Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“Time On My Hands”: A broke and desperate drifter thinks he's found the answer to all his problems when a mysterious pawnbroker offers him $5,000 cash for something Joe has plenty of — time — but the true cost of that bargain doesn't reveal itself until it's far too late to walk away. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0618

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Matter of Conscience” (July 14, 1977)
00:46:23.042 = Hollywood Mystery Time, “Case of the Glowing Eyes” (May 20, 1943) ***WD
01:15:04.198 = Sam Spade, “The Original Private Eye” (July 13, 1947) ***WD
01:43:25.353 = The Sealed Book, “Time On My Hands” (August 26, 1945) ***WD
02:12:49.638 = The Shadow, “The Ghost Building” (January 12, 1941)
02:42:24.438 = Sleep No More, “Mr. Mergenthirkers Lobblies” and “August Heat” (November 28, 1956) ***WD
03:06:41.428 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “The Light of the Moon” (December, 1980)
03:20:38.705 = Strange Wills, “Alias Doctor Svengali” (June 15, 1946)
03:50:34.623 = Strange, “The Flying Dutchman” (1955) ***WD
04:03:32.376 = Suspense, “A World of Darkness” (January 20, 1944)
04:33:20.092 = Tales of the Frightened, “White House” (December 20, 1957) ***WD
04:37:40.118 = Creaking Door, “Dummy” (June 08, 1964) ***WD
05:08:34.603 = 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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A documentary nobody in the public can watch yet has exploded across the internet as definitive proof that the most famous Bigfoot footage ever shot was a hoax — and the actual evidence is considerably more complicated than the headlines suggest.

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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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Originally aired: April 02, 2026

A Tennessee grandmother who had never left the state was arrested at gunpoint, jailed for five months, and flown 1,200 miles from home — all because a facial recognition algorithm decided she matched a criminal profile.

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VP JD Vance admitted he’s obsessed with classified UFO files, hasn’t read a single one yet, and revealed his working theory: those things in the sky aren’t aliens — they’re demons.

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“Semi-Detached”: When a foster child's arrival coincides with a rash of terrifying unexplained events in their home, a couple and the psychiatrist brought in to investigate begin to suspect the girl may be unleashing some kind of psychic force — but the truth behind the disturbances is far more disturbing than anyone imagined. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0617

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Colonel Chabert” (July 12, 1977)
00:47:53.658 = CBC Nightfall, “Semi-Detached” (February 18, 1983) ***WD
01:16:15.904 = Nightmare, “Chance of a Ghost” (March 31, 1945) ***WD
01:38:19.206 = Obsession, “Hunting Party” aka “Holiday House” (October 09, 1950) ***WD
02:01:23.719 = Origin of Superstition, “Itching Palm” (1935)
02:16:21.296 = Peril, “The Sidewalk Empire” (May 15, 1947) ***WD
02:41:02.044 = Mystery Playhouse, “Beautiful Science” (February 15, 1946)
03:04:35.278 = Price of Fear, “To My Dear Saladin” (June 06, 1983) ***WD
03:34:26.230 = The Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Vanishing Magician” (November 06, 1943) ***WD
04:04:13.032 = Quiet Please, “Berlin 45” (December 26, 1948)
04:34:40.454 = Radio City Playhouse, “Soundless Special” (August 11, 1948) ***WD
05:04:10.113 = 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.

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.

"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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