien-warning/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depres...

When a scientist discovers a formula that lets him move faster than the eye can see, he and a corrupt detective race toward ultimate power—only to find that time itself becomes their executioner. | The Devil and Mr. O, “Fast One” (aka “Speed”) | #RetroRadio EP0540 Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE CHAPTERS &...

In 1848, a 13-pound iron rod exploded through Phineas Gage's skull, destroyed half his brain, and flew out the other side—but instead of dying, he sat up, spoke clearly, and walked nearly a mile to see a doctor... and that's just the beginning of the story! Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression:  https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS EPISODE: I’ve...

A sitting member of Congress has made finding aliens the cornerstone of her fourth term bid, raising millions on promises to expose what the government knows about UFOs. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/lauren-boebert-aliens-2025/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark....

A 74-year-old veteran orchestrated an elaborate funeral procession for himself while alive, forcing an entire village to confront uncomfortable truths about love and loss. Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/man-stages-own-funeral-bihar/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered tra...

When Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels declared the Loch Ness Monster a hoax to mock British intelligence and Mussolini claimed Italy bombed Nessie to death, the Allies fired back with the ultimate counter-propaganda: the lake monster survived and became a war hero. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS E...

Deep in Rome's ancient catacombs, among six million Christian dead, a terrified medium channels the spirit of martyred Saint Agnes—revealing the exact location of a hidden treasure buried centuries ago. Now a skeptical scientist has the chance to prove whether her visions are real, if he dares to dig where the ghost has directed. | Front Page Drama, “Ghost of the Catacombs” | #RetroRadio EP0539 Su...

A burning object crashes near a remote mining site, sparking an international investigation into what fell from the crowded skies above. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/space-trash-crash-australia/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness...

A NASA supercomputer has determined when our planet becomes a lifeless wasteland, and the specificity is somehow more disturbing than the news itself. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/earth-death-date Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkne...

A gender reveal party, hospital photos, and a newborn named Bonnie Leigh – everything seemed real until someone walked into the wrong room. Read or Share:  https://weirddarkness.com/fake-pregnancy-reborn-doll/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkn...

Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and wants nothing more than to be smart. When scientists offer him an experimental surgery that has already transformed a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius, Charlie sees his chance—but becoming intelligent means finally understanding the cruel truth about the world around him. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with de...

In the moonlit shadows of Haiti, a young bride falls victim to a jealous curse. Three months after her wedding, Helen Strong is dead... or is she? When her husband discovers her grave has been opened and the casket stolen, he follows a terrifying trail into the sugarcane fields—where he finds his wife among the living dead, working mindlessly alongside other zombies. | #RetroRadio EP0538 Support o...

Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they discover a terrifying secret: the “statues” in the exhibit aren’t statues at all — they’re actually dead people substituted in for the displays. | #RetroRadio EP0537 Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depres...