Weird Darkness Records

[Verse]
I woke up this morning, put Psycho on again
Watched it seventeen times, I'll watch it to the end
My shower's got a curtain, I check it every day
Janet Lee didn't make it, but hey, what can I say
[Pre-Chorus]
My friends think I'm crazy, my mom thinks I'm unfeeling
I've got Hitchcock stuff from my floor to my ceiling
[Chorus]
Good eve-en-ing, Good eve-en-ing
The man in the silhouette owns my soul
Good eve-en-ing, Good eve-en-ing
I watched The Birds and I lost all control
Every shadow, every staircase, every wrong man on the run
Alfred Hitchcock ruined me and honestly it’s fun
[Verse]
Rear Window's my bible, I quote it every night
Vertigo gave me vertigo, I felt that was alright
I named my cat Norman, my goldfish is Bates
I try to explain this on all of my first dates
[Pre-Chorus]
They didn't call back, I get it, that's fair
But have they seen Rope?! Does nobody care
[Chorus]
Good eve-en-ing, Good eve-en-ing
The man in the silhouette owns my soul
Good eve-en-ing, Good eve-en-ing
I watched The Birds and I lost all control
Every shadow, every staircase, every wrong man on the run
Alfred Hitchcock ruined me and honestly it's fun
[Bridge]
He did fifty-three films — fifty-three
TV episodes — hundreds — all for free
He put himself in every single one
A little cameo just to say, I'm done
controlling everything you see and hear
creating everything you feel and fear
[Verse 3 ]
I dress up as him every Halloween
My neighbors are tired, you know what I mean
I answer my door going "Good EVe-en-ing" to all
The trick-or-treaters don't come back in the fall
[Chorus]
Good eve-en-ing, Good eve-en-ing
The man in the silhouette owns my soul
Good eve-en-ing, Good eve-en-ing
I watched The Birds and I lost all control
Every shadow, every staircase, every woman who screams
Alfred Hitchcock ruined me, good eve-in-ing and pleasant dreams
Good Eve-en-ing
Good Eve-en-ing
Good Eve-en-ing

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

Anneliese Michel was born September 21st, 1952, in Leiblfing, Bavaria, and raised in a strictly observant Catholic household in Klingenberg am Main. At sixteen she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy; doctors put her on Dilantin, added Aolept for psychotic symptoms in the summer of 1970, and switched her to Tegretol in November of 1973, by which point she was reporting voices, seeing faces during prayer, and being treated for depression. Her family concluded the problem was spiritual rather than medical, and in September of 1975 Bishop Josef Stangl authorized a private exorcism under the Rituale Romanum, carried out by Father Arnold Renz and Father Ernst Alt. The rites ran about ten months and totaled 67 sessions, one or two a week, some lasting as long as four hours, and most of them were captured on audio tape that still circulates today. Anneliese ate almost nothing across that stretch, and she died at home on July 1st, 1976, twenty-three years old, weighing roughly 68 pounds, her knees broken from repeated genuflection. The autopsy gave the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration. In April of 1978 a court in Aschaffenburg convicted both priests and both parents, Josef and Anna Michel, of negligent homicide and gave each of them a six-month suspended sentence, and the German Bishops' Conference afterward required that a physician be involved in any future exorcism. The case reached a wider American audience through the 2005 film "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", which fictionalized it.

ABOUT DARK WEIRDNESS
Dark Weirdness is the pop-punk wing of Weird Darkness Records — turning true crime cases, paranormal encounters, and historical horrors from the Weird Darkness podcast into hook-driven anthems. Expect power chords, sing-along choruses, and the occasional song that has no business being as catchy as it is, given the subject matter.

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

"The Together Place" is a 1940s-style torch ballad inspired by The Together Place, an episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater originally broadcast on August 15, 1977. The story follows a small-town doctor and his retired nurse as they are drawn into the haunting mystery of a young woman who speaks with absolute certainty of a twin sister no one else can see — and a realm she calls Kamaloka, the Together Place, where the dead are never truly alone.

Static Wax from Weird Darkness Retro Radio brings old radio drama back to life through original songs written in the musical style of the era each story takes place in. Every song is a standalone journey into a different time and a different tale.This one takes you to the 1940s — and somewhere just beyond.

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
The Together Place CBS Radio Mystery Theater — written by Elspeth Eric
Dr. Ed Leahy, the sole physician of the small town of Corbett, enlists his retired nurse Mary Mahaffey to help care for two unusual patients: Mrs. Craven, confined to bed with a thrombosis, and her daughter Rose, a withdrawn young woman of mysterious ailment. When Rose casually mentions a twin sister named Lily — a sister no one knew existed — the doctor and nurse are drawn into something far stranger than a routine house call.
Rose is utterly convinced that Lily is real, living in a realm she calls Kamaloka — the Together Place — a world adjoining our own where souls dwell between lives. She shares Lily's headaches, Lily's dreams, and eventually Lily's pregnancy. When Rose announces that Lily is gravely ill and near death, she herself takes to her bed and dies shortly after — her body wasting away as if in sympathy with her unseen twin.
The truth, known only to Dr. Leahy, is that Rose did have a twin. A second child was born the same night, deformed and sickly, who survived only an hour. Rose had carried the memory of that companion in the womb throughout her entire life — and in death, it seems, went searching for her.
With Rose gone, grief pulls Mrs. Craven toward the same fading. It falls to the remarkable Mary Mahaffey to bring her back — not through medicine, but through the philosophy of Paracelsus: faith, cheerful courage, and hope. In the end, Dr. Leahy is left to set the story down on paper, as Mary Mahaffey requested with her dying breath, so that the lives of Rose Craven and her unknown sister would not pass unremembered.

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

I wake up in the morning and it's hard for me to get out of bed
(The dreams are over)
I just look to my side and think of her instead
(My wife and my lover)
Gray skies turned to blue when she said I do
And the sun shone down on her face
She's the other part of me
The happiness that set me free
She's the other part of who I am
She has made my life complete
Her love for me cannot be beat
I’m gonna love her with all of who I am
I'll give all I can
A hard day at work tends to bring me down
(I want to go home)
She calls to say I love you turns a smile from a frown
(Melts my heart of stone)
Can't think of life without my loving wife
I can't wait to see her face
She's the other part of me
The happiness that set me free
She's the other part of who I am
She has made my life complete
Her love for me cannot be beat
I’m gonna love her with all of who I am
I'll give all I can
I'm her biggest fan
Can't think of life without my loving wife
I can't wait to see her face
She's the other part of me
The happiness that set me free
She's the other part of who I am
She has made my life complete
Her love for me cannot be beat
I’m gonna love her with all of who I am
She's the other part of me
She’s the other part of me
She’s the other part of me
She’s the other part of me
The happiness that set me free
She's the other part of who I am
She has made my life complete
Her love for me cannot be beat
I’m gonna love her with all of who I am
She’s the other part of me

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

In the early 1970s, a mother walked into an antique shop and bought her daughter a Raggedy Ann doll for her birthday. Stitched cloth, button eyes, painted smile. The kind of thing you'd hand a child without a second thought.

The daughter's name was Donna. She was twenty-eight, in nursing school, sharing an apartment with her roommate Angie. And the doll — the doll was just a doll. At first.

Until Donna and Angie started coming home to find it… moved.

Sat up where it had been laid down. Standing where it had been sitting. Arms folded one day. Legs crossed the next. In rooms with the doors shut. In positions a stuffed doll cannot hold without falling over — kneeling. Standing on its own.

Then came the notes. Scraps of parchment paper neither woman owned, scrawled in a child's pencil. Help me. Help Lou— Lou being Angie's fiancé, who had recently moved in.

And then one day they came home and found the doll bleeding. A red splotch on the back of its hand. Three drops on its chest.

That's when they called a medium.

The medium told them the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins, who had died on the property years before. Said she liked the women. Said she wanted to stay.

Donna and Angie — and this is the part that always stops me — said yes.

Lou said no. Lou had hated the doll from the start. And not long after the séance, Lou claimed the doll levitated onto his chest in the night and tried to strangle him.

Days later, he was in Donna's room when something invisible knocked him to the floor. When he stood up, there were seven scratches across his chest — four horizontal, three vertical. They looked more like burns than scratches. They healed in two days.

That's when Donna called a priest. The priest called Ed and Lorraine Warren. And the Warrens — the same investigators who walked into the Amityville house — took one look at Annabelle and said: that is not a little girl. That is something pretending to be one.

The Warrens took the doll home. Put her in a glass case in their occult museum in Monroe, Connecticut. Hung a sign: Warning: Positively Do Not Open.

And that should have been the end of it.

It wasn't.

A man came to the museum one afternoon. Stood in front of Annabelle's case. Laughed at her. Taunted her. Dared her to do her worst — through the glass, where she couldn't reach him.

Three hours later, he and his girlfriend wrapped their motorcycle around a tree.

He didn't survive.

And Annabelle — Annabelle is just one of them.

There's Robert, in Key West, given to a little boy by a Haitian servant who'd been fired for practicing voodoo in the family's garden. Robert who whispered back to the boy in a voice that wasn't the boy's own. Robert who neighbors swore they saw scurrying window to window when no one was home.

There's Letta — found under the floorboards of an abandoned house in Australia, like somebody had tried to seal him in. A man named Kerry Walton put him in his trunk to drive home, and on the way Kerry says he heard a voice from the back of the car. Letta me out.

There's Harold, sold on eBay, who reportedly killed two people within six months of arriving at his new owner's home.

There's Peggy — a doll so allegedly malevolent that people who watch her on YouTube report nausea, headaches, hallucinations. Reaching, somehow, through the screen.

And those are just the ones with names…

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

ABOUT DARK WEIRDNESS
Dark Weirdness is the pop-punk wing of Weird Darkness Records — turning true crime cases, paranormal encounters, and historical horrors from the Weird Darkness podcast into hook-driven anthems. Expect power chords, sing-along choruses, and the occasional song that has no business being as catchy as it is, given the subject matter.

VERSE 1
Candy in the van on a summer street
Painted boots and oversized feet
"Come a little closer, kid, I got a treat"
Wheels start spinning down a one-way street
Pogo at the party, bouncing on his knee
Pillar of the neighborhood community
Thirty-three names underneath the floor
Mama, don't you answer that door
PRE-CHORUS
He laughs! He waves! He waits! He takes!
CHORUS
Don't be fooled by the smile. Don't be fooled by the paint.
Don't be fooled by the laugh — A saint is what he ain't.
Don't be fooled by the smile. Don't be fooled by the grin.
What you see is the mask — Hell is found within.
They might appear juvenile,
A playful, inviting style,
But the soul of a crocodile
Don’t be fooled by the smile.
Don't be fooled by the smile.
VERSE 2
Sunday morning, doorbell ring
Flowers, balloons, a Snow White string
Bulb-nose smiling on the welcome mat
Pulled the trigger where Marlene sat
Tunnels under Tamarac, dead rat stink
Steak-knife fingers and a metal clink
Storm drain stalker with a painted face
Got no jurisdiction in the underplace
PRE-CHORUS
He drives! He waits! He grins! He hates!
CHORUS
Don't be fooled by the smile. Don't be fooled by the paint.
Don't be fooled by the laugh — A saint is what he ain't.
Don't be fooled by the smile. Don't be fooled by the grin.
What you see is the mask — Hell is found within.
They might appear juvenile,
A playful, inviting style,
But the soul of a crocodile
Don’t be fooled by the smile.
Don't be fooled by the smile.
BRIDGE
He performs at the hospital
Volunteers at the school
He's got a magic trick,
Kid, wanna learn the rule?
Hands behind your back now
Just a little sleight
Mama'll never find you
After tonight
[guitar solo]
BREAKDOWN
Eighty-one in Boston, ninety-one in the Loop
Ninety-four in D.C., another rotten coop
Two-thousand-sixteen, every state, every town
Halloween was coming — and the clowns were going down
[guitar solo]
FINAL CHORUS
Don't be fooled by the smile. Don't be fooled by the paint.
Don't be fooled by the laugh — A saint is what he ain't.
Don't be fooled by the smile. Don't be fooled by the grin.
What you see is the mask — Hell is found within.
They might appear juvenile,
A playful, inviting style,
But the soul of a crocodile
Don’t be fooled by the smile.
Don't be fooled by the smile.
POST CHORUS
They disappear for a while,
All the cops have them on file
The secrets of the vile,
Don’t be fooled by the smile.
Don’t be fooled by the smile.
Don't be fooled by the smile.

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

Killed for the money she wouldn't hand over, a woman returns from the closet where her killer left her to make sure he never escapes what he's done.

Synopsis
A man refuses to leave a hotel room empty-handed. He asks the woman inside for money; she refuses; he shoots her and hides her body in the closet before slipping past the front desk unseen. Room four-eighteen becomes both his alibi and her grave, marked only by a neon sign glowing outside in the snow. Downstairs, he charms another woman with the same words he once whispered to his victim — not knowing she never truly left the room, and that she intends to make sure he never forgets what he did to her.

Song Description
Inspired by the story, “Room 418” by CBS Radio Mystery Theater from May 09, 1978, as heard in the Weird Darkness Retro Radio episode "Room 418.”
A man kills the woman standing between him and her money, hides her in the closet of a snowbound hotel room, and tries to charm his way into a fresh start with someone new downstairs. But the woman in the closet hasn't gone anywhere — cold, calm, and closer than he thinks, she has one thing to tell him: You Can't Kill Me Twice.
Static Wax takes the stories told on vintage radio broadcasts and reimagines them as era-appropriate songs — the way they might have sounded if they'd been written for the jukebox instead of the airwaves.
Static Wax | Grooves From Shadows Past

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

THE HEARSE SONG
[Verse 1]
Don't ever laugh as a hearse goes by
For you may be the next to die
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
From your head down to your feet
They put you in a big black box
And cover you up with dirt and rocks
And all goes well for about a week
And then your coffin begins to leak
[Chorus]
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pee-knuckle on your snout
They eat your eyes and they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
A big green worm with rolling eyes
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes
Your stomach turns a slimy green
And pus comes out like whipped ice cream
You spread it on a slice of bread
And that's what you eat when you're dead
[Verse 2]
As your body starts to slowly decay
Bits go all puffy like spongy souffle
The bugs and worms all eat on your flesh
A wonderful feast that's tender and fresh
With ravenous hunger those zestily feast
For a hearty meal of the recently deceased
With juicy eyeballs, nice tender lung
When they're finished they'll snack on your tongue
They eat your skull and eat your brain
And drink all the juice that comes from your veins
They feast on your body, they wriggle and squirm
For hungry ones wait to take their turn
[Chorus]
A big green worm with hunger pains
Enters your skull and eats your brains
He invites his family and their friends too
They all come down to chew on you
And this is what it is to die
I hope you had a nice goodbye
[Outro]
Did you ever think as a hearse goes by
That you might be the next to die
Your eyes fall out and your teeth decay
And that is the end of a perfect day

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.

Originally written decades ago during Darren's years as a Christian singer-songwriter, now rebuilt with a harder edge — a blunt indictment of moral compromise dressed up as freedom.

ABOUT THE SONG:
"Satan Rules (Under Satan's Rules)" was first written nearly thirty years ago, back when Darren was pursuing a career as a Christian singer and songwriter. The lyric names — without softening — the self-serving bargains people make while still claiming the name of God: abortion reframed as nothing more than personal choice, ambition that steps on friends on the way up, wealth hoarded while charity sits untouched, morality reshaped to fit whatever the moment wants. The chorus lands the thesis plainly. If we live by the rules Satan sets, we've already chosen the master we serve. This Incorruption release is a full rework of that original song — same lyric, same conviction, rebuilt in a hard rock style with a heavier sound and a harder edge than the acoustic version that sat on a cassette for decades.

ABOUT INCORRUPTION: 
Incorruption is the faith-rooted music project from the creator of Weird Darkness, with a sound in the vein of Nickelback and similar modern hard rock. Most Incorruption songs draw from the same darker territory explored on the podcast — paranormal encounters, true crime, dark history, spiritual warfare — but where Weird Darkness tells the story, Incorruption carries a Christian message underneath. The strange and the sinful get named for what they are, and grace gets the last word.

All Incorruption releases eventually reach streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and most other major services under Weird Darkness Records.

Hear more original music from Weird Darkness Records at https://WeirdDarkness.com/music. Explore hundreds of original songs by Dark Weirdness, Static Wax, Incorruption, Monster Flakes, Maggie Cross, Alena Ingram, and more!

Weird Darkness Records is the music division of the Weird Darkness brand, transforming the show’s strange, dark, true-crime, paranormal, supernatural, and macabre stories into original songs spanning multiple artists and musical styles.

All songs are also available on major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and most other music platforms worldwide.