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PODCAST

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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All Episodes

309:11

He Built A Bomb To Kill His Wife, Then Got Trapped In...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/18

“Three O’Clock”: A watchmaker spends six weeks secretly building a bomb to kill his wife — but on the day he sets it to blow, two burglars tie him up in the very basement where the clock is ticking. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0633CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Area 13” (August 26, 1977) ***WD00:44:07.927 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Scarecrow And Snowman” (January 22, 1944) ***WD (LQ)01:12:50.567 = Quiet

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105:00

The Real Human Monsters Behind Bram Stoker's Dracula...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/18

The legend of Dracula didn't spring from one man's imagination — it was forged from centuries of real blood, real terror, and monsters who actually walked the earth.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Where did Bram Stoker get his idea for Dracula? Hint – it was not, as many believe, Vlad the Impaler. (Bram Stoker’s Inspiration) *** Ronald Gene Simmons went on a 16 person murder spree – and 14 of them were his own family. (Serial Killer Ronald Gene Simmons) *** In the world of Harry Potter, figures

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54:19

Freddy Krueger Is... Real? | The True Story Wes...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/17

Wes Craven didn't invent the idea of dying in your sleep during a nightmare — he read about it in the newspaper. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, dozens of young Hmong refugees in America went to sleep and never woke up, and nobody could explain why. The CDC investigated. Doctors were baffled. And the victims themselves had seen it coming — they were afraid to sleep. The real nightmare came first. Freddy Krueger came second.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Children dying in their sleep while

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297:02

He Killed For Love, But The Corpse Wouldn't Stay Dead...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/17

“The Leech”: When a desperate man kills his lover's husband to finally set them free, he discovers that getting rid of a body is far easier said than done — and the dead have a terrifying way of refusing to stay gone. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0632CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Return to Pompeii” (August 22, 1977)00:45:31.192 = Mystery House, “Murder For Laughs” (November 04, 1945) ***WD01:11:14.814 = Night

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59:52

GRAY STATE | The Filmmaker Who Predicted A Police...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/16

In January of 2015, a neighbor in Apple Valley, Minnesota glanced through a front window and saw what he thought were mannequins on the floor. They weren't. David Crowley, his wife Komel, and their five-year-old daughter Rani had been dead for nearly a month — and a black handgun lay nearby. Investigators called it a murder-suicide. But Crowley wasn't just any filmmaker — he was the man behind Gray State, an independent film depicting a government takeover of America that had already raised over

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297:28

The Ghost in the Garden Would Not Show Her Face – He...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/16

“Let Me See Your Face”: When a writer takes a room at a quiet Rouen hotel, a mysterious woman glimpsed alone in the moonlit garden at midnight awakens in him a fascination so powerful, no warning — and no fear — can stop him from seeking her face. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0631CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Instrument” (August 19, 1977)00:45:33.056 = The Black Mass, “Oil of Dog” and “Esme” (January 13,

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53:14

The HMS Daedalus Sea Monster | 200 Sailors Saw The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/15

On the afternoon of August 6, 1848, the HMS Daedalus was cutting through the gray waters of the south Atlantic when something surfaced alongside the ship — something enormous, something alive, and something that no man aboard had ever seen before. The officers who witnessed it were not excitable young sailors prone to ghost stories. They were Royal Navy men, educated and disciplined, with careers and reputations built on precision and credibility. Yet every one of them would go on record to describe

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38:41

The Murder House Half A Block Away, And No One Heard...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/15

Six children were bludgeoned and stabbed to death in their beds in a Churchill’s Grove home while their mother slept in a Milwaukee motel room — unaware that her husband had already decided that if he couldn't have her, no one would have anything. The night of January 7th, 1978 would leave a wound in Rockford, Illinois that never fully closed. Neighbors still whisper about it. The house is still there. And according to at least one person who lived inside it — so is something else.FEATURED STORIES

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296:32

He Killed His Blind Uncle And Got Away With It — Then...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/15

“The Dead Walk at Night”: A man who murders his blind uncle to claim his inheritance thinks he has escaped justice clean — until the dead man's cane begins tapping its way down the darkened staircase toward his room. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0630Look 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

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101:32

POLTERGEISTS | Supernatural Manifestation, Human...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/14

Poltergeist activity remains one of the most misunderstood and disputed phenomena in paranormal research. Unlike traditional hauntings, poltergeist cases — a term derived from the German words for "noisy ghost" — involve flying objects, spontaneous fires, unexplained sounds, and even physical assaults on the living. But are these terrifying events caused by restless spirits, or could the source of the chaos be something far closer to home? Researchers have documented dozens of cases suggesting that

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304:42

She Spoke To A Sister No One Else Could See — And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/13

“The Together Place”: A small-town doctor and his retired nurse are drawn into the haunting mystery of a young woman who speaks with absolute certainty of a twin sister no one has ever seen — and a place called Kamaloka, the Together Place, where the dead are never truly alone. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0629Look 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:

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7:55

DNA Can't Solve This: The Impossible Paternity Case...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/13

A British child has no legal father — not because no one knows who conceived her, but because science cannot tell the two men apart.PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/child-p-paternityLook 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 registered

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108:36

NECROMANCY: Black Magic to Biology | What Happens...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/13

For thousands of years, the most desperate minds in history — scientists, sorcerers, and everyone in between — have refused to accept that death is the end. | #WDRadio April 12, 2026==========HOUR ONE: I’m pretty sure that unless you were born of a virgin, died, and then rose from the grave three days later, no one has had any real success at bringing people back from the underworld. But that’s exactly what people who practice necromancy try to do – wake the dead. They can’t be successful at it

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112:01

The Mill That Murdered Its Workers By Fire | The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/13

A bustling New England mill turned into a scene of unimaginable horror as the Pemberton Mill's collapse in 1860 claimed dozens of lives, leaving behind a terrifying tale of disaster.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: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*IN THIS EPISODE: The ghost of a man in gray haunts a London theater. ***

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312:38

Her Husband's Biggest Customer Didn't Exist — And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/12

“For Want of a Nail”: When a woman's plane makes an emergency landing in a small South Dakota town, a quick visit to her husband's biggest customer leads her down a rabbit hole of lies, a fake company, and a murder — and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0628Look 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:

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290:26

He Sold His Soul for Eternal Youth And Hid It Behind...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/12

“The Picture of Dorian Gray”: When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would bear the burden of aging and sin in his place, he is free to pursue a life of endless pleasure and cruelty — but the portrait keeping his terrible secret cannot stay hidden forever. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0627Look 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:

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59:03

A TRUCK DRIVER’S FINAL ROUTE | The Unexplained...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/12

A devoted father and long-distance truck driver vanished in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest under chillingly bizarre circumstances, leaving behind only a locked truck and haunting eyewitness accounts.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: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*IN THIS EPISODE: In May 1995, Devin Williams, a

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1:21

A Message From Darren – A Family Passing and...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/11

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302:05

They Put Him on the Gallows, And the Gallows Refused...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/11

“Haunted Hangman”: When the gallows mysteriously fail on the morning of his execution, a convicted murderer's claims of innocence force a desperate prison governor to question whether the real killer has been inside the prison walls all along. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0626Look 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:

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8:31

The Ghost Dog of Ash Hollow | The Legend Was Real —...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2026/04/11

When two girls ignore the whispered warnings about the haunted woods at the edge of their neighborhood, they come face to face with proof that some legends are far more than legend.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 family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!Facebook

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