Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Diana Gonzalez says a stranger on the steps of the Arctic Club Hotel in downtown Seattle called her "the inferior race", grabbed her, and bit a piece of flesh about an inch across out of her forehead; on Monday, a judge ordered a competency evaluation for the woman charged, 36-year-old Kamilia Chadli. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/LikeAZombieBite Look for this podcas...

Just after midnight, a night-shift nurse starts getting pages from Room 316, a room that came down with the rest of its wing during the hospital's renovation. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/PagedFromRoom316 SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Patient That Time Forgot” by Keith Conrad, from http://www.auditoryanthology.com WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright...

Arch Oboloer’s “Night”: Chicago firemen tell one of their own why their station hasn't made a Thursday-night run in twenty years, in Arch Oboler's play about a single night across America in June 1945. 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...

People living and working in remote areas often encounter things far creepier than just silence. These are real-life stories of unsettling encounters, from faces at the window to gruesome discoveries deep in the woods. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ForestHorror READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8cuh5y FEATURED ST...

In July 1969, six frightened people told Fort Worth police they'd been attacked near Greer Island on Lake Worth by something half-man and half-goat, covered in fur and scales, and within days hundreds of armed hunters were combing the woods for a creature nobody has been able to put a name to in the more than fifty years since. ========== HOUR ONE: “Jerry Meets A Sasquatch” *** Greer Island, a sma...

In January of 1995, Christa Pike led a fellow Job Corps student named Colleen Slemmer onto the University of Tennessee's agricultural campus and came back with a piece of Colleen's skull in her pocket; Tennessee plans to execute her at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and with the state's highest court having refused to stop it, her lawyers are waiting on Governor Bill Lee and on the U.S. Supreme Court, where a...

Since 2006, at least 2,000 people from Los Angeles to Tehran have claimed that the same stranger visits them in their dreams, a man not one of them says they've ever met in waking life. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ThisMan READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4jdks4j3 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: People around t...

In August of 2018, a spiritual guidance counselor from Bristol went on ITV's This Morning to announce that she was ready to start a family with the ghost she'd met in the Australian bush. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/amethystbaby Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of...

The story was written as a serial, published one chapter at a time from October 1921 to June 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. And because it was written during this time, you will hear language not considered politically correct today – particularly that of words used to describe people of color. But as I have done in the past, I am leaving it all intact to preserve the author’s words in...

Left alone at a Ninth Avenue bus stop on the day a U.N. ambassador is kidnapped, a detective's girlfriend picks up a ringing pay phone and hears a stranger tell her the ransom is on its way to the pickup. 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/...

At London's Highgate Cemetery, visitors report ghostly figures among the Victorian tombs, and in New Orleans, people say Voodoo queen Marie Laveau still walks the cemetery where she's buried. Some of the people who leave letters at the graves of Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery say they've sensed the men they came to visit. Why are so many cemeteries full of ghosts? ...

Gwen Archer's new house has crooked shutters, cracked windows, and dozens of bent nails in her bedroom wall where the girl who lived there before hung her paintings and photos. That family packed up every bit of it when they moved out, everything except a doll named Darcy. A doll that lives in the attic. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn...

Dr. Homer Green used his invention, a perfect regeneration treatment that lets your body always heal any damage to it perfectly, on himself. That was on September 11, 1943. Now it's August 4, 2170 – more than 200 years later. He looks exactly as he did on the date he gave himself the treatment – no aging whatsoever – his body always repairs any damage perfectly. His tissues are invariant. There is...

Oliver Carsons has spent three nights trying to stay awake in a locked, barred bedroom, and every night a tall man with a face like a skull comes in to tell him he'll pay for killing a girl named Sally. 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/OT...

When the sun sets over the Navajo reservation, ancient legends come alive — and those who’ve seen the skinwalkers will never forget the eyes watching from the shadows. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FaceToFaceWithFear READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p927m85 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Numerous Reddit users...

A 53-year-old computer executive lets his 29-year-old boss push a receptionist of 31 years out the door, then chases the company's youth craze onto the tennis court with a heart his doctor has already warned him about. 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://weirddar...

A college professor's ordinary morning visit is interrupted when he suddenly finds himself alone in a strange, blurred world where nothing seems quite real—except for a few unsettling exceptions. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ShoddyLands SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Shoddy Lands” by C.S. Lewis (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1956) WeirdDarknes...

A struggling young doctor answers a newspaper ad for a strong, steady-nerved beetle expert, and the lawyer who hires him at a hundred pounds a day won't tell him what the job is. 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 ST...

A 1950s passenger plane vanishes without a trace – then lands 35 years later with 92 skeletons still buckled in their seats. What is the truth of the story? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Flight513 READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2dvtrc9s FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Critics of the Santiago Flight 513 story i...

Each night, Tom slips into a world of violent, unshakable nightmares — and every morning, the names and faces from his dreams show up in tragic news stories. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DreamsBeforeDying SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Dreams Before Dying” by Keith Conrad. Hear more of his stories at http://www.auditoryanthology.com . WeirdDarkness® is a registered trad...

What really happened inside the Borden house that bloody summer morning — and could Lizzie’s silence have been hiding more than just guilt? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LizzieBordenFinalTestimony READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mb5xas3d FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: She looms large in the annals of American...

Eight million dollars in thousand-dollar interplanetary bills is already checked through the counter in Pauker's luggage, the take from the Brinks-Interplanetary job he set up from the inside, and he's standing in the prep building with nine months of space in front of him when a blond baggage man ten paces down the hall starts asking after a passenger with a red scar under his left eye. EPISODE B...

Years before anyone counted the women missing from 417 W. Chew Avenue, Raymond Horsch was trading drugs and cash for access to the Kensington crematorium at the center of Philadelphia's body-parts scandal, where he photographed and filmed the dead and later hung the pictures in a gallery. Police are looking into it, two women who posed for him have spoken, his son left a five-star Google review fo...

As the 1900 hurricane flooded Galveston, the Sisters at St. Mary's roped the orphans to their own bodies, and Walmart employees working on that ground today say they've heard a child calling for her mother – one of fifteen orphanages on three continents where people report the sound of children crying, singing, and walking where no children are. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirdd...

A woman whose migraines have already cost her a husband and two children lets psychic healer Bryce Bond hypnotize her back through her past lives, and each life she lands in puts a man's death in her hands. 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...