Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

She claimed she could predict your death to the exact day — and somehow, she was always correct. But how did she know? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkess.com/TillieKlimek READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8wt2ep FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Tillie Klimek had been convicted of only a single murder, but the authorities...

On Friday, September 11th, three weeks before anyone could buy it, I played the entire audiobook of my new book live on Patreon, start to finish, with the chat open the whole time.  Something I only do for my Patreon members! https://weirddarkness.com/patreon   Since 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say it's a serial killer netw...

Sorting through the papers of his late great-uncle, a Providence professor of ancient languages, Francis Thurston finds a clay bas-relief of a winged, tentacled thing, a file of newspaper clippings from around the world, and a set of notes connecting a young sculptor's fever dreams to a swamp cult in Louisiana and a word no human tongue was built to pronounce. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):...

Our alien visitors have changed their looks, their home planets, and their warnings every generation or so – always right in step with what we happened to believe at the time. Airships, ghost rockets, flying saucers, black triangles – for more than a century our UFOs and aliens have kept pace with our imaginations, and one longtime researcher wonders whether that's because our imaginations are whe...

A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see. 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 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Ti...

In a kingdom where the accused settle their own guilt by opening one of two identical doors, a starving tiger waiting behind one and a bride behind the other, a young courtier walks into the arena for the crime of loving the king's daughter. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-LadyOrTheTiger SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank R. Stockton (The Cen...

In the mid-1970s, David Bowie became convinced something was living in his swimming pool – and instead of a priest, he called a witch. A few years later and a few hundred miles north, a married couple set out to rid America of witches one body at a time. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/davidbowie READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddar...

A bank robber who chose permanent exile on Mars over fifteen years in a cell has spent a decade freezing in the mines, and a stolen spaceship is about to take him back to Earth. 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 CHAPTERS & TIME STA...

Halfway through a routine night shift, ER nurse Megan finds the monitor at her station reporting a steady heartbeat, even breathing, and normal blood pressure for bed seven, a bed that has been empty all night. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-phantomvitals SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Phantom Vitals” by Keith Conrad WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyrigh...

About three and a half hours after her last reported group text about the Lindsay Clancy trial, police were called to a Frankfort, Illinois home where prosecutors say a mother had hanged her 2-year-old son in the basement and then told officers he was the devil – and a Will County judge has now ordered her held while her lawyers argue she was psychotic at the time. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSIO...

A healthy, happy lawyer dozing on his porch after tennis is told he's dead, and the only man who can take his place has just decided he likes living and refuses to die. 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 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All...

A school bus driver in Circleville, Ohio was told in block letters to end an affair or her husband would die, and he did. Decades later a New Jersey couple paid $1.3 million for 657 Boulevard and never spent a night there, because a stranger signing himself The Watcher kept writing to ask about the "young blood" in the house. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/circlevi...

What if the imaginary friend you had as a child wasn’t imaginary at all — but something lingering, watching… and very real? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/imaginaryfriends READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckr4ry4 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most people had imaginary friends when they were younger. These "fri...

A restoration contractor who makes his living not asking questions takes a job scrubbing three and a half centuries of dried blood off the floors, walls, and fifty-foot ceiling of a boarded-up mansion, with one condition from the client – stay out of the rooms behind the barricades. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-restoration SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Restoration...

From popes and painters to witches and bluesmen, these are the damned souls who bartered with the Devil — and paid in madness, torment, and blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SoulsForSale READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3hvtnj FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Five stories of real people who supposedly made d...

A merchant seaman on his first voyage walks out of a candlelit shop in Libya with a solid gold coin he can't pawn, sell, gamble away, or throw into the sea, and then a shipmate is found dead with the coin missing. 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...

In the woods of Chatham County, North Carolina, a 40-foot circle of bare dirt known as The Devil’s Tramping Grounds has grown nothing for nearly three centuries, and the soil scientist who tested it came away without an explanation. HOUR ONE: A Weirdo family member relays a terrifying story of what is described as “El Nahual” in Mexico – a shapeshifter, that her dad barely escaped from! (El Nahual...

Victor told his brother he would be dead by ten minutes after nine that morning, because half a century earlier, in a jungle after Tet, something wearing the shape of a child had told him the date, the hour, and the name of the brother who would be sitting beside him. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-stygianchild SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Stygian Child” by Dar...

What if the reason we’ve never heard from alien civilizations is because we’re the ones destined to wipe them all out — without even realizing it? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/fermiparadox READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr44puy5 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Why don’t we ever see aliens? A physicist has com...

A magazine writer who has spent a week seducing an ironmaster's wife in a Pennsylvania mill town accepts her husband's offer of a midnight tour of the blast furnaces, the night before she's due to run away with him. 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://weirddarkne...

A young heiress starts getting stomach cramps after her kindly cousins move in with her, and the only one who warns her is the imaginary playmate she made up as a child. 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 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All...

The ashes were still warm just before six in the morning, and by the time they had driven home for a camera and come back half an hour later, the star, the log, the bones and every scuff mark in the ground were gone. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-hothfieldwitches SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Hothfield Witches” by Ken DaSilva, submitted to Weird Darkness WeirdD...

A century after 11-year-old Janette Lawrence was brutally murdered walking home from a babysitting job, her ghost is still seen wandering the streets of Madison — seeking justice that never came. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/KluxenWoods FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I narrate a chapter from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and...

The tracking data showed the flock flying in a formation that spelled out a word, Butcher, and two weeks later the fisherman who first reported them, Jonathan Butcher, was dead at his wife's hand. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-butcher SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Canada Geese of Lake Pleasant” by A.S. Lowe: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-canada-geese-of-lake-...

Three Micro Terrors listeners, ages seven to twelve, wrote this week's stories: a boy wakes up on the first morning of spring break to a kitchen that's a little too tidy and birds that chirp right on cue; a puddle of red slime shows up beside a dinner chair just before bedtime; and two brothers spot a strange light on long pole legs on the walk home from school… and then it starts moving. Look for...