Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A burning object crashes near a remote mining site, sparking an international investigation into what fell from the crowded skies above.


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A NASA supercomputer has determined when our planet becomes a lifeless wasteland, and the specificity is somehow more disturbing than the news itself.

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A gender reveal party, hospital photos, and a newborn named Bonnie Leigh – everything seemed real until someone walked into the wrong room.


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Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and wants nothing more than to be smart. When scientists offer him an experimental surgery that has already transformed a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius, Charlie sees his chance—but becoming intelligent means finally understanding the cruel truth about the world around him.

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IN THIS EPISODE: The short story by Daniel Keyes, “Flowers for Algernon” became so popular it was later turned into a full novel, and then eventually made its way to movie screens. The short story was written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and was so loved that it won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.

SOURCES:
BOOK: “The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964”, https://amzn.to/3SePNlh
=====(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.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: October 12, 2023
EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FlowersForAlgernon
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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In the moonlit shadows of Haiti, a young bride falls victim to a jealous curse. Three months after her wedding, Helen Strong is dead... or is she? When her husband discovers her grave has been opened and the casket stolen, he follows a terrifying trail into the sugarcane fields—where he finds his wife among the living dead, working mindlessly alongside other zombies. | #RetroRadio EP0538

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Don’t Die Without Me” (January 13, 1977)
00:46:42.587 = Theater Five, “Sacrifice” (October 23, 1964)
01:08:31.567 = 2000 Plus, “Robot Killer” (August 30, 1950) ***WD (LQ)
01:36:58.635 = The Unexpected “The Mink Coat” (1948)
01:51:32.819 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Mystery of the Zombie” (1936) ***WD
02:06:57.426 = Dark Venture, “Ten Dollar Bill” (August 14, 1945)
02:35:55.289 = The Weird Circle, “Doll” (December 24, 1944)
03:03:20.455 = The Whistler, “Beloved Fraud” (October 30, 1944) ***WD
03:32:57.147 = Witch’s Tale, “Devil Mask” (June 13, 1935) ***WD
03:58:51.591 = X Minus One, “Bad Medicine” (July 10, 1956)
04:26:44.423 = ABC Mystery Time, “The Tale” (1956-1957)
04:50:12.157 = Strange Adventure, “Revenge is Sweet” (1945) ***WD
04:53:29.361 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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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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WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.
= = = = =#ParanormalRadio #ScienceFiction #OldTimeRadio #OTR #OTRHorror #ClassicRadioShows #HorrorRadioShows #VintageRadioDramas #WeirdDarkness
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Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they discover a terrifying secret: the “statues” in the exhibit aren’t statues at all — they’re actually dead people substituted in for the displays. | #RetroRadio EP0537

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Tobin’s Palm” (January 12, 1977)
00:47:00.611 = Max Haines Mystery, “Arthur Gusy” (mid 1940s)
01:10:51.128 = Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, “Ye Old Sun Inn” (1930) ***WD
01:11:51.228 = Sam Spade, “The Spanish Prisoner Caper” (March 09, 1951)
01:40:20.851 = The Sealed Book, “Queen of Cats” (June 24, 1945)
02:10:44.510 = The Shadow, “Carnival of Death” (November 10, 1940)
02:34:36.266 = Sleep No More, “Thus I Refute Beelzy” and “The Bookshop” (March 06, 1957) ***WD
03:04:01.421 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “Doppelganger” (January 01, 1977)
03:29:05.856 = Strange Wills, “Singapore Liz” (November 02, 1946)
03:59:38.670 = Strange, “Flying Dutchman” (1955) ***WD
04:12:36.423 = Suspense, “Cabin B-13” (November 09, 1943) ***WD
04:41:41.265 = Tales of the Frightened, “Mirror of Death” (November 27, 1957)
04:46:36.256 = The Saint, “Shipboard Mystery” (March 11, 1951) ***WD
05:14:25.104 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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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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WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.
= = = = =#ParanormalRadio #ScienceFiction #OldTimeRadio #OTR #OTRHorror #ClassicRadioShows #HorrorRadioShows #VintageRadioDramas #WeirdDarkness
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A man who described Donald Trump being shot in the ear months before it happened has a new vision, and this one involves lights in the sky.

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Professional athletes would rather sleep in an Airbnb than risk another night in baseball’s most infamous haunted hotel.

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A young husband's life becomes a nightmare when his devoted wife begins trying to kill him in moments she can't remember—and the only clue is a strange ring she can no longer remove.

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IN THIS EPISODE: A classic horror story from 1934 written by American writer Robert E. Howard!

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Haunter of the Ring” by Robert E. Howard: http://bit.ly/2XeR3Ze=====(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.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: September, 2020
EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HaunterOfTheRing
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.

A man plagued by catalepsy lives in constant terror of the one fate worse than death itself—being buried alive—until the night his worst nightmare becomes reality.

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IN THIS EPISODE: “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe was originally published in “The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper” in 1844.
SOURCE:“The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe: https://poestories.com/read/premature=====(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.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: October, 2020
EPISODE PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/PrematureBurialPoe
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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