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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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34:56

SKELETONS ON SANTIAGO FLIGHT 513: The Plane That Time...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/25

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/Flight513READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2dvtrc9sFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Critics of the Santiago Flight 513 story insist it’s nothing more than an urban myth or an attempt to sell newspapers. But is there evidence to

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18:24

DREAMS BEFORE DYING: Every Name In His Notebook Ends...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/24

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/DreamsBeforeDyingSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Dreams Before Dying” by Keith Conrad. Hear more of his stories at http://www.auditoryanthology.com.WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 24,

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64:54

LIZZIE BORDEN’S FINAL TESTIMONY: Inside The Mind of...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/24

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/LizzieBordenFinalTestimonyREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mb5xas3dFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: She looms large in the annals of American crime lore. A romantic relationship gone awry and troubles at home could explain why many still believe

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21:58

INTERPLANETARY ESCAPE PLAN: Eight Million Dollars And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/23

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 BLOG PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/InterplanetaryEscapePlanSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Eight Million Dollars

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15:39

THE CREMATORIUM: R.C. Horsch Paid His Way In To Film...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/23

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 for a different crematorium ten months ago, and Eugene Horsch's federal trial has been pushed back to

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62:06

HAUNTED ORPHANAGES: 15 Places Where The Children...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/23

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://weirddarkness.com/HauntedOrphanagesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:

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300:52

THE WINDS OF TIME: Her Headaches Led Back To Hitler's...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/22

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.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio

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17:19

PARALLEL SHIFTS: Some Doors Are Better Left Closed |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/22

Kate takes her first week of night shifts at a small hospital in rural Mississippi, and by the third night the hallways are running long, the nurse who trained her can't remember her name, and a locked door has turned up in a corner of the east wing that wasn't on her rounds the day before.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-parallelshiftsSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Parallel Shifts” written by Keith Conrad. Find more of his stories at

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42:07

GHOST OF THE GIRL IN THE SNOW: Was Marion Lambert’s...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/22

In 1916, Marion Lambert was found dead in the snow with cyanide on her hand. Today her ghost still lingers for justice and closure.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MarionLambertREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3t6yt8t5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Author Troy Taylor tells one of his favorite true ghost tales – it’s the haunting story of Marion Lambert, the girl in the snow. (The Girl In The Snow) *** A boy thinks

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299:13

THE MAN IN BLACK: A Murder The Police Say Never...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/21

A Washington legal secretary kneels on a Georgetown sidewalk with a dying stranger who names his killer only as the man in black, and by morning the police have no body, no blood, and no interest in anything she saw.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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74:10

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE: What Came Down With The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/21

The classic story from sci-fi legend, H.P. Lovecraft. A surveyor sent to map a valley west of Arkham for a new reservoir walks out onto five acres of gray dust where nothing grows, and the one old man still living within sight of it is the only person in the county who will tell him why.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-colouroutofspaceSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Color Out of Space” by H. P. Lovecraft: http://bit.ly/2MfD40ZWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark

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109:59

Skeletons Under The Floor Of Oliver's Ferry | #WDRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/21

The ferryman at Oliver's Ferry wouldn't carry anyone across the narrows after dark, and two centuries later that is still the first thing told about the place. | #WDRadio HOUR ONE: A 178-year-old mystery comes to the surface in a Philadelphia suburb. (Grandfather's Ghost Story Leads to Mass Grave) *** Recently a wrecking crew began tearing down and old building in Rhode Island. But the big burly men on the crew got so frightened they refused to continue the work. Does reconstruction of a home or

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60:49

The Carl Higdon Abduction: The Medicine Bow Non-Human...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/21

Carl Higdon went into the Medicine Bow National Forest for elk in October 1974, and what he described afterward has been picked apart by physicians, hypnotists and skeptics ever since without anybody arriving at an explanation.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CarlHigdonAbductionREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3hppszdyFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In October 1974, Carl Higdon ventured into Wyoming's wilderness for

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37:28

I HAVE GINGERVITIS AND MY POWERS ARE FADING: Strange...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/20

A cartoon says I have no soul, a hair-dye company says I'm going extinct, and a folklorist in Illinois says you should rub my head. I've been a redhead for fifty-seven years, and this is what the world thinks about me… and what God thinks of me. Oh, and you too if you are a redhead, a Ginger, a copper top, or whatever other moniker you've been tagged with due to your hair color.Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and

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105:04

BEST LEAVE ALONE: The Church On The Crooked Hill |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/20

A London land agent sent to appraise two Highland fields for a wealthy client takes an interest in the crooked hill on the horizon, and learns that the village has no owner's name for it, no road left open to it, and no intention of discussing it with him.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-BestLeaveAloneSOURCES and RESOURCES: “On a Hill” by Michael Whitehouse: https://amzn.to/4ewUEGKWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight

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304:19

THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLE-STAR: Something Is Out There...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/20

Three months out of Dundee and anchored to unbroken Arctic ice, a whaling crew starts hearing something come aboard at night and go straight down into the captain's locked cabin.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, “The

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83:55

MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE: The Stepmother, The Rice, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/20

When a detective’s daughter vanished in 1930s Denver, it looked like a kidnapping — but what unfolded behind closed doors was a domestic nightmare involving poison, deception, and a stepmother with a deadly secret.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MurderWithoutMotiveREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9xsndeFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: They found the first body stuffed inside the church library’s closet. Then a

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300:50

SHADOW OF LOVE: A Haunting Made Of Affection |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

A man who can't bear to be touched, let alone loved, comes home one night convinced that something in the house has grown fond of 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 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Shadow of Love” (October 04, 1978) ***WD00:47:11.996 =

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20:50

WRITE OR VERY WRONG: The New Kid's Notebook Isn't...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

Livia is the three-time champion of her school's scary story contest, and then a new boy shows up in fourth grade with a book he's already published and a red notebook he never opens where anyone can see.“Write Or Very Wrong” by Evan BaughfmanLook 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://pod.link/1655277373Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our

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16:26

“MIMIC” by Martin Pearson: The Short Story Made Into...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

Everybody on the block knew the tall man in the black cloak who never spoke and shut his eyes whenever a woman passed him on the sidewalk, and nobody thought to wonder why until the morning the janitor came running out of the tenement shouting for help.Written in 1942, “Mimic” eventually inspired the 1997 horror film of the same name. The short story was written by Martin Pearson, though you may also know him as Donald A. Wollheim or Darrel G. Raynor, as he used many pseudonyms when writing. The

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