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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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17:02

#BotchedExecutions | John Lee, The Man They Couldn't...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/10

On the morning he was to hang at Exeter in 1885, John Lee told his warders he'd dreamed the scaffold wouldn't work. Then the hangman pulled the lever again and again, and the trapdoor under Lee never opened.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 09,

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301:13

WARD SIX: The Only Man In Town Worth Talking To Was...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/10

A small-town Russian doctor who's given up on his filthy hospital starts spending hours in the ward for the insane out back, talking philosophy with one of the patients.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, “Ward Six” (December

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59:48

ALIEN HAND SYNDROME: The Uncontrollable Monster At...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/10

For more than a century, doctors have been recording patients whose hands act on their own, from unbuttoning a shirt to closing around the patient's own throat. Hollywood was making movies about murderous hands by the 1930s, decades after the reality of it was discovered.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AlienHandSyndromeREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5aba6abcFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Imagine losing control of

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11:25

BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Wallace Wilkerson And The Firing...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/09

In March 1879, the Supreme Court said a firing squad wasn't cruel and unusual punishment. Two months later in Provo, Wallace Wilkerson refused the blindfold, the rifles missed his heart, and he took 27 minutes to die.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:

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28:44

THE DARK REALM: Something Is Floating At The Edge Of...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/09

Seventeen months after the war's official end, a six-man survey crew of ex-servicemen hikes into the jungle behind Co Khao to lay markers for a French power company, and on their first night, after a ball of blue light crosses the twilight sky, they find a smooth black sphere hanging a foot off the ground at the edge of the trees.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DarkRealmSOURCES and RESOURCES: “THE BLACK SPHERE” by Patrick GreeneAuthor Patrick Greene on

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312:17

A HORROR STORY: The Diary Behind The Chimney Brick On...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/09

In 1829 New Orleans, a shoemaker whose slippers are the softest in town turns down the fabric a wealthy father brings in for his daughter's debut and insists on using his own material.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, “A

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39:39

EDMUND KEMPER: The Co-Ed Killer Had A University...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/09

Santa Cruz students were told to accept rides only from cars with a university parking sticker, and Edmund Kemper, a six-foot-nine man who'd killed his grandparents at fifteen, had one because his mother worked on campus.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/EdmundKemperREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/59bkpj6yFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: “I just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma.” “When I see a pretty

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17:13

SIDERS CASE: Grandfather's Charges Dismissed,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/08

A Vinton County judge has dismissed all 16 counts against Gary Siders Sr. while keeping jurisdiction over him for a possible civil commitment; his wife's lawyer now wants a dementia specialist, and the lawyer for the mother of the 16 children won't say whether she's pregnant again.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20261008Look 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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79:28

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW: Ichabod Crane And The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/08

A lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut rides home alone from an autumn party at the Van Tassel farm on a borrowed plow horse named Gunpowder, along the same roads the people of Sleepy Hollow say belong at night to the ghost of a Hessian trooper, still out looking for the head a cannonball took from him.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LegendOfSleepyHollowSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Legend of Sleep Hollow” by Washington Irving: https://tinyurl.com/9ra9bj4WeirdDarkness®

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303:32

THE EXPLODING HEART: A Father's Ghost And An...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/08

In 1957, a young surgeon finds an aneurysm the size of a grapefruit on the chest X-rays of the man his sister is about to marry, and that night his dead father sits down across the fire to talk the case through.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

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20:30

BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Half-Hangit Maggie And The Man...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/08

Margaret Dickson was hanged in Edinburgh in 1724 and began moving in her coffin when the men taking her home stopped for a drink. In 1803, in Sydney, three ropes in a row failed to hang Joseph Samuel.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 07,

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76:40

THE SINISTER MEN IN BLACK: Fake Reporters, Missing...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/08

Two men who said they were newspaper reporters spent forty-five minutes inside Danny Gordon's house while he was chasing the Wytheville, Virginia, UFO sightings, one asking the questions while the other walked the rooms with a camera, and the paper they named had no record of either man.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SinisterMIBREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr2h8xt3FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The mysterious

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78:25

THE TOY BOX FROM TOMORROW: Mimsy Were The Borogoves |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/07

In the spring of 1942, seven-year-old Scott Paradine was playing hooky down by the creek when a scorched metal box tumbled down the bank, packed with toys no store on Earth had ever stocked – an abacus whose beads slid off in a direction no grown-up could follow, a crystal cube full of tiny people who did whatever he thought at them, and a doll whose insides didn't match any anatomy chart. Scott and his two-year-old sister Emma figured the toys out fast, their father couldn't work them at all, and

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303:27

THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN: The Psychic Detective Who Finds...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/07

Lord Carnavan's wife lends a visiting sheikh her carved Indian jewel box for one afternoon, and the morning after she wears her diamond necklace to Buckingham Palace, the necklace is gone from the locked box and her husband wants the psychic detective next door on the case.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

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37:55

BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Christa Pike And The Woman Who...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/07

Tennessee gave Christa Pike two doses of pentobarbital on September 30th, 2026, and she survived both. In 1650, Anne Greene hung for almost half an hour at Oxford, and when the anatomists opened her coffin, she was breathing.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar, https://amzn.to/4yLF5oo, sources at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions.WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright

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46:29

HOMICIDAL SLEEPWALKING: The Sleepwalker’s Alibi – Is...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/07

You go to bed like any other night… but by morning, someone is dead — was it a dream, or did you kill while still deep in sleep?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HomicidalSleepwalkingREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckud24pFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: At least 68 cases of sleepwalking murder have reached a courtroom, giving a jury the unenviable task of deciding whether a murder committed while asleep means

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28:12

SIX FRIGHTENED MEN: The Shapeshifting Terror of...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/06

Six members of a space expedition find themselves hunted by a shapeshifting monster that appears from nowhere on a desolate alien world, seeming to pick them off one by one.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SixFrightenedMenSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Six Frightened Men” by Randall Garrett (Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ June 1957)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM),

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16:40

THE HOROSCOPE RACKET: The Astronomers Who Took On The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/06

The skyrockets at a Mars casino town's Marsy Gras keep ruining $1,000 photographs of the night sky at the Mars Observatory, so the astronomers start offering tourists free horoscopes, and every one warns the reader he'll lose consistently at Harvey's Club.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HoroscopeRacketSOURCES and RESOURCES: “$1,000 A Plate” by Jack McKenty: https://amzn.to/3NcdSFoWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The

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38:25

DAVID GRUSCH ON JOE ROGAN: Reptilians, Greys, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/06

On The Joe Rogan Experience, former intelligence officer David Grusch described video of human-looking bodies at a crash site, passed along a secondhand account of a deadly clash with living reptilians, and alleged a criminal ring inside a federal agency. Author Timothy Alberino says most of it should come as no shock to longtime UFO researchers, and Grusch predicts the evidence he says exists, none of it public yet, will come out before President Trump leaves office.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes

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314:03

THE CASE OF THE BURNING SKULL: The Shadow Hunts A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/05

The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.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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