Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

83:55

MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE: The Stepmother, The Rice, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/20

When a detective’s daughter vanished in 1930s Denver, it looked like a kidnapping — but what unfolded behind closed doors was a domestic nightmare involving poison, deception, and a stepmother with a deadly secret.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MurderWithoutMotiveREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9xsndeFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: They found the first body stuffed inside the church library’s closet. Then a

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300:50

SHADOW OF LOVE: A Haunting Made Of Affection |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

A man who can't bear to be touched, let alone loved, comes home one night convinced that something in the house has grown fond of him.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, “Shadow of Love” (October 04, 1978) ***WD00:47:11.996 =

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20:50

WRITE OR VERY WRONG: The New Kid's Notebook Isn't...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

Livia is the three-time champion of her school's scary story contest, and then a new boy shows up in fourth grade with a book he's already published and a red notebook he never opens where anyone can see.“Write Or Very Wrong” by Evan BaughfmanLook 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

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16:26

“MIMIC” by Martin Pearson: The Short Story Made Into...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

Everybody on the block knew the tall man in the black cloak who never spoke and shut his eyes whenever a woman passed him on the sidewalk, and nobody thought to wonder why until the morning the janitor came running out of the tenement shouting for help.Written in 1942, “Mimic” eventually inspired the 1997 horror film of the same name. The short story was written by Martin Pearson, though you may also know him as Donald A. Wollheim or Darrel G. Raynor, as he used many pseudonyms when writing. The

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61:18

ALIENS, ANOMALIES, AND AREA 51: Venturing Into The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

More aircraft and people vanish here than in the Bermuda Triangle – but no one can explain why.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/NevadaTriangleREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yaffy7a4FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Werewolves being spotted in Wisconsin have been reported as far back as 1936. Then again in 1964 and 1972. But there had been nothing like the reports that came out of the area near Delavan, starting in

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7:12

THE WEAPON: Progress Has No Conscience |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/18

Dr. James Graham is building the ultimate weapon, and on an ordinary quiet evening a small, harmless-looking stranger knocks on his door asking only for a few minutes of conversation — a few minutes readers of Frederic Brown have been unable to shake for seventy years.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-theweaponSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Weapon” by Frederic Brown (from 1951): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6prpd2nWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright

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306:28

THE FOREVER ALLEY: What Happens To A Bowling Alley...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/18

There's only one way out of the Forever Alley, a cop was parked in front of it all night, and the man inside still vanished.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 Forever Alley” (October 02, 1978) ***WD00:47:30.644 = CBC

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14:36

The Kruger Poacher, The Elephants, And The Buffalo...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/18

SANParks has now confirmed that elephants trampled a suspected poacher in Kruger National Park and that his body was found intact, which is the one detail the version of his death that traveled the world can't survive.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/KrugerPoacherLook 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

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86:40

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE: The Confession Hoover...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/18

Six years after seven men were machine-gunned in a Chicago garage, a captured gangster named the killers to the FBI, and J. Edgar Hoover spent two years denying he had ever said a word.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ValentinesDayMassacreREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/faw4hz5nLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast

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14:19

SIDERS CASE: Mother Of 16 Pleads Not Guilty To 23...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/17

Elizabeth Siders pleaded not guilty Wednesday to twenty-three counts across two Vinton County indictments, and her attorney declined to say whether the mother of the sixteen children taken from the Ohmer Street house is pregnant again.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260917Look 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:

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58:12

“THE BIRDS” The Short Story That Inspired Hitchcock’s...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/17

Few know of the original short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic horror film, “The Birds” - but it’s that story that I’m sharing with you tonight.THE STORY: On December 3rd the wind turns east and winter lands overnight on a Cornish peninsula, where Nat Hocken, a part-time farm worker living on a wartime disability pension, wakes to something tapping at the bedroom window. By dawn there are fifty dead birds on the floor of his children's room, and out in the bay the gulls are massing by

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9:08

THE ZIP-TIE VIDEO: Seven Women Now Tied To The Horsch...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/17

Philadelphia police have finally described, on the record, the video from 417 W. Chew Avenue in which Raymond Horsch tightens a zip tie around a handcuffed woman's neck; two more women who appear dead have turned up in his photographs, which puts seven women at the house with the FBI less than a third of the way through more than a million files.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/HorschHouse20260916Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon

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306:58

THE TRAP: A Free Sample Arrives At The Hunting Cabin...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/17

Two men on a hunting vacation in the Adirondacks wake to find a small metal box sitting in their cabin doorway, a tag on top calling it a free promotional model of a brand-new kind of trap.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,

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48:12

THELMA TODD: Ghost Of The Ice Cream Blonde And Her...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/17

The staff of Thelma Todd's old café on the Pacific Coast Highway still see a blonde woman near the steps to the garage, which is the last place anyone saw the actress alive in December of 1935.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ThelmaToddREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jmumccrtFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: She was sexy, she was flirtatious… then she was dead. Who killed actress Thelma Todd, and why does her ghost

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16:18

ALTERNATE PROGRAMMING: The Feed Came From Somewhere...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/16

The overnight crew at a small farm-town TV station spent two hours broadcasting a late-night talk show that nobody in their world had made.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-alternateprogrammingSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Alternate Programming” by Keith Conrad (Auditory Anthology, April 2025), https://www.auditoryanthology.comWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 16, 2026LIKE

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301:31

GRANDFATHER'S SEVERED HEAD: He Wants Another One...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/16

A young engineer brings his pregnant wife home to the Philippine mountains, where his grandmother insists the only thing that will quiet his beheaded grandfather's ghost is the head of his wife's grandfather.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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63:17

The Two Lost Hours Of Betty And Barney Hill (65 Years...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/16

Sixty-five years ago this week, a Portsmouth couple drove home through the White Mountains and arrived hours later than they’d planned; the story of what happened in that gap became the template for the modern alien abduction narrative, and the psychiatrist who drew it out of them believed half of it.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full script): https://weirddarkness.com/betty-and-barney-hill/LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon

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30:32

THE OUTER LIMIT: Will Earth Fail Its Final Test? |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/15

Test pilot Steve Weston chased something impossible at the edge of Earth's atmosphere and returned ten hours later – yet only with enough fuel for ten minute flight. He returns, convinced he has an urgent warning to save Earth. Is it delusion from his time in space – or something we must all pay attention to in order to preserve humanity? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-outerlimitSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Outer Limit” by Graham Doar (“The Saturday Evening Post”

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309:11

THE CONVERSION FACTOR: A Truck Stop Waitress Holds...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/15

A physicist who has spent five years and twenty million dollars chasing one missing equation leaves his attaché case in a highway diner, where the seventeen-year-old at the cash register reads the twelve pages inside and understands every line.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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15:10

FIVE MISSING WOMEN, ONE OLNEY HOUSE: The Hard Drives...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/15

Philadelphia homicide detectives are working through 50 hard drives pulled from a boarded-up house in Olney where a violent pornographer lived for two decades, and among the 70,000 videos is one they believe shows him strangling a woman to death – while five women tied to the address remain missing and not a single body has been found.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/horschhouse20260911/Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora,

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