Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Sam invented a brooding anti-hero for the pilot script she is already late delivering, and the man standing in the background of her footage, the one nobody on the crew hired, is dressed exactly like him.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-worldofherown

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith Conrad (https://www.auditoryanthology.com)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 23, 2026

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The man who bought the twenty-room house next door to the Powells keeps no car, no telephone, and every light in the place burning through the night, and a neighbor's dog that trots up his front walk drops dead on it without a mark.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Sound Advice” (July 10, 1978) ***WD
00:46:00.024 = Theater Five, “Neighbor” (November 26, 1964) ***WD
01:06:44.069 = Columbia Workshop “Halfpint Flask” July 06, 1939)
01:36:02.931 = Harry Lime, “Golden Fleece” (October 12, 1951)
02:00:31.656 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “The Decoy” (July 26, 1980)
02:29:01.635 = The Haunting Hour, “Unidentified Body” (July 28, 1945) ***WD
02:53:50.416 = The Hermit’s Cave, “The Story Without End” (January 11, 1942) ***WD
03:16:45.483 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Stolen Rembrandts” (1945-1950) ***WD
03:41:07.269 = Sherlock Holmes, “Singular Affair of the Ancient Egyptian Curse” (March 10, 1947)
04:10:56.579 = Mystery House, “Bases Loaded” (June 14, 1946) ***WD
04:36:57.839 = Inner Sanctum, “No Coffin For The Dead” (February 20, 1945) ***WD
05:05:38.551 = 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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Two friends went bare-handed catfishing in an Oklahoma river in July of 2022, and one of them left the water convinced the other had been trying to feed him to Bigfoot.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/BigfootKilledMyFishingBuddy

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7r7pdn

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: An Oklahoma man strangles his fishing buddy to death… and then blames it on Bigfoot! We begin with that story! (Bigfoot Killed My Fishing Buddy) *** As you know, I’m not just a podcaster but also a professional voice artist. One of the many things I do is narrating audio books. But up until recently I had no idea who some of my competition was for narrations. It turns out the voice behind many best-selling audiobooks is actually a serial killer. (Murderous Narration) *** Reports of werewolves are worldwide throughout history – from the English moors to the western United States you can find sightings of dogmen, werewolves, and the like. But Louisiana has one of the most interesting entries into Lycanthropy – at least it has an interesting name and history. It’s called the Rougarou. (Rougarou) *** X-ray photos are fascinating, but they are only for the eyes – not the ears, right? Well don’t be too sure about that. People in the Soviet Union found a very unique way to use X-rays in order to smuggle in their favorite tunes from West! (Bone Music) *** He roams the earth, and has done so for the past 2,000 years.. doomed never to die until the end of the world. His crime? Taunting Jesus at the Crucifixion. Is this simply an urban legend, or could there be some truth behind what has come to be known as “The Curse of the Wandering Jew?” (The Curse of the Wandering Jew) *** In 1922, Charles Osbourne was in an accident involving a hog… but that’s not the strange part. It’s the after-effects of that accident which caused him to continue to hiccup non-stop for almost seven decades! (My Hog Gave Me The Hiccups For 68 Years) *** In the 1980s workers in an English peat bog unearthed a body. And then another… and then yet another, and another… all apparent victims of violence. (The Bog Bodies of Lindow)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00.00.000 = Show Open
00:02:44.158 = Bigfoot Killed My Fishing Buddy
00:07:49.885 = Bog Bodies of Lindow
00:26:08.748 = Murderous Narration ***
00:27:56.326 = Rougarou
00:33:05.196 = Bone Music
00:38:45.350 = Curse Of The Wandering Jew
00:45:10.967 = My Hog Gave Me The Hiccups For 68 Years ***
00:52:52.458 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Bog Bodies of Lindow” by Dave Sammut and Chantel Craig for ScienceHistory.org:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4mxk49zw
“Bigfoot Killed My Fishing Buddy” by Kaleena Fraga for All That’s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5h4yj8t5
“Murderous Narration” by Dave Basner for iHeart.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3byfzp3k
“Rougarou” by Frank Kerner for PelicanStateOfMind.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc4csn4p
“Bone Music” from NPR’s “All Things Considered”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck7b3xb
(BOOK: X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone)
“The Curse of the Wandering Jew” from GotQuestions.org: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yzc3ntbf
“My Hog Gave Me The Hiccups For 68 Years” by Kellie B. Gormly for Smithsonian Magazine:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ypnyfyta
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Originally aired: March, 2022

Five days ago the prosecutor told a judge that serious felony charges were headed to the grand jury as part of the Siders case, but refused to say what those chargers were. On Friday the indictments came back, and the answer has made this case even darker and more evil than it was before. I need to place a trigger warning on this one, because it even shocked me when the news broke. 

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260822

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LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

Something has been scratching at the pantry door since he was ten years old, and now that he's inherited the house, it has started leaving claw marks.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-monsterinthepantry

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Monster In The Pantry” by Christopher Maxim: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 22, 2026