#FIRESIDEFRIGHTS VOLUME 32 #WeirdDarkness
31 August 2024 - 2 hours 17 minsIN THIS EPISODE: This is a Fireside Frights episode where all of the stories are sent in by you, the listeners of Weird Darkness. Plus, in these episodes I strip away all of the music, sound effects, and other fancy audio production… it’s just you, me, this campfire, and your stories. Send in your own true stories at https://weirddarkness.com/submit
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The Budapest Orderly, the Skin Mask, and a Heart in a Jar | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A search of a Budapest apartment turned up skulls, a severed hand, a lower leg, and a heart in a jar — and the hospital orderly who lived there told police he had prepared and eaten human body parts. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BudapestCannibal Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
5 mins
1 July Finished
A Gamer's Fake Amazon Delivery Ended in a Salinas Stabbing | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A man who met a woman through online video gaming flew from Canada to Salinas, hid a set of knives and restraints inside a fake Amazon box, and knocked on her door just before ten at night. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/salinas-amazon-attack Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
4 mins
1 July Finished
The Shared Nightmare: Tell Me Your Dreams | #RetroRadio
A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “You Tell Me Your Dreams” (March 02, 1978) 00:46:35.785 = 2000 Plus, “Alone” (January 15, 1950) 01:17:02.267 = The Unexpected, “Handle With Care” (November 19, 1948) 01:29:00.817 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD 01:43:27.147 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, 1947) 02:13:12.987 = The Weird Circle, “Red Hand” (May 06, 1945) 02:40:35.083 = The Whistler, “Death Marks The Double Cross” (March 12, 1945) 03:04:49.517 = Strange Wills, “Emeralds Come High” (August 24, 1946) ***WD 03:34:32.610 = Witch’s Tale, “Rats In a Trap” (May 16, 1932) 03:57:52.622 = X Minus One, “Reluctant Heroes” (December 19, 1956) 04:26:25.428 = Zero Hour, “White Flame Burning Bright” (May 20, 1974) ***WD 04:43:23.629 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Time Loser” (1957) ***WD 05:07:22.865 = 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. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0702
5 hours 8 mins
1 July Finished
A 55-Gallon Drum, a Ted Bundy Note, and Two Missing Women in Philly | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A roadside stop near Independence Mall led Philadelphia police and the FBI into an Olney basement stacked with chemicals, a 55-gallon drum plumbed into the ground, and an unsigned letter that name-checks Ted Bundy — inside a house tied to two women who vanished years apart. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/horsch Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
8 mins
1 July Finished
Supernatural Sickness, Paranormal Poison | The Link Between Paranormal Activity and Sudden Illness
When the supernatural seeps into our world, it doesn’t just leave behind fear—it can also leave sickness. From shadowy visitors to ominous dreams, some eerie paranormal encounters suggest that the price of witnessing the unknown may be paid in flesh and blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SupernaturalSickness READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hp3ua63c FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: When the supernatural intrudes into our lives, it's not just our minds that are affected. We’ll delve into a few bizarre cases where individuals fell gravely ill after brushes with the paranormal. Is it coincidence? Or something more sinister? And could these illnesses be due to the paranormal literally draining us of life? (Supernaturally Sick, Paranormally Poisoned) *** Helen Duncan made a living from conducting séances—until her uncanny knowledge of classified World War II tragedies spooked British authorities. (Britain’s Last Witch) *** Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher whose ideas about mortality and utility extended beyond death. Bentham's wish for his body to be preserved and displayed as an "auto-icon" – so it could be seen publicly by all. And while his wishes were granted, it came with a few hiccups along the way… mostly with his poor head. (The Strange Story of Mr. Bentham’s Corpse) *** Annie Dorman was discovered lifeless with a gunshot wound, sending shockwaves through her tight-knit community. Suicide seemed improbable, leaving detectives baffled and family perplexed. Was it a crime of passion, an accident, murder… or truly suicide? In a similar case, just a few years later, in the serene countryside of Greenwich, New York, the lifeless form of Maggie Hourigan is found, floating in a tranquil pool, speculation runs rampant. Were these cases suicide, as hastily concluded, horrible accidents… or sinister murders? (The Mysterious Deaths of Annie Dorman and Maggie Hourigan) *** AND MORE! CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:02:11.442 = Show Open 00:04:40.830 = Supernaturally Sick, Paranormally Poisoned 00:21:39.741 = The Mysterious Deaths of Annie Dorman and Maggie Hourigan *** 00:34:55.265 = Britain’s Last Witch *** 00:43:19.651 = The Strange Story of Mr. Bentham’s Corpse 00:54:21.727 = Eccentric Habits of History’s Elite *** 01:04:25.454 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Supernaturally Sick, Paranormally Poisoned” by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/6bu93dju “The Mysterious Deaths of Annie Dorman and Maggie Hourigan” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/meu37k4m; https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y9mn9a4 “The Strange Story of Mr. Bentham’s Corpse” by Melissa Sartore for Weird History:
1 hour 5 mins
1 July Finished
1963: The Year UFOs, Beasts, and Dark Forces Swept Three Continents
A gigantic cigar-shaped craft shadowed a NATO airliner over the Atlantic in 1963, the same year similar motherships appeared over Australia, Canada, and the skies of a Britain overrun by headless creatures and desecrated churches. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/1963DarkForces READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p87kmst FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A “gigantic cigar-shaped UFO” is spotted over the Atlantic in 1963, but the witness is so terrified by her experiences that it takes her twenty years to come forward to tell her story. And in that same year, elsewhere in the United Kingdom, people were dealing with dark, paranormal, even satanic forces - with numerous events that still remain unexplained. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:18.783 = Show Open 00:02:35.157 = The 1963 Atlantic UFO – Part 1 00:16:32.034 = The 1963 Atlantic UFO – Part 2 *** 00:32:15.933 = 1963: Dark Paranormal Forces Invade The UK – Part 1 *** 00:50:26.206 = 1963: Dark Paranormal Forces Invade The UK – Part 2 *** 00:56:44.362 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The 1963 Atlantic UFO Encounter” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/z2j2zp88 “Dark Paranormal Forces Invade The United Kingdom” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p93a79s (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.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: January 05, 2022 This episode of Weird Darkness opens over the north Atlantic in May 1963, where a NATO English-language secretary based in Paris, flying on a near-empty DC-8 carrying fifty staff from Orly Airport to ministerial meetings in Ottawa, looked from her window and saw a dark grey, torpedo-shaped object six to seven thousand feet below the plane — its rear cut off sharply and squarely, with no wings, windows, or visible propulsion — before it vanished into cloud and the aircraft dropped into violent turbulence. Terrified and certain no one else aboard had noticed, she said nothing for almost twenty years, until a 1980 letter to Flying Saucer Review brought the account to light and the magazine published it the following year. The segment threads her sighting into a longer record of cigar-shaped craft: Melvin Vagle Jr. and his wife spotting a windowed object hovering over a plowed field near Grafton, Nebraska on November 22, 1961; Miss Footner tracking a silver, hundred-foot craft over Saanich Mountain near Victoria, British Columbia in early 1960; Reverend Lionel Browning and his wife photographing a...
57 mins
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