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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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13:44

"How Does It Feel To Know" by Static Wax | Based on a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/21

A small bird-faced geologist drilled to the center of the Earth and came back with an answer no one wanted, and the song that grew out of it sits somewhere between a confession and a question that won't let the listener go.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/how-does-it-feel-to-knowMORE FROM THE BAND: https://hyperfollow.com/staticwaxTHE EPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0640/THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicWEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST:

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5:03

The St. Peters Claw Machine Rescue: $4 and an...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

An 11-year veteran of the St. Charles County Police Department spent four dollars in quarters at a bowling alley arcade to coax a little girl out of a claw machine she had climbed into for the toys.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/claw-machine-copLook 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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11:15

The Last Text from Alexis Nelson's Phone Before She...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

Alexis Nelson sent her mother a Happy Mother's Day message in May 2025, and then her phone went silent for six months before anyone in her family realized something was wrong.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/alexis-nelsonLook 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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14:52

Pentagon Promises More UFO Files After Trump's...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

Sean Parnell says the next batch of UAP files is "actively being processed for publication" — one day after the president posted an AI-generated image of himself perp-walking a gray.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/pursue-second-dropLook 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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294:36

A Six-Inch Doll, A Dead Puppy, and A Stolen...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

A personal favorite of mine! A Pentagon colonel, a doll shop that wasn't there yesterday, and a six-inch toy with a voice like a knife — one of the most quietly sinister half-hours ever broadcast on Dimension X, and it ends on a smile you will not forget. 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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246:16

“A STORY FROM THE BLACKGUARD” by Justin Reinarz (Dark...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

A soldier in a secret monster-hunting regiment is sent into a luxury hotel to track down a shapeshifter that has already murdered a guest — but as bodies pile up and the creature wears the faces of his own comrades, he begins to suspect this hunt was set in motion long before he arrived, and that he is the one being hunted.EPISODE BLOG PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/storyfromtheblackguard/LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora,

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12:51

“The Woman With The Flaming Hair” by Crossroads Haint...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

A flame-haired woman alone at the edge of town, the lies of two small girls who put her on the gallows, and a cycle that the village square could not bury — told in the slow blues register Crossroads Haint reserves for the wrongs that won't stay down.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/crossroadshaint/the-woman-with-the-flaming-hairWATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiWEDPr1BlEEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/CondemnedAsAWitch/MORE OF THE

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14:20

“The Old Gray Ghost” by Static Wax | Based on a Retro...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/20

An old country inn, a coven beneath the cellar, and a slow folk-blues ballad in the Animals mold built around the kind of haunting that doesn't end the way the man holding the candle expects.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/the-old-gray-ghostEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0661/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listen

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12:10

“The Dolls Will Have Them All” by Static Wax | Based...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/19

A circus march dressed in red velvet and brass, sung by a barker who is selling something far worse than dolls — and a chorus of tiny voices that know exactly what he means.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/the-dolls-will-have-them-allEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0664/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listen

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298:21

“Trial By Fire”: Faking a Sacred Firewalk to Steal an...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/19

A New York con artist conspires to fake walking through 1,330-degree coals and rob an island of its golden god — but old gods have long memories.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, “Trial By Fire” (October 31,

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8:43

Sixty-One Thuds: The Killing of Marcy on Bonanza Road...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/19

A homeless woman regularly slept against the back wall of a Las Vegas rehab center until one night when a nearby microphone captured a scream and sixty-one loud thuds.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/marcy-bonanzaLook 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®

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11:16

“Nope My Way Outta Here” by Dark Weirdness | Based on...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/19

A breathless punk-pop dash through the longest first night on a brand-new job — where every shadow has a footnote, and the only sane move is the exit. Hazard pay sold separately.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darkweirdness/nope-my-way-outta-hereEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/aloneonthejob/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listen

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70:50

The Thing That Wears the Faces of the Dead (Horror...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/19

“I Went Undercover To a Body Farm” by Kevin Jones: A grieving husband goes undercover at a remote island body farm, convinced the reclusive caretaker knows what happened to his missing wife. But the island holds something far older than its corpses — something that watches from the treeline, wears the faces of the dead, and is patient enough to wait until the hunger sets in.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/BodyFarmUndercoverLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:

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5:59

28-Year-Old Posed as Bronx Teen at Lehman High for...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

A 28-year-old woman spent two weeks attending a Bronx high school under a fake name before her own Facebook page outed her real age.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/claassen/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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6:30

Vorterix Tried to Book a Ufologist and Got a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

An Argentine streaming radio show meant to interview a ufologist about the newly released U.S. UAP files dialed up a urologist instead, who calmly explained the difference live on air.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-urologist/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

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23:13

THE BOY IN THE BLUE JACKET: True Crime Reimagined |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

A two-year-old named Tommy Lark vanished from a butcher's counter in Halverton's Coppergate Arcade in forty seconds, turned up two days later on a railway embankment two and a half miles away, and a hundred uniforms across the city couldn't put a name to the two figures in the closed-circuit film.EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-boyinthebluejacketTHE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: On February 12, 1993, two-year-old James Bulger was led out of the New Strand

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106:15

Cruisin’ Down The Extraterrestrial Highway! | Close...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

In 1910 two witnesses see a pair of lights that transform into radiant beings with “human form.” You might dismiss the report as misidentification of ball lightning or some other natural explanation – but in 1952 those radiant humanoid beings of light were seen again! #WDRadio — May 17, 2026HOUR ONE: 7-year-old Maria went missing in 1957, and while her body was later found, her murder was never solved and the case went cold – until 50 years later when the case was finally solved and closed. But it

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12:47

“Don’t Knock On The Glass Of That Doll” by Crossroads...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

A doll behind museum glass, a man on a motorcycle who laughed in her face, and a Delta-blues warning that says the stare you've been ignoring your whole life was never empty.THE EPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/dangerousdolls/THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/crossroadshaint/dont-knock-on-the-glass-of-that-dollALL OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicSUBSCRIBE TO THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listen

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12:58

“I’ll Wait Upon The Deck” by Static Wax | Based on a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

A young wife at the rail of a great ocean liner in 1915, certain her husband will come up the stairs at any moment, and the song she's still waiting to greet him with — playing on a gramophone in a Gloucestershire asylum thirty years later, sweet as the moonlight, wrong as the hour.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/ill-wait-upon-the-deckEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0662/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS

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312:00

Thirty Years in an Asylum and Still Aboard the...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/05/18

“The Deep Shuddered”: An unfaithful husband, his wife, and his mistress find themselves aboard the same doomed ocean liner the night an iceberg opens its hull beneath them — and three decades later, one of them sits in a Gloucestershire asylum listening to the same record over and over and believing she is still at sea.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:

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