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A 2023 book collects accounts of shapeshifting strangers, reptilian visitors, and living doubles, arguing the aliens John Carpenter put on screen may have been walking among us all along.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Have you ever felt like something was off about someone you met? What if the truth was more bizarre than you could imagine - that aliens walk secretly among us, perfectly disguised? (Mimic In The Mirror) *** The short story âEight OâClock In The Morningâ by Ray Nelson â the inspiration for the movie âThey Live!â *** Left-handedness: once a mark of the devil, now a unique trait celebrated across the globe. From the Salem Witch Trials to modern-day challenges with spiral notebooks, left-handers have been forced to navigate a world designed for righties, despite the historical stigmas, surprising advantages, and the evolving recognition of left-handers in combat, culture, and commerce. (Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil) *** In the shadow of Switzerland's majestic Eiger mountain, 29-year-old Aidan Roche vanished without a trace during a solo hiking trip. Despite an unlocked camper-van and one last eerie messages sent from the trail, his disappearance remained shrouded in mystery. Months later, a grim discovery brought more questions than answers. (The Disappearance of Aidan Roche) *** In the summer of 1948, a series of inexplicable fires ravaged the Willey farm near Macomb, Illinois, destroying the family's home and barns. Despite the efforts of local authorities and the U.S. Air Force, no logical explanation could be found for the hundreds of mysterious blazes that seemed to start spontaneously. At the center of this baffling case was 13-year-old Wanet McNeil, whose alleged confession to arson left many unconvinced. Was Wanet truly responsible? Could she have been starting the fires with her mind? (The Macomb Firestarter) *** In 1991, 63-year-old Vasile Gorgos left his home in Romania to visit a cattle market and never returned, leaving his family to believe he had met a tragic fate. But 30 years later, Vasile shocked everyone when he mysteriously reappeared, wearing the same clothes as the day he vanished and carrying an unused train ticket from 1991 in his pocket. With no memory of where he'd been for three decades, Vasile's strange case has left people wondering if his disappearance could be tied to supernatural phenomena like portals, alien abduction, or shifts in time and space itself. (The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = âEight OâClock In The Morningâ (short fiction)
00:12:38.092 = Show Open
00:15:46.852 = Mimic In The Mirror: Are Aliens Among Us? ***
00:26:13.246 = Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil
00:32:35.305 = The Disappearance of Aidan Roche ***
00:38:57.889 = The Macomb Firestarter
00:48:20.167 = The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos ***
00:55:50.605 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âEight OâClock In The Morningâ by Ray Nelson: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mu7tmynm
âMimic In The Mirrorâ source: Sean Casteel at Spectral Vision: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckjpyz8
BOOK: âMimics â The Others Among Usâ by Sean Casteel and Tim R. Swartz: https://amzn.to/3Ws07IJ
BOOK: âSky Crash Throughout Time (A Cosmic Conspiracy)â by Philip Kinsella and Brenda Butler: https://amzn.to/3WlE2v2
âLeft-Handers Are In League With The Devilâ source: Baiily Benningfield at Rankerâs Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8acbdh
âThe Disappearance of Aidan Rocheâ source: Strange Outdoors: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrxvj87r
âThe Macomb Firestarterâ by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7dbzmh (used with permission)âThe Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgosâ source: Marcus Lowth at UFO Insight:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jxztu8nd
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Originally aired: April 30, 2024
In this episode of Weird Darkness, listeners move through alien impostors, the long history of left-handed stigma, a hiker who vanished in the Swiss Alps, a farm besieged by fires no one could explain, and a Romanian cattle trader who came home after thirty years.It opens with the mimics. Ray Nelson's 1963 story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" â the basis for John Carpenter's 1988 film "They Live" â imagined reptilian aliens ruling Earth from behind human faces, and the 2023 book "Mimics: The Others Among Us" argues that scenario may not be fiction. The book collects accounts like that of Brenda Butler, co-author of a book on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, who in 1984 met a tall, blue-eyed man calling himself David Daniels and claiming to be from the Pleiades star cluster, then watched his skin turn scaly and reptilian before he shifted back to human. It recounts author Chris Holly's memory of a strikingly similar white-haired, blue-eyed family she later connected to the extraterrestrial "Tall Whites," alongside cases of living ghosts, doppelgangers, and a 1970s poltergeist blamed on a mimic wearing a teenage girl's face.From there the episode traces why left-handedness was treated as sinister for centuries. During the Salem Witch Trials, favoring the left hand could bring an accusation of witchcraft, and as late as the 1970s schools still forced left-handed children to write with their right. The Book of Matthew places the righteous on the right and the cursed on the left, the Zulu scalded children's left hands to stop their use, and communities along the Niger River tied left-handed cooking to witchcraft â while the ancient Celts prized left-handed warriors, Rome read left-side omens as favorable, and the Inca chief Lloque Yupanqui was admired for his left-handedness. The stigma softened by the late 1960s, when William Gruby opened Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. to sell scissors, kitchen tools, and watches built for lefties.Next comes the disappearance of Aidan Roche, a 29-year-old chemical engineer from Middlesbrough who vanished on June 22nd, 2023, while hiking the Eiger Trail in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. His campervan sat unlocked and abandoned near the trailhead with everything inside intact, and his final messages placed him two hours from Grindelwald in clear weather on a well-traveled path. Swiss police, mountain rescue teams, dogs, and drones searched for five days, and his brothers Connor and Niall raised over ÂŁ30,000 for helicopter surveillance and screen advertisements in twenty-four locations, yet found nothing until September 24th, 2023, when Aidan's body was discovered near the trail with the cause of death still unreleased.The episode then settles on the Willey farm outside Macomb, Illinois, where hundreds of fires broke out in the summer of 1948. They started on August 7th as small brown spots that appeared on the living room wallpaper, spread, smoldered, and burst into flame â more than 200 of them in one week, igniting curtains, an ironing board, and newspapers sealed inside a closed cupboard, often erupting on walls and ceilings while witnesses watched. The blazes consumed the farmhouse on August 14th and both barns soon after, drew over 1,000 spectators on August 22nd, and even brought in the U.S. Air Force, which floated directed radiation from the Russians as a possible cause. Officials declared the case solved on August 30th by pinning it on 13-year-old Wanet McNeil, who confessed to using kitchen matches after hours of questioning despite never being seen holding any; psychiatrist Dr. Sophie Schroeder found her mentally normal, researcher Vincent Gaddis called it poltergeist activity, and Fire Chief Fred Wilson retired still convinced something unexplainable had happened.The episode closes with Vasile Gorgos, a 63-year-old cattle trader from BacÄu, Romania, who left for a market in 1991 and disappeared for three decades. His wife reported him missing, an extensive police search turned up no trace, and his family eventually held a ceremony and accepted that he was dead. On a Sunday afternoon in August 2021, a car pulled up outside his old house and drove off before anyone could read the plate, leaving behind a 93-year-old Vasile in the same clothes he had worn in 1991, carrying an unused train ticket from that year and an old identity card listing an address in another part of Romania. Doctor -
A waterlogged model boat that keeps appearing wherever Professor Anders goes â dripping, shivering, impossible to be rid of â carries a name, a drowning, and a debt that refuses to stay buried.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âThe Avocado Jungleâ (April 20, 1978) ***WD
00:46:14.846 = BBC Radio 4 / Radio 7, âThe Boat Hookâ (April 15, 1992)
01:30:17.027 = Night Beat, âFive Days Off For Christmasâ (December 21, 1951) ***WD
01:58:08.526 = Beyond The Green Door, âMr. Fritz-Hugh And Poisoned Knife Bladeâ (1966)
02:02:01.418 = Campbell Playhouse, âA Christmas Carolâ (December 24, 1939) ***WD
03:00:24.073 = Box 13, âThe Dowager And Dan Holidayâ (November 16, 1949)
03:27:06.293 = Calling All Cars, âCookie Vejar Killingâ (December 27, 1933)
03:56:51.245 = Casey Crime Photographer, âRed Raincoatâ (August 29, 1946)
04:26:26.709 = CBC Mystery Theater, âThe Ghost Town Hermitâ (May 19, 1967) ***WD
04:57:04.004 = 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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A 2-year-old in Chambers County was found bound at the wrists, legs, and ankles and left face-down on a bed for more than half a day, and one of the two suspects was dead by his own hand before the arrest ever came.
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A man climbed into the waste tank beneath a portable toilet to fish out a dropped bottle of Mountain Dew, and stayed there long enough to require power tools and a fire hose.
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A murderer insists he is perfectly sane, even as he explains in careful detail how he killed the old man and hid the body beneath the floorboards.
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When Martian invaders armed with deadly alien weapons arrive in the Kentucky hills to test their arsenal on unsuspecting humans, they make the fatal mistake of choosing Lem Coyâthe local moonshiner's 'simple' son who's too dumb to die and strong enough to make extraterrestrials wish they'd stayed home.
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SOURCES and RESOURCES: âThe Martians And The Coysâ by Mark Reynolds, originally published in âImagination Stories of Science and Fantasy,â June 1951
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 21, 2026 -
A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that theft and worse would be so easy.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âMurder at Troyteâs Hillâ (April 17, 1978) ***WD
00:45:26.180 = Weird Circle, âMarkheimâ (May 20, 1945)
01:13:15.849 = The Whistler, âReturn of Innocentâ (April 02, 1945)
01:42:35.169 = Strange Wills, âMargin For Loveâ (September 07, 1946)
02:12:13.142 = Witchâs Tale, âSuicideâ (January 22, 1937) ***WD
02:35:32.097 = X-Minus-1, âThe Moon Is Greenâ (January 02, 1957)
03:03:54.289 = Zero Hour, âMind of the Beholderâ (May 21, 1974) ***WD
03:21:09.669 = ABC Mystery Time, âMy Adventure in Norfolkâ (1957) ***WD (LQ)
03:45:10.191 = Strange Adventure, âThe Friendly Ghostâ (1945) ***WD
03:48:27.530 = Arch Obelerâs Plays, âAnother Worldâ (July 29, 1939) ***WD (LQ)
04:17:11.933 = Barrie Craig, âThe Case of the Borrowed Knifeâ (November 07, 1951)
04:45:37.476 = 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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A serial killer who kept his victims' heads, a woman held under a waterbed for seven years, and a phantom passenger who vanishes from the back seat â the open road has taken more than its share.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The open road is a beautiful place where you can make friends that youâd otherwise never meet and have adventures that will change your life. But there are also extreme dangers to traveling with strangers on highways and backroads. No matter how trustworthy or well-intentioned a driver might seem, it's nearly impossible to tell if they are actually a predator or murderer, preying upon innocent hitchhikers. Creepy, true hitchhiker stories can make you think twice before picking up that stranger at the side of the road - or trying to "thumb it" yourself.
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âThe Hitchhikerâ original story at the beginning of this episode was written by HoneyBunny00:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8b53e2
âHitchhiking Horror Storiesâ by Isadora Teich for Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3yj8t3ka, by Jacob Shelton for Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2s4a2wkz, Eric Redding for ThoughtCatalog.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hk8pn8rf, and from ScaryCarries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2aead59t
âPhantom Hitchhikersâ posted at Anomalien.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y4dxkv7m, Kelly Agan for Medium.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/36wucpzm, Paul Adams for The History Press:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8z538u, and Krystal DeCosta for ScientificAmerican.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr29nkpa
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Originally aired: January, 2021
Weird Darkness gathers the true horrors of the open road and the ghosts said to haunt it, moving from real hitchhiker murders across the United States and abroad to the phantom passengers who vanish from the back seat before the ride is over.It opens with the account of a newly married couple driving through a rainstorm who stop for a soaked hitchhiker, drop him at a crossroads, and later break down on a dark stretch of highway, only for the wife to wake to police floodlights and the sight of the same man atop their car with a machete over her husband's dismembered body, an escaped prison inmate cut down by gunfire moments after she runs.From there the show turns to a long run of documented and reported cases. Jacci Ansell-Lamb was last seen hitchhiking from London toward Manchester in May 1970 and found sexually assaulted and strangled with electrical wire outside Knutsford, England, a killing police have linked to serial murderer Peter Tobin though no suspect was ever charged. A German traveler on foot near Timaru, New Zealand had all his belongings stolen by a man in a white Honda in February 2016. Along Australia's outback near the cattle town of Hughenden, as many as twelve hitchhikers including eighteen-year-old Catherine Graham and thirty-two-year-old Tony Jones turned up dead over roughly two decades on a stretch dubbed the Highway of Death, the murders still unsolved. On May 19, 1977, twenty-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking to a friend's birthday in California when Cameron Hooker picked her up and held her as a sex slave for seven years, keeping her in a box beneath his waterbed until his wife helped her escape in 1984 and Hooker drew a 104-year sentence.Next comes the case of Edmund Kemper, the six-foot-nine "Co-ed Killer" born December 18, 1948, who shot his grandmother and grandfather at fifteen, was released from a psychiatric hospital into his mother's care, and between May 1972 and February 1973 picked up hitchhiking female students, killed and decapitated them, and had sex with the corpses before murdering his mother with a claw hammer on Good Friday 1973 and phoning the same local police he drank with to confess. Woven among these are firsthand accounts shared online, among them a driver whose kindness reportedly talked a would-be killer out of his plan, a New Zealand couple who vanished in 1989 near Thames leading to the disputed conviction of David Tamihere, and a backpacker in Austria who fled a trucker's advances barefoot at a gas station.From there the episode moves deeper into unsolved and predatory cases. Between 1972 and 1973 the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders claimed at least seven women in Sonoma County, California, beginning with nineteen-year-old Kim Wendy Allen found bound and strangled in a creek bed on March 5, 1972, and including twelve-year-olds Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber, thirteen-year-old Lori Lee Kursa, fourteen-year-old Carolyn Davis, and twenty-three-year-old Theresa Walsh, the case never closed. The segment also gathers the crimes of clown-costumed killer John Wayne Gacy, trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson who dragged one victim beneath his rig, photographer Joseph Naso the "Alphabet Killer," the spree killers Douglas Gretzler and Willie Steelman, and sadistic trucker Ben Rhoades, caught when an Arizona trooper found a shackled woman inside his cab.The episode closes on the phantom hitchhiker, tracing the folk formula of the vanishing passenger before laying out the strongest real-world cases. One belongs to Maria Roux, killed on the N9 near Uniondale, South Africa on Good Friday 1968, whose specter was reported by driver Anton Le Grange in 1976 and motorcyclist Dawie Van Jaarsveld in 1978, her rear door seen opening and closing by a following officer. Another is "Lydia" of Jamestown, North Carolina, the white-gowned figure sighted at a railroad underpass since the 1920s and possibly rooted in the 1920 traffic death of Annie Jackson on the High Point Road. The final account belongs to carpet fitter Roy Fulton of Dunstable, England, who picked up a silent young man on Station Road near Stanbridge on October 12, 1979, turned to offer him a cigarette, and found the seat empty, a story he repeated without change on Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers in 1985. -
A Baldwin County 911 call brought deputies to a Daphne family's front yard, where a mother lay dead and a father had run house to house leaving bloody handprints on the doors.
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A Pennsylvania man came home to an opened bottle of wine, a bedroom light he swore he'd left off, and the woman he'd stopped dating months earlier shouting his name through the glass.
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You can rent a bedroom where a little girl in a yellow dress still hums lullabies, a miner's casita in a Texas ghost town, or a schoolhouse tucked inside a working cemetery â and every one of these haunted Airbnbs is bookable tonight.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Spending the night in a haunted house is always unnerving, but would you pay for the experience? If youâre looking for a spooky escape, maybe you could try a haunted AirBNB! You might not rest in peace in these haunted homes, but you're bound to have a memorable night preparing for paranormal activity, seeking the supernatural, and greeting ghosts. (Book A Stay At a Haunted AirBNB) *** Sawney Bean, said to be the leader of a 45-member clan in Scotland, is infamously accused of murdering and cannibalizing over 1,000 people in the early 16th century. His story inspired the horror film, âThe Hills Have Eyes.â But did Sawney Bean ever truly exist? (The Man Who Inspired âThe Hills Have Eyesâ) *** Nestled in the Kentish Weald, the quaint village of Stalisfield boasts a thousand-year-old church and timeless tranquility. But beneath its serene surface, whispers of ancient pagan rites and dark ceremonies linger. Could the chilling past of sacrificial rituals still echo through the village today? (The Stalisfield Blade) *** As dusk fell, a pickup truck pulled up to a motel outside Tarzana. Inside, Brother Elzibah and his monks prepared for a perilous mission, recording martyr statements and arming themselves with explosives. Their target on December 10, 1958: Krishna Venta, a self-styled prophet in Box Canyon. This night promised a dramatic showdown that would mark a violent chapter in the history of American spiritual communes, and the countryâs cults. (The Bizarre Story Behind The Suicide Bombing Of A Southern California Cult)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:41.053 = Show Open
00:04:08.300 = Book A Stay At a Haunted AirBNB
00:27:56.736 = The Man Who Inspired âThe Hills Have Eyesâ ***
00:32:42.960 = The Stalisfield Blade
00:40:06.667 = The Bizarre Story Behind the Suicide Bombing of a Southern California Cult ***
00:51:40.417 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âThe Stalisfield Bladeâ by Ken DaSilva-Hill (used with permission)
âThe Bizarre Story Behind The Suicide Bombing Of A SoCal Cultâ by Mattew Duersten, LAist, December 10, 2018: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4s27xpf7
âThe Man Who Inspired âThe Hills Have Eyesââ source: Leah Silverman at AllThatsInteresting.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8zy3ec
âBook A Stay At a Haunted AirBNBâ sources: Lauren Mack at TimeOut.com, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4h75fc6c; Daily Barringer and Caitlin Morton at Thrillest.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8eubbj; Jersey Griggs at TheDiscoverer.com, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yttxryn6; Marissa Laliberte at Readerâs Digest:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p86y2em; Julie Pennell at Today.com, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2kwzmdfs; Alexa Erickson at FamilyHandyman.com, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8w39nh
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Originally aired: April 29, 2024
This episode of Weird Darkness roams from haunted rental homes you can book for the night to a Scottish cannibal legend, a Kentish village's whispered sacrifice rites, and the dynamite that ended a Southern California cult.It opens with a tour of haunted Airbnbs scattered across the United States and beyond, from Hobo Hill House in Jefferson City, Missouri â a 1910 American Foursquare where sightings of a man in a top hat drove the Clark family out and onto "The Dead Files" â to the Parks-Bowman Mansion in New Orleans, where guests booking the dead girl's bedroom report a young spirit in a yellow dress who hums lullabies and paces with a limp. The Kahn Hotel in Jefferson, Texas has logged over 300 paranormal investigations and one recording of a woman's scream followed by a gunshot; Farnam Manor in Richfield, Ohio traces its haunting to the owner's daughter drowning in a well in 1834; and a converted 1900 schoolhouse sits inside Cedar Park Cemetery in Hudson, New York, complete with an 18th-century opium wedding bed. The Creole Mansion in New Orleans, built in 1855 for Louise Vitry, and the Terlingua ghost-town casita overlooking Big Bend round out a list that stretches from Salem, Massachusetts to York, England.From there the episode turns to Sawney Bean, the legendary patriarch of a 45-member clan said to have lived in Bennane Cave along the Scottish coast, robbing, murdering, and cannibalizing more than 1,000 travelers across roughly 25 years before King James VI led a manhunt that ended in the men being executed and the women burned at the stake. Historical records first mention Bean in 1755, a century after he supposedly lived, and Scottish historian Dr. Louise Yeoman argues the tale may have started as English propaganda, with the name "Sawney" serving as a period slur against Scots. Wes Craven credited the Bean legend as the direct inspiration for his film The Hills Have Eyes.Next comes Stalisfield, a tiny hamlet in the Kentish Weald with a thousand-year-old church and The Plough Inn, where old villagers speak of pagan harvest rites tied to a flint sacrifice knife hewn from Kentish stone. The stories describe animals slaughtered on a sarsen stone and, in the darkest tellings, a golden-haired virgin tied to a stake, dismembered with the flint blade, her blood collected in a golden vessel and her ashes mixed with seed and scattered into the corners of the fields â corners locals still avoid after dark, marked by their overgrowth.The episode closes with Krishna Venta, born Francis Herman Pencovic in San Francisco in 1911, a barefoot self-styled prophet who claimed to have been born half a million years earlier on a planet called Neophrates and founded the WKFL Foundation on a 23-acre glen in Box Canyon. Two disaffected monks, Ralph Muller and Peter Kamenoff â who had taken the names Elzibah and Jeroham and accused Venta of sleeping with their wives â recorded martyr statements at a Tarzana motel and drove to the commune on December 10, 1958 with twenty sticks of dynamite in a musette bag. The blast lifted the top off the stone monastery, was heard more than 20 miles away, and killed ten people, including Venta, Cardinal Gene, and two children from the dormitories, seven-year-old Keela Baker and eleven-year-old Elwyn; survivors later scattered into other movements, among them members who died in Jonestown alongside Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in 1978. -
Two crossed pencils, a sheet of paper marked yes and no, and a name spoken twice â and by the time an Italian priest was called into a Calabrian primary school, the children had already asked Charlie their questions. | July 19, 2026
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HOUR ONE: Just because the Ouija board is made by a board game manufacturer does not mean it should be treated like a toy â as many have discovered. *** The similar game, Charlie Charlie seems more innocent â but is so dangerous that in one school where children were playing it, they had to call in an exorcist. *** And you never know when playing any of these types of games what kind of spirit you might be inviting into our realm â but I can tell you thisâŠ. Itâs never good. They might pretend to be good, but thatâs far from the truth. And one particular demon has found notoriety through the Ouija board community, a demon you donât want to risk opening a door for. Itâs name is Zozo.
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HOUR TWO: Did lost cosmonauts make it into space before Yuri Gagarin? (The Tombs in Space) *** Don't take a gift from Gracie Watson's grave... or her life-like statue might cry tears of blood. (Gracieâs Ghost) *** Did Bonnie Scott run away? Was she kidnapped? Murdered perhaps? All anyone knew was that no one had a clue where she was. She had simply disappeared without a trace. (The Murder of Bonnie Leigh Scott) *** A latchkey kid comes home to an empty house⊠or so they thought until they heard footsteps in another room. (The Laundry Room)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: People often encounter strange and frightening things when they experience sleep paralysis â but in one particular story, the horrors began well before going to bed. (Sleep Paralysis in Bangkok) *** Samuel Joselyn was buried in 1810 in a North Carolina cemetery. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Samuel was actually DEAD at the time of his burial! (Buried Alive in Wilmington) *** in 1894 Rosa Lochner was a witness to murder, but she had been deaf since birth and her spoken vocabulary was limited. So how could she testify against the accused? (Murder In Pantomime) *** A boy wakes to find his previously closed curtains now open â and the only explanation involves a previous resident of the house heâs now living in. (Strange Manifestations) *** Mention the word âChupacabraâ and most people will think of a strange, hairless dog-like animal. They are never described as having the ability to fly⊠until now. (Winged Chupacabras) *** These UFOs arenât shiny metallic discs or cigar-shaped spaceships. They are humanoid â and they fly without the help of a jetpack, wings, cape or even a broom to sit on. And the sightings are still coming in all throughout Mexico. (The Flying Humanoids of Mexico) *** The North Carolina Cherokee have a story about how dangerous it can be even near a calm river â where the waters can suddenly foam and a giant beast can appear on the rocks. (James and the Giant Leech) *** Supernatural women, shadowy men, odd animal sightings, and more⊠they can all be found at late-night truck stops if youâre not careful. (Truck Stop Horror Stories)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHTâS SHOW:
âCharlie Charlieâ https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ydpwych9, and âOuija Boardsâ https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mzyfmweeby Jacob Shelton for Graveyard Shift
âZoZo the Ouija Board Demonâ by Maggie Clendenin for Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/xtc8x9pe
âThe Tombs in Spaceâ posted at The Unredacted: http://ow.ly/nW5U30mwbWw
âGracieâs Ghostâ by Gary Sweeney for The Line Up: http://ow.ly/arFz30mwaLc
âThe Murder of Bonnie Leigh Scottâ by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: http://ow.ly/v6wX30mwbwW
âThe Laundry Roomâ submitted anonymously to Weird Darkness
âSleep Paralysis in Bangkokâ by MarkiO for YourGhostStories.com: http://ow.ly/FUOD30mwc0C
âTruckstop Horror Storiesâ by Erin McCann for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/wldxxnl
âBuried Alive in Wilmingtonâ by TheresaHPIR for Theresaâs Haunted History of the Tri-State: https://tinyurl.com/rr4cvoh
âMurder in Pantomimeâ by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/y97rswf5
âStrange Manifestationâ by Brian Abraham posted at My Haunted Life Too: https://tinyurl.com/wmlzd22
âWinged Chupacabrasâ by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/th8p7ox
âThe Flying Humanoids of Mexicoâ by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/urxujoc
âJames and the Giant Leechâ by James Mooney from the book âMyths of the Cherokeeâ: https://amzn.to/2JHpUFo
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A fortune-teller's crystal globe shows his clients a single vision of their own deaths â and one by one, they begin to make it come true.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âChapter of Errorsâ (April 14, 1978) ***WD
00:46:44.968 = The Shadow, âThe Crystal Globeâ (October 03, 1943) ***WD
01:15:25.364 = Sleep No More, âEscape of Mr. Trimmâ (March 13, 1957) ***WD
01:44:07.395 = BBC SpineChillers, âRitualsâ (1984)
02:10:33.653 = Strange, âThe Ghost Trainâ (September 18, 1955)
02:24:07.878 = Suspense, âSneak Previewâ (March 23, 1944)
02:53:48.488 = Tales of the Frightened, âVoice From The Graveâ (1957)
02:58:36.645 = The Creaking Door, âDonât Take My Bloodâ (January 05, 1965) ***WD
03:29:31.418 = The Saint, âThe Saint Goes Undergroundâ (December 17, 1947) ***WD
03:53:55.525 = Tales From The Tomb, âSpirits of the Deadâ (1960s)
03:56:08.118 = 2000 Plus, âRocket And Skullâ (October 10, 1951) ***WD
04:24:16.114 = The Unexpected, âTwilight Meetingâ (1948) ***WD
04:36:22.835 = Unsolved Mysteries, âRue Morgue Mysteryâ (June 17, 1942) ***WD
04:51:16.528 = 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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A film crew arrives at Wicklow Manor to shoot on location, where a centuries-old legend says a mandrake's shriek lures the heartbroken to their deaths from the tower â and within a day of filming, two men fall.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âShriek of the Mandrakeâ (April 13, 1978) ***WDZ
00:46:51.627 = Peril, âLast Manâ (1953) ***WD
01:13:31.419= Mystery Playhouse, âFifty Candlesâ (July 25, 1944) ***WD (LQ)
01:43:17.831 = Price of Fear, âOut of the Mouthsâ (June 20, 1983)
02:10:43.064 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, âMan In The Streetâ (December 04, 1947) ***WD
02:39:53.920 = Quiet Please, âDark Rosaleenâ (March 13, 1949)
03:09:16.689 = Radio City Playhouse, âDeceptionâ (November 20, 1949) ***WD
03:37:20.995 = Suspense, âCat â Audition Episodeâ (October 21, 1946) ***WD
03:53:18.121 = Sam Spade, âConvertible Caperâ (June 15, 1947) ***WD
04:16:34.427 = The Sealed Book, âAccusing Corpseâ (April 29, 1945)
04:46:03.073 = The Shadow, âThe Gibbering Thingâ (September 26, 1943)
05:14:27.773 = 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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Everyone hears "bottomless pit" and braces for a sermon about hell â this one goes somewhere stranger, to the only hole in all of Scripture that keeps what you throw in.
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A chemist, lost on a lonely country road at nightfall, keeps glimpsing a laughing little girl no one else in the isolated mansion will admit exists.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âChildish Laughterâ (April 10, 1978)
00:44:45.782 = Mystery In The Air, âMask of Medusaâ (September 04, 1947) ***WD
01:13:44.235 = Molle Mystery Theater, ââFurther Adventures of Kenny Andrewsâ (May 10, 1946) ***WD
01:43:04.502 = Mr. Keen, âThe Strange Displayâ (March 16, 1944) ***WD
02:11:54.148 = Murder at Midnight, âDead Handâ (May 01, 1950) ***WD
02:35:49.001 = The Black Museum, âThe Straight Razorâ (November 11, 1952) ***WD
03:01:04.966 = Mysterious Traveler, âThe Haunted Trailerâ (June 03, 1952)
03:33:30.017 = CBC Nightfall, âLove And The Lonely Oneâ (July 04, 1980) ***WD
03:56:45.698 = Obsession, âTailored For Murderâ (February 26, 1951) ***WD
04:24:03.027 = Origin of Superstition, âBoogey Manâ (1935)
04:38:19.922 = Pat Novak For Hire, âRubin Callaways Picturesâ (March 13, 1949)
05:06:43.866 = Show Close
(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
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A nervous first visit to his girlfriend's rural Alberta home turns into a late-night hunting trip with her father, and something in the pines is watching them both.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-thepack
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âThe Packâ by MisterNailBrain75: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-pack/
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Originally aired: July 19, 2026 -
A child's mutilated torso surfaced from the Thames near Shakespeare's Globe in 2001, and more than two decades later no one has been convicted of killing the boy investigators could only call Adam.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TorsoInTheThames
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3h6yrmk5
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most people, when they think of the end of their lives, want to feel that they have accomplished something of significance. To leave a lasting legacy. But it is much more rare for someone to accomplish something significant â after they are dead! (Done By The Dead) *** Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton was a pillar of society in Baltimore, Maryland in the late 1800s. That is, until she was accused of murdering General William Scott Ketchum. (The Baltimore Borgia) *** For every legitimate and fascinating find by geologists, there seems to be a fraudulent find somewhere else trying to fool the masses. This has been a problem since geology became a thing â and one of the most fascinating of these true tales is the one about Baringerâs Lying Stones. (The Lying Stones) *** A strange, ape-like creature with glowing eyes in England might really be, as some believe, a specter of the night. (Man-Monkey of the Night) *** Itâs hard to understand how human sacrifice has ever been a reality in any point in history â but what if you were to learn that evidence of it showed up in London, England⊠in 2001? (Torso In The River) *** A would-be geisha murders her lover⊠but the events leading up to and during the death make for a fascinatingly dark story. (The Murderess Geisha) *** When it comes to spectral animals, weâre more than familiar with black dogs or hell hounds, ghostly cats, horses carrying a headed or headless phantom, even a ghost bear rumored to haunt the Tower of London⊠but have you ever heard of the American Southwestâs ghost camels? (Americaâs Ghost Camels)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:02:24.699 = Americaâs Ghost Camels
00:09:18.422 = Done By The Dead ***
00:22:00.457 = The Baltimore Borgia ***
00:27:35.655 = The Lying Stones
00:36:08.415 = Torso In The River ***
00:42:13.573 = The Murderess Geisha
00:54:03.666 = Man-Monkey of the Night ***
00:58:48.550 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âMan-Monkey Of The Nightâ by Nick Redfern for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdhdevrr
âDone By The Deadâ by Kyle D. Walter for ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y62afnj6
âAmericaâs Ghost Camelsâ by Kathy Weiser-Alexander for LegendsOfAmerica.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p979beb
âThe Baltimore Borgiaâ by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y2whacb9
âTorso In The Riverâ by Richard Hoskins for MysteryConfidential.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdd5u543
âThe Murderess Geishaâ by Dr. Romeo Vitelli for Providentia: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yzy4v3wy
âThe Lying Stonesâ by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p854d9e
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Originally aired: January, 2021
This episode of Weird Darkness moves from ghost camels haunting the Arizona desert to corpses that kept making history after death, a Baltimore poisoning that gripped a courtroom for weeks, a professor fooled by carved stones, a child's murder in the Thames that London police have never solved, a Tokyo geisha who killed the man she loved, and a glowing-eyed creature on an English canal bridge.It opens in the American southwest, where the U.S. War Department imported some seventy-two camels in 1857 to haul supplies, only to turn the animals loose in the desert when the Civil War broke out and the soldiers tired of their foul temper and habit of spooking horses. Wild camels roamed Arizona for decades afterward, and one became legend as the Red Ghost â a beast blamed for trampling a woman to death in 1883 and later seen carrying a dead man lashed to its back, a rider who eventually decayed until a human skull dropped from the saddle in front of a group of startled prospectors. An Arizona farmer finally shot the animal in 1893, still wearing the leather straps that had held its corpse rider in place.From there the episode turns to figures who kept shaping the world after they died. A gang of Chicago counterfeiters led by "Big Jim" Kennally plotted in 1876 to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his Springfield tomb and ransom it for a jailed engraver, foiled by a Secret Service informant working for the very agency Lincoln himself had signed into existence. A grave robber broke into George Washington's crypt at Mount Vernon in 1830 hunting the president's skull and made off with the wrong one. The British philosopher Jeremy Bentham left instructions to have his body dissected and mummified, and it sits on display at University College London to this day. And in the ninth century Pope Stephen VI dug up his predecessor Formosus, dressed the rotting corpse in papal vestments, propped it up for trial, found it guilty, and had it thrown into the Tiber.Next comes Baltimore in 1871, where Elizabeth Wharton, a respected society widow, hosted General William Scott Ketchum in her home on Hamilton Place until he fell suddenly ill and died with twenty grains of tartar emetic in his stomach â fifteen is enough to kill. Police discovered she had bought sixty grains days earlier, and a financial advisor named Eugene Van Ness nearly died the same way after she served him a drink. Her forty-two-day poison trial in Annapolis exhausted the medical and chemical experts of the day, and after deliberating through the night the jury acquitted her of murder.The episode then crosses to Germany, where Johann Beringer, a celebrated professor at the University of WĂŒrzburg, spent 1725 collecting strange carved stones dug up on Mount Eibelstadt by teenage boys he had hired â figures of birds, lizards, comets, and the name of God rendered in Hebrew. Convinced they were the handiwork of God himself, he published a book on them called the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis, only to learn the nearly two thousand stones had been planted by two envious colleagues, J. Ignatz Roderick and Johann Georg von Eckhart, who thought him an arrogant know-it-all and wanted to humble him.From an academic hoax the episode moves to an unsolved horror. On September 21st, 2001, a child's headless, limbless torso surfaced from the Thames near the Globe Theatre, wrapped in orange cloth, and London's Metropolitan Police could give the boy no name but Adam. Forensic analysis of poison and minerals in his remains traced him to the Benin region of Nigeria and showed he had been paralyzed and drained of blood in what investigators believed was a muti ritual killing. Nelson Mandela made an international appeal for information, and traffickers including Kingsley Ojo and a caregiver named Joyce Osagiede were investigated, but no one has ever been convicted and the boy's true identity has never been confirmed.The episode carries that darkness into 1936 Tokyo, where Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida in an inn after a days-long affair, then took a kitchen knife to his body and carried a severed part of him away in her handbag. Her capture two days later set off a national obsession the papers called "Sada mania," and her testimony about killing the man she refused to share became a bestseller in a country where such candor was scandalous. She was sentenced to six years, served her time as a model prisoner, and vanished from public life sometime after 1970.The episode closes on a cold English night in January 1879, when a furniture hauler crossing Bridge 39 over the Shropshire Union Canal near the village of Ranton was charged by a shaggy, ape-like creature with glowing eyes that leapt onto his cart and terrified his horse. When he swung his whip at the thing, the lash passed straight through its body, and the creature bolted down toward the canal and vanished. The folklorist Charlotte Burne later learned from the village constable that the sightings had begun only days after a man drowned in that same canal, in a place where people believed a violent death could send someone back in the shape of a beast. -
Max spends his Friday nights broadcasting homemade radio signals toward the Kuiper Belt hoping to reach alien life, and one summer evening, something finally answers back.
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A late-shift barista alone in a small-town cafe finds himself watched by a bald, mud-smeared stranger in a spotless black suit â a man who leaks something dark from his mouth and refuses to leave.
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SOURCES and RESOURCES: âBlack Sludgeâ by Time Freak: https://www.creepypasta.com/black-sludge/
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