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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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27:00

The Birth of the Nebraska Sea – The Ocean That Ate...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/05

It started with dust instead of smoke over an empty stretch of Colorado in the summer of 1973, and by the time anyone understood what the land was actually doing, the middle of the country had already begun to drop.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-nebraskaseaSOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Great Nebraska Sea” by Allan Danzig (Galaxy Magazine August 1963)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally

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7:15

(AUG 04, 2026 UPDATE) Siders Case: Grandfather Freed,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/05

One Siders defendant walks free on a signature bond. The last of the four asks a judge whether she's fit to stand trial at all.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260804Siders Case: Vinton County Child Endangerment Case, July 15 Coverage – Weird DarkNEWSThe Siders Family's Other House and Their Years Off the Grid – Weird DarkNEWS, July 22The 16 Siders Children: Vinton County Seeks Permanent Custody – Weird DarkNEWS, July 29Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts,

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5:50

A Disc Beside the Wing: Gatwick's Flying-Saucer...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/05

A commercial crew descending into Gatwick watched a dark-rimmed disc pass within a few hundred feet of the right wing, and the radar recorded nothing there at all.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/gatwicksaucer/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://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is

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66:59

Montague Summers – The Priest Who Hunted Vampires,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/05

Dressed like a 17th-century priest and armed with a library of ancient texts, Montague Summers devoted his life to proving that witches, vampires, and werewolves weren’t just folklore — they were terrifyingly real.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/montaguesummersREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/montague20260803FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Can a priest believe in witches, werewolves, and vampires? The answer is yes

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4:58

Naked Man Claiming to Be Jesus Crashes Into Detroit...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/04

Around three in the morning on July 31st, a naked man drove his car through the front doors of a Baptist church on Detroit's west side, rolled to a stop inside the vestibule, and told the people who arrived that he was Jesus Christ; nobody was hurt, and Detroit police say any charges wait on the results of a mental health evaluation.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/NakedJesusCrashLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn

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13:36

The Harmon Children: Six Dead in a Mechanicville...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/04

Six members of one family were found dead in a Mechanicville, New York apartment in June; by August, investigators had ruled the four children's deaths homicides and the mother's and grandmother's deaths suicides, and said the two women planned the killings by text in the days before the kids were to leave for a court-ordered summer with their father.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/HarmonChildren20260804Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio,

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17:24

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER (H.P. Lovecraft) |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/04

Two men carried spades and a telephone line into an ancient swamp cemetery after midnight, and only one of them stayed above ground.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-randolphcarterSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Statement of Randolph Carter” by H.P. Lovecraft: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-statement-of-randolph-carter/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 04, 2026

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102:23

CATTLE MUTILATIONS: The Connection To Bigfoot, Alien...

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2026/08/04

Alien abductions, cryptid creatures, secret government programs, portals to other worlds, cattle mutilations – the San Luis Valley may be the strangest and most terrifying place you’ve never heard of.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CattleMutilationsFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We’ve had several episodes before about mysterious locations that are host to strange, paranormal activity. Skinwalker Ranch, for example, or The Bennington Triangle, or even the harsh

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302:50

The 10,000-Year Brain That Would Not Die (I Am Your...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/03

There is a story about a man who knew everything the world would ever know because he claimed to be born ten thousand years too soon — a man who could foresee every future but his own, and who spent his life searching for the one person alive who could tell him how he would 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

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111:24

Berzerk and Polybius: The Twin Legends of Killer...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/03

In 1982, an 18-year-old dropped dead after playing the arcade game Berzerk — and decades of half-truths, copycat rumors, and a real murder at the same machine turned it into legend. We separate fact from fiction on the Berzerk curse and its shadowy cousin, Polybius, the government mind-control game that may or may not have ever existed.==========HOUR ONE: It’s rumored that an arcade game from 1980 might lead to the real death of its players. We’ll look at the death curse of Berzerk. (The Berzerk

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301:46

The Ghost Who Judged Her Every Suitor: Edmund Orme |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/03

Every time David Delano tries to propose to the beautiful Charlotte Marsden, a figure in old-fashioned evening dress appears in the room — visible only to him and to Charlotte's mother — and neither of them will explain who he is or why he keeps coming back.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

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45:39

THE SKIES ARE WATCHING: UFO Events From Roswell to...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/03

From a New Mexico ranch in 1947 to a Navy fighter jet in 2004, we trace ten of history's most famous UFO encounters — the eyewitnesses who saw them, the governments who denied them, and the questions that still won't go away."EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/skiesarewatchingREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4hfn747dCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:06:39.225 = Show

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22:22

Slender Man, Walking Sam, and the God We Carved From...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/02

Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114Two doctored photographs posted to a comedy forum in 2009 spread, through thousands of anonymous contributors, into a mythology detailed enough that two eleven-year-old girls stabbed a friend nineteen times to prove their worth to it. Six years later, a South Dakota reservation would

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306:44

The Secret of Shen Si: The Widow of a Thousand...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/02

A young bride's uncanny knowledge of history's deadliest catastrophes convinces her husband she's hiding something — but the truth behind her secret is older than he could ever imagine.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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55:27

SLENDERMAN: BLURRING THE LINES OF REALITY – The Truth...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/02

The Slender Man began as two photographs and a caption, submitted to an internet forum in 2009 as nothing more than a creepy image contest. Within five years, people across the country were treating him as real – and some proved just how far that belief could go.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SlendermanREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8ka2reFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In 2009, a photograph appeared on an

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26:13

SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/01

Scout Brooks just wants to survive his first day of seventh grade — but a mysterious after-school astronomy club, run by an even stranger professor, has him wondering exactly what he's signed up for.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://pod.link/1655277373Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!Facebook

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26:29

THE ELEVATOR IN THE WOODS: The Boy Who Came Back |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/01

Two best friends sneak out on the first night of summer break and find a working elevator standing alone in the middle of the woods — and the moment they step inside, the way home stops making sense.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ElevatorInTheWoodsSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Elevator In The Woods” by Adrian Johnson: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-elevator-in-the-woods/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired:

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11:25

(JUL 29, 2026 UPDATE) The Siders Case: The Twin...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/01

Records that surfaced in the weeks after the Siders children were found also describe a set of conjoined twins who died in 2022, two more underage marriages inside the extended family, and a stalled Ohio bill that would have raised the marriage age before any of it happened.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/siderscase20260731Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free

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45:03

History’s Oddest Individuals And Sinister Psychopaths

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/08/01

From bathing in girls’ blood to making homemade conjoined twins, we’ll look at a few famous psychopaths who are truly some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world. Plus, whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history’s oddest individuals put modern-day eccentricities to shame.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/oddindividualsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdeejyx2CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS

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43:56

The Necropolyst: The Professor Who Kept the Dead as...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/31

This episode covers real-life horror far more extreme than usual, including a Russian professor arrested in 2011 for keeping the mummified corpses of 29 women and girls in his apartment, each one fitted with a hidden music box. It also includes the story of a 19th-century whiskey heir who paid six handkerchiefs for a 10-year-old girl so he could watch cannibals kill and eat her, and the theory that Alexander the Great was declared dead nearly a week before he actually died. Content is more graphic

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