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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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5:58

Something Keeps Turning Up in the Bushes |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/29

A foot and a hand poking from the bushes of an English lane sent police into a thirty-one-hour murder investigation, complete with forensic teams and a sealed-off road — until the pathologist confirmed the body was not what it appeared to be, and it’s a mistake law enforcement keeps making.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/six-doll-corpse-mixupsLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a

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5:52

Parents Brawl Over Seating at a Toledo Kindergarten...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/29

A fight over folding chairs at a Toledo kindergarten graduation sent one mother to the hospital and another parent to jail, and not a single five-year-old got to walk across the stage.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/KindergartenBrawlLook 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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23:49

THE MAN THE CAGES COULDN’T HOLD: True Crime...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/29

When a dry-goods robbery in a river town leaves one clerk shot dead and two thieves drowned, a down-at-heel Ravenmill private eye is called in to put a name to the lone survivor — a soft-spoken scholar who keeps walking out of cages no man should be able to open.EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-mancagescouldntholdTHE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: This episode is inspired by the case of Edward H. Rulloff (1819–1871), a Canadian-born polymath who lived as both a

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296:06

DEVIL’S NUMBER: Thirteen Drops of Blood on a Dead...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/29

Thirteen drops of blood spilled on three-hundred-year-old bones, and a footstep in the dark with only one foot to make it — the kind of Friday the thirteenth that earns the date its bad name.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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48:11

Would a WolfMan Need a Weapon? | Railroad Workers...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/29

For two months in the summer of 1972, a club-wielding, hair-covered creature stalked the railroad tracks of Defiance, Ohio — and the local police took it seriously enough to open an official file.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/WerewolfCentralAUDIOBOOK: “The Black Eyed Kids” by G. Michael Vasey: https://amzn.to/4fIg2vWFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: It’s one of the most gruesome ways movie and television villains dispose of their victims… the

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294:16

"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury | A Dystopian Future...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/28

In a city of three million where every window glows with the flicker of a television screen, one man steps outside to walk the empty streets — and discovers that in 2053, a simple stroll after dark is enough to draw the attention of the law.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 =

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57:46

The Aberdeen Witch Whose Curses Killed for 25 Years...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/28

For twenty-five years, Janet Wishart let all of Aberdeen believe she was a witch — until the day the authorities finally decided to find out what she was capable of admitting under questioning.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/AberdeenWitchFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Janet Wishart loved practicing her evil Satanic magic – and equally loved boasting about it; something you really shouldn’t do if you happen to live in the days of the Great

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9:27

Granite City Field Murder Solved After 33 Years by...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/27

A nude body in a southern Illinois field, a witness who saw a dark pickup truck pull away, and a name no investigator had ever heard until a Houston lab returned a list of distant cousins.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/GraniteCityColdCaseLook 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

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14:11

The $118 Collar That Promises Your Cat Has Opinions |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/27

A Chinese startup says its AI collar translates barks and meows with 94.6% accuracy — but I've got questions.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/pettichat/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 a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird

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17:16

A White Fin, a Greenish Hump, and Three More Nessie...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/27

After half a year of silence on Loch Ness, five reports of an unexplained shape in the water have been logged in the space of eight weeks.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/nessie2026Look 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 a registered trademark

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180:13

(FULL SERIAL!) “The Million Dollar Curse” from I Love...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/27

Jack, Doc, and Reggie encounter a frightened young woman, Sunny Richards, who believes she is doomed by an old family curse tied to murder, money, and the Richards family fortune. The boys try to prove the “curse” is human-made, not supernatural, while the case spirals into attempted murder, desert danger, hidden motives, and a criminal plot behind the supposed curse. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a

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61:42

BELA LUGOSI: The Horror Legend Who Died Penniless and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/27

After playing Dracula hundreds of times on stage and making numerous screen appearances in a variety of roles, Bela Lugosi spent his final years battling addiction, checking himself into a psychiatric ward, accepting charity from strangers, paying his ex-wife one dollar a month in alimony, and watching his career dissolve into Ed Wood's z-grade pictures until his death, after which he was buried in his iconic vampiric cape.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript):

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11:49

She Smashed A Neighbor's Window With A Pipe | What...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/26

A frail woman broke a Saginaw man's front window with a metal pipe on a March afternoon, and what she told the responding officers led police to a locked door in a nearby basement.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/saginaw-basement-escapeLook 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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13:56

A Princeton Apartment On Fire, A Family Cat Dead, A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/26

At 11:16 p.m. on a Saturday in February, a man inside a luxury Princeton apartment dialed 911 to report a fire and a dead body.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/hertgen-brothers/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 a registered trademark. Copyright

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10:11

ANGEL WHITAKER: She Took the Job. He Buried Her Under...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/26

A 37-year-old mother of three left Bristol, Virginia in January 2026 for an assistant manager job 100 miles north — by April her family could not reach her, and by May her sister was filing a missing persons report.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/angel-whitaker/GOFUND ME PAGE: gofundme.com/f/help-us-lay-angel-whitaker-to-restLook 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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301:53

A Sweet Little Old Lady, A Deadly Handshake, And A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/26

“A Point of Time”: When a 90-year-old physicist is dragged away by the secret police of a dystopian regime, his frail sister pays a "harmless" visit to the dictator who ordered the arrest — armed with a single handshake that could rewrite history itself.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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108:57

The Amityville Murders Have A Suspect Nobody Charged...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/26

Before the Amityville house became the most famous haunting in America, a family of six was murdered inside it — and the official story of who pulled the trigger has been falling apart for fifty years.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/AmityvilleSuspectFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Was there another gunman in the notorious Amityville House murders? (The Defeo Family Massacre) *** We’ve all heard of the Headless Horseman – but Sleepy Hollow's

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15:57

Virtually Speechless: A Helicopter Crew, A Mountain...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/25

A senior U.S. intelligence officer aboard a military helicopter watched orange orbs rise from the ground, close within ten feet of his aircraft, then outrun the fighter jets sent to intercept them.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/batch2-uap-filesLook 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

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8:49

Forty Years Behind Old Donation School: The Roberta...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/25

A 22-year-old Virginia Beach librarian was stabbed to death in a field across from her workplace in 1986, and for four decades the man whose DNA was on her body had never crossed a single detective's desk.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/roberta-wallsLook 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

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8:14

Demons in the Hallway: A Crosby Murder Hours After a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/25

A 21-year-old woman died of gunshot wounds inside a Crosby home where deputies had already responded hours earlier to a caller reporting demons.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/crosbymurderdemonsLook 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 a registered

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