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A husband's furious insult that his wife is nothing but a heartless white cat starts coming true in front of him, and their doctor wants to tell the world.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Side Effects” (January 19, 1979) ***WD00:46:26.764 = Devil And Mr. O, “Alley Cat” (September 17, 1971) ***WD01:16:36.301 = Dimension X, “The Green Hills Of Earth” (December 24, 1950) ***WD01:43:42.714 = The Eleventh Hour, “Flying Coffin” (ADU)02:08:44.816 = Escape, “Border Town” (December 13, 1949)02:39:01.401 = Murder By Experts, “The Big Money” (July 25, 1949)03:09:31.058 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Escape” (January 08, 1958)03:29:40.395 = Dark Fantasy, “Resolution” (January 02, 1942)03:55:38.664 = Fear on 4, “Every Detail But One” (February 07, 1988) ***WD04:25:36.810 = Theater Five, “Sound Track of a Happy Family” (December 04, 1964)04:46:38.564 = Murder Is My Hobby, “Murder In The Ring” (1945-1947)05:10:35.142 = 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.More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

Days before an operation he has a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, Norman Hill finds his office stripped bare, gets a call from a funeral parlor, and reads his own name on a grave.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Long Long Sleep” (January 15, 1979) ***WD00:46:03.456 = Calling All Cars, “Gentle Kidnapping Case” (May 16, 1934)01:15:57.384 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Girl On The Dock” (April 03, 1947) ***WD01:44:22.358 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Wendigo” (1968) ***WD=SONG: “Don’t Listen To The Thing That Calls Your Name” by Crossroads Haint (based on “The Wendigo”)02:16:47.273 = Chet Chetter, “Return of the Master Constipator” (1990-1992) ***WD02:41:18.259 = The Clock, “The Perfect Crime” (March 13, 1956) ***WD03:08:32.006 = The Crime Club, “Death Never Doubles” (June 26, 1947)03:38:26.216 = Crime Classics, “Bloody Bloody Banks Falls River” (September 30, 1953)04:08:03.615 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of Whirling Mirrors” (November 25, 1946)04:33:29.348 = Deep Night, “Ice Screams” (August 05, 2005)05:07:26.147 = 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.More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

A teenage girl’s chilling confession to 35 axe murders in early 1900s Louisiana spiraled into a tangled web of cult rumors, racial panic, paranormal paranoia, and one of the most disturbing true crime mysteries in American history.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/clementine-barnabet-church-of-sacrifice-axe-murdersREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89ks65FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The true story of the voodoo murders… are they proof of the mythical “Church of Sacrifice?” *** A man picks up a ghostly hitchhiker. *** For years, the residents of Circleville, Ohio were plagued by messages that revealed their darkest secrets. Who was writing the letters – and how did they know about the skeletons in people’s closets? *** If you drive through Hecker Pass in California, don’t be surprised if you see a bloody girl in a frilly white dress waiting for you. *** In a wooded area just south of San Antonio, lies a nondescript railroad crossing. Legend has it several children died on the tracks – but did that really happen? *** Poveglia Island – some considered it a place of hell hundreds of years ago. And some still do today. *** And the history, hauntings (and hoax) of the original “most haunted house in America”.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:50.078 = Show Open00:03:49.235 = The “Voodoo Murders” of Clementine Barnabet00:19:03.092 = Thumbing For a Hitch ***00:21:01.268 = The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville Letter Writer00:26:31.889 = The Angry Ghost of Hecker Pass00:29:41.491 = Ghost Children Haunt Texas Railroad Crossing00:32:24.543 = Mystery of the Bloody Island Poveglia00:36:49.398 = The House on Ridge Avenue (Congolier Mansion) ***01:10:48.903 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The VooDoo Murders of Clementine Barnabet” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3hqkn5pp“Thumbing For a Hitch” by GhosterCK for YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/45bgp999“The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville Letter Writer” by Stephanie Almazan for The Line Up:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/45qhanr3“The Angry Ghost of Hecker Pass” from BackpackerVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/t80g1pg8“Ghost Children Haunt Texas Railroad Crossing” from GhostsNGhouls.com (link no longer available)“Mystery Of The Bloody Island Poveglia – A Place Of Hell” from MessageToEagle.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/eikwk53m“The House on Ridge Avenue” by Troy Taylor for AmericanHauntingsInk.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/vmrsatuk(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.Originally aired: August 2019More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

Jay Stratton, who ran the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told Fox News on October 12th that he has seen non-human beings and non-human craft, and his memoir, "Out of the Shadows", came out the next day. Avi Loeb, the Harvard scientist who chairs the council that advises the government's UAP Governance Board, answered the same day the book came out that the claims aren't backed by publicly verifiable data and invited him to speak to the council; as of October 21st, Stratton hasn't responded.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/jay-stratton-avi-loeb/*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*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.

After 11 a.m. on Monday, October 12th, a woman called 911 to say her nephew was off his medication but "not violent", and at about 1:25 p.m., according to the criminal complaint, Thomas Steele killed his aunt and grandmother in Mobile, Alabama, with a chainsaw. He's charged with two counts of capital murder, and a judge has ordered him committed to the Alabama Department of Mental Health for an inpatient competency evaluation.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ThomasHenrySteele*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*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.

Three children came home to the Hobe Sound Mobile Home Park on Thursday, October 8th, to find the bedroom forced open and their kittens gone, and that night Martin County deputies dug two of them out of the backyard alive. Alba Chavez, who the sheriff says told deputies she thought the kittens had demons, was arrested on four felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty, and a fifth kitten is still missing.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/demonkittens*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*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.

Florida executed James Robertson on Tuesday, October 13th, for strangling his cellmate, Frank Hart, at Charlotte Correctional Institution in 2008, a killing he said he carried out so the state would sentence him to death. He was pronounced dead at 12:32 p.m., and Frank Hart's daughter was there to see it.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/JamesRobertsonExecution*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*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.

At five minutes to midnight, Jacob kneels on a hill behind an abandoned gravel pit with his two best friends and recites his dead grandfather's words, and the dark woods fill with carousel music and children's laughter.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CarnivalOfDesiresSOURCES and RESOURCES: “Wonderland” by Riley Vanderlip: https://www.creepypasta.com/wonderland-2/WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 21, 2026More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

From cursed quarterbacks to ghostly gridirons, we explore the haunted history and supernatural legends that still linger on football fields across America.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FootballPhantoms*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Football Hauntings” by Giancarlo Ferrari-King for Bleacher Report https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2o64vefa, YourGhostStories.com (link no longer available), and Sports Planning Guide: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1ivxxh5l(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.Originally aired: August 2018More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.Weird Darkness takes football into haunted territory, from a quarterback's curse on the Detroit Lions to ghosts reported in stadiums and dorm halls across the country.It opens with Bobby Layne, who'd won back-to-back championships for the Lions before a broken leg in 1957 let Tobin Rote take Detroit's third title in six years; traded to Pittsburgh in 1958 at 31, Layne told the media the Lions wouldn't win for 50 years, and they spent those decades with football's worst winning percentage and no Super Bowl.From there it's Notre Dame's George Gipp, dead of pneumonia in December 1920 at 25, days after beating Northwestern, and later played by Ronald Reagan in Knute Rockne, All American; legend says he caught his cold sleeping on the steps of Washington Hall after curfew, and students have since reported late-night music, slamming doors, a shove from invisible hands on a stairway, and light bulbs unscrewing themselves.Next, a young listener recalls waking at 3:45 a.m. to a boy of about seventeen in plaid pajama pants and a green football helmet, holding a potato sack that looked full of sand, who vanished just before a cell phone light reached him.The episode closes with stadium ghosts: Michael Plume, the 19-year-old Air Force member found dead in Indiana University's Memorial Stadium in February 1960, whose ghost fans still report; a player called Nick said to spin fire extinguishers in Kansas State's Purple Masque Theatre; Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished July 30, 1975, reportedly cheering at Ford Field; Civil War soldiers at Wisconsin's Camp Randall; and seven coffins unearthed in 2010 behind the bleachers at Lee Williams High School in Kingman, Arizona, where witnesses describe a little girl asking to go out and play.More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

A German man scribbled "YOGTZE" hours before he was found dying in his wrecked car, a woman's body turned up stuffed inside a hollow tree in England, and the Black Dahlia is one of numerous murders where no killer was ever caught.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/unsolvedREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5dbv8s24CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:26.134 = William Desmond Taylor00:10:26.677 = The Grimes Sisters ***00:16:35.616 = The Villisca Axe Murders00:20:24.119 = Günther Stoll and “YOGTZE”00:25:47.137 = Bella Wright And The Green Bicycle00:33:14.713 = The Servant Girl Annihilator ***00:40:02.597 = The Murder of Georgette Bauerdorf00:45:18.379 = The Seal Chart Murder00:53:12.270 = The Benny Evangelist Murders ***00:57:29.939 = The Killing of Ken McElroy01:03:01.290 = The Keddie Cabin Murders01:10:30.620 = The Murder of Margaret Martin01:15:13.508 = The Texarkana Moonlight Murders ***01:21:22.577 = Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?01:24:53.756 = The Hinterfaifeck Murders01:28:16.821 = The Black Dahlia ***01:33:54.312 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Chilling Unsolved Murders” from The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/foyleo4o(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.Originally aired: August 2018More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.