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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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40:02

All The Lights At Alvaro Court: True Crime Reimagined...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/23

A silent-film director is found shot in his bungalow with every lamp in the house still burning, and a private eye from the east is paid to find the letters before the police do.EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources and the real case behind the story): https://weirddarkness.com/alvarocourtWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at

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29:40

#BotchedExecutions | John Wayne Gacy And Five More...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/23

The drug turned to gel in John Wayne Gacy's IV tube, Christina Riggs took the needles in her wrists, and Florida pushed them through both of Angel Diaz's veins. In Ohio, Joseph Clark lifted his head off the gurney to say "it don't work", Christopher Newton took a bathroom break during the vein search, and Romell Broom went back to his cell alive after two hours of needles.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by

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298:06

A PAIR OF HANDS: The House In Cornwall That Cleans...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/23

A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In

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40:05

#WeirdDarkNEWS | Alive In Morgue, A Beheading, A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/23

Eleven stories, starting with an 18-month-old found breathing in a Gilbert, Arizona, hospital morgue hours after he was pronounced dead, and running through a beheading in West Bengal, an Oregon man who claimed his mother was possessed, an Amish woman's weed whacker, and a 1962 double murder near Battle Ground, Washington.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/toddler-found-breathing-in-morgue*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is a registered

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89:54

LINDA CORTILE: Abducted By Aliens, Then Kidnapped By...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/23

Early on November 30th, 1989, Linda Cortile says gray beings floated her out of her 12th-floor window in lower Manhattan and into a hovering craft, and two security men later told abduction researcher Budd Hopkins they'd watched it happen from their car near the Brooklyn Bridge.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/linda-cortile-abductionREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9y2dhp9yFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a

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13:32

DACK: The Adirondack Bigfoot Body, The Cornell DNA,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/22

Charles "Snake" Stuart says he found an eight-foot Bigfoot dead in New York's Adirondacks, that a Cornell University DNA report shows what it is, and that Cornell has until 5:00 p.m. on November 1st to take back its denial or pay him $10 million.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/bigfoot-body-cornell-dna*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.More episodes, additional podcasts, books,

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11:47

THE NIGHT THE STARS WENT OUT: What Really Happened On...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/22

On the night the beings from Alpha Centauri were due to land in 1949, every star in the sky over Mount Wilson blinked out for a full minute, and nobody seemed to notice except the narrator, Dorothy's brother Steve, and the astronomer Van Dyk. Eighteen years later, the narrator came back to the little iron house on the edge of the mountain, and Van Dyk was waiting to show him what was inside.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/NightStarsWentOutSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The

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21:46

#BotchedExecutions | Flames, Blood, A Blowout And A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/22

In Florida’s electric chair, a flame rose from under Pedro Medina’s headpiece and Allen Lee Davis bled through his white shirt. On the needle side, Raymond Landry’s IV line blew out and sprayed toward the witnesses in Texas, and in Arkansas, Rickey Ray Rector set his pecan pie aside for later while a team spent most of an hour hunting for a vein.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar

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311:26

ALLEY CAT: He Called His Wife A Cat Until She Became...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/22

A husband's furious insult that his wife is nothing but a heartless white cat starts coming true in front of him, and their doctor wants to tell the world.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Side Effects” (January 19, 1979) ***WD00:46:26.764 = Devil And Mr. O, “Alley Cat” (September 17, 1971) ***WD01:16:36.301 = Dimension X, “The Green Hills Of Earth” (December 24, 1950) ***WD01:43:42.714 = The Eleventh Hour, “Flying

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308:17

THE LONG, LONG SLEEP: Fifty-Fifty Odds And His Own...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/22

Days before an operation he has a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, Norman Hill finds his office stripped bare, gets a call from a funeral parlor, and reads his own name on a grave.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Long Long Sleep” (January 15, 1979) ***WD00:46:03.456 = Calling All Cars, “Gentle Kidnapping Case” (May 16, 1934)01:15:57.384 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Girl On The Dock” (April 03, 1947)

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72:38

The Blood-Stained Gospel of Clementine Barnabet

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/22

A teenage girl’s chilling confession to 35 axe murders in early 1900s Louisiana spiraled into a tangled web of cult rumors, racial panic, paranormal paranoia, and one of the most disturbing true crime mysteries in American history.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/clementine-barnabet-church-of-sacrifice-axe-murdersREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89ks65FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The true story of the voodoo

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10:32

'I HAVE SEEN NON-HUMAN BEINGS': Jay Stratton's Memoir...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

Jay Stratton, who ran the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told Fox News on October 12th that he has seen non-human beings and non-human craft, and his memoir, "Out of the Shadows", came out the next day. Avi Loeb, the Harvard scientist who chairs the council that advises the government's UAP Governance Board, answered the same day the book came out that the claims aren't backed by publicly verifiable data and invited him to speak to the council; as of October 21st, Stratton hasn't responded.SOURCES,

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6:47

'HE'S NOT VIOLENT': The 911 Call Before The Carolina...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

After 11 a.m. on Monday, October 12th, a woman called 911 to say her nephew was off his medication but "not violent", and at about 1:25 p.m., according to the criminal complaint, Thomas Steele killed his aunt and grandmother in Mobile, Alabama, with a chainsaw. He's charged with two counts of capital murder, and a judge has ordered him committed to the Alabama Department of Mental Health for an inpatient competency evaluation.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION:

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6:28

'OH, THEY'RE STILL ALIVE': Deputies Dig Up Kittens...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

Three children came home to the Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park on Thursday, October 8th, to find the bedroom forced open and their kittens gone, and that night Martin County deputies dug two of them out of the backyard alive. Alba Chavez, who the sheriff says told deputies she thought the kittens had demons, was arrested on four felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty, and a fifth kitten is still missing.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/demonkittens*No AI Voices Are Used

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8:46

HE KILLED HIS CELLMATE TO BE EXECUTED: Florida Puts...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

Florida executed James Robertson on Tuesday, October 13th, for strangling his cellmate, Frank Hart, at Charlotte Correctional Institution in 2008, a killing he said he carried out so the state would sentence him to death. He was pronounced dead at 12:32 p.m., and Frank Hart's daughter was there to see it.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/JamesRobertsonExecution*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026,

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59:03

CARNIVAL OF DESIRES: The Fun Begins At Midnight. You...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

At five minutes to midnight, Jacob kneels on a hill behind an abandoned gravel pit with his two best friends and recites his dead grandfather's words, and the dark woods fill with carousel music and children's laughter.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CarnivalOfDesiresSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Wonderland” by Riley Vanderlip: https://www.creepypasta.com/wonderland-2/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM),

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15:30

FIELD OF SCREAMS: Gridiron Ghouls and Football Phantoms

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

From cursed quarterbacks to ghostly gridirons, we explore the haunted history and supernatural legends that still linger on football fields across America.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FootballPhantoms*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Football Hauntings” by Giancarlo Ferrari-King for Bleacher Report https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2o64vefa, YourGhostStories.com (link no longer available), and Sports Planning Guide:

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97:02

UNSOLVED: The Black Dahlia, Villisca, YOGTZE, And 13...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/21

A German man scribbled "YOGTZE" hours before he was found dying in his wrecked car, a woman's body turned up stuffed inside a hollow tree in England, and the Black Dahlia is one of numerous murders where no killer was ever caught.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/unsolvedREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5dbv8s24CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:26.134 = William Desmond

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18:17

#BotchedExecutions | Five Jolts, The Wrong Jacks And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/20

Indiana needed five jolts to kill William Vandiver, and Arizona's gas chamber took ten and a half minutes while a TV anchor kept a stopwatch running on Donald Harding. In between, Alabama connected the chair's cables wrong for Horace Dunkins, a synthetic sponge sent flames from under Jesse Tafero's mask in Florida, and both states called it human error.From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar

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43:13

“THE SMALL ASSASSIN” a Terrifying Story by RAY...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/20

In the story, David and Alice Leiber are a happily married couple living in Los Angeles, but when Alice gives birth to a healthy baby boy, she fears the baby is somehow abnormal and will kill her.EPISODE BLOG PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/SmallAssassinSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Small Assassin” by Ray Bradbury from “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”: https://amzn.to/3AT6E6QWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October

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