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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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302:08

THE SEVENTH VICTIM: A Legal Killer Finds His Target...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/20

In a future where the government runs legal murder, a clothing man on his seventh hunt tracks his victim to a sidewalk cafe in New York and finds her sitting alone with both hands on the table.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Complete Recovery” (January 01, 1979) ***WD00:47:03.252 = Witch’s Tale, “The Priest of Sekhet” (February 27, 1933) ***WD(LQ)01:13:22.062 = X Minus One, “Seventh Victim” (March 06,

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313:47

THE DEAD HOUSE: Thirty-Six Corpses Wired To A Bell,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/20

Mark Twain's errand on the Mississippi began in a Munich morgue, where 36 shrouded corpses lie wired to a bell and a dying American asked him to save his soul.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dead House” (December 29, 1978) ***WD00:46:13.308 = Suspense, “Fugue In C-Minor” (June 01, 1944) ***WD01:16:07.828 = The Creaking Door, “Haunted Hangman” (May 25, 1964) ***WD01:45:44.388 = The Saint, “Real Gone Guy” (July

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80:03

MA BARKER: The Lake Weir Shootout Of 1935 And The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/20

On January 16th, 1935, federal agents poured more than 1,500 rounds into a two-story house on Lake Weir in Ocklawaha, Florida, and when the shooting stopped, Fred Barker and his mother, Ma Barker, were dead inside, and visitors to the empty house say an old woman's cries still come from behind its bullet-riddled walls.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaBarkerREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jtk393c3FEATURED STORIES IN

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22:03

#BotchedExecutions | Twenty-Three Breaths And A Steel...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/19

In the early 1980s, a witness swore flames rose from a man's leg in Virginia's chair, Alabama needed three jolts to kill John Evans, and Mississippi's gas chamber left Jimmy Lee Gray striking his head on a steel pole. In Georgia, "Repeat the execution" was the commissioner's answer when an official told a tape recorder that Alpha Otis Stephens was still alive.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar

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15:01

#BotchedExecutions | Five Shocks For Ethel Rosenberg

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/19

On June 19th, 1953, Julius Rosenberg died in Sing Sing's electric chair, and minutes later his wife, Ethel, took his place. After the shocks that had killed him, the doctors still heard her heartbeat, and the executioner asked, "Want another?"From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird

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22:52

SPACE-LANE OF NO-RETURN: Two Rookies Against The Only...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/19

Nord Holber and Mike Doren have spent three days fishing a single rock out of the asteroid belt, and when a colonel on the visiphone reports that the pirate Dhain Kadine has robbed the Jovian Nymph and is running for the asteroids below them, they're the only ship in his way.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SpaceLaneSOURCES and RESOURCES:“Space-Lane of No-Return” by George A. Whittington (Planet Stories Summer 1946)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright

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88:20

THE CHANGELING HOUSE: The Real Denver Haunting Behind...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/19

In the first hour, Weird Darkness Radio digs into the archive for Halloween stories, with the Denver haunting behind the film The Changeling, the Halloween-night disappearance of Penn State student Cindy Song, Europe's werewolf trials, the history of the Ouija board, and how to support a friend after a paranormal experience. Weird Darkness Radio stays with Halloween itself in the second hour, covering how trick-or-treating nearly died during World War II, where the holiday's customs come from, the

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76:03

THE STRANGEST TRUE CASES OF MASS HYSTERIA: Meowing,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/19

When terror takes hold of the mind, whole communities descend into madness – meowing like beasts, dancing to exhaustion, and vanishing into the grip of something seemingly paranormal and demonic.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MassHysteriaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p94wm9pFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Nuns that meow like cats, people who can’t stop laughing maniacally, an entire high school begins

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301:42

NO WAY OUT: The Number 2172 Kept Finding Edgar Logan...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/18

Edgar Logan lives at 21 South 72nd, and 2172 is the number on the taxi that sideswipes his car, on the lunch check his nephew adds up for him, and on the pink telephone in the apartment he's just gotten for a girl who reads destiny in numbers.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “No Way Out” (December 27, 1978) ***WD00:46:19.059 = Ellery Queen, “World Series of Crime” (October 02, 1943) ***WD01:17:07.604 = Quiet Please,

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279:19

THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME – HALLOWEEN: The Full...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/18

Curtis Richards' 1979 novelization of John Carpenter's Halloween opens on the eve of Samhain in ancient Ireland, where a druid king's shaman curses a murderer's soul to roam the earth until the end of time. Centuries later, in Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers has started hearing voices that tell him to say he hates people.A NOTE FROM DARREN: This is the full novelization of the 1978 horror film classic, John Carpenter's Halloween. The novel I'm sharing here has been out of print

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14:28

#BotchedExecutions | Willie Francis Walks Away From...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/18

In 1946, Louisiana strapped seventeen-year-old Willie Francis into its portable electric chair, and from under the hood he cried out for them to take it off. He walked away alive, lost at the Supreme Court by one vote, and went back to the chair a year later.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright

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41:50

DORIS BITHER: The 1974 Culver City Haunting That...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

In the cramped bedroom of her Culver City home, Doris Bither yelled at the spirits, and the investigators with her watched a green mist form into the upper body of a muscular man. Her eldest son watched something invisible throw his mother around the room, and when he tried to step in, it threw him across the room too. Dr. Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor doubted Doris Bither's story of three invisible attackers until they saw the bruises across her body.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):

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68:24

PORTAL IN THE PASTURE: Five People Watched David Lang...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

On the afternoon of September 23rd, 1880, David Lang waved to two men in a buggy, took another step across his open pasture near Gallatin, Tennessee, and disappeared in the middle of that step.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DavidLangREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p93efjfFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: What if your thoughts, your self, your very awareness… weren’t inside your brain at all, but woven into the

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24:54

#TwoLostHours | The Abduction Every Story After Was...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

Last episode for the full book! If you like what you heard, please feel free to leave a review at https://weirddarkness.com/review-twolosthoursIn 1987 the folklorist Thomas Bullard studied some three hundred abduction accounts and wrote that the Hill case defines the typical one, and by then Barney Hill had been dead for nearly eighteen years; after Betty died in 2004 she was buried beside him in Kingston, and her plaque carries the same line as his, "of The Interrupted Journey". The dress she wore

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64:41

THE LIBRARY IS NOW CLOSED: A Grove City Halloween...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

A sequel to “The Grove City Werewolf” episode (https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-grovecitywerewolf/). Sean Dyer comes back to Grove City, Ohio, for Halloween weekend and finds plywood where one of the library's glass doors used to be, and the girl now living next door to his aunt and uncle says the news has the break-in all wrong.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-gravecitylibraryWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The

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14:03

#BotchedExecutions | Eva Dugan And The Shroud She...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

In 1930, Eva Dugan spent her last night at the Florence prison playing whist, and at dawn she went to the gallows. The drop took her head off, and three years later Arizona's voters replaced the noose with lethal gas.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired:

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14:52

#BotchedExecutions | Black Jack Ketchum And The Rope...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

In 1901, New Mexico Territory hanged Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum for holding up a train, and the drop was set at seven feet. When the trap fell, the rope took his head off.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutionsWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: October 16,

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RENDLESHAM FOREST: UFOs, Cover-Ups, and the Men in Black

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/17

Who were the shadowy men in black who stalked UFO researchers after the Rendlesham Forest incident — and what secrets were they so desperate to keep buried? What connects a deadly UFO encounter on Maury Island in 1947 to shadowy men in black and decades of chilling threats against those chasing the truth?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RendleshamForestREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y6byvu5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS

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301:29

THE POWER OF EVIL: The Woman Who Bankrolled A Gambler...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/16

A clerk at the American consulate in Hong Kong turns down a marriage proposal from the wealthy woman who's been bankrolling his roulette system in Macau, then agrees to one last ride with her in the big yellow rickshaw her family has kept for years.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Power Of Evil” (December 22, 1978) ***WD00:45:41.645 = The Black Museum, “Calibre Bullet” (January 08, 1952) ***WD01:09:49.608 =

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66:27

THE MARY CELESTE MYSTERY: Empty Decks And Endless...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/16

What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste — the ghost ship found drifting at sea with no crew, no lifeboat, and no answers?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaryCelesteREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mxz7xmkuFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Mary Celeste was discovered abandoned near the Azores Islands on December 5, 1872 — and to this day, experts are unsure about what happened to its crew. (The Mystery of the

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