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by Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor
Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
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- 2 days ago5h 4m
The Widow, the Stranger, and the Voice from the Grave | #RetroRadio
“Brothers of the Angle”: A grieving widow believes a stranger can carry messages from her dead husband — messages only the couple could have known. But in a story about baiting hooks and landing fortunes, the real question is who's fishing, and who's the catch.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Brothers of the Angle” (December 19, 1977) ***WD00:46:41.705 = Mystery House, “Laugh? I Thought I’d Die!” (April 14, 1946)01:11:23.715 = Night Beat, “Bell Perrin Amnesia Case” (July 06, 1951) ***WD01:41:38.347 = CBC Nightfall, “Hypnotized” (April 22, 1983)02:11:33.366 = Nightmare, “The Leech” (April 07, 1954)02:34:12.420 = “The Leech” by Static Wax (SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/music)02:36:59.340 = Obsession, “Surrender Is Farewell” (January 29, 1951)03:00:13.100 = Origin of Superstition, “No News Is Good News” (1935) ***WD03:15:10.285 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Jack of Clubs Better Encode” (February 20, 1949) ***WD03:44:34.186 = Peril, “Cup of Tea” (ADU) ***WD04:11:15.983 = Mystery Playhouse, “Challenge to Listener” (July 04, 1947) ***WD04:36:15.645 = Price of Fear, “Guy Fawkes Night” (November 17, 1973)05:04:00.821 = 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/WDRR0679
- 2 days ago2h 36m
The Perfect Murder That Fell Apart Over a Pair of Glasses | Leopold, Loeb, and Victim Bobby Franks
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb should never have been friends, they were too different from on another. But they did have one thing in common – they both agreed to create the perfect murder – and a mundane pair of eyeglasses would be their undoing. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/BobbyFranksREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ywzfbb6bLISTEN 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 Perfect Murder of Bobby Franks” by Troy Taylor – from the book “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings”: https://amzn.to/3lo6CvP (Available on Kindle, paperback, and as an audiobook narrated by Darren Marlar)(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: November, 2021
- 2 days ago11 min
The Paracas Conehead Skulls and a DNA Test That Found No Answer | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Scientists ground a tooth from a 2,000-year-old elongated skull into powder to settle whether the Paracas Coneheads were human, and the genetic machines still came up short.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/paracas-skullsLook 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.#WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS
- 2 days ago10 min
Lasers, Bed Bugs, and Google's 32 Million Mosquitoes | #WeirdDarkNEWS
One engineer built an AI laser to roast every mosquito in his house, Google wants federal permission to release 32 million more, and the agency built to stop pests can't clear bed bugs out of its own offices.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BugWarsLook 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.#WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS
- 2 days ago5 min
A Tent Cut Open at Midnight on a Tillamook County Trail | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Two women camping along a public trail on the Fourth of July woke near midnight to a man cutting through their tent, and for nearly two years no one knew who he was.The FBI believes there may be more victims. Investigators have asked anyone who thinks they were harmed by McLenithan, or who knows anything about other possible crimes involving him, to contact the bureau at (503) 224-4181 or to submit a tip at http://tips.fbi.gov. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/TillamookTentLook 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.#WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS
- 2 days ago5 min
A Meteor Exploded Over New England and Fell Into Cape Cod Bay | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A double boom rattled homes across New England on a Saturday afternoon, and the cause turned out to be a five-foot meteor breaking apart miles above the coast before its remains splashed into Cape Cod Bay.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/CapeCodMeteorLook 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.#WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS
- 3 days ago5h 3m
The Knife-Wielding Specter That Stalked a Four-Year-Old's Bedroom Every Night | #RetroRadio
A young Long Island couple discovers that the knife-wielding ghost stalking their cellar and terrorizing their four-year-old son may not be the threat they assumed.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/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ghost With a Knife” (December 16, 1977) ***WD00:47:13.694 = Beyond Midnight, “The Party” (1968-1970) ***WD01:18:25.389 = MindWebs, “The Night He Cried” (1975-1984)01:39:31.543 = Voice In The Night, “Necklace” (June 14, 1948)02:09:24.196 = Mystery In The Air, “Lodger” (August 14, 1947)02:40:19.177 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Night Must Fall” (April 12, 1946)03:09:20.782 = Mr. Keen, “The Girl Who Flirted” (February 03, 1944)03:39:48.543 = Murder at Midnight, “The Man Who Died Yesterday” (June 30, 1947) ***WD04:06:14.829 = The Black Museum, “The Shopping Bag” (1952) ***WD04:33:04.964 = Mysterious Traveler, “Change of Address” (January 22, 1952)05:02:31.652 = 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/WDRR0678
- 3 days ago1h 0m
Andrew Ure: The 1818 Scientist Who Tried to Reanimate a Hanged Murderer | The Real Frankenstein
Back in 1818, the same year *Frankenstein* hit the shelves, a Scottish professor named Andrew Ure decided to see if electricity could actually bring a dead body back to life—so he hooked up a freshly executed murderer to a current and watched in fascination as the corpse twitched, "breathed," and even made terrifying expressions that sent witnesses into a panic.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/AndrewUreREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/58czndx7FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In 1800s numerous scientists were trying to find the reason for life in the hopes of staving off death or even bringing the recently dead back to life. But in 1818 one scientist named Andrew Ure attempted to do even more – to bring the brain of dead human back into the living. And ironically, his experiments took place the very same year the novel “Frankenstein” was published. (The Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein) *** They say the family that plays together stays together… but does that also mean that the family that crimes together does time together? We’ll look at a few true cases of parents committing crimes – and getting help from their children in doing so. (The Family That Preys Together) *** A hunter comes across a wild man in the woods… but what he hears from the humanoid doesn’t sound like a man at all. (The Man I Saw Through My Night Vision Scope) *** What would you do if you showed up to work one morning and your employer asked you to help dispose of a dead body? Don’t be so quick to say that would never happen. That’s just one part of the story of one of the most notorious crimes of 19th century America – the murder of John Parkman. (Dr. Coolidge Settles a Debt) *** Skipping church to go fishing might get you more than just a guilty conscience – especially if you believe the strange story of the Lambton Worm. (The Legend of the Lambton Worm)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Excerpt from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”00:00:49.707 = Show Open00:03:06.456 = The Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein00:11:54.238 = The Family That Preys Together ***00:31:59.759 = The Man I Saw Through My Night-Vision Scope ***00:40:02.958 = Dr. Coolidge Settles a Debt00:50:44.058 = Legend of the Lambton Worm ***00:59:16.928 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN 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 Family That Preys Together” by Chrys for ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2sv76asj“The Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein” by Rachel Souerbry for Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4pevzd6e“Dr. Coolidge Settles a Debt” from Strange Company: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/7tpj8wmv“The Man I Saw Through My Night Vision Scope” from PerpetualConnection: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4e6nrd3h“The Legend of the Lambton Worm” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/52t8cfnc(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: November 09, 2021
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Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
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