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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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306:10

AN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT: The Blackberry Lane...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/15

A classic tale by M.R. James adapted for radio theater. On a stormy night by the fire, a grandmother forbids her grandchildren to pick a single blackberry in the little lane past Collins's cottage, and when they beg for the reason, she tells them about the hill at the top of it.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “It Has To Be True” (December 20, 1978) ***WD00:46:09.566 = The Black Mass, “An Evening’s Entertainment”

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12:24

THE STAIRWAY: "Five Flights Won't Kill Me" |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/15

Elliot leaves his phone charging on the kitchen counter and takes the stairs down from his fifth-floor Chicago apartment to pick up a package in the lobby, and there's no door at the bottom.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheStairwaySOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Stairway” by Keith Conrad (originally published at http://www.auditoryanthology.com)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired:

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12:06

#BotchedExecutions | Will Purvis And The Noose That...

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2026/10/15

In 1894, Will Purvis dropped through the trapdoor at Columbia, Mississippi, and the noose let go, leaving him alive on the ground. The crowd voted to postpone the hanging, and in 1917 a dying farmer confessed to his part in the murder and said Purvis had nothing to do with it.”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

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13:33

#TwoLostHours | "Oh, Those Eyes" – The Hypnosis Tapes...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/15

On February 22nd, 1964, Boston hypnosis specialist Benjamin Simon regressed Barney Hill to the night of the drive while Betty sat out in the waiting room, and over ten taped regression sessions, five apiece, each of them described being taken aboard a craft and examined. Betty also drew a map of stars she said she'd been shown, and in 1968 an Ohio schoolteacher named Marjorie Fish began five years of building models out of beads and thread, looking for the point in space that would reproduce Betty's

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43:44

ANATOMICAL ANOMALIES: Monsters, Myths, and Medical...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/15

From hearing your own blood and battling endless earworms to noseless societies, double-faced men, and the deadly myths of virgin cures, tonight we dive deep into the eerie, bizarre, and tragic extremes of the human body.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AnatomicalAnomaliesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmjxrbFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A woman in Scotland has never heard silence. Not because of the noise

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15:47

#TwoLostHours | "Do You Believe In Flying Saucers Now?"

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/14

Betty and Barney Hill left Howard's Restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire at 10:05 on the night of September 19th, 1961; a light kept pace with their car down U.S. Route 3, and by the time the kitchen clock in Portsmouth read shortly after five, neither of them could remember a thirty-five-mile stretch of the drive. Betty called Pease Air Force Base two days later, and in November two NICAP members who drove up to Portsmouth worked through a sum nobody had done yet: Colebrook to Portsmouth is about

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18:16

FLOWERING EVIL: Something Was Killing Animals Near...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/14

Her nephew sent her exotic plants from every port of call across the solar system, but there was something about his latest gift from Venus that made the old captain uneasy.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FloweringEvilSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Flowering Evil” by Margaret St. Clair (Planet Stories Summer 1950)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 14, 2026

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14:42

#BotchedExecutions | William Kemmler, The First Man...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/14

On August 6th, 1890, William Kemmler became the first man put to death in the electric chair. After seventeen seconds, a doctor said he was dead, and then the witnesses saw his chest rising and falling.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 13,

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321:14

THE FAMILIAR GHOST: The Footsteps That Followed...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/14

A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl And The Gallows” (May 01, 1945)01:15:29.512 = Jeff Regan, “The Lady With Too Much Hair” (November 06,

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302:10

A WARDEN FOR ALL SAINTS: The Black Figurine From The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/14

A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “A Warden For All Saints” (April 29, 1992)01:29:50.871 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03,

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91:34

FAMILY ANNIHILATORS: John List And The Psychology Of...

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2026/10/14

In November 1971, John List shot his mother, his wife, and his three children inside their Westfield, New Jersey, mansion, then walked out the next morning and stayed free for nearly 18 years. Criminologists at Birmingham City University later went through three decades of British cases like his and found that most of the men responsible had steady jobs, everything from surgeons to postmen to serving police officers, and few of them had a criminal record.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):

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7:46

LEGALLY HAUNTED: The Nyack Ruling And The Buyers...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/13

In 1991 a New York appeals court ruled a house in Nyack haunted as a matter of law, and a survey posted on October 12th says more than half of Americans could be talked into buying a house they knew was haunted. Of the four states said to have laws on it, only two mention the paranormal in a statute, and in both of them the seller doesn't have to bring it up.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/legallyhauntedCITED ARTICLE: Haunted & For Sale:

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27:53

WE'RE CIVILIZED: Taking Mars In The Name Of Earth And...

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2026/10/13

A Western Alliance ship circles Mars at the equator and again from pole to pole, and Captain Thomas H. Griswold, already picturing his name in the history books, finds no buildings and no ruins below, only iron ore and long straight canals that the young civilian expert aboard calls evidence of something.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/werecivilizedSOURCES and RESOURCES: “We're Civilized!” by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton: https://amzn.to/3zL4wgZWeirdDarkness® is

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15:41

#BotchedExecutions | Roxalana Druse, The Last Woman...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/13

In 1887, Roxalana Druse became the last woman New York ever hanged, on a secondhand gallows that used a falling 213-pound weight to jerk her into the air. Her neck didn’t break, and fifteen minutes passed before the doctors pronounced her dead.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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93:39

THE HAT MAN: The Shadow That Spreads From One Family...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/13

Witnesses around the world describe the same faceless man in a wide-brimmed hat, and they say once he appears to one person in a house, another family member is often next.ADDITIONALARTICLE ABOUT THE HAT MAN: https://weirddarkness.com/hat-man/ADDITIONAL ARTICLE ABOUT SHADOW PEOPLE: https://weirddarkness.com/shadow-people/EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HatManAndShadowPeopleREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:

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66:32

STICK MAN: A Mother's Secret And The Boy In The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/12

Martha Whitman doesn't think her six-year-old son Osmond is as sick as his doctors and his father say, so she makes him a deal: she'll throw his pills down the kitchen drain, morning and night, and he'll tell his father he's been taking them.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stickmanSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Stick Man” by Donte-highwater: https://www.inkitt.com/howard23, https://www.youtube.com/@moul4519WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird

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135:43

THE FRESNO NIGHTCRAWLERS: And The Pale Things...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/12

A Fresno, California, family set up a camera by the garage after their dogs kept barking into the dark, and the next morning's footage showed two pale figures with no arms anyone could make out, walking across the front lawn on long legs that seem to bend backward.==========HOUR ONE: There are roads on Long Island that are much more than a line between two points. Some roads contain legends that travel with you on your journey. (Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road) *** In 1981, a cabin in the woods

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43:07

MASHA AND DASHA: Conjoined, Controlled, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/11

Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were born joined at the waist in Moscow in January of 1950; their mother was told they’d died of pneumonia, and Soviet scientists kept the girls for experiments, packing one sister in ice while they took the other’s temperature. Decades later, the British journalist who befriended them came to believe one twin had all the traits of a psychopath and the other had become an empath.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MashaAndDashaREAD or

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43:07

SAY IT THREE TIMES: Bloody Mary, The Secret, And Who...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/11

A Scottish poet published the rules in 1786: a candle, a mirror, an apple, and the face of your future husband looking over your shoulder. The girls who play it now chant a dead woman's name in a dark bathroom instead, a book that sold thirty million copies turned the same trick into a self-help plan, and some of us have carried it into the prayer closet without noticing.Listen through the end for the song “Say It Three Times” by Incorruption, based on this sermon’s message!EPISODE BLOG PAGE

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12:30

CREEGER THE CREEPER: Locked In The Grove City Library...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/10

The doors are locked, the library is dark, and ten-year-old Lucy is about to find out she isn't the only one still inside behind those locked doors.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CreegerSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Creeger the Creeper” by Scott Donnelly, written for http://www.MicroTerrors.com.WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 10, 2026LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS

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