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 Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
Episodes
NEARLY DECAPITATED IN A LOCKED APARTMENT: The Mysterious Murder of Helen Knabe
In 1911, Indianapolis' pioneering female doctor was found nearly decapitated in her locked apartment with no sign of how the killer entered or escaped—and the murder weapon had vanished without a trace.Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://w…
Celebrating 100K Subs on YouTube / “Fireside Frights” Style
Church of the Undead "Sleep Paralysis" episode: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-sleepparalysis/ Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateTake the WEIRD DARKNESS LISTENER SURVEY and help mold the future of the podcast: …
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: Scientist Exposes What Really Happened to Flight 19 and 70+ Other Vessels
A researcher claims centuries of maritime terror boils down to cold, hard math — and the numbers are more disturbing than any supernatural theory.READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved-science-expl…
A REAL WAR OF THE WORLDS? Harvard Scientist Thinks Aliens Could Reach Earth Late This Year
A Harvard astronomer’s controversial theory about a massive object hurtling through our solar system has ignited fierce debate in the scientific community — and raised questions about whether humanity should prepare for contact.READ or HEAR…
35 PHONE CALLS FROM A DEAD MAN: The Charles Peck Mystery And More Calls From Beyond The Grave
When Charles Peck died instantly in California's worst train crash, his phone somehow made 35 calls to his loved ones over the next 11 hours—and his case is just one of many documented instances of the dead reaching out through our technolo…
(Bonus Episode!) WHEN AI TRANSLATED WHALE SONGS: And The Message Was Terrifying
“What The Waters Knew” by Marcus Blackwood: When humanity unlocks the language of whales, they uncover ancient truths, haunting questions, and a silence that might hold the key to their own fate.
(BONUS EPISODE) THE POST APOCALYPTIC SALESMAN: Even The End of the World Won’t Stop This Pitch Man
“A Bad Day For Sales” by Fritz Leiber: A grinning mechanical salesman roams the streets, desperately trying to make a sale—unaware that the world around him has just ended.Originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1953
HER BLESSING IS IMMORTALITY: Her Curse Is The Death of Everyone Around Her
A woman somehow survives a bullet wound to the heart—and soon realizes that this strange immunity comes at a horrific cost: everyone she loves ends up dead, as though there’s some deadly curse in her wake. Hear “To Whom It May Concern” from…
SHE WOKE UP DURING HER OWN AUTOPSY: True Terrors of People Waking Up In The Morgue
From a grandmother who survived an entire weekend in morgue refrigeration to a man who woke up during his own autopsy, these shocking true stories of people mistakenly declared dead will make you question everything you thought you knew abo…
THE ANNABELLE DOLL TOUR: The Guide Died 3 Days In, Now a Comedian Bought Her Resting Place
A comedian just bought America's most notorious collection of cursed objects — and paranormal experts say people are going to die.READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/annabelle-tour-death-matt-rife-purchase/= = = = = = = = = = …
LIKE I NEED ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD: The Man Who Lived Two Days with an Arrow Through His Brain
A 64-year-old Italian shopkeeper spent forty-eight hours alone in his Ancona home with a carbon crossbow bolt lodged through his skull — and somehow remained conscious the entire time.READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/man-su…
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES: Do NDEs Prove Heaven And Hell Are Real, or Is It More Complicated Than That?
When people clinically die and come back describing encounters with Jesus, glimpses of paradise, or terrifying darkness, should Christians believe them — or could something more sinister be at work?SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.co…
THE NIGHT A UFO HELD A MOBILE HOME HOSTAGE: The Columbia Missouri Case #WDRadio WEEK OF AUG 10, 2025
A Missouri family's terrifying 90-minute encounter with a hovering UFO that manipulated trees with invisible force and left behind physical evidence so compelling it drew legendary researcher J. Allen Hynek to investigate.==========HOUR ONE…
TO HELL AND BACK: Terrifying Stories From People Who Died And Went to Hell – But Came Back
These people died, were sent to hell, then returned to the living with terrifying accounts of demons, unbearable heat, and torments so horrific that their warnings about the afterlife might cause you to change your ways.Join the DARKNESS SY…
SHE GAVE HIM MIRACLE PILLS FOR 25 YEARS: Now She Wants His Soul As Payment
A seemingly benevolent country doctor offers miraculous pink pills—but there’s a dangerously Faustian cost. What exactly is the secret to the success of “Dr. Peterson’s Pills?” | #RetroRadio EP0482Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirdd…
THAT OLD DOLL WE FOUND IS CRYING: “Pig and Pepper” – a Ghost Story
Three friends seeking shelter in an abandoned cabin discover too late that the child who died there forty-five years ago never stopped calling for her mother. It’s “Pig and Pepper” from CBC’s Deep Night! | #RetroRadio EP0481Join the DARKNES…
THE NIGHT WITCHES: The Teen Girls Squadron Set Up To Fail – But Still Made Nazis Afraid of the Dark
Armed with outdated biplanes made of fabric and wood, teenage Soviet girls flew 30,000 bombing raids in complete darkness, becoming so feared that German soldiers wouldn't even light cigarettes at night.Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://…
SLENDERMAN SLASHER GOES FREE: Morgan Geyser, Who Stabbed Her Friend 19 Times, Is Being Released
After a decade in psychiatric confinement, Morgan Geyser — who at twelve years old stabbed her best friend nineteen times — has been granted release to a group home in Wisconsin.READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/slenderman-m…
“SKINLESS” (Part Two) by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors
When campers start disappearing at the newly reopened Camp Resting Stone, ten-year-old Jay discovers the counselors are hiding a deadly secret about why the camp was abandoned twenty-two years ago.Find more family-friendly frights and creep…
PENTAGON’S UFO WITNESS: Air Force Under Secretary Reveals Plasma Alien Encounter
America’s newest Air Force Under Secretary brings a haunting encounter from the Arizona mountains — and a conviction that plasma beings are watching us.READ or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/air-force-under-secretary-ufo/= = = = …
THE BATHROOM TERROR at Moharcherra High School
Four students collapse after encountering a headless figure in the school bathroom, reigniting decades of paranormal claims at a campus plagued by unnatural deathsREAD or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/bathroom-ghost-moharcherra-…
15 KILLER KIDS & MURDEROUS MINORS: Can We Predict Which Kids Will Become Killers?
From an 11-year-old who killed for 'fun' to teens who murdered their own families, these 15 shocking cases of killer kids reveal the disturbing truth about whether we can predict which children will become murderers.Join the DARKNESS SYNDIC…
HAUNTED POVEGLIA ISLAND SOLD: The Place of 160K Dead Just Sold for Half a Million Dollars
Venice residents band together to buy plague pit island, transforming a site of mass death into their private sanctuary — where tourists will never set footREAD or HEAR the story: https://weirddarkness.com/poveglia-island-venice-haunted-sol…
THEY KILLED HER FOR $100,000: But Aunt Grace Refuses To Stay Dead
Two ex-cons, Ernie and Sid, fresh out of prison, visit their former cellmate’s Aunt Grace because she holds a key they need—the other half to open a chest containing $100,000. They decide to kill her to get her key—but it turns out Aunt Gra…
THE PLAISTOW HORROR: The Boy Who Slept Next To His Mother’s Corpse After Murdering Her
In the sweltering summer of 1895, two boys lived with their mother's decomposing corpse for ten days while playing cricket and going to the seaside — a Victorian crime that shocked even the most hardened of London's East End residents.Join …
BULLETS AND BOUQUETS: When Romeo and Juliet Meet the Maguindanao Matchmaking Method
A tale of young love, overprotective fathers, and some very aggressive wedding planning.READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.com/mm-bulletsandbouquetsMindOfMarlar™, WeirdDarkness®, Copyright ©2025NOTE: Some of…
NORTH CAROLINA’S DARKEST PARANORMAL SECRETS: From Demon Dogs to a Lost Colony to Bleeding Staircases
From a ghost that hurls cell phones across rooms to demon dogs that chase your car at impossible speeds, North Carolina's haunted hotels, blood-stained plantations, and paranormal highways make it America's most terrifying state to explore …
THEY KNEW TOO MUCH: The Intimidating And Terrifying Men In Black Phenomenon
When Harold Dahl saw UFOs over Puget Sound in 1947, he never expected a visit from a man in black who would threaten him to keep quiet—spawning a phenomenon that would haunt UFO witnesses for decades.Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://wei…
SHE WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS MULTIPLE TIMES: The Strange True Case of Betty Andreasson
When Massachusetts housewife Betty Andreasson watched five grey beings walk through her solid kitchen walls in 1967, it would unlock decades of suppressed memories revealing a lifetime of alien encounters that began when she was just seven …
THE NEW ENGLAND VAMPIRE PANIC: Burned Hearts, Beheaded Corpses, and The White Death
Across 19th-century New England, over 80 documented exhumations reveal a forgotten chapter of American history where rural communities were stirred into a vampire panic, causing them to dig up graves and burn the hearts of their own dead re…
YOUR BRAIN MIGHT BE DOWNLOADABLE AFTER DEATH: Scientists Give Death a 40% Chance of Being Optional
Scientists just asked 312 brain experts if we can download memories from dead people's frozen brains, and 40% said yes — which is coincidentally the same odds as finding matching socks in your dryer.READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar arti…
MAN WITH X-RAY VISION Baffles Scientists – Sees Through Solid Objects! #WDRadio WEEK OF AUG 03, 2025
They blindfolded him, but Kuda Bux still saw everything — even having the ability to read without being able to see! How?!==========HOUR ONE: All families have their ups and downs. However, when you find a clan where an infanticide trial is…
MURDER BEHIND MUSEUM WALLS And The Corpse In The Sarcophagus
When Rocky Fortune takes a gig as a museum tour guide, he doesn’t expect to stumble on a corpse in a sarcophagus — or for it to vanish before the cops arrive. Hear the tale in Rocky Fortune, “Museum Murder!” | #RetroRadio EP0479Join the DAR…
(BONUS EPISODE) “MORGUE SHIP” by Ray Bradbury
Aboard a ship recovering the dead from an endless interstellar war, a man faces a grim moral dilemma when an enemy official—presumed dead—awakens with a deadly mission that could decide the fate of the galaxy.Originally published by Planet …
THE GRUMBLETHORPE HAUNTING: Two And a Half Centuries of Paranormal Activity
In a Philadelphia museum where a British general's 246-year-old bloodstain refuses to fade, staff members routinely encounter a black mist rising from the floor and catch the scent of freshly baked bread from a woman who died over 200 years…
A PASTOR’S DEATHBED SECRET: The Alien Bodies of 1941 Missouri
When Reverend William Huffman was called to pray over crash victims in the Missouri woods one night in 1941, he never expected to find himself standing over small, hairless beings with large heads and hieroglyphic-covered wreckage—a secret …
DOPPELGANGER DOUBLE TAKE: When You Meet Your Own Worst Enemy
You've heard the terrifying tales of people meeting their exact doubles throughout history, but the most dangerous doppelgänger you'll ever face might be the false version of yourself you've been sending out into the world.SERMON TRANSCRIPT…
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MEDICAL MONSTERS: Deadly Doctors, Nasty Nurses, and Murderous Medicine [True Crime Documentary]
When the people sworn to save lives become serial killers, their medical knowledge transforms into the perfect weapon for murder — and these are their horrifying true stories.Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateT…
THE JERSEY DEVIL DOCUMENTARY: 300 Years of Terror, Evidence, and Encounters in the Pine Barrens
For three centuries, something with leathery wings, glowing eyes, and an unholy scream has stalked the Pine Barrens of New Jersey — and the terrifying encounters continue to this day.Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/sy…
GRAVEYARD GERTIE: She Visits Her Own Burial Plot Daily – And Her Live-In Best Friend Is Dead
When Casey and Ann meet an eerie old woman who visits her own grave each night, they’re drawn into a chilling mystery where both the living and the dead seem to keep her company. Hear the story in Casey – Crime Photographer! | #RetroRadio E…