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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness

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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82:46

THE CALL OF CTHULHU: A Clay Idol, A Cult, And A City...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

Sorting through the papers of his late great-uncle, a Providence professor of ancient languages, Francis Thurston finds a clay bas-relief of a winged, tentacled thing, a file of newspaper clippings from around the world, and a set of notes connecting a young sculptor's fever dreams to a swamp cult in Louisiana and a word no human tongue was built to pronounce.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-cthulhuSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Lovecraft:

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34:21

ALIENS AND TULPAS: Are UFOs Real Only Because We...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

Our alien visitors have changed their looks, their home planets, and their warnings every generation or so – always right in step with what we happened to believe at the time. Airships, ghost rockets, flying saucers, black triangles – for more than a century our UFOs and aliens have kept pace with our imaginations, and one longtime researcher wonders whether that's because our imaginations are where they came from.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AliensAndTulpasREAD or

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301:51

THE BLACKNESS OF TERROR: The Moaning Behind The Music...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/10

A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “High Caquetta”

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16:34

THE LADY OR THE TIGER: Two Doors, One Choice, And A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/10

In a kingdom where the accused settle their own guilt by opening one of two identical doors, a starving tiger waiting behind one and a bride behind the other, a young courtier walks into the arena for the crime of loving the king's daughter.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-LadyOrTheTigerSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank R. Stockton (The Century Magazine. November 1882)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird

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34:04

THE DEVIL IN THE POOL: David Bowie's Exorcism And The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/10

In the mid-1970s, David Bowie became convinced something was living in his swimming pool – and instead of a priest, he called a witch. A few years later and a few hundred miles north, a married couple set out to rid America of witches one body at a time.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/davidbowieREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y5w8223hFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: David Bowie was no stranger to the occult – he

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316:24

THE CONVICT: He Chose Mars Over Prison, Then Stole A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/09

A bank robber who chose permanent exile on Mars over fifteen years in a cell has spent a decade freezing in the mines, and a stolen spaceship is about to take him back to Earth.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ignorant

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13:23

PHANTOM VITALS: The Haunting of Bed Seven |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/09

Halfway through a routine night shift, ER nurse Megan finds the monitor at her station reporting a steady heartbeat, even breathing, and normal blood pressure for bed seven, a bed that has been empty all night.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-phantomvitalsSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Phantom Vitals” by Keith ConradWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 09, 2026LIKE WHAT

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12:54

"He Was The Devil": Frankfort Mother Charged With...

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2026/09/09

About three and a half hours after her last reported group text about the Lindsay Clancy trial, police were called to a Frankfort, Illinois home where prosecutors say a mother had hanged her 2-year-old son in the basement and then told officers he was the devil – and a Will County judge has now ordered her held while her lawyers argue she was psychotic at the time.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/corriewalshLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio,

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302:53

DEAD WRONG: The Reaper Took The Wrong Peter |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/09

A healthy, happy lawyer dozing on his porch after tennis is told he's dead, and the only man who can take his place has just decided he likes living and refuses to die.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Dead Wrong”

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44:54

TWO TOWNS TERRORIZED BY MAIL: A Dead Man And An Empty...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/09

A school bus driver in Circleville, Ohio was told in block letters to end an affair or her husband would die, and he did. Decades later a New Jersey couple paid $1.3 million for 657 Boulevard and never spent a night there, because a stranger signing himself The Watcher kept writing to ask about the "young blood" in the house.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/circlevilleREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2ycj6492FEATURED

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31:26

WHAT IF IMAGINARY FRIENDS ARE REAL?: Can Children See...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/09

What if the imaginary friend you had as a child wasn’t imaginary at all — but something lingering, watching… and very real?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/imaginaryfriendsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckr4ry4FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most people had imaginary friends when they were younger. These "friends" were usually nice, funny, and even comforting. They took the form of animals, other humans, and

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125:12

THE RESTORATION: Ten Thousand Square Feet of Blood on...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/08

A restoration contractor who makes his living not asking questions takes a job scrubbing three and a half centuries of dried blood off the floors, walls, and fifty-foot ceiling of a boarded-up mansion, with one condition from the client – stay out of the rooms behind the barricades.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-restorationSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Restoration” by Jordan Eilbert (aka Devlin Riptide): https://tinyurl.com/yx3xb5bvWeirdDarkness® is a registered

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41:50

SOULS FOR SALE: Frightening True Stories of Real...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/08

From popes and painters to witches and bluesmen, these are the damned souls who bartered with the Devil — and paid in madness, torment, and blood.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SoulsForSaleREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3hvtnjFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Five stories of real people who supposedly made deals with the Devil himself. *** In the summer of 1988, a terrifying creature began haunting the woods and

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306:18

DEVIL’s GOLD: A Coin That Always Comes Back Puts A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/07

A merchant seaman on his first voyage walks out of a candlelit shop in Libya with a solid gold coin he can't pawn, sell, gamble away, or throw into the sea, and then a shipmate is found dead with the coin missing.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS

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95:26

Nothing Grows Where The Devil Walks At Midnight |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/07

In the woods of Chatham County, North Carolina, a 40-foot circle of bare dirt known as The Devil’s Tramping Grounds has grown nothing for nearly three centuries, and the soil scientist who tested it came away without an explanation.HOUR ONE: A Weirdo family member relays a terrifying story of what is described as “El Nahual” in Mexico – a shapeshifter, that her dad barely escaped from! (El Nahual In The Avocado Grove) *** John George Haigh took the plunge into murder when he knocked out his old boss

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79:09

THE STYGIAN CHILD: Nothing’s Ever Free |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/07

Victor told his brother he would be dead by ten minutes after nine that morning, because half a century earlier, in a jungle after Tet, something wearing the shape of a child had told him the date, the hour, and the name of the brother who would be sitting beside him.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-stygianchildSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Stygian Child” by Daren Salls: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-stygian-child/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark

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75:59

NO ONE IS LEFT OUT THERE: The Frightening Truth...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/07

What if the reason we’ve never heard from alien civilizations is because we’re the ones destined to wipe them all out — without even realizing it?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/fermiparadoxREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr44puy5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Why don’t we ever see aliens? A physicist has come up with a very disturbing answer to that question. (A Grim Reason We Never See Aliens) *** Murder

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321:11

FLASH POINT: An Ironmaster, His Wife's Lover, And A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/06

A magazine writer who has spent a week seducing an ironmaster's wife in a Pennsylvania mill town accepts her husband's offer of a midnight tour of the blast furnaces, the night before she's due to run away with him.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 =

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299:21

WILL THE REAL AMY STAND UP: An Heiress, Two...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/06

A young heiress starts getting stomach cramps after her kindly cousins move in with her, and the only one who warns her is the imaginary playmate she made up as a child.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Will The Real Amy

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6:08

THE HOTHFIELD WITCHES: We Arrived Too Early |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/06

The ashes were still warm just before six in the morning, and by the time they had driven home for a camera and come back half an hour later, the star, the log, the bones and every scuff mark in the ground were gone.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-hothfieldwitchesSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Hothfield Witches” by Ken DaSilva, submitted to Weird DarknessWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM),

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