Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

28:12

SIX FRIGHTENED MEN: The Shapeshifting Terror of...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/06

Six members of a space expedition find themselves hunted by a shapeshifting monster that appears from nowhere on a desolate alien world, seeming to pick them off one by one.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SixFrightenedMenSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Six Frightened Men” by Randall Garrett (Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ June 1957)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM),

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16:40

THE HOROSCOPE RACKET: The Astronomers Who Took On The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/06

The skyrockets at a Mars casino town's Marsy Gras keep ruining $1,000 photographs of the night sky at the Mars Observatory, so the astronomers start offering tourists free horoscopes, and every one warns the reader he'll lose consistently at Harvey's Club.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HoroscopeRacketSOURCES and RESOURCES: “$1,000 A Plate” by Jack McKenty: https://amzn.to/3NcdSFoWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The

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38:25

DAVID GRUSCH ON JOE ROGAN: Reptilians, Greys, And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/06

On The Joe Rogan Experience, former intelligence officer David Grusch described video of human-looking bodies at a crash site, passed along a secondhand account of a deadly clash with living reptilians, and alleged a criminal ring inside a federal agency. Author Timothy Alberino says most of it should come as no shock to longtime UFO researchers, and Grusch predicts the evidence he says exists, none of it public yet, will come out before President Trump leaves office.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes

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314:03

THE CASE OF THE BURNING SKULL: The Shadow Hunts A...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/05

The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.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

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86:10

I DRIVE FOR CERBER: Hellish Commutes Made Heavenly |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/05

Jim's DUI keeps him off Uber, so he signs up with a rideshare app called Cerber, and his first fare, a seven-and-a-half-foot man who never lets Jim see his face, pays $1,279.37 for one ride to Fort Miley.A NOTE FROM DARREN: I thought I’d bring back a classic from my flagship podcast, Weird Darkness. I often get comments on YouTube, on Facebook, or receive an email saying that someone liked a certain episode for this reason or that. Usually it’s a comment about how creepy or scary a specific story

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88:20

HELLHOUNDS IN AMERICA: From Pike County To Palm...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/05

Britain has told stories of the Black Shuck for centuries, but witnesses in the United States describe huge black dogs of their own, one chasing two men back to their car on a Wisconsin river island and another pushing its front paws through the screen of a Michigan boy's bedroom window.HOUR ONE: Love, money, divorce, anger, and murder. One Pennsylvania family had it all and then some in the late 1800’s. (The Butler County Tragedy) *** Count Saint Germain and Jacques Saint Germain, John and Wayne

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300:22

CHANCE OF A GHOST: The Fake Medium And The Voice She...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/05

Sonia Gale makes her living faking séances with rigged wires and trick voices, until a dead man's voice at her table tells a client where the money is hidden and Sonia swears she had nothing to do with it.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

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39:37

LA PATASOLA: From Beauty to Beast – The One-Legged...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/04

In Colombian folklore, La Patasola moves fast on just one leg, and she's said to show herself to hunters, miners, and unfaithful husbands as a beautiful young woman, then lead one of them away from his companions and into the deepest part of the jungle.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LaPatasolaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdfdzx27FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: You might think you’d be able to outrun a vampire

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305:38

ALIEN PRESENCES: The Baby From The Burning Wreck In...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/04

Leaving Antelope Crossings, Nebraska, for a family funeral in 1958, a childless couple watch something spin out of the sky and into a ravine, and the only thing they find alive down there is a crying baby boy.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

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71:04

HOME SWEET HAUNTED HOME: True Stories of Haunted...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/03

The Amityville house and the Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring have both been sold, and so has a Los Angeles home that a retired LAPD detective ties to his own father and the Black Dahlia murder.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HomeSweetHauntedHomeREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7zyfsmyFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Are you brave enough to live in a haunted house? If so, and you’re ready to make a

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303:17

NIGHT VISITOR: The Dead Daughter In The Guest Room At...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/03

Not long after a couple in ancient Macedonia buries their only daughter, their old servant looks in on a guest from the king's court and finds the girl asleep beside him.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, “Night Visitor”

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37:24

DON'T FEED IT: The Hungry Thing That Fell On A New...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/03

A grayish-black disk the size of a truck tire turns up in the ditch by a professor's front lawn in upstate New York, and whatever touches it, from a clod of dirt to the end of a spade, dissolves into it; by the next day, it's eight feet across. A blowtorch, and a sledgehammer don't do any better against it. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DontFeedItSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Leech” by Robert Sheckley: https://amzn.to/3TXtU9NWeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark

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53:05

THE GROVE CITY WEREWOLF: A Monster Lurks In Ohio’s...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/03

When a mysterious curfew grips the small town of Grove City, Ohio, young Sean discovers during his Halloween weekend visit that the recent string of vicious attacks might be connected to local legends about monsters lurking in the shadows.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/1655277373Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website

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41:43

HAUNTED HALLS AND CURSED CLASSROOMS: True Ghost...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/03

From phantom students and haunted dorm rooms to ghostly professors and cursed frat houses, these college campuses prove that “school spirit” can have more than one meaning – where classes might get dismissed, but some students never leave.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedCollegesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8tjcymFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Classes are now back in full-swing for college students, and

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13:09

"THE THING AT NOLAN" by Ambrose Bierce, Reimagined |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/02

A work of fiction. Based on "The Thing at Nolan" by Ambrose Bierce (1891), retold in a present-day setting. | Charles May walked into the woods with a spade and never came home, and while his son sat in a hospital bed under arrest for killing him, five men eight miles away in Nolan swore they'd watched Charles walk through a store that same afternoon with his head split open.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ThingAtNolanSOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Thing at Nolan” by

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311:35

THE LATE DEPARTURE: The Eleven O'Clock Train That...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/02

A 43-year-old London workaholic with high blood pressure races to King's Cross for the eleven o'clock train home, and the train won't leave the station.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 Grey Slapper” (November 22,

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49:32

VILE VORTICES: The Bermuda Triangle, Sea Serpents,...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/02

Five Navy bombers vanished on a routine training flight in 1945, and so did a rescue plane sent out to find them; the Bermuda Triangle is one of 12 Vile Vortices Ivan Sanderson mapped around the globe, and the oceans have their own sea serpents and ghost ships too.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VileVorticesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/55c3tyxyFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Bermuda Triangle, also called the

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14:04

THE FAILED EXECUTION: Christa Pike Survives, And So...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/01

Tennessee gave Christa Pike two full doses of pentobarbital at Riverbend on Wednesday night, and she was still snoring behind a closed curtain when the witnesses were led out; she's alive in a hospital, the governor has called off the state's last execution of the year and ordered an outside review, and nobody has said whether Tennessee will try again to execute her.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ChristaPike20261001Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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29:10

DON’T SHOOT: The Biggest Mistake In Hollywood |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/01

A physicist invents a machine capable of doing the impossible – and makes the mistake of showing it to a Hollywood mogul who immediately sees dollar signs. What begins as a scientific breakthrough soon becomes an experiment neither man can quite control. A man has to have a place to confess a horrible sin … and this is as good as any other!EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DontShootSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Don’t Shoot” by Robert Zacks (Galaxy Science Fiction, April

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310:00

THE THING AT NOLAN: A Murder Trial With No Body |...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/10/01

In the Missouri Ozarks of 1879, Charles May walks into the woods to dig a ditch on the morning his son swears he'll make him pay for a bloody nose, and he never walks back out.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 Thing at

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