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
ELSEWHERE, KENTUCKY: The Government Buried It In Concrete And Erased It From Every Map
When an urban explorer discovers a town that's been completely erased from maps, he learns too late why the county went to such extreme lengths to make sure nobody could ever find it again.IN THIS EPISODE: I have two tales of fiction to sha…
PRISON BREAK FROM SATURN’S MOON: What Followed the Criminals After Their Escape From Titan?
When Carlo sees a smiling woman floating in the vacuum of space outside his spaceship window, he knows it's impossible—but she keeps knocking, beckoning him to let her in.SOURCES and RESOURCES:"Escape” by Lu Evans: https://www.auditoryantho…
WHEN TOMORROW'S NEWS AIRED TODAY: Breaking Mandela Effect News
When producer Lena Harper discovers an unauthorized script on the morning news teleprompter, she dismisses it as a technical glitch—until the impossible future events it predicted begin appearing across the city.SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Break…
SATAN'S ANTICHRIST EMERGENCY PLAN: The Beast Is Already In Place
Satan has a problem he can't solve – and it means the Antichrist might already be walking among us.SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-satans-antichrist-emergency-planWeird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. C…
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LISTENER TERRORS (November 01, 2025) #MicroTerrors
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrorsOther stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaUOthe…
OLD TIME RADIO HALLOWEEN NIGHT #3 | Vintage Horror & Mystery Shows | Classic Audio Drama
Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPECHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = The Whistler, “Break Away” (March 0…
HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON #2 | Classic Old Time Radio Shows | Hours of Vintage Terror
Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPECHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = Inner Sanctum, “Wailing Wall” (Nove…
HALLOWEEN NIGHT Old Time Radio | Hours of Classic Horror & Mystery | Vintage Terror
Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPECHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = Dark Fantasy, “Thing From The Sea” …
THE LOST FRANKENSTEIN RADIO SHOW FROM 1931: All 13 Episodes Back-to-Back | Vintage Horror Audio
Step back to 1931 and experience the complete 13-episode Frankenstein radio serial that aired the same year as the legendary Boris Karloff film—a rarely heard vintage horror dramatization starring George Edwards as Baron Victor Frankenstein…
WAR OF THE WORLDS: The Greatest Halloween Prank Ever
The 1938 radio drama of “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, as performed by Mercury Radio Theater and Orson Welles.Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPESOURCES…
HALLOWEEN: The Horrifying Audiobook of the Original 1978 Film | COMPLETE NARRATION
Tonight on Weird Darkness, I'm sharing the complete audiobook novelization of John Carpenter's Halloween—a chilling adaptation that delves even deeper into the mind of pure evil than the film ever could.Support our Halloween “Overcoming the…
THE BIGFOOT MYSTERY: Man, Monster, or Myth? And What Happens When You Come Face-to-Face With Him?
We are fascinated by Bigfoot when we read about him in books or see him on TV—but what would you do if you came face-to-face with an 800-pound creature in the wild, and discovered that the terror is so overwhelming that grown men break down…
BRAIN TRANSPLANT HORROR: The Shadow Stops the Transplanting of a Woman's Brain Into a Gorilla
A mad scientist kidnaps a woman and steals a gorilla from the zoo, his plan is to transplant the woman’s brain into the gorilla. | The Shadow, “The House of Horror” | #RetroRadio EP0545Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaig…
A FACELESS MAN IN HER NIGHTMARES: Were Her Dreams Predicting Her Own Death Date?
A woman plagued by terrifying nightmares that she'll die on her 28th birthday seeks help from a psychiatrist to understand what the recurring dreams mean—and to identify the faceless figure who keeps trying to push her off a ledge. | CBS Ra…
THE DEFIANCE DOGMAN: Ohio’s Lycanthropic Summer of Fear, 1972
In the summer of 1972, railroad workers in Defiance, Ohio, reported being attacked and stalked by a towering, hairy creature that police and newspapers dubbed the “Werewolf of Defiance.”Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campai…
MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST and Other Disturbing Munchausen by Proxy Stories
From mothers who poisoned their children to nurses who became serial killers, these are the most disturbing cases of caregivers who made their victims sick for attention, sympathy, and personal gain.Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Dar…
THE ART OF STEALING IMMORTALITY: The Man Who Believed A Painting Could Make Him Live Forever
A dying man pays $15,000 to steal a priceless painting from a museum, believing that possessing "The Woman in Red" will somehow grant him immortality beyond the grave. | CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0543Support our Halloween “O…
GRIM REAPER APPEARS IN HOSPITAL: A Nurse Comes Face To Face With The Angel of Death
A nurse working the night shift froze in a doorway when she saw a towering dark figure looming over her patient's bed moments before death arrived.Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: http…
THE TRUTH BEHIND NICOLAS FLAMEL: Was This Harry Potter Character Real? Did He Find The Secret To Immortality?
Nicolas Flamel, the alchemist from Harry Potter, was a real 14th-century Parisian bookseller who became legendary for supposedly discovering the secret to immortality—and some believe he faked his death in 1418 and is still alive today.Supp…
CONTACT LOST: The Navy Experiment That Went Horribly Wrong
A routine radar stealth test in the Pacific takes a catastrophic turn when a lightning strike causes seven warships, including the USS Gerald R. Ford, to vanish from the ocean.“Contact Lost” by Keith ConradFully Produced Version:https://www…
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. Every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume hanging i…
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 shatter everything — because Orville isn’t human.“Mr. Replogle's Dream” by Evelyn E. Smith (Fant…
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 sixteen years—knocking on doors that meant death would soon follow, violating his widow night …
WEIRD AFTER DARK: Mothman's Doom, Missing Time, and Naked Martians
EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/mothmanharbingerofdoom/SYNOPSIS: Hosts Ghost and Ghoul Friend conduct an in-depth analysis of Darren Marlar's Weird Darkness episode "Mothman: Harbinger of Doom," exploring the concentrated…
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 terrified mother watches a gray humanoid creature shuffle onto her porch and peer through the win…
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 supernatural powers and harbors a disturbing obsession with Tony's wife. As strange events un…
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, echo, and recorded voice could be his last. | BBC Fear on 4, “Hearing Is Believing” | #R…
“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 for a way back home — before they become permanent residents of Anthony Moran's unfinishe…
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 skeptical that any UFO sighting has ever been proof of their visit to Earth.Support our Ha…
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.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/buying-haunted-house-2025/Support our Halloween “Overcoming the D…
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 had a disturbing explanation for why his clothes were bone dry.READ or SHARE: https://weirdd…
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.PRINT VERSION to READ or SHARE:https://weirddarkness.com/1927-telepathy-radio-experiment/Support our Halloween “Overco…
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/IfYouDontBelieveA skeptic named Vince installs home surveillance cameras and immediately catches terrifying odd…
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.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/military-contractor-admits-nj-ufo-panic/Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” ca…
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 ScientistA metallic sphere falls from Colombian skies bearing cryptic symbols that some claim warn of Earth’s destruction while skeptics call it humanity’s latest UF…
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 find that time itself becomes their executioner. | The Devil and Mr. O, “Fast One” (aka “Spee…
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 up, spoke clearly, and walked nearly a mile to see a doctor... and that's just the beginn…
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 government knows about UFOs.READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/lauren-boebert-aliens-2025/Sup…
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 about love and loss.Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/man-stages-own-funeral-bi…