Weirder After Dark

Gang, it's been such an honor to drop this weekly podcast for over a year and a half. Seriously, in ways it's heartbreaking to do this.... However, we're going to be reducing our episode drops over the summer with the hopes of picking back up this fall! thank you for this wild ride!!! We hope you all have a fantastic summer :D! Keep it weird!

April showers bring May..... IDK what May has brought, but it's been a lot! This will be our last 'FTV' episode with a new episode dropping next week! Thank you so much for your patience as we take some time off! Like Candles? Check out our collaboration with Ghost Poppy! Contact us: Thegang@weirderafterdark.com

The "Allagash Four" refers to twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner, Chuck Rak, and Charlie Foltz, who claimed aliens abducted them during a 1976 camping trip in Maine's Allagash Wilderness. We covered the story briefly in Chris's episode, 'Missing Time. But today, we are deep diving into the entire story with Matt from Paranormal Directive 13. Check out Paranormal Directive 13, where you get your pod...

Hey Gang! We're having a bit of a squeeze and some health issues have popped up, preventing us from recording this week. We decided to play one of our favorite episodes from the vault! We hope you enjoy revisiting this hilarious/lighthearted episode! Catch you next week. In the shadowy hills of Northfield, Vermont, a mystery has haunted locals for over half a century. They say he’s part man, part...

Over the last 6 months, 5 researchers, government officials, and scientists have either gone missing OR been found murdered in cold blood. Some with ties to New England. Is this a coincidence? Or could there be something underlying that connects all these murders? Tonight, we're diving into a current news story and we'll try to uncover exactly what is going on. Is this a goverment cover up...

During the winter of 1977, something very strange happened in Wakefield, NH. A local horse farmer woke up to find a perfect circle carved into 18 inches of ice on the pond he used to feed his horses. Even stranger, as he inspected the perfect circle he could see a small black cube at the bottom of the ice. Within hours, local officals, government officals, even the National Guard were on scene. Bu...

Imagine you're deep in the woods of northern Maine. It's the 1870s. The air smells like pine and cold mud, and you're living in a bunkhouse with thirty other lumberjacks, miles from the nearest town. You've been swinging an ax since before sunrise, and the only entertainment you've got is each other. Now imagine one of the men in your bunk, a quiet French-Canadian guy, a little...

It was a quiet September night in 1961 when Betty and Barney Hill made the fateful decision to abandon their honeymoon and drive home from Montreal to Portsmouth, NH. What should have been a smooth 6-hour drive turned into America's first abduction stories. Join us as we dive into 3 hours of missing time, a strange craft in the sky, creatures that poke and prod, strange markings on their car,...

More than twenty years before Salem, the quiet Puritan town of Groton, Massachusetts, became the center of a terrifying mystery. Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Knapp began suffering violent fits, screaming strange guttural voices, lashing out at caregivers, actions she claimed came from the Devil himself. Living in the home of minister Samuel Willard, her condition was carefully documented in real tim...

In the late 1800s, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont, two brothers claimed to do the impossible. They claimed to be able to bring back the dead. William and Horatio Eddy became the most talked-about mediums in America. Night after night, full-bodied apparitions allegedly materialized from the walls of their family farmhouse, drawing investigators, skeptics, and believers from across the count...

This week, we're heading to Naples, Maine, where one man's greed led him to make a decision that would change everything. Sure, he got filthy rich.... but at what cost? For decades, the land he once called home was claimed to carry a curse that led to a half dozen deaths, a dozen businesses to go under, and a fire. Then, almost overnight in the 1970s, it stopped. Just like that. And the on...

It's been standing since 1825, but some of the keepers at Owls Head Lighthouse in Rockland, Maine, never really left. Rated the #1 most haunted lighthouse in America, this little stone tower has its share of ghost stories. A phantom keeper readying the fog horn, a "Little Lady" haunting the kitchen, and a dog named Spot who rang the fog bell himself to warn ships of danger. Oh, and t...

In 1799, a family in Maine reported nightly visits from the spirit of a deceased woman. The apparition didn’t float through walls or stand at the end of beds. Instead, she would stand before dozens of people and talk for hours. She would appear at any time of day or night and could even appear in different households. Soon enough, an entire community of four towns was taking orders from a ghost......

Molly Pitcher was known as a psychic, a seer, and an oracle. So well known that George Washington and other revolutionary leaders regularly sought her guidance while drafting their war plans. Cool, right? But when you look up Molly Pitcher, this isn't the story you'll find in the history books. In fact, you'll find a completely different heroic story... Tonight, we unravel the document...

In the early 1900s, a wealthy Boston inventor named  Wallace Tillinghast  made an unbelievable claim: he had built and successfully flown a secret airplane over New England! However, this was years before most people thought it was even possible. Then, just as suddenly, he vanished from the aviation world and moved, never commenting again on his flying machine. So what really happened to Wallace T...

On busy Main Street in Tilton, New Hampshire, thousands of cars pass a stately Victorian building every day without realizing how many times it’s been nearly erased. The Tilton Inn has welcomed travelers for more than a century, but its history is marked by repeated fires and tragic deaths. In this episode, we dig into the building's history and the alleged hauntings that won't seem to stop. From...

Fueled by fear, religion, and personal grudges. Ordinary neighbors were suddenly suspected of consorting with the devil. In this episode, we dig into the documented cases, the people accused, the banned trials turned into witch hunts, and talk about how they fit into Connecticut’s often overlooked role in America’s witch hysteria. Contact Us: Thegang@weirderafterdark.com Socials: Facebook | Instag...

A house fire is supposed to leave answers behind. However, for the McDonald family, fires left only questions. What was first labeled a tragic accident quickly unraveled into something far stranger... multiple fires, conflicting timelines, and a story that never fully made sense. As investigators dug deeper, the evidence pointed away from chance and toward something far more deliberate..... and po...

Fort Adams towers over Newport Harbor like a relic of war frozen in time. Built to defend against enemies that never came, it instead became home to something else entirely. In this episode, we explore the dark history and enduring hauntings of  Fort Adams , one of the largest coastal fortifications in the United States and Rhode Island’s most haunted location. From its massive stone walls and und...

For decades in Cumberland, RI, there have been legends of a hermit man with a disfigured, burned body and sharpened fingernails who roams the woods. It's said that you hear him coming before you see him.... but when he does come, he slashes your body with his razor-sharp nails. In these parts he goes by the name Fingernail Freddy but others know him as Hot-Shot Charlie. In this episode, we dig...

In the early 2000s, something strange was reported moving through the woods of Danville, New Hampshire. Not a bear. Not a dog. Witnesses described a small, fast, monkey-like creature with glowing eyes.....something that didn’t make sense for New England. Locals called it the  Devil Monkey . In this episode, we dig into the Danville sightings, what people actually claimed to see, how the story spre...

Deep in Connecticut, local legends mention small, pale figures with abnormally large heads said to stalk the woods, chase cars, and emerge from abandoned institutions after dark. They go by the name Melon Heads. The stories have been passed around campfires, school buses, and internet forums for decades. Some claim the Mellonheads are the result of secret government experiments. Others say they’re...

In this episode of  Weirder After Dark , we dive deep into the chilling lore of  The Golden Eagle ! A custom car from Maine that is accused of being cursed, dangerous, and maybe even alive. This car murders with lightening, crushes people in the seat of its car, and when it gets bored can even just run people over the old fashion way. But how much of this legend is real? We break down the document...

Deep in the woods of rural Maine, the Martin family thought they were settling in for a quiet weekend at their remote cabin… until something started circling the tree line. In this episode, we dig into one of Maine’s strangest modern legends: the Skinwalker-like entity said to stalk the northern forests. From unsettling mimicry to a night of terror the Martins will never forget, we break down the...

Hidden behind the quiet streets of Waltham lies the haunting legacy of the Fernald State School. An institution built on cruelty, exploitation, and experiments no one was supposed to know about. This week, we dig into the stories of the children forgotten by the state, the infamous “Science Club” study, and the decades of horror that unfolded behind locked doors. Email Us: Thegang@Weirderafterdark...