Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

28:24

Jacob Coxon Says AI Could Kill Us All, But Is His...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/15

A 27-year-old who spent three years building AI at two of the industry's leading labs quit on a Tuesday and said the people he'd worked beside privately expect the technology could wipe us out within the decade. The man in charge of keeping Anthropic's AI in line replied in public that he was right about the fear. But how frightened should we really be?SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/coxonwarning/Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon

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59:41

TO DIE IN THE OLD WEST: Quick Triggers and Quicker...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/15

The Wild West wasn’t all shootouts and saloons – but when danger came, it carved legends in blood, bullets, and bone.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ToDieInTheOldWestREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9b8raxFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Wild West, where no matter how tough and rugged you might be, you can never defeat Old Man Death. And he was creative in how he dispensed his touch. (To Die In The Old West)

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9:34

SIDERS CASE: Grandfather Ruled Incompetent, Not...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/14

A forensic report found Gary Siders Sr. incompetent to stand trial and beyond restoring, the prosecutor stipulated to it without objection, and the same two lawyers who expect his case dismissed within weeks have now been appointed to defend Brandon Henderson.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260911Look 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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30:00

THE SUPER OPENER: The Can Opener Punched A Hole In...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/14

The Pilton Super Opener opens a can in no time at all, and nobody at the company, least of all the man who designed it, can say where the can disappears to in the process.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-superopenerSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Super Opener” by Michael Zuroy (“Worlds of If” Science Fiction magazine from August, 1958)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September

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106:22

CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK DEATH: Pus, Pee, and Plague...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/14

During the Black Death, medieval Europeans bathed in vinegar, slept on rotting straw, dumped waste in the streets — and still couldn’t figure out why everyone was dying.==========HOUR ONE: During the bubonic plague in the early Middle-Ages, those who became sick and were even suspected of having the plague, were forced to relocate to a quarantined island – Poveglia Island. The gruesomeness that took place there still continues today, with the island being illegal to visit – and reportedly, very

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53:11

The Immortal Vampire of Royal Street

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/14

New Orleans high society adored the charming Jacques St. Germain, right up until they started asking why a man who claimed to be forty could describe the 1700s like he'd lived them. Now more than a century later people are still arguing over whether Jacques St. Germain was a con man, an immortal, or a true-life vampire.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ImmortalVampireREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9xjvjyFEATURED

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302:33

THE BEHEADING: An Actress Trusts A Surgeon To Take...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/13

A movie actress worn down by a lifetime of asthma puts her hand in a bald doctor's and agrees to let him remove her head, on his promise that a prettier one is on the way.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 Beheading”

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42:13

WE MADE THEM UP, AND THEN THEY SHOWED UP: Why The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/13

In 1896 the visitors pedaled airships. In 1952 they were blond and worried about the bomb. Today they're gray, from forty light-years away, and worried about the climate. Somebody keeps updating the aliens, and it might be us.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/1651062114EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version):

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81:22

FIRST CONTACT: Two Ships Meet In The Crab Nebula, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/13

Four thousand light-years from Earth, a survey ship deep inside the Crab Nebula picks up something on its locator that no human built, and within the hour both crews understand the same thing: whichever ship leaves first can be followed home, so neither one can be allowed to leave.A NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR: I’ve been on an old-time radio kick recently, listening to shows like “The Whistler”, “Dimension X”, and “Strange Tales”. One of my favorite shows is called “X-Minus One”. It was a half-hour

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180:42

HORROR BY GASLIGHT: Victorian Murders Nobody Ever...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/13

An actress found with her throat cut on Christmas morning, a socialite on trial for arsenic, a child butchered in Bradford, and not one of the cases found the end of the rope.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HorrorByGaslightREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/489cffteFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE:Nine murders from the reign of Queen Victoria, and the hangman went home after every one of them. In April 1891, a janitor

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302:09

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP: A Catskills Killer Dreams...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/12

A young intern at a state asylum wires a homemade telepathy set to the forehead of a dying, illiterate mountain man whose ravings describe palaces of fire he could never have read about.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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86:35

MY PROPERTY ISN'T NORMAL: A Man, His Land, And The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/12

A man with a past he won't discuss buys a house deep in the woods, miles from anyone, and starts keeping a record of what comes out of the trees at night; the one he calls Skinny wears the faces of the dead, and it's already carved a message into the side of his house.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-mypropertySOURCES and RESOURCES: “My Property Isn’t Normal” by Redditor Murderbird17: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1av3mfegWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark

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11:14

A DINOSAUR, A DOLL, AND A GHOST SQUID | #ListenerTerrors

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/12

Three MicroTerrors listeners wrote in with their own scary stories: a girl who sneaks out at night to see the T-Rex every parent in town warns about, a free doll on the sidewalk that introduces itself as Mr. Stevenson, and a family cruise with nothing but one-star reviews and something big moving under the boat.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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301:42

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: Leona Stevenson Overhears Her...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, a bedridden heiress alone in a New York townhouse asks the operator to ring her husband's office, gets crossed into a stranger's call, and listens to two men schedule a killing for 11:15 that night.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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56:58

TILLIE KLIMEK: The Notorious Psychic Murderess and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

She claimed she could predict your death to the exact day — and somehow, she was always correct. But how did she know?EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkess.com/TillieKlimekREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8wt2epFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Tillie Klimek had been convicted of only a single murder, but the authorities suspected that she had killed many more, including her three husbands. (Chicago’s Constant Widow) *** The

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1:34

TONIGHT, SEPT 11TH: The Entire Smiley Face Killers...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

Tonight, three weeks before anyone can buy it, I'm playing the entire audiobook of my new book, “The Concrete Smiled” live on Patreon, start to finish, with the chat open the whole time. https://weirddarkness.com/patreonSince 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say it's a serial killer network, and that police have been calling murder an accident. The FBI says there's no evidence any of it is connected. THE CONCRETE SMILED gives that

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82:46

THE CALL OF CTHULHU: A Clay Idol, A Cult, And A City...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

Sorting through the papers of his late great-uncle, a Providence professor of ancient languages, Francis Thurston finds a clay bas-relief of a winged, tentacled thing, a file of newspaper clippings from around the world, and a set of notes connecting a young sculptor's fever dreams to a swamp cult in Louisiana and a word no human tongue was built to pronounce.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-cthulhuSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Lovecraft:

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34:21

ALIENS AND TULPAS: Are UFOs Real Only Because We...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

Our alien visitors have changed their looks, their home planets, and their warnings every generation or so – always right in step with what we happened to believe at the time. Airships, ghost rockets, flying saucers, black triangles – for more than a century our UFOs and aliens have kept pace with our imaginations, and one longtime researcher wonders whether that's because our imaginations are where they came from.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AliensAndTulpasREAD or

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301:51

THE BLACKNESS OF TERROR: The Moaning Behind The Music...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/10

A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see.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, “High Caquetta”

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16:34

THE LADY OR THE TIGER: Two Doors, One Choice, And A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/09/10

In a kingdom where the accused settle their own guilt by opening one of two identical doors, a starving tiger waiting behind one and a bride behind the other, a young courtier walks into the arena for the crime of loving the king's daughter.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-LadyOrTheTigerSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank R. Stockton (The Century Magazine. November 1882)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird

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