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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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36:53

The Shocking True Murder Case That Inspired TV’s Twin...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/29

Long before ‘Twin Peaks’ captivated audiences with its eerie small-town secrets, a real-life unsolved murder in Sand Lake, New York — filled with mystery, hidden lives, and a cast of suspicious characters — became the chilling inspiration behind the story of Laura Palmer.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Did you know that Laura Palmer's death on TV’s “Twin Peaks” was inspired by a real-life murder case? (The Real-Life Murder Case That Inspired “Twin Peaks”) *** Most people laugh at, or outright

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7:57

Indiana Woman Flagged for Fraud Over a Stranger Who...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/28

An Anderson woman tried to renew her driver’s license and discovered another Indiana woman with her face, her age, and a different name.PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/bmv-doppelganger/Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is a

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9:35

AI Clone of Dead Son Keeps His 80-Year-Old Mother...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/28

An 80-year-old Chinese woman with heart disease video-chats daily with her late son, never knowing she is actually speaking to an AI clone built by his own family.PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/ai-clone-son-chinaLook for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This

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4:55

Cleveland Driver Tells Cop the Booze Was for Staying...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/28

A Cleveland woman doing 38 mph on Interstate 77 informed a state trooper that the open cup of liquor in her car was, in her professional opinion, a tool for combating drowsy driving.PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/booze-keeps-me-awakeLook for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The

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298:26

THE SHADOW, “Nightmare At Gaelsbury: A Ghost From The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/28

In a storm-bound country sanatorium, a brilliant scientist driven mad by one fatal mistake insists the immortal Count Cagliostro speaks to him from beyond the grave — guiding his hand toward an experiment that has already killed once before.Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times

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60:09

“INK FILLED DREAM: A Boy's Out-of-Body Experiences...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/28

Twelve-year-old Joseph can step out of his sleeping body and drift through walls — and something in the dark has started watching him do it.SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Ink Filled Dream” by Blue Hero: https://www.creepypasta.com/ink-filled-dream/“Never Use a Voice Recorder While You Sleep” by Chris Maxim: https://www.creepypasta.com/never-use-voice-recorder-sleep/ ***Read the prequel to this story at https://www.creepypasta.com/the-attic-in-the-basement/“Born Lucky” by The Dead Canary:

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72:06

“HOLES: A HIVE BENEATH THE SKIN” and More Short...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/28

A man discovers a tiny hole in his back, and by morning something has begun building a home inside him.SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Holes” by S. R. Underschultz: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdjm36d7“I Was Born With Superhuman Abilities” by Alayne Winters: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2zsjba5f“Leaving the Hospital” by Weirdo family member, Louise Latham“To the Moon and Back” submitted anonymously to WeirdDarkness.com“Don’t Let This Be You” by Hikari Shimizu:

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5:27

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao Once Warned of...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/27

A 2023 video of Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao claiming witches and Wiccans had taken over Monterey, California, resurfaced as he stepped into the top Navy role.PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/HungCaoWiccansLook for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This

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23:23

PARIS GREEN: Inspired By a True Crime Case | #MurderNoir

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/27

A private eye called out to a quiet farm on a still September afternoon finds two sisters poisoned and shot, a brother in the wind, and a barn even the animals won't go near.THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: On September 5, 1893, on a farm outside Winnebago, Illinois, widow Bridget Hart returned from a brief errand in her potato field to find her twenty-six-year-old daughter Mary lying face-down on the porch steps, bleeding from her mouth and nose, and her twenty-three-year-old daughter

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88:19

The Truth About Absolute Sensory Deprivation | Too...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/27

The quietest place on Earth isn't peaceful — it's a room so silent that within 45 minutes, your own mind turns against you. And that’s just a sample of what complete sensory deprivation will do to you. | #WDRadio APRIL 26, 2026==========HOUR ONE: According to the song, silence is golden. And it really can be; there are plenty of times when we just want to shut everything out and relax in peace and quiet. But silence isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, either, and too much silence can drive you

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40:48

Isolation Through Silence: The Tragedy of the Gibbons...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/27

June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters bound by silence and an eerie connection, lived a haunting life filled with creativity and madness.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Al Adamson, the beloved cult-horror director of such schlocky films as PSYCHO A-GO-GO and DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN – was murdered in what can only be called a scene from one of his movies brought to life. (Murder Of The Horror Movie Maker) *** It’s said that the devout Saint Joseph of Cupertino could fly, he could read people’s

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45:22

How Not To Argue With A Cryptid | #COTU

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/27

The hunter never raised his rifle, never raised his voice, and somehow still got called the villain.LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other apps. Get the full list of options here for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114.*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This

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296:37

Death’s Worshipper: A Killer No Wall Could Stop,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/26

A scholar returns from the Indian jungle carrying a bronze idol, a borrowed god, and a body count that will follow him across an ocean. | #RetroRadio EP0641Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options 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 Way To a

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311:51

The Machine In Shaft Ten: The Machine Beneath the...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/26

When a geologist proved that human grief and human joy were being siphoned to the stars as fuel for somebody else's machine, the world spun into cults and suicides and small wars — but the professor had a wooden crate, a Cumberland cottage full of secrets, and a private answer he wasn't ready to share with the man writing the checks. | #RetroRadio EP0640Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps

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41:00

Beverly Allit, The Munchhausen Monster: The Nurse Who...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/26

Beverley Allitt was trusted to care for the most vulnerable patients, but under her nurse’s uniform hid an evil monster that turned a children's ward to a scene of nightmares.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Beverly Allitt was a children's nurse… and also one of Britain's most notorious killers. (Angel of Death: Inside the Mind of a Serial Child Killer) *** It was John Wilkes Booth who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln… but Booth had an assassin as well, coming after him. (The Man Who Murdered

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17:37

LISTENER TERRORS: The Mudman, The Snow Troll, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/25

When kids write horror, they don't pull their punches. Four original stories from listeners aged 8 and 9 — featuring a dad who isn't quite himself, a missing little sister, a school principal hiding something in a locked hallway, and a hand reaching up through the dirt.Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1655277373Find more

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277:26

The Woman In The Green Dress: He Loved Her Seventy...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/25

For seventy years the woman in the green silk dress hung quietly in an old man's house — long enough, as it turned out, to learn how to step down off the wall. | #RetroRadio EP0639Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options 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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71:45

Annabelle Isn't Alone: The World's Most Dangerous Dolls

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/24

Annabelle is the doll everyone knows — but she's far from the only one locked behind glass for a reason. From a marionette that screamed to be let out of a car trunk to a porcelain figure that reportedly killed a man for mocking her, these are the dolls that move on their own, scratch their owners in the dark, and refuse to stay where they're put.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Haunted dolls seems to be a dime a dozen, and can even be found on sale, but for all of the strange phenomena surrounding

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51:59

The Screaming Ghost of a Slave: The Sorrel-Weed Haunting

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/24

In Savannah stands a mansion where a betrayed wife leapt to her death and a slave was found hanging days later — but when researchers went looking for her name in the records, they found something they weren't expecting.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A Broken Ship’s Compass, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste” *** “December 5 Is Krampus Nacht” *** “Ghost Hunting at Elgin State Hospital Cemetery” *** “Phil And The Dark Man” *** “The White Smoking Figure That Haunted Me” *** “The Ancient Ram Inn” ***

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305:10

SILENT SHOCK: Those Little Pink Pills | #RetroRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/23

“Silent Shock”: She rented the house for the view — for the ageless, indifferent sea outside every window, for the poems she planned to write, for the phone calls to the men she used to love. But the housekeeper wasn't a housekeeper. The groundsman wasn't a groundsman. The little pink pills weren't vitamins. And somewhere out past the fog, a great white ship was drifting closer to shore… carrying the one man she'd been waiting fifteen years to kill. | #RetroRadio EP0638CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS

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