Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

An 11-year veteran of the St. Charles County Police Department spent four dollars in quarters at a bowling alley arcade to coax a little girl out of a claw machine she had climbed into for the toys.

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Alexis Nelson sent her mother a Happy Mother's Day message in May 2025, and then her phone went silent for six months before anyone in her family realized something was wrong.

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Sean Parnell says the next batch of UAP files is "actively being processed for publication" — one day after the president posted an AI-generated image of himself perp-walking a gray.

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A personal favorite of mine! A Pentagon colonel, a doll shop that wasn't there yesterday, and a six-inch toy with a voice like a knife — one of the most quietly sinister half-hours ever broadcast on Dimension X, and it ends on a smile you will not forget. 

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Last Train Out” (November 01, 1977) ***WD
00:46:18.302 = Diary of Fate, “Paul Reese” (March 23, 1948) ***WD
01:14:19.632 = Dimension X, “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls” (August 04, 1950) ***WD
01:43:22.573 = Strange Dr. Weird, “Tiger Cat” (January 02, 1945)
01:54:40.306 = Eleventh Hour, “Bitter Bit” (1960s-early 1970’s)
02:20:04.917 = Escape, “The Great Impersonation” (April 23, 1949) ***WD
02:49:24.987 = Murder By Experts, “Summer Heat” (June 13, 1949) ***WD
03:18:53.110 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Time Heals” (May 14, 1958)
03:42:20.118 = Dark Fantasy, “Thing From The Darkness” (April 03, 1942)
04:06:04.413 = BBC Fear on 4, “Soul Searching” (March 26, 1989)
04:35:10.202 = Future Tense, “Zero Hour” (May 23, 1974) ***WD
04:53:45.205 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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A soldier in a secret monster-hunting regiment is sent into a luxury hotel to track down a shapeshifter that has already murdered a guest — but as bodies pile up and the creature wears the faces of his own comrades, he begins to suspect this hunt was set in motion long before he arrived, and that he is the one being hunted.


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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“A Story From The BlackGuard” (http://bit.ly/32nvKU5) written by Justin Reinarz (https://www.justinreinarz.com)

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Originally aired: March 2018

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A flame-haired woman alone at the edge of town, the lies of two small girls who put her on the gallows, and a cycle that the village square could not bury — told in the slow blues register Crossroads Haint reserves for the wrongs that won't stay down.

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An old country inn, a coven beneath the cellar, and a slow folk-blues ballad in the Animals mold built around the kind of haunting that doesn't end the way the man holding the candle expects.

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A circus march dressed in red velvet and brass, sung by a barker who is selling something far worse than dolls — and a chorus of tiny voices that know exactly what he means.

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A New York con artist conspires to fake walking through 1,330-degree coals and rob an island of its golden god — but old gods have long memories.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Trial By Fire” (October 31, 1977)
00:47:09.400 = Box 13, “Look Pleasant, Please” (December 05, 1948)
01:14:02.409 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Sight Unseen” (November, 1967) ***WD
01:42:43.444 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Escape From The Mysterious Island, Part 1” (1990-92)
02:10:47.728 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Escape From The Mysterious Island, Part 2” (1990-92)
02:38:26.813 = The Clock, “The Helping Hand” (November 29, 1955)
03:02:46.744 = The Crime Club, “Death Blew Out a Match” (December 02, 1946)
03:32:43.447 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Death Tunes 790 Kilocycles” (January 12, 1947)
03:57:46.689 = CBC Deep Night, “The Intercom” (July 15, 2005)
04:31:44.409 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Hole” (December 03, 1971)
04:57:30.756 = Show Close

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A homeless woman regularly slept against the back wall of a Las Vegas rehab center until one night when a nearby microphone captured a scream and sixty-one loud thuds.

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