Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Seventeen-year-old Billy Weaver steps off the train in Bath on a freezing night looking for a cheap room, and a BED AND BREAKFAST notice in a window holds his eye so hard that he finds himself ringing the bell. The landlady opens the door before he can lift his finger, his room is already made up, and the only other names on the page of her guest book belong to two young men who signed it years ago.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: 
“The Landlady” by Roald Dahl: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p83h6nr

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Watchers Of The Light: A small-town teacher goes for a lifeguard physical, and the doctor's X-rays show his heart beating on the right side of his chest and his liver turned around. Two weeks earlier, he and his principal set a match to a green powder a student found in an old lime kiln, and the explosion left no trace of either man.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Watchers Of The Light” (March 07, 1979) ***WD
00:46:45.882 = Let George Do It, “Voice Of The Giant” (July 31, 1950) ***WD
01:17:27.684 = Black Mass, “Diary of a Madman” (December 16, 1964) ***WD
01:57:45.437 = Michael Shayne, “Dr. Grant’s Dilemma” (August 13, 1945)
02:28:32.297 = Beyond Midnight, “The House” aka “The Visits” (June 27, 1969) (LQ)
02:58:23.508 = Mindwebs, “The Run” (November 26, 1976) ***WD
03:22:07.317 = It’s Murder, “Picture Wire Murder” (August 10, 1944) ***WD
03:36:37.826 = Mystery In The Air, “Mask of Medusa” (September 04, 1947) ***WD
04:06:41.657 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Talk Them To Death” (June 27, 1947) ***WD
04:37:46.049 = Mr. Keen, “The Ruthless Murderers” (October 27, 1949) ***WD
05:06:05.394 = 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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The Fall of Gentryville: Overnight, the mountain village of Gentryville and all six hundred of its people vanish, and full-grown elm trees stand where the general store was the day before. A washed-up reporter on his last chance goes looking for the reason, and the name that keeps pulling at him is the only "Miss" in the town's telephone book.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Fall Of Gentryville” (March 05, 1979) ***WD
00:47:07.022 = Mystery is My Hobby, “Who Killed David Austin” (1945-1951) ***WD
01:12:20.161 = Sherlock Holmes, “Island of Death” (April 28, 1947)
01:42:30.317 = Mystery House, “A Case of Homicide” (ADU) ***WD
02:08:45.890 = Inner Sanctum, ‘Dead To Rights” (May 22, 1945) ***WD
02:39:26.488 = Jeff Regan, “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (November 20, 1948) ***WD
03:09:48.557 = The Key, “The Deception” (1956) ***WD(LQ)
03:36:37.193 = Lights Out, “Execution” (April 27, 1943)
04:06:18.477 = Macabre, “Edge of Evil” (January 08, 1962) ***WD
04:38:16.117 = Philip Marlowe, “Fox’s Tail” (May 23, 1950)
05:07:45.417 = Show Close

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(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 June 1999 a passing motorist spotted Ricky McCormick's badly decomposed body in a cornfield in West Alton, Missouri, and in the pocket of his jeans were two handwritten pages of letters and numbers that the FBI's own codebreakers still haven't been able to read. Twelve years later the Bureau announced that it believed he'd been murdered and asked the public for help cracking the code.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/38wn4dy4

IN THIS EPISODE: We explore the unsolved murder of Ricky McCormick, and the mysterious pages of code found in the dead man’s pocket after his body was discovered in St. Charles County, Missouri, in 1999. The FBI’s top cryptanalysts have appealed to the public for help deciphering the enigmatic scribbles—and you may hold the key. 

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Cipher In The Corn” written by Stu Wahlin for Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hstndhs
If you have info that could help solve the Ricky McCormick case, visit https://forms.fbi.gov/code; you can also write to: FBI Laboratory Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records, Unit 2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico VA 22135 - Attention: Ricky McCormick Case

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For thousands of years people have wondered why some dreams keep returning to a place they've never been, or show events that haven't happened yet. One theory links those dreams to the multiverse, the still-unproven idea in physics that countless universes exist side by side, and suggests they may be glimpses of another version of ourselves living a different life.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/6z8chwnw

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A calm resident spirit suddenly begins making the children in one home sick. (Resident Spirit) *** The most sensational murder in 1930 revolved around the mob in Chicago… but the murder victim wasn’t a made man, it was a reporter from the Chicago Tribune. (Who Killed Jake Lingle?) *** In 1961, Joan Risch vanished from her Massachusetts home, leaving behind two children, a distraught husband, and a kitchen streaked with blood. (Blood On The Kitchen Floor) *** Imagine receiving an email from one of your closest friends talking about what happened just yesterday… but that friend who emailed you had died several months ago. (Emails From The Dead) *** Pregnancy and the paranormal. Are the two related? I’ll share four accounts from pregnant women who might have you believing there is a connection. (Pregnancy and the Paranormal) *** Why do some people dream about future events? Why are some dreams full of hidden meaning? Can some of our dreams be glimpses of events taking place in an alternate reality, a parallel Universe? (Are Dreams Glimpses Of a Parallel Universe?) 
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:00:53.591 = Show Open
00:03:00.594 = Are Dreams Glimpses Of A Parallel Universe?
00:10:05.705 = Resident Spirit Giving Me a Heads Up ***
00:15:41.359 = Emails From The Dead
00:20:06.036 = Pregnancy And The Paranormal
00:28:17.271 = Who Killed Jack Lingle ***
00:52:35.758 = Blood On The Kitchen Floor ***
01:00:18.993 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Resident Spirit Giving Me a Heads Up” by SpiritWaiting for Your Ghost Stories:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/te4z639n
“Who Killed Jake Lingle?” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/a7e74xy8
“Blood On The Kitchen Floor” by Gary Sweeney for The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y3mhx4s
“Emails From The Dead” by Les Hewitt for Paranorms: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/42f4rn6h
“Pregnancy and the Paranormal” (link no longer available)
“Are Dreams Glimpses Of A Parallel Universe?” by Ellen Lloyd for Message to Eagle:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/vay5md3a(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.

More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.