Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The Thing That Wears the Faces of the Dead (Horror Fiction)

“I Went Undercover To a Body Farm” by Kevin Jones: A grieving husband goes undercover at a remote island body farm, convinced the reclusive caretaker knows what happened to his missing wife. But the island holds something far older than its corpses — something that watches from the treeline, wears the faces of the dead, and is patient enough to wait until the hunger sets in. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/BodyFarmUndercover [https://weirddarkness.com/BodyFarmUndercover] LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps [https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps] *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Went Undercover To a Body Farm” by Kevin Jones: https://www.creepypasta.com/i-went-undercover-to-a-body-farm [https://www.creepypasta.com/i-went-undercover-to-a-body-farm] (Follow Kevin on X: https://x.com/kjwrites98 [https://x.com/kjwrites98]) (Follow Kevin on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Kjwrites98 [https://www.youtube.com/@Kjwrites98]) (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: February 13, 2025

“Nope My Way Outta Here” by Dark Weirdness | Based on a Weird Darkness Story

A breathless punk-pop dash through the longest first night on a brand-new job — where every shadow has a footnote, and the only sane move is the exit. Hazard pay sold separately. GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darkweirdness/nope-my-way-outta-here [https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darkweirdness/nope-my-way-outta-here] EPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/aloneonthejob/ [https://weirddarkness.com/aloneonthejob/] MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/music [https://weirddarkness.com/music] HEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listen [https://weirddarkness.com/listen]

28-Year-Old Posed as Bronx Teen at Lehman High for Welfare | #WeirdDarkNEWS

A 28-year-old woman spent two weeks attending a Bronx high school under a fake name before her own Facebook page outed her real age. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/claassen/ [https://weirddarkness.com/claassen/] Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps 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

Vorterix Tried to Book a Ufologist and Got a Urologist Instead | #WeirdDarkNEWS

An Argentine streaming radio show meant to interview a ufologist about the newly released U.S. UAP files dialed up a urologist instead, who calmly explained the difference live on air. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-urologist/ [https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-urologist/] Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps 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

THE BOY IN THE BLUE JACKET: True Crime Reimagined | #MurderNoir

A two-year-old named Tommy Lark vanished from a butcher's counter in Halverton's Coppergate Arcade in forty seconds, turned up two days later on a railway embankment two and a half miles away, and a hundred uniforms across the city couldn't put a name to the two figures in the closed-circuit film. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-boyinthebluejacket [https://weirddarkness.com/noir-boyinthebluejacket] THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: On February 12, 1993, two-year-old James Bulger was led out of the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, while his mother paid for groceries at a butcher shop. He was walked two and a half miles on foot through Liverpool to a railway embankment in Walton, where his abductors beat him to death and laid his body across the tracks. He was found two days later. Roughly thirty-eight people had seen the three children together along the route; none intervened. Six days after the abduction, a woman recognized one of the boys from enhanced CCTV stills broadcast on national television and called Marsh Lane police station with two names — Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both ten years old, both flagged on a truancy list that investigators had set aside on the assumption that the perpetrators were teenagers. The pair were arrested the same day and convicted at Preston Crown Court on November 24, 1993, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history. Both were released on life licence with new identities at age eighteen in June 2001 under a court order granting them lifelong anonymity. Robert Thompson has not reoffended. Jon Venables has been recalled to prison twice on child-pornography charges and remains in custody, with his most recent parole hearing held in February 2026. WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: May 18, 2026