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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor

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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26:25

ADVENT OF EVIL: Wednesday, December 17 – Homeward...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/18

Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror

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23:21

Our Family Santa Animatronic Has One Rule

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/17

When my brother convinced our parents to leave the old Santa animatronic in the basement instead of displaying it upstairs, it wrapped its power cord around his neck in the dark — but not before whispering exactly what it wanted.IN THIS EPISODE: My parents own a Santa animatronic – I think it tried to kill us! *** (Originally aired December 18, 2018) SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry” by Jameson Cumick for Creepypasta.com: https://tinyurl.com/y2jwog8jVisit our

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33:52

Tod House: The Canadian Haunting Solved by a Shovel

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/17

For decades, a ghostly woman in chains appeared in the upstairs bedroom of Victoria's oldest home, pleading for help — until workmen digging near the front porch uncovered her skeleton buried seven feet deep in quicklime.Episode 4 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!IN THIS EPISODE: “Strange Happenings at Tod House”, “Professor Gladstone and The Murderer”, “The Mackey Haunting”, “The Dug Hill Booger”, “The Old Royal Ascot Hotel”SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this

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23:11

ADVENT OF EVIL: Tuesday, December 16 – Do You Wear...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/17

Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror

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27:55

Hans Trapp: Excommunicated, Exiled, and Insane. Now...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/17

In the 15th century, a wealthy man was excommunicated by the Pope, driven mad in exile, and killed by a bolt of lightning just as he was about to taste human flesh — now he rides with Santa every Christmas, drooling over the naughty children on the list.Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too! STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…“Remembering Death” by Lydia, age 14 of Cromford, England“Night of the

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84:55

Christmas Hauntings: The Tradition Behind the Terror

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/16

Long before Dickens penned A Christmas Carol, our ancestors gathered around midwinter fires to tell tales of spirits and monsters lurking in the darkness. Tonight, we explore why Christmas and ghost stories have been intertwined for thousands of years — then share true accounts that prove the tradition is very much alive. #HolidayHorrorsIN THIS EPISODE: Earlier this month I shared some true reports of people seeing Kris Kringle – or what appeared to be Kris Kringle – in real life. But there are many

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27:28

Merry Christmas From The Bell Witch: Four Years It...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/16

For four years, an unseen entity tormented the Bell family of Tennessee — pulling hair, slapping faces, filling the house with phantom voices — until Christmas 1820, when it finally got what it wanted: John Bell dead and his daughter's life in ruins. #12NightmaresOfXmas Episode 3 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!IN THIS EPISODE: “Merry Christmas From The Bell Witch”, “The Murder of Thelma Todd”SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this episode are from the book, “The

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42:51

A Strange Christmas Game: The Christmas Disappearance...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/16

For forty-one years, the halls of Martingdale echoed with unexplained footsteps and banging doors every Christmas Eve — until the night we stayed to watch, and the dead finally showed us what happened.Hello, children – it’s Santa! I ho ho ho hope you like my podcast! If you like the stories I’m telling in my podcast, please tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too! Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas!STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…“A Strange Christmas

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37:21

ADVENT OF EVIL: Monday, December 15 – The Beast Has a...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/16

Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvilFourteen doors have been opened. Fourteen horrors have been unleashed upon Marshport. And now, for the first time, the calendar has changed its pattern.Behind door fourteen, Matthew Klein found something he hadn't encountered before — a second door. Locked. Immovable. And behind it, the unmistakable drone of flies, buzzing in the darkness, waiting for whatever comes next.The calendar has never withheld before. Every door has

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17:43

The Hospital Patient With An Impossible Gift That Was...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

A mysterious man collapses on the steps of a church with no identification and no explanation — but when patients near him start making impossible recoveries, a nurse discovers his gift comes with a devastating price.IN THIS EPISODE: “The Healing Touch” by Keith ConradFully Produced Version: https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/01/28/tales-from-the-blue-line-the-healing-touch/ MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com=====Originally aired: December 15, 2025EPISODE PAGE (includes

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23:59

I Was Sent to Debunk the Mountain Shrine. I Couldn't...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

Edward Blair only wanted a quick, quirky feature story from a secluded Japanese shrine—but what he found was a girl who defied explanation, a priest with powers beyond science, and a warning about the dangerous cost of controlling the universe.“The Shrine” by Walt Sheldon – originally published in Fantastic Universe, December 1956MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.comFully Produced Version: https://www.auditoryanthology.com/2025/04/17/the-shrine-by-walt-sheldon/Originally aired:

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100:50

The World's Suspected Gateways to Hell

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

#WDRadio WEEK OF DEC 14, 2025 | From an ancient Greek cave where Hercules supposedly descended into the underworld, to a 13th-century castle built to seal a bottomless pit full of demons, these locations around the world are believed by many to be actual gateways to Hell.HOUR ONE:   Of course a lot of people likely don’t believe in heaven or hell and many will dismiss such things as mythical tales or folklore. However there are places on Earth that could be considered hell – no not Detroit or

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26:41

A Girl Made a Wish... Her Descendants Paid Every...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

Two centuries ago, a desperate young servant girl buried a piece of amber in the frozen Nova Scotia earth and summoned something with rows of gleaming teeth and an ungodly stench. Every Christmas Eve since, it returns to collect its payment — in flesh.STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…“Mary Culhane and the Dead Man”: http://bit.ly/2PbAYPa“The Stench of Christmas” by Lea Story: https://amzn.to/3487uWMAll music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by Midnight Syndicate

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51:56

The Yule Haunting That Drove a Village Insane

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

It was Christmastime — a season of peace, light, and goodwill — which made the slow unraveling of their minds all the more disturbing.IN THIS EPISODE: Despite being in the middle of the first World War, on Christmas Day, 1914 British and German soldiers sang carols together, exchanged gifts with the enemy combatants, and supposedly even played a soccer game against each other in order to celebrate the holiday. (The Great War’s Christmas Truce) *** The case was so mysterious it was even featured on

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32:03

“THE BROWN LADY OF RAYNAM HALL” and More True...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

Episode 2 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!In this episode: “The USS Constellation”, “Lord Combermere Returns”, “The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall”, “The Ghost of Anne Boleyn”, “The Eilean Mor Lighthouse”, “The Mystery of the Mary Celeste”, “The Palatine Light”SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults:https://amzn.to/3uT2vMAJoin the Weird Darkness Syndicate:

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28:34

ADVENT OF EVIL: Sunday, December 14 – From The Ashes

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/15

Matthew Klein now knows the truth. The advent calendar was not some random antique that found its way to his doorstep by chance. It was built with purpose. Built with intent. Constructed from the charred remains of his childhood home — and from the cursed spirit board that destroyed his family thirty years ago.Wilbur Ward, the neighbor who ran toward the flames that Christmas Eve, saw something in that fire. Something that changed him. Something that compelled him to salvage the blackened wood,

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27:41

ADVENT OF EVIL: Saturday, December 13 – Shed Secrets

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/14

The runaway has returned. After thirty years of silence, thirty years of a carefully constructed life built on the ashes of his real identity, Matthew Klein stands once again on Damson Way. But the boy who fled Bayville on Christmas Eve, 1995 no longer exists. His house is gone — nothing but a snow-covered void between two aging homes. His family is gone — consumed by flames that he alone escaped. And the town has moved on, rebuilt itself over the tragedy like scar tissue covering a wound that never

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47:27

Real-Life Killer Santas: The Horrifying True Crimes...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/14

Santa Claus is supposed to bring joy and gifts — but these killers used the beloved red suit to bring terror and death. From Christmas party massacres to serial killers hiding behind the jolly disguise, these are the true crimes that prove not every Santa belongs on the nice list.IN THIS EPISODE: A Christmas party turns tragic when a young bride suggests a game of hide-and-seek… then disappears for fifty years. (The Bramshill Bride) *** When you hear someone mention the headless horseman it’s almost

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10:48

“HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS” by Dr. Seuss;...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/14

He hated the Whos and their Christmas cheer, so he devised a plan to make the holiday disappear — but what the Grinch discovered that night would change his shriveled heart forever.PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK in your social media so others can enjoy the episode! https://weirddarkness.com/grinch/Requested by one of my Darkness Syndicate members (Patreon)!= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always

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29:16

"HAUNTING OF HUNDLEY HOUSE” and More Paranormal...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/14

Episode 1 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!In this episode: "The Flash Flood", "The Haunting of Hundley House", "The Messenger of Donner Pass", "House of Plenty"SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults: https://amzn.to/3uT2vMAMusic by Midnight Syndicate: https://www.midnightsyndicate.com= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =(Over time links seen

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