Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Scientists discovered that sharks near the Bahamas are absorbing cocaine, caffeine, and painkillers from polluted waters — and the sharks appear to be handling their drug problem significantly better than the tourism industry that caused it.

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YouScientists insist the Joro spider is harmless, shy, and beneficial — which is exactly what someone would say right before it moved into your garage.

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“Elmer Versus The Mutant Rats”: When a small-town manure hauler's quiet vacation gets interrupted by rats the size of chihuahuas, it turns out that's just the beginning — because something much, much bigger is living underneath the entire town. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0611

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater “Dead Men Do Tell Tales” (June 30, 1977) ***WD
00:45:41.626 = Strange Adventure, “The Diamond of Destiny” (1945)
00:48:58.380 = Appointment With Fear, “My Fate Cries Out” (December 04, 1976) ***WD
01:16:33.310 = BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 7 / Ghost Story, “The Mistletoe Bride” (December 25, 2006)
01:30:48.350 = Beyond The Green Door, “Travis Takes Poison” (1966) ***WD
01:34:53.578 = Box 13, “The Great Torino” (October 24, 1948)
02:01:33.996 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Elmers Versus The Mutant Rats” (1991-1992) ***WD
02:27:06.706 = The Clock, “The Story of Mr. Littlefield” (October 25, 1955)
02:51:11.356 = Creeps By Night, “Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan” (July 13, 1944)
03:20:41.850 = The Crime Club, “Sometimes a Sucker Wins” (September 04, 1947)
03:51:16.686 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of the Whirling Mirrors” (November 25, 1946)
04:15:51.390 = CBC Deep Night, “Man Radio” (July 29, 2005)
04:49:48.592 = 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.

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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From a woman whose pacemaker simply fell out to a man who arrived at the emergency room with a golf club through his arm, real doctors, nurses, and first responders share the jaw-dropping, one-in-a-million cases that left even the most seasoned medical professionals struggling to explain what they were seeing.

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IN THIS EPISODE: Watch any amount of television and you know that first responders see some pretty messed up stuff. Those who work in the medical field see the worst of it – especially those who work as EMTs or those in emergency rooms. We’ll look at just a handful of cases that had even those battle-hardened medical workers taking a step back wondering how this case ended up on the gurney or table in front of them!



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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
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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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Originally aired: September 08, 2021

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: #WeirdDarkness 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 things strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold cases, conspiracy theories, and more. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “20 Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a blend of “Coast to Coast AM”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Unsolved Mysteries”, and “In Search Of”.DISCLAIMER: 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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A college student's obsession with the Mandela Effect takes a deeply personal turn when he realizes his best friend, his mother, and every piece of evidence all agree on one thing — a girl he remembers perfectly simply never existed.

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IN THIS EPISODE: I’m pulling an old Creepypasta Thursday episode off the shelves and dusting it off for you. It’s a story by D.D. Howard called “The Girl The Universe Forgot”.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Girl The Universe Forgot” by D.D. Howard: https://tinyurl.com/t4d2adf
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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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Originally aired: December 26, 2019

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: #WeirdDarkness 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 things strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold cases, conspiracy theories, and more. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “20 Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a blend of “Coast to Coast AM”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Unsolved Mysteries”, and “In Search Of”.DISCLAIMER: 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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Within months of Trump ordering the full declassification of all government UFO files, five American scientists and researchers with documented ties to classified programs have died, vanished, or been found dead.

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Doctors said she had no chance, her husband began the funeral preparations, and then a pothole on an Indian highway changed everything — or, as doctors later explained, maybe it changed nothing at all.

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“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury | In a future where everyone stays indoors and stares at screens, one man's simple evening walk is enough to get him arrested. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0610

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” (June 28, 1977) ***WD
00:46:35.629 = Theater Five, “Body Without Crime” (November 04, 1964)
01:05:47.446 = CBC Theater 1030, “The Pedestrian” (1968-1971) ***WD
01:31:31.156 = Tales From The Tomb, “The Girl of His Dreams” (1960s)
01:35:05.037 = 2000 Plus, “When Worlds Met” (May 03, 1950) ***WD
02:04:07.178 = The Unexpected, “The Tulip Garden” (March 02, 1948)
02:18:54.089 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Mystery of the Zombie” (1936) ***WD
02:33:24.475 = The Weird Circle, “Mysterious Bride” (July 06, 1943)
03:00:53.414 = The Whistler, “The Christmas Bonus” (December 25, 1944)
03:30:19.709 = Witch’s Tale, “Puzzle” (September 07, 1934)
03:54:56.612 = X Minus 1, “The Map Makers” (September 26, 1956)
04:23:37.913 = Zero Hour, “Escape To Nowhere” (May 07, 1974)
04:41:57.015 = ABC Mystery Time, “My Adventure in Norfolk” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
05:05:57.538 = 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.

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.


"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 ©2026, Weird Darkness.


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The website is fighting back. The good news — the problems are partly due to high traffic, which means you people keep showing up and I appreciate that more than I can say. The bad news — bots and spiders are crashing the party. Between server overloads, bot invasions, and what may or may not be an actual spider problem, Weird Darkness is running at reduced capacity this week. Morning episodes and Retro Radio are on hold while I get everything moved to better servers. Regular episodes will post when possible, and Weird DarkNEWS will pop up in short bursts as the admin dashboard cooperates. Thanks for your patience — and if you're looking for me in the meantime, I'll be updating my Tiddlywinks resume.

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When Alison Conklin woke up with a stranger's heart beating in her chest, she also woke up with a stranger's appetite — a lifelong meat eater who suddenly couldn't stomach the thought of it, along with memories of songs she'd never heard and moments she'd never lived. She's not alone. Nearly 90 percent of transplant recipients in one study reported personality changes after surgery — new food cravings, unfamiliar emotions, even fragments of someone else's life bleeding into their own.

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IN THIS EPISODE: On a Saturday night in 1948, Boston cab driver Samuel Paris was shot in the back of the head by a passenger — and investigators believe he knew it was coming, because in his final seconds he quietly slid his wristwatch up his sleeve to hide it, then deliberately crashed his cab into a parked car to make sure someone would see the man who killed him. The killer walked away. The meter was still running when police arrived. It's never been solved. (The Unexplained Mystery and Unsolved Murder of a 1948 Taxi Driver) *** Most people assume UFOs mean alien visitors, but researchers are uncovering evidence that points to possibilities far stranger — from classified black projects and reverse-engineered Nazi technology to time travelers, interdimensional beings, and ancient civilizations that predate recorded history. The answer to what's really in our skies may not come from the stars at all, but from somewhere much closer to home. (What If UFOs Aren’t From Space) *** Scientists have discovered that humans possess a previously unknown ability to sense objects buried in sand before physically touching them — a skill previously observed only in shorebirds like sandpipers. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London tested volunteers who were asked to drag a finger through sand to locate a hidden cube, and found they succeeded far more often than random chance would predict. Even more impressive, human participants outperformed a sophisticated robotic arm equipped with AI, achieving 70.7% accuracy compared to the robot's 40%. (The Hidden Seventh Sense In Humans) *** A heart transplant saved Alison Conklin's life — but it also gave her someone else's memories, someone else's favorite songs, and someone else's stomach, because the moment she woke up from surgery, she could no longer eat meat. Scientists call it cellular memory, the theory that organs carry traces of their donors into new bodies, and the evidence is harder to dismiss than mainstream medicine would like to admit. (Transplanted Organs, Transplanted Memories)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:01.108 = Show Open
00:04:12.291 = Transplanted Heart, Transplanted Memories
00:27:41.647 = What If UFOs Aren’t From Space ***
00:43:59.434 = Humans’ Hidden Seventh Sense ***
00:52:50.487 = The Unexplained Mystery & Murder of a 1948 Taxi Driver, Part 1 ***
01:11:27.567 = The Unexplained Mystery & Murder of a 1948 Taxi Driver, Part 2 ***
01:21:30.333 = Show Close

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Church of the Undead, “Scientists Can't Explain Why Transplant Patients Inherit Their Donor's Personalities”:https://youtu.be/QVZaj89xdfA
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Human’s Hidden Seventh Sense: https://weirddarkness.com/seventh-sense/
The Unexplained Mystery and Unsolved Murder of a 1948 Taxi Driver: https://weirddarkness.com/1948-taxi-murder/=====
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EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DonorHeartDonorMemories
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: #WeirdDarkness 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 things strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold cases, conspiracy theories, and more. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “20 Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a blend of “Coast to Coast AM”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Unsolved Mysteries”, and “In Search Of”.DISCLAIMER: Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.



More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.