Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb should never have been friends, they were too different from on another. But they did have one thing in common – they both agreed to create the perfect murder – and a mundane pair of eyeglasses would be their undoing.  EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/BobbyFranks READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:...

Scientists ground a tooth from a 2,000-year-old elongated skull into powder to settle whether the Paracas Coneheads were human, and the genetic machines still came up short. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/paracas-skulls Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listen...

One engineer built an AI laser to roast every mosquito in his house, Google wants federal permission to release 32 million more, and the agency built to stop pests can't clear bed bugs out of its own offices. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BugWars Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast app...

Two women camping along a public trail on the Fourth of July woke near midnight to a man cutting through their tent, and for nearly two years no one knew who he was. The FBI believes there may be more victims. Investigators have asked anyone who thinks they were harmed by McLenithan, or who knows anything about other possible crimes involving him, to contact the bureau at (503) 224-4181 or to subm...

A double boom rattled homes across New England on a Saturday afternoon, and the cause turned out to be a five-foot meteor breaking apart miles above the coast before its remains splashed into Cape Cod Bay. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/CapeCodMeteor Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast...

A young Long Island couple discovers that the knife-wielding ghost stalking their cellar and terrorizing their four-year-old son may not be the threat they assumed. 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 Time...

Back in 1818, the same year *Frankenstein* hit the shelves, a Scottish professor named Andrew Ure decided to see if electricity could actually bring a dead body back to life—so he hooked up a freshly executed murderer to a current and watched in fascination as the corpse twitched, "breathed," and even made terrifying expressions that sent witnesses into a panic. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources...

In Nazi-occupied France, German officers repeatedly try to execute a young French woman by hanging — but each time, she returns alive. The woman becomes less a normal person than an allegorical embodiment of France/liberty/resistance: the Nazis can murder bodies, but they cannot kill the spirit they are fighting. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora...

A stressed-out new office worker's encounters with increasingly massive spiders takes a deeply disturbing turn when the creatures start following him home. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SpidersUnderYourSkin FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If creatures with eight legs wig you out, the hairs of your body are going to stand straight up when I tell the story from Jo...

The bones Spanish conquistadors pulled from the Ecuadorian earth were far too large to belong to any man they had ever seen, and the strange trail those giants leave behind runs straight back to the fallen Watchers of Genesis and the towering Nephilim they fathered. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AncientGiants READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: h...

May 31, 2026: They say the fires at Caledonia Mills started on their own, but anyone who spent a night there knew something far more sinister was at work. ========== HOUR ONE: “The Witching Hour of 3AM” *** You don’t have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don’t need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military...

In 1956, Italy's most opulent ocean liner went down off Nantucket after a head-on collision in the fog, taking 46 lives and earning a place among the worst maritime disasters in history. But the dying didn't stop there — in the seven decades since, the wreck dubbed the "Mt. Everest of Wreck Diving" has claimed roughly 18 more souls, swallowing the divers drawn to its depths and feeding whispers th...

Two American relic hunters ignore every warning and dig their way into a flooded Yucatán cavern the locals swear belongs to the dead — who, as it turns out, keep very careful inventory. 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 &...

A friendship gift from across the Iron Curtain rode into orbit with five American astronauts, and the only thing that came back was the teddy bear. 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 Times Approximate)… 0...

On a remote ridge in Washington sits a nine-foot pit that has no measurable bottom, swallows everything thrown into it without ever filling, plays decades-old music through any radio brought near it, and—according to those who've used it to dispose of their dead—occasionally gives the dead back, alive and walking out of the forest still wearing the collars they were buried in. (LAST STORY IN THE E...

A killer kitten. A coffin at the door. A werewolf in the closet. Three horror stories — all written by kids! 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/1655277373 Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.c...

Ronald Gene Simmons turned Christmas week into a nightmare, methodically murdering 16 people—including his own family—before calmly surrendering to the police. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/MockingbirdHill FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The story of serial killer Ronald G. Simmons from the audiobook, “Murderous Minds, Vol2” by Ryan Becker. (...

Manhattan was bought from the Indians for twenty-four dollars, and now something in the widow Soames's mansion has come back to renegotiate the deal. 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 Times Approximate)…...

A foot and a hand poking from the bushes of an English lane sent police into a thirty-one-hour murder investigation, complete with forensic teams and a sealed-off road — until the pathologist confirmed the body was not what it appeared to be, and it’s a mistake law enforcement keeps making. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/six-doll-corpse-mixups Look for this podcast on...

A fight over folding chairs at a Toledo kindergarten graduation sent one mother to the hospital and another parent to jail, and not a single five-year-old got to walk across the stage. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/KindergartenBrawl Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list...

When a dry-goods robbery in a river town leaves one clerk shot dead and two thieves drowned, a down-at-heel Ravenmill private eye is called in to put a name to the lone survivor — a soft-spoken scholar who keeps walking out of cages no man should be able to open. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-mancagescouldnthold THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: This episod...

Thirteen drops of blood spilled on three-hundred-year-old bones, and a footstep in the dark with only one foot to make it — the kind of Friday the thirteenth that earns the date its bad name. 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...

For two months in the summer of 1972, a club-wielding, hair-covered creature stalked the railroad tracks of Defiance, Ohio — and the local police took it seriously enough to open an official file. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/WerewolfCentral AUDIOBOOK: “The Black Eyed Kids” by G. Michael Vasey: https://amzn.to/4fIg2vW FEATURED STORIES IN THIS...

In a city of three million where every window glows with the flicker of a television screen, one man steps outside to walk the empty streets — and discovers that in 2053, a simple stroll after dark is enough to draw the attention of the law. 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...

For twenty-five years, Janet Wishart let all of Aberdeen believe she was a witch — until the day the authorities finally decided to find out what she was capable of admitting under questioning. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/AberdeenWitch FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Janet Wishart loved practicing her evil Satanic magic – and equally loved...