#FIRESIDEFRIGHTS VOLUME 32 #WeirdDarkness

A man whose hunger has never once been satisfied agrees to babysit for six hours… but the food runs out in two hours. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ImAGlutton SOURCES and RESOURCES:  “I’m a Glutton” by R. A. Brewster: https://www.creepypasta.com/im-a-glutton/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 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

Across the country there are roads where the locals will tell you not to drive alone at night, because something out there takes an interest in the cars that pass. ========== HOUR ONE: A Malaysian Haunted House To Sell *** The brutal death of an African slave brings a curse upon the wooden chest he was ordered to construct. (The Conjure Chest) *** 
In Tuscaloosa, Alabama there is a home built by slaves that is considered the most haunted in Alabama. (The Haunting of Drish House) *** Drivers are reporting strange, ghostly orbs following them on dark roads. (Haunted Roads and Spook Lights) ========== HOUR TWO: More than a hundred years ago, reports described it as “the most weird and gruesome apartment in the world.” Why display an entire room full of grotesque items and open it to the public? (New York Charnel House) *** Kell’s Irish Pub in Seattle has a creepy vibe to it, even if the displays and decorations inside aren’t meant to be. Perhaps that’s because the building started its life as a massive mortuary. (The Beaux Arts Butterworth Building) *** Early one February morning in 1897, John Mars jumped out of bed from a sound sleep, and while the smell of breakfast cooking downstairs wafted up to the second level of the house, he inexplicably grabbed his pistol and went on a shooting spree of his own family. (The Act of a Mad Man) *** A four-year-old has a paranormal experience… and the man he grew into over 60 years later is still unsure of what happened to him. (The Lady Laughing In My Bedroom) ========== SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: Dang Tan Ngoc is a well-known conman who has used the names of multiple dead soldiers to con veteran groups into giving him money. One identity he stole created a fascinating but dark story. (The Strange Return Of Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson) *** A woman comes home to find her visiting sister murdered – and police were convinced she was the one who committed the crime. So what went wrong with the case to allow her to get away with it? (Did Ida Do It?) *** A bordello, pizza, and a haunting. You can find them all at the Red Onion Saloon. (Red Onion Saloon) *** Plus, I’ll share two Creepypastas from Weirdo family members. “A Brief History of Egberting” from Louise Latham, and “Dreamality“ from Kara Raisch. ========== SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW: “The Lady Laughing In My Bedroom” by Geof James: https://tinyurl.com/yd4uddnx “New York Charnel House” posted at: https://tinyurl.com/ybsfs68x “The Beaux Arts Butterworth Building” by Meg van Huygen: https://tinyurl.com/y7h2mkyr “The Act of a Madman” by Robert Wilhelm: https://tinyurl.com/y9757b7d “A Malaysian Haunted House to Sell” by Brandon Grimes for Paranormality Magazine: http://weirddarkness.com/magazine “The Conjure Chest” for The Unexplained Mysteries: https://tinyurl.com/m9w2ffg “The Haunting of Drish House” by Amanda Penn for Horror Media: https://tinyurl.com/y8bovtwp “Haunted Roads and Spook Lights” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/ydfwg875 “The Strange Return Of Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson” by Derek Faraci for The 13th Floor: (site no longer exists) “Did Ida Do It?” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight:

The ancients didn’t just fear death — they weaponized it, leaving behind curses in hieroglyphics meant to haunt anyone brave enough to look. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CursesCarvedInStone READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3cfn27cp FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: They say grief lingers in the house where children were murdered… but so does something colder, crueler — and far more dangerous. (The Horror of Waupun, Wisconsin) *** In the haunted heart of Edinburgh, there’s a pub where the drinks are strong and the screams are stronger. (The Spirits of Banshee Labyrinth) *** The last person to see Virginia alive passed a polygraph — but his wife said he didn’t come home until hours later. (The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter) *** Asteroids, alien civilizations, even cosmic plagues — the real terror isn’t what we can see in the sky… it’s what we can’t. (Space Threats to Earth) *** It started with flirtation, turned into an affair, and ended with a gunshot echoing through the cold night air in a Walgreen’s parking lot. (Three Shots In The Night) *** They carved their warnings into stone 4,000 years ago — and now, after centuries of silence, the hieroglyphic curses of the dead are being read aloud once again. But in doing so, are we inviting doom and destruction? (Hieroglyphic Curses) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Short Fictional Story, “Breath of Anubis” 00:11:21.779 = Show Open 00:13:18.068 = Hieroglyphic Curses 00:25:27.966 = The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter *** 00:32:11.146 = Space Threats To Earth 00:36:45.704 = Spirits of the Banshee Labyrinth 00:42:07.498 = Three Shots In The Night *** 00:47:55.685 = Horror of Waupun, Wisconsin 00:58:32.140 = 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: Haunted Rockford YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedRockfordEvents BOOK: “Dark Skies” by Daniel Deudney: https://amzn.to/3XFWUF6 Fictional story at the beginning of this episode, “Breath of Anubis” by ChatterGhost “Space Threats to Earth”: https://anomalien.com/threats-from-outer-space-might-be-fueling-conspiracy-theories/ “Three Shots In The Night”: https://the-line-up.com/murder-of-emmett-corrigan “Hieroglyphic Curses”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40000520,https://ng.opera.news/ng/en/culture/6aaa5bcd19c53ffa60ffc337d5742fce, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ancient-egypt-tomb-saqqara-priest-16826821, https://www.rom.on.ca/en/learning/activities-resources/online-activities/ancient-egypt/religion/tomb-inscriptions-curses, https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/tomb-curses-ancient-egypt-magical-incantations-dead-003228, https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/08/06/debunking-the-curse-of-the-pharaohs/, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Execration-Texts, https://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-saqqara-tombs-mummy-curses-2020-11, https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-curse-of-the-curse-of-the-pharaoh,https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2017/06/23/ancient-egyptian-tomb-warnings-curses-and-ghosts/,https://listverse.com/2023/06/08/10-creepy-curses-hidden-in-hieroglyphics “The Horror of Waupun, Wisconsin: https://www.hauntedrockford.com/shadows-of-a-murder/ “Spirits of the Banshee Labyrinth”: https://moonmausoleum.com/haunted-spirits-at-the-banshee-labyrinth-pub/ “The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdzcaez9 (Over time links may become invalid, disappear,...

In a fog-bound London mansion emptied of its furniture and its servants, a young man lives alone beneath a wax-sealed black door at the top of the stairs that his father's instructions forbid him to open until his twenty-first birthday. 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 Black Door” (June 23, 1978) ***WD 00:46:40.716 = Hollywood Mystery Time, “Murder By Coincidence” (August 19, 1945) ***WD 01:16:35.766 = Sam Spade, “The Bail Bond Caper” (June 27, 1948) ***WD 01:48:13.618 = The Sealed Book, “I’ll Die Laughing” (May 27, 1945) 02:17:42.604 = The Shadow, “The Juggernaut” (December 26, 1943) ***WD 02:46:11.413 = Sleep No More, “Passengers To Bali” (April 10, 1957) ***WD 03:13:40.831 = BBC Spine Chillers’ Fresh Blood, “Absolute Silence” (March 28, 2006) 03:27:38.003 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD 03:42:10.420 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Two Faces of Death” (March 13, 1945) ***WD 03:54:15.205 = Suspense, “Marvelous Barastro” (April 13, 1944) 04:23:48.161 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953) 04:53:42.470 = Incredible But True, “Mr. Watt’s Awakening” (1950-1951) 04:57:14.439 = 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/WDRR0746

Nothing will grow in his fields — but the old man next door drives home at midnight with his headlights off, and whatever he unloads makes his crops thrive. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-fertilizer SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Fertilizer” by RehnWriter: https://www.creepypasta.com/fertilizer/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 16, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS has new 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