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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor

Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.

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16:30

The AI That Convinced a Man He Could Bend Time

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/12

Man Hospitalized 63 Days After ChatGPT Convinced Him He Was a Time LordREAD or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/ai-psychosis-lawsuitWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness, #ChatGPT, #OpenAI, #AIPsychosis, #MentalHealth, #AILawsuit, #TechDangers, #ChatbotAddiction, #AISafety, #TechEthics

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313:46

A Teen Discovers The Deadly Power Within Her

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2025/11/12

When eighteen-year-old Helen Todd seeks help from a mysterious mentor after being rejected by her boyfriend, she's introduced to ancient rituals that promise to unlock her inner power and make her feel like a goddess. But as Helen begins invoking curses and testing the limits of her newfound abilities, she must confront a terrifying question: is her power real, or is she losing her grip on reality? | #RetroRadio EP0554CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show

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20:12

Did an Ancient Cosmic Visitor Just Explode Near the Sun?

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/11

An object arrived from beyond our solar system this summer. Scientists are debating whether it blew itself apart near the Sun — or whether the numbers point to something unusual about what this object really is.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/3i-atlas-explodeWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #InterstellarComet #3IATLAS #AviLoeb #AlienSpacecraft #SpaceMystery #NASA #CometExplosion #UnexplainedPhenomena #DeepSpace

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16:54

PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR'S CAUSE OF DEATH SOLVED: Why...

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2025/11/11

A 54-year-old Army veteran who traveled the country with the world's most infamous possessed doll died in his hotel room, and the internet exploded with theories.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/dan-rivera-death-solved/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #AnnabelleDoll #ParanormalInvestigator #HauntedDoll #EdAndLorraineWarren #DemonicallyPossessed #TheConjuring #TrueParanormal #CursedObjects #DanRivera

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45:12

Science Just Proved We’re Not Living In The Matrix...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/11

Mathematical Proof ENDS Simulation Theory Forever... But That's Just The Beginning of What This Means.IN THIS EPISODE: Scientists just used pure mathematics to prove something that sounds impossible — that our universe cannot be, and never could be, a computer simulation... but that's only touching the surface of what this means for other aspects of our reality.PRINT VERSION to READ or SHARE (includes sources):https://weirddarkness.com/matrix-disproved=====(Over time links may become invalid,

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308:33

He Threw the Skull Into the Sea… But It Came Back...

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2025/11/11

A retired sea captain inherits a lonely seaside cottage — and the skull of a murdered woman that refuses to rest. When he tries to throw it into the sea, the thing comes back screaming… and it wants revenge. | “The Screaming Skull” from CBC Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0553CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ripple Effect” (February 04, 1977)00:46:17.627 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Screaming Skull” (April 01,

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55:14

What Really Happened to the Donner Party: The Horror...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/11

In 1846, 87 pioneers took what they thought was a shortcut to California—but a series of fatal decisions, impossible terrain, and early snowstorms trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where starvation drove survivors to unspeakable acts, and some say the tortured spirits of those who perished still haunt Donner Pass to this very day.IN THIS EPISODE: The tragic demise of the Donner Party has become infamous. But what led to the failed journey, and to the eventual cannibalism some of the party

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8:52

German Tourist Returns Stolen Cathedral Skull After...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

A man in Germany lived with a disturbing secret from his youth for six decades before finally making things right.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/skull-returnedWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #StolenSkull #ViennaCathedral #TrueCrime #Catacombs #DarkHistory #MacabreHistory #HistoricalMystery #DarkTourism #BizarreStories

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4:25

Woman Orders Medication Online, Gets Human Arms and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

A Kentucky woman expected her prescription refill – the shipping company had different body parts in mind.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/human-arms-delivered-instead-medicationWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #HumanBodyParts #ShippingFail #BizarreNews #TrueStory #KentuckyNews #PackageGoneWrong #MedicalSpecimens #CreepyNews #StrangeButTrue

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100:40

NATIONAL PARK DISAPPEARANCES: Cases That Defy Logic...

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2025/11/10

Week of November 09, 2025: Hundreds vanish without a trace in America's national parks each year, found miles from where they disappeared in impossible locations—if they're found at all.==========HOUR ONE: Colorado’s best urban legends! *** A pitch black room at an inn, yields to a strange glow. (Comfort At The Comet Inn) *** Each year, hundreds of people simply disappear from parks and forests. What happened to them – and where are they? (People Are Vanishing Into Thin Air In Our National Parks)

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18:01

The Hospital That Traps Night Shift Nurses in Time

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2025/11/10

During her routine midnight shift at Memorial Hospital, Nurse Laura Bennett encounters a colleague in an old-fashioned uniform who reveals she's been trapped working the same night shift for decades, experiencing different eras but never able to leave—and warns Laura she could be next.IN THIS EPISODE: “Shift Walker” by Keith ConradFULLY PRODUCED VERSION:https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/01/14/tales-from-the-blue-line-the-shift-walker/=====Originally aired: November 09, 2025EPISODE PAGE

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32:50

We Thought Mars Was Lifeless... We Were Horribly Wrong

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2025/11/10

Scientists arrive on Mars to conduct nuclear experiments on what everyone assured them was a completely dead and worthless planet, but what they discover in the smoke and fire will fill them with such overwhelming guilt that they'll abandon everything and flee home in shame.IN THIS EPISODE: “Hang Head, Vandal!” by Mark Clifton (Amazing Stories, April 1962)FULLY PRODUCED VERSION:https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/04/03/hang-head-vandal-by-mark-clifton/ MORE Stories Like This:

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43:54

Would Aliens Need Jesus? A Vatican Astronomer Says...

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2025/11/10

Recent government hearings have made UFOs and aliens front-page news, and now a Catholic priest says he'd baptize extraterrestrials if asked. But I think before agreeing so quickly to the idea, this priest needs to be asking some really big theological and spiritual questions.SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-alienbaptismWeird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2025.#WeirdDarkness #AlienBaptism #UFODisclosure #AreAliensDemons #VaticanAstronomer

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354:27

WAR OF THE WORLDS (Full Audiobook): The Alien...

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2025/11/10

The full-length, unabridged audiobook narrated by Weird Darkness host, Darren Marlar. | No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. Envying us. When massive cylinders fell from the sky and buried themselves in the English countryside, curious crowds gathered to witness what they thought was a meteorite. But when those cylinders unscrewed from within, what emerged would shatter humanity's place at the top of

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49:59

THE DEVIL CAME TO DEVON: 100 Miles of Unexplained and...

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2025/11/09

On a freezing February morning in 1855, the terrified residents of Devon, England discovered miles of cloven hoof prints burned into fresh snow—tracks that climbed over rooftops, passed through locked gates, squeezed through four-inch pipes, and seemed to deliberately stop at people's front doors.IN THIS EPISODE: One morning in 1855, citizens of the English town of Devon were surprised to find strange footprints about town in the snow – not just on the street and sidewalks – but on their doorways,

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297:14

Aliens In The Mind: The Island of Telepathic Hybrids

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/09

A dead professor, a remote Scottish island, and a secret population of large-headed telepaths with the ability to control human minds – two scientists uncover a government eugenics conspiracy that's already spreading far beyond the island's shores. Vincent Price stars in this chilling 1970s tale where the real horror isn't what's been created, but what's already walking among us. | #RetroRadio EP0552CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio

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9:23

“Frankenstein’s New Butt” and Other Scary Stories...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/08

“The Creepy Doll” by Joey Sweet, age 9“The Fish” by Mad Alexander, age 10“Frankenstein’s New Butt” by Millie, age 6Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrorsOther stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaUOther narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

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85:32

The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist: What Really Happened

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2025/11/08

The shocking true story of a 13-year-old boy's demonic possession in 1949 that terrified priests and inspired the most frightening film ever made.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Part One: The Boy They Called Roland Doe00:02:55.822 = Show Open00:04:58.617 = Part Two: The Boy Who Played With Darkness00:20:24.106 = ***Part Three: Forty-Eight Witnesses to the Impossible00:43:59.220 = ***Part Four: The NASA Engineer Who Fled Every Halloween01:06:26.404 = ***Part Five:

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50:48

THE CONTRAIL CONTROVERSY: White Streaks Over 14...

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2025/11/08

When a Maine radio reporter counted 30 unmarked jets laying persistent white trails across the sky in 45 minutes and an air traffic controller admitted off-record he'd been ordered by "higher civil authority" to reroute commercial flights away from a military exercise no one would explain, it sparked a global debate that would divide scientists, military officials, and millions of observers across 14 countries for the next two decades.IN THIS EPISODE: The chemtrail conspiracy theory posits the

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288:59

THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Castle Gets Shipped to...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/08

A Scottish ghost cursed to haunt his castle for 200 years finally gets his chance at redemption when an American grocery tycoon ships the entire structure—and its supernatural resident—across the Atlantic, where romance, mistaken identity, and an ancient blood feud collide in sunny Florida. | Globe Theater, “The Ghost Goes West” | #RetroRadio EP0551CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “My Fair Lady-Killer” (January 28,

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