Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
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 Podcasti...
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The Traffic Mirror That Declared War on One Woman's Chi | Weird DarkNEWS
A Shanghai woman's battle against a "demon-revealing" traffic mirror led to a rash of car accidents, police intervention, and mirrors sealed in cement...
Preposterous Pepsi Predator | Criminal Commits Carbonation Crime
A Missouri man allegedly threatened to kill someone because he was denied access to a soft drink, proving that brand loyalty can be taken too far.
A Kidnapping, a Parachute Fail, America's Unanimously Voted President, And America's Only Emperor
From mass ritual suicide to mass hysteria, unanimous elections to ancient manuscripts that proved the Bible's accuracy, February 4th has a body count...
UK Filmmaker Says Trump Will Reveal Aliens Exist in July | Color Me Skeptical
A British filmmaker says a Trump insider leaked plans for a historic UFO disclosure speech timed to the Roswell anniversary — but the claim has more r...
Gas, Fear, and Hysteria: The Mysterious Mad Gasser of Mattoon | What Really Happened?
Some believe it was a lone gun experiment. Others believe the whole incident was something from the paranormal. And still others say it was a case of...
This Man's Rectum Evacuated an Entire Hospital | Bomb Squad Becomes Butt Squad
A 24-year-old in Toulouse, France needed emergency surgery after inserting a live World War I artillery shell into his rectum, which honestly raises m...
A Ghost Killed a King, Breath Froze Solid, a Doomsday Plane, and a Séance Warning That Came True
From a vengeful saint's ghost striking down a Viking conqueror to an occult-obsessed music producer who foresaw death at a séance and then walked stra...
The Werewolf Case Referenced in 'The Exorcist' Novel | The Trial of Peter Stumpp
Peter Stumpp was arrested accused of being an "insatiable bloodsucker” - which, in 1589, meant he was being accused of being a werewolf. Even stranger...
A Holy Man Cursed This Family's Home, Then It Started Catching Fire Every Day
A poor family in a remote Indian village claims a wandering sadhu cursed their house after being denied bread, and now fires erupt without warning or...
She's Convinced Her Dead Husband Is Coming Back on Their Anniversary | Gift From The Dead
A year after her controlling husband's death, a terrified widow watches priceless jewels appear one by one on her dressing table — gifts, she believes...
Shadow Sorcerers, a Cave of Secrets, and a Furry Rodent Who's Constantly Wrong About The Weather
Some dates in history collect oddities the way a junk drawer collects batteries and old keys — you open it up and wonder how all of this ended up in t...
A Future Where Murder Is Now Legal | His Seventh Victim Won't Run To Save Her Life
In a future where war has been replaced by government-sanctioned murder, a veteran hunter is assigned his seventh victim — a young woman sitting in th...
We Heard Mysterious and Terrifying Screams In My Basement!
#WDRadio WEEK OF FEBRUARY 01, 2026
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HOUR ONE: It all started one night in June 2018. The screams coming from underneath the hous...
I Watched the Television Episode We Never Finished, Now I Can't Stop It
Mark thought he was just another overworked TV writer burning the midnight oil, but when his dead colleague sends him an email with a lost episode eer...
Claws, Contracts, and Close Calls: One Last Fight For Filmore
Double-crossed, beaten bloody, and staring down a title fight he can’t win, Larry Filmore’s last night on Dornel IV might be his last night anywhere....
UFO Whistleblower Says Angels Are ALIENS | What If He's Wrong And ALIENS Are DEMONS?
A former intelligence officer suggests biblical angels were extraterrestrials, but what if the equation is backwards — and the "aliens" people encount...
He Walled Up His Wife's Corpse. But Something Else Was Trapped Inside With Her | The Black Cat
A man who once loved animals more than anything confesses from death row how a single act of drunken cruelty against his beloved black cat set him on...
Creepy Doll, a Government Monster, and a Creature Called "The Chootman" | Micro Terrors
Three kids write three nightmare stories for us! A doll with razor-sharp teeth wants to play, a creature called The Chootman stalks a cabin sleepover,...
Rosemary's Baby | The Horror Film's Curse & Real Cases of Demonic Pregnancy!
Rosemary’s Baby was a hit novel that became an iconic film, only to bring woe to nearly everyone who made it. We’ll look at the film which many people...
She Was Chosen Before She Was Born | A Civil War Curse 20 Years in the Making
Twenty years after a Civil War tragedy burned his mansion to the ground, a vengeful father's ghost still waits by the river bend for the girl who will...
A Ship Vanishes Without a Trace, Son of Sam's Demonic Dog, and a Corpse That Was Executed Twice!
An unsinkable ship disappears into the Arctic void, a serial killer blames his neighbor's possessed Labrador, laughter becomes a contagion, and Englan...
When These Ordinary People Stumbled Into the Past | Real Time Slip Reports
Sadly, the past is gone and cannot be changed – nor can we see into the future to prepare for what’s to come. We live in the here and now, and that is...
Woman Felt Something Heavy on Her Chest; She Discovered It Wasn't The Dog!
A Brisbane woman discovered a massive carpet python coiled on her chest in the middle of the night, handled it herself like a true Australian, and adm...
Two Stone Knights, One Dark Legend, and a Woman Named Lorna | Man-Sized In Marble
When an American couple rents a charming Scottish cottage to escape tragedy, they discover a chilling local legend: the marble statues of two murderou...
A Pope Who Committed Murder, a Raven That Inspired Madness, and UFO We Shot At
RETRACTION/ERROR: I am wrong about the fireball sighting taking place last night/this morning... it actually took place January 24, but somehow I miss...
The Mormon Moon Quakers Story Is Real... Just Not the Way the Internet Claims!
The story of how early Mormon leaders allegedly believed six-foot-tall Quakers were living on the moon is stranger, funnier, and more complicated than...
Mother Allegedly Poisoned Her Own Daughters' Wine at Thanksgiving Dinner
A family Thanksgiving gathering turned deadly when investigators say a North Carolina mother laced a bottle of wine with a chemical that slowly conver...
Former Bank of England Expert Warns: Alien Disclosure Could Collapse Global Markets in HOURS
A former financial security analyst who spent a decade at the Bank of England has warned Governor Andrew Bailey to prepare for total financial instabi...
The Night the Party Caught Fire, the Sky Boomed, and Speeding Was Basically Walking | #MWD
From a royal dance floor that turned into a fire trap to a man fined for driving 8 miles an hour, history really woke up confused on this day. | IT HA...
The Night a "Meteorite" Crashed on a Connecticut Farm | Then It Opened Up!
When a Connecticut farm couple nurses an injured extraterrestrial visitor back to health, they have no idea they're caught between a grateful guest fr...
1,800 Meters Deep and No One's Answering the Intercom | "The Engineer"
A deep-sea oil executive discovers that delegating a catastrophic emergency to subordinates works best when someone actually answers the intercom.
The Cideville Poltergeist Trial of 1851 | When a "Sorcerer" Sued a Priest
When a French priest accused a shepherd of witchcraft and beat him with a stick, the shepherd sued for defamation—forcing a courtroom full of witnesse...
The ER Doors Opened and the Wrong Century Walked In | "Out of Time"
When an unusually quiet night in the ER takes a terrifying turn, nurse Ally and her colleagues find themselves treating patients with injuries—and clo...
Contaminated Vaccines, the Vampire of Sacramento, and Michael Jackson's Flaming Hair #MWD
When a plumber's death gives us bathroom slang and a pop star's pomade turns him into a human torch, you know it's going to be a weird morning. | IT H...
What Happens When the Dead Need Your Body to Speak? This Man Found Out! | "The Sensitive"
A suburban husband who never wanted to attend a séance discovers he's the rarest kind of medium — and a dead Napoleonic soldier discovers he's the per...
They Brought Their Missing Daughter Home, They Found Their Real Daughter's Body Elsewhere
In 1922, a French family was overjoyed when their missing toddler was found 250 miles away — until a headless body wearing her clothes was discovered...
The Crash, The Creatures, And The Confession: Inside The Varginha Ufo Press Conference
Nearly thirty years after the alleged UFO crash in Varginha, Brazil, witnesses just gathered at the National Press Club to share testimony about creat...
A Ventriloquist Dummy, A Serial Killer Who Taunted Eliot Ness, and Churchill's Booze Prescription
IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 26: This morning: television's first star had a wooden face, Cleveland's most famous lawman met his match in a phant...
The Mayor Who Vowed to Hunt Down a Murderer | The Clues Led Back To Him
A mayor vows to hunt down a murderer and end a deadly plague — never suspecting the trail of clues will lead straight back to himself. | “So Shall Ye...
Night Owl Horrors | Scary Things That Only Happen When You're the Last One Awake
From skeletal faces in TV static to well-dressed spirits standing in hallways, these late-night witnesses share the terrifying things they saw while t...