Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

In Savannah stands a mansion where a betrayed wife leapt to her death and a slave was found hanging days later — but when researchers went looking for her name in the records, they found something they weren't expecting.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A Broken Ship’s Compass, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste” *** “December 5 Is Krampus Nacht” *** “Ghost Hunting at Elgin State Hospital Cemetery” *** “Phil And The Dark Man” *** “The White Smoking Figure That Haunted Me” *** “The Ancient Ram Inn” *** “The Haunted House on the Hudson” *** “Truth or Legend? Wronged Wife, Slave Haunt Savannah’s Sorrel-Weed House”

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
(Most author/source links in this episode have been lost over time, sorry.)
“A Broken Ship’s Compass, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste” written by Troy Taylor (from the book “Cabinet of Curiosities 2”): https://amzn.to/2HTfoea
“December 5 Is Krampus Nacht” written by Troy Taylor (from his e-newsletter): (link no longer available)
“Ghost Hunting at Elgin State Hospital Cemetery” by Randy Lee Beasley: https://www.facebook.com/PepperScarPro
“Phil And The Dark Man” submitted by Luigi Bonanno (link no longer available)
“The White Smoking Figure That Haunted Me” submitted by Ronnie Shawitz: (link no longer available)
“The Ancient Ram Inn” written by Alan Toner (From the book “100 True Ghost Stories”): http://a.co/1vmAx7R
“The Haunted House on the Hudson” written by Xavier Ortega: (link no longer available)
“Truth or Legend? Wronged Wife, Slave Haunt Savannah’s Sorrel-Weed House”: (link no longer available)
(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: January 18, 2018

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



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“Silent Shock”: She rented the house for the view — for the ageless, indifferent sea outside every window, for the poems she planned to write, for the phone calls to the men she used to love. But the housekeeper wasn't a housekeeper. The groundsman wasn't a groundsman. The little pink pills weren't vitamins. And somewhere out past the fog, a great white ship was drifting closer to shore… carrying the one man she'd been waiting fifteen years to kill. | #RetroRadio EP0638

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Silent Shock” (September 07, 1977)
00:45:58.247 = Everyman’s Theater, “Cat Wife’ (October 18, 1940)
01:14:57.244 = Murder By Experts, “The Big Money” (July 25, 1949)
01:44:22.965 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Secret That Cannot Be Cracked” (April 23, 1958)
02:04:00.956 = Faces in The Window, “Black Cat” (November 22, 1952) ***WD
02:27:40.978 = Dark Fantasy, “Superstition Be Hanged” (March 13, 1942)
02:51:54.169 = BBC Fear on 4, “Snowman Killing” (January 03, 1988)
03:20:34.628 = Five Minute Mysteries, “Murder Under Tent” (mid 1940s)
03:25:28.740 = Future Tense, “A Pail of Air” (May 20, 1974) ***WD
03:52:41.177 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “Black Stockings and Broken Mirrors” (April 08, 1992)
04:36:22.865 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Legal Rites” (May 15, 1982)
05:04:21.055 = Show Close

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(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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“The Six Who Did Not Die”: Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does. | #RetroRadio EP0637

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Waiting Room” (September 05, 1977)
00:45:54.440 = Creeps By Night, “Six Who Did Not Die” (July 11, 1944) ***WD
01:13:28.398 = The Crime Club, “Cowhide” (October 02, 1947)
01:42:49.458 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Sam hardy Makes a Bet With Death” (December 15, 1946)
02:07:46.457 = CBC Deep Night, “Bonehouse” (August 12, 2005)
02:40:56.361 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Big Mr. Little” (November 12, 1971) ***WD
03:09:13.902 = Diary of Fate, “Peter Drake” (February 23, 1948) ***WD
03:38:40.669 = Dimension X, “The Man In The Moon” (July 14, 1950) ***WD
04:08:22.837 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Man Who Talked With Death” (December 12, 1944) ***WD
04:20:55.067 = The Eleventh Hour, “Actor”
04:47:27.492 = Escape, “Confidential Agent” (April 02, 1949)
05:16:54.125 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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Three children with pitch-black eyes tap on a bedroom window at two in the morning, a statue of the Virgin Mary holds a thief in a grip so tight the villagers have to amputate his arm, something ten feet tall tears open a tent on the slopes of Ben Macdui, and more stories – including fiction and non-fiction!

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:00:45.032 = Let Us In (Non-Fiction)
00:03:49.868 = The Dead Arm’s Warning (Non-Fiction)
00:05:55.529 = The Highland Grey Man (Non-Fiction)
00:13:22.912 = The Village Outside of Time (Non-Fiction) ***
00:17:51.530 = The Blessed Statue (Non-Fiction)
00:22:44.752 = The Fibber Tree (Fiction)
00:29:37.650 = Roanoke (Fiction) ***
00:42:13.659 = The Oneirophage (Fiction)
00:46:00.501 = Show Close
00:47:22.493 = SONG: Dark Weirdness, “Flee The Eyes As Black As Night”

*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
(Sorry – source links to most of the stories in this episode have been lost since originally uploaded in 2018.)
(FICTION) “The Fibber Tree” submitted by Christine Baerbock
(FICTION) “Roanoke” submitted by Derek Hawke: http://bit.ly/2GO9sD9
(FICTION) “The Oneirophage” by S.W. Rice (from the book “Of Wonders Beyond Thule”): https://amzn.to/2Lgkd3B
(NONFICTION) “Let Us In” (The BEK Strike In Arkansas) submitted by Barry Roberts: (link no longer available)
(NONFICTION) “The Dead Arm’s Warning” (The Statue of Virgin Mary That Caught a Thief) by G. Michael Vasey: (link no longer available)
(NONFICTION) “The Highlands Grey Man” used by permission from MessageToEagle: (link no longer available)
(NONFICTION) “The Village Outside of Time” used by permission from MessageToEagle: http://ow.ly/kFnU306aSRa
(NONFICTION) “The Blessed Statue” by Randy Lee Beasley: https://www.facebook.com/PepperScarPro
(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: June 16, 2018

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




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In 1921, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was turned to ashes in one of the deadliest and most deliberately buried acts of racial violence in American history.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs… until late May and early June of 1921. Then a brutal race riot took place in thissuburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Which is tragically ironic, watching the news and seeing what is happening all over the USA today. You could almost think that nothing has changed. We’ll look at what happened in Greenwood, Oklahoma over 100 years ago.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
BOOK: “Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District” by Hannibal Johnson: https://amzn.to/2ABwQ69
“The Greenwood Race Massacre” from Alexis Clark: https://tinyurl.com/qkb6cs7, and the editors at History.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxpzw2cc
(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: June 02, 2020

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

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A wake in Veracruz became a coffin-side cage match the moment two mourners realized the guest of honor had been dating both of them at once.

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#WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

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An English archaeologist talks a terrified French sacristan out of a priceless medieval scrapbook for pocket change — and finds out that night why the old man was so eager to sell. | #RetroRadio EP0636

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Olive Darling and Morton Dear” (September 02, 1977) ***WD
00:46:14.207 = Appointment With Fear, “The Pit And The Pendulum” (September 18, 1943) ***WD
01:13:21.641 = BBC Radio 4/7 Ghost Story, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook” (December 29, 1997)
01:27:31.568 = Beyond The Green Door, “Edward Morse, Deep Sea Fishing, and Rats” (1966)
01:31:14.101 = The Black Book, “My Favorite Corpse” (February 24, 1952) ***WD
01:45:41.440 = The Avenger, “The Ghost Murder” (January 13, 1946)
02:15:40.001 = Box 13, “Damsel In Distress” (November 14, 1948)
02:42:26.663 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Champagne Safari” (April 28, 1967)
03:51:55.215 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Interface To Terror” (1990-1992) ***WD
04:19:42.714 = The Clock, “Aunt Emmy” (November 15, 1955)
04:46:39.145 = Show Close

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(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 January 2000, something massive drifted through the night sky over southwestern Illinois – so big and strange that a handful of small-town cops, watching from different locations, tracked it in real time over their radios, completely baffled by what they were seeing.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The strange sighting of a UFO in the year 2000 still has people looking to the skies of southwestern Illinois. *** “Frankenstein” Author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart for thirty years! *** If you’ve ever wanted to play a game of catch with a ghost boy, race a phantom Camaro, or encounter a mythological beast, Clinton Road in New Jersey should be your next destination. *** In Malawi vampires attack people and suck blood from them. This is not lore or scary story-telling… it’s happening now. *** Imagine a coin rolling past you in a long hallway – yet you are completely alone in the building. *** For years, mysterious lights of Dover have puzzled observers – and it has been happening for centuries.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:04:40.051 = Show Open
00:06:32.182 = Frankenstein Author Mary Shelly Kept Her Dead Husband’s Heart
00:10:58.940 = Clinton Road: Take a Terrifying Drive Down America’s Most Haunted Roadway
00:15:49.891 = Malawi Vampires
00:20:06.777 = Coins and Guitar Picks
00:24:47.649 = Mysterious Lights of Dover ***
00:28:05.675 = The 2000 UFO Invasion of Illinois
00:43:41.181 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Something Is Up There – The 2000 UFO Invasion of Illinois”: https://tinyurl.com/wvafyps
“Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Kept Her Dead Husband’s Heart for 30 Years”: https://tinyurl.com/uygjtvg
“Clinton Road: Take a Terrifying Drive Down America's Most Haunted Roadway”: https://tinyurl.com/w734whf
“Malawi Vampires”: https://tinyurl.com/wzrexro
“Mysterious Lights of Dover”: https://tinyurl.com/uxrvyd8
“Coins And Guitar Picks”: https://tinyurl.com/uv2axne
(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 12, 2018

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

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“Physician Of The Dead”: A scientist in revolutionary Paris believed the severed head keeps thinking after the blade falls, and the night he finally proved it was the night he learned whose voice was waiting in the sack. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0635

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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 Reunion” (August 31, 1977)
00:45:50.285 = The Unexpected, “Masterpiece” (September 26, 1948)
00:57:56.320 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Indian Fakir” (February 17, 1944) ***WD
01:11:34.960 = Nick Carter, “Death After Dark” (February 19, 1944) ***WD
01:40:50.656 = Dark Venture, “Eclipse” (August 07, 1945)
02:10:36.663 = The Weird Circle, “Pistol Shot” (March 18, 1945)
02:38:01.228 = The Whistler, “Murder Has a Signature” (January 15, 1945) ***WD
03:09:43.726 = Witch’s Tale, “Physician Of The Dead” (November 08, 1934) ***WD
03:38:45.995 = X-Minus One, “Soldier Boy” (October 17, 1956)
04:06:38.672 = Zero Hour, “The Housecall” (May 09, 1974) ***WD
04:23:53.977 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
04:47:55.048 = Strange Adventure, “South Of The Border” (1945) ***WD
04:51:10.640 = Show Close

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(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 the remote Canadian wilderness, an ill-fated hunting trip turns into a nightmare when one of the guides vanishes into the night, leaving behind only his screams of burning feet and a trail of something far more terrifying than any beast of the forest.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” which I’ve placed a link to in the show notes. The story involves a hunting party that gets separated in the Canadian wilderness in search for moose. One of the party members is abducted by the legendary Wendigo. Fellow author Robert Aickman once said of the story, it’s "...one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Here’s hoping you agree with him.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:15.563 = Show Open
00:04:17.046 = A Brief Look At The Author
00:07:16.864 = The Wendigo, Part 1 ***
00:22:35.406 = The Wendigo, Part 2 ***
00:48:02.466 = The Wendigo, Part 3 ***
01:08:43.646 = The Wendigo, Part 4 ***
01:32:56.432 = The Wendigo, Part 5 ***
01:53:58.350 = The Wendigo, Part 6 ***
02:00:27.263 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n8bff63y
(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: April 09, 2020

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

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