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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Science Just Proved We’re Not Living In The Matrix and AI Will Never Achieve Self-Awareness
Mathematical Proof ENDS Simulation Theory Forever... But That's Just The Beginning of What This Means.
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He Threw the Skull Into the Sea… But It Came Back Screaming
A retired sea captain inherits a lonely seaside cottage — and the skull of a murdered woman that refuses to rest. When he tries to throw it into the s...
What Really Happened to the Donner Party: The Horror And The Hauntings
In 1846, 87 pioneers took what they thought was a shortcut to California—but a series of fatal decisions, impossible terrain, and early snowstorms tra...
German Tourist Returns Stolen Cathedral Skull After 60 Years of Guilt
A man in Germany lived with a disturbing secret from his youth for six decades before finally making things right.
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Woman Orders Medication Online, Gets Human Arms and Fingers Instead
A Kentucky woman expected her prescription refill – the shipping company had different body parts in mind.
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NATIONAL PARK DISAPPEARANCES: Cases That Defy Logic #WDRadio
Week of November 09, 2025: Hundreds vanish without a trace in America's national parks each year, found miles from where they disappeared in impossibl...
The Hospital That Traps Night Shift Nurses in Time
During her routine midnight shift at Memorial Hospital, Nurse Laura Bennett encounters a colleague in an old-fashioned uniform who reveals she's been...
We Thought Mars Was Lifeless... We Were Horribly Wrong
Scientists arrive on Mars to conduct nuclear experiments on what everyone assured them was a completely dead and worthless planet, but what they disco...
Would Aliens Need Jesus? A Vatican Astronomer Says He'd Baptize Them
Recent government hearings have made UFOs and aliens front-page news, and now a Catholic priest says he'd baptize extraterrestrials if asked. But I th...
WAR OF THE WORLDS (Full Audiobook): The Alien Invasion Horror Classic by H.G. Wells
The full-length, unabridged audiobook narrated by Weird Darkness host, Darren Marlar. | No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteent...
THE DEVIL CAME TO DEVON: 100 Miles of Unexplained and Impossible Cloven Footprints Appear Overnight
On a freezing February morning in 1855, the terrified residents of Devon, England discovered miles of cloven hoof prints burned into fresh snow—tracks...
Aliens In The Mind: The Island of Telepathic Hybrids
A dead professor, a remote Scottish island, and a secret population of large-headed telepaths with the ability to control human minds – two scientists...
“Frankenstein’s New Butt” and Other Scary Stories Written By Kids! #MicroTerrors
“The Creepy Doll” by Joey Sweet, age 9
“The Fish” by Mad Alexander, age 10
“Frankenstein’s New Butt” by Millie, age 6
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The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist: What Really Happened
The shocking true story of a 13-year-old boy's demonic possession in 1949 that terrified priests and inspired the most frightening film ever made.
THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Castle Gets Shipped to America, Complete With Resident Specter
A Scottish ghost cursed to haunt his castle for 200 years finally gets his chance at redemption when an American grocery tycoon ships the entire struc...
THE CONTRAIL CONTROVERSY: White Streaks Over 14 Countries – Global Conspiracy or Atmospheric Science?
When a Maine radio reporter counted 30 unmarked jets laying persistent white trails across the sky in 45 minutes and an air traffic controller admitte...
Chinese Woman Accuses Husband of Cheating After Fortune-Teller Takes Her Money
A $70 online psychic reading nearly destroyed a marriage in China when a wife believed a stranger's predictions over her husband's protests.
New Homeowner Discovers 69-Year-Old Woman's Body on Living Room Floor Months After Her Death
A foreclosure auction led to a grim discovery in a Texas townhome where neighbors noticed warning signs but never knocked on the door.
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The Horned Man and the Ghost Train Tragedy of 1979
A family's day at Sydney's Luna Park ended in flames when a Ghost Train fire killed seven people—including six children—but the last photograph taken...
Blue Dogs Appear in Chernobyl's Radioactive Exclusion Zone
Dogs roaming near the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster suddenly turned bright blue, baffling caretakers.
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SCARY MONKEY BUSINESS: Escaped Monkey Swings from Rafters in Spirit Halloween Store
A diapered primate turned a Texas Halloween store into its personal jungle gym.
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THE WHITE WEREWOLF OF HARTZ MOUNTAINS: A Family’s Lycanthropic Blood Curse Returns
When a father relocates his family to an isolated cabin in the Hartz Mountains to escape his dark past, a mysterious white wolf begins stalking them—b...
BLACK BART: The Gentleman Bandit Who Terrorized Wells Fargo While Writing Poetry
He robbed 28 stagecoaches without firing a single shot, left poetry at crime scenes, and vanished into legend—this is the strange tale of Black Bart,...
FINDING OUT BY MAIL THAT YOU ARE DEAD: Hospital Accidentally Declares 531 Living Patients Deceased
A computer glitch transforms routine mail into premature obituary notices for over 500 very-much-alive people.
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Ohio Decides Your Robot Girlfriend Can't Be Your Legal Wife
An Ohio lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to marry artificial intelligence. Yes, this is a real problem someone felt needed ad...
New Jersey Cop Chooses Pizza Over Murder Investigation While 911 Calls Pour In
When duty called, this sergeant went for pepperoni instead.
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WAS SHE A WITCH, A FAIRY, A CHANGELING? The Horrifying True Story of the Bridget Cleary Murder
A religious Irish man murdered his wife in front of witnesses and showed no remorse — because he genuinely believed he was killing a fairy changeling...
The Vatican Astronomer Who Would Baptize Aliens
The Catholic Church's top astronomer says extraterrestrials would be children of God.
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Navy Admits To Seeing Thousands Of Unidentified Moving Objects In U.S. Waters
A UFO tracking database has logged over 9,000 unexplained underwater sightings off American coasts since 2022.
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I Befriended the Lonely Kid in Town... Big Mistake
IN THIS EPISODE: Luther Kross brings us the story of a son who rushes to his mother's deathbed to say goodbye, but the hardest conversation still awai...
Witchcraft Raid Outside Governor's Home Sparks Political Conspiracy Theories in Kenya
Four people found with ritual items near a politician's residence were beaten by villagers before police intervened, but the real mystery might be who...
BRITAIN'S MOST HAUNTED WITCH PRISON: Paranormal Investigators Restore The Cage
Two paranormal researchers bought a 16th-century prison where accused witches awaited execution - then the renovations began stirring things up.
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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 mak...
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, beckoni...
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 impossib...
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.
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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!
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OLD TIME RADIO HALLOWEEN NIGHT #3 | Vintage Horror & Mystery Shows | Classic Audio Drama
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HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON #2 | Classic Old Time Radio Shows | Hours of Vintage Terror
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