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The Dark Paranormal

The Dark Paranormal

True Stories, from terrified people. The darkest unexplained stories, direct from the source. Keep one eye open, or you may end up on the show.

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41:57

A Texas Darkness

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/21

Welcome back, to a The Dark ParanormalToday's listener submission is about a journey to Fredericksburg, Texas. Two friends on a weekend getaway find their discounted hotel room above a historic brewery turning into the setting of an unexplainable all-night ordeal. What begins as a quirky stay in an old building quickly spirals into a relentless yet specific cycle of paranormal disturbances, and a mystery no logic can quite untangle. As the pair struggle to stay calm through the escalating

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13:39

Dark Realms: The Haunted Hawthorne Hotel

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/17

Welcome back, to Dark Realms,Today, we uncover the eerie legends surrounding Salem’s notorious Hawthorne Hotel, a historic landmark said to harbour multiple restless spirits. From the whispered tales of a vengeful witch to sightings of a sorrowful woman in white and the unsettling cries of a phantom child, this episode dives into the hotel’s most feared hauntings and the experiences reported by those who claim to have faced them. It's dark history, terrifying encounters, and lingering mysteries

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34:57

Demonic Reflections

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/14

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal.In this chilling account, a listener revisits a lifetime of reflections, whispers, and shadows that refused to fade, revealing how she learned to survive in a world where mirrors are never just mirrors.Looking back on her childhood along Scotland’s east coast, the memories that surface are anything but ordinary. From her earliest years, she was haunted by...something. Through new homes, new mirrors, and even motherhood — until she began to question both what was

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21:32

Dark Minisode: It's Name Was "Olen"

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/12

Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode.Today a listener tells us one of the best experiences we've heard in a while, about a group of South London teenagers in the early 1980s. What begins as harmless mischief soon turns sinister when they decide to create a makeshift Ouija board, and appear to summon something—or someone—calling itself "Olen". As strange messages, chilling coincidences, and unseen forces begin to close in, the boys realise they may have invited far more than they ever

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16:36

Dark Realms: Hill View Manor

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/10

Welcome back, to Dark Reams.Today, we uncover the chilling legends surrounding Hill View Manor in New Castle, Pennsylvania — a former poor house turned nursing home where thousands lived and died, and where some say the dead still linger. From sorrowful echoes in empty corridors to violent encounters in the basement and the sinister presence of a childlike apparition that hides something far darker, this is a place where history and horror intertwine, and where every shadow seems to remember.Stay

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34:20

Marked By The Miller

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/07

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal.When a listener escapes a broken life and starts again in a secluded converted mill, peace is all they’re searching for. But, instead, strange sounds echo through the immaculate halls. Things appear to move of their own volition, and something — or someone — seems to be watching from the shadows. In this chilling true account, the haunting presence in the mill grows darker with every passing night... until one terrifying truth becomes impossible to ignore.Stay

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20:50

Dark Minisode: Sometimes, The Dead Don't Leave

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/05

Welcome, to our first Dark Minisode for Season 22,On today's Dark Minisode, a lifelong sceptic recalls the haunting that changed everything. What began as small, explainable oddities — doors opening on their own, missing items, strange noises — soon grew into something far more personal and terrifying. When an unseen force made itself known, it left a lasting mark not just on the family home, but on the believer the storyteller would become.Years later, a single unsettling moment at work

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15:49

Dark Realms: Mexico's House Of La Zacatecana

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/11/03

Welcome back, to Dark Realms.For our 1st Dark Realm of S22, we travel to the historic city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, to uncover the terrifying legend of Casa de la Zacatecana — a grand colonial mansion with a dark and bloody past. Behind its elegant façade lies a story of betrayal, murder, and eternal revengeFor generations, locals have spoken of three restless spirits that still wander its corridors: a vengeful lady in white, her betrayed husband, and the lover who became both killer and

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39:56

Arrival From The Darkest Depths

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/10/31

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal, Season 23!On our season debut, a marine biologist recounts a haunting that surfaced not from faith or ritual, but from the crushing silence of isolation. Stationed at a desolate research facility on the Scottish coast, they begin to experience strange disturbances— damp footsteps on metal stairs, voices through dead radios, and a figure that seems bound to the sea itself. What began as unexplained noises soon evolved into something far more personal, and far

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43:00

Pre-Season Special: An Interview With Oscuridad...

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/10/23

Welcome, to our Pre-Season show for Season 22.In this special episode, we speak with Ana Belëno, the host of Oscuridad Paranormal — the world’s first independent podcast franchise, expanding The Dark Paranormal into Spanish for the very first time. In this introduction, Ana shares why she felt called to take up the mic, how her lifelong fascination with the supernatural shaped her path, and how, it would appear, starting work on "Oscuridad Paranormal" has reawakened her own psychic

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35:11

The Dark Threshold

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/10/09

Welcome, To the Season 21 Finale of The Dark Paranormal.On our finale, a long time listener named Alex reaches out with a message that begins as a simple confession — and quickly unravels into one of the most chilling accounts ever shared on the show. What starts as an innocent purchase from an estate sale turns into a descent through obsession, reflection, and something far darker than superstition. As Alex tries to make sense of what’s happening, we’re pulled into a haunting that questions the

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25:47

Dark Minisode: The Tiny Door

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/10/07

Welcome, to our final Minisode of Season 21,Today, Anastasia returns to share a lifetime of true paranormal encounters shaped by her Russian family’s long history of “sensitive” women. From mysterious sounds behind a tiny hidden door blessed with Orthodox icons, to vivid dreams that seem to cross time and space, and unsettling activity inside a rural widow’s farmhouse, her accounts blur the line between inherited intuition and supernatural reality. Without giving everything away, this episode

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16:43

Dark Realms: Chislehurst Caves

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/10/05

Welcome back, to the final Dark Realms of Season 21.On today's show, we look at a place hidden beneath Bromley’s quiet streets, Chislehurst Caves stretch for 20 eerie miles, their man-made tunnels steeped in centuries of myth, wartime history, and chilling folklore. From sheltering thousands during the Blitz to echoing with ghostly footsteps and whispered legends of Druids, soldiers, and restless spirits, these underground passages are said to hold some of London’s darkest secrets. In this

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43:22

The Black Crucifix

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/10/02

Welcome, to the penultimate Episode of Season 21.Today, we hear of what happened when couple moves into their dream home – a restored but long-abandoned Catholic church deep in the countryside. What begins as a peaceful new start soon twists into an escalating series of unexplained events that defy logic and shake their sense of reality. This experience explores the terrifying question of what might remain when holy ground is stripped of its protection. Prepare for one of the most unsettling

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21:30

Dark Minisode: Wicker Man

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/09/30

Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode.Today, our listener and Patreon Lee from Weston-super-Mare, shares his account of the only truly unexplained events he’s ever experienced. Even after a lifetime of fascination with the paranormal. What begins as a fresh start in a dream home, soon becomes the setting for a series of increasingly baffling moments that shake his certainty about the unseen. With Lee’s willingness to tell his story with full transparency, we get an intimate, atmospheric glimpse into

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18:49

Dark Realms: St. Augustine, Florida

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/09/28

Welcome, to this weeks Dark Realm.Today, we uncover the haunted heart of St. Augustine, Florida. With a legacy stretching back to 1565, this historic coastal settlement is drenched in blood-soaked battles, pirate raids, and tragic tales that have left behind more than just history. From a lighthouse echoing with phantom footsteps, to a notorious jail steeped in torment, to a fortress said to conceal the restless spirit of a betrayed lover, St. Augustine is alive with legends that blur the line

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40:32

Chained To A Darkness

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/09/25

Welcome back to The Dark Paranormal,Today, one listener bravely shares a lifetime of encounters that defy reason — from childhood moments that still haunt their memory, to unsettling dreams that blurred the line between life and death, and finally, a terrifying modern experience that left them and their partner shaken to their core. Each moment in their story builds a picture of something more than coincidence: a series of presences that seem to follow, to watch, and to wait for the perfect

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18:47

Dark Minisode: The Not Mother

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/09/23

Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode.Today, Jasmín walks us through a lifetime threaded with the supernatural — a childhood shadowed in Hispanic Brujería, and a house that refused to be ordinary. Her experiences aren't filled with jump scares, these...encounters... are quiet, intimate and suffused with the uncanny. It’s the slow, persistent strangeness that lingers in doorways and under mattresses, told with the calm clarity of someone who’s lived with the paranormal for decades, that makes this

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20:12

Dark Realms: The Hartz Mountains - Germany

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/09/21

Welcome, to another Dark Realm.Today we step into the mist-shrouded Harz Mountains of Germany, a landscape steeped in centuries of witchcraft, pagan refuge, and chilling folklore. Through this episode, we explore the eerie legends that cling to its crags and forests – from spectral beings who travel via storms, to cursed nuns, whose cries echo like owls in the night, and the terrifying tale of a church demon, that left a deadly mark on one unsuspecting villager. Blending history, myth, and

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38:31

A Demon Of The Night

The Dark Paranormal ·

2025/09/18

Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal.Today, our listener, Tim, a 30-year-old trucker from Texas, tells two chilling episodes that blur the line between nightmare and reality. First, a childhood night terror leaves him with a real injury from something seemingly demonic...but was it a dream or reality? The injury certainly points a certain way. Years later, while living with friends, a disturbing dream leads him to discover a hidden secret — and with it, an evil that turns the house cold... and a

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