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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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70:10

Paranormal Flames That Chased An Alabama Family

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/25

In the summer of 1958, phantom fires struck the Tuck family's Talladega, Alabama home more than fifty times — bread igniting on its own, single garments bursting into flame, sulfur-smelling fires that followed the family across three homes before a nine-year-old confessed to a scheme that never explained the blaze witnessed by police in the yard, or the fires that started when the boy was gone.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/paranormalflamesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full

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10:58

A Drop of Blood and Plastic Fork Solve Arlington...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/24

Fourteen years after Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than a hundred times in her Arlington apartment, a single drop of blood on her bedroom television stand and two plastic forks left on a restaurant table have led police to charge one of her former close friends with capital murder.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/IrasemaChavezLook 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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16:55

Grandmother's Grimoire: Bloodied Feathers and Hidden...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/24

Two sisters flying to Puerto Rico to clear out their grandmother's house find a shoebox of bloodied feathers in the kitchen cupboard, and thirty handwritten journals hidden under a loose tile in the garage.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-grandmothergrimoireSOURCES and RESOURCES: “My Grandmother Left Behind Some Really Dark Secrets” by Evelyn Bertrand: https://tinyurl.com/yy8gx627WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In

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15:31

The Del Rio Smiling Sisters: A Detective Takes the...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/24

In an update to the Caroline Peña murder case, the lead detective has testified that while Kitty Diaz drove the car and threw punches during the assault, she never stabbed anyone — and a judge has dropped her bond from five million dollars to two million, which she still cannot afford to post.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/diazsisters20260723GO FUND ME: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-caroline-penas-childrenLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart

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34:34

Haunted America: The Famous and the Forgotten

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/24

From the vengeful Bell Witch to the lingering spirits of Gettysburg, America is packed with haunted spots that refuse to let go of their ghosts – whether it’s eerie voices in old asylums, shadowy figures in historic mansions, or phantom footsteps in forgotten graveyards. If you’re looking for a brush with the supernatural, these legendary (and lesser-known) locations won’t disappoint.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedAmericaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of

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308:20

The Beauty Queen Who Woke Up in the Year 3000 |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/23

“Adventure of the Beauty Queen”: A woman wakes to a voice from a thousand years in the future, telling her a machine has searched all of history for beauty and found her.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 Queen of

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23:23

“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce (1893) |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/23

A coroner's inquest convenes over a mutilated body in a lonely California cabin, where the only witness swears the thing that killed his friend was standing in plain sight the whole time. (Originally published in the magazine “Town Topics” on December 7th in 1893… a magazine, interestingly enough, not known for horror at all, but more for art, music, and society.)EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-thedamnedthingSOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose

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295:46

Bet With The Angels: Lou Marvin Died, Then Started...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/23

A lifelong friend's death leaves Jason Clark hearing that friend's voice picking winners at the track, an unbroken streak that draws the attention of the bookmakers he's bleeding dry — and when they demand his system at knifepoint, what proof can he offer?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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19:41

The Siders Family's Other House and Their Years Off...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/23

Before sixteen children were found in a single room in Hamden, the Siders family left behind another house in Gallia County — and a renovator says he found it in the same condition.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/siderscase20260722Look 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

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54:13

Alcatraz on the Inside: Life in America's Toughest...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/23

Al Capone begged his way into the prison band, Robert Stroud spent eleven years in the hospital, and every inmate at Alcatraz learned fast that on the Rock, almost everything beyond a meal and a cot had to be earned... and a single broken rule could send you into total silence and darkness in the hole.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/alcatrazREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7sjc7zwCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times

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57:01

THEY LIVE: The Alien Mimics Said to Be Hiding in...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/22

A 2023 book collects accounts of shapeshifting strangers, reptilian visitors, and living doubles, arguing the aliens John Carpenter put on screen may have been walking among us all along.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheyLiveREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycktrfu5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Have you ever felt like something was off about someone you met? What if the truth was more bizarre than you could

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297:53

The Anitra: The Waterlogged Boat That Haunted...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

A waterlogged model boat that keeps appearing wherever Professor Anders goes — dripping, shivering, impossible to be rid of — carries a name, a drowning, and a debt that refuses to stay buried.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

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3:34

Toddler Bound and Left Face-Down for 12 Hours in...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

A 2-year-old in Chambers County was found bound at the wrists, legs, and ankles and left face-down on a bed for more than half a day, and one of the two suspects was dead by his own hand before the arrest ever came.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/bound-toddler-alabamaLook 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

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6:55

Eight Hours Trapped in a Porta-Potty | #WeirdDarkNEWS

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

A man climbed into the waste tank beneath a portable toilet to fish out a dropped bottle of Mountain Dew, and stayed there long enough to require power tools and a fire hose.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/portadewLook 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

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15:34

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

A murderer insists he is perfectly sane, even as he explains in careful detail how he killed the old man and hid the body beneath the floorboards.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-telltaleheartWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 21, 2026

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24:15

The Martians Who Landed in Kentucky and Met a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

When Martian invaders armed with deadly alien weapons arrive in the Kentucky hills to test their arsenal on unsuspecting humans, they make the fatal mistake of choosing Lem Coy—the local moonshiner's 'simple' son who's too dumb to die and strong enough to make extraterrestrials wish they'd stayed home.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-martiansandthecoysSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Martians And The Coys” by Mark Reynolds, originally published in “Imagination Stories

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286:27

Markheim and the Voice Whispering Murder | #RetroRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that theft and worse would be so easy.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, “Murder

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89:11

True Hitchhiking Horror Stories: Killers, Victims,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

A serial killer who kept his victims' heads, a woman held under a waterbed for seven years, and a phantom passenger who vanishes from the back seat — the open road has taken more than its share.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HitchhikingHorrorsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/29xmnbkaFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The open road is a beautiful place where you can make friends that you’d otherwise never meet and have

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6:29

Alabama Teen Charged With Stabbing His Parents Over a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/20

A Baldwin County 911 call brought deputies to a Daphne family's front yard, where a mother lay dead and a father had run house to house leaving bloody handprints on the doors.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/bakerstabbingLook 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

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3:57

A Match Date, a Bottle of Wine, and a Woman Climbing...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/07/20

A Pennsylvania man came home to an opened bottle of wine, a bedroom light he swore he'd left off, and the woman he'd stopped dating months earlier shouting his name through the glass.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/match-date-stalkerLook 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

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