Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

When Elaine begins seeing a hulking shape that only appears in darkness and dissolves the instant a light comes on, an aging scholar of the supernatural warns her fiancé that something ancient has marked her — and is methodically removing everyone standing between it and her.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Whirlwind” (September 23, 1977)
00:45:38.236 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “History Of A Mug” (August 09, 1945) ***WD
01:14:43.988 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Shadow People” (September 21, 1953) ***WD
01:39:00.254 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Mists of Memory” (May 22, 1982)
02:05:59.803 = The Haunting Hour, “Old Old Man” (April 07, 1945) ***WD
02:30:49.195 = Hermit’s Cave, “It Happened On Sunday” (1940) ***WD
02:54:04.404 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Death is 1 3” (December 31, 1947)
03:21:36.414 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Elusive Emerald” (December 14, 1946)
03:50:53.749 = The House of Mystery, “The Ghost Who Forgot Halloween” (October 27, 1945) ***WD
04:22:15.259 = Incredible But True, “Heads Up” (1950-1951)
04:25:51.553 = Inner Sanctum, “Death Across The Board” (June 06, 1943) ***WD
04:54:26.682 = 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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When a reclusive miser turns up dead with an axe to the head, his family's buried secrets and bitter rivalries start spilling out, and no one walks away clean.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/CharlesHenry

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Ebeneezer Scrooge had nothing on a man named Charles Henry. Charles was miserly, and cruel. No doubt he had a long list of people who could’ve been accused of wanting him dead. *** When it comes to B-movie horror, you can’t do much better than the 1958 classic “The Blob”. But don’t believe it’s just science fiction – reports have been coming for years of people in real life actually coming across some type of amorphous creatures very similar to what was originally seen on the big screen. *** The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, Annabelle, and many other books and films have been based on Ed and Lorraine Warren and the stories they tell. But it appears they may not be as advertised. If fact, they’ve been shown to be fraudulent on more than one occasion. *** Whether or not you believe in curses, luck, or fate it may be hard to explain away some of the eerie items people have had in their keeping, only to get rid of them as quickly as possible for fear of suffering more calamities. *** A woman describes her home as a child as evil – even on sunny days, the gloom would overtake her. *** In an old cemetery in North Carolina, a young girl is buried – but not in a coffin as you might expect. She was buried while submerged in a keg of rum.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:18.836 = Show Open
00:03:38.797 = Miser Henry’s Murder
00:10:39.439 = Unlucky Possessions
00:27:00.103 = My Haunted Childhood Home ***
00:29:29.674 = The Blobs
00:41:55.110 = The Rum Keg Girl
00:47:07.349 = When The Warrens Were Exposed As Frauds ***
01:14:48.146 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Miser Henry’s Murder” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdhek2cw
“Unlucky Possessions” by T.C. Bridges for Haunted Ohio Books: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck36nt7
“My Haunted Childhood Home” by Marie Davis, posted at MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc8cbkwm
“The Blobs” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2wu24zca
“The Rum Keg Girl” posted at North Carolina Ghosts: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/27ssnbh8
“Were The Warrens Exposed as Frauds?” by Christopher Shultz at Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8tyrhr
(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: November, 2018

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A filling station on a lonesome stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an old man paying with colonial gold, a red-haired traveler asking directions to a town nobody has heard of, and a hitchhiker who has been waiting a hundred and eighty years for a ride.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Plan” (September 22, 1977)
00:45:54.201 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “White Pearls of Terror” (December 19, 1944) ***WD
00:57:33.290 = The Eleventh Hour, “Agent” (1941-1946)
01:19:17.165 = Escape, “When The Man Comes, Follow Him” (April 09, 1949)
01:48:43.375 = Murder By Experts, “Dig Your Own Grave” (August 15, 1949)
02:18:39.103 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Cold Equations (The Stowaway)” (April 30, 1958) ***WD
02:36:18.577 = Faces In The Window, “Lightning Rod Man” (January 17, 1953) ***WD (LQ)
02:59:58.903 = Dark Fantasy, “Pennsylvania Turnpike” (March 20, 1942)
03:26:58.808 = BBC Fear on 4, “Green and Pleasant” (1990)
03:55:36.858 = Future Tense, “The Old Die Rich” (May 21, 1974) ***WD
04:24:30.858 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “The Boat Hook” (April 15, 1992)
05:07:58.359 = 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 silent clown stands at the front door clutching old photographs of Dad — and what Mom doesn’t know yet is that there’s another one waiting in the kitchen.

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Twenty-five years after their daughter vanished in Washington, Susan and Bob Levy now say Chandra's curiosity about UFOs — and Congressman Gary Condit's classified work on them — may explain what really happened to her in Rock Creek Park.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/levyufo

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Originally aired: May 01, 2026

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When journalist Carter follows the trail of a notorious supernatural vigilante, he uncovers a city on the brink, a war in the shadows, and a truth more dangerous than he ever imagined.

IN THIS EPISODE: Tonight I’m actually bringing you three separate stories, but they are part of a single series titled “The Supernatural Vigilante Association”. It’s a dark story, very well written, and has an interesting noir feel to it that I would not have expected for creepypasta about anti-heroes with superpowers. The author goes by the pen name “Wound Licker”, and I’ve got a link to his Facebook page in the show description, as well as links to the three individual stories used for this episode. 

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Voodoo Priestess, Part 1”
00:03:00.742 = Show Open
00:03:59.720 = “Voodoo Priestess, Part 2”
00:40:02.499 = “The Mentalist, Part 1”
00:51:25.657 = “The Mentalist, Part 2”
01:22:03.145 = “Time Traveller”
02:13:43.459 = Show Close

SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
Episode Page at WeirdDarkness.com: https://weirddarkness.com/SVA
“Supernatural Vigilante Association: Voodoo Priestess” by WoundLicker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8samnj
“Supernatural Vigilante Association: The Mentalist” by WoundLicker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n9x6wyx
“Supernatural Vigilante Association: Time Traveller” by WoundLicker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3jv69m9z
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(Over time links seen above 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 07, 2024

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A 33-year-old employee at Japan's Asahiyama Zoo admitted to investigators that he carried his wife's body into the facility and ran her through the incinerator built for dead animals.

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A Washington mother was found dead in her home in 1992, her toddler beside her — and for 33 years, the case went nowhere.

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A gunman walked to a Skid Row corner in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday night, told three people standing there that this was where he did business, and opened fire before fleeing on foot.

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A self-styled prophet sits headless at his own desk, his wife and four children butchered in the rooms above, and a basement chapel filled with altars and tagged offerings that no church ever blessed. The Ravenmill police call in a private eye with a taste for the strange — and the only honest witness left in the house is a single bloody fingerprint on the brass. 


EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-headlessprophet/

THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: On July 3, 1929, real estate agent Vincent Elias arrived at the home of Benny Evangelista on Saint Aubin Street in Detroit and found a scene that would baffle investigators for decades. Evangelista — a self-proclaimed Divine Prophet who sold spells, hexes, and spiritual cures from a basement chapel filled with papier-mâché planets and a crude altar — sat decapitated at his desk, his head arranged on the floor among framed post-mortem photographs of his deceased son. Upstairs, his wife Santina and their four children, ages 18 months to seven years, had been slaughtered in their beds with an ax. Police pursued three theories: extortion letters from the fading Black Hand criminal network; a tenant named Umberto Tecchio who had visited the night before and whose barn yielded a suspiciously clean ax and banana knife; and Evangelista's old occult partner Aurelius Angelino, who had murdered his own children with an ax in 1919 and escaped from a Pennsylvania asylum for the criminally insane in 1923, never to be seen again. A bloody fingerprint on the front doorknob was the only physical evidence preserved at the scene, and it never matched any suspect. The case was eventually shelved as cold and remains officially unsolved nearly a century later. The Evangelista house was demolished years ago, but locals still speak of disembodied screams and a headless figure walking the empty lot.

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Originally aired: May 1, 2026

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