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
- 1282
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
THE GIRLFRIEND TRAP: Teen Girl Sells Boyfriend Into Slavery For $14K | Myanmar Scam Compound Horror
Original article: https://weirddarkness.com/girlfriend-sells-boyfriend-myanmar-scam/
A 19-year-old Chinese man thought he’d found love with a stylish teenager at a pool hall. Four months later, he eme…
A 19-year-old Chinese man thought he’d found love with a stylish teenager at a pool hall. Four months later, he eme…
00:15:45 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
THE TRAIN VANISHED – AND SO DID THE TRACKS! A Ghost Train Mystery?
“The Lost Special” centers around the baffling disappearance of a privately hired train (“a special”) during its run from Liverpool to London. The train, carrying just a handful of individuals, vanis…
05:12:42 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
TRACKING A KIDNAPPER THROUGH TIME: He Escaped Captivity And Took The Girl To the Wild West
(Bonus Episode) “The Time Snatcher” by Randall Garrett | A time-traveling gunslinger races against the clock to stop a rogue agent from rewriting history in the gritty, dangerous world of the Old Wes…
00:28:19 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
DIVERSION: He Watched a Demon-Masked Man Stalk His Family Through the Windows
A father watches helplessly through shatterproof windows as a demon-masked intruder hunts his deaf son, teenage daughter, and wife through their darkened home while he remains locked outside.
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00:49:50 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
THE TINTINA MUTILATIONS: Ranch Workers Flee from Something (Chupacabra?) Larger Than a Dog
READ or HEAR the original article: https://weirddarkness.com/tintina-cattle-mutilations-chupacabra/
A remote cattle ranch in Argentina has become ground zero for a series of attacks so bizarre that ha…
A remote cattle ranch in Argentina has become ground zero for a series of attacks so bizarre that ha…
00:07:45 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
THE WITCH HUNTS NEVER ENDED: Medieval Gallows To Modern Mob Justice
Read the original article (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/witch-trial-facts/
From Salem's gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are b…
From Salem's gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are b…
00:31:01 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
OLIVER ALVIS’ WAKING NIGHTMARE: 700 Days Without Sleep, Still Awake, And Doctors Are Out Of Ideas
Read the original article (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/nosleep-oliver-alvis-insomnia-mystery/
A British train driver’s mysterious condition has left him unable to achieve unconsciousn…
A British train driver’s mysterious condition has left him unable to achieve unconsciousn…
00:18:36 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
THE SHADOW, “Ghost Town”: The Only Residents At This Hotel Are Specters
The Shadow finds his way to the ghost town of Bad Creek, where the only other residents in the lonely hotel are the eerie—sometimes deadly—ghostly guardians of a nearby gold mine. | #RetroRadio EP049…
05:10:00 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
ARE UFOS PROTECTING US FROM NUCLEAR WAR? The Terrifying But True Malmstrom Alien Incident
For over fifty years, military officers at America's nuclear missile sites have reported UFOs hovering over their weapons, triggering unauthorized launch sequences, shutting down entire missile fligh…
01:01:25 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
THE BIGAMY BLUES: When Wife TWO Meets Wife ONE At The Hospital But You’re Still Married To Wife ONE.
One man's creative approach to family planning resulted in the kind of hospital drama that nobody ordered.
READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.com/mm-bigamyblues
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READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.com/mm-bigamyblues
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00:06:55 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
WHAT IF YOU WERE TRAPPED IN JOHN WILKES BOOTH’S MIND? A Sci-Fi Tale of Lincoln’s Assassination
A scientist invents a method to send someone’s consciousness back in time so they can inhabit another person’s body. In a bold attempt, the protagonist goes back to the night of Lincoln’s assassinati…
04:57:18 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
THE WURST FLORIDA CRIME EVER: When Toilet Paper Meets Processed Meat in America's Weirdest State
A tale of parking disputes, alcohol, and questionable costume choices that proves Florida remains undefeated in the bizarre crime department.
READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weir…
READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weir…
00:05:52 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
PRIVATE STOCK: A Tale of Murder, Music, and a Moaning Manifestation!
Police Captain Jim Turner is in crisis mode – he’s convinced his daughter Ginnie is responsible for the murder of a rock star. Meanwhile, he’s haunted (literally) by the ghost of his dead wife, with …
04:53:37 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
THE DEMON KNEW EVERYONE’S SECRETS: The True Possession Case That Terrified A Psychiatrist
When a skeptical Yale-trained psychiatrist was called to evaluate a self-proclaimed satanic high priestess claiming demonic possession, he expected to find mental illness, not a woman who knew intima…
01:07:47 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
THEY SAW UNICORNS AND BAT-MEN ON THE MOON: The Wildest Hoax in History
In 1835, a New York newspaper convinced thousands of readers that the moon teemed with bat-winged humanoids, walking beavers, and unicorns, creating the most successful media hoax in American history…
00:25:34 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: The Truth Behind the Vampire Hunter Legend (BONUS AUDIO)
While Abraham Lincoln wasn't actually hunting vampires, the real story of his mother's death from a mysterious milk-borne disease that caused entire villages to be abandoned—plus his prophetic death …
00:04:54 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
DAVID PARKER RAY: THE TOY BOX KILLER #WDRadio WEEK OF AUG 24, 2025
David Parker Ray is believed to have tortured and killed more than 50 women inside his soundproof trailer – a trailer he referred to as his “toy box”.
HOUR ONE: David Parker Ray is believed to have to…
HOUR ONE: David Parker Ray is believed to have to…
01:57:05 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
VAMPIRES FROM EVERY CULTURE: The Bloodsuckers You’ve Never Heard Of
From the Celtic fairies who bake human blood into deadly cakes to the Filipino Aswang who slides her hollow tongue through windows at night, every culture on Earth has created its own terrifying vers…
00:57:27 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM: A Ghost’s Last Chance To Make Things Right
When stern businessman Peter Grimm dies, he discovers that death is no escape from family strife—returning as a ghost to protect his ward and right the wrongs he left behind. | #RetroRadio EP0491
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05:01:00 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
THE STUDHAM COMMON MYSTERY: The Little Blue Man Who Was Seen Twice, 40 Years Apart
In 1967, six schoolboys in England chased a glowing three-foot-tall blue man who kept vanishing in puffs of smoke—and they weren't the only ones to encounter these mysterious blue beings that continu…
00:14:12 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
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