Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A news blogger tracks down the people who worked at an abandoned country daycare, and the kids who went there, to learn what was in the room behind the gray door, where the worst-behaved children were sent and always came out shaking.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: 
“Happy Sun Daycare” by Chelsea Adams: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/abw7j7xd

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A man in zombie makeup walks out onto the back patio during comedy night at an Austin coffee bar and picks up a knife. A mother and daughter go missing from a village in eastern India, and the trail leads police up a forested hill to a cave. At 1:30 in the morning, two employees inside the Phoenix morgue call 911 because someone is smashing a window to get into the basement where the bodies are kept. In Turkey in 2007, a tenant notices rats around a block of concrete in the garden and takes a sledgehammer to it. And at a Cheyenne school, a custodian's phone keeps pausing itself the moment anything with cussing in it starts to play, but only inside that one building.

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The No End House pays $500 to anyone who reaches the last of its nine rooms, and nobody ever has. David's friend Peter Terry goes silent online for five weeks after his own try, then logs on to warn him the place is unnatural, and David figures a heroin addict has just wigged out at a paper ghost.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “No End House” by Brian Russell for Creepypasta Wiki: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4yx2nu5c

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Maryland families once painted seven-pointed stars on their barns to keep away the Snallygaster, a dragon-like bird said to drink its victims' blood, and when sightings near South Mountain filled the newspapers in 1909, the Smithsonian and Theodore Roosevelt both took an interest.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p96kr8z

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Can you perform an exorcism using your smartphone? The Catholic church now says you can! (Exorcism of Demons by Phone) *** Does the ghost of a murdered child haunt East Lake Park in Birmingham, Alabama? (Child of the Lake) *** A young female college student vanished into nowhere in December of 1946 and became a mystery that would haunt the sleepy town forever. (The Disappearance of Paula Jean Weldon) *** An elderly woman requests to be buried upon her death, but the family cremates her instead. And that is when the vampire arrived. (The Wallasey Vampire) *** Orbs, late-night taps on the window, shadow figures, and more haunt a new home. (Creepy Happenings In The Middle of the Night) *** John Kraft noticed the neighbors, the Jacob Wolf family, had left their laundry on the clothesline overnight and their horses untended. He went to investigate and stumbled into what might be the most horrific crime scene in North Dakota history. (The Wolf Family Murders) *** Was the creature real? Where was it hiding? Why had only some people seen it? The Snallygaster terrorized Maryland and Washington in the 1730s – and we begin there, first! (Surprising End To Legend Of The Snallygaster) *** Mainstream journalists, the Travel Channel, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel have all investigated a certain home in Atchison, Kansas due its paranormal activities. What secrets lie within the Sallie House? (Secrets of the Sallie House) *** How can thousands of people instantly vanish without a trace? (3,000 Soldiers Vanish Into Thin Air) *** A child’s mother slowly dies of lung cancer at home – then continues to live there after her passing. (Sounds In The Night) *** Was the death of Meriwether Lewis a murder or a suicide? This early 1800s mystery continues to baffle historians and detectives alike. (The Death of Meriwether Lewis) *** No one knows the motive of a mysterious murder that took place in 1866 New York. In fact, they still have no suspects. (A Mysterious Murder) *** The gift of a cross to protect a couple from a poltergeist, ends up creating more unusual events. (Poltergeist – The Disappearing Cross)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:39.563 = Show Open
00:03:46.803 = Surprising End to the Legendary Snallygaster
00:08:04.778 = Exorcising Demons By Smartphone
00:10:27.513 = Child of the Lake
00:15:29.450 = The Disappearance of Paula Jean Weldon ***
00:19:46.314 = The Wallasey Vampire
00:26:15.628 = Creepy Happenings in the Middle of the Night
00:27:46.215 = The Wolf Family Murders
00:33:10.892 = Sinister Secrets of the Sallie House ***
00:40:38.592 = 3,000 Soldiers Vanish Into Thin Air
00:44:31.915 = Sounds In The Night
00:51:31.596 = The Death of Meriwether Lewis ***
00:57:15.126 = A Mysterious Murder”
00:59:26.830 = Poltergeist – The Disappearing Cross
01:05:43.551 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Surprising End to the Legend of the Snallygaster” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4mfk3kdw
“Exorcism of Demons by Phone” from Earth Chronicles of Life:

An uncle in Fresno tells his nephew, a Hollywood photographer, that he'll be dead within a week, then leaves him everything on one condition: he has to check the locks on the family mausoleum every single day.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Shadows From The Grave” (February 28, 1979) ***WD
00:46:46.506 = Dark Fantasy, “Curse Of Neanderthal” (January 09, 1942) (LQ)
01:11:51.129 = Fear on 4, “Mind Well The Tree” (February 28, 1988) ***WD
01:42:18.285 = Theater Five, “Bug Off” (December 07, 1964) ***WD
02:04:22.312 = Future Tense, “Born Of Man And Woman” (May 16, 1974) ***WD
02:33:19.190 = Ave Maria Hour, “St Benedict of Nursia VS Poison And Witchcraft” (1939)
02:58:01.100 = The Hall of Fantasy, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (June 01, 1953) ***WD
03:22:42.796 = Harry Lime, “Farthings Your Thoughts” (November 30, 1951)
03:48:47.742 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “Keeping His Promise” (September 13, 1980)
04:18:49.070 = The Haunting Hour, “Nocturne” (September 15, 1945)
04:44:42.637 = Hermits Cave, “Spirits Of Vengeance” (March 16, 1947)
05:09:26.379 = Show Close

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In a jungle prison colony where the only way out is a river full of caimans and ratfish, a lifer who weaves hats for the commandant keeps a carved knuckle bone and a bag of Indian medicine buried under the floor of his hut.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: 
“Crooked Bone” is by Gerald Kersh from the anthology, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery” by Random House: https://amzn.to/3hZSBjM

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Charlie and Charlotte Tucker pay two hundred dollars for a dead minister's grandfather clock at a garage sale, and the seller swears it doesn't chime, though it struck one as they walked past. Once it's home, the air inside the case stays cool and damp, the cat won't set foot in the house, and the clock starts striking in the middle of the night.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Hickory Dickory Doom” (February 26, 1979) ***WD(LQ)
00:46:58.058 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Neanderthal” (September 04, 1971) ***WD
01:16:42.741 = Diary of Fate, “Peter Drake” (February 23, 1948) ***WD
01:47:07.584 = Dimension X, “Mars Is Heaven” (January 07, 1951) ***WD
02:12:54.970 = The Eleventh Hour, “Ghost On Chertains Corner” (ADU) ***WD
02:34:22.627 = Escape, “Figure A Dame” (December 20, 1949)
03:03:48.396 = Everyman’s Theater, “This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940) ***WD
03:32:06.564 = Murder By Experts, “Dig Your Own Grave” (August 15, 1949)
04:03:05.690 = Exploring Tomorrow, “First Contact” (January 15, 1958)
04:24:33.594 = Faces In Window, “Black Cat” (November 22, 1952) ***WD
04:48:13.156 = Show Close

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On Easter Sunday, 1975, eight children hunted for eggs in the front yard of their grandmother's house in Hamilton, Ohio, while their uncle, James Ruppert, slept off a night of drinking upstairs. By that evening, eleven members of the family were dead inside, and the families who rented the house afterward kept moving out, telling of voices, slamming doors, and footsteps coming down the stairs.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Author Troy Taylor tells us about the horrors and hauntings of a murderous nightmare, taking place on the holiest day of the year. (“Easter Sunday Massacre”) *** Two young boys find a bloody shirt on a stone on the side of the road – and it leads to details of one of the most brutal murders in the history of Massachusetts. (“Massachusetts Butchery”) *** Why would a mother tell her daughter to never wander in their own backyard? (“Displaced Entities”) *** The true story of an actor who lost his fortune, his life, and his head. (“The Headless Ghost of St. Paul’s Chapel”) *** It probably comes as no surprise that nursing homes can be haunted. A Certified Nurse Assistant tells us his own personal experiences of it. (“Nursing Home Hauntings”) *** Plus, I’ll share a creepypasta that was specifically requested for me to narrate by one of you, my Weirdo Family. (“No End House”) *** “Doppelganger Confusion” *** “The Black Eyed Phenomenon – Not Just Kids?” *** “Is Your House On The List?” *** “Another Black-Eyed-Kids Encounter – Is This An Epidemic?” *** “What Caused Our Creaking Catwalk?” *** “In Reverse… The Doppelganger Student” *** “My Haunted In-Laws Place” *** “We Deliver, We Cater, We Scare” *** “Death In The Triangle” *** “The Mother Who Burned Her Daughter Alive”

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:56.557 = Show Open
00:02:38.104 = Easter Sunday Massacre
00:11:01.481 = Nursing Home Hauntings
00:14:15.816 = Massachusetts Butchery
00:22:35.239 = Displaced Entities
00:34:43.656 = The Headless Ghost of St. Paul's Chapel
00:39:52.902 = Doppelganger Confusion
00:42:52.349 = The Black Eyed Phenomenon – Not Just Kids?
00:44:53.175 = Is Your House On The List?
00:49:09.955 = Another Black-Eyed-Kids Encounter – Is This An Epidemic?
00:51:31.981 = What Caused Our Creaking Catwalk?
00:56:30.364 = In Reverse… The Doppelganger Student
01:00:38.909 = Death In The Triangle
01:24:24.896 = We Deliver, We Cater, We Scare
01:26:08.181 = My Haunted In-Laws Place
01:28:31.129 = The Mother Who Burned Her Daughter Alive
01:36:46.007 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Massachusetts Butchery” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder by Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/44c96wvt
“Displaced Entities” by Stacy K for Your Ghost Stories: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/xafzpt29
“The Easter Sunday Massacre” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/38dt633u
“The Headless Ghost Of St. Paul’s Chapel” by Jessica Ferri for The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yt49e66j
“Nursing Home Hauntings” by Morgan Jobe https://www.facebook.com/morgan.jobe
“Doppelganger Confusion” submitted anonymously: (link no longer available)
“The Black Eyed Phenomenon – Not Just Kids?” submitted by Roger M.: (link no longer available)

Two days after alien visitors wiped out the human race in a single hour, a widowed anthropology professor sits alone in a room with his books and one blank wall that annoys him, and then someone knocks on the door.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Knock” by Fredrik Brown: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4cc9433d

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has a pumpkin, a headless Hessian, and a schoolmaster everybody feels sorry for. Disney gave us a lovable Ichabod Crane and Tim Burton gave us a hero. Washington Irving's schoolmaster was a different man than most of us remember, and the author had other plans for him than we remember too… right down to the last page and how his story ends.

BOOK: “Church of the Undead: Book One – Wendigo, Zombies, Werewolves, And Other Subjects You’d Never Hear From Your Pastor’s Pulpit”: https://link.amazon/B0bls4tMo

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Halloween horror the way radio told it, with an organ sting, a host’s voice coming out of the dark, and a story nobody wanted to switch off before the end.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = The Whistler, “Break Away” (March 09, 1952)
00:30:56.299 = Witch’s Tale, “Graveyard Mansion” (March 06, 1933)
01:01:08.275 = Dark Fantasy, “Death Is a Savage Deity” (January 30, 1942) ***WD
01:24:48.378 = Escape, “Three Skeleton Key” (November 15, 1949) ***WD
01:53:44.931 = Inner Sanctum, “Corpse For Halloween” (October 31, 1949) ***WD
02:19:48.620 = Mysterious Traveler, “Death Has Cold Breath” (March 29, 1949) ***WD
02:45:21.725 = Quiet Please, “The Thing on Fourble Board” (August 09, 1948)
03:10:29.512 = The Weird Circle, “Heart of Ethan Brand” (February 13, 1944) ***WD
03:36:14.507 = Witch’s Tale, “Frankenstein” (July 17, 1935) ***WD
04:03:58.982 = Dark Fantasy, “Man With The Scarlet Satchell” (March 06, 1942) ***WD
04:28:34.436 = Escape, “Bloodbath” (June 30, 1950) ***WD
04:56:21.988 = Mysterious Traveler, “Fire In The Sky” (August 28, 1951) ***WD
05:25:42.312 = Quiet Please, “Very Unimportant Person” (December 05, 1948) ***WD
05:55:16.741 = Suspense, “Fugue in C Minor” (June 01, 1944)
06:24:50.387 = The Weird Circle, “Doll” (December 24, 1944) ***WD
06:49:55.660 = Dark Fantasy, “Pennsylvania Turnpike” (March 20, 1942) ***WD
07:14:25.535 = Escape, “Earth Abides, Part 1” (November 05, 1950) ***WD
07:43:09.730 = Escape, “Earth Abides, Part 2” (November 12, 1950) ***WD
08:12:02.276 = Quiet Please, “Northern Lights” (January 30, 1949) ***WD
08:40:58.836 = Suspense, “House in Cyprus Canyon” (December 05, 1946) ***WD
09:07:39.198 = Dark Fantasy, “Coffin For Two” (May 15, 1942) ***WD
09:30:57.215 = Weird Circle, “Feast of Red Gauntlet” (February 27, 1944) ***WD
09:58:20.779 = Show Close

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Ghosts, killers, and things that knock on the door after dark, played by the actors and sound-effects crews of radio's golden age for audiences who had nothing to look at but the dial.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = Inner Sanctum, “Wailing Wall” (November 06, 1945)
00:28:37.696 = Lights Out, “It Happened” (May 11, 1938)
00:57:53.236 = Mercury Theater, “The Hitch Hiker” (June 21, 1946) ***WD
01:24:06.274 = Murder at Midnight, “Kabalah” (December 30, 1946)
01:50:09.311 = Mysterious Traveler, “Death Laughs Last” (September 24, 1944)
02:17:12.677 = Mystery In The Air, “Horla” (August 21, 1947) ***WD
02:45:56.196 = Quiet Please, “Pathetic Fallacy” (February 02, 1948) ***WD
03:14:58.799 = Suspense, “Sorry, Wrong Number” (February 2, 1944)
03:44:43.607 = The Unexpected, “Mercy Killing” (April 11, 1948) ***WD
03:59:03.157 = The Weird Circle, “A Terrible Night” (January 23, 1944)
04:25:30.416 = The Whistler, “Witness at the Fountain” (September 09, 1946)
04:54:49.939 = Dark Fantasy, “The Headless Dead” (January 23, 1942) ***WD
05:19:16.968 = Escape, “Country of the Blind” (March 20, 1949) ***WD
05:48:52.483 = The Hall of Fantasy, “Idol of Kromm Kroc” (May 04, 1953) ***WD
06:13:34.310 = Inner Sanctum, “Undead” (December 18, 1945) ***WD
06:39:51.483 = Lights Out, “Death Robbery” (July 16, 1947)
07:09:40.247 = Mysterious Traveler, “Visiting Corpse” (August 10, 1948) ***WD
07:37:50.085 = Mystery In The Air, “Black Cat” (September 18, 1947) ***WD
08:05:24.288 = Quiet Please, “Whence Came You” (February 16, 1948) ***WD
08:34:50.793 = Suspense, “Donovan’s Brain, Part 1” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
09:02:40.318 = Suspense, “Donovan’s Brain, Part 2” (May 25, 1944) ***WD
09:31:17.532 = The Weird Circle, “Tell-Tale Heart” (January 30, 1944)
09:58:23.227 = Show Close

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Old radio horror for Halloween, from the years when the monsters came out of a wooden cabinet in the living room and every listener had to picture them on their own.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = Dark Fantasy, “Thing From The Sea” (November 28, 1941)
00:26:18.983 = Escape, “Ring of Thoth” (August 11, 1947)
00:57:11.121 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
01:24:40.416 = Hermit’s Cave, “Notebook on Murder” (1940)
01:48:21.509 = Inner Sanctum, “Judas Clock” (April 17, 1945)
02:18:38.356 = Mercury Theater, “Dracula” (July 11, 1938)
03:15:23.124 = Murder at Midnight, “Murder Is a Lonely Business” (December 16, 1946)
03:42:51.934 = Mysterious Traveler “Accusing Corpse” (April 16, 1944)
04:13:29.633 = Mystery In The Air, “Lodger” (August 14, 1947)
04:43:30.690 = Quiet Please, “Don’t Tell Me About Halloween” (October 27, 1947)
05:08:58.161 = Suspense, “The Most Dangerous Game” (September 23, 1943)
05:39:46.747 = The Unexpected, “The Cripple” (August 29, 1947)
05:55:53.399 = The Weird Circle, “Hand” (December 19, 1943)
06:21:07.918 = The Whistler, “Death Comes at Midnight” (October 18, 1942)
06:51:02.956 = X-Minus One, “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls” (June 05, 1955)
07:19:57.851 = The Black Museum, “A Piece of Iron Chain” (July 29, 1952)
07:45:51.009 = The Clock, “Lefty and Delilah” (October 09, 1947) ***WD
08:10:40.715 = Dimension X, “Green Hills of Earth” (December 24, 1950)
08:36:45.232 = Escape, “Casting Runes” (November 19, 1947)
09:07:33.540 = Hall of Fantasy, “Wild Huntsman” (April 27, 1953)
09:32:45.475 = Hermit’s Cave, “House of Purple Shadows” (1940)
09:56:17.124 = Show Close

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It's still Halloween night in Grove City, Ohio, when Shawn Dyer wakes up on the damp grass of Marsh Cemetery, across Home Road from Gantz Park, and watches a jack-o'-lantern burst into flame a few yards away, then a second one beside it. In their orange glow stand two furry creatures with pointed ears and beady eyes, unfolding leathery wings, and from somewhere in the dark, the voice that spoke Shawn's name in the creek tells him it never expected to see him again.

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The Headless Horseman rides through Sleepy Hollow, a phantom ship sails out of a storm, and Bess Houdini holds a séance every Halloween hoping to hear from her husband, in thirteen ghost stories told for kids.

CHAPTERS & STORIES TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:00:21.112 = The Canterville Ghost
00:09:07.043 = The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
00:17:33.338 = White Dog
00:24:08.537 = Sweet Mary
00:29:26.172 = A Cardiff Ghost Story
00:36:53.658 = Haunted Cemeteries
00:40:53.797 = The Flying Dutchman
00:45:09.469 = How He Left The Hotel
00:51:57.512 = The Lighthouse
00:58:34.306 = Houdini’s Great Escape
01:03:03.732 = Ghost Cave
01:09:57.156 = The Wrecker’s Daughter
01:17:27.980 = Ghost Hunters
01:21:38.840 = Show Close

SOURCES and RESOURCES: 
Ghost Stories for Kids from How Stuff Works: https://tinyurl.com/y53fb6o8

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No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. Envying us. When massive cylinders fell from the sky and buried themselves in the English countryside, curious crowds gathered to witness what they thought was a meteorite. But when those cylinders unscrewed from within, what emerged would shatter humanity's place at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Towering tripods. Heat rays that incinerated everything in their path. And an enemy more advanced, more ruthless, and more alien than anyone could have imagined. H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" – the story that invented the alien invasion. This is the complete, unabridged audiobook that asks one terrifying question: What happens when humanity becomes the hunted?

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS:
00:00:00.000 = (I) The Eve of the War
00:14:36.309 = (II) The Falling Star
00:22:20.796 = (III) On Horsell Common
00:28:05.548 = (IV) The Cylinder Opens
00:34:37.378 = (V) The Heat-Ray
00:43:17.408 = (VI) The Heat-Ray In The Chobham Road
00:48:08.844 = (VII) How I Reached Home
00:56:06.177 = (VIII) Friday Night
01:01:49.835 = (IX) The Fighting Begins
01:12:51.970 = (X) In The Storm
01:24:59.356 = (XI) At The Window
01:37:15.932 = (XII) What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
01:59:11.314 = (XIII) How I Fell In With The Curate
02:10:21.092 = (XIV) In London
02:31:41.490 = (XV) What Had Happened In Surrey
02:48:22.548 = (XVI) The Exodus From London
03:12:22.190 = (XVII) The “Thunder Child”

BOOK TWO: THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS
03:32:09.436 = (I) Under Foot
03:47:37.924 = (II) What We Saw From The Ruined House
04:07:58.378= (III) The Days of Imprisonment
04:19:30.274 = (IV) The Death of the Curate
04:29:13.940 = (V) The Stillness
04:35:09.227 = (VI) The Work of Fifteen Days
04:42:50.226 = (VII) The Man on Putney Hill
05:16:23.121 = (VIII) Dead London
05:35:04.696 = (IX) Wreckage
05:46:13.832 = (X) Epilogue
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells (Public Domain)
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A nervous teenager at a Finley garage sale warns a new kid not to buy the five-dollar scarecrow sitting in a chair by the house, then tells the story of the Murphy family's Halloween yard display and the scarecrow Jack Murphy built with his father when he was eleven.

A NOTE FROM DARREN: As we step into the Halloween weekend, I thought it might be fun to share some Halloween-themed Creepypastas. Four fictional stories, in fact. And to add to the “Halloweenishness” of this episode, rather than spooky music in the background, as you can already tell, I’m back at the campfire to tell you these spooky stories – because it just feels more like Halloween that way. 

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:00:50.027 = “The Murphy Horror House” by Kelly Foster
00:30:34.200 = “Don’t Take Your Eyes Off Your Children This Halloween” by Michael Richardson ***
00:48:31.114 = “Be Home By Midnight on Halloween Night” by SirScareMe ***
01:02:41.159 = “It Came From The Haunted House Across The Street” by SirScareMe
01:17:30.215 = Show Close

SOURCES and RESOURCES: 
“The Murphy Horror House” by Kelly Foster: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrhhzd8n
“Don’t Take Your Eyes Off Your Children This Halloween” by Michael Richardson: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/6mvx38yp
“Be Home By Midnight On Halloween Night” by SirScareMe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/62ne66aa
"It Came From The Haunted House Across The Street” by SirScareMe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6yffmf5

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The 1938 radio drama of “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, as performed by Mercury Radio Theater and Orson Welles.

SOURCES…
“War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells. Radio script by Orson Welles, produced by Mercury Radio Theater
“War of the Worlds: The Greatest Halloween Prank Ever” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p88d2d3
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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In the glass-roofed New York of 2432, a bestselling author of caveman and cowboy adventures and his bride, a poet of birdsong and sunsets, bribe the operator of the Cosmic Express with a flask of contraband liquor to beam them one-way to the untouched jungles of Venus.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Cosmic Express” by Jack Williamson (Amazing Stories December 1961)

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Stranded on the Saskatchewan prairie with his world-famous wife, a five-time Nobel Prize winner refuses to fix their stalled car, certain that tonight he'll finally meet his equal, and a castle rises out of the mist with its drawbridge lowering over a moat full of piranhas.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Great Brain” (February 21, 1979) ***WD
00:46:25.997 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Box of Death” (April 17, 1947)
01:16:54.096 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Trespassers Will Be Experimented Upon” (February 11, 1981) ***WD
01:48:21.283 = Chet Chetter, “Elmer Versus The Mutant Rats” (1991-1992) ***WD
02:14:51.310 = The Clock, “Guilty As Always” (March 20, 1956) ***WD
02:42:06.586 = The Creaking Door, “Cat Woman” (December 14, 1964) ***WD
03:11:29.346 = The Crime Club, “Death at 7:10” (July 03, 1947)
03:41:32.154 = Crime Classics, “Hangman William Palmer Who Won” (October 07, 1953)
04:13:09.770 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Snowbound No Opening Or Closing” (December 01, 1946)
04:38:39.263 = Deep Night, “Bonehouse” (August 12, 2005)
05:11:49.087 = Show Close

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A terrifying urban legend meant to scare children became all too real when a former janitor turned the shadows of Staten Island into his hunting ground.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9tewa8jd

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A young girl is serenaded by a ghostly boy. (The Ghost of Allan) *** Strange and terrifying things begin to happen after two children play with a Ouija board in a 200-year-old house that used to be a funeral home. (My Brothers’ Strange Visitors) *** Is it possible that Dracula wasn’t a vampire after all? (Dracula – Not a Vampire) *** California diners flock to an establishment for good food, good wine, and spirits…especially the ghostly kind. (The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery) *** Once, "Cropsey" was just an urban legend, the boogeyman of Staten Island – but now, he is real. (Cropsey Comes To Life)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:48.196 = Show Open
00:02:28.255 = Cropsey: The Boogeyman Comes To Life
00:06:11.705 = Dracula, Not A Vampire?
00:10:31.107 = The Ghost of Allan
00:19:02.378 = My Brother’s Strange Visitors
00:24:45.648 = The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery
00:29:55.014 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Ghost of Allan” by Weirdo family member Sheila Pugh: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n6nvzdcu
“My Brother’s Strange Visitors” by Carli for MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/kjb5vusk
“Dracula – Not a Vampire” by A. Sutherland for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y2h9mvz
“The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery” by Jim Hunt: (website no longer exists)
“Cropsey Comes to Life” posted at The LineUp: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/8rw7286w(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
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In a California gold camp abandoned by everyone but the dead, a prospector follows an old letter from his late friend, the camp's grave digger, to a vein of gold hidden beneath a notorious woman called Scarry, and digs into her grave until the moon comes up.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “A Holy Terror” by Ambrose Bierce (public domain):https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/enb8h3bz

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 29, 2026

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Twenty-two stories, starting with a tourism official's glowing photo on a Gettysburg ghost tour and running through a Ugandan general's cannibal claim, white-powder letters to Congress, a 17th-century Polish grave with a padlock and a sickle, and a congressman's search for footage of pale, human-looking bodies.

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In January 1948, Captain Thomas Mantell chased a huge metallic object across the Kentucky sky in his P-51 Mustang and kept climbing after both of his wingmen turned back, and nearly fifty years later, an Air Force investigator who'd been at his crash site said the trees around the wreckage were undamaged and that he believed the plane had been placed there.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most of us would say it’s difficult to understand how someone who was responsible for deliberately killing hundreds of people could be elevated to the status of a hero. However, those who speak in favor of Gulia Tofana say her motives and actions were justified. (She Poisoned 600 Men) *** During the last 300 years, at least 200 cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion have been registered around the world. What is causing this to happen, and can it be stopped? (The Unexplained Phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion) *** Can an ambulance be haunted? The story I share with you might convince you it is. (Ambulance Turmoil) *** What led Captain Thomas Mantell on a chase to his death? (The Thomas Mantell UFO Encounter) *** Does something evil reside in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles? (Hollywood Forever) *** The U.S. civil war was the bloodiest of all American wars – but the bloodiest was a Confederate prison holding Union soldiers. (Hell Hole of the Confederacy) *** Barbara Forrest and Mary Ashford lived in different centuries, but they died in chillingly similar ways. (The Eerie Similarities of the Erdington Murders) *** Is it possible that Bill Ramsey is, in fact, a real life werewolf? (The Southend Werewolf) *** AND MORE!
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:13.380 = Show Open
00:04:28.402 = The Unexplained Phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion
00:09:57.484 = Ambulance Turmoil
00:11:58.908 = The Thomas Mantell UFO Encounter
00:20:55.145 = The Woman Known As “E”
00:28:53.257 = The Poisoned 600 Men
00:35:22.937 = Hell Hole Of The Confederacy
00:54:47.308 = Hollywood Forever
00:57:52.951 = The Eerie Similarities of the Erdington Murders”
01:02:15.368 = Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf
01:12:08.469 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“She Poisoned 600 Men” by Ellen Lloyd for AncientPages.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y5pkrmdh
“The Unexplained Phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion” posted at MessageToEagle.com: (link no longer exists)
“Ambulance Turmoil” from the GhostsNGhouls website (link no longer exists)
“The Thomas Mantell UFO Encounter” by Les Hewitt for HistoricMysteries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2ayxysc
“The Woman Known as E” by George Boggs, dedicated to Ginny (ElviraDark6) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/willythewave
“Hell Hole Of The Confederacy” by unknown author (link no longer exists)
“Hollywood Forever” posted at YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ndfwpx3r
“The Eerie Similarities of the Erdington Murders” posted at TheLineUp.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5h46wywn
“Bill Ramsey, The Southend Werewolf” from Paranorms.com...

A Queens bar owner takes a jolt from his TV set that stops his heart, then wakes up able to read tomorrow's front page in his head, and the first thing he does is call his bookie.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Shock Of His Life” (February 19, 1979) ***WD
00:46:46.815 = X Minus 1, “The Lights On Precipice Peak” (March 13, 1957)
01:08:44.881 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Fatal Jugglers” (1957) ***WD
01:33:26.820 = Appointment With Fear, “The Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
02:03:10.532 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “History of Mug” (August 09, 1945)
02:33:43.616 = Barry Craig, “Fatal Appointment” (January 16, 1952)
03:03:35.906 = Ghost Story, “The Linen Mill” (October 24, 2005)
03:19:18.098 = Night Beat, “Taste of Peaches” (July 17, 1952) ***WD
03:49:23.611 = The Black Book, “Vagabond Murder” (March 02, 1952) ***WD
04:05:14.111 = Box 13, “Tempest In A Casserole” (April 03, 1949)
04:32:35.789 = Calling All Cars, “Murder Of A Soul” (June 13, 1934)
05:01:53.368 = Show Close

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Lost in a Colorado snowstorm, a man who's fallen behind on his child support pulls into a roadside diner called The Silver Line just as it's closing, and the huge, cheerful man inside lets him in and locks the door behind him.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Hospitality” by Erik Peabody: https://www.creepypasta.com/hospitality-2/

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 28, 2026

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A man who runs a plant that builds nuclear reactors calls his wife to say he'll be home in twenty minutes for their anniversary dinner, walks in a full day later with wilted flowers in his hand and sure it's still Tuesday, and the next morning a truckload of uranium whose schedule only he knew is found hijacked beside the highway.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Missing Day” (February 14, 1979) ***WD
00:46:41.949 = The Saint, “Case of Lonesome Slab” (January 22, 1950) ***WD
01:15:27.653 = 2000 Plus, “Giant Walks” (November 08, 1050) ***WD
01:45:11.323 = The Unexpected, “Revenge” (1948) ***WD
02:00:52.339 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Indian Fakir” (February 17, 1944) ***WD
02:15:32.547 = Dark Venture, “Elizabeth Is Frightened” (July 22, 1947)
02:46:27.292 = Weird Circle, “Knightsbridge Mystery” (October 17, 1943)
03:14:55.705 = The Whistler, “Deadly Innocent” (July 02, 1945)
03:46:26.717 = Strange Wills, “Dance Director” (November 16, 1946)
04:17:24.458 = Witch’s Tale, “Graveyard Mansion” (March 06, 1933) ***WD
04:48:29.881 = Incredible But True, “Footprints In The Sand” (1950-1951)
04:52:03.249 = Strange Adventure, “The Peace Maker” (1945)
04:55:21.485 = Tales of the Frightened, “The Vampire Sleeps” (1963)
05:00:09.335 = Show Close

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Grieving families in the Victorian era paid good money for a few minutes with their dead, and the mediums who took that money had help, from props hidden up their sleeves to assistants who gathered details about each sitter before the séance began.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/victorian-seance-tricks

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdd96bh3

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Victorian era séances – where mediums claimed to bridge the living and the dead with mysterious rituals and eerie phenomena. But they had some elaborate tricks and illusions up their sleeves, all with the intention of misleading millions with the promise of communicating beyond the grave – and lining their own pockets, of course. (Secrets of the Seance Charlatans) *** Underneath the Nevada desert a 13-year-old Marc Brooks was exploring – and encountered the unknown. A secret chamber, a mysterious artifact, and a chilling humanoid creature defies explanation. What lies underground in the desert? (Reptile Men And Underground Bases) *** From charitable beginnings to centuries of cruelty, Bedlam – England's first mental hospital – has a shocking history. It’s dark past of inhumane treatments and public spectacles are such well-known atrocities that we’ve eventually come to use the word “bedlam” to describe uproar and confusion. We’ll take a look at the chilling stories of the hospital that started it all. (Nightmare at Bedlam) *** The 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping saw 26 California children abducted, buried alive, and held for ransom — then they miraculously escaped. (The Chowchilla Kidnapping) *** Spells, magic and curses have captivated the human imagination from the beginning of time. From ancient Egyptian tombs to modern-day superstitions, beliefs in the supernatural have shaped history, influenced cultures, and continue to fascinate us today. Why does magical misfortune still hold such an interest for us? (Magic, Curses and Supernatural Spells) *** A man almost crashed an entire country's economy by tricking a bank into printing real money for him? It was one of the most audacious schemes in financial history, flooding Portugal with millions in genuine but unauthorized banknotes. It was great while it lasted – but the crash was brutal! (The Man Who Almost Broke a Country) *** Urraca Mesa is a mysterious table mountain in New Mexico where compasses spin wildly, and ghostly blue lights dance in the night. It’s full of stories of vanished ancient tribes and terrifying supernatural encounters with evil spirits. It’s a hotspot for unexplained phenomena and those who seek it. We’ll learn some of the eerie secrets of the Urraca Mesa. (The Urraca Mesa Portal) *** AND MORE!

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:03:21.893 = Show Open
00:06:46.207 = Secrets of the Seance Charlatans
00:17:16.895 = Nightmare At Bedlam ***
00:25:39.431 = Reptile Men and Underground Bases
00:32:21.868 = The Chowchilla Kidnapping ***
00:36:12.454 = Magic, Curses and Supernatural Spells
00:44:50.503 = The Man Who Almost Broke a Country’s Economy ***
00:51:48.689 = The Urraca Mesa Portal
00:58:06.908 = Bizarre Name Changes ***
01:05:31.975 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Reptile Men And Underground Bases” source: Marc Lowth at UFOInsight.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/64vrrh66
“The Chowchilla Kidnapping”...

In 2025, Louisiana’s corrections secretary said Jessie Hoffman’s nitrogen execution “went flawless”, and a journalist counted more than 225 heaving breaths from Anthony Boyd under Alabama’s mask. South Carolina’s firing squad fired three rifles at Mikal Mahdi, and the autopsy found only two entrance wounds. In Tennessee, Byron Black said on the gurney, “Oh, it’s hurting so bad”, and the doctor who couldn’t place a line in Tony Carruthers was on the team again the night the state tried to execute Christa Pike in October, 2026.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 27, 2026

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Twelve stories, starting with a Roswell officer's sealed statement about bodies under a tarp, now sitting in the Pentagon's newest UFO files, and running through a voice on a basement recording in Cheyenne, an airliner that passed an object the pilot put at the "size of four toasters", a Hamburg murder warrant over a girl's death in Indiana, and a pest controller in France who says he mistook his wife for a rat.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: http://weirddarkness.com/roswell-bodies

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Twenty years after his father walked out, Josh gets a letter saying the man's dead and has left him a cabin in the Montana woods. Inside, there's a shelf full of matches and not a single light.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: 
“Scorched” by Scott Donnelly (https://www.facebook.com/scottdonnellyauthor/), from the book “The Elements of Horror: Fire-Book Three” (https://amzn.to/3lNCmGs)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 27, 2026

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On her walk home from the bank, Dory hears her mother's voice in her head, throws her shoulders back, and holds her head high, then looks down to find her shadow still hunched over like a dwarf.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Sinister Shadow” (February 22, 1979) ***WD
00:46:41.621 = Radio City Playhouse, “Special Delivery” (August 07, 1948) ***WD
01:16:43.793 = Sam Spade, “The Lawless Caper” (August 29, 1948) ***WD
01:47:30.325 = The Sealed Book, “Man With The Stolen Face” (July 15, 1945)
02:17:50.951 = The Shadow, “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There” (April 08, 1945)
02:48:09.118 = Sleep No More, “The Storm” (December 19, 1956) ***WD
03:16:17.498 = Spinechillers, “Meatballs Are Murder” (November 08, 2006)
03:31:06.603 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “The Man Who Played Death” (May 01, 1945) ***WD
03:44:53.602 = Strange, “Flying Dutchman” (1955) ***WD
03:59:12.894 = Suspense, “Case History of Edgar Lowndes” (June 08, 1944)
04:29:35.987 = The Creaking Door, “Face To Face Music of the Spheres” (June 01,1964) ***WD
04:55:10.430 = Tales From The Tomb, “The Raven” (1960s)
05:04:35.820 = Show Close

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On the night of November 2nd, 1966, a sewing machine salesman named Woodrow Derenberger was driving home on Interstate 77 outside Parkersburg, West Virginia, when a craft shaped like an old kerosene lamp passed his van and slowed to a stop in front of it. The man who stepped out wore a dark overcoat over a glistening green uniform and an extraordinarily broad grin, and he gave his name as Indrid Cold without ever saying a word out loud.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/indrid-cold-grinning-man

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8vmm7t

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We have a story of soldiers and spirits that dates back to the Battle of Antietam Creek, the bloodiest single day of the Civil War. The story of the Irish Brigade – and the ghosts left behind. (“Charge Of The Irish Brigade”) *** The fear of being buried alive has been a constant companion of mankind for as long time as anyone can remember. It’s due to this fear that we have safety coffins still in use today, more than 200 years after their invention. (“The Strange History Of Safety Coffins”) *** In one particular hospital, the staff avoid booking people into Room 228 – and for good reason. (“Haunted Hospital Room”) *** A sewing machine salesman sees a car speeding towards him – a car like none he had ever seen. When the passenger gets out, he has a terrifyingly large grin, and spoke to him – but without using any words. (“Indrid Cold: The Grinning Man”) *** Cloven footprints are found in new-fallen snow. That in itself would not be strange, except that the creature that left the prints was only walking on two legs. (“The 1855 Devil’s Footprints”) *** What is the earliest memory you have of your childhood? One girl has a memory of floating over her own body – when she was only three years old. But that was only the beginning. (“I Have This Vivid Memory”) *** John Emil List planned the murders so carefully, he almost got away with it. In fact, it took 18 years to catch him. (“John List: The Perfect Family Man Who Killed His Perfect Family”) *** Weirdo family member Kara Moore tells us about the town she grew up in – with too many ghosts and specters to count. (“The Ghost of St. Clair’s Defeat”) *** Gangsters, guns and ghosts… they’ve all resided at Kansas City’s Union Station. (“The Kansas City Massacre”) *** If you live in a house that seven generations of your family have lived and died in, you have to expect there might be a little bit of paranormal activity. (“The Spirit Of Our Grandfather Won’t Leave Us Alone”) *** Dorothy Dingley haunted a young farm boy back in the 1600’s. But now it appears she has come back… or she has never left. (“The Cornish Ghost of Dorothy Dingley”) *** Ghosts have been seen in bathroom… but do ghosts ever need to use the bathroom? It appears one did. (“The Ghost Who Used Our Bathroom”) *** AND MORE!
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:03.088 = Show Open
00:04:13.155 = Indrid Cold, The Grinning Man
00:10:23.302 = Charge of the Irish Brigade
00:18:48.363 = Haunted Hospital Room
00:20:22.407 = The Strange History of Safety Coffins
00:28:24.190 = I Have This Vivid Memory ***
00:30:42.760 = The 1855 Devil’s Footprints Mystery
00:36:59.891 = John List: The Perfect Man Who Killed His Perfect Family
00:41:29.504 = The Kansas City Massacre ***
01:03:29.944 = Haunted Student Apartment Occupied By a Friendly Ghost ***
01:04:37.187 = Cornish Ghost of Dorothy Dingley

Lost in the Newfoundland fog on the way to see their daughter and baby grandson, a couple from Brampton, Ontario, picks up a hitchhiker who sends them to the Eternity Cove Hotel and Lounge, where the man behind the desk already knows their names.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Everybody Does It” (February 07, 1979) ***WD
00:46:36.858 = Nightfall, “Last Visit” (October 24, 1980) ***WD
01:14:14.307 = Nightmare, “The Leech” (April 07, 1954)
= SONG, “The Leech” by Static Wax (based on the story from Nightmare)
01:40:32.231 = Obsession, “Shadow of Huntley House” (February 26, 1951)
02:04:55.681 = Origin of Superstition, “Crossing Your Fingers” (1935) ***WD
02:19:39.383 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Give Envelope To John St. John” (May 21, 1949)
02:50:37.999 = Peril, “The Wonderful Deception” (1953) ***WD
03:17:06.552 = Mystery Playhouse, “Leg Man” (October 19, 1945) ***WD
03:43:37.489 = Price of Fear, “Fish” (September, 1973)
04:13:37.333 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Vanishing Magician” (November 06, 1943) ***WD
04:44:24.135 = Quiet Please, “Tanglefoot” (June 04, 1949) ***WD
05:13:43.832 = Show Close

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Dex and Trey talk a friend into a few days of camping at a spot Dex's cousin swears by, four miles uphill from the car, and the girl he's been crushing on for almost a year is coming too. On the second day they find a paw print wider than Trey's spread hand, and that night a howl comes out of the dark so loud they have to cover their ears.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 26, 2026

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The night is coming. Porch lights and decorations won't change what moves through the darkness on October 31st. Every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume hanging in a store window, every carved pumpkin glowing on a doorstep – they're echoes of something that began long before any of us were born, something older and more terrifying than most people realize.
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Fifteen stories, starting with the therapist who told a Boston jury about Sandra Birchmore's dead mother at the foot of the bed, holding Sandra's unborn baby, and running through a silent black triangle dropping into a canyon, a "black magic" 911 call in Charlotte, a collapsing tomb lid in Brazil, and Skinwalker Ranch hair sent off for DNA testing.

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Mary Collins was a 20-year-old Charlotte woman with a genetic disorder her family says left her with roughly the mental capacity of a 15-year-old, and on March 28th, 2020, as North Carolina went into lockdown, she went to an apartment in NoDa to hang out with people she thought were her friends. Police found her body hidden inside a mattress in that apartment a week later, and on October 12th, 2026, a Mecklenburg County jury convicted Lavi Pham and James Salerno of first-degree murder and sent both men to prison for life without parole.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A pale-faced figure in a cape has haunted a quiet Wisconsin town for decades — vanishing without a trace, but never from memory. We’ll look at the legend of the Mineral Point Vampire. *** Navy radar specialists witness four mysterious craft emerge from the ocean depths and vanish at impossible speeds, adding weight to a startling theory: what if intelligent beings from Venus colonized Earth’s oceans long ago without our knowledge? It’s an interesting if not far-out theory. *** They’re meant to be places of privacy, but in these haunted rooms, something unseen is always watching… and it never leaves. And that idea is even more disconcerting when you find out that you’re being watched by a ghostly entity… while you’re using the bathroom. *** An innocent young woman placed her trust in the wrong hands — what happened next would horrify even the most hardened investigators. It’s the tragic and horrifying true story of Mary Collins.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:19.087 = Show Open
00:04:15.805 = She Just Wanted Friends: The Mary Collins Story
00:23:51.438 = From Mines To Monsters To Mineral Point ***
00:37:48.428 = Ancient Guardians of the Deep: The Venusian Ocean Civilization Theory ***
00:48:44.149 = Porcelain Portals of the Paranormal: Haunted Bathrooms ***
00:57:59.314 = Show Close
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“A Voice Stolen: The Mary Collins Story” (UPDATED): https://weirddarkness.com/avoicestolen/
“ANCIENT GUARDIANS OF THE DEEP: The Venusian Ocean Civilization Theory”:https://weirddarkness.com/ancient-guardians-of-the-deep-the-venusian-ocean-civilization-theory/
“FROM MINES, TO MONSTERS, TO MINERAL POINT: One-Stop Shopping for Vampires, Ghosts, and Goblins”:https://weirddarkness.com/mineralpointvampire/
“PORCELAIN PORTALS TO THE PARANORMAL: Haunted Bathrooms”: https://www.ranker.com/list/most-haunted-bathrooms/patrick-thornton
BOOK: “The W-Files” by Jay Rath: https://amzn.to/458kQVZ
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Ohio, Alabama and Idaho searched five men for veins in seven years, starting in 2017, and then sent them back to their cells alive. Alabama came back for two of them, Alan Miller and Kenneth Smith, with a mask and a nitrogen line, and the morning after Smith died, its attorney general called the first nitrogen execution in history "textbook". In between, John Grant convulsed and vomited on Oklahoma's gurney, and Joe Nathan James spent three hours behind Alabama's curtain.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 24, 2026

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Soon after 1870, at a boarding school near London, the Latin master makes a noise in his throat and rushes out of the room partway through marking an exercise, and when the boys go up to his desk, they count seventeen papers from a class of sixteen; the extra one, written in red ink in a hand none of them knows, says, "If you don't come to me, I'll come to you." One of the boys keeps it, and when he takes it out of his locker that afternoon, the writing is gone.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 25, 2026

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A broke freelance journalist talks his way into a night alone in the cellar of Marriner's Waxworks, sitting with his back to the wax figure of a Paris throat-cutter the police never caught.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dominant Personality” (January 26, 1979) ***WD
00:47:27.527 = Beyond Midnight, “A Night In The Waxworks” (January 31, 1969) ***WD
01:14:35.093 = MindWebs, “Moth Race” (November 19, 1976)
01:44:31.614 = Isn’t It A Crime, “Speaking of Murder” (December 14, 1945)
02:14:15.391 = Mystery In The Air, “Beyond Good And Evil” (August 28, 1947) ***WD
02:44:02.395 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Double Cross” (May 30, 1947)
03:14:30.743 = Mr Keen. “Silver Dagger Murder” (October 13, 1949) ***WD
03:44:13.514 = Murder at Midnight, “Dead Hand” (September 16, 1946)
04:14:03.087 = The Black Museum, “Bath Tub” (January 15, 1952)
04:37:25.476 = Mysterious Traveler, “Queen of the Cats” (July 02, 1944)
05:07:06.405 = Show Close

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Nine-year-old Walter Collins headed out to the movies in Los Angeles on March 10th, 1928, and didn't come home. Five months later the LAPD handed his mother a boy who'd turned up in Illinois and said it was Walter, and Christine Collins told them he wasn't her son, but Captain J.J. Jones sent her home with him anyway to try him out. About three weeks later she came back with Walter's dental records, and Jones had her locked in the psychiatric ward of Los Angeles County General Hospital.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A woman begins receiving strange text messages shortly after her husband dies. Could they be from him? (“My Husband Wanted Me To Find Love Again From The Other Side”) *** The Coast Guard sees something completely unexpected when on the lookout for seafaring drug smugglers. (“Underwater UFOs”) *** A group of friends see a shadow in the backyard – but there is no one there to cast it. (“The Haunting Experience of Cedar Hill, Texas”) *** Could a young, sick little girl’s birth defect actually have been caused by a dark, supernatural entity? (“Melissa’s Darkness Follows Me”) *** Judging a stranger’s appearance creates torment for the rest of a girl’s life. (“The Curse of the Magic Dreamcatcher”) *** Footsteps in the dark, things moved without explanation, pets acting strange, and now it’s invading her dreams – and nightmares. It’s all happening to one girl and it won’t stop. (“I Wish It Would Stop!”) *** Black-Eyed Kid encounters typically happen with the child trying to gain entry into the home and begging for you to let them in. But what happens if you discover there is already one in your home? (“Struggles With Sleep Paralysis”) *** A family experiences scary creatures in the dark, and strange lights in the sky. (“Arizona Night Creatures”) *** A series of strange and terrifying events haunt a family over several years. (“The Ghost That Didn’t Like Her Husband”) *** On March 9, 1929, the perfect murder occurred in New York City. To this day, it has never been solved, despite literally dozens of theories – not about the identity of the killer, but as to how the victim was actually killed. (The Locked Room Murder: The Unsolved Case of Isidor Fink) *** Our whole world and our universe, might be a virtual reality matrix , programmed by the super-computer of a civilization of beings more advanced than we can possibly imagine. (“Do We Live In A Computer Simulation Created By An Advanced Alien Civilization?”) *** A colorful clown nicknack terrorizes a young girl. (“Fear of a Clown”) *** “One of the most bizarre incidents in the history of L.A. law enforcement uncovers a link to one of the most heinous crimes in history.” (“The Disappearance of Walter Collins: The Real-Life Story of ‘Changeling’”) *** PLUS: “The Cursed Skull” *** “These Shoes Were Made For Walking” *** “Divorce Precognition” *** “Boy In The Sailor Suit” *** “A Demon of a Party” *** “Window Watcher”
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“Do We Live In A Computer Simulation Created By An Advanced Alien Civilization?” by A. Sutherland for MessageToEagle.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hn5ftdw2
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Just over a week ago, Terry McKinnon caught up with Harriet Hartman in a motel room and put bullets into her chest, and she barely flinched; she had him by the throat before she tossed him aside and told him to go home. Now he's driving into Eastgate with a gun in his pocket and a wooden stake he made himself, because that seaside town full of boarded-up houses is the only one around where she's never killed anyone.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 24, 2026

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On Halloween night in Grove City, Ohio, Lucy Buxton's dad drives her and Shawn Dyer to Gantz Park with two flashlights and a thirty-minute limit, so they can look for the Blood Bats, which legend says come out only on this one night of the year and trace back to Archibald Rhysand, a Union soldier who was rumored to eat bats on the battlefield. Two teenage boys got to the park first that night, with a pair of pumpkins and a handful of firecrackers, and their car is still sitting in the lot.

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Eric Sherman finally has a farmhouse with no HOA, no neighbors complaining about his Halloween displays, and plenty of room for his props, until a loose floorboard at the foot of the attic stairs gives up a locked black trunk marked in Hebrew, with a grinning jester marionette inside.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 23, 2026

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In 2014, Ohio killed Dennis McGuire with a drug pair no one in the country had used in an execution, Oklahoma laid a sheet over Clayton Lockett's needle while the drugs went into his tissue, and Arizona gave Joseph Wood fifteen doses as a reporter counted about 640 gasps. Then come 23 more lethal injections from 1985 to 2010, among them Joseph Cannon, whose needle came out of his arm in Texas, and Bennie Demps, who said in Florida, "They butchered me back there."

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 23, 2026

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Mary Mallon insisted she had never had typhoid in her life, and in March 1907, when a health department doctor brought police and an ambulance to the Park Avenue house where she cooked, Mary met them at the door with a long kitchen fork.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A woman keeps seeing her deceased father-in-law out of the corner of her eye. (Pop) *** The sad tale of Mary Mallon still haunts us today. You may know her better as Typhoid Mary. (The Lingering Ghost of Typhoid Mary) *** John George Haigh took the plunge into murder when he knocked out his old boss and dumped the body into acid – then set out to kill again. (The Acid Bath Murderer of England) *** A girl in an almost empty movie theater feels someone, or something, tugging at her shirt. (The Haunted Houston Movie Theater) *** They spoke a strange language, had bright green skin, and were utterly inexplicable. Who were they? (The Green Children of Woolpit) *** A ghostly boy appears outside a restaurant in Nebraska. (The Haunting Little Boy From Nebraska) *** A dark house, a baby sitter, an unexplained noise, and a shadowy figure. Normally the setup of a cliché horror movie – but this time, it was real. (The Hunchback Shadow Man) *** Over the last two decades, there have been frequent reports of a ghostly woman who wanders the halls of Greystone Mansion, leaving traces of lilac perfume in her wake. (The Greystone Mansion Murders) *** Is the White House haunted? The evidence seems to build more and more every year. (Is The White House Haunted?)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:31.646 = Show Open
00:03:41.263 = Haunted Houston Movie Theater
00:06:44.298 = Haunting Little Boy From Nebraska
00:09:31.873 = The Greystone Mansion Murders ***
00:17:25.446 = Green Children of Woolpit
00:21:44.234 = Hunchback Shadow Man
00:30:25.865 = Is The White House Haunted?
00:41:34.353 = Pop ***
00:46:02.167 = Acid Bath Murderer of England
00:53:54.347 = The Lingering Ghost of Typhoid Mary ***
01:18:00.668 = Show Close
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Pop” by Melda for YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5das43vj
“The Lingering Ghost of Typhoid Mary” by Renee Kruse and Troy Taylor from the book, “A Pale Horse Was Death”:http://amzn.to/2sAZLTP
“The Acid Bath Murderer Of England” by Steven Casale for TheLineUp.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1azg5pop
“The Haunted Houston Movie Theater” by Weirdo Family Member, Christi Butler: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5fvlv8u7
“The Haunting Little Boy From Nebraska” Erin Stone for MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1o4zoncc
“The Hunchback Shadow Man” by Nelchen for YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1mzdp7ar
“The Greystone Mansion Murders” by Troy Taylor:

On a stormy night with the phone lines down and her baby barely breathing, Madeline Hunter drags a blazing log out of the fireplace without knowing why, and only afterward remembers the Greek myth she'd lectured on that very morning, in which a mother did the same thing to keep her son alive.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Bough” (January 24, 1979) ***WD
00:48:00.567 = Jeff Regan, “The Guy From Gower Gulch” (November 13, 1948) ***WD
01:18:47.691 = The Key, “The Cellar” (1956) ****WD
01:45:34.182 = Lights Out, “Dream” (March 16, 1943)
02:14:59.018 = Macabre, “Crystalline Man” (January 01, 1962) ***WD
02:44:23.318 = Philip Marlowe, ‘Cloak of Kamehameha” (May 16, 1950)
03:14:50.811 = Let George Do It, “Ghost On Bliss Terrace” (August 16, 1948) ***WD
03:45:36.781 = The Black Mass, “Jolly Corner” (November 28, 1966) ***WD
04:25:55.017 = Michael Shayne, “Missing Body” (August 06, 1945) ***WD
04:56:57.079 = Beyond The Green Door, ‘Theodore Kane Buried Alive” (1966)
05:00:33.353 = Show Close

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A silent-film director is found shot in his bungalow with every lamp in the house still burning, and a private eye from the east is paid to find the letters before the police do.

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The drug turned to gel in John Wayne Gacy's IV tube, Christina Riggs took the needles in her wrists, and Florida pushed them through both of Angel Diaz's veins. In Ohio, Joseph Clark lifted his head off the gurney to say "it don't work", Christopher Newton took a bathroom break during the vein search, and Romell Broom went back to his cell alive after two hours of needles.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 22, 2026

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A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD
00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD
01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
01:42:47.242 = Harry Lime, “Horseplay” (November 23, 1951) ***WD
02:09:06.828 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “A Pair of Hands” (September 06, 1980) ***WD
02:37:07.458 = The Haunting Hour, “Death By Request” (September 08, 1945) ***WD
03:03:04.221 = Hermit’s Cave, “The Search For Life” (April 12, 1942) ***WD
03:28:48.436 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Lion’s Mane” (April 21, 1947)
04:00:34.450 = Mystery House, “Murder Is An Art” (August 09, 1946)
04:27:40.870 = Inner Sanctum, “Black Art” (May 15, 1945) ***WD
04:57:15.865 = Show Close

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Eleven stories, starting with an 18-month-old found breathing in a Gilbert, Arizona, hospital morgue hours after he was pronounced dead, and running through a beheading in West Bengal, an Oregon man who claimed his mother was possessed, an Amish woman's weed whacker, and a 1962 double murder near Battle Ground, Washington.

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Early on November 30th, 1989, Linda Cortile says gray beings floated her out of her 12th-floor window in lower Manhattan and into a hovering craft, and two security men later told abduction researcher Budd Hopkins they'd watched it happen from their car near the Brooklyn Bridge.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a heartbreaking story of love gone wrong. It's a tale of passion, betrayal, murder, and the electric chair. (Love And The Electric Chair) *** The terrifying true story of the abduction of Linda Cortile – was she truly abucted by aliens or is there another explanation? (The Abduction of Linda Cortile) *** A man keeps seeing shadowy figures in his peripheral vision. (Her Feet Were Swinging) *** They say the widow's ghost lingers in the tower of the Drish House - and sets the house ablaze with phantom fire. (The Drish House Hauntings) * It is said that some hundred years ago, people in Jamaica believed the powers of so-called “Shadow Killers” - but who or what were they? (The Shadow Killers of Jamaica) *** Fifteen acres of land purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1976 is what comprises a place known as DeForest Park.  By day it is filled with sun, sand, and fun. By night, it is filled with shudders, scares, and screams. (The Darkness of DeForest Park) *** Friends were planning for a good time of dirt biking, hunting, and drinking beer. They should never have visited the cemetery. (The Haunted Farmstead) *** Two women walking home in the twilight come across the ghost of a woman dead for the past year. *** A man tells the terrifying story of how he was possessed by a demon. *** Two girls discover that even if you don’t believe a legend of ghostly children, you still shouldn’t tease them. *** If you vacation at Carlsbad Lagoon, you’ll need something stronger than sunscreen to protect you. *** Traumatic events can sometimes trigger poltergeist activity, but for one young girl, the torment seemed to have no end. *** The hills of Northern Chile are not safe for men walking alone at night.  A female spirit known as La Lola stalks the night, lost and enraged over the murder of her husband. *** Glowing eyes in the dark, a man in a dark suit, and a party in the other room… none of which are real, except to two young girls who swear it actually happened. *** Lehigh, Oklahoma – with the dark past of gangsters, the KKK, a corrupt sheriff… and the paranormal.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:58.241 = Show Open
00:04:17.776 = The Alien Abduction of Linda Cortile
00:14:07.986 = The Drish Hauntings ***
00:18:39.014 = The Darkness of DeForest Park
00:22:19.808 = The Haunted Farmstead
00:30:13.021 = The Shadow Killers of Jamaica ***
00:35:52.020 = Her Feet Were Swinging
00:40:01.137 = Love And The Electric Chair
00:49:28.171 = My First Spooky Experience ***
00:54:25.482 = The Haunting of Laura
01:04:28.440 = The Ghostly Kids of Hungry Hollow Road ***
01:07:07.740 = I Was Possessed By a Demon
01:10:47.811 = The Woman In The Blue Sari
01:13:13.484 = Carlsbad Lagoon
01:16:49.012 = La Lola, The Vengeful Female Spirit of Northern Chile
01:20:41.489 = Haunted Lehigh, Oklahoma ***
01:26:23.165 = Show Close
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Charles "Snake" Stuart says he found an eight-foot Bigfoot dead in New York's Adirondacks, that a Cornell University DNA report shows what it is, and that Cornell has until 5:00 p.m. on November 1st to take back its denial or pay him $10 million.

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On the night the beings from Alpha Centauri were due to land in 1949, every star in the sky over Mount Wilson blinked out for a full minute, and nobody seemed to notice except the narrator, Dorothy's brother Steve, and the astronomer Van Dyk. Eighteen years later, the narrator came back to the little iron house on the edge of the mountain, and Van Dyk was waiting to show him what was inside.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 22, 2026

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In Florida’s electric chair, a flame rose from under Pedro Medina’s headpiece and Allen Lee Davis bled through his white shirt. On the needle side, Raymond Landry’s IV line blew out and sprayed toward the witnesses in Texas, and in Arkansas, Rickey Ray Rector set his pecan pie aside for later while a team spent most of an hour hunting for a vein.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 21, 2026

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A husband's furious insult that his wife is nothing but a heartless white cat starts coming true in front of him, and their doctor wants to tell the world.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Side Effects” (January 19, 1979) ***WD
00:46:26.764 = Devil And Mr. O, “Alley Cat” (September 17, 1971) ***WD
01:16:36.301 = Dimension X, “The Green Hills Of Earth” (December 24, 1950) ***WD
01:43:42.714 = The Eleventh Hour, “Flying Coffin” (ADU)
02:08:44.816 = Escape, “Border Town” (December 13, 1949)
02:39:01.401 = Murder By Experts, “The Big Money” (July 25, 1949)
03:09:31.058 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Escape” (January 08, 1958)
03:29:40.395 = Dark Fantasy, “Resolution” (January 02, 1942)
03:55:38.664 = Fear on 4, “Every Detail But One” (February 07, 1988) ***WD
04:25:36.810 = Theater Five, “Sound Track of a Happy Family” (December 04, 1964)
04:46:38.564 = Murder Is My Hobby, “Murder In The Ring” (1945-1947)
05:10:35.142 = Show Close

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Days before an operation he has a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, Norman Hill finds his office stripped bare, gets a call from a funeral parlor, and reads his own name on a grave.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Long Long Sleep” (January 15, 1979) ***WD
00:46:03.456 = Calling All Cars, “Gentle Kidnapping Case” (May 16, 1934)
01:15:57.384 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Girl On The Dock” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
01:44:22.358 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Wendigo” (1968) ***WD=SONG: “Don’t Listen To The Thing That Calls Your Name” by Crossroads Haint (based on “The Wendigo”)
02:16:47.273 = Chet Chetter, “Return of the Master Constipator” (1990-1992) ***WD
02:41:18.259 = The Clock, “The Perfect Crime” (March 13, 1956) ***WD
03:08:32.006 = The Crime Club, “Death Never Doubles” (June 26, 1947)
03:38:26.216 = Crime Classics, “Bloody Bloody Banks Falls River” (September 30, 1953)
04:08:03.615 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of Whirling Mirrors” (November 25, 1946)
04:33:29.348 = Deep Night, “Ice Screams” (August 05, 2005)
05:07:26.147 = Show Close

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A teenage girl’s chilling confession to 35 axe murders in early 1900s Louisiana spiraled into a tangled web of cult rumors, racial panic, paranormal paranoia, and one of the most disturbing true crime mysteries in American history.

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89ks65

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The true story of the voodoo murders… are they proof of the mythical “Church of Sacrifice?” *** A man picks up a ghostly hitchhiker. *** For years, the residents of Circleville, Ohio were plagued by messages that revealed their darkest secrets. Who was writing the letters – and how did they know about the skeletons in people’s closets? *** If you drive through Hecker Pass in California, don’t be surprised if you see a bloody girl in a frilly white dress waiting for you. *** In a wooded area just south of San Antonio, lies a nondescript railroad crossing. Legend has it several children died on the tracks – but did that really happen? *** Poveglia Island – some considered it a place of hell hundreds of years ago. And some still do today. *** And the history, hauntings (and hoax) of the original “most haunted house in America”.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:50.078 = Show Open
00:03:49.235 = The “Voodoo Murders” of Clementine Barnabet
00:19:03.092 = Thumbing For a Hitch ***
00:21:01.268 = The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville Letter Writer
00:26:31.889 = The Angry Ghost of Hecker Pass
00:29:41.491 = Ghost Children Haunt Texas Railroad Crossing
00:32:24.543 = Mystery of the Bloody Island Poveglia
00:36:49.398 = The House on Ridge Avenue (Congolier Mansion) ***
01:10:48.903 = Show Close
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“The VooDoo Murders of Clementine Barnabet” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3hqkn5pp
“Thumbing For a Hitch” by GhosterCK for YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/45bgp999
“The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville Letter Writer” by Stephanie Almazan for The Line Up:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/45qhanr3
“The Angry Ghost of Hecker Pass” from BackpackerVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/t80g1pg8
“Ghost Children Haunt Texas Railroad Crossing” from GhostsNGhouls.com (link no longer available)
“Mystery Of The Bloody Island Poveglia – A Place Of Hell” from MessageToEagle.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/eikwk53m
“The House on Ridge Avenue” by Troy Taylor for AmericanHauntingsInk.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/vmrsatuk(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links...

Jay Stratton, who ran the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told Fox News on October 12th that he has seen non-human beings and non-human craft, and his memoir, "Out of the Shadows", came out the next day. Avi Loeb, the Harvard scientist who chairs the council that advises the government's UAP Governance Board, answered the same day the book came out that the claims aren't backed by publicly verifiable data and invited him to speak to the council; as of October 21st, Stratton hasn't responded.

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After 11 a.m. on Monday, October 12th, a woman called 911 to say her nephew was off his medication but "not violent", and at about 1:25 p.m., according to the criminal complaint, Thomas Steele killed his aunt and grandmother in Mobile, Alabama, with a chainsaw. He's charged with two counts of capital murder, and a judge has ordered him committed to the Alabama Department of Mental Health for an inpatient competency evaluation.

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Three children came home to the Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park on Thursday, October 8th, to find the bedroom forced open and their kittens gone, and that night Martin County deputies dug two of them out of the backyard alive. Alba Chavez, who the sheriff says told deputies she thought the kittens had demons, was arrested on four felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty, and a fifth kitten is still missing.

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Florida executed James Robertson on Tuesday, October 13th, for strangling his cellmate, Frank Hart, at Charlotte Correctional Institution in 2008, a killing he said he carried out so the state would sentence him to death. He was pronounced dead at 12:32 p.m., and Frank Hart's daughter was there to see it.

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At five minutes to midnight, Jacob kneels on a hill behind an abandoned gravel pit with his two best friends and recites his dead grandfather's words, and the dark woods fill with carousel music and children's laughter.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 21, 2026

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From cursed quarterbacks to ghostly gridirons, we explore the haunted history and supernatural legends that still linger on football fields across America.

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Originally aired: August 2018
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Weird Darkness takes football into haunted territory, from a quarterback's curse on the Detroit Lions to ghosts reported in stadiums and dorm halls across the country.
It opens with Bobby Layne, who'd won back-to-back championships for the Lions before a broken leg in 1957 let Tobin Rote take Detroit's third title in six years; traded to Pittsburgh in 1958 at 31, Layne told the media the Lions wouldn't win for 50 years, and they spent those decades with football's worst winning percentage and no Super Bowl.
From there it's Notre Dame's George Gipp, dead of pneumonia in December 1920 at 25, days after beating Northwestern, and later played by Ronald Reagan in Knute Rockne, All American; legend says he caught his cold sleeping on the steps of Washington Hall after curfew, and students have since reported late-night music, slamming doors, a shove from invisible hands on a stairway, and light bulbs unscrewing themselves.
Next, a young listener recalls waking at 3:45 a.m. to a boy of about seventeen in plaid pajama pants and a green football helmet, holding a potato sack that looked full of sand, who vanished just before a cell phone light reached him.
The episode closes with stadium ghosts: Michael Plume, the 19-year-old Air Force member found dead in Indiana University's Memorial Stadium in February 1960, whose ghost fans still report; a player called Nick said to spin fire extinguishers in Kansas State's Purple Masque Theatre; Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished July 30, 1975, reportedly cheering at Ford Field; Civil War soldiers at Wisconsin's Camp Randall; and seven coffins unearthed in 2010 behind the bleachers at Lee Williams High School in Kingman, Arizona, where witnesses describe a little girl asking to go out and play.

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A German man scribbled "YOGTZE" hours before he was found dying in his wrecked car, a woman's body turned up stuffed inside a hollow tree in England, and the Black Dahlia is one of numerous murders where no killer was ever caught.

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5dbv8s24

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:26.134 = William Desmond Taylor
00:10:26.677 = The Grimes Sisters ***
00:16:35.616 = The Villisca Axe Murders00:20:24.119 = Günther Stoll and “YOGTZE”
00:25:47.137 = Bella Wright And The Green Bicycle
00:33:14.713 = The Servant Girl Annihilator ***
00:40:02.597 = The Murder of Georgette Bauerdorf
00:45:18.379 = The Seal Chart Murder
00:53:12.270 = The Benny Evangelist Murders ***
00:57:29.939 = The Killing of Ken McElroy
01:03:01.290 = The Keddie Cabin Murders
01:10:30.620 = The Murder of Margaret Martin
01:15:13.508 = The Texarkana Moonlight Murders ***
01:21:22.577 = Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?
01:24:53.756 = The Hinterfaifeck Murders
01:28:16.821 = The Black Dahlia ***
01:33:54.312 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Chilling Unsolved Murders” from The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/foyleo4o(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
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Originally aired: August 2018
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Indiana needed five jolts to kill William Vandiver, and Arizona's gas chamber took ten and a half minutes while a TV anchor kept a stopwatch running on Donald Harding. In between, Alabama connected the chair's cables wrong for Horace Dunkins, a synthetic sponge sent flames from under Jesse Tafero's mask in Florida, and both states called it human error.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 20, 2026


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In the story, David and Alice Leiber are a happily married couple living in Los Angeles, but when Alice gives birth to a healthy baby boy, she fears the baby is somehow abnormal and will kill her.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 20, 2026

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In a future where the government runs legal murder, a clothing man on his seventh hunt tracks his victim to a sidewalk cafe in New York and finds her sitting alone with both hands on the table.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Complete Recovery” (January 01, 1979) ***WD
00:47:03.252 = Witch’s Tale, “The Priest of Sekhet” (February 27, 1933) ***WD(LQ)
01:13:22.062 = X Minus One, “Seventh Victim” (March 06, 1957)
01:36:47.331 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death Walked In” (1956-1957) ***WD
02:00:48.532 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
02:29:08.838 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Truth” (June 28, 1945) ***WD
02:57:20.767 = Barry Craig, “Murder Island” (January 09, 1979) ***WD
03:27:38.576 = Ghost Story, “The Tower” (January 02, 1987)
03:41:19.292 = Night Beat, “Old Itch” (July 03, 1952)
04:10:21.392 = The Black Book, “My Favorite Corpse” (February 24, 1952) ***WD
04:24:48.069 = Box 13, “Dan And The Wonderful Lamp” (March 27, 1949)
04:53:16.118 = Strange Adventure, “the Jade Ring” ( ***WD
04:56:30.783 = Tales of the Frightened, “Voice From The Grave” (1957-1963)
05:01:17.266 = Show Close

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Mark Twain's errand on the Mississippi began in a Munich morgue, where 36 shrouded corpses lie wired to a bell and a dying American asked him to save his soul.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dead House” (December 29, 1978) ***WD
00:46:13.308 = Suspense, “Fugue In C-Minor” (June 01, 1944) ***WD
01:16:07.828 = The Creaking Door, “Haunted Hangman” (May 25, 1964) ***WD
01:45:44.388 = The Saint, “Real Gone Guy” (July 30, 1950) ***WD
02:14:27.824 = 2000 Plus, “The Giant Walks” (November 05, 1950) ***WD(LQ)
02:43:19.062 = The Unexpected, “Find The Man” (1947-1948)
02:59:11.818 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
03:15:35.171 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, 1947)
03:45:22.054 = The Weird Circle, “What Was It” (October 10, 1943) ***WD
04:13:45.720 = The Whistler, “Death Watch” (June 25, 1945) ***WD
04:43:21.733 = Strange Wills, “Crosswinds” (November 09, 1946)
05:12:56.628 = Show Close


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On January 16th, 1935, federal agents poured more than 1,500 rounds into a two-story house on Lake Weir in Ocklawaha, Florida, and when the shooting stopped, Fred Barker and his mother, Ma Barker, were dead inside, and visitors to the empty house say an old woman's cries still come from behind its bullet-riddled walls.

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jtk393c3

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Lingering Ghost of “Ma” Barker haunts the shores of Lake Weir in Florida. *** Sex with ghosts… is it erotic or horrific? *** An axe-wielding maniac stalked the streets of the Big Easy, and the only way to avoid slaughter was to play jazz. 

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:11.112 = Show Open
00:02:21.878 = The Axman of New Orleans
00:11:56.246 = Ghost Sex: Erotic or Horrific ***
00:21:34.894 = The Lingering Ghost of Ma Barker ***
01:17:33.555 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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“Ghost Sex: Erotic or Horrific” written by G. Michael Vasey: http://amzn.to/2FQGHTV
“The Lingering Ghost of ‘Ma Barker”: https://tinyurl.com/y5pdb6rd
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Originally aired: January 24, 2021

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In the early 1980s, a witness swore flames rose from a man's leg in Virginia's chair, Alabama needed three jolts to kill John Evans, and Mississippi's gas chamber left Jimmy Lee Gray striking his head on a steel pole. In Georgia, "Repeat the execution" was the commissioner's answer when an official told a tape recorder that Alpha Otis Stephens was still alive.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 19, 2026

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On June 19th, 1953, Julius Rosenberg died in Sing Sing's electric chair, and minutes later his wife, Ethel, took his place. After the shocks that had killed him, the doctors still heard her heartbeat, and the executioner asked, "Want another?"

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 19, 2026


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Nord Holber and Mike Doren have spent three days fishing a single rock out of the asteroid belt, and when a colonel on the visiphone reports that the pirate Dhain Kadine has robbed the Jovian Nymph and is running for the asteroids below them, they're the only ship in his way.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Space-Lane of No-Return” by George A. Whittington (Planet Stories Summer 1946)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 19, 2026

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In the first hour, Weird Darkness Radio digs into the archive for Halloween stories, with the Denver haunting behind the film The Changeling, the Halloween-night disappearance of Penn State student Cindy Song, Europe's werewolf trials, the history of the Ouija board, and how to support a friend after a paranormal experience. Weird Darkness Radio stays with Halloween itself in the second hour, covering how trick-or-treating nearly died during World War II, where the holiday's customs come from, the legend of Stingy Jack behind the jack-o'-lantern, and how the wise woman became the witch.
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HOUR ONE:It opens in Denver, where composer Russell Hunter said that in 1968 he rented the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion near Cheesman Park, found a hidden room full of a sickly boy's belongings, and followed séances to a grave beneath a house on South Dahlia Street. His account became George C. Scott's 1980 ghost film The Changeling, down to the red rubber ball, though no record places Hunter in the mansion, and Cheesman Park itself was laid out over an old cemetery where workers still turn up skeletons.From there, the hour turns to Cindy Song, a Penn State student from Seoul, South Korea, who left a Halloween party at Players Nightclub in State College dressed as a bunny and was dropped off at her apartment around 4 a.m. on November 1st, 2001. Only her keys and purse were missing. In 2003, investigators dug burned human remains out of the yard of Hugo Selenski's home near Wilkes-Barre, and Selenski was later convicted of two other murders and sentenced to life, but police have never connected him to Cindy, and her disappearance is still unsolved.Next come the werewolf trials of early modern Europe, beginning in Poligny, France, in 1521, when Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun confessed under torture to rubbing on a devil's ointment that turned them into wolves. The roll call runs through Gilles Garnier, Jacques Roulet, the Werewolf of Caude, and Peter Stumpp, executed in 1589, on to a teenager named Hans, sentenced to death in Estonia in 1651, and Thiess of Kaltenbrun, an old man who said he was one of the hounds of God and got off with a flogging.After that, the hour traces the Ouija board from the Fox sisters' rapping messages and the planchette to the Kennard Novelty Company of Baltimore, named on the first talking-board patent in 1890, and to William Fuld, who took the business over and died in 1927 when a rib he broke falling from his factory roof pierced his heart. Parker Brothers bought the board in 1966, and the segment weighs the scientists' answer, unconscious movement of the users' fingers, against the belief that spirits push the planchette themselves.The hour closes with Rebecca Montiel's advice, from an article for Paranormality magazine, on supporting a friend who reports a shadowy visitor that comes into the bedroom every night and leaves the sleeper unable to move or scream: listen without interrupting, keep skepticism out of it unless asked, and help rule out a medical cause first.
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HOUR TWO:It opens with War Ration Book No. 1, the so-called Sugar Book handed out starting May 4th, 1942, after sugar became the first consumer good rationed in wartime America, which all but ended the young custom of trick-or-treating. Once rationing lifted in June 1947, candy-company advertising, children's magazines like Jack and Jill, Charles Schulz's Halloween Peanuts strips, and the 1966 special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown brought it back for good, with UNICEF's cardboard collection boxes riding along.From there, after the 2016 creepy-clown sightings and the red balloons found tied to sewer grates in Lititz, Pennsylvania, the year the remake of Stephen King's It reached theaters, the hour goes back about 2,000 years to Samhain, the Celtic festival marking summer's end. Folklorist Jack Santino ties Samhain to the dead crossing over, York University historian Nicholas Rogers finds no hard evidence of...

When terror takes hold of the mind, whole communities descend into madness – meowing like beasts, dancing to exhaustion, and vanishing into the grip of something seemingly paranormal and demonic.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Nuns that meow like cats, people who can’t stop laughing maniacally, an entire high school begins twitching… even the Salem witch trials. Just a few of the 8 cases of mass hysteria I’ll be sharing with you. *** January 7, 1950, events began in what became one of the strangest disappearances of the middle twentieth century – the vanishing of a West Point cadet. *** Visitors to Calke Abbey have reported a strange atmosphere of sadness and foreboding and many have reported being scared by the sounds of a tin whistle. *** We’ve all heard of the Bermuda Triangle – but there are strange, anomalies worldwide – and one in Russia is known as the “M Triangle”. *** As far back as the 19th century, a hairy monster has been frightening guests of an Irish castle. *** When living in a home built in the 1800s, it might be expected to have something paranormal living with you.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:13.141 = Show Open
00:03:16.293 = Whispering Ghost of Calke Abbey
00:07:00.498 = The M Triangle
00:17:57.718 = Hairy Monster Frightening Guests At An Irish Castle ***
00:22:55.402 = The Haunted Farmhouse
00:31:06.493 = The Vanished Cadet ***
00:57:37.296 = Strange Cases of Mass Hysteria ***
01:08:00.199 = Show Close
= SONG: “Dance It Out” by Crossroads Haint (inspired by the mass hysteria of the dancing plague)*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Whistling Ghost of Calke Abbey”: https://tinyurl.com/y53zgov3
“The M-Triangle”: https://tinyurl.com/y582ymo6
“Arkaim Anomalous Zone”: https://tinyurl.com/y465d3u7
“Hairy Monster Frightening The Guests Of The Irish Castle”: https://tinyurl.com/y5gbnbx2
“The Haunted Farmhouse”: https://tinyurl.com/yyncsbyo
“Strange Cases of Mass Hysteria”: https://tinyurl.com/y6ja9ezo
“The Vanished Cadet”: https://tinyurl.com/y4h8et3p(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
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Originally aired: December 01, 2018

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Edgar Logan lives at 21 South 72nd, and 2172 is the number on the taxi that sideswipes his car, on the lunch check his nephew adds up for him, and on the pink telephone in the apartment he's just gotten for a girl who reads destiny in numbers.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “No Way Out” (December 27, 1978) ***WD
00:46:19.059 = Ellery Queen, “World Series of Crime” (October 02, 1943) ***WD
01:17:07.604 = Quiet Please, “In The House Where I Was Born” (May 28, 1949)
01:47:23.500 = Radio City Playhouse, “Whistle Daughter, Whistle” (July 31, 1948) ***WD
02:14:58.191 = Sam Spade, “Vafio Cup Caper” (August 22, 1948)
02:45:12.315 = The Sealed Book, “Till Death Do Us Part” (July 08, 1945) ***WD
03:14:36.434 = The Shadow, “The Destroyer” (March 25, 1945) ***WD
03:44:07.078 = Sleep No More, “Three O’Clock” (December 12, 1956)
= SONG: “Three O’Clock” by Static Wax
04:16:52.114 = BBC Radio 4 Spine Chillers, “Inner Critic” (April 2006)
04:32:45.322 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Ghost Ship” (April 24, 1945) ***WD
04:44:47.003 = Strange, “Greenwood Acres” (October 10, 1955) ***WD
04:57:19.846 = Incredible But True, “The Woman Upstairs” (1950-1951)
05:00:51.525 = Show Close
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Curtis Richards' 1979 novelization of John Carpenter's Halloween opens on the eve of Samhain in ancient Ireland, where a druid king's shaman curses a murderer's soul to roam the earth until the end of time. Centuries later, in Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers has started hearing voices that tell him to say he hates people.

A NOTE FROM DARREN: This is the full novelization of the 1978 horror film classic, John Carpenter's Halloween. The novel I'm sharing here has been out of print since the n1980s, and I had to pay a pretty penny just to get a used paperback version just so I could bring this to you. Well worth every penny! It's very true to the film, but has a lot of added elements that make it even more disturbing and exciting. This novelization, written by Curtis Richards, is so good, in fact, that John Carpenter took elements of this novel and used them in the script for the film's sequel, Halloween 2. Richards tweaks the film's story with a few minor but crucial changes to the original screenplay, which was written by John Carpenter and Deborah Hill. In this novelization, Michael Myers is given a supernatural reason for his actions as a child and as an adult, and it ties in directly to the dark paranormal origins of Samhain, the Druid Festival of the Dead, which eventually evolved into what we now celebrate as Halloween. This isn't really a spoiler, as it's all laid out in the prologue before getting into the main story, but it is an excellent addition by Richards. As we all know, the film Halloween begins with eight-year-old Michael Myers stabbing his older sister to death, which leads to his being admitted to a mental hospital for the next 15 years. He breaks out to terrorize a bunch of teen babysitters before he's finally brought down, or, so it seems, by the determined Dr. Loomis. The movie was very risque with explicit scenes of sex and nudity. If you've read the novelization, you know that Richards takes it to an even more erotic, edgy, and borderline pornographic direction in these scenes. But I prefer to keep things as PG-13 as possible here, so I've edited those sections to make them less edgy or indecent, or just removed them entirely if they didn't impact the story. 
CHAPTER TIME STAMPS=====
00:00:00.000 = Prologue
00:10:42.089 = Chapter 01
00:21:11.768 = Chapter 02
00:33:20.063 = Chapter 03
00:42:12.102 = Chapter 04
01:02:56.503 = Chapter 05
01:15:46.155 = Chapter 06
01:31:00.280 = Chapter 07
01:37:36.115 = Chapter 08
02:12:07.275 = Chapter 09
02:17:23.504 = Chapter 10
02:48:21.477 = Chapter 11
03:06:21.683 = Chapter 12
03:25:12.231 = Chapter 13
03:49:45.829 = Chapter 14
04:11:25.242 = Chapter 15

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: BOOK: “Halloween” the movie novelization by Curtis Richards: https://amzn.to/3NM2TCR, https://amzn.to/3UTkP2D
MUSIC: “The Shape” by White Bat Audio: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/WhiteBatAudio
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In 1946, Louisiana strapped seventeen-year-old Willie Francis into its portable electric chair, and from under the hood he cried out for them to take it off. He walked away alive, lost at the Supreme Court by one vote, and went back to the chair a year later.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 17, 2026

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In the cramped bedroom of her Culver City home, Doris Bither yelled at the spirits, and the investigators with her watched a green mist form into the upper body of a muscular man. Her eldest son watched something invisible throw his mother around the room, and when he tried to step in, it threw him across the room too. Dr. Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor doubted Doris Bither's story of three invisible attackers until they saw the bruises across her body.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The investigation on August 22, 1974, in Culver City California was to be like any other one Dr. Barry Taff had done. Believing that this would be an open and shut case they showed up at Doris Bither’s house. Not expecting much. Little did they know this would be one of the biggest cases in the annals of paranormal history. (“The Entity Haunting: The True Story of Doris Bither”) *** One of the most mysterious disappearances of the American twentieth century took place when a man named Bruce Nelson Campbell stumbled out of his Jacksonville motel room one night, dressed only in a pair of green pajamas, and was never seen again. (“The Man In The Green Pajamas”) *** A woman moves into a flat by herself and immediately begins to feel an uncomfortable presence around her. (“Tiny Apartment, Big Presence”) *** On a cold January morning, John Hoskins slaughtered three members of his family. (“A Day That Began with Death: The Hoskins Family Murders of 1919”)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:22.328 = Show Open
00:03:14.954 = A Day That Began With Death: The Hoskins Family Murders of 1919
00:10:16.101 = The Man In The Green Pajamas
00:18:31.258 = Tiny Apartment, Big Presence
00:25:00.264 = The Entity Haunting: The True Story of Doris Bither ***
00:39:09.693 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Man In The Green Pajamas” written by Troy Taylor & Lisa Taylor Horton: https://tinyurl.com/y4a68c3p
“Tiny Apartment, Big Presence” written by KatsWhiskers: https://tinyurl.com/yxmb9d67
“A Day That Began with Death: The Hoskins Family Murders of 1919”, written by John Brassard Jr.: https://tinyurl.com/weq3ytl
“The Entity Haunting: The True Story of Doris Bither” written by Xavier Ortega: https://tinyurl.com/y8fv25w(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
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Originally aired: February 10, 2019
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This episode of Weird Darkness runs from a 1919...

On the afternoon of September 23rd, 1880, David Lang waved to two men in a buggy, took another step across his open pasture near Gallatin, Tennessee, and disappeared in the middle of that step.

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p93efjf

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: What if your thoughts, your self, your very awareness… weren’t inside your brain at all, but woven into the universe itself? (What If Consciousness Is Everything?) *** Across centuries and continents, there are eerie tales of tiny, otherworldly creatures captured by humans — only for terror, curses, or vanishing acts to follow. (Bagged, Bottled, and Bewitched: True Tales of Captured Fairies) *** On a deserted Scottish road in 1992, two men's terrifying close encounter with a hovering UFO led to missing time, haunting nightmares, and disturbing memories of alien beings. (The A70 Abduction Case) *** When Jake Bird was sentenced to die, he warned the court they’d perish before him — then one by one, they did. (The Hex of Jake Bird) *** One bright afternoon in 1880, David Lang took a step across his field — and vanished forever in front of witnesses who saw it happen. (Portal In The Pasture: The Strange Disappearance of David Lang)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:28.802 = Show Open
00:03:13.646 = Portal In The Pasture: The Strange Disappearance of David Lang
00:17:39.952 = Bagged, Bottled and Bewitched: True Tales of Captured Fairies ***
00:30:14.552 = The Hex of Jake Bird
00:38:59.953 = The A70 Abduction Case ***
00:52:57.434 = What If Consciousness Is Everything?
01:04:53.042 = Show Close
01:06:08.761 = Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The A70 Abduction Case”: https://www.thenightskyii.org/a70.html
“The Hex of Jake Bird”: https://weirddarkness.com/jakebird/
“Bagged, Bottled, and Bewitched: True Tales of Captured Fairies”: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2024/08/Strange-Tales-of-Captured-Fairies-Gnomes-and-Other-Mysterious-Little-People/,
“Portal In The Pasture: The Strange Disappearance of David Lang”: https://weirddarkness.com/thevanishingfarmer/
“What If Consciousness Is Everything?”: https://weirddarkness.com/what-if-consciousness-is-everything/(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
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Originally aired: May 07, 2025

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A sequel to “The Grove City Werewolf” episode (https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-grovecitywerewolf/). Sean Dyer comes back to Grove City, Ohio, for Halloween weekend and finds plywood where one of the library's glass doors used to be, and the girl now living next door to his aunt and uncle says the news has the break-in all wrong.

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In 1930, Eva Dugan spent her last night at the Florence prison playing whist, and at dawn she went to the gallows. The drop took her head off, and three years later Arizona's voters replaced the noose with lethal gas.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 16, 2026


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In 1901, New Mexico Territory hanged Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum for holding up a train, and the drop was set at seven feet. When the trap fell, the rope took his head off.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 16, 2026

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Who were the shadowy men in black who stalked UFO researchers after the Rendlesham Forest incident — and what secrets were they so desperate to keep buried? What connects a deadly UFO encounter on Maury Island in 1947 to shadowy men in black and decades of chilling threats against those chasing the truth?

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y6byvu5

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Major in the U.S. Air Force says they captured and held an extraterrestrial creature at New Jersey’s McGuire Air Force Base. (Alien Captured By Air Force) *** Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he was pulled from a flaming car by a paranormal entity. Did a ghostly specter save this NASCAR driver’s life? (The Race Car Angel) *** William Dunham was ill-tempered, ready to fight at all times – especially when drunk. He owned two less-than-reputable establishments. So it shouldn’t be a surprise people would want him dead. But when one has so many enemies, it’s not easy for police to find out who the person was that murdered you. (The Dunham Murder) *** I’ll share an account of something very disturbing seen in Michigan – a strange creature… a grayish-colored entity more man than beast, but more paranormal than normal. (Michigan Humanoid) *** Visiting haunted houses, cursed lands, driving on ghostly roads… they all can be scary. Stepping into a hospital at night is incredibly spooky. But image what kind of stories you’d have to tell if you were a night-shift employee at a cemetery. (Creepy Stories of Cemetery Workers) *** In all of their different incarnations, the Men in Black usually have one main purpose: to muzzle witnesses of strange, paranormal phenomena. That’s exactly what happened to one UFO hunter while researching what is now known as the Rendlesham Forest incident. (MIB Threaten UFO Hunter)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:12.231 = Show Open
00:04:44.703 = MIB Threaten UFO Hunter
00:10:07.253 = Alien Captured By Air Force
00:18:46.051 = The Dunham Murder ***
00:26:04.813 = The Race Car Angel
00:29:35.084 = Michigan Humanoid
00:38:37.238 = Creepy Stories of Cemetery Workers ***
00:58:23.284 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
BOOK: John Guerra’s book “Strange Craft”: https://amzn.to/2QVW0RO
MEMO: Lieutenant Halt memo about the UFO incident: https://tinyurl.com/yj63gmzp
“The MIB Mythology” by Justin Sablich for History.com: https://tinyurl.com/y87o5ux9
“Alien Captured By Air Force” by Cynthia McKanzie for Message to Eagle: https://tinyurl.com/ygu8nrod
“The Dunham Murder” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/yxju4wxk
“The Race Car Angel” by Brett Tingley for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/yg9cpztw
“MIB Threaten UFO Hunter” by Laura Rowton for Paranormal Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yhrefxoc
“Michigan Humanoid” by SG, posted at...

A clerk at the American consulate in Hong Kong turns down a marriage proposal from the wealthy woman who's been bankrolling his roulette system in Macau, then agrees to one last ride with her in the big yellow rickshaw her family has kept for years.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Power Of Evil” (December 22, 1978) ***WD
00:45:41.645 = The Black Museum, “Calibre Bullet” (January 08, 1952) ***WD
01:09:49.608 = Mysterious Traveler, “The Accusing Corpse” (April 16, 1944) ***WD
01:39:31.376 = CBC Nightfall, “Buried Alive” (October 17, 1980)
02:04:14.112 = Nightmare, “Coincidence” (November 26, 1953)
02:25:56.696 = Obsession, “Raised From The Dead” (February 19, 1951) ***WD
02:49:34.633 = Origin of Superstition, “Picking Up a Pin” (1935) ***WD
03:03:24.598 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Geranium Plant” (May 14, 1949) ***WD
03:32:59.307 = Peril, “The Sidewalk Empire” (May 15, 1947) ***WD
03:58:43.627 = Mystery Playhouse, “Death Is Caused” (October 12, 1945) ***WD
04:23:01.946 = Price of Fear, “Family Album” (June 13, 1983) ***WD
04:50:11.046 = Beyond The Green Door, “Tyner And The Ape” (1966)
04:55:56.317 = Tales From The Tomb, “The Lick” (1960s)
04:59:17.885 = Show Close

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What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste — the ghost ship found drifting at sea with no crew, no lifeboat, and no answers?

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mxz7xmku

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Mary Celeste was discovered abandoned near the Azores Islands on December 5, 1872 — and to this day, experts are unsure about what happened to its crew. (The Mystery of the Mary Celeste) *** On April 29, 2022, a female corrections officer snuck a convicted felon out of Lauderdale County Jail, kicking off an 11-day manhunt that would end in the prisoner’s re-arrest and the death of the woman he loved and who broke him out. (A Match Made In Prison) *** The Ark of the Covenant, a sacred chest believed to hold the original Ten Commandments. In the 1980s, Ron Wyatt claimed to have found this legendary relic beneath Jerusalem. Did he truly find it? We’ll some of the theories that captivate believers and skeptics alike. (Did This Adventurer Locate The Ark of the Covenant?) *** A young girl's fishing trip turns into a tragic mystery when she vanishes without a trace. As the community searches for answers, a shocking confession leads to a murder trial that left many questioning the truth. (Disappearance at Duck River) *** The Beast of Gévaudan, a mysterious creature that terrorized a small French province in the 1760s with gruesome attacks. Believed by many to be an actual werewolf, it resulted in a frantic hunt for the monster – and even now, over two centuries later, the story still captivates us. But is there any truth to the tale? (The Beast of Gévaudan – Fact or Fiction) *** Frederick Fisher, an English shopkeeper, vanished in 1826 – only to reappear as a ghost to help solve the mystery of his disappearance and death. (The Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder) *** The puzzling case of Sherri Papini’s 2016 kidnapping shocked northern California and led to years of speculation. After her sudden return and subsequent arrest in 2022 for faking the incident, many questions remain unanswered. (The Mysterious Vanishing And Reappearing Of Sherri Papini)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:34.943 = Show Open
00:04:33.644 = The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
00:22:47.637 = The Mysterious Vanishing And Reappearing of Sherri Papini
00:30:34.570 = The Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder
00:38:37.169 = A Match Made In Prison
00:46:18.862 = Did This Adventurer Locate The Ark of the Covenant?
00:53:50.235 = Disappearance at Duck River
01:03:12.671 = The Beast of Gévaudan – Fact or Fiction
= Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Mystery of the Mary Celeste” source: Austin Harvey, All That’s Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/44ax8rzt
“The Mysterious Vanishing And Reappearing Of Sherri Papini” source: Jacob Shelton, Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycku4txj
“The Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder” source: Kaushik Patowary, Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p842mvn
“A Match Made In Prison” source: Hannah Reilly Holtz, All That’s Interesting:

A classic tale by M.R. James adapted for radio theater. On a stormy night by the fire, a grandmother forbids her grandchildren to pick a single blackberry in the little lane past Collins's cottage, and when they beg for the reason, she tells them about the hill at the top of it.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “It Has To Be True” (December 20, 1978) ***WD
00:46:09.566 = The Black Mass, “An Evening’s Entertainment” (October 31, 1964)
01:17:10.741 = Michael Shayne, “Museum Theft” (July 30, 1945)
01:48:19.048 = Beyond Midnight, “Hobart” (May 09, 1969) ***WD
02:15:32.318 = MindWebs, “When We Went To See The End Of The World” (November 12, 1976)
02:38:15.669 = Hollywood Theater, “Sitting Duck” (December 17, 1952) ***WD
03:07:11.952 = Mystery In The Air, “Horla” (August 21, 1947) ***WD
03:38:06.693 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Kenny Angles And The Queen of Diamonds” (April 18, 1947)
04:06:58.224 = Mr. Keen, “The Man Who Invented Death” (October 06, 1949) ***WD
04:36:14.018 = Murder at Midnight, “Red Wheels’ (September 13, 1946)
05:03:21.642 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.

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Elliot leaves his phone charging on the kitchen counter and takes the stairs down from his fifth-floor Chicago apartment to pick up a package in the lobby, and there's no door at the bottom.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheStairway

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Stairway” by Keith Conrad (originally published at http://www.auditoryanthology.com)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 15, 2026

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In 1894, Will Purvis dropped through the trapdoor at Columbia, Mississippi, and the noose let go, leaving him alive on the ground. The crowd voted to postpone the hanging, and in 1917 a dying farmer confessed to his part in the murder and said Purvis had nothing to do with it.”

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 14, 2026


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On February 22nd, 1964, Boston hypnosis specialist Benjamin Simon regressed Barney Hill to the night of the drive while Betty sat out in the waiting room, and over ten taped regression sessions, five apiece, each of them described being taken aboard a craft and examined. Betty also drew a map of stars she said she'd been shown, and in 1968 an Ohio schoolteacher named Marjorie Fish began five years of building models out of beads and thread, looking for the point in space that would reproduce Betty's drawing.

From the book “TWO LOST HOURS ON ROUTE 3: The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction, 65 Years Later” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/TwoLostHours

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Originally aired: October 14, 2026

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From hearing your own blood and battling endless earworms to noseless societies, double-faced men, and the deadly myths of virgin cures, tonight we dive deep into the eerie, bizarre, and tragic extremes of the human body.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AnatomicalAnomalies

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmjxrb

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A woman in Scotland has never heard silence. Not because of the noise around her – but because of the noise in her! (Never a Moment of Silence) *** We’ve all had a song stuck in our heads – but one woman has had the same song playing on a loop in her brain for the past four years, non-stop. (The Ear Worm) *** From too much noise – to none at all. We’ll meet Ezekiel Eads, a man who had no ears and learned to hear the outside world through his mouth! (The Man With No Ears) *** Syphilis is a nasty disease, especially when it eats your nose. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a social life, as many noseless have learned from personal experience. (The No Noses Club) *** Is it possible that it’s better to have no nose at all than to have an extremely long one? We’ll look at a real-life Pinocchio named Thomas Wedders with a giant proboscis! (A Short Story About a Long Nose) *** Imagine living through life with two and a half faces. No, not like a politician – that’s simply two-faced. I mean living with two noses and three eyes. You’re either an extraterrestrial, or you are William Durks. (Two-And-A-Half Faces) *** What exactly is so alluring about those who cherish virginity? Is it about virtue or is it about something else? (Virginity Tests and Cures)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:27.670 = Never a Moment of Silence
00:07:01.991 = The Ear Worm
00:11:51.821 = The Man Without Ears
00:14:08.540 = The No Nose Club
00:18:05.818 = A Short Story About a Long Nose
00:22:08.493 = Two And a Half Faces ***
00:27:17.987 = Virginity Tests and Cures
00:41:39.048 = Show Close
00:43:07.302 = Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
BOOK: “American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers” by Marc Harzman: https://amzn.to/3QGMCC5
BOOK: “The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine” by Lindsey Fitzharris: https://amzn.to/441Devz
“Never a Moment of Silence” by Marco Margaritoff for All That’s Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/y4khaqea
“The Ear Worm” by Facts Verse: http://www.factsverse.com
“The Man With No Ears” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/ssoc693
“The No Noses Club” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian:

Betty and Barney Hill left Howard's Restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire at 10:05 on the night of September 19th, 1961; a light kept pace with their car down U.S. Route 3, and by the time the kitchen clock in Portsmouth read shortly after five, neither of them could remember a thirty-five-mile stretch of the drive. Betty called Pease Air Force Base two days later, and in November two NICAP members who drove up to Portsmouth worked through a sum nobody had done yet: Colebrook to Portsmouth is about a four-hour drive, the Hills had left at ten and gotten home after five, and neither of them could say where the other hours had gone.

From the book “TWO LOST HOURS ON ROUTE 3: The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction, 65 Years Later” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/TwoLostHours

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Originally aired: October 14, 2026

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Her nephew sent her exotic plants from every port of call across the solar system, but there was something about his latest gift from Venus that made the old captain uneasy.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FloweringEvil


SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Flowering Evil” by Margaret St. Clair (Planet Stories Summer 1950)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 14, 2026

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On August 6th, 1890, William Kemmler became the first man put to death in the electric chair. After seventeen seconds, a doctor said he was dead, and then the witnesses saw his chest rising and falling.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 13, 2026 


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A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl And The Gallows” (May 01, 1945)
01:15:29.512 = Jeff Regan, “The Lady With Too Much Hair” (November 06, 1948) ***WD
01:46:02.749 = The Key, “The Archaeologist” (1956) ***WD
02:11:32.967 = Lights Out, “The Projective Mr. Drogan” (January 26, 1943)
02:41:57.122 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Canterville Ghost” (June 18, 1945)
03:41:58.445 = Macabre, “The Avenger” (December 18, 1961) ***WD
04:10:47.262 = Philip Marlowe, “Hiding Place” (May 09, 1950)
04:41:11.369 = (Unknown Show), “King Kong” audio drama (1938)
05:20:23.061 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.

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A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD
00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “A Warden For All Saints” (April 29, 1992)
01:29:50.871 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
01:57:12.053 = Harry Lime, “In Pursuit Of A Ghost” (November 16, 1951)
02:23:04.135 = Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Esmerelda” (August 30, 1980)
02:49:13.121 = The Haunting Hour, “No Escape” (September 01, 1945)
03:15:09.391 = The Hermit’s Cave, “Mystery Of The Thing” (November 17, 1946) ***WD
03:39:07.297 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Dude Ranch” (1949-1951)
04:03:55.670 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Carpathian Horror” (April 14, 1947) ***WD
04:35:53.455 = Mystery House, “Operation Murder” (August 02, 1946)
05:01:19.202 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.

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In November 1971, John List shot his mother, his wife, and his three children inside their Westfield, New Jersey, mansion, then walked out the next morning and stayed free for nearly 18 years. Criminologists at Birmingham City University later went through three decades of British cases like his and found that most of the men responsible had steady jobs, everything from surgeons to postmen to serving police officers, and few of them had a criminal record.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FamilyAnnihilators

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckhusk6

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Weirdo family member, Katie Jo, tells us that as a child she saw something similar to glitter – but in a very supernatural form! (Sparkles) *** An old man opens up to something that happened to him over six decades ago that he has never told anyone before – something that he says ruined his life. (Something Happened 63 Years Ago) *** A woman in bed is startled awake in the middle of the night when she feels someone pull her arm out from under her head – but she’s the only one in her apartment. (Someone Or Something Moved My Hand) *** Mirrors, mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The more mirrors Lucida had the more she could admire herself.  She even is said to have made a deal with the devil in order to maintain her youthful beauty. (The Creepy Story of Lucida Mansi) *** Village life in Lemont, Illinois was as peaceful as it could be, and the Willmans farm was one of the collection of typical sleepy homesteads in the region. Until the day the demon came. (The Demon of Lemont) *** Chillingly, statistics suggest that a child is more likely to be killed by a parent than by a stranger and in most cases, the killer takes his own life after the act. We’ll look into the disturbing psychology of family annihilators. (The Psychology of Familicide)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:03:27.691 = Show Open
00:05:43.393 = Sparkles
00:07:29.864 = Someone Or Something Moved My Hand
00:10:27.289 = Something Happened 63 Years Ago
00:30:31.899 = The Demon of Lemont ***
00:41:50.983 = The Creepy Story of Lucida Mansi
00:47:07.041 = The Psychology of Familicide, Part 1 ***
01:05:12.385 = The Psychology of Familicide, Part 2 ***
01:15:38.578 = The Psychology of Familicide, Part 3 ***
01:27:53.923 = Show Close
01:29:46.402 = Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Sparkles” by Weirdo family member, Katie Jo
“Someone Or Something Moved My Hand” by Mirandra for Your Ghost Stories: http://bit.ly/37muJPH
“The Creepy Story of Lucida Mansi” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: http://bit.ly/2DgFrcK
“The Demon of Lemont” by Ursula Bielski for Chicago Hauntings: http://bit.ly/2rnR9zG
“The Psychology of Familicide” by Fiona Guy for Crime Traveller: http://bit.ly/2rmEOM2
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