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LOOK AT ME: Something In Her New Apartment Wants Attention | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Before she leaves for the night shift, Kim's mother asks her for one thing: spend less time on the phone. Alone in their new apartment, Kim keeps scrolling anyway, even after she sees a shadow standing behind …
Notes de l’épisode
Before she leaves for the night shift, Kim's mother asks her for one thing: spend less time on the phone. Alone in their new apartment, Kim keeps scrolling anyway, even after she sees a shadow standing behind her in the bathroom mirror. Then someone starts knocking, and a new comment on her feed says, "Look at me."
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Look at Me” by Tristan Nieto, https://www.instagram.com/intellectualismmmm/
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More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE ROOM: She Knew The Moment Her Father Died | #RetroRadio
“The Glass Bubble”: Doris has lived since she was a baby in a room eight feet square and white from floor to ceiling, and from her bed there she knew the family cat lay dead on Oak Street and watched her father …
Notes de l’épisode
“The Glass Bubble”: Doris has lived since she was a baby in a room eight feet square and white from floor to ceiling, and from her bed there she knew the family cat lay dead on Oak Street and watched her father walk into a great white light the moment he died.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Glass Bubble” (April 23, 1979) ***WD
00:46:01.276 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Murder Bound” (1945-1951)
01:11:06.647 = Sherlock Holmes, “Remarkable Affair Of The Pointless Robbery” (May 05, 1947)
01:41:51.095 = Mystery House, “Death Is An Accident” (1944-1946)
02:08:23.393 = Inner Sanctum, “Musical Score” (May 29, 1945)
02:38:51.326 = Jeff Regan, “The Man Who Fought Back” (November 27, 1948)
03:08:05.821 = The Key, “The Ghost” (1956) ***WD(LQ)
03:33:55.413 = Lights Out, “Death Robbery” (July 16, 1947) ***WD
04:04:01.799 = Philip Marlowe, “Bedside Manners” (May 30, 1950)
04:35:25.323 = Let George Do It, “Graystone Ghost” (March 24, 1952)
05:05:23.795 = 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.TEKE TEKE: Japan's Legless Train Ghost Comes For Those Who Hear Her Story
Japanese urban legend says a woman cut in half by a train drags herself through the stations on her hands at up to 93 miles an hour, and the first sign she's close is the scraping sound her name comes from …
Notes de l’épisode
Japanese urban legend says a woman cut in half by a train drags herself through the stations on her hands at up to 93 miles an hour, and the first sign she's close is the scraping sound her name comes from, teke teke.
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yzsydr6v
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In Japanese folklore there lurks a vengeful spirit known as Teke Teke, her upper body dragging along at impossible speeds with a chilling "teke teke" sound. If you hear her approach, run fast and be kind to others, for her wrath falls upon the cruel - and those who are unlucky enough to cross her path may find themselves torn in two, joining her in death. (The Terrifying Tale of Teke Teke) *** Strange occurrences took place in 1955 on a property near Mayanup, West Australia. Bill and Ethel Hack witnessed a series of inexplicable phenomena which Ethel meticulously recorded. From eerie whistling sounds and stones falling from the sky to strange lights and violent disturbances, Ethel’s detailed written account reveals the chaos and fear that gripped their property, affecting both the Hacks and their aboriginal workers. Despite numerous investigations, the mystery of the Mayanup poltergeist remains unresolved, captivating paranormal enthusiasts and researchers to this day. (The Mayanup Australia Entity) *** In June 1977, Portuguese Air Force pilot Jose Francisco Rodrigues encountered a mysterious UFO over the Castelo de Bode Dam, leading to a near-fatal dive and unexplained aircraft malfunctions. Despite numerous witnesses and a thorough investigation, the incident remains an unsolved incident. (The 1977 Near Miss With a UFO In Portugal) *** Just three days after Christmas in 1978, Bob Young and his girlfriend Elizabeth Andes were preparing to move out of their shared apartment in Oxford, Ohio. When Bob returned to help with the final cleanup, he found their apartment dark and silent. Inside, he discovered Elizabeth's lifeless body, brutally murdered in their bedroom, sparking a horrific mystery that would haunt the small college town for decades – and put Bob Young in the crosshairs of local law enforcement. (The Shocking Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes) *** Everybody has heard of teleportation, alien abductions and poltergeists, but without the pioneering work of Charles Fort, it’s unlikely any of these phenomena would have entered public consciousness. (The Godfather of the Bizarre)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = “Three Days After Hearing Her Name, I Heard The Scraping” (fiction short story)
00:03:07.895 = Show Open
00:06:07.317 = The Terrifying Tale of Teke Teke
00:15:41.905 = “No Radar, No Warning, Just Me And the Object” (historical fiction short story) ***
00:18:41.820 = The 1977 Near Miss With a UFO In Portugal
00:33:01.249 = The Shocking Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes ***
00:39:50.538 = The Godfather Of The Bizarre (Charles Fort)
00:48:59.236 = The Mayanup Australia Entity
01:09:57.406 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Godfather of the Bizarre” by Harry Pearson at The-Line-Up.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2mv9sw3y (used with permission)
BOOK: “The Book of the Damned” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4cKnT7K
BOOK: “Lo!” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4bzhNpG
BOOK: “Wild Talents” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4bCPRBl
BOOK: “New Lands” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/3zA5a07
BOOK (All Titles Above Combined): “The Fortean Collection” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/4cAm6Ck
“The 1977 Near Miss With a UFO In Portugal” source: Marcus Lowth at UFOInsight.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89z6hd
“The Shocking Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes” by Orrin Grey at The-Line-Up.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mm2cbm3 (used with permission)
“The Terrifying Tale of Teke Teke” source: Kylie Talamentez at ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8adts8
“The Mayanup Australia Entity” source: The Fortean: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4aam6p99
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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness runs from Teke Teke, the legless ghost of Japan's train stations, to a pilot's close call with a UFO over Portugal, an unsolved murder in a small Ohio college town, the writer called the father of the paranormal, and a stone-throwing poltergeist in Western Australia.
It opens with the Japanese urban legend of Teke Teke, a woman cut in half by a train who drags herself on clawed hands at up to 93 miles an hour, and the two stories of how she died, one about an office worker in postwar Muroran and one about a bullied schoolgirl and a Shinkansen bullet train.
From there, it's June 17th, 1977, over Portugal's Castelo de Bode Dam, where Air Force pilot José Francisco Rodrigues found a dark, round object hovering 20 feet in front of his plane. Once it shot away, his compass spun and his plane nosedived toward the treetops, while workers at the dam noticed a sudden drop in pressure and energy.
Next comes Oxford, Ohio, where on December 28th, 1978, Elizabeth Andes was found strangled and stabbed with her own sewing shears, and police quickly settled on her boyfriend, Bob Young. They pressured Bob into a confession he recanted right away, and juries sided with him in both the murder trial and the family's civil suit, while other leads, including a man who handed Bob a pincushion drizzled in something red, weren't pursued.
After that, the episode turns to Charles Fort, the Albany-born writer who filled shoeboxes with nearly 60,000 notes on fish, frogs, and blood falling from the sky, then published them in The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, and won H.P. Lovecraft as an early admirer.
The episode closes in 1955 near Mayanup, Western Australia, on Bill and Ethel Hack's property, where stones fell on the roof of Aboriginal worker Gilbert Smith's home and a low, mournful whistle sounded in the dark. Ethel wrote it all down, including the winter afternoon she watched a stone take shape out of a clear sky and drop onto a roof.
More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.AN UNKNOWN TRIBE: She Came Out Of The Woods Hiding Her Face | #MidnightInTheMacabre
In the American Midwest around 1700, a tribe with no name hides in the snow-covered wilderness, though its rituals carry for miles. One night a girl who's just old enough to begin her training slips out of the …
Notes de l’épisode
In the American Midwest around 1700, a tribe with no name hides in the snow-covered wilderness, though its rituals carry for miles. One night a girl who's just old enough to begin her training slips out of the village, and when her father calls for her at the edge of the woods, she walks out with her head bowed to hide her face.
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “An Unknown Tribe” by Adam Banks
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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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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.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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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.)
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*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. A BBC crew that walked past the Area 51 boundary in 2012 says guards forced them face-down at gunpoint, and the crew left with a $600 fine.
The episode closes in Calchín, a town of about 2,000 in Argentina's Córdoba Province, where in August 2010 residents reported a tall, thin figure in a balaclava banging on doors at night and leaping more than two meters in the air, a figure the local press called the hopping phantom. Residents who went after it came upon someone kneeling before a bonfire ringed with candles, and the figure took off running at incredible speed. A trucker 25 kilometers south of town told Cadena 3 radio that a figure dressed all in black appeared in front of his truck and hopped alongside the road.
More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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/
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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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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
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Originally aired: November 11, 2026
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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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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
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More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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 Podcast*
EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness moves from Death Cafes and Coffin Clubs to cursed cars, near misses between airliners and unknown objects over Britain, changelings left by fairies, a vanishing structure on a New Mexico mountain, and a weeping icon of the Virgin Mary in Chicago.It opens with the Death Positive Movement, from the first Death Cafe, started in London in 2011 by Jon Underwood so strangers could talk about dying over tea and cake, to the Coffin Clubs of New Zealand, where older adults meet each week to build and decorate their own coffins, along with green burials, end-of-life doulas, and the WeCroak app that sends five reminders of death a day.
From there, the episode turns to cars said to be cursed or haunted: the Graf & Stift limousine in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in 1914, a wrecked Vauxhall Astra found in 2002 off Surrey's A3 after callers reported headlights veering off the road, a Renault Megane in Cape Town that witnesses say started itself in 2004, John F. Kennedy's limousine SS-100-X at the Henry Ford Museum, and James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder, Little Bastard.
Next come reports to the UK Airprox Board of aircraft nearly colliding with unidentified objects, including a lit object that passed between three and ten feet from an Embraer 175 approaching Glasgow Airport on December 30th, 2018, with former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope arguing that many cases blamed on drones should be logged as unknown.
As late as the second half of the 1800s, European courts were still hearing cases of children abused or killed as changelings, the sickly stand-ins parents believed fairies had left in place of their own babies, and the episode traces that belief through the accounts George Waldron collected on the Isle of Man for his 1726 book A Description of the Isle of Man.
After that, Santa Fe County bow hunters Josh Brinkley and Daniel Lucero describe what they saw while hunting elk on Cerro de la Olla, or Pot Mountain, northwest of Taos, New Mexico: two tall hooded figures at the rim of a caldera, and the next day a white tent-like structure 50 to 60 feet tall that vanished in the five seconds they lost sight of it.
The episode closes in Chicago in 2019 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the oldest Greek Orthodox church in the Midwest, where worshippers saw an oil-like substance streaming from the eyes of an icon of the Virgin Mary as a bankruptcy court approved the sale of the church for $2.5 million.
More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.RING OF EVIL: She Saw The Ring On The Killer's Hand | #RetroRadio | #RetroRadio
On vacation in Taxco, Mexico, an 18-year-old American watches a woman stabbed in an upstairs window by a hand wearing a blood-red ring, and a few days later her father's old friend sits down to dinner wearing …
Notes de l’épisode
On vacation in Taxco, Mexico, an 18-year-old American watches a woman stabbed in an upstairs window by a hand wearing a blood-red ring, and a few days later her father's old friend sits down to dinner wearing one just like it.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ring of Evil” (April 16, 1979) ***WD
00:45:51.422 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Revolt of Worms” (October 01, 1971)
01:16:15.872 = Diary of Fate, “Tina Crowley” (March 09, 1948) ***WD
01:45:43.665 = Dimension X, “The Martian Death March” (January 14, 1951) ***WD
02:12:23.911 = The Eleventh Hour, “Ghost Town” (ADU)
02:41:55.156 = Escape, “Seeds of Greed” (December 27, 1949)
03:11:36.356 = Everyman’s Theater, “Cat Wife” (October 18, 1940)
03:41:39.116 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Moon Is New” (January 22, 1958) ***WD(LQ)
04:01:09.064 = Faces In The Window, “Lightning Rod Man” (January 17, 1953) **WD(LQ)
04:26:42.927 = Dark Fantasy, “Debt From The Past” (January 16, 1942)
04:51:48.576 = Strange Adventure, “Shots In The Night” (1945)
04:55:01.236 = Tales of the Frightened, “Chung Ling Soo” (December 16, 1957) ***WD
04:59:21.285 = 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.
https://weirddarkness.com/old-time-radio-horror-ring-of-evil
More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.THE CHARNEL HOUSE: The Clinic Where The Patients Never Leave | #RetroRadio | #RetroRadio
Jane Pryor comes home from Vienna to visit her father at a famous seaside clinic, is told at the door that he died two weeks ago, and is talked into staying on at a place where attack dogs roam the grounds …
Notes de l’épisode
Jane Pryor comes home from Vienna to visit her father at a famous seaside clinic, is told at the door that he died two weeks ago, and is talked into staying on at a place where attack dogs roam the grounds after dark and the new young doctor keeps begging her to leave.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Charnel House” (April 11, 1979) ***WD
00:46:05.113 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Gentle Strangler” (April 24, 1947)
01:16:31.244 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Two Little Punctures” (September 22, 1967) ***WD
01:44:34.174 = All Star Western Theater, “Ghost In Little Deer Canyon” (November 29, 1947) ***WD
02:14:00.822 = Chet Chetter, “It Came From Video” (1990) ***WD
02:42:53.880 = The Clock, “Only Death is Timeless” (March 27, 1956)
03:08:33.201 = The Creaking Door, “Imposter” (July 20, 1964) ***WD
03:36:29.873 = The Crime Club, “Coney Island Nocturne” (July 10, 1947) ***WD
04:06:38.739 = Crime Classics, “Seven-Layered Arsenic Cake” (October 14, 1953)
04:38:06.894 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Life Insurance Claim” (December 08, 1946)
05:03:06.270 = 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.
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In September 1988, a boy with a slingshot found Joaquim Sebastião Gonçalves in the marsh grass at São Paulo's Billings Reservoir, three days after he'd swum across the water to fish, and the autopsy listed his …
Notes de l’épisode
In September 1988, a boy with a slingshot found Joaquim Sebastião Gonçalves in the marsh grass at São Paulo's Billings Reservoir, three days after he'd swum across the water to fish, and the autopsy listed his eyes, ears, lips and abdominal organs as missing, with some of the wounds made while his blood was still circulating. Five years later, a researcher writing in a Brazilian UFO magazine concluded the crew of a flying saucer had killed him, and the case still goes by the name of a different reservoir several kilometers away, Guarapiranga.
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
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Originally aired: November 11, 2026
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A space zoologist sends his mind into the creatures of a jungle planet to judge whether it's safe for colonists, and finds thousands of insects in the treetops sitting perfectly still, all of them staring at …
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A space zoologist sends his mind into the creatures of a jungle planet to judge whether it's safe for colonists, and finds thousands of insects in the treetops sitting perfectly still, all of them staring at the ground, all of them waiting for something he can't see.
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “A Matter of Protocol” by Jack Sharkey: https://amzn.to/4ePZ1MG
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An inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey told the FBI that a "thing" crawled into his throat and that his cellmate was helping the demon inside him grow, according to the complaint charging him with the …
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An inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey told the FBI that a "thing" crawled into his throat and that his cellmate was helping the demon inside him grow, according to the complaint charging him with the cellmate's murder. An angler in Taiwan pulls up a bag of leg bones tied to a dumbbell. Officers in Egypt force open an apartment door to carry out an eviction and find the tenant's skeleton beside the bed. Police say a Philadelphia foster mother used her missing foster daughter's phone to text herself. And a fisherman in Oklahoma runs his boat into something just under the surface of a lake and calls it a "$3,200 … mistake".
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION:
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It’s two sentences. The first is Bloody Mary as kids still play it. The second is the 1700s mirror ritual: girls ate an apple at a candlelit mirror and watched for a face over their shoulder. It was supposed to …
Notes de l’épisode
It’s two sentences. The first is Bloody Mary as kids still play it. The second is the 1700s mirror ritual: girls ate an apple at a candlelit mirror and watched for a face over their shoulder. It was supposed to be their future husband’s, and a skeleton’s meant they’d die before they married. It leaves out the science explanation at the end of the segment, so the episode still gets to deliver that.
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n88rm8a
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Could there be floating balls of light not only possessed of some sort of intelligence, but which are capable of forming a unique bond with a person and even delivering painful stings when they so choose? (Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights) *** Cattle sometimes die suddenly on Silvies Valley Ranch’s 140,000 acres in Harney County — struck by disease or felled by a broken leg and unable to find a way out of the rugged, forested terrain. But by the time ranch hands discovered four more dead bulls within 24 hours, they knew they were likely dealing with deliberate, premeditated killings. (Oregon Cattle Mutilations) *** To quote one survivor of a near-death experience: “I know of no English words for the combination of joy, ecstasy, love, and requited longing that burned within me. It carried me to a dimension I never knew existed. In that moment, there was no pain of loss, only unity, rapture and reunion.” Is it possible that we may soon have scientific evidence for what lies beyond the veil? (New Evidence of Life After Death) *** Seeing specters in the reflection of a mirror or piece of glass is not just a cliché movie trope. There is a history that goes along with the happening. (Ghost In The Mirror) *** We’ve all heard of haunted forests – but there is one that is so disturbing it drives some people to want to commit murder! (Where The Woods Entice You To Murder) *** When it comes to ghostly apparitions, the White Lady are ubiquitous. But a theater in Sunderland, England has not just a White Lady specter, but also the haunting Grey Lady… and the ghost of a comedian. (Haunted Empire Theater)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:02:34.930 = Where The Woods Entice You To Murder
00:06:00.684 = Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights
00:18:48.818 = Ghost In The Mirror ***
00:42:17.288 = The Haunted Empire Theater ***
00:50:01.495 = Oregon Cattle Mutilations
01:00:12.085 = New Evidence of Life After Death ***
01:05:48.430 = Show Close
01:07:28.182 = “Say It Three Times” by Incorruption (SONG)
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
Essex Ghost Hunters FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/EssexGhostHunters
“Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights” from the Fortean Times: (link no longer available)
“Oregon Cattle Mutilations” by Diana Kruzman for Oregon Live: https://tinyurl.com/y3sg3gle
“New Evidence for Life After Death” by Michael Grosso for Consciousness Unbound: https://tinyurl.com/wou5am3“Ghost in the Mirror” by Micah Hanks for the Gralien Report: https://tinyurl.com/wuxunbx; Erin McCann for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.com/archives/2587; and Lyra Radford for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/wnzk58k
“Where The Woods Entice You To Murder” by Claire Reid for Lad Bible: https://tinyurl.com/tg9ylqo
“The Haunted Empire Theater” by Ian at Mysterious Britain and Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/tvxswbr
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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness runs from a haunted well in the Essex countryside to stinging balls of light, the ghosts said to live in mirrors, a theater haunted by a vanished stage manager and a comedian, mutilated bulls in Oregon, and a man who says he went into the light with a mother and her dying son.
It opens at Cash's Well in Langdon Hills Country Park near Basildon, England, where ghost sightings go back to 1924 and ghost hunter Russell Old says the spirits of as many as 20 children take visitors by the hand. On one tour, Old says, a gentle seven-foot man turned so aggressive at the top of a hill that he said afterward, "I just wanted to kill everybody."
From there it's on to lights that seem to choose their targets, like the tiny ones Martha Grieswell of Richmond, Indiana, said crawled over her at night in 1978, stung like sweat bees, survived two days underwater and a stretch in her freezer, and turned up at her mother's house in Decatur. Others were deadlier: near Palestine, Texas, a boy reported that a ball of fire had struck a woman on horseback and set her ablaze, and she died the next day.
Next comes the ghost in the mirror, from the Bloody Mary ritual chanted in candlelit bathrooms at sleepovers back to the obsidian scrying mirrors of ancient Egypt and the psychomanteum, which Raymond Moody says the ancient Greeks used to contact the dead. In China, mirrors were turned over after a death so the departed wouldn't see a reflection and realize they'd become a ghost, and in the 1700s, girls in the British Isles ate an apple before a candlelit mirror to glimpse a future husband, while a skeleton's face meant death before the wedding. Bloody Mary herself has been tied to Mary I of England and to a witch called Mary Worth, burned at the stake around the Civil War; Japan's schoolchildren summon Hanako-san instead, knocking three times on the third stall of a third-floor girls' restroom.
After that, Sunderland's Empire Theatre in England is home to a White Lady thought to be Molly Moselle, an assistant stage manager who stepped out for a birthday card on January 14th, 1949, and was never seen again. Sid James suffered a fatal heart attack on the same stage in 1976 while the audience laughed, thinking it was part of the show, and actors say they've heard his laugh in dressing room one.
From England the episode crosses to the Silvies Valley Ranch in Harney County, Oregon, where five Hereford bulls were found dead on July 30th and 31st with their genitals and tongues cut away, no wounds, and no sign of a struggle. The killings echo the cattle mutilations of the 1970s, which led to a 1979 FBI investigation that found the animals had likely died of natural causes.
The episode closes with Michael Grosso's look at near-death experiences, deathbed visions, terminal lucidity, and shared death experiences. Mary Fran was killed instantly in a car crash, and her son, Nolan, died in the hospital days later with Scott M. Taylor, president of the Monroe Institute, at the boy's bedside. Taylor says he was in two places at once, standing among the weeping family while Mary Fran lifted Nolan from his body and the three of them went into the light.
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A mail carrier finds a mailbox taped shut and a note on the front door that says "9-1-1 Inside". In Spain, a woman lifts the lid of her late mother's chest freezer and finds a newborn inside. A hunter in Ghana …
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A mail carrier finds a mailbox taped shut and a note on the front door that says "9-1-1 Inside". In Spain, a woman lifts the lid of her late mother's chest freezer and finds a newborn inside. A hunter in Ghana points his gun at a coffin sitting above ground in a cemetery and threatens to shoot whoever's in it. Trick-or-treaters in San Diego bring home gummies printed with the words "psilocybin mushrooms". And a woman wanted for murder since 2009 calls the DMV to ask why her driver's license won't renew.
EXPANDED STORIES & SOURCES:
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In the sleet of a Cincinnati November in 1880, a grave robber collapses in the grave he’s digging, wide awake and unable to move, and his partner can’t find a pulse.SOURCES and RESOURCES: “A Resurrectionist’s …
Notes de l’épisode
In the sleet of a Cincinnati November in 1880, a grave robber collapses in the grave he’s digging, wide awake and unable to move, and his partner can’t find a pulse.
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “A Resurrectionist’s Last Delivery” by Darren Marlar, https://link.amazon/B0gU1J6fa
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In May 1973, Judy Doraty pulled over outside Houston to watch a strange light in the sky, and years later, under hypnosis, she described a cow lifted into a chamber aboard a craft and worked on by two small …
Notes de l’épisode
In May 1973, Judy Doraty pulled over outside Houston to watch a strange light in the sky, and years later, under hypnosis, she described a cow lifted into a chamber aboard a craft and worked on by two small beings while she watched. From Colorado's San Luis Valley to a stretch of Welsh mountains nicknamed the sheep mutilation corridor, UFO reports and dead livestock share the same ground, and when a Texas man's sheep turned up mutilated in 2013, the sheriff said, "This was too clean to be an animal."
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
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Originally aired: November 09, 2026
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Li Shizhen, a 16th-century Chinese apothecary, wrote of aged holy men in Arabia who ate nothing but honey until they died, then lay sealed in honey for a century to become a sugary remedy for broken bones. In …
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Li Shizhen, a 16th-century Chinese apothecary, wrote of aged holy men in Arabia who ate nothing but honey until they died, then lay sealed in honey for a century to become a sugary remedy for broken bones. In Europe, King Charles II of England drank powdered human skull in alcohol, and the poor paid for cups of still-warm blood at executions.
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrd72v94
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Of all the instances of cannibalism found in human history, no one quite practiced it like some in China used to. In these cases, cannibalism came in the form of eating mellified flesh for medicinal purposes. In 16th century China, mellification was a way for elderly people nearing the end of their lives to donate their body to science. The idea, originally derived from an Arabic recipe, was that they could turn their bodies into medicine that would be ingested by their descendants to alleviate ailments like broken bones. The process of mellification was a gruesome one. In short, it consisted of very slowly turning one’s body into a mummified human candy bar. And that’s not even the worst part — for mellification to be the most effective, the process started while the person was still alive.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:10.417 = Show Open
00:02:28.924 = And Mellified Man For Dessert
00:04:27.887 = Honey, I’m Dead
00:09:57.010 = Sugar-Glazed Grandpa
00:16:02.121 = Better Health Through Cannibalism
00:27:31.137 = Self-Mummification
00:30:39.753 = Corpse Medicine
00:39:58.915 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“And Mellified Man for Dessert” by Katie Serena: https://tinyurl.com/rjwv5cw
“Honey, I’m Dead” by Paul Salopek: https://tinyurl.com/wz23h9d
“Sugar-Glazed Grandpa” by Brent Swancer: https://tinyurl.com/w2mqzyp
“Self-Mummification” from Stranger Remains: https://tinyurl.com/w795gxp
“Better Health Through Cannibalism” by Natalie Zarrelli: https://tinyurl.com/tsqhqbl
“Corpse Medicine” by Maria Dolan: https://tinyurl.com/y6spcbcb
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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness covers the legend of the mellified man, a 4,300-year-old Bronze Age tomb in Georgia filled with honey-cured offerings, the self-mummifying Buddhist monks of Japan, and the centuries Europeans spent swallowing powdered skull, human fat, and fresh blood as medicine.
It opens with mellification, in which an elderly volunteer ate and bathed in nothing but honey until death, then lay in a stone coffin of honey for up to a century before the remains were sold at market to treat wounds and broken bones, a practice historians have never confirmed with physical evidence.
From there, archaeologist Zurab Makharadze describes cutting into the Ananauri 3 burial mound beside Georgia's Alazani River in 2015, where wild berries cured in honey 4,300 years ago were still red and still smelled sweet, buried with two full-size wagons, gold jewelry, and bones dusted in flower pollen.
Next, the legend is traced to the 16th-century Chinese pharmacologist Li Shizhen, who heard of the Arabian "honey person" secondhand from Tao Jiucheng, and set beside other honey burials, from the golden sarcophagus of honey Alexander the Great was reportedly placed in to the wax-and-honey-coated body of King Edward I of England.
The 17th-century English writer Richard Baxter, who treated his bleeding with moss grown on a human skull, leads into Europe's corpse medicine: King Charles II's King's Drops of powdered skull in alcohol, German physician Johann Schroeder's recipe for curing the flesh of an executed redheaded man, and French pharmacist Antoine-François de Fourcroy's instructions for rendering human fat.
After that come the Shingon Buddhist monks of Japan who practiced sokushinbutsu, starving away their body fat for years, drinking tea from the toxic urushi tree, and ringing a bell inside a tomb until the ringing stopped and their fellow monks sealed it.
The episode closes with Louise Noble's search for why a John Donne poem calls women "mummy, possessed", a trail that led her and Richard Sugg of England's University of Durham to Thomas Willis's drink of powdered skull and chocolate, a 1679 recipe for blood marmalade, and a last known attempt in 1908 to swallow blood at a German scaffold.
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On a domed colony on Neptune in the year 2120, a young man who wants to stop thinking, hands his living body over to a doctor, and the doctor's wife can't understand why she's now carrying pounds of baby food …
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On a domed colony on Neptune in the year 2120, a young man who wants to stop thinking, hands his living body over to a doctor, and the doctor's wife can't understand why she's now carrying pounds of baby food up to a laboratory she isn't allowed to enter.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Permanent Man” (April 09, 1979) ***WD
00:46:03.374 = Witch’s Tale, “Troth of Death” (May 29, 1933)
01:10:27.352 = X Minus 1, “Protection” (March 20, 1957)
01:33:38.134 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Time Loser” (1957) ***WD
01:58:35.807 = Appointment With Fear, “The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD
02:25:18.270 = Arch Oboloer’s Plays, “Mirage” (September 06, 1945)
02:55:41.718 = Barrie Craig, “The Deadly Fight” (January 23, 1952)
03:26:15.448 = Ghost Story, “A Recluse” (December 2010)
03:55:45.497 = Night Beat, “Flight From Fear” (July 31, 1952)
04:25:15.731 = The Man In Black, “The Price of the Head” (February 02, 1952) ***WD
04:40:53.651 = Box 13, “Mexican Maze” (April 10, 1949)
05:07:21.336 = 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.
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Legend says a mermaid driven out of a village cursed the shores of Nevada's Pyramid Lake, where locals say someone vanishes at least once a year during fishing season; on Italy's Poveglia Island, everyone who …
Notes de l’épisode
Legend says a mermaid driven out of a village cursed the shores of Nevada's Pyramid Lake, where locals say someone vanishes at least once a year during fishing season; on Italy's Poveglia Island, everyone who has bought land to build a home has packed up and left.
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3a88b2an
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From haunted houses and cursed lakes to mysterious roads where ghostly figures appear out of thin air, our planet is home to some truly chilling locations. (Lurid Locations, Spooky Spots, and Paranormal Places) *** How could a person seemingly burst into flames without any external ignition source? We’ll look at the chilling story of Mary Reeser and others like her, that continue to baffle and intrigue both scientists and the public, leaving us to ponder the true nature of what has been termed “spontaneous human combustion.” (The Bizarre Phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion) *** The remains of nearly a dozen sex workers were carelessly discarded in the New Mexico desert between the years of 2001 and 2005. And today it is still not known who is responsible. (Unsolved: The West Mesa Bone Collector) *** Have you seen the mischievous spirits of Tinker Swiss Cottage or met Galena’s Lady in Black? Perhaps you’ve had a run-in at DeKalb’s Egyptian Theatre? These are all areas within a short distance of each other, northwest of Chicago, that can give the Windy City spooks a run for their money. (Rock River’s Residual Revenants)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Dedication To Paul Spangler
00:00:46.440 = The Foreboding
00:02:24.858 = Show Open
00:04:22.537 = Lurid Locations, Spooky Spots, and Paranormal Places ***
00:30:44.528 = The West Mesa Bone Collector ***
00:37:11.308 = Spontaneous Human Combustion
00:48:01.545 = Rock River’s Residual Revenants ***
01:07:44.813 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
***If you have an information regarding the West Mesa murders, Albuquerque CrimeStoppers is still offering a $100,000 reward. Call (505)768-2450 or Crime Stopper at (505)843-STOP.***
“The West Mesa Bone Collector” by Kelsey Christine McConnell for The-Line-Up.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckux8v6
“Lurid Locations, Spooky Spots, and Paranormal Places” by Marcus Lowth for UFOInsight.com,https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mty2p4eb
“The Bizarre Phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion” by Rachel Elizabeth for The-Line-Up.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3a4vdzue
“Rock River’s Residual Revenants” by Jim Taylor for the Northwest Quarterly: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr6k3hwm
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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness runs from a cursed lake in Nevada to an unsolved string of murders in the New Mexico desert, a woman reduced to ash in a Florida apartment, and three haunted landmarks in Illinois.
It opens at Nevada's Pyramid Lake, where legend says a mermaid banished from a village cursed the shoreline, then moves on to the albino creatures said to stalk Hicks Road in San Jose, the burned asylum ruins and hooded cult of Turnbull Canyon, the curse on Los Angeles's Griffith Park, the blue Firewater Ghost of Mississippi's Deer Island, Russia's Molyobka Triangle, and Italy's Poveglia Island.
From there, the episode turns to the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a woman walking her dog in February 2009 found the first bones of 11 women and girls buried there between 2001 and 2005. The killer known as the West Mesa Bone Collector has never been identified, and Albuquerque Crime Stoppers still offers a $100,000 reward.
Next comes spontaneous human combustion and the case of Mary Reeser, found on July 2nd, 1951, as a smoldering pile of ash with part of one leg and a black slipper in her St. Petersburg, Florida, apartment. Her death is set beside those of Matilda Rooney in Seneca, Illinois, Margaret Hogan in Dublin, and Michael Faherty in Galway, the first death in Ireland a coroner ruled spontaneous human combustion, and weighed against the forensic explanation called the wick effect.
The episode closes in the Rock River Valley northwest of Chicago, where staff say former mayor Robert Hall Tinker still moves the silverware around at Rockford's Tinker Swiss Cottage and tour guides place the Lady in Black in the basement of Galena's DeSoto House Hotel. At DeKalb's Egyptian Theatre, staff report shadow figures in Aisle One, where Irv Kummerfeldt, a co-founder of the group behind the theater's restoration, died of a heart attack while cleaning up after a show.
More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.#CHURCH01 | THE WENDIGO: The Hunger That Never Ends
In the Algonquian stories of the Great Lakes winter woods, a man who eats human flesh to survive comes back as the Wendigo, a giant of skin and bone that grows hungrier with every meal. Darren holds the legend …
Notes de l’épisode
In the Algonquian stories of the Great Lakes winter woods, a man who eats human flesh to survive comes back as the Wendigo, a giant of skin and bone that grows hungrier with every meal. Darren holds the legend up against Paul, Solomon, and Isaiah, and finds the same appetite in the man who works himself away from his kids, the gossip who feeds on a congregation, and the kid who starts small and ends up stealing from his mother's purse.
From the book “CHURCH OF THE UNDEAD – BOOK ONE: Wendigo, Zombies, Werewolves, And Other Subjects You’d Never Hear From Your Pastor’s Pulpit” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/COTU01
Originally aired: November 09, 2026
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ475SM8
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In the year 2200, the man who tried to conquer the solar system is dropped onto the frozen surface of Pluto and left there to die, and as he stands alone on the ice cursing Earth, he starts hearing voices …
Notes de l’épisode
In the year 2200, the man who tried to conquer the solar system is dropped onto the frozen surface of Pluto and left there to die, and as he stands alone on the ice cursing Earth, he starts hearing voices inside his helmet asking him who he is.
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Escape From Pluto” By William Oberfield (Planet Stories Fall 1947)
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More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSES: The Keepers Who Never Went Off Duty | #WDRadio
Michigan's Old Presque Isle Lighthouse had been out of service for more than a century when the Coast Guard pulled out its wiring in 1979 to stop an amber light that kept glowing in the empty tower, and Coast …
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Michigan's Old Presque Isle Lighthouse had been out of service for more than a century when the Coast Guard pulled out its wiring in 1979 to stop an amber light that kept glowing in the empty tower, and Coast Guard crews and National Guard pilots later reported seeing it lit again. It's one of sixteen lighthouses, from Maine to Oregon, where keepers, captains, and their families are said to have never left.
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HOUR ONE: If their walls could talk, lighthouses could share many stories from the past. Unfortunately, these objects don’t have the ability to tell their tales – but the phantoms that haunt them just might.
SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: People have said they feel drained after seeing Black-Eyed Kids, or exhausted when speaking with whom they later discovered was a self-proclaimed vampire. Is it possible that otherworldly, ghostly entities, interdimensional creatures, and even occultist human beings are, in some way, literally feeding on us? (When The Supernatural Feeds On Us)
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HOUR TWO: Is it possible that the monster your child sees under the bed or in the closet isn’t imaginary after all? We look at some true stories of people coming face to face with monsters in their own home. (When The Monster in the Closet is Real) *** Even for those immersed in Ufology, for many, a certain controversial subject is so troubling and disturbing they choose to outright ignore it, and seldom speak of it. It’s the question – are UFOs stealing humans’ souls? (Soul-Stealing Extraterrestrials) *** Stories of prisons housing the spirits of the dead is already dreary, but in England there is a prison called “The Cage” - and the haunting spirits there are real-life witches. (The Prison Haunted by Witches)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
“St. Augustine’s Haunted Lighthouse” by Jessica Ferri: http://bit.ly/2ZF0e6N
“The Confederate Dead of Point Lookout Lighthouse” by Adam Karlin: http://bit.ly/2zpkmeb
“Haunted Lighthouses” posted at AngelsGhosts.com: http://bit.ly/2ZsBJFD
Video and photos by Brad Marc mentioned in “The Prison Haunted By Witches”: https://tinyurl.com/y42x4mju
“Paranormal Parasites” by Nick Redfern: https://amzn.to/3AWtVV9
“UFOs and the Christian” by Paul (Eric) Inglesby: https://amzn.to/3cQwKpi
“Communion” by Whitley Shrieber: https://amzn.to/47o58p0
“Transformation” (part of the “Communion” series) by Whitley Shrieber: https://amzn.to/2W0iH9O
“Book of the Damned” by Charles Fort: https://amzn.to/2KEnxEp
“The Prison Haunted by Witches” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/y7vrvv8m
“When The Monster in the Closet is Real” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/y9wsj78m
“When The Supernatural Feeds On Us” by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/y7237jrs
“Soul-Stealing Extraterrestrials” by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/ydera3z8
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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In September 1967, Harry King found his sister's Appaloosa, Lady, on her side near Alamosa, Colorado, with the flesh stripped from her head and neck, no blood on the ground, and her tracks ending about a …
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In September 1967, Harry King found his sister's Appaloosa, Lady, on her side near Alamosa, Colorado, with the flesh stripped from her head and neck, no blood on the ground, and her tracks ending about a hundred feet from her body. By the end of the 1970s, researchers estimated cattle mutilations had passed ten thousand, and the principal federally funded investigation, run by a retired FBI agent, blamed the vast majority on predators and scavengers.
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
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Every shift, night nurse Dana talks to Thomas Bellamy, the coma patient in Room 4A who hasn't stirred in five years, and one rainy night at Pinehurst Memorial he sits bolt upright, stares straight at her, and …
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Every shift, night nurse Dana talks to Thomas Bellamy, the coma patient in Room 4A who hasn't stirred in five years, and one rainy night at Pinehurst Memorial he sits bolt upright, stares straight at her, and says something is going to happen tomorrow at the river at 2:14 p.m.
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Patient in 4A” by Keith Conrad (http://www.auditoryanthology.com)
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A boy rides for days in his uncle's cab beside bags he's told are garbage, and police say the bags held his parents. In England, a man confesses to a killing nearly twenty-eight years old and tells police he …
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A boy rides for days in his uncle's cab beside bags he's told are garbage, and police say the bags held his parents. In England, a man confesses to a killing nearly twenty-eight years old and tells police he could hear the rats under the kitchen floor in the months after he hid her body in the cellar. In a village in India, police say a grandfather blamed the temple priest's witchcraft for a baby's death, and the priest was found hanging from a tree with his tongue cut out. A man in an FBI jacket asks a Connecticut 7-Eleven for its security footage, then comes back without the jacket and offers a hundred dollars for it. And at the airport in Lima, wildlife agents open three suitcases packed with socks, and something in the socks is moving.
EXPANDED STORIES & SOURCES:
https://weirddarkness.com/bengaluru-cab-driver-bones-bin-men-weird-darknews
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
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The press called Aileen Wuornos America's first female serial killer, and in 1998 an FBI profiler went further, saying there were no female serial killers at all. Jack the Ripper's own countrywoman, Mary Ann …
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The press called Aileen Wuornos America's first female serial killer, and in 1998 an FBI profiler went further, saying there were no female serial killers at all. Jack the Ripper's own countrywoman, Mary Ann Cotton, had already claimed three or four times as many victims as he did, most of them children, and historians still chase the Ripper's identity while almost never mentioning her.
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mw3nzvbk
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Female serial killers… they are a lot more common than you think. (We’re Surrounded by Female Serial Killers) *** The founder of the website Chicago Hauntings, Ursula Bielski, shares how the paranormal first invaded her life. (My Paranormal Life) *** The death of Thomas Becket shook the middle-ages. It’s believed his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29th, 1170 changed the course of history. (The Assassination of Thomas Becket) *** We’ll take a humorous look at the insane life of Boston Corbett – the man who was a hero because he killed John Wilkes Booth, but was also an idiot, cutting off his own manhood. (Abraham Lincoln’s Insane Avenger)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:53.536 = Show Open
00:03:24.735 = We’re Surrounded By Female Serial Killers
00:14:29.474 = The Assassination of Thomas Becket ***
00:24:23.094 = My Paranormal Life
00:53:20.747 = Abraham Lincoln’s Insane Avenger
01:01:47.516 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“We’re Surrounded by Female Serial Killers” from the book, “Lady Killers” by Tori Telfer: https://tinyurl.com/vpvqwvu
“The Assassination of Thomas Becket” from British Museum: https://tinyurl.com/rhap89e
“My Paranormal Life” by Ursula Bielski: https://tinyurl.com/uqx8gl9
“Abraham Lincoln’s Insane Avenger” by Mark Hill for Cracked: https://tinyurl.com/ql8ubex
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EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
This episode of Weird Darkness runs from the female serial killers an FBI profiler once said didn’t exist to a medieval murder in Canterbury Cathedral, a haunted Chicago childhood, and the man who shot John Wilkes Booth.
It opens with Tori Telfer’s introduction to her book Lady Killers, which starts with Aileen Wuornos, whom the press called America’s first female serial killer, and with the 1998 line from the FBI’s Roy Hazelwood that there are no female serial killers at all, while Jack the Ripper’s own countrywoman, Mary Ann Cotton, claimed three or four times as many victims as he did, most of them children. Telfer looks at nicknames like Giggling Grandma, Arsenic Annie, and Grannyball Lecter, the legend of Erzsébet Báthory bathing in virgin blood, and Leo Tolstoy’s comment on the 18th-century Russian killer Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova.
From there, the episode turns to December 29th, 1170, when four knights tied to King Henry II cut down Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral after years of feuding between the Crown and the Church. Edward Grim, a witness wounded in the attack, described the blow that sliced off the crown of Becket’s head, and within three years Becket was a saint, with monks selling pilgrims his blood mixed with water in small lead vessels.
Next, Ursula Bielski, founder of Chicago Hauntings and author of Chicago Haunts, tells of the phantom footsteps that climbed the stairs of her family’s house on Bell Avenue every night for thirteen years, and of her father announcing that his dead twin brother had come to the door for him less than a week before he died. After the funeral, she and her mother heard keys turn in the front door locks with no one there, and six squad cars searched the house and found nothing.
The episode closes with a humorous look at Boston Corbett, the hatter and street preacher who cut off his own testicles with a pair of scissors in 1858, then ignored orders to take John Wilkes Booth alive and shot him through a slat in a burning barn in 1865. Hailed as Lincoln’s avenger, he later waved a revolver inside the Kansas State Legislature, was declared insane, escaped the asylum on a stolen horse in 1888, and may have died in an 1894 forest fire in Minnesota.
More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.THE BELIEVERS: Nobody Ever Leaves Mr. Bolivar's House | #RetroRadio
The people who visit Evan Bolivar never seem to leave, and when one of their cars finally pulls out of his driveway at dawn, Bolivar is behind the wheel alone, so Alan Pearson's mother sends him next door to …
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The people who visit Evan Bolivar never seem to leave, and when one of their cars finally pulls out of his driveway at dawn, Bolivar is behind the wheel alone, so Alan Pearson's mother sends him next door to find out why, and the meeting he's invited to that night ends at a trapdoor in Bolivar's parlor floor.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Believers” (April 04, 1979) ***WD
00:46:52.600 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD
01:02:24.081 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Picture Of A Killer” (May 08, 1945) ***WD
01:15:22.520 = Strange, “The Ghost Train” (September 18, 1955)
01:29:52.265 = Suspense, “A Friend To Alexander” (June 15, 1944)
01:56:03.601 = The Saint, “Sinister Sneeze” (June 11, 1950) ***WD
02:25:01.428 = Two Thousand Plus, “Alone” (November 15, 1950)
02:56:31.208 = The Unexpected, “The Cripple” (1948)
03:12:18.510 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Rue Morgue Mystery” (June 17, 1942) ***WD
03:29:08.939 = The Weird Circle, “Horla” (1943)
03:56:56.772 = The Whistler, “Highway Of Escape” (July 09, 1945)
04:27:25.342 = Strange Wills, “Death Is My Destiny” (November 23, 1946)
04:57:14.513 = Show Close
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