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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BREAKING: Chandra Levy's Parents Tie Her D.C. Murder to UFO Disclosure
Twenty-five years after their daughter vanished in Washington, Susan and Bob Levy now say Chandra's curiosity about UFOs — and Congressman Gary Condit...
UNMASKING THE SUPERNATURAL VIGILANTE ASSOCIATION | The Carter Chronicles: Metro Times Daily
When journalist Carter follows the trail of a notorious supernatural vigilante, he uncovers a city on the brink, a war in the shadows, and a truth mor...
Asahiyama Zoo Worker Burned His Wife in the Animal Incinerator
A 33-year-old employee at Japan's Asahiyama Zoo admitted to investigators that he carried his wife's body into the facility and ran her through the in...
She Was Dead in Her Bed. Her Baby Was in the Crib. And Nobody Could Prove a Thing.
A Washington mother was found dead in her home in 1992, her toddler beside her — and for 33 years, the case went nowhere.
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Gunman Tells Skid Row Victims 'This Is Where I Do Business'
A gunman walked to a Skid Row corner in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday night, told three people standing there that this was where he did business,...
THE HEADLESS PROPHET OF SAINT CYPRIAN STREET: True Crime Reimagined | #MurderNoir
A self-styled prophet sits headless at his own desk, his wife and four children butchered in the rooms above, and a basement chapel filled with altars...
Heredity of Horror: The Beast of Bucharest Bloodline
A father’s sins often haunt the son, but in the case of Ion Rimaru—dubbed the Vampire of Bucharest—his brutal killing spree eerily mirrored his father...
THE TUNNEL MAN: When the Planets Line Up Right, Mr. Mole Comes Knocking | #RetroRadio
A radiation-scarred inventor has built a submarine that burrows through solid bedrock, parked it beneath the city, and aimed its torpedoes at the faul...
A Bonita Springs Deputy Recognized the Red Supra at 123 MPH
A Lee County deputy on U.S. 41 clocked a red Toyota Supra at 123 mph around 1 a.m., recognized the car from a previous stop, and pulled over a 25-year...
Wildwood Shooting: Man Drags Girlfriend Inside, Hides in Pool
A Florida man allegedly shot his girlfriend in the neck, dragged her bleeding back up the street to the house, told her mother her daughter was fine,...
APRIL 30 IS WALPURGISNACHT: When Witches Dance, Bonfires Blaze and a Dead Nun is Revered
Many celebrate April 30 as “Halfway to Halloween,” but Walpurgis Night is more than just spooky fun — it’s a night when witches rise, saints blur into...
THE PAINTED SMILE: Inspired By a True Crime Case | #MurderNoir
A clown with balloons and carnations knocks on a Florida doorstep one May morning — and what's hiding behind the painted smile may be older and hungri...
MISSING PERSONS: Unsolved Vanishing Cases That’ll Leave You Questioning Everything
From eerie vanishings and cryptic letters to chilling disappearances that defy explanation, we explore the most baffling unsolved mysteries where peop...
Possessive Dead: A Stolen Mummified Foot, a Wedding Eve, and a 3,000-Year-Old Debt | #RetroRadio
A dollar at a dusty curio shop buys a mummified foot — and the thirty-century-old princess who comes with it.
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AMERICAN PSYCHO, er, uh PSYCHIC: One in Five Says They Have the Gift
New survey data shows roughly 49 million American adults believe they have psychic abilities, with Gen Z reporting twice as many flashes as boomers.
Bear Suit Insurance Scam Ends in Jail for Lake Arrowhead Trio
California's "Operation Bear Claw" nailed three men for staging fake bear attacks on luxury cars using a guy in a costume — and the biologists who wat...
DEATH ON PROJECT X: An Accountant, A Doomsday Test, And One Week To Stop It | #RetroRadio
An accountant on his first field assignment is the only man who can stop a catastrophe, and the project director has a debriefing schedule designed to...
Can Reading About The Paranormal Be Dangerous To Your Soul?
Can reading about the paranormal actually open a door to something otherworldly? Some real-life accounts suggest the act of delving into the supernatu...
The Shocking True Murder Case That Inspired TV’s Twin Peaks
Long before ‘Twin Peaks’ captivated audiences with its eerie small-town secrets, a real-life unsolved murder in Sand Lake, New York — filled with myst...
Indiana Woman Flagged for Fraud Over a Stranger Who Shared Her Face
An Anderson woman tried to renew her driver’s license and discovered another Indiana woman with her face, her age, and a different name.
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AI Clone of Dead Son Keeps His 80-Year-Old Mother Unaware
An 80-year-old Chinese woman with heart disease video-chats daily with her late son, never knowing she is actually speaking to an AI clone built by hi...
Cleveland Driver Tells Cop the Booze Was for Staying Awake
A Cleveland woman doing 38 mph on Interstate 77 informed a state trooper that the open cup of liquor in her car was, in her professional opinion, a to...
THE SHADOW, “Nightmare At Gaelsbury: A Ghost From The Bastille” | #RetroRadio
In a storm-bound country sanatorium, a brilliant scientist driven mad by one fatal mistake insists the immortal Count Cagliostro speaks to him from be...
“INK FILLED DREAM: A Boy's Out-of-Body Experiences Catch Unwanted Attention” | and more FICTION!
Twelve-year-old Joseph can step out of his sleeping body and drift through walls — and something in the dark has started watching him do it.
“HOLES: A HIVE BENEATH THE SKIN” and More Short Horror Stories of Fiction
A man discovers a tiny hole in his back, and by morning something has begun building a home inside him.
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Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao Once Warned of Monterey Witches
A 2023 video of Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao claiming witches and Wiccans had taken over Monterey, California, resurfaced as he stepped into the top...
PARIS GREEN: Inspired By a True Crime Case | #MurderNoir
A private eye called out to a quiet farm on a still September afternoon finds two sisters poisoned and shot, a brother in the wind, and a barn even th...
The Truth About Absolute Sensory Deprivation | Too Much Total Silence And You'll Go Insane!
The quietest place on Earth isn't peaceful — it's a room so silent that within 45 minutes, your own mind turns against you. And that’s just a sample o...
Isolation Through Silence: The Tragedy of the Gibbons Twins
June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters bound by silence and an eerie connection, lived a haunting life filled with creativity and madness.
How Not To Argue With A Cryptid | #COTU
The hunter never raised his rifle, never raised his voice, and somehow still got called the villain.
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Death’s Worshipper: A Killer No Wall Could Stop, Driven By An Ancient God
A scholar returns from the Indian jungle carrying a bronze idol, a borrowed god, and a body count that will follow him across an ocean. | #RetroRadio...
The Machine In Shaft Ten: The Machine Beneath the World That Ran on Human Misery | #RetroRadio
When a geologist proved that human grief and human joy were being siphoned to the stars as fuel for somebody else's machine, the world spun into cults...
Beverly Allit, The Munchhausen Monster: The Nurse Who Became a Child Murderer
Beverley Allitt was trusted to care for the most vulnerable patients, but under her nurse’s uniform hid an evil monster that turned a children's ward...
LISTENER TERRORS: The Mudman, The Snow Troll, And Other Tales Written By Kids!
When kids write horror, they don't pull their punches. Four original stories from listeners aged 8 and 9 — featuring a dad who isn't quite himself, a...
The Woman In The Green Dress: He Loved Her Seventy Years After Watching Her Die | #RetroRadio
For seventy years the woman in the green silk dress hung quietly in an old man's house — long enough, as it turned out, to learn how to step down off...
Annabelle Isn't Alone: The World's Most Dangerous Dolls
Annabelle is the doll everyone knows — but she's far from the only one locked behind glass for a reason. From a marionette that screamed to be let out...
The Screaming Ghost of a Slave: The Sorrel-Weed Haunting
In Savannah stands a mansion where a betrayed wife leapt to her death and a slave was found hanging days later — but when researchers went looking for...
SILENT SHOCK: Those Little Pink Pills | #RetroRadio
“Silent Shock”: She rented the house for the view — for the ageless, indifferent sea outside every window, for the poems she planned to write, for the...
Ghosts of The Nancy Hale: The Six Who Did Not Die | #RetroRadio
“The Six Who Did Not Die”: Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does. |...
Black-Eyed Kids at the Window and the Grey Giant of Ben Macdui (Stories of Non-Fiction AND Fiction)
Three children with pitch-black eyes tap on a bedroom window at two in the morning, a statue of the Virgin Mary holds a thief in a grip so tight the v...