#FIRESIDEFRIGHTS VOLUME 32 #WeirdDarkness

A mail carrier finds a mailbox taped shut and a note on the front door that says "9-1-1 Inside". In Spain, a woman lifts the lid of her late mother's chest freezer and finds a newborn inside. A hunter in Ghana points his gun at a coffin sitting above ground in a cemetery and threatens to shoot whoever's in it. Trick-or-treaters in San Diego bring home gummies printed with the words "psilocybin mushrooms". And a woman wanted for murder since 2009 calls the DMV to ask why her driver's license won't renew. EXPANDED STORIES & SOURCES: https://weirddarkness.com/mount-holly-911-note-baby-freezer-weird-darknews WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

In the sleet of a Cincinnati November in 1880, a grave robber collapses in the grave he’s digging, wide awake and unable to move, and his partner can’t find a pulse. SOURCES and RESOURCES: “A Resurrectionist’s Last Delivery” by Darren Marlar, https://link.amazon/B0gU1J6fa WeirdDarkness® | Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness | Midnight In The Macabre™ More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

In May 1973, Judy Doraty pulled over outside Houston to watch a strange light in the sky, and years later, under hypnosis, she described a cow lifted into a chamber aboard a craft and worked on by two small beings while she watched. From Colorado's San Luis Valley to a stretch of Welsh mountains nicknamed the sheep mutilation corridor, UFO reports and dead livestock share the same ground, and when a Texas man's sheep turned up mutilated in 2013, the sheriff said, "This was too clean to be an animal." From the book “CONNECTIVE TISSUE: How Cattle Mutilations Link Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, Mind Control, And The Men In Black” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/ConnectiveTissue WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: November 09, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTS19Z1 More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

Li Shizhen, a 16th-century Chinese apothecary, wrote of aged holy men in Arabia who ate nothing but honey until they died, then lay sealed in honey for a century to become a sugary remedy for broken bones. In Europe, King Charles II of England drank powdered human skull in alcohol, and the poor paid for cups of still-warm blood at executions. READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrd72v94 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Of all the instances of cannibalism found in human history, no one quite practiced it like some in China used to. In these cases, cannibalism came in the form of eating mellified flesh for medicinal purposes. In 16th century China, mellification was a way for elderly people nearing the end of their lives to donate their body to science. The idea, originally derived from an Arabic recipe, was that they could turn their bodies into medicine that would be ingested by their descendants to alleviate ailments like broken bones. The process of mellification was a gruesome one. In short, it consisted of very slowly turning one’s body into a mummified human candy bar. And that’s not even the worst part — for mellification to be the most effective, the process started while the person was still alive. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:10.417 = Show Open 00:02:28.924 = And Mellified Man For Dessert 00:04:27.887 = Honey, I’m Dead 00:09:57.010 = Sugar-Glazed Grandpa 00:16:02.121 = Better Health Through Cannibalism 00:27:31.137 = Self-Mummification 00:30:39.753 = Corpse Medicine 00:39:58.915 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break SOURCES and RESOURCES: “And Mellified Man for Dessert” by Katie Serena: https://tinyurl.com/rjwv5cw “Honey, I’m Dead” by Paul Salopek: https://tinyurl.com/wz23h9d “Sugar-Glazed Grandpa” by Brent Swancer: https://tinyurl.com/w2mqzyp “Self-Mummification” from Stranger Remains: https://tinyurl.com/w795gxp “Better Health Through Cannibalism” by Natalie Zarrelli: https://tinyurl.com/tsqhqbl “Corpse Medicine” by Maria Dolan: https://tinyurl.com/y6spcbcb (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. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* EPISODE SYNOPSIS: This episode of Weird Darkness covers the legend of the mellified man, a 4,300-year-old Bronze Age tomb in Georgia filled with honey-cured offerings, the self-mummifying Buddhist monks of Japan, and the centuries Europeans spent swallowing powdered skull, human fat, and fresh blood as medicine. It opens with mellification, in which an elderly volunteer ate and bathed in nothing but honey until death, then lay in a stone coffin of honey for up to a century before the remains were sold at market to treat wounds...

On a domed colony on Neptune in the year 2120, a young man who wants to stop thinking, hands his living body over to a doctor, and the doctor's wife can't understand why she's now carrying pounds of baby food up to a laboratory she isn't allowed to enter. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Permanent Man” (April 09, 1979) ***WD 00:46:03.374 = Witch’s Tale, “Troth of Death” (May 29, 1933) 01:10:27.352 = X Minus 1, “Protection” (March 20, 1957) 01:33:38.134 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Time Loser” (1957) ***WD 01:58:35.807 = Appointment With Fear, “The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD 02:25:18.270 = Arch Oboloer’s Plays, “Mirage” (September 06, 1945) 02:55:41.718 = Barrie Craig, “The Deadly Fight” (January 23, 1952) 03:26:15.448 = Ghost Story, “A Recluse” (December 2010) 03:55:45.497 = Night Beat, “Flight From Fear” (July 31, 1952) 04:25:15.731 = The Man In Black, “The Price of the Head” (February 02, 1952) ***WD 04:40:53.651 = Box 13, “Mexican Maze” (April 10, 1949) 05:07:21.336 = 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. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.