Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“INK FILLED DREAM: A Boy's Out-of-Body Experiences Catch Unwanted Attention” | and more FICTION!

Twelve-year-old Joseph can step out of his sleeping body and drift through walls — and something in the dark has started watching him do it. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Ink Filled Dream” by Blue Hero: https://www.creepypasta.com/ink-filled-dream/ [https://www.creepypasta.com/ink-filled-dream/] “Never Use a Voice Recorder While You Sleep” by Chris Maxim: https://www.creepypasta.com/never-use-voice-recorder-sleep/ [https://www.creepypasta.com/never-use-voice-recorder-sleep/]  ***Read the prequel to this story at https://www.creepypasta.com/the-attic-in-the-basement/ [https://www.creepypasta.com/the-attic-in-the-basement/] “Born Lucky” by The Dead Canary: https://www.creepypasta.com/born-lucky/ [https://www.creepypasta.com/born-lucky/] Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = = = (Over time links seen above 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.) = = = = = "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 ©2026, Weird Darkness. = = = = = Originally aired: November 14, 2018 CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/inkfilleddream

“HOLES: A HIVE BENEATH THE SKIN” and More Short Horror Stories of Fiction

A man discovers a tiny hole in his back, and by morning something has begun building a home inside him. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Holes” by S. R. Underschultz: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdjm36d7 [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdjm36d7] “I Was Born With Superhuman Abilities” by Alayne Winters: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2zsjba5f [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2zsjba5f] “Leaving the Hospital” by Weirdo family member, Louise Latham “To the Moon and Back” submitted anonymously to WeirdDarkness.com “Don’t Let This Be You” by Hikari Shimizu: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/594memkb [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/594memkb] “Grandma’s House” by Weirdo family member, Rachel West Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = = = (Over time links seen above 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.) = = = = = "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 ©2026, Weird Darkness. = = = = = Originally aired: December 16, 2018 CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/holes/

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao Once Warned of Monterey Witches

A 2023 video of Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao claiming witches and Wiccans had taken over Monterey, California, resurfaced as he stepped into the top Navy role. PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/HungCaoWiccans [https://weirddarkness.com/HungCaoWiccans] Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1078714736 [https://pod.link/1078714736] *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

PARIS GREEN: Inspired By a True Crime Case | #MurderNoir

A private eye called out to a quiet farm on a still September afternoon finds two sisters poisoned and shot, a brother in the wind, and a barn even the animals won't go near. THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: On September 5, 1893, on a farm outside Winnebago, Illinois, widow Bridget Hart returned from a brief errand in her potato field to find her twenty-six-year-old daughter Mary lying face-down on the porch steps, bleeding from her mouth and nose, and her twenty-three-year-old daughter Nellie staggering in the barn with a green stain of arsenic-laced Paris green pesticide running down her dress. Before she died the following afternoon, Nellie identified her own brother — thirty-five-year-old John Hart, the family's black sheep, recently returned home after years of drifting and feuding with his siblings over his share of their late father's $50,000 estate — as her attacker. He had forced both sisters to drink the poison and shot each of them at close range, Mary four times. John fled on horseback but was captured that same night in a Rockford barber shop, where he calmly drank a small dose of laudanum as police closed in. He was tried in January 1894, convicted in under an hour despite a defense that blamed his brothers, claimed malaria and mental illness, and accused the dead girls themselves of conspiring to poison him, and was hanged in the Winnebago County jail yard on March 16, 1894 — bringing to a close a case made stranger still by the fact that his father had taken his own life two years earlier with the very same poison. ORIGINAL CASE SOURCES… https://www.hauntedrockford.com/the-hart-family-murders/ [https://www.hauntedrockford.com/the-hart-family-murders/] WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: April 27, 2026 EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-parisgreen

The Truth About Absolute Sensory Deprivation | Too Much Total Silence And You'll Go Insane!

The quietest place on Earth isn't peaceful — it's a room so silent that within 45 minutes, your own mind turns against you. And that’s just a sample of what complete sensory deprivation will do to you. | #WDRadio APRIL 26, 2026 ========== HOUR ONE: According to the song, silence is golden. And it really can be; there are plenty of times when we just want to shut everything out and relax in peace and quiet. But silence isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, either, and too much silence can drive you mad. It all starts with being able to hear your own organs working, and after about 45 minutes, you’ll start to hallucinate. Silence—and other types of sensory deprivation—can do some weird things to the body and mind… and to the planet. (The Disturbing Effects of Sensory Deprivation) *** A U.S. Air-Force chaplain is called to duty not against a human enemy – but a spiritual one. (Air Force Exorcist) ========== HOUR TWO: Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command have been repeatedly searched, but no documents have been located which confirm the event, or any interest by the Navy in attempting such an achievement. But then, those who came to this conclusion probably didn’t interview Duncan Cameron and Al Bielek. They were onboard the ship when it happened. The two sides of the Philadelphia Experiment. (Time Traveling Brothers) *** While it may look picturesque during the day, worthy of a post card, the town of Pluckley in Kent, UK is known as a place where you will often hear something go bump in the night. (Paranormal Pluckley) *** A man has a frightening experience after checking into a hotel. But then, what would you expect if the rumor is that the place is haunted? (Haunted Malaysian Hotel Room) ========== SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW: “The Philadelphia Experiment Hoax?” by Shannon Corbeil for Military.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3ztxcv9s [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3ztxcv9s] “Time Traveling Brothers” by Ian Matthews: (link no longer valid) “Extraterrestrials In Chile” posted at Infinity Explorers: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3wuc5tm2 [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3wuc5tm2] “Paranormal Pluckley” by Sean Doherty, Lauren MacDougall, and Will Rider for Kent Live: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n62r3mvb [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n62r3mvb], https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ntze8vx [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ntze8vx], https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/kekb9rek [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/kekb9rek] “The Haunted Malaysian Hotel Room” from Paranormality Magazine “Zuni Witchcraft” by Kathy Weiser for Legends of America: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/33khzyfm [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/33khzyfm] “The Disturbing Effects of Sensory Deprivation” by Knowledge Nuts, Debra Kelly for List Verse and Allison P. Davis for The Cut: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5hkbkujc [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5hkbkujc], https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yhzp72rf [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yhzp72rf],https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/d532kr33 [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/d532kr33] “Flying Saucers In The Clouds” by A. Sutherland for Message to Eagle: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jexh43uj [https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jexh43uj] “Air Force Exorcist” by Erica Earl for Military.com (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© 2025 ========== 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).