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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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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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51:09

THE KLUXEN WOODS MYSTERY: A Babysitter, a Murder, and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/06

A century after 11-year-old Janette Lawrence was brutally murdered walking home from a babysitting job, her ghost is still seen wandering the streets of Madison — seeking justice that never came.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/KluxenWoodsFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I narrate a chapter from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings” by Troy Taylor. The chapter is entitled “1921: Murder at Kluxen’s Woods” - a murder that has

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12:26

LISTENER TERRORS: “Too Perfect”, “The Dead Night”,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/05

Four Micro Terrors listeners, ages seven to twelve, wrote this week's stories: a boy wakes up on the first morning of spring break to a kitchen that's a little too tidy and birds that chirp right on cue; a puddle of red slime shows up beside a dinner chair; two brothers spot a strange light on long pole legs on the walk home from school; and a last-minute babysitter tells a nine-year-old girl she'll be with her forever… and ever… and ever.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart

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11:04

BUTCHER: The Flock At Lake Pleasant |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/05

The tracking data showed the flock flying in a formation that spelled out a word, Butcher, and two weeks later the fisherman who first reported them, Jonathan Butcher, was dead at his wife's hand.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-butcherSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Canada Geese of Lake Pleasant” by A.S. Lowe: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-canada-geese-of-lake-pleasant/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre

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300:39

TO MY DEAR SALADIN: The Cat In Great Aunt Hester's...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/05

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 here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 =

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45:35

SIX SMALL GRAVES: The 1954 Maine Case That Parallels...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/05

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/SixSmallGravesLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music,

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57:06

THE MOSS MAN: The Swamp Stalker of the Everglades

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/05

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/mossmanREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8d573fFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The eerie swamps of Florida hide many secrets, but none as chilling as the legend of

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313:27

TERROR OUT OF SPACE: The Moon Answered Their Radio...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/04

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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Our Own

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8:15

IT SHALL NOT COME AGAIN: Are Those Monsters Real? |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/04

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-ItShallNotComeAgainSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Are Those Monsters Real” by Mike King (submitted to Weird Darkness)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 04,

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