#FIRESIDEFRIGHTS VOLUME 32 #WeirdDarkness

“Death Spell” – A wealthy man swears his beautiful wife is quietly working a spell to kill him, every doctor insists he's in perfect health, and the struggling artist who moves onto his estate is about to learn what a person's own belief can do to them. 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, “Death Spell” (June 08, 1978) ***WD 00:44:39.155 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of Darkened Face” (September 22, 1946) ***WD 01:09:46.058 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Chest” (January 28, 1972) 01:38:01.666 = Diary of Fate, “John Haynes” (July 13, 1948) ***WD 02:04:38.792 = Dimension X, “And The Moon Be Still As Bright” (September 29, 1950) ***WD 02:34:03.364 = The Eleventh Hour, “Death And Understanding” (ADU) 02:58:52.083 = Escape, “Night In Havana” (October 22, 1949) 03:27:44.423 = Everyman Theater, ‘This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940) ***WD 03:55:00.211 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Gift” (February 08, 1958) 04:13:23.936 = Dark Fantasy, “Sleeping Death” (June 12, 1942) ***WD 04:29:07.558 = BBC Fear on 4, “Dead Man’s Boots” (February 01, 1991) 04:58:16.638 = 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/WDRR0741

A three-year-old girl's imaginary friend turned out to be a real man – one who had been dead for fifteen years before she was born. BOOK: “They Told Me My Newborn Died – They Lied: A Global History of Stolen Babies” by Darren Marlar: https://amzn.to/45fNXpt EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/heidiwyrick READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5a4fwj7t FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Deep in the Balsam Mountains of North Carolina, a shaggy eight-foot creature has been stealing gems and watching women bathe since the early 1900s — and the word used to name him came from a Lewis Carroll poem written the moment after a sleepless night at a dying man's bedside. (The Boojum) *** In 1980, a group of artists in Baltimore took out an ad in a major international magazine — not to sell anything, and not to promote a show. They were sending an invitation. The guests they were hoping to attract just hadn't been born yet. (Krononauts Party) *** A three-year-old girl in rural Georgia started playing with an imaginary friend — and then her family found out he was real, and had been dead for fifteen years. The question that nobody has been able to answer isn't whether she knew him. It's how. (The Heidi Wyrick Haunting) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:23.333 = Show Open 00:03:14.569 = The Heidi Wyrick Haunting, Part 1 00:13:30.069 = The Heidi Wyrick Haunting, Part 2 *** 00:32:01.091 = The Boojum *** 00:53:27.330 = Krononauts Party *** 01:01:57.222 = SONG: “Krononauts Party” by Dark Weirdness (https://weirddarkness.com/music) 01:06:24.212 = 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 Heidi Wyrick Haunting: https://weirddarkness.com/heidi-wyrick/ The Boojum: https://weirddarkness.com/boojum/ Krononauts Party: https://weirddarkness.com/krononauts-party/ (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: August 11, 2026 Weird Darkness moves through three cases this episode: a decade-long haunting in rural Georgia that a university parapsychologist wired with scientific instruments, an eight-foot gem-hoarding creature that Appalachian locals have hunted for over a century, and a 1980 Baltimore art stunt that advertised a party for time travelers.It opens with the Wyrick haunting, which began in March of 1989...

“The Kitchen Table” – A young couple pays a suspiciously low price for a neglected old farmhouse and lovingly begins restoring the home’s long-buried kitchen — never guessing that the house has been waiting a very long time for someone willing to listen to what it needs to say. 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 Undying Heart” (June 05, 1978) 00:45:25.646 = The Black Book, “On Schedule” (February 17, 1952) ***WD 00:59:54.814 = Front Page Drama, “Ghost of the Catacombs” (September 28, 1933) ***WD 01:14:48.366 = Box 13, “The Philanthropist” (January 30, 1949) 01:41:26.286 = Calling All Cars, “The Smashed Windshield” (February 07, 1934) ***WD 02:10:53.679 = Casey, Crime Photographer, “Duke of Skid Row” (September 19, 1946) 02:40:09.682 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Kitchen Table” (May 26, 1967) ***WD 03:06:10.931 = Chet Chetter’s, “Peace To The Frifalites” (1989) 03:33:38.814 = The Clock, “The Double Cross” (June 24, 1956) 03:57:42.053 = The Crime Club, “Epitaph For Lydia” (May 01, 1947) ***WD 04:26:56.841 = Crime Classics, “Final Day of General Ketchum, How He Died” (July 27, 1953) 04:55:59.262 = Calling All Detectives, “Jerry Stumbles Into a Pickpocket Convention” (July 09, 1948) ***Wda 05:01:40.662 = 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/WDRR0740

On a quiet ER night shift, a badly burned stranger in a strange metallic suit is wheeled in, gasps a warning about a catastrophe that's coming, and then vanishes from the gurney — leaving behind a device counting down to a disaster only one nurse knows is on its way. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-sixteenhours SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith Conrad for Auditory Anthology (https://www.auditoryanthology.com) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 11, 2026

What happens when self-declared prophets, alien messengers, and doomsday fanatics build secret empires in plain sight — and convince others to follow them to the end of the world? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cults READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utz5hrfd SOURCES and RESOURCES: New York Post - “Inside Manhattan’s secret ‘cult’”. *** News.com.au - “Congregation for the Light: Inside New York’s ‘cult next door’” *** Sinisterhood Podcast - Episode 16: “Congregation for the Light” *** The Commentator - “The Cult Around the Corner” *** Brooklyn Magazine - “Murray Hill Has A Secret Homophobic Aryan Doomsday Cult” *** https://yucommentator.org/2018/10/cult-stern-35th-the-light *** https://nypost.com/2014/11/02/the-secret-society-cult-that-operates-out-of-murray-hill/ ***https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381978851_Raelism_An_Unconventional_Religious_Pathway_to_Transhumanism*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism *** https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/raelism *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid *** https://www.bota.org/ ***https://www.botaineurope.org/ *** https://articles.skeptics.nz/2023/04/24/builders-of-the-adytum-the-tarot-cards-and-qabalah-in-naenae *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builders_of_the_Adytum *** https://ilovehistory.utah.gov/1847-1904-lds-practice-of-polygamy/ *** https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/fldsprofile.pdf ***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints *** https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai ***https://www.godsdirectcontact.org/spiritualpractice/Master_Ching_Hai.htm *** https://suprememastertv.com/en1/v/211271952624.html *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai *** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai *** https://nypost.com/2018/01/11/the-cult-leader-behind-the-worlds-fast-growing-vegan-chain/ ***