#FIRESIDEFRIGHTS VOLUME 32 #WeirdDarkness
30 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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Series Episodes
THE WEAPON: Progress Has No Conscience | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Dr. James Graham is building the ultimate weapon, and on an ordinary quiet evening a small, harmless-looking stranger knocks on his door asking only for a few minutes of conversation — a few minutes readers of Frederic Brown have been unable to shake for seventy years. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-theweapon SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Weapon” by Frederic Brown (from 1951): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6prpd2n WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 18, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
7 mins
18 September Finished
THE FOREVER ALLEY: What Happens To A Bowling Alley After Midnight? | #RetroRadio
There's only one way out of the Forever Alley, a cop was parked in front of it all night, and the man inside still vanished. 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, “The Forever Alley” (October 02, 1978) ***WD 00:47:30.644 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Screaming Skull” (April 01, 1968) ***WD 01:16:44.754 = The Clock, “Death Valley” (February 21, 1956) 01:42:13.284 = Creeps By Night, “Six Who Did Not Die” (July 11, 1944) ***WD 02:09:47.242 = The Crime Club, “Murder Rents a Room” (June 05, 1947) 02:39:56.431 = Crime Classics, “Alsop Family, How It Diminished” (August 24, 1953) 03:09:33.593 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Death Paints a Picture” (October 20, 1946) 03:34:59.577 = Deep Night, “The Intercom” (July 15, 2005) 04:08:57.297 = The Devil and Mr. O, “The fast One / Speed” (January 05, 1943) 04:38:25.599 = Diary of Fate, “Darrel James” (August 10, 1948) ***WD 05:05:37.816 = 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/WDRR0777
5 hours 6 mins
18 September Finished
The Kruger Poacher, The Elephants, And The Buffalo Nobody Mentioned | #WeirdDarkNEWS
SANParks has now confirmed that elephants trampled a suspected poacher in Kruger National Park and that his body was found intact, which is the one detail the version of his death that traveled the world can't survive. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/KrugerPoacher 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. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
14 mins
17 September Finished
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE: The Confession Hoover Denied For Two Years
Six years after seven men were machine-gunned in a Chicago garage, a captured gangster named the killers to the FBI, and J. Edgar Hoover spent two years denying he had ever said a word. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ValentinesDayMassacre READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/faw4hz5n 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 Unsolved St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” by Steve Shukis from Chicago True Crime (link no longer available) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June, 2020 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
1 hour 26 mins
17 September Finished
SIDERS CASE: Mother Of 16 Pleads Not Guilty To 23 Counts, Appears Pregnant | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Elizabeth Siders pleaded not guilty Wednesday to twenty-three counts across two Vinton County indictments, and her attorney declined to say whether the mother of the sixteen children taken from the Ohmer Street house is pregnant again. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260917 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. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
14 mins
17 September Finished
“THE BIRDS” The Short Story That Inspired Hitchcock’s Hit Film | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Few know of the original short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic horror film, “The Birds” - but it’s that story that I’m sharing with you tonight. THE STORY: On December 3rd the wind turns east and winter lands overnight on a Cornish peninsula, where Nat Hocken, a part-time farm worker living on a wartime disability pension, wakes to something tapping at the bedroom window. By dawn there are fifty dead birds on the floor of his children's room, and out in the bay the gulls are massing by the tens of thousands, riding the swells and waiting on the tide. Nat boards his windows and stuffs his chimneys while the wireless carries a Home Office statement, then a national emergency, then nothing at all; he works out that the attacks rise and fall with the flood tide, and measures his family's odds in bread, candles, and kerosene. Evan Hunter's screenplay moved the story to Bodega Bay and built new characters around du Maurier's title, keeping her unexplained attacks and little else. The original ends with Nat lighting the last cigarette in the packet and throwing the empty one on the fire. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-thebirds SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier from the book, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents My Favorites In Suspense”: https://amzn.to/3knkjZ3 WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 17, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
58 mins
17 September Finished
