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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor

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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All Episodes

308:33

He Threw the Skull Into the Sea… But It Came Back...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/11

A retired sea captain inherits a lonely seaside cottage — and the skull of a murdered woman that refuses to rest. When he tries to throw it into the sea, the thing comes back screaming… and it wants revenge. | “The Screaming Skull” from CBC Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0553CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ripple Effect” (February 04, 1977)00:46:17.627 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Screaming Skull” (April 01,

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55:14

What Really Happened to the Donner Party: The Horror...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/11

In 1846, 87 pioneers took what they thought was a shortcut to California—but a series of fatal decisions, impossible terrain, and early snowstorms trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where starvation drove survivors to unspeakable acts, and some say the tortured spirits of those who perished still haunt Donner Pass to this very day.IN THIS EPISODE: The tragic demise of the Donner Party has become infamous. But what led to the failed journey, and to the eventual cannibalism some of the party

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8:52

German Tourist Returns Stolen Cathedral Skull After...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

A man in Germany lived with a disturbing secret from his youth for six decades before finally making things right.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/skull-returnedWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #StolenSkull #ViennaCathedral #TrueCrime #Catacombs #DarkHistory #MacabreHistory #HistoricalMystery #DarkTourism #BizarreStories

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4:25

Woman Orders Medication Online, Gets Human Arms and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

A Kentucky woman expected her prescription refill – the shipping company had different body parts in mind.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/human-arms-delivered-instead-medicationWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #HumanBodyParts #ShippingFail #BizarreNews #TrueStory #KentuckyNews #PackageGoneWrong #MedicalSpecimens #CreepyNews #StrangeButTrue

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100:40

NATIONAL PARK DISAPPEARANCES: Cases That Defy Logic...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

Week of November 09, 2025: Hundreds vanish without a trace in America's national parks each year, found miles from where they disappeared in impossible locations—if they're found at all.==========HOUR ONE: Colorado’s best urban legends! *** A pitch black room at an inn, yields to a strange glow. (Comfort At The Comet Inn) *** Each year, hundreds of people simply disappear from parks and forests. What happened to them – and where are they? (People Are Vanishing Into Thin Air In Our National Parks)

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18:01

The Hospital That Traps Night Shift Nurses in Time

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

During her routine midnight shift at Memorial Hospital, Nurse Laura Bennett encounters a colleague in an old-fashioned uniform who reveals she's been trapped working the same night shift for decades, experiencing different eras but never able to leave—and warns Laura she could be next.IN THIS EPISODE: “Shift Walker” by Keith ConradFULLY PRODUCED VERSION:https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/01/14/tales-from-the-blue-line-the-shift-walker/=====Originally aired: November 09, 2025EPISODE PAGE

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32:50

We Thought Mars Was Lifeless... We Were Horribly Wrong

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

Scientists arrive on Mars to conduct nuclear experiments on what everyone assured them was a completely dead and worthless planet, but what they discover in the smoke and fire will fill them with such overwhelming guilt that they'll abandon everything and flee home in shame.IN THIS EPISODE: “Hang Head, Vandal!” by Mark Clifton (Amazing Stories, April 1962)FULLY PRODUCED VERSION:https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/04/03/hang-head-vandal-by-mark-clifton/ MORE Stories Like This:

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43:54

Would Aliens Need Jesus? A Vatican Astronomer Says...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

Recent government hearings have made UFOs and aliens front-page news, and now a Catholic priest says he'd baptize extraterrestrials if asked. But I think before agreeing so quickly to the idea, this priest needs to be asking some really big theological and spiritual questions.SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-alienbaptismWeird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2025.#WeirdDarkness #AlienBaptism #UFODisclosure #AreAliensDemons #VaticanAstronomer

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354:27

WAR OF THE WORLDS (Full Audiobook): The Alien...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/10

The full-length, unabridged audiobook narrated by Weird Darkness host, Darren Marlar. | No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. Envying us. When massive cylinders fell from the sky and buried themselves in the English countryside, curious crowds gathered to witness what they thought was a meteorite. But when those cylinders unscrewed from within, what emerged would shatter humanity's place at the top of

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49:59

THE DEVIL CAME TO DEVON: 100 Miles of Unexplained and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/09

On a freezing February morning in 1855, the terrified residents of Devon, England discovered miles of cloven hoof prints burned into fresh snow—tracks that climbed over rooftops, passed through locked gates, squeezed through four-inch pipes, and seemed to deliberately stop at people's front doors.IN THIS EPISODE: One morning in 1855, citizens of the English town of Devon were surprised to find strange footprints about town in the snow – not just on the street and sidewalks – but on their doorways,

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297:14

Aliens In The Mind: The Island of Telepathic Hybrids

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/09

A dead professor, a remote Scottish island, and a secret population of large-headed telepaths with the ability to control human minds – two scientists uncover a government eugenics conspiracy that's already spreading far beyond the island's shores. Vincent Price stars in this chilling 1970s tale where the real horror isn't what's been created, but what's already walking among us. | #RetroRadio EP0552CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio

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9:23

“Frankenstein’s New Butt” and Other Scary Stories...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/08

“The Creepy Doll” by Joey Sweet, age 9“The Fish” by Mad Alexander, age 10“Frankenstein’s New Butt” by Millie, age 6Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrorsOther stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaUOther narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

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85:32

The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist: What Really Happened

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/08

The shocking true story of a 13-year-old boy's demonic possession in 1949 that terrified priests and inspired the most frightening film ever made.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Part One: The Boy They Called Roland Doe00:02:55.822 = Show Open00:04:58.617 = Part Two: The Boy Who Played With Darkness00:20:24.106 = ***Part Three: Forty-Eight Witnesses to the Impossible00:43:59.220 = ***Part Four: The NASA Engineer Who Fled Every Halloween01:06:26.404 = ***Part Five:

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50:48

THE CONTRAIL CONTROVERSY: White Streaks Over 14...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/08

When a Maine radio reporter counted 30 unmarked jets laying persistent white trails across the sky in 45 minutes and an air traffic controller admitted off-record he'd been ordered by "higher civil authority" to reroute commercial flights away from a military exercise no one would explain, it sparked a global debate that would divide scientists, military officials, and millions of observers across 14 countries for the next two decades.IN THIS EPISODE: The chemtrail conspiracy theory posits the

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288:59

THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Castle Gets Shipped to...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/08

A Scottish ghost cursed to haunt his castle for 200 years finally gets his chance at redemption when an American grocery tycoon ships the entire structure—and its supernatural resident—across the Atlantic, where romance, mistaken identity, and an ancient blood feud collide in sunny Florida. | Globe Theater, “The Ghost Goes West” | #RetroRadio EP0551CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “My Fair Lady-Killer” (January 28,

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3:39

Chinese Woman Accuses Husband of Cheating After...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/07

A $70 online psychic reading nearly destroyed a marriage in China when a wife believed a stranger's predictions over her husband's protests.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/wuhu-fortune-teller-cheating-accusation/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #FortuneTellerScam #OnlinePsychicFraud #MarriageDisaster #PsychicGoneWrong #ChinaNews #BizarreStories #FakePsychic #RelationshipDrama #StrangeButTrue

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8:40

New Homeowner Discovers 69-Year-Old Woman's Body on...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/07

A foreclosure auction led to a grim discovery in a Texas townhome where neighbors noticed warning signs but never knocked on the door.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/pauline-williams-body-found-foreclosureWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #TrueCrime #AddisonTexas #ForeclosureHorror #UnsolvedMystery #BodyDiscovered #TexasCrime #DeadBodyFound #SuspiciousDeath #TrueCrimeStory

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45:12

The Horned Man and the Ghost Train Tragedy of 1979

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/07

A family's day at Sydney's Luna Park ended in flames when a Ghost Train fire killed seven people—including six children—but the last photograph taken before the tragedy has sparked theories of something far more sinister than an accident.IN THIS EPISODE: Some of the most unsettling of urban legends can take place in some of the happiest places on earth. Ghostly children swinging in a playground, phantom-like warriors coming out at night in beautiful Hawaii, but there’s one I never heard of until

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11:56

Blue Dogs Appear in Chernobyl's Radioactive Exclusion...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/06

Dogs roaming near the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster suddenly turned bright blue, baffling caretakers.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/blue-dogs-chernobyl/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #ChernobylDogs #BlueDogs #NuclearDisaster #ChernobylExclusionZone #RadioactiveDogs #ChernobylMystery #AbandonedAnimals #StrangePhenomena #ChernobylWildlife

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12:03

SCARY MONKEY BUSINESS: Escaped Monkey Swings from...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/11/06

A diapered primate turned a Texas Halloween store into its personal jungle gym.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/monkey-loose-spirit-halloween/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.#WeirdDarkness #MonkeyEscape #SpiritHalloween #PlanoTexas #ViralMonkey #HalloweenStoreChaos #ExoticPets #MonkeyVideo #TexasNews #CaughtOnCamera

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