Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A cash-strapped couple inherits Great Aunt Hester's country manor on one sole condition: her cat, Saladin, lives out its days there in the style to which it's accustomed, and the new master of the house has no patience for a pampered pet. 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 he...

A Massachusetts jury spent a week unable to decide whether Lindsay Clancy was responsible for killing her three children; seventy-two years ago Maine never asked that question about Constance Fisher at all, and five years later it sent her home to her husband… to have more children… and to kill them as well. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/SixSmallGra...

Since the 1800s, people in the Florida swamps have described a seven-foot figure draped in moss and swamp grass that lies still enough to pass for a fallen log – until it stands up and looks back at them with glowing eyes. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mossman READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8d573f FEATURED STO...

Three Army scientists in a shack on the Jersey cliffs bounce the first radio signal off the moon, and a few nights later the generators start switching themselves on at midnight. 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...

The creature's teeth were already in his face when he woke in a quiet bedroom beside a woman he was almost certain he knew, with the mud and blood from the tunnel still on his shoes. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ItShallNotComeAgain SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Are Those Monsters Real” by Mike King (submitted to Weird Darkness) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trade...

Before she became a blood-soaked legend of sleepovers and slumber party dares, Bloody Mary was a mirror-bound matchmaker — until something far more sinister took her place. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/BloodyMary READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3a2bc2b5 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: They say if you chant her...

The contact killing job came in like any other, a name and an address and half the money up front… but the address was her own. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-hiredtokillmyself SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Was Hired To Murder Myself: by Thamires Luppi: https://www.creepypasta.com/i-was-hired-to-murder-myself/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2...

A Navy-trained scuba diver hired to hunt a Spanish treasure ship reaches the end of his guideline 175 feet down, sees something no one else on the crew can explain, and asks for more rope. 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 &am...

Don’t worry if you don’t have to believe in curses… Robert the Doll believes enough for the both of you. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RobertTheDoll READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckuwmkv FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From creepy voices to mysterious movements to strange laughter and eerie deaths, the legen...

Jack has been alone at the cabin for two weeks now, with Rebecca folded face down in the freezer, and the crow on the railing has not once stopped watching him. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-murderofcrows SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Forever Autumn” (“Murder of Crows”) by Weirdo family member Mark Towse (submitted at WeirdDarkness.com): https://twitter.com/MarkTow...

Hours from the electric chair for the murder of a nightclub singer, gangster Duke Malone rebuilds his whole life in his head — starting at fourteen in a pool hall, refusing the job that ruined him — and builds it all the way up to the night a floor show puts Jeannie Daniels back in front of him. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, an...

In the heart of Louisiana’s swamps, ancient curses, ghostly hitchhikers, and bloodthirsty cryptids rise from the mist – proving the bayou’s darkest legends might be terrifyingly true. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LouisianaSwamps READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/muer7xd4 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Welcome t...

A Wisconsin woman told Madison police that the man she dated for two months back in 2013 had never stopped writing to her, and the detectives who searched his rural Fond du Lac basement in August found human skulls, an Ed Gein collection, and a jar labeled as a piece of John Wayne Gacy's brain. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BenjaminLawsonWisconsin Look for this podca...

Bruce Wayne keeps catching glimpses of a green-haired man in the crowds of Gotham City, which would be unremarkable except that Batman watched the Joker die. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-batmandreammaster SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Death of the Dream Master” by Robert Sheckley, from the book “The Further Adventures of Batman: 14 All New Adventures of the Caped...

Kitty Morgan designed every room of the mansion her lover built in the Adirondacks, and when he ended it between them, she made him a promise about that house and then kept it. A century on, the place is worth millions, and nobody in the family will spend a night in it. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get...

They didn’t just claim contact — they said they were chosen… and the names of the Four Georges are now etched into UFO history like warning signals that many have chosen to ignore. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FourGeorges READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3xx6tejm FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Four men named G...

A report of an alien abduction came out of downtown Statesboro, Georgia, filed with police the same afternoon it happened, somewhere between four and six o'clock on West Main Street. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/StolenAlien 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 lifelong teller of tall tales spends years retelling his high school teacher's ghost story about a place in rural Nebraska called the showers, right up until the night he goes looking for it himself and finds the door. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-theshowers SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Showers” by Reddit user Clover10176: Part 1 = https://tinyurl.com/ql3gx...

Something arrives at a Cherokee deathbed wearing the face of a very old man or woman, and the witches and demons want nothing to do with it. They call it the Raven Mocker.  ========== HOUR ONE: They're powerful in the supernatural. Witches, demons and poltergeists fear them because they are not from our world. The Cherokee call them the Raven Mockers. (The Raven Mocker) *** Betsy’s Mysterious Flow...

They say he watches from the shadows, always wearing a hat — but the Hat Man isn’t just another shadow person… he’s something far more terrifying. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DemonicHatMan READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3xfr8h77 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Unlike most shadow people figures, the Hat Man -...

The thrilling conclusion! Scout Brooks and Mandy Lee have fought their way across the alien world of Thryos, battling monstrous Throats in a desperate search for Professor Nog's captured friend, Farrow. But with danger closing in from every direction — and Scout's own friend Chuck now caught snooping around Fort Nogs back home — nothing about this mission has gone according to plan. Look for this...

Redacted juvenile court records released this week show the county went to court over the Siders children in 2020 and again in 2021, documented roaches, elevated lead and bruising, and both times left every one of them in the house. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260829 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora,...

A rookie phenom hitting .392 takes a fastball to the head, and comes out of the coma carrying a stranger's offer he can't shake and a batting slump he can't break. 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...

A young woman’s tragic death at a notorious cliffside sparks an investigation that uncovers far more than anyone expected. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DeadlyDigitalDeception READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yr54dvnb FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: After receiving a series of devastating text messages, twenty-y...

Avi Loeb chairs the Trump administration's UAP Science Advisory Council, and he told an interviewer this week that anything crossing interstellar space to reach us would place almost no importance on which country it landed in or who happened to be running it. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/AliensDontCareAboutPresident Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,...