Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Before she leaves for the night shift, Kim's mother asks her for one thing: spend less time on the phone. Alone in their new apartment, Kim keeps scrolling anyway, even after she sees a shadow standing behind her in the bathroom mirror. Then someone starts knocking, and a new comment on her feed says, "Look at me."
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Look at Me” by Tristan Nieto, https://www.instagram.com/intellectualismmmm/
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“The Glass Bubble”: Doris has lived since she was a baby in a room eight feet square and white from floor to ceiling, and from her bed there she knew the family cat lay dead on Oak Street and watched her father walk into a great white light the moment he died.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Glass Bubble” (April 23, 1979) ***WD
00:46:01.276 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Murder Bound” (1945-1951)
01:11:06.647 = Sherlock Holmes, “Remarkable Affair Of The Pointless Robbery” (May 05, 1947)
01:41:51.095 = Mystery House, “Death Is An Accident” (1944-1946)
02:08:23.393 = Inner Sanctum, “Musical Score” (May 29, 1945)
02:38:51.326 = Jeff Regan, “The Man Who Fought Back” (November 27, 1948)
03:08:05.821 = The Key, “The Ghost” (1956) ***WD(LQ)
03:33:55.413 = Lights Out, “Death Robbery” (July 16, 1947) ***WD
04:04:01.799 = Philip Marlowe, “Bedside Manners” (May 30, 1950)
04:35:25.323 = Let George Do It, “Graystone Ghost” (March 24, 1952)
05:05:23.795 = 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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Japanese urban legend says a woman cut in half by a train drags herself through the stations on her hands at up to 93 miles an hour, and the first sign she's close is the scraping sound her name comes from, teke teke.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yzsydr6v

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In Japanese folklore there lurks a vengeful spirit known as Teke Teke, her upper body dragging along at impossible speeds with a chilling "teke teke" sound. If you hear her approach, run fast and be kind to others, for her wrath falls upon the cruel - and those who are unlucky enough to cross her path may find themselves torn in two, joining her in death. (The Terrifying Tale of Teke Teke) *** Strange occurrences took place in 1955 on a property near Mayanup, West Australia. Bill and Ethel Hack witnessed a series of inexplicable phenomena which Ethel meticulously recorded. From eerie whistling sounds and stones falling from the sky to strange lights and violent disturbances, Ethel’s detailed written account reveals the chaos and fear that gripped their property, affecting both the Hacks and their aboriginal workers. Despite numerous investigations, the mystery of the Mayanup poltergeist remains unresolved, captivating paranormal enthusiasts and researchers to this day. (The Mayanup Australia Entity) *** In June 1977, Portuguese Air Force pilot Jose Francisco Rodrigues encountered a mysterious UFO over the Castelo de Bode Dam, leading to a near-fatal dive and unexplained aircraft malfunctions. Despite numerous witnesses and a thorough investigation, the incident remains an unsolved incident. (The 1977 Near Miss With a UFO In Portugal) *** Just three days after Christmas in 1978, Bob Young and his girlfriend Elizabeth Andes were preparing to move out of their shared apartment in Oxford, Ohio. When Bob returned to help with the final cleanup, he found their apartment dark and silent. Inside, he discovered Elizabeth's lifeless body, brutally murdered in their bedroom, sparking a horrific mystery that would haunt the small college town for decades – and put Bob Young in the crosshairs of local law enforcement. (The Shocking Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes) *** Everybody has heard of teleportation, alien abductions and poltergeists, but without the pioneering work of Charles Fort, it’s unlikely any of these phenomena would have entered public consciousness. (The Godfather of the Bizarre)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = “Three Days After Hearing Her Name, I Heard The Scraping” (fiction short story)
00:03:07.895 = Show Open
00:06:07.317 = The Terrifying Tale of Teke Teke
00:15:41.905 = “No Radar, No Warning, Just Me And the Object” (historical fiction short story) ***
00:18:41.820 = The 1977 Near Miss With a UFO In Portugal
00:33:01.249 = The Shocking Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes ***
00:39:50.538 = The Godfather Of The Bizarre (Charles Fort)
00:48:59.236 = The Mayanup Australia Entity
01:09:57.406 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Godfather of the Bizarre” by Harry Pearson at The-Line-Up.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2mv9sw3y (used with permission)
BOOK: “The Book of the Damned” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4cKnT7K
BOOK: “Lo!” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4bzhNpG
BOOK: “Wild Talents” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4bCPRBl
BOOK: “New Lands” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/3zA5a07
BOOK (All Titles Above Combined): “The Fortean Collection” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4cAm6Ck
“The 1977 Near Miss With a UFO In Portugal” source: Marcus Lowth at UFOInsight.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89z6hd
“The Shocking Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes” by Orrin Grey at The-Line-Up.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mm2cbm3 (used with permission)
“The Terrifying Tale of Teke Teke” source: Kylie Talamentez at ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8adts8
“The Mayanup Australia Entity” source: The Fortean: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4aam6p99
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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness runs from Teke Teke, the legless ghost of Japan's train stations, to a pilot's close call with a UFO over Portugal, an unsolved murder in a small Ohio college town, the writer called the father of the paranormal, and a stone-throwing poltergeist in Western Australia.
It opens with the Japanese urban legend of Teke Teke, a woman cut in half by a train who drags herself on clawed hands at up to 93 miles an hour, and the two stories of how she died, one about an office worker in postwar Muroran and one about a bullied schoolgirl and a Shinkansen bullet train.
From there, it's June 17th, 1977, over Portugal's Castelo de Bode Dam, where Air Force pilot José Francisco Rodrigues found a dark, round object hovering 20 feet in front of his plane. Once it shot away, his compass spun and his plane nosedived toward the treetops, while workers at the dam noticed a sudden drop in pressure and energy.
Next comes Oxford, Ohio, where on December 28th, 1978, Elizabeth Andes was found strangled and stabbed with her own sewing shears, and police quickly settled on her boyfriend, Bob Young. They pressured Bob into a confession he recanted right away, and juries sided with him in both the murder trial and the family's civil suit, while other leads, including a man who handed Bob a pincushion drizzled in something red, weren't pursued.
After that, the episode turns to Charles Fort, the Albany-born writer who filled shoeboxes with nearly 60,000 notes on fish, frogs, and blood falling from the sky, then published them in The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, and won H.P. Lovecraft as an early admirer.
The episode closes in 1955 near Mayanup, Western Australia, on Bill and Ethel Hack's property, where stones fell on the roof of Aboriginal worker Gilbert Smith's home and a low, mournful whistle sounded in the dark. Ethel wrote it all down, including the winter afternoon she watched a stone take shape out of a clear sky and drop onto a roof.

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In the American Midwest around 1700, a tribe with no name hides in the snow-covered wilderness, though its rituals carry for miles. One night a girl who's just old enough to begin her training slips out of the village, and when her father calls for her at the edge of the woods, she walks out with her head bowed to hide her face.
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “An Unknown Tribe” by Adam Banks
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A tall young woman who seems to be made of gold, whose written plea says she's never been able to speak, steps up for the Messenger Lawrence's healing touch in front of thousands of his followers and shoots him dead.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Golden Girl” (April 18, 1979) ***WD
00:47:02.591 = Fear on 4, “A Day At The Dentist’s” (March 13, 1988) ***WD
01:17:02.686 = Theater Five, “Congratulations, Mr. Mayor” (December 08, 1964)
01:39:07.873 = Future Tense, “A Pail Of Air” (May 20, 1974) ***WD
02:07:16.613 = Big Town, “Fatal Joke” (March 01, 1949) ***WD
02:37:42.310 = Hall of Fantasy, “Marquis Of Death” (June 22, 1953)
03:02:15.072 = Harry Lime, “Third Woman” (December 07, 1951) ***WD
03:28:24.487 = Haunted, Tales Of The Supernatural, “Which One” (September 20, 1980)
03:56:14.174 = Haunting Hour, “Skyscraper Mystery” (September 22, 1945)
04:23:06.515 = Haunting Women, “The Linen Mill” (October 31, 2011)
04:38:07.308 = Hermit’s Cave, “It Happened On Sunday” (1940) ***WD
05:01:21.832 = 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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On a brightly lit stage in a London public hall in 1934, a young scientist wearing a device he called the Electro-Helmet stepped into an open-front cabinet, reached up to press two contacts above his head with both hands, and signaled for the switch to be thrown.
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycknf3jm
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From human invisibility to amazing demonstrations of levitation, we’ll look at strange devices, weird experiments and impossible observations that, if true, challenge conventional scientific knowledge. (Mad Scientists and Impossible Experiments) *** Strange things are often reported in the Nevada desert – but the last few months, sightings and experiences near Area 51 have exploded. What’s going on there? And what happens if you decide to climb the fence to get in? (Dead Aliens and Reverse Technology) *** Reports of strange humanoids resembling the legendary “Springheel’d Jack” came out of Argentina in the early two-thousands, from 2004-2007, and that was just one of several improbable para-human creatures that were reported. (The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:42.319 = Show Open
00:02:19.148 = Mad Scientists And Impossible Experiments
00:12:29.972 = Dead Aliens and Reverse Technology ***
00:34:44.210 = The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack ***
00:42:38.979 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Mad Scientists and Impossible Experiments” by Stephan Wagner: (link no longer available)
“Dead Aliens and Reverse Technology” by Sean Casteel for Spectralvision: https://tinyurl.com/somsy9e
“The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack” by Scott Corrales and Christián Quintero for Inexplicata:https://tinyurl.com/2d59ywx
(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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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness runs from mad scientists and their impossible experiments to dead aliens and whistleblowers at Area 51, then to a small Argentine town where reports of a leaping figure recalled the legend of Spring-Heeled Jack.
It opens in a London public hall in 1934, where a young scientist wearing what he called an Electro-Helmet stepped into a cabinet and, as the story goes, faded away from the feet up while spectators could still reach in and touch him. Semi-retired materials engineer Dr. S.P. Faile says ordinary objects around his home turned partly transparent in 1997 and 1998, and inventor John Worrell Keely is said to have shown John Jacob Astor a model solar system that floated off its ring, then carried Astor around the room when he grabbed one of its spheres.
From there, the episode turns to Area 51 and Timothy Green Beckley's book Area 51: Warning! Keep Out!, which ranges from a military policeman who reportedly fired five rounds into a four-foot gray being at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, in January 1978, to physicist Bob Lazar's claim of nine flying saucers in the hangars at S-4 and Don Siedenburg's account of living on nothing but "The Serum" for 21 days at Edwards Air Force Base in 1954. A BBC crew that walked past the Area 51 boundary in 2012 says guards forced them face-down at gunpoint, and the crew left with a $600 fine.
The episode closes in Calchín, a town of about 2,000 in Argentina's Córdoba Province, where in August 2010 residents reported a tall, thin figure in a balaclava banging on doors at night and leaping more than two meters in the air, a figure the local press called the hopping phantom. Residents who went after it came upon someone kneeling before a bonfire ringed with candles, and the figure took off running at incredible speed. A trucker 25 kilometers south of town told Cadena 3 radio that a figure dressed all in black appeared in front of his truck and hopped alongside the road.

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Ryan Corbus goes to sleep in his own bed and wakes up in a blue jumpsuit behind a wall of frosted glass, where an old man in red tells him the ship has been orbiting Earth since the planet was made, and that it's time for Ryan's transition.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Night Skyes” written by Danny Kennedy, https://www.instagram.com/MirielKanan/

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On August 14th, 2005, the Davidson family found two circles of flattened pea plants in their field near Aneroid, Saskatchewan, and four days later, eighteen miles away, one of the brothers came across a dead bull calf the family said was missing an ear and an eye, its tongue pulled out through its throat. Michigan biophysicist W.C. Levengood spent years testing plants from crop circles, and when he tested grass from cattle mutilation sites in New Mexico, Kansas and Colorado, he reported finding the same kind of cellular damage.

From the book “CONNECTIVE TISSUE: How Cattle Mutilations Link Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, Mind Control, And The Men In Black” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/ConnectiveTissue

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Originally aired: November 11, 2026

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A search party in South Carolina comes across a patch of freshly disturbed ground in the woods and starts to dig. Police officers in Wales ask a man where his mother is, and he tells them she's alive and staying with relatives in London. Police in Arizona say a couple measured beds and furniture to cover a man's body by the side of a desert road. After brain surgery, a man starts seeing his cat's eyes on the faces of the people he meets. And a family in northern Italy says it came up on a figure dressed as Pennywise, standing in the middle of a dark road.
EXPANDED STORIES & SOURCES:
https://weirddarkness.com/baby-buried-in-dog-crate-mother-freezer-weird-darknews
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Strangers in dozens of countries now meet over tea and cake to talk openly about dying, and in New Zealand, retirees gather every week to build and paint the coffins they'll one day be buried in.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8tmdrd

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Have you heard of the “Death Positive” movement? Would you visit a Death Cafe? Would you join a Coffin Club? Why the sudden positive twist on what is typically so morbid? What’s so great about death? (Discourse At The Death Diner) *** When it comes to homes, the ghosts go bump in the night. When it comes to automobiles, do they go honk in the night? (Cursed Cars and Haunted Hoopties) *** Airline pilots in the UK are reporting strange objects in the sky. Not just one pilot, but several. And not just one UFO, but many. And the sightings were close. Very close. So close that they are being described as “near misses”. (Airliners Almost Crash Into UFOs) *** In today’s world, parents often worry about whether their kids are eating healthy and getting a good education, and in the case of long car trips, whether the children have their phones fully charged. It’s tough being a modern parent, but at least you don’t have to worry like Europeans did about your spawn being snatched by fairies. (Child Snatching Fairies) *** Two men go out for a weekend of elk hunting – and come back with the story of a creature so strange they don’t know what to call it. (Close Encounter at Pot Mountain) *** At a downtown Chicago church, people are turning up in droves – not for the preaching or the powerful worship band – but to see a painting of the Virgin Mary, crying real tears. (The Crying Madonna)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:02:23.730 = Discourse At The Death Diner
00:08:43.721 = Cursed Cars And Haunted Hoopies
00:19:56.590 = Airliners Almost Crash Into UFOs ***
00:32:23.263 = Child-Snatching Fairies
00:39:18.693 = Close Encounters on Pot Mountain ***
00:45:36.275 = The Crying Madonna
00:48:48.583 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Discourse At The Death Diner” by Marilyn A. Mendoza Ph.D. for Psychology Today: https://tinyurl.com/vd6ober
“Cursed Cars and Haunted Hoopties” by Erin Marquis for AutoBlog: https://tinyurl.com/r35gcjc
“Airliners Almost Crash Into UFOs” from The Bolton News: https://tinyurl.com/vsn8rer
“Child Snatching Fairies” by Tristan Shaw from Bizarre And Grotesque: https://tinyurl.com/u84989q
“Close Encounter at Pot Mountain” by Staci Matlock for the Santa Fe New Mexican: https://tinyurl.com/soo5l6z
“The Crying Madonna” by Cate Cauguiran for ABC7 Chicago: https://tinyurl.com/v4cv4sg
(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.)
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness moves from Death Cafes and Coffin Clubs to cursed cars, near misses between airliners and unknown objects over Britain, changelings left by fairies, a vanishing structure on a New Mexico mountain, and a weeping icon of the Virgin Mary in Chicago.It opens with the Death Positive Movement, from the first Death Cafe, started in London in 2011 by Jon Underwood so strangers could talk about dying over tea and cake, to the Coffin Clubs of New Zealand, where older adults meet each week to build and decorate their own coffins, along with green burials, end-of-life doulas, and the WeCroak app that sends five reminders of death a day.
From there, the episode turns to cars said to be cursed or haunted: the Graf & Stift limousine in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in 1914, a wrecked Vauxhall Astra found in 2002 off Surrey's A3 after callers reported headlights veering off the road, a Renault Megane in Cape Town that witnesses say started itself in 2004, John F. Kennedy's limousine SS-100-X at the Henry Ford Museum, and James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder, Little Bastard.
Next come reports to the UK Airprox Board of aircraft nearly colliding with unidentified objects, including a lit object that passed between three and ten feet from an Embraer 175 approaching Glasgow Airport on December 30th, 2018, with former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope arguing that many cases blamed on drones should be logged as unknown.
As late as the second half of the 1800s, European courts were still hearing cases of children abused or killed as changelings, the sickly stand-ins parents believed fairies had left in place of their own babies, and the episode traces that belief through the accounts George Waldron collected on the Isle of Man for his 1726 book A Description of the Isle of Man.
After that, Santa Fe County bow hunters Josh Brinkley and Daniel Lucero describe what they saw while hunting elk on Cerro de la Olla, or Pot Mountain, northwest of Taos, New Mexico: two tall hooded figures at the rim of a caldera, and the next day a white tent-like structure 50 to 60 feet tall that vanished in the five seconds they lost sight of it.
The episode closes in Chicago in 2019 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the oldest Greek Orthodox church in the Midwest, where worshippers saw an oil-like substance streaming from the eyes of an icon of the Virgin Mary as a bankruptcy court approved the sale of the church for $2.5 million.

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