Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Two months after walking away from the Tombstone feud a free man, Johnny Ringo was found dead against a tree with a Colt in his hand. He had survived the Hoodoo War, jail breaks, and a showdown with Doc Holliday — but no one can agree on what finally killed him. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/JohnnyRingo READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https:/...

Twenty years after she was locked away for taking a hatchet to her own sister, fragile Ann Pettigrew comes home obsessed with one desire — and on a storm-lit night, with candles burning and a circle drawn on the floor, she works a forbidden rite to summon back the only man she ever loved, no matter what comes walking up the veranda steps to answer. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,...

A scheming wife and her spineless lover pull off the perfect murder of her wealthy husband — until the dead man starts turning up in the snow, at the bar, waiting in the shadows, and refuses to stay 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.u...

In 1977, a calm, otherworldly voice broke into the British evening news across five transmitters at once, identified itself as an alien envoy, and warned humanity to abandon nuclear weapons before time ran out. Was it a hoax, or first contact? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AlienVoicesOnTVAndRadio READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirdd...

Security cameras filmed a live goat led into a black-and-red room in a Hackney office block — the working shrine of an Afro-Brazilian religion that feeds its spirits in blood. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/hackney-goat-shrine Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free...

A girl named Gabriela walked into a church in Joinville, Brazil, claiming she had fled an abusive home. Fourteen months later a family was preparing to adopt her until the truth was revealed about who Gabriela really was. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/gabriela-joinville Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radi...

Some monsters don't lurk in the dark — they wear a familiar face and sit down at your table. | June 07, 2026 #WDRadio ========== HOUR ONE: In the 1960s, Brian Leathley-Andrew investigated and reported on numerous cases of strange objects in the sky, trying to get to the truth of what people were seeing. But when sinister events began happening to him, he knew he had to walk away from his career in...

An Alabama prosecutor called the murder of a mother and her two children one of the most demonic crimes he had ever seen, and for fifty years other killers have gone a step further and told police a demon made them do it. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-devilmademedoit/ READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckk9bhj...

For over a century, Pennsylvania has been a hotspot for UFO encounters that baffle experts and leave witnesses questioning reality. From glowing discs in remote lakes to crafts that defy physics, the Keystone State’s skies are filled with the mysterious, paranormal, and extraterrestrial. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):  https://weirddarkness.com/PennsylvaniaUFOs READ or DOWNLOAD the full tra...

Two wealthy couples settle in for a lavish Christmas dinner at a lovingly restored country cottage, until the lights die, the wine turns to blood, and the house itself seals them inside with something that remembers what once happened within its walls. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free lis...

A betrothal feast turns to terror when the man who comes courting Lady Margaret may be the same Earl of Dunbar who was stabbed to death on the road to claim her — and a Highland prophecy that the last of her line would be the bride of death seems to be coming true. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a lis...

A regular nineteen-year-old with no criminal record stabbed his landlord to death with a pocketknife, then later claimed the demon he'd taunted into possessing him — instead of his fiancée's eleven-year-old brother — had crawled out of a well and into his body to commit the murder. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/arnejohnson READ or DOWNLOAD the...

A missing-child call about a six-year-old girl led Aberdeen detectives to her four-year-old brother, dead and buried in a tote beneath the house for nearly a year. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/jacob-bevins 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 her...

Nineteen years as the Archdiocese of Washington's exorcist ended within a week of Monsignor Stephen Rossetti posting a video that called most UFO sightings demonic. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/exorcist-ufos 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 h...

A 46-year-old Myrtle Beach detective drew his department-issued handgun on a patrolman over the smell of microwaved fish, and a felony charge and the end of his career followed within days. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/fish-felon-debiase Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a...

Pennsylvania authorities say a 29-year-old volunteer firefighter set three fires in roughly thirty hours, then responded to two of them alongside the company he served. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/justin-sholly 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 ap...

A 71-year-old Baltimore traffic investigator stopped to tell a driver another car was waiting for her parking spot, and the favor cost him his life six weeks later. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/parking-spot-killing 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...

A young geologist drilling four miles into a Rocky Mountain ridge breaks through into a sealed chamber and finds something impossible: a fully furnished modern house, twelve billion years old, holding a library that has already written the history of a world exactly like ours — including the volume that tells how it ends. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music...

For more than a year, a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes and folded wings terrorized Point Pleasant, West Virginia—and just weeks after the sightings stopped, the Silver Bridge collapsed and killed 46 people, leaving the town to wonder whether the Mothman had been a monster, a warning, or something far worse. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness....

An Arkansas father who shot the man accused of abusing his 13-year-old daughter walked free after a sheriff's deputy lost the one piece of footage that might have shown what happened on that highway. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/aaron-spencer-dismissed Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podc...

A man called 911 in Tarzana to report he had just killed someone, and the person bleeding in the front yard turned out to be a character actor whose face millions had seen in Top Gun: Maverick and Jumanji. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/james-handy-death Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podc...

A forest lookout sits alone in a glass tower at 2AM and spots flames crowning two distant pines — a fire only he can see. By dawn there's no smoke, no ash, no scorched earth... and no fire at all. From phantom flames that burn and vanish to the burned Bigfoot pulled from a Nevada blaze and the UFOs caught streaking through wildfire smoke, tonight we wander into the strange and unsettling things th...

“Hands of Death”: A wheelchair-bound collector of murder relics decides the only things missing from his macabre collection are a murderer and a victim — so he engineers his own killer brother's downfall to acquire both. But the dead don't always stay in their boxes, and a pair of severed hands may yet keep a promise of vengeance. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Ama...

Researchers in Italy spent three months baking sourdough from yeast they pulled out of the meltwater inside a 5,300-year-old murder victim. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/otzibread 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://pod.link/1078714...

“Brothers of the Angle”: A grieving widow believes a stranger can carry messages from her dead husband — messages only the couple could have known. But in a story about baiting hooks and landing fortunes, the real question is who's fishing, and who's the catch. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of...