Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Martha Whitman doesn't think her six-year-old son Osmond is as sick as his doctors and his father say, so she makes him a deal: she'll throw his pills down the kitchen drain, morning and night, and he'll tell his father he's been taking them.

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

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Stick Man” by Donte-highwater: https://www.inkitt.com/howard23, https://www.youtube.com/@moul4519

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 12, 2026

A Fresno, California, family set up a camera by the garage after their dogs kept barking into the dark, and the next morning's footage showed two pale figures with no arms anyone could make out, walking across the front lawn on long legs that seem to bend backward.
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HOUR ONE: There are roads on Long Island that are much more than a line between two points. Some roads contain legends that travel with you on your journey. (Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road) *** In 1981, a cabin in the woods played host to a brutal family murder. We’ll look into the still unsolved murders of the Keddie killings. (The Unsolved Keddie Killings) *** Sightings of strange, pale creatures are being reported in California – and now over two decades from the first sighting, we still don’t know what the Fresno Nightcrawlers truly are. (Freaky Reports of Pale Crawlers)
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HOUR TWO: Violence, mayhem, even rape. Horrifying atrocities committed by the most evil of human beings – but in one case, in Culver City, California, it wasn’t a man who engaged in these obscenities, but specters of the paranormal. (A Famous Case of Frightening Entities) *** We’ll delve into a handful of out-of-body experience stories directly from those who lived through them – and they might change your opinion about the afterlife. (Surviving Out of Body Experiences) *** We’ll look at true encounters from Redditors who claim to have come across doppelgangers – their exact duplicates, or duplicates of those they love – and it’s almost always a disturbing experience. (Creepy Encounters With Real Doppelgangers)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: During the grueling Great Northern Expedition, naturalist Georg Wilhem Steller came face-to-face with one of the sea's most mysterious creatures. Or did he? (Steller’s Sea Ape) *** Weirdo family member Jamie Tyroler shares what happened to her and a few friends when they rummaged through a demolished building, only to find something still existing there. (The Ninth Street Entity) *** Weirdo family member Daniel Hagan shares how he once explored some woods on his bike and ended up pedaling for his life to escape paranormal beasts that appeared from nowhere. (Demon Dogs) *** Digging in their backyard, two brothers find what appear to be small human heads carved of stone… but the curious find turns creepy once they bring the heads into the house, resurrecting sightings of a wolf-like creature not seen in almost seventy years. (Hexam Heads and the Wolf of Allendale) *** In 1886 Chicago, one of the nation’s very first serial killers would build a sadistic chamber of horrors to live out his most demented fantasies. (Murder Castle of Chicago)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
“Freaky Reports of Pale Crawlers” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2O9fG6C
“Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road” by Arthur Criscione: http://bit.ly/2LXUr4K
“The Unsolved Keddie Killings” by Orrin Grey: http://bit.ly/2LYC8fK
“Steller’s Sea Ape” by Andrew Thaler: http://bit.ly/2XMpxDM
“The Ninth Street Entity” by Weirdo Family member Jamie Tyroler
“Creepy Encounters With Real Doppelgangers” by Nathan Gibson: http://bit.ly/2YkPTwL
“Demon Dogs” by Daniel Hagan, submitted at https://WeirdDarkness.com/submit
“Surviving Out of Body Experiences” by Audrey Webster: http://bit.ly/2M3bMKx
““A Famous Case of Frightening Entities” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2M3YGg3
“Hexam Heads and the Wolf of Allendale” by Neil Boothman: http://bit.ly/2Kut2Fn and http://bit.ly/2Kiufk0
“Murder Castle of Chicago” by Brent Swancer (link no longer available)
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were born joined at the waist in Moscow in January of 1950; their mother was told they’d died of pneumonia, and Soviet scientists kept the girls for experiments, packing one sister in ice while they took the other’s temperature. Decades later, the British journalist who befriended them came to believe one twin had all the traits of a psychopath and the other had become an empath.

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

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckzmj3t

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Conjoined twins might be identical genetically, but their personalities can be drastically different – with different interests, different opinions, different mental conditions… even different gender preferences when it comes to romance. The odd story of real-life conjoined twins, Masha and Dasha. (Empath And Psychopath Share The Same Body) *** Weirdo family member Alexis Bishop hears a creepy voice in the dark. (Cover Your Feet) *** As parents, you want to empower your children. You want to teach them independence, and a good way to start is letting them walk to school, without a parent or chaperone. But what happens when it all backfires, and your child never makes it to school? (Austin Sigg and the Murder of Jessica Ridgeway) *** One of the common themes in Yowie reports – and many Bigfoot reports – is that they like to throw stones. A lot. (Did A Yowie Throw That Stone)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:06.338 = Show Open
00:02:53.822 = Empath And Psychopath Share The Same Body
00:11:45.660 = Cover Your Feet
00:16:01.374 = Austin Sigg And The Murder of Jessica Ridgeway ***
00:30:15.711 = Did A Yowie Throw That Stone? ***
00:40:58.460 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Empath And Psychopath Share The Same Body” by Jodi Smith for Ranker: http://bit.ly/2N0y4KV
“Austin Sigg and the Murder of Jessica Ridgeway” from The Scare Chamber: http://bit.ly/2JaeWsC
“Cover Your Feet” by Weirdo family member Alexis Bishop
“Did A Yowie Throw That Stone?” by Paul Cropper for The Fortean: http://bit.ly/33Ra8jX(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.)
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Originally aired: July 2020
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
Weird Darkness follows Soviet conjoined twins kept for medical experiments, a bedtime warning from a voice in the dark, the 2012 murder of Jessica Ridgeway in Colorado, and two old Australian accounts of a hairy creature that throws stones.
It opens with Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, conjoined twins born in Moscow in January of 1950. Their mother was told they'd died of pneumonia, and Soviet scientists, beginning with physiologist Pyotr Anokhin, used the girls for experiments, packing one sister in ice while taking the other's temperature and shocking them in time to a metronome. British journalist Juliet Butler, who befriended them in 1988, came to believe Masha had all the traits of a psychopath and Dasha had become an empath; in 2003, Dasha died about seventeen hours after her sister.
From there, listener Alexis Bishop remembers a house where Alexis's mother heard small footsteps like a child's after midnight while both of her children lay asleep, and the night a 13-year-old, drifting off with both feet sticking out from under the blanket, heard a voice like a horror-movie monster say, "cover your feet".
Next, on October 5th, 2012, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway left her home in Westminster, Colorado, to walk to school, and she never got there. Hundreds of volunteers searched before her remains were found in Pattridge Park Open Space in Arvada, and police tied the case to an attempted abduction at Ketner Lake that May. Then Mindy Sigg called 911 to say her 17-year-old son, Austin Reed Sigg, wanted to turn himself in; he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison plus 86 years.
The episode closes with two old Australian accounts of stone-throwing Yowies: in the Sydney Mail of March 14th, 1928, C.W. Peck retold an Indigenous story from the Georges River about two brothers who killed a hairy "wullundigong" and became stone-throwers themselves, while an 1892 letter to the Armidale Express told of four stockmen on the Kangaroo Hills run who were chased through the night by something throwing stones and, at first light, saw a large creature shaped like a man standing on the spur above them.

A Scottish poet published the rules in 1786: a candle, a mirror, an apple, and the face of your future husband looking over your shoulder. The girls who play it now chant a dead woman's name in a dark bathroom instead, a book that sold thirty million copies turned the same trick into a self-help plan, and some of us have carried it into the prayer closet without noticing.

Listen through the end for the song “Say It Three Times” by Incorruption, based on this sermon’s message!

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Book: "CHURCH OF THE UNDEAD: Book One — Wendigo, Zombies, Werewolves, And Other Subjects You’d Never Hear From Your Pastor’s Pulpit” at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ454R1P

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The doors are locked, the library is dark, and ten-year-old Lucy is about to find out she isn't the only one still inside behind those locked doors.

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

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Creeger the Creeper” by Scott Donnelly, written for http://www.MicroTerrors.com.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 10, 2026

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