Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Vatican Exorcists Are Now Training Clergy to Fight AI-Powered Satanism

A Vatican-affiliated university is running its 20th annual exorcism training course — and this year, the curriculum includes a dedicated module on occult groups weaponizing artificial intelligence. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/vatican-exorcists-ai-satanism/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

Earth's "Heartbeat" Is Spiking — And Scientists Think It's Messing With Your Brain

The planet has a pulse, it's been humming at the same frequency since time began, and something just changed it. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://WeirdDarkness.com/schumann-resonance-brain WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

Double Atomic Bomb Survivor, My Lai's Secret & 107 Who Vanished Without a Trace

From a medieval tower that bleeds on command to a chemical gas that smelled like sweet apples, March 16 has some explaining to do. | The Morning Weird Darkness *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. EPISODE PAGE: https://WeirdDarkness.com/MWD20260316 NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of #WeirdDarkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

She Went to Space — And Something Came Back With Her | “The First Woman In Space”

After making history as the first woman to travel into space, an astronaut returns to Earth with a passenger no one expected — an alien intelligence slowly taking control of her mind and body. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0601 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “First Woman In Space” (June 13, 1977) 00:47:25.223 = The Sealed Book, “To Have And To Hold” (August 12, 1945) ***WD 01:16:54.863 = The Shadow, “The Ghost of the Stair” (December 29, 1940) ***WD 01:45:57.073 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “The Blue Room” (February 27, 1984) 01:58:26.056 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” (July 23, 1945) ***WD 02:11:23.544 = Strange Wills, “Audition/Never Aired” (January 15, 1946) 02:41:58.960 = Strange, “Phantom Wagoneer” (March 21, 1955) ***WD 02:55:34.220 = Suspense, “One Way Ride to Nowhere” (January 06, 1944) 03:24:30.997 = Tales of the Frightened, “Shakespeare’s Hometown” (December 17, 1957) 03:28:49.113 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD 04:00:36.078 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirits of the Dead” (1960s) 04:02:48.671 = The Creaking Door, “Vagrant” (April 29, 1964) ***WD 04:32:04.178 = The Saint, “The Ghost Who Came To Dinner” (April 08, 1951) 05:00:00.898 = 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. Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library 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 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. = = = = = CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0601

Real Doppelgangers | They Saw Someone Who Looked Exactly Like Me, But I Was Home The Whole Time

Real people describe seeing family members in two places at once — and in every case, the double refused to speak, refused to answer, and then simply vanished. These are their stories. #WDRadio MARCH 15, 2026 ========== HOUR ONE: 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) ========== HOUR TWO: 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) ========== 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) ========== SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW: “Freaky Reports of Pale Crawlers” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2O9fG6C [http://bit.ly/2O9fG6C] “Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road” by Arthur Criscione: http://bit.ly/2LXUr4K [http://bit.ly/2LXUr4K] “The Unsolved Keddie Killings” by Orrin Grey: http://bit.ly/2LYC8fK [http://bit.ly/2LYC8fK] “Steller’s Sea Ape” by Andrew Thaler: http://bit.ly/2XMpxDM [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 [http://bit.ly/2YkPTwL] “Demon Dogs” by Daniel Hagan, submitted at https:// [https://weirddarkness.com/submit]WeirdDarkness.com/ [https://weirddarkness.com/submit]submit [https://weirddarkness.com/submit] “Surviving Out of Body Experiences” by Audrey Webster: http://bit.ly/2M3bMKx [http://bit.ly/2M3bMKx] ““A Famous Case of Frightening Entities” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2M3YGg3 [http://bit.ly/2M3YGg3] “Hexam Heads and the Wolf of Allendale” by Neil Boothman: http://bit.ly/2Kut2Fn [http://bit.ly/2Kut2Fn] and http://bit.ly/2Kiufk0 [http://bit.ly/2Kiufk0] “Murder Castle of Chicago” by Brent Swancer (link no longer available) ==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for material I use whenever possible. If I have overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it immediately. Some links may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) ========== "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 ========== WeirdDarkness®, WeirdDarkness© 2026 ========== To become a Weird Darkness Radio Show affiliate, contact Radio America at affiliates@radioamerica.com, or call 800-807-4703 (press 2 or dial ext 250).