Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

An 11-year veteran of the St. Charles County Police Department spent four dollars in quarters at a bowling alley arcade to coax a little girl out of a claw machine she had climbed into for the toys.

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Alexis Nelson sent her mother a Happy Mother's Day message in May 2025, and then her phone went silent for six months before anyone in her family realized something was wrong.

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Sean Parnell says the next batch of UAP files is "actively being processed for publication" — one day after the president posted an AI-generated image of himself perp-walking a gray.

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A flame-haired woman alone at the edge of town, the lies of two small girls who put her on the gallows, and a cycle that the village square could not bury — told in the slow blues register Crossroads Haint reserves for the wrongs that won't stay down.

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A personal favorite of mine! A Pentagon colonel, a doll shop that wasn't there yesterday, and a six-inch toy with a voice like a knife — one of the most quietly sinister half-hours ever broadcast on Dimension X, and it ends on a smile you will not forget. 

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Last Train Out” (November 01, 1977) ***WD
00:46:18.302 = Diary of Fate, “Paul Reese” (March 23, 1948) ***WD
01:14:19.632 = Dimension X, “Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls” (August 04, 1950) ***WD
01:43:22.573 = Strange Dr. Weird, “Tiger Cat” (January 02, 1945)
01:54:40.306 = Eleventh Hour, “Bitter Bit” (1960s-early 1970’s)
02:20:04.917 = Escape, “The Great Impersonation” (April 23, 1949) ***WD
02:49:24.987 = Murder By Experts, “Summer Heat” (June 13, 1949) ***WD
03:18:53.110 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Time Heals” (May 14, 1958)
03:42:20.118 = Dark Fantasy, “Thing From The Darkness” (April 03, 1942)
04:06:04.413 = BBC Fear on 4, “Soul Searching” (March 26, 1989)
04:35:10.202 = Future Tense, “Zero Hour” (May 23, 1974) ***WD
04:53:45.205 = 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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