Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

In 1846, fourteen-year-old Angelique Cottin became known as the "Electric Girl" when she unleashed an unexplainable force that sent furniture flying, baffled scientists, and terrified priests, all while her family sought fortune from her mysterious powers. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/ElectricPoltergeistGirl FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I...

A small glass vial of hemlock, hundreds of emails to online spellcasters, and a 39-year-old mother who walked out of her own home and never came back — the Maya  Millete case is now in front of a San Diego jury. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/vial-and-hex/ Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other po...

A Harvard scientist says first contact won't look like the movies — it will look like an AI-guided machine on our doorstep, and humanity isn't ready. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/loebwarning 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....

Two scientists travel toward a remote village deep in Brazil. During the journey, they become stranded near an isolated settlement — often described in logs as a mysterious airport village populated by ancient people with strange customs and rituals. What begins as a scientific expedition turns increasingly unsettling as the travelers encounter a place that seems disconnected from ordinary reality...

Zombies might be relentless brain-munchers, but the real terror is how quickly bad ideas spread—rising from the dead, infecting minds, and shambling through our culture long after they should’ve been buried. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/ZombiePolitics FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The one great thing about a zombie apocalypse, if one were...

An 11-year veteran of the St. Charles County Police Department spent four dollars in quarters at a bowling alley arcade to coax a little girl out of a claw machine she had climbed into for the toys. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/claw-machine-cop Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps...

Alexis Nelson sent her mother a Happy Mother's Day message in May 2025, and then her phone went silent for six months before anyone in her family realized something was wrong. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/alexis-nelson Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free liste...

Sean Parnell says the next batch of UAP files is "actively being processed for publication" — one day after the president posted an AI-generated image of himself perp-walking a gray. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/pursue-second-drop Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list o...

A soldier in a secret monster-hunting regiment is sent into a luxury hotel to track down a shapeshifter that has already murdered a guest — but as bodies pile up and the creature wears the faces of his own comrades, he begins to suspect this hunt was set in motion long before he arrived, and that he is the one being hunted. EPISODE BLOG PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/ storyfromtheblackguard/ LIST...

A personal favorite of mine! A Pentagon colonel, a doll shop that wasn't there yesterday, and a six-inch toy with a voice like a knife — one of the most quietly sinister half-hours ever broadcast on Dimension X, and it ends on a smile you will not forget.  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 New York con artist conspires to fake walking through 1,330-degree coals and rob an island of its golden god — but old gods have long memories. 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)… 00:...

A homeless woman regularly slept against the back wall of a Las Vegas rehab center until one night when a nearby microphone captured a scream and sixty-one loud thuds. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/marcy-bonanza 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 app...

“I Went Undercover To a Body Farm” by Kevin Jones: A grieving husband goes undercover at a remote island body farm, convinced the reclusive caretaker knows what happened to his missing wife. But the island holds something far older than its corpses — something that watches from the treeline, wears the faces of the dead, and is patient enough to wait until the hunger sets in. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (inc...

A 28-year-old woman spent two weeks attending a Bronx high school under a fake name before her own Facebook page outed her real age. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/claassen/ 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/1078714736 *No...

An Argentine streaming radio show meant to interview a ufologist about the newly released U.S. UAP files dialed up a urologist instead, who calmly explained the difference live on air. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-urologist/ Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of...

A two-year-old named Tommy Lark vanished from a butcher's counter in Halverton's Coppergate Arcade in forty seconds, turned up two days later on a railway embankment two and a half miles away, and a hundred uniforms across the city couldn't put a name to the two figures in the closed-circuit film. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-boyinthebluejacket THE REAL C...

In 1910 two witnesses see a pair of lights that transform into radiant beings with “human form.” You might dismiss the report as misidentification of ball lightning or some other natural explanation – but in 1952 those radiant humanoid beings of light were seen again! #WDRadio — May 17, 2026 HOUR ONE: 7-year-old Maria went missing in 1957, and while her body was later found, her murder was never s...

“The Deep Shuddered”: An unfaithful husband, his wife, and his mistress find themselves aboard the same doomed ocean liner the night an iceberg opens its hull beneath them — and three decades later, one of them sits in a Gloucestershire asylum listening to the same record over and over and believing she is still at sea. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music,...

When two brothers take shelter from a storm beside a writhing black mass beneath an old willow, one of them pokes it with a stick — and brings something home that should have stayed in the park. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/BlackMire LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora,...

He hasn't experienced a Thursday since preschool — and after a lifetime of wondering what his other self has been doing in his absence, he decides this week to give him the day off. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/thursdays  FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: He hasn't experienced a Thursday since preschool — and after a lifetime of wondering what his other self has...

Two seventh-graders in Ohio rode hard to a pastor's door because they'd seen something on the ground that most adults around them would have walked past without noticing. Sources and Sermon Transcript: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-groundremembers LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. G...

The Crown and Mitre Inn stands on the bones of an old abbey, and the man who bought the inn for what's buried under the cellar floor is about to find out he's not the only one who can call a ghost up the stairs. 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.t...

Long before Pazuzu terrorized audiences in *The Exorcist*, this ancient Mesopotamian demon struck fear into the hearts of the Assyrians and Babylonians—both as a harbinger of destruction and an unlikely protector against even greater evils. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/pazuzu FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Exorcist is widely regarded as...

My new kitten, Pumpkin Marlar, gets her own podcast pilot episode — just for fun! I hope you have as much fun listening as I did putting this together.

A year after Rico's mother vanished in the Grayfall Nature Preserve, his father finally knows what really happened to her — and he's invited Lexi over for a backyard barbecue to honor her memory. But the burgers don't taste right, the hot dogs don't look right, and Mr. Alejandro has one strange instruction before the first bite: no matter what, keep it in. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts,...