PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too: https://weirddarkness.com/twelve-slays-of-christmas/ IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a short horror story from one of my favorite indie authors, Jon Allen. And it’s going to be gruesome one! This story won’t be holly or jolly! SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS… “The Twelves Slays of Christmas” by Jon Allen: http://WriterJonAllen.com Music provided by Alibi Music Library with paid license. = = = = = = ...
Dec 12, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Weirdo Watch Party THIS COMING SATURDAY (Dec 14, 2024): https://weirddarkness.com/tv Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: A female serial killer is described as a “sadistic killer” who reveled in her evil actions while pretending to cure people in her sanitarium. (The Horrors of Doctor Hazzard) *** In a very remote part of Mongolia one person made an incred...
Dec 12, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Weirdo Watch Party THIS COMING SATURDAY (Dec 14, 2024): https://weirddarkness.com/tv Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: The dark and strange history of the Congelier Mansion in Pittsburgh is lost to time, but not to those who’ve heard the stories. (The House The Devil Built) *** A chance meeting brings two people love, then marriage… then jealousy and mur...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Weirdo Watch Party THIS COMING SATURDAY NIGHT! https://weirddarkness.com/tv Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Can You Trust Your Husband” (June 20, 1975) 00:47:12.209 = Mystery In The Air, “Lodger” (August 14, 1947) 01:18:43.789 = Molle Mystery Theater,...
Dec 12, 2024•5 hr 55 min•Transcript available on Metacast THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: In October 2018, 13-year-old Jayme Closs was abducted from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, after her parents were brutally murdered by Jake Patterson, a stranger who had targeted her after seeing her board a school bus. Patterson held Jayme captive in his remote house for nearly three months, forcing her to endure unimaginable conditions, including being confined under a bed for hours with no food or water. Despite the constant fear and abuse, Jayme sei...
Dec 11, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Grin Reaper’s Horror-ible Humor! Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/isfeargoodforyou-grinreaper/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.
Dec 11, 2024•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: The Wendigo is terrifying enough – with its backstory claiming it is the creation of a person who chose to become a cannibal, and ended up twisting up into the legendary monster. But that’s just it – so far, it’s only just a legend. We have no solid proof of its existence. But even more horrifying than the Wendigo is Wen...
Dec 11, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: For decades, firefighters at the Chicago Fire Department noticed an eerie hand print that left a permanent mark on a casement, which could not be washed, scraped or removed, despite several attempts. Legends circulated, and many believed that the handprint had a rather macabre history, belonging to a fellow firefighter. ...
Dec 11, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Climbing Boy” (June 19, 1975) 00:46:47.399 = Incredible But True, “Valley of Doom” (ADU) ***WD 00:50:51.110 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl and The Gallows” (May 01, 1945) 01:19:22.339 = The Key, “The Cellar” (ADU) ***WD...
Dec 11, 2024•5 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: How do you convince people you are innocent of a crime committed by someone who looks exactly like you and even shares your name? It’s the strange story of William West and… William West. (Will The Real William West Please Step Forward) *** In November 1638, Dorothy Talby killed her three-year-old daughter. She admitted ...
Dec 10, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: Have you ever noticed there seems to be something special going on with railroad tracks and Bigfoot? (Riding The Rails With Bigfoot) *** A man in Oklahoma reports a being on the side of the road that looked human – except it had the head of a snake! And the Native American population have an answer to what it is! (The Ok...
Dec 10, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Frame-Up” (June 18, 1975) 00:47:07.229 = The Green Hornet, “Trouble Hits Trolleys” (June 08, 1939) ***WD 01:14:40.839 = The Hall of Fantasy, “Markheim” (April 24, 1947) 01:40:55.669 = Harry Lime, “In Pursuit of a Ghost”...
Dec 10, 2024•5 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: It might be lesser-known that Amityville, or the hauntings of the Smurl family, or numerous other investigations made famous by Ed and Lorraine Warren, but a small home in Connecticut is one of the most terrifying and well-documented cases of the paranormal in recent history. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “The...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: It was in 1975 when the first skull of what was believed to be Bigfoot was found. But the owner of the skull hadn’t been dead too long, for the local people said they remembered the creature before it died. And even more shocking – they personally knew some of its descendants – a cross-breeding of Bigfoot and human being...
Dec 09, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Smile of Deceit” (June 16, 1975) 00:47:05.199 = Escape, “Wild Oranges” (December 17, 1947) 01:16:40.889 = Murder By Experts, “Summer Heat” (June 13, 1949) 01:46:21.319 = Exploring Tomorrow, “First Baby In Space” (Ju...
Dec 09, 2024•5 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Stairway To Oblivion” (June 13, 1975) ***WD (LQ) 00:47:11.159 = Creeps By Night, “Walking Dead” (May 16, 1944) ***WD (LQ) 01:11:29.939 = Dark Fantasy, “Funeral Arrangements Completed” (May 15, 1942) (LQ) 01:35:41.659 = ...
Dec 08, 2024•5 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast NOTE: I mention in the audio that the story was edited by Winslow Swan. I was incorrect in that - it was Crimson McKenzie who did the amazing audio adaptation writing! IN THIS EPISODE: I bring you a production for my friends at the YouTUbe channel, “Doorway to Nightmare”. Since we discovered each other recently I’ve had the privilege to play voice roles in many of their productions, including this one… Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”. While I’m about to share with you the audio versi...
Dec 08, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: The 1922 horror classic "Nosferatu" still turns up, on TV and on college campuses every Halloween. And it’ll likely show up again somewhere this year as well. In this episode we’ll look at how Nosferatu isterrifyingly relevant even still today, the controversial making of the film – and the lawsuit by Bram Stoker’s wife,...
Dec 08, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: When a great famine struck Europe in 1314, mothers abandoned their children and in some cases, even ate them. Scholars believe that these tragedies gave birth to the story of Hansel and Gretel. (The Grim True Story Behind Hansel and Gretel) *** Cultures all around the world have stories of tiny humans – elves, leprechaun...
Dec 08, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tell your friends about Micro Terrors – and find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website - http://MicroTerrors.com ! And be sure to subscribe to the podcast at https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors ! Visit our website: https://MicroTerrors.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://W...
Dec 07, 2024•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: Did U.S. Special Forces really shoot dead a 12-foot-tall giant in Kandahar, Afghanistan? How much truth is behind the story – and how does fit into the age-old narrative of soldiers, knights, and heroes battling against and vanquishing giants and monstrous creatures? (The Giant of Kandahar) *** Soon after the Cranmer fam...
Dec 07, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: We have all been guilty of wishing we had more money coming in. Some people go out and get a second job. Others look at what they have to sell online, or look at what skills they have to offer to the public that they could charge money for. Or you can go the route of Georgia Tann – her entrepreneurial spirit brought her ...
Dec 07, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: Could the ancient legends of the Djinn hold the key to understanding shadow people, UFOs, and other paranormal phenomena, or are they simply the unseen architects of myths and mysteries beyond our grasp? SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… BOOK: “The Vengeful Djinn: Unveiling the Hidden Agenda of Genies” by Rosemary...
Dec 07, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater “A Case of Negligence” (June 12, 1975) 00:46:12.739 = Beyond the Green Door, “Eye Thief” (ADU) 00:49:23.059 = Beyond Midnight, “Something On His Mind” 01:18:48.770 = The Black Book, “Different Readings, Part 1” (November ...
Dec 07, 2024•5 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: It’s Thriller Thursday where I bring you stories of sci-fi or horror fiction. The name Ray Bradbury immediately brings to mind such fictional tales – classics, many of them… some of which I’ve narrated here in the podcast such as “The Jar”, “Skeleton”, and a disturbing one I recently posted here called “The Small Assassi...
Dec 06, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: "The Monkey's Paw" was first published in England in 1902. Without giving any spoilers, in the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate. It has been adapted to film and stage numerous times… and, of course, now, as a podcast epi...
Dec 06, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Queen of Darkness” (June 10, 1975) 00:47:17.839 = X Minus One, “The Martian Death March” (September 08, 1955) ***WD 01:10:51.149 = The Zero Hour, “Heir Hunters, Part 1” (October 15, 1973) ***WD 01:33:39.679 = The Ze...
Dec 06, 2024•5 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream IN THIS EPISODE: Famed horror author H.P. Lovecraft brings us his tale, “Pickman’s Model”. H.P. Lovecraft released the story in 1927, so you might want to consider that for context and perspective while listening. A classic in both the horror genre and science fiction! SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Pickman’s Model” by H.P. Lo...
Dec 06, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Fallen Angel” (June 09, 1975) 00:46:55.149 = The Whisperer, “Stanley Hayes Must Die By Midnight” (September 02, 1951) ***WD 01:16:04.929 = 2000 Plus, “When Worlds Met” (May 03, 1950) ***WD (LQ) 01:45:37.419 = The Unexpe...
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