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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HALLOWEEN: 2,000 Years of Heinous History
WDRadio Week of October 26, 2025 | The night is coming. Porch lights and decorations won't change what moves through the darkness on October 31st. Eve...
MODERN ART MEETS THE MACHINE AGE: An Eerily Prophetic Story of AI Before AI Existed
In a world where handmade art is humanity’s last stand against the machine, the unveiling of a mysterious new artist named Orville threatens to shatte...
WD20251026A-JureGrando
In 1656, Croatian stonemason Jure Grando was buried alive after defying powerful monks, only to rise from his grave and terrorize his village for sixt...
WEIRD AFTER DARK: Mothman's Doom, Missing Time, and Naked Martians
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SYNOPSIS: Hosts Ghost and Ghoul Friend conduct an in-depth ana...
MOTHMAN – HARBINGER OF DOOM: 100 Witnesses, 46 Dead, And Still No Answers To What It Was
A dog vanishes chasing glowing red eyes in the darkness, couples are pursued at over 100 miles per hour by something with massive wings, and a terrifi...
HE CLAIMED TO BE SATAN’S SON: My Best Friend Has Taken The Darkest of Paths
When Tony reconnects with his old friend Sam after five years, he discovers Sam has transformed into "Kato"—a practitioner of dark arts who claims sup...
AFTER THE CURTAIN FALLS, THE REAL HORROR BEGINS: A Deadly Obsession Echoes Through a Dark Theatre
Alone in a dark, deserted theatre after closing time, a man expecting romance instead finds himself trapped in a deadly soundscape—where every whisper...
“THE GRAVE CITY LIBRARY” (Part 4 of 4) by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors
When Shawn and Lucy wake up in a nightmarish forest under a purple moon, they must navigate a world of screaming voices and dead trees while searching...
AN ASTRONOMER’S STRANGE LOGIC: How Can He Believe in Aliens While Rejecting UFOs?
An astronomer who's spent his career searching for alien life explains why he's confident extraterrestrials exist throughout the universe—yet remains...
Americans Would Rather Live With Ghosts Than Face Today's Housing Market
When mortgage rates and home prices drive potential buyers to the breaking point, haunted houses start looking surprisingly appealing.
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THE GOBLIN GOT HIM: A Missing Boy Returns Too Clean -And El Duende Is To Blame
A three-year-old disappeared near a swollen river during torrential rains in Honduras. When he came back the next day with a head wound, his family ha...
25,000 PEOPLE TRIED TO READ MINDS THROUGH THE RADIO: The Mass Telepathy Experiment of 1927
A physicist sealed six volunteers in a room while thousands of BBC listeners attempted to telepathically read their minds.
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IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR: The Haunting of Deanna (A True Paranormal Story)
It began as proof for the skeptic — and ended as evidence for the damned.
Transcript, Pics, and Videos: https://weirddarkness.com/IfYouDo...
MILITARY CONTRACTOR ADMITS TO NJ UFO PANIC: But There Are Questions About Their Believability
A casual admission at an Army summit may have finally solved one of 2024's strangest mysteries… or maybe not.
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THE BUGA SPHERE: An Alien Warning From the Sky or an Elaborate Art Project?
THE BUGA SPHERE: Mysterious Metal Orb With Ancient Warning Message Divides Scientist
A metallic sphere falls from Colombian skies bearing crypti...
THE FAST ONE: Faster Than The Speed Of Life – Unable To Outrun Death
When a scientist discovers a formula that lets him move faster than the eye can see, he and a corrupt detective race toward ultimate power—only to fin...
PHINEAS GAGE: A Rod Blasted Through His Head, He Lost Half His Brain, Then He Got Up and Walked Away
In 1848, a 13-pound iron rod exploded through Phineas Gage's skull, destroyed half his brain, and flew out the other side—but instead of dying, he sat...
ARE ALIENS REAL? Inquiring Mind of Politician Wants To Know (And Hopes It Will Get Her Re-Elected)
A sitting member of Congress has made finding aliens the cornerstone of her fourth term bid, raising millions on promises to expose what the governmen...
The Man Who Attended His Own Funeral to Test Who Really Cared
A 74-year-old veteran orchestrated an elaborate funeral procession for himself while alive, forcing an entire village to confront uncomfortable truths...
NAZI GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON THE LOCH NESS MONSTER: Goebbels Mocks Nessie, Allies Fight Back
When Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels declared the Loch Ness Monster a hoax to mock British intelligence and Mussolini claimed Italy bombed Nessi...
GHOSTS OF THE CATACOMBS: A Seance Among Six Million Dead
Deep in Rome's ancient catacombs, among six million Christian dead, a terrified medium channels the spirit of martyred Saint Agnes—revealing the exact...
SPACE'S TRASH CAN OVERFLOWS: Mystery Object Crashes in Australian Outback
A burning object crashes near a remote mining site, sparking an international investigation into what fell from the crowded skies above.
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Scientists Calculate Earth's Death Date to the Exact Day and We Have 999,997,996 Years to Prepare
A NASA supercomputer has determined when our planet becomes a lifeless wasteland, and the specificity is somehow more disturbing than the news itself....
She Faked a Pregnancy with a Reborn Doll – Then It Got Worse
A gender reveal party, hospital photos, and a newborn named Bonnie Leigh – everything seemed real until someone walked into the wrong room.
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON: A Science Fiction Masterpiece That Still Makes Readers Cry
Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and wants nothing more than to be smart. When scientists offer him an experimental surgery that has already transformed...
My WIFE DIED – Then She Became a ZOMBIE in Haiti: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction | Unsolved Mysteries
In the moonlit shadows of Haiti, a young bride falls victim to a jealous curse. Three months after her wedding, Helen Strong is dead... or is she? Whe...
A CARNIVAL OF CORPSES! The Shadow Uncovers a Traveling Carnival’s Horrifying Secret!
Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they...
Self-Proclaimed Prophet Who Predicted Trump Shooting Now Claims Alien Mothership to Fly Over Vatican
A man who described Donald Trump being shot in the ear months before it happened has a new vision, and this one involves lights in the sky.
Baseball’s Most Haunted Hotel: The Pfister’s Century of Terror
Professional athletes would rather sleep in an Airbnb than risk another night in baseball’s most infamous haunted hotel.
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Haunter of the Ring: The Cursed Ring That Turned a Loving Wife Into a Killer
A young husband's life becomes a nightmare when his devoted wife begins trying to kill him in moments she can't remember—and the only clue is a strang...
A Man's Fear of Being Buried Alive Turns to Horror | "The Premature Burial", Edgar Allan Poe horror
A man plagued by catalepsy lives in constant terror of the one fate worse than death itself—being buried alive—until the night his worst nightmare bec...
10,000 Human Skeletons Per Year: The Disturbing Truth About The Origin of Medical School Bones
#WDRadio WEEK OF OCT 19, 2025 | In the late 1800s, a journalist uncovered the shocking secret of how medical schools obtained their teaching skeletons...
The Real Danger of Using a Fortune Teller Isn’t Just The Fortune You Pay
Two psychics drained their victims of over $600,000 by claiming to remove deadly curses, but the real danger wasn't supernatural at all.
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Man Vs Machine: A Human Boxer Defends His Title Against a Robot Fighter Favored To Win
A robot enters the ring to fight for the middleweight championship, but it’s not the title belt that hangs in the balance so much as what he’s being e...
The Most Feared Outlaw in Texas Couldn't Hold a Gun: The Legend of Black Eagle & The Hobo Chicken
A mild-mannered hobo named Chicken is mistaken for the legendary outlaw Black Eagle and must maintain the deadly charade when forced to lead a train r...
The Moment of Decision: The Story Too Disturbing For “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”
When a retired magician and an arrogant estate owner clash over property changes, their feud escalates to a deadly wager—one that traps a man in an an...
The Hitchhiker: Every 100 Miles, the Same Man Was Waiting
A cross-country driver realizes the hitchhiker he keeps impossibly encountering along his route might be the only one of them who's still alive. | Mer...
“THE GRAVE CITY LIBRARY” (Part 3 of 4) by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors
Armed with a mysterious leather-bound manuscript and help from a library employee, Shawn and Lucy venture into an abandoned office on Halloween to unc...
Mothman To Invisible Entities: True Stories of Cryptid Encounters
When a police speed camera picked up invisible humanoids sprinting at 40 mph, it became just one of dozens of credible cryptid encounters reported by...
Ranchers Find Mutilated Cattle With 'Laser Burns' - Aliens or Chupacabra?
A rancher in Villa de la Quebrada found two of his animals dead with impossibly precise cuts and missing organs, joining a pattern of mysterious lives...