Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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

DIABOLICAL DEALINGS WITH THE DEVIL: True Encounters With Satan Himself

June 25, 2025 • 29 mins
From medieval monks making midnight pacts to blues legends trading souls at crossroads, we delve into the chilling testimonies of those who claim they've stared into the eyes of pure evil and lived to tell the tale.

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BREAKING DOWN THE CAPONI ALIEN EVIDENCE: Real, Fake, or an Elaborate Conspiracy?

June 24, 2025 • 62 mins
When 23-year-old Filiberto Caponi photographed a mysterious bandaged creature outside his Italian village home, he had no idea his evidence would trigger a government conspiracy that would force him to choose between prison and publicly calling his own encounters a hoax.

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Till Death Do Us Part: When Love Refuses To Stay Buried (A Gothic Tale of Horror and Obsession!)

June 24, 2025 • 302 mins
When Chris finally escaped his suffocatingly devoted wife through the ultimate betrayal, he discovered that some bonds of love are stronger than death itself! Hear “Till Death Do Us Part” from the Mysterious Traveler! | #RetroRadio EP0445

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Secret Shar...
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THE DEADLIEST BREAKFAST IN HISTORY: The Oregon State Hospital Mass Poisoning – 47 Dead

June 24, 2025 • 68 mins
The screams echoing through Oregon State Hospital that morning weren't from the mentally ill patients—they were from 47 people dying in agony after taking their first bite of breakfast.

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THE GHOST OF SAN JUAN HILL: His War Ended in Cuba – His Haunting Began at Home

June 23, 2025 • 303 mins
A young bride’s wedding plans unravel when her long-dead husband returns from the grave with unfinished business in “The Ghost of San Juan Hill” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater! | #RetroRadio EP0444

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ghost of San Juan Hill” (May 10, 1976) ***WD
00:46:57...
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FEAR BY FLOOR BY FLOOR: What Is The Terrifying Mystery of the Skyscraper?

June 23, 2025 • 287 mins
An anxious politician contacts a private detective, terrified by unexplained occurrences in his high-rise office building. As the detective investigates, he uncovers a chilling, supernatural terror! Hear “Skyscraper Mystery” from The Haunting Hour! | #RetroRadio EP0443

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio My...
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THE VANISHING TRAVELER’S OF OLIVER’S FERRY: Deaths at the Crossing, Skeletons on the Floor

June 23, 2025 • 108 mins
#WeirdDarknessRadio WEEK OF JUNE 22, 2025 = At the isolated crossing of Rideau Ferry in the 1800s, travelers who arrived after dark at Mr. Oliver's house were promised safe passage come morning — but many were never seen alive again, and when his buildings were finally torn down decades later, the horrifying truth of what happened to those missing souls was supposedly revealed beneath the floorboards.
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HOUR ONE: A 178-year-...
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INTERDIMENSIONAL INTRUDERS AT STARDUST RANCH: Arizona’s Redacted War Against Extraterrestrials

June 22, 2025 • 66 mins
When John Edmonds began killing interdimensional aliens with a samurai sword at his Arizona ranch, he sparked one of the most controversial battles in UFO history — but the vanishing bodies and missing evidence raise disturbing questions about what really happened in the desert.

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CURSE OF THE BLACK AGGIE: Baltimore's Most Famous Ghost and America's Most Notorious Statue

June 22, 2025 • 68 mins
When a stolen sculpture was placed in a Baltimore cemetery, it became the terrifying legend of Black Aggie—a statue whose glowing red eyes and deadly curse terrorized an entire city for decades.

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(BONUS AUDIO) “The Anglers of Arz” by Roger Dee

June 22, 2025 • 19 mins
On a distant, seemingly peaceful planet, a team of space explorers observes an alien ritual that appears simple and serene — until subtle, unsettling details suggest something far older, darker, and more intelligent lies just beneath the surface.

Originally published by IF Worlds of Science Fiction, January 1953
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CARL TANZLER’S OBSESSION: The Grave Consequences of Inauthentic Love #COTU

June 22, 2025 • 15 mins
In 1931, a hospital worker named Carl Tanzler stole the corpse of the woman he loved and lived with her decaying body for seven years, believing he could bring her back to life. In this week’s message, we'll explore how this chilling true story reveals the dangerous difference between God's perfect love and our own twisted obsessions.

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CURSE ON CAPE HOWE: A Werewolf On The Island – Where Can You Run?

June 21, 2025 • 290 mins
Tonight on Dark Fantasy… the moon rises ,and a child of man becomes a creature of the NIGHT! Don’t miss… ‘W Is For Werewolf: A Tale of Lycanthropic Terror!’ | #RetroRadio EP0442

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Cornstarch Killer” (May 03, 1976) ***WD
00:47:34.419 = Dark Fantasy, “W I...
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BIG MR. LITTLE: Small Body, Giant Evil! | Paranormal And Crime Old Time Radio

June 21, 2025 • 303 mins
A man undergoes a bizarre, supernatural transformation, shrinking in stature while his inner essence grows monstrously large. Hear the tale from The Devil and Mr. O! | #RetroRadio EP0441

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Two Plus Two Equals Death” (April 29, 1976) ***WD
00:47:08.661 = The...
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SUICIDES AND SPIRITS OF THE LEMP MANSION: Inside America’s Most Infamous Haunted House

June 21, 2025 • 88 mins
The Lemp family of St. Louis were rich, powerful, influential, and were living a celebrity lifestyle thanks to the lager beer empire they had built there. But the family was anything but happy… the tragedy and depression of the family was like a curse, taking them out one by one. And it appears their spirits are still residing in the extremely haunted mansion they left behind.

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KABBALISTIC NIGHT WALKERS: Demons And Spirits of Jewish Tradition

June 21, 2025 • 57 mins
The margins of sacred texts contain creatures that academic study rarely addresses—vampiric Estries who recover only through their victim's bread and salt, and demons born from unfinished divine work on the first Friday. These beings emerge from centuries of Jewish mysticism and folklore, where the line between protective magic and terrifying consequence grows dangerously thin.

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FROM DANIEL LEEDS TO DEVIL’S LEGEND: How Religious Controversy Birthed Jersey's Most Famous Monster

June 20, 2025 • 64 mins
For nearly three centuries, the Jersey Devil has terrorized New Jersey's Pine Barrens with its glowing red eyes and leathery wings, but the monster's true origins lie not in supernatural birth, but in a 17th-century religious scandal. When Quaker settler Daniel Leeds was branded "Satan's harbinger" for publishing controversial almanacs, his family name became forever linked to the devil—transforming a community dispute into America...
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DARKER THINGS THAN MAN: The Possession of Reuben Grundy

June 19, 2025 • 59 mins
When a series of savage murders terrorizes the quiet town of Torkton, two police officers discover bloody handprints on a victim’s ceiling and realize they are hunting down something far beyond ordinary human evil in the surround forest.

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SKELETON by Ray Bradbury – The Enemy Within: Not All Murderers Are Visible | Classic Horror Fiction

June 19, 2025 • 40 mins
A man becomes terrifyingly obsessed with the idea that his own skeleton is a separate, sinister being — one that’s trying to kill him.

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The Classic Edgar Allan Poe story, “THE TELL-TALE HEART”

June 19, 2025 • 285 mins
Old Time Radio Paranormal & Crime | #RetroRadio EP0440

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Three Elders of Lifeboat Landing” (April 26, 1976) ***WD
00:47:26.848 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
01:15:01.436 = BBC Ghost Story, “Lifeline” (1986-1987)
01:44:24.7...
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THE STRANGEST DEATHS EVER RECORDED: When Reality Is More Bizarre And Horrifying Than Fiction

June 18, 2025 • 67 mins
Death investigators have documented cases where ordinary moments — feeding a pet, mowing grass, eating lunch — transformed into inexplicable tragedies that reveal how quickly the familiar can become fatal.

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