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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor

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Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
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Looking for a daily dose of inspiration and motivation? Our daily short motivational and inspirational podcast is the perfect way to kickstart your day! Each episode is under 5 minutes long and is designed to help you stay focused and energized throughout the day. With a new theme each week, we'll explore a range of topics, from goal-setting and productivity to self-care and personal growth. And with each episode centered around a powerful motivational quote, you'll be sure to find something ...
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In 1848, a 13-pound iron rod exploded through Phineas Gage's skull, destroyed half his brain, and flew out the other side—but instead of dying, he sat up, spoke clearly, and walked nearly a mile to see a doctor... and that's just the beginning of the story! Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: htt…
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A sitting member of Congress has made finding aliens the cornerstone of her fourth term bid, raising millions on promises to expose what the government knows about UFOs. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/lauren-boebert-aliens-2025/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.…
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A 74-year-old veteran orchestrated an elaborate funeral procession for himself while alive, forcing an entire village to confront uncomfortable truths about love and loss. Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/man-stages-own-funeral-bihar/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirdda…
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What if the most generous thing you could do for others starts with choosing yourself? We explore how a simple teacup metaphor can change the way you give, receive, and recover—shifting from a life of rationed love to one that flows with ease and intention. We open with a candid look at the hidden cost of constant giving: burnout disguised as nobil…
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When Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels declared the Loch Ness Monster a hoax to mock British intelligence and Mussolini claimed Italy bombed Nessie to death, the Allies fired back with the ultimate counter-propaganda: the lake monster survived and became a war hero. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with de…
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Deep in Rome's ancient catacombs, among six million Christian dead, a terrified medium channels the spirit of martyred Saint Agnes—revealing the exact location of a hidden treasure buried centuries ago. Now a skeptical scientist has the chance to prove whether her visions are real, if he dares to dig where the ghost has directed. | Front Page Drama…
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A burning object crashes near a remote mining site, sparking an international investigation into what fell from the crowded skies above. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/space-trash-crash-australia/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a reg…
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A NASA supercomputer has determined when our planet becomes a lifeless wasteland, and the specificity is somehow more disturbing than the news itself. READ or SHARE: https://weirddarkness.com/earth-death-date Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a r…
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A gender reveal party, hospital photos, and a newborn named Bonnie Leigh – everything seemed real until someone walked into the wrong room. Read or Share: https://weirddarkness.com/fake-pregnancy-reborn-doll/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a r…
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Perfection looks shiny from a distance, but up close it feels cold. We open the door to a different room—sunlight, dust motes, shelves of handmade treasures—and ask what changes when we treat life like a living collection instead of a sterile showroom. If a chipped vase can be priceless because it carries a story, what does that say about the parts…
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Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and wants nothing more than to be smart. When scientists offer him an experimental surgery that has already transformed a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius, Charlie sees his chance—but becoming intelligent means finally understanding the cruel truth about the world around him. Support our Halloween “Overco…
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In the moonlit shadows of Haiti, a young bride falls victim to a jealous curse. Three months after her wedding, Helen Strong is dead... or is she? When her husband discovers her grave has been opened and the casket stolen, he follows a terrifying trail into the sugarcane fields—where he finds his wife among the living dead, working mindlessly along…
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Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they discover a terrifying secret: the “statues” in the exhibit aren’t statues at all — they’re actually dead people substituted in for the displays. | #RetroRadio EP0537 Support our Halloween “Overcoming…
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A man who described Donald Trump being shot in the ear months before it happened has a new vision, and this one involves lights in the sky. Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/brandon-biggs-alien-mothership/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness®…
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Professional athletes would rather sleep in an Airbnb than risk another night in baseball’s most infamous haunted hotel. Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/pfister-haunted-hotel-baseball/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE WeirdDarkness® is a registered tr…
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What if the only stamp you’ve ever needed was your own signature? We pull back the curtain on the “permission office” myth and show how much life opens up when you stop waiting for approval and start leading with self-approval. This is a direct, practical guide to taking the pen back from self-doubt and writing your own permission slip to be bold, …
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A young husband's life becomes a nightmare when his devoted wife begins trying to kill him in moments she can't remember—and the only clue is a strange ring she can no longer remove. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS EPISODE: A classic horror story from 19…
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A man plagued by catalepsy lives in constant terror of the one fate worse than death itself—being buried alive—until the night his worst nightmare becomes reality. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS EPISODE: “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe was ori…
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#WDRadio WEEK OF OCT 19, 2025 | In the late 1800s, a journalist uncovered the shocking secret of how medical schools obtained their teaching skeletons: hidden factories in London, Paris, and New York that processed unclaimed morgue bodies and exotic specimens from travelers into 10,000 anatomical skeletons per year, using acid baths, boiling tanks,…
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Two psychics drained their victims of over $600,000 by claiming to remove deadly curses, but the real danger wasn't supernatural at all. SERMON TRANSCRIPT…https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-fortune-tellers Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2025. #WeirdDarkness #PsychicScam #ChristianSermon #FortuneTellerFraud #Bible…
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A robot enters the ring to fight for the middleweight championship, but it’s not the title belt that hangs in the balance so much as what he’s being encouraged to say to the crowd when he wins… if he wins. “Title Fight” by William Gault (Fantastic Universe December 1956)By Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor
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A mild-mannered hobo named Chicken is mistaken for the legendary outlaw Black Eagle and must maintain the deadly charade when forced to lead a train robbery he has no idea how to execute. | CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0536 Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.co…
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When a retired magician and an arrogant estate owner clash over property changes, their feud escalates to a deadly wager—one that traps a man in an ancient torture device with only an hour to escape, while his fate hangs on whether his rival will open the door in time. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with dep…
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A cross-country driver realizes the hitchhiker he keeps impossibly encountering along his route might be the only one of them who's still alive. | Mercury Summer Theater of the Air | #RetroRadio EP0535 Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All …
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Armed with a mysterious leather-bound manuscript and help from a library employee, Shawn and Lucy venture into an abandoned office on Halloween to uncover the truth about the Grove City Library's dark secret. This is a sequel to last year’s Halloween hit saga, “The Grove City Werewolf!” We recommend you listen to that story first: https://weirddark…
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When a police speed camera picked up invisible humanoids sprinting at 40 mph, it became just one of dozens of credible cryptid encounters reported by multiple witnesses worldwide. Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPE IN THIS EPISODE: The number of Bigfoot, Loch Ness …
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A rancher in Villa de la Quebrada found two of his animals dead with impossibly precise cuts and missing organs, joining a pattern of mysterious livestock deaths that spans two continents. Read the article: https://weirddarkness.com/cattle-mutilation-villa-de-la-quebrada/ Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with …
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