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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 130 minutes
- Episodes
- 1281
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
THE LOVELAND FROGMAN: Kids Encounter the Ohio Cryptid While Testing RC Boat
When two boys take a new RC speedboat for a nighttime test run on the Little Miami River, they discover they're not the only ones interested in the glowing green lights beneath the water.
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00:12:56 |
Sat 13 Sep 2025
NECROPOLIS RAILWAY: London’s Secret Death Trains – 87 Years of Transporting Corpses
In 1854, London built a railway with first-class tickets for corpses, separate carriages for different religions, and trains that carried thousands of bodies out of the overcrowded city for nearly a …
00:50:14 |
Sat 13 Sep 2025
THE COLONY: When a UFO Sighting Leads to Mind Control in a Small Town
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A young couple's UFO sighting near a small New Hampshire town leads to their imprisonment and the horrifying di…
A young couple's UFO sighting near a small New Hampshire town leads to their imprisonment and the horrifying di…
04:58:01 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
SOMEONE IS LIVING IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW (And You Don't Know It)
Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/phrogging-people-living-in-your-home-secretly
A man in Oregon spent months secretly living in a crawl space, complete with a bed, television, and stolen ele…
A man in Oregon spent months secretly living in a crawl space, complete with a bed, television, and stolen ele…
00:16:40 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
COUPLE DIVORCES OVER BABY NAME: Year-Long Dispute Leaves Child Without a Name or Birth Certificate
A Shanghai couple's marriage imploded when they couldn't agree on their son's name, leaving the one-year-old without legal documentation or vaccinations.
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00:05:25 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
PSYCHIC DIDN'T SEE IT COMING: Scammed 70 People Out of $13M Using Crystals and Fake Investments
Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/psychic-scammed-13m-using-crystals
A self-proclaimed astrologer to major corporations convinced investors she could increase property values by placing crys…
A self-proclaimed astrologer to major corporations convinced investors she could increase property values by placing crys…
00:08:44 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
CRAWLING CANCER: E.F. Benson's Most Disturbing Ghost Story, “Caterpillars”
A guest at an Italian villa discovers luminous, crab-clawed caterpillars swarming an unoccupied bedroom where someone died of cancer a year before, and watches helplessly as the creatures crawl towar…
00:22:25 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT MADE ME DO IT: When The Devil Deals In Nostalgia
A washed-up forty-something drowning in 90s nostalgia and Jennifer Love Hewitt posters makes a desperate deal with a demon to return to his glory days, but learns too late that supernatural contracts…
01:21:30 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
FIVE MILES DOWN: 19th Century Scientists Discover An Underwater City of Hostile Deep Sea Humanoids
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It’s the late 19th century, and two scientists are exploring the Caybridge Trough in the Caribbean — down to ab…
It’s the late 19th century, and two scientists are exploring the Caybridge Trough in the Caribbean — down to ab…
04:50:09 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
HAUNTED HONKY TONK: The Deaths, Demons, and Demolition of Bobby Mackey’s Music World
A country music nightclub in Kentucky held dark secrets beneath its dance floor --- secrets that began with a brutal decapitation in 1896 and continued to manifest in violent supernatural encounters …
00:55:13 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
CURSE OF THE CATS: A Witch Releases Fatal Felines to Hunt Down All of the Children
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A witch unleashes a horde of sinister cats to terrorize children, and only a lawyer and the local sheriff stand…
A witch unleashes a horde of sinister cats to terrorize children, and only a lawyer and the local sheriff stand…
04:45:20 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
URGENT UPDATE: Russia’s Doomsday Radio Station Just Sent Cryptic Messages and People Are Panicking
Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/Russia-Doomsday-Radio-Station
Weird Darkness episode I mention in the story: https://weirddarkness.com/berkshireufo/ (story begins at approximately 26:55 in…
Weird Darkness episode I mention in the story: https://weirddarkness.com/berkshireufo/ (story begins at approximately 26:55 in…
00:11:52 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
AI BOTS ARE NOW HIRING AI BOTS TO REPLACE YOU WITH AI BOTS: A Modern Employment Horror Story
Mr. Harris applied to 200 jobs and got rejected by exactly zero humans, which is somehow worse than getting rejected by 200 humans.
READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.…
READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.…
00:07:50 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
THE OPERATING ROOM IS A UFO, THE SURGEON IS ET: A Disturbing Medical Theory Behind Alien Abductions
What if humanity's most terrifying alien abduction stories aren't from outer space at all, but from something much closer—the forgotten memories of surgery gone wrong? A disturbing medical theory sug…
00:31:29 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
THE HOUSEWIFE WHO CHANNELED A DEAD AUTHOR FOR 25 YEARS: Pearl Curran and Her Ouija Board
Read the deep-dive article about Patience Worth on the Weird Darkness website: https://weirddarkness.com/patience-worth-ghost-writer/
In 1913, a St. Louis housewife with no literary education began re…
In 1913, a St. Louis housewife with no literary education began re…
01:04:12 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
WITCHES’ SABBATH: They Crowned Me Prince of Darkness, And I Think I Murdered My Boss With My Mind
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Perry Harnishfeger stumbles into a bar, still wearing a silk robe over his work clothes, desperate to tell some…
Perry Harnishfeger stumbles into a bar, still wearing a silk robe over his work clothes, desperate to tell some…
04:48:35 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
ABOUT TODAY'S UAP/UFO HEARING: Military Witnesses Break Silence, Congress Demands Answers
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On Tuesday morning, September 9th, 2025, military personnel stood before Congress to describe encounters with objects that shouldn'…
On Tuesday morning, September 9th, 2025, military personnel stood before Congress to describe encounters with objects that shouldn'…
00:14:44 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
ORCAS ARE STILL ATTACKING BOATS IN 2025: Scientists Have No Idea How To Stop Them
Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/orcas-attacking-boats-spain-2025/
A coordinated pod of killer whales continues their strange obsession with destroying rudders off European coasts, leaving …
A coordinated pod of killer whales continues their strange obsession with destroying rudders off European coasts, leaving …
00:15:30 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
THE BACKWARDS WOMAN MYSTERY: I Keep Meeting the Same Woman But She's Aging in Reverse
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A man repeatedly meets a woman at different stages of life as he changes jobs – and the woman appears to grow y…
A man repeatedly meets a woman at different stages of life as he changes jobs – and the woman appears to grow y…
05:06:29 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
THE UFO INCIDENT THAT DIVIDED A TOWN: The Controversial Berkshire Flying Saucer Encounter of 1969
On September 1, 1969, strange lights descended on the small town of Sheffield, Massachusetts, witnessed by approximately 40 residents including children, shop owners, and even the police chief's son.…
00:42:44 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
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