“HISTORY’S MOST VIOLENT GHOSTS” and More Terrifying True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
25 September 2024 - 1 hour 23 minsWeird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version with all artwork created for the YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3a67n5y5
IN THIS EPISODE: Many ghost stories are frightening but leave the person encountering them shaken, but no more worse for wear. Perhaps a light touch on the shoulder, the moving of an object, a whisper in the ear, or a cold chill for the more intense cases. But then there are those hauntings that leave the person hysterical… or physically hurt… or even dead. We’ll look at some of the most violent ghosts and hauntings of...
THE GOLDEN GIRL: The Assassin Who Hasn't Been Born Yet | #RetroRadio
A tall young woman who seems to be made of gold, whose written plea says she's never been able to speak, steps up for the Messenger Lawrence's healing touch in front of thousands of his followers and shoots him dead. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Golden Girl” (April 18, 1979) ***WD 00:47:02.591 = Fear on 4, “A Day At The Dentist’s” (March 13, 1988) ***WD 01:17:02.686 = Theater Five, “Congratulations, Mr. Mayor” (December 08, 1964) 01:39:07.873 = Future Tense, “A Pail Of Air” (May 20, 1974) ***WD 02:07:16.613 = Big Town, “Fatal Joke” (March 01, 1949) ***WD 02:37:42.310 = Hall of Fantasy, “Marquis Of Death” (June 22, 1953) 03:02:15.072 = Harry Lime, “Third Woman” (December 07, 1951) ***WD 03:28:24.487 = Haunted, Tales Of The Supernatural, “Which One” (September 20, 1980) 03:56:14.174 = Haunting Hour, “Skyscraper Mystery” (September 22, 1945) 04:23:06.515 = Haunting Women, “The Linen Mill” (October 31, 2011) 04:38:07.308 = Hermit’s Cave, “It Happened On Sunday” (1940) ***WD 05:01:21.832 = 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.
5 hours 2 mins
13 November Finished
THE INVISIBLE MAN OF 1934: Mad Scientists And Impossible Experiments
On a brightly lit stage in a London public hall in 1934, a young scientist wearing a device he called the Electro-Helmet stepped into an open-front cabinet, reached up to press two contacts above his head with both hands, and signaled for the switch to be thrown. READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycknf3jm FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From human invisibility to amazing demonstrations of levitation, we’ll look at strange devices, weird experiments and impossible observations that, if true, challenge conventional scientific knowledge. (Mad Scientists and Impossible Experiments) *** Strange things are often reported in the Nevada desert – but the last few months, sightings and experiences near Area 51 have exploded. What’s going on there? And what happens if you decide to climb the fence to get in? (Dead Aliens and Reverse Technology) *** Reports of strange humanoids resembling the legendary “Springheel’d Jack” came out of Argentina in the early two-thousands, from 2004-2007, and that was just one of several improbable para-human creatures that were reported. (The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:00:42.319 = Show Open 00:02:19.148 = Mad Scientists And Impossible Experiments 00:12:29.972 = Dead Aliens and Reverse Technology *** 00:34:44.210 = The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack *** 00:42:38.979 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Mad Scientists and Impossible Experiments” by Stephan Wagner: (link no longer available) “Dead Aliens and Reverse Technology” by Sean Casteel for Spectralvision: https://tinyurl.com/somsy9e “The Return of Spring-Heeled Jack” by Scott Corrales and Christián Quintero for Inexplicata:https://tinyurl.com/2d59ywx (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 runs from mad scientists and their impossible experiments to dead aliens and whistleblowers at Area 51, then to a small Argentine town where reports of a leaping figure recalled the legend of Spring-Heeled Jack. It opens in a London public hall in 1934, where a young scientist wearing what he called an Electro-Helmet stepped into a cabinet and, as the story goes, faded away from the feet up while spectators could still reach in and touch him. Semi-retired materials engineer Dr. S.P. Faile says ordinary objects around his home turned partly transparent in 1997 and 1998, and inventor John Worrell Keely is said to have shown John Jacob Astor a model solar system that floated off its ring, then carried Astor around the room when he grabbed one of its spheres. From there, the episode turns to Area 51 and Timothy Green Beckley's book Area 51: Warning! Keep Out!, which ranges from a military policeman who reportedly fired five rounds into a four-foot gray being at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, in January 1978, to physicist Bob Lazar's claim of nine flying saucers in the hangars at S-4 and Don Siedenburg's account of living on nothing but "The Serum" for 21 days at Edwards Air Force Base in 1954....
44 mins
13 November Finished
NIGHT SKYES: He Woke Up In A Cell Above The Earth | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Ryan Corbus goes to sleep in his own bed and wakes up in a blue jumpsuit behind a wall of frosted glass, where an old man in red tells him the ship has been orbiting Earth since the planet was made, and that it's time for Ryan's transition. SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Night Skyes” written by Danny Kennedy, https://www.instagram.com/MirielKanan/ 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.
17 mins
12 November Finished
#ConnectiveTissue | The Pea Field Circles And The Bull Calf
On August 14th, 2005, the Davidson family found two circles of flattened pea plants in their field near Aneroid, Saskatchewan, and four days later, eighteen miles away, one of the brothers came across a dead bull calf the family said was missing an ear and an eye, its tongue pulled out through its throat. Michigan biophysicist W.C. Levengood spent years testing plants from crop circles, and when he tested grass from cattle mutilation sites in New Mexico, Kansas and Colorado, he reported finding the same kind of cellular damage. 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 11, 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.
11 mins
12 November Finished
#WeirdDarkNEWS | A Baby Buried In A Dog Crate, A Mother In A Freezer, And More
A search party in South Carolina comes across a patch of freshly disturbed ground in the woods and starts to dig. Police officers in Wales ask a man where his mother is, and he tells them she's alive and staying with relatives in London. Police in Arizona say a couple measured beds and furniture to cover a man's body by the side of a desert road. After brain surgery, a man starts seeing his cat's eyes on the faces of the people he meets. And a family in northern Italy says it came up on a figure dressed as Pennywise, standing in the middle of a dark road. EXPANDED STORIES & SOURCES: https://weirddarkness.com/baby-buried-in-dog-crate-mother-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.
27 mins
12 November Finished
DEATH CAFES AND COFFIN CLUBS: Inside The Death Positive Movement
Strangers in dozens of countries now meet over tea and cake to talk openly about dying, and in New Zealand, retirees gather every week to build and paint the coffins they'll one day be buried in. READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8tmdrd FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Have you heard of the “Death Positive” movement? Would you visit a Death Cafe? Would you join a Coffin Club? Why the sudden positive twist on what is typically so morbid? What’s so great about death? (Discourse At The Death Diner) *** When it comes to homes, the ghosts go bump in the night. When it comes to automobiles, do they go honk in the night? (Cursed Cars and Haunted Hoopties) *** Airline pilots in the UK are reporting strange objects in the sky. Not just one pilot, but several. And not just one UFO, but many. And the sightings were close. Very close. So close that they are being described as “near misses”. (Airliners Almost Crash Into UFOs) *** In today’s world, parents often worry about whether their kids are eating healthy and getting a good education, and in the case of long car trips, whether the children have their phones fully charged. It’s tough being a modern parent, but at least you don’t have to worry like Europeans did about your spawn being snatched by fairies. (Child Snatching Fairies) *** Two men go out for a weekend of elk hunting – and come back with the story of a creature so strange they don’t know what to call it. (Close Encounter at Pot Mountain) *** At a downtown Chicago church, people are turning up in droves – not for the preaching or the powerful worship band – but to see a painting of the Virgin Mary, crying real tears. (The Crying Madonna) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:02:23.730 = Discourse At The Death Diner 00:08:43.721 = Cursed Cars And Haunted Hoopies 00:19:56.590 = Airliners Almost Crash Into UFOs *** 00:32:23.263 = Child-Snatching Fairies 00:39:18.693 = Close Encounters on Pot Mountain *** 00:45:36.275 = The Crying Madonna 00:48:48.583 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Discourse At The Death Diner” by Marilyn A. Mendoza Ph.D. for Psychology Today: https://tinyurl.com/vd6ober “Cursed Cars and Haunted Hoopties” by Erin Marquis for AutoBlog: https://tinyurl.com/r35gcjc “Airliners Almost Crash Into UFOs” from The Bolton News: https://tinyurl.com/vsn8rer “Child Snatching Fairies” by Tristan Shaw from Bizarre And Grotesque: https://tinyurl.com/u84989q “Close Encounter at Pot Mountain” by Staci Matlock for the Santa Fe New Mexican: https://tinyurl.com/soo5l6z “The Crying Madonna” by Cate Cauguiran for ABC7 Chicago: https://tinyurl.com/v4cv4sg (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...
51 mins
12 November Finished