Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

20:33

Siders Case: Indictment Identifies Gary Jr. As The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/27

The indictment read aloud in a Vinton County courtroom Wednesday names how Gary Siders Jr. is related to the child he is accused of abusing, his bond went up by a quarter of a million dollars in the same hearing, and two felony cases no news outlet has reported sit on a docket two counties away.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260827Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get

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49:39

CONTAINMENT FAILURE: Hunting Down Failed Experiments...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/27

A government hunter tasked with tracking down escaped experiments begins to realize the monsters he captures may not be the only things he should fear.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-containmentfailureSOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Hunt Down The Government’s Mistakes” by Devon Hoover: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39m68p6wWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 27, 2026LIKE WHAT

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301:28

A BODY WITH NO TICKET: Murder On The Manchester...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/27

A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished from the moving train, leaving behind a dead young man with no ticket, no labels in his clothing, and six American watches in his pockets.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

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74:13

Dickens, Seances, and Why Ghosts Still Wear Victorian...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/27

Nobody in the Victorian era who claimed to see a ghost described lace and corsets – that look came from the magazine trade that discovered ghost stories were cheap to print and easy to cut to length.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VictorianGhostsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4p69wekwFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Victorian-era ghosts… they seem to haunt not only our imaginations, but also our Halloween

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7:42

An Omaha Bank Robbery Was Planned With Help From...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

Deron Lewis-Payne asked a chatbot about law enforcement response times and how to get ammunition as a felon; the phone holding those questions ended up in the federal record, and he's serving 121 months.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/WDN20260826-ChatGPTBankRobberLook 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/1078714736WeirdDarkness® is a

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12:13

Philadelphia's Chucky Mask Suspect Arrested in Las...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

Philadelphia police say a man in a white doll mask spent the early morning of August 12th chasing strangers around City Hall, and on the night of August 25th, U.S. Marshals took him into custody at a Las Vegas apartment complex roughly two thousand miles away.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/wdn20260826-chuckymaskLook 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

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13:52

The UFO Files Went Public And Distrust Hit A New High...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

Five batches of declassified UAP records have gone up on a Department of War website since May, and two national surveys fielded in the same July stretch came back eighteen points apart on whether Americans think officials are still holding something back.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ufonewseffectLook 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:

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18:28

The Woman Who Faked Being 12 to Get Adopted in...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

A couple in southern Brazil spent fourteen months raising a traumatized girl who had escaped an abusive home with no documents and no family, and the daughter they threw a birthday party for is a thirty-eight-year-old convicted of fraud and sitting in the women's prison in Joinville.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/joinville-false-child/Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list

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56:34

The Figure In Black And The Belfast Cop Who Hunted...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

Clearing out his late mother's attic, a man finds a box holding his uncle's folded RUC uniform and a small leather notebook – the private diary of a West Belfast detective working the worst months of the Troubles, who by his second entry has started writing about a hooded figure that keeps appearing at his crime scenes.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-belfastcopSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Troubles of a Belfast Police Officer” by Finn

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75:48

The Alaskan Hotel: Room 315, Time Slips, and Blood on...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

The Alaskan Hotel has stood in Juneau since 1913, and the guests who ask for Room 315 by name do not always stay the night.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AlaskanHotelREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4r83875sFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Alaskan Triangle is already known for strange and bizarre activity – so it should be no surprise that a hotel located in the triangle might experience a few bumps in the

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300:07

The Locked Trunk: A Colonial Ghost Story from Henry...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/25

In colonial Massachusetts, a dying woman made her husband lock her gowns and jewels in an attic trunk and swear that her sister would never open it – a promise Henry James turned into one of the coldest ghost stories he ever wrote.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

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52:38

THE ANCIENT TOME OF VENGEANCE – The Last Book In A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/25

A collector of rare books finds a shop hidden among the side streets where every shelf stands empty except for one table of leather volumes about murder, and the old proprietor keeps his best one on a back shelf – untitled, buckled shut, and handwritten in a script that changes from section to section.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ancienttomeSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Acts of Vengeance” by G.L. Bouwman: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/392b52shWeirdDarkness® is a

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59:08

THE DEVIL IN THE MIRROR: Criminals Who Blamed Demons...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/25

Across five decades and three continents, killers have handed police the same explanation for the bodies they left behind – a demon made them do it. Can demonic possession be blamed for murder, or is it just the ultimate excuse for the inexcusable?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DevilInTheMirrorREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8pumw8FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From serial killers to seemingly ordinary

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301:39

FUTURE FEAR: Some Futures Are Better Left Unwatched |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/24

An old television set starts picking up broadcasts from years that haven't happened yet, and what the couple watching sees convinces them that some futures are worth killing to prevent.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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18:40

The Psychiatrist and the Woman from Mars |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/24

Theoretical mathematician Charles T. Moore seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Rawlings for an unusual problem—he claims his mathematical breakthrough has given him an uncontrollable ability that terrifies him. The weary doctor, dreaming of retirement and chicken farms, assumes he's dealing with another routine delusion until certain details of Moore's story start sounding disturbingly familiar.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-officevisitSOURCES and RESOURCES:

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116:25

Richard Gallagher, the Psychiatrist Who Screens for...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/24

For twenty-five years, exorcists have been sending a New York psychiatrist the cases they can't explain, and they chose him because they expected him to say no.==========HOUR ONE: Different peoples build their identity around different facets of their culture: the Italians around their food, the Greeks around their architecture, America around expanding waistlines. The Isle of Man, however, has pinned its identity today on low tax rates, motorcycle races and, oh yes… mermaids and fairies. (Catching

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80:27

HAUNTED, HUNTED, AND ABDUCTED: The 20-Year Nightmare...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/24

At twelve, Julie stared at a clawed arm at the end of her bed for seven seconds and then went back to reading, and the two decades that followed are why a UFO investigator spent weeks taking her statement.DEEP-DIVE ARTICLE about Archer Avenue & Resurrection Mary: https://weirddarkness.com/resurrection-mary/EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/EncountersOfJulieREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mtepz5jcFEATURED STORIES IN

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299:36

The Maydew Sisters and the House in Brickett Bottom...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/23

Two sisters walking the Overbury downs at dusk spot a quaint red brick house at the bend of the road in Brickett Bottom, and only one of them can see it.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 Village of Fools” (July 13,

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299:38

The Green Light (Organ) | #RetroRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/23

Fifty dollars a month for a furnished mansion in the country seems like the bargain of a lifetime, right up until they hear organ music in the house where no organ can be found. 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, “Guardian

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12:12

The Laptop Was Closed When The Scene Was Rewritten |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/23

Sam invented a brooding anti-hero for the pilot script she is already late delivering, and the man standing in the background of her footage, the one nobody on the crew hired, is dressed exactly like him.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-worldofherownSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith Conrad (https://www.auditoryanthology.com)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired:

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