For a few terrifying hours in the summer of 1955, two Kentucky families emptied their guns into small, glowing creatures that swarmed their farmhouse and simply would not die — and to this day, no one agrees on whether they fought off aliens, owls, or something the mind conjured out of the dark. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/kellyhopkinsville READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p86wb4m FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPI...
Jul 03, 2026•57 min
“The House And The Brain”: A skeptical scientist who swears the supernatural is nonsense spends one night in a house no tenant will stay in—and discovers a terror that follows him out the door. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Myste...
Jul 02, 2026•5 hr 17 min
The astronomer who says an alien light sail may have passed Earth in 2017 now leads a government team asked to figure out what the military's mystery orbs really are. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/loeb-ufo-council Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* Weird...
Jul 02, 2026•7 min
Called to a shuttered Queens elementary school over a foul smell, an exterminator opened the ash dump and found a shoe, then a foot — a man's body wedged in the chimney, still unidentified. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/school-chimney-body Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narrat...
Jul 02, 2026•4 min
“Crazy Town”: Two bomber pilots who rain death on defenseless villages crash behind the walls of a hidden asylum, where a soft-spoken madman insists they've finally come home to the only community where killers like them belong. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show ...
Jul 02, 2026•5 hr 6 min
In 1917, a dead Mark Twain "wrote" a novel through a Ouija board — and the lawsuit that followed forced everyone to ask who really owns a book authored from the afterlife. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ghostwriting READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/366f2sny FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Did Mark Twain write a new novel after he was dead? If so, how? *** Though David Parker Ray's girlfriend Cindy Hendy helped ...
Jul 02, 2026•1 hr 8 min
The man appointed to lead one of FEMA's most important disaster-response offices had told podcast audiences he was once physically teleported roughly fifty miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/fema-teleport RELATED ARTICLE FROM APRIL 2026: https://weirddarkness.com/fema-teleportation/ Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free list...
Jul 01, 2026•4 min
Five months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the FBI now believes none of the ransom notes tied to her disappearance are genuine — including the two her family thought were real. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260701 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Nar...
Jul 01, 2026•6 min
A search of a Budapest apartment turned up skulls, a severed hand, a lower leg, and a heart in a jar — and the hospital orderly who lived there told police he had prepared and eaten human body parts. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/BudapestCannibal Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The...
Jul 01, 2026•6 min
A man who met a woman through online video gaming flew from Canada to Salinas, hid a set of knives and restraints inside a fake Amazon box, and knocked on her door just before ten at night. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/salinas-amazon-attack Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narr...
Jul 01, 2026•4 min
A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “You Tell Me Your Dreams” (March...
Jul 01, 2026•5 hr 9 min
A roadside stop near Independence Mall led Philadelphia police and the FBI into an Olney basement stacked with chemicals, a 55-gallon drum plumbed into the ground, and an unsigned letter that name-checks Ted Bundy — inside a house tied to two women who vanished years apart. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/horsch Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening app...
Jul 01, 2026•8 min
When the supernatural seeps into our world, it doesn’t just leave behind fear—it can also leave sickness. From shadowy visitors to ominous dreams, some eerie paranormal encounters suggest that the price of witnessing the unknown may be paid in flesh and blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SupernaturalSickness READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hp3ua63c FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: When the supernatural intru...
Jul 01, 2026•1 hr 6 min
A gigantic cigar-shaped craft shadowed a NATO airliner over the Atlantic in 1963, the same year similar motherships appeared over Australia, Canada, and the skies of a Britain overrun by headless creatures and desecrated churches. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/1963DarkForces READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p87kmst FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A “gigantic cigar-shaped UFO” is spotted over the Atlantic in 1...
Jun 30, 2026•58 min
Short-staffed and well past midnight, a young nurse accepts an overnight shift in the one hospital room everyone else refuses to enter — and she experiences something unlike she has before. IN THIS EPISODE: “Silent Ward” by Keith Conrad MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com Originally aired: June 29, 2026 EPISODE PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/SilentWard...
Jun 30, 2026•14 min
I was hacked last night and EVERYTHING I used Gmail for (which is a heckuva lot), I've been locked out of. I am receiving NO emails from anywhere, I can't get into YouTube, I can't recover my account in a timely manner because the hacker has changed the login information, the password, and even the recovery phone number. I was finally able to use a different email address to try and recover, but now I have to wait 48 hours for Google to determine if I'm even who I say I am. I will probably be ou...
Jun 29, 2026•2 min
Decades of alien encounters may not point to other worlds at all, but to a ruined future Earth — where the last survivors of humanity travel back to our present, disguised as the aliens we expect, to harvest the DNA that might save their dying species. ========== HOUR ONE: A Virginia pilot encounters a mysterious golden orb during a skydive flight! *** For those who claim to have spoken with extraterrestrials, they are told the aliens arrive here from other worlds. But what if the so-called alie...
Jun 29, 2026•1 hr 41 min
A skeptical reporter is sent to debunk England's most famous UFO hotspot — but the more nights he spends on Star Hill, the harder it becomes to dismiss what he sees, and the woman who keeps appearing there may be asking him to believe in far more than he ever bargained for. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS...
Jun 29, 2026•4 hr 51 min
In a world that has finally outlawed war, every boy must still report for combat at fifteen — and Tom is about to learn exactly what that means. TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8scp4f “The Invisible Enemy” by Arnold Castle, originally published in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” October 1954 https://weirddarkness.com/invisibleenemy...
Jun 29, 2026•22 min
A bumbling, newly dead ghost can't remember the gestures that would let it leave — so a kindly skeptic offers to help, never guessing what the way out would cost. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/inexperiencedghost READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2x3w7t7v FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A classic from H.G. Wells entitled “The Inexperienced Ghost”. It’s a short story that blends humor with the supernatural. It wa...
Jun 29, 2026•35 min
A broke private eye rides south to explain away a little girl's imaginary friend, and walks out of a pine-country farmhouse convinced the old man pushing her on the swing has been dead for years. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-oldmanonsutterlane TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p84f78k THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: In February 1989, Andy and Lisa Wyrick moved into a brick ranch house on Swint Loop in Ellerslie, Georgia, a small town in Harris...
Jun 28, 2026•31 min
A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift might carry. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Second Sight” (Feb...
Jun 28, 2026•4 hr 53 min
Five prisoners are kept awake for fifteen days in a sealed chamber — and what the researchers find when they open the door no longer wants to be set free. A blockbuster film series trails a string of real-life deaths its cast can't explain. On the back roads of Maryland, a half-goat figure waits for teenagers who wander too far. And one ordinary night in El Paso, a couple walks out of their home — dishes still in the sink, cat unfed — and is never seen again. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources)...
Jun 28, 2026•44 min
A writer obsessed with the occult and forbidden knowledge uncovers a nightmarish secret lurking within a long-abandoned church—one that watches, waits, and is drawn to the dark. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/haunterofthedark READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9ecf8y FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’m back with a classic horror story, requested by one of you, my Weirdo family members. “The Haunter in the Dark”...
Jun 28, 2026•1 hr 7 min
A New York teenager lit a piece of paper, threw it at a sleeping homeless man on a Manhattan subway, and stepped back onto the platform as the doors closed behind him. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/carrero-subway-fire Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026,...
Jun 27, 2026•6 min
Investigators now believe the two February ransom notes sent to the Guthrie family came from the person who took Nancy — and one of them said she was already dead. *** ANYONE WITH INFORMATION CAN CONTACT THE FBI AT 1-800-CALL-FBI, OR THE PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AT 520-351-4900. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260627 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list...
Jun 27, 2026•6 min
Pulled out of Iran after his Strike Eagle went down, an American fighter pilot told intelligence officers he had watched a cluster of drones hover and move together as one body, like a jellyfish, in the seconds before he ejected. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/f15-jellyfish Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *N...
Jun 27, 2026•11 min
Dublin, Ohio spent $67,548 on a five-foot, four-hundred-pound robot that patrolled a parking garage for nearly ten months and never made an arrest, wrote a ticket, or flagged a single incident. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/dubbot READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/10...
Jun 27, 2026•6 min
A grieving farmer's seance vow and a healer's vision of buried iron built the world's only school for talking to the dead — and left the town of Whitewater steeped in legends of witches, haunted cemeteries, and things that crawl out of the lake. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedWhitewater READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WD20260626B-HauntedWhitewater-transcript.txt FEATURED STORIES IN ...
Jun 27, 2026•1 hr 8 min
The circus came overnight, but when it left, three boys were dead—and I was no longer human. *** There are contestants from TV’s reality show “Alone” whom you’ve never seen—because they never made it back. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CircusCameToTown CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:29.387 = When The Circus Came To Town 00:13:52.485 = Alone *** 00:51:09.612 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted a...
Jun 27, 2026•53 min
