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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

Award-winning podcast hosted by voice artist Darren Marlar who narrates true stories of crime, the unexplained, and paranormal.* Ranked #2 in Podcast Magazine‘s “Best True Crime and Horror”...

Episodes

20 of 1,641 episodes

NO END HOUSE: Nine Rooms, $500, And Nobody Has Ever Reached The End | #MidnightInTheMacabre

The No End House pays $500 to anyone who reaches the last of its nine rooms, and nobody ever has. David's friend Peter Terry goes silent onl...

32:31Nov 3, 2026

THE SNALLYGASTER: Maryland's Blood-Drinking Dragon Of South Mountain

Maryland families once painted seven-pointed stars on their barns to keep away the Snallygaster, a dragon-like bird said to drink its victim...

69:16Nov 3, 2026

SHADOWS FROM THE GRAVE: The Uncle Who Knew He'd Be Dead In A Week | #RetroRadio

An uncle in Fresno tells his nephew, a Hollywood photographer, that he'll be dead within a week, then leaves him everything on one condition...

310:17Nov 3, 2026

CROOKED BONE: The Jungle Prison Where The Only Way Out Is The River | #MidnightInTheMacabre

In a jungle prison colony where the only way out is a river full of caimans and ratfish, a lifer who weaves hats for the commandant keeps a...

59:38Nov 2, 2026

THE CLOCK THAT NEVER CHIMES: A $200 Garage Sale Bargain | #RetroRadio

Charlie and Charlotte Tucker pay two hundred dollars for a dead minister's grandfather clock at a garage sale, and the seller swears it does...

289:04Nov 2, 2026

AN EASTER EGG HUNT, THEN 11 MURDERS: Ohio's Easter Sunday Massacre

On Easter Sunday, 1975, eight children hunted for eggs in the front yard of their grandmother's house in Hamilton, Ohio, while their uncle,...

99:30Nov 2, 2026

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN AND THE HEARTLESS SCHOOLMASTER: The Sin Of Sleepy Hollow | #COTU

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has a pumpkin, a headless Hessian, and a schoolmaster everybody feels sorry for. Disney gave us a lovable Ichabo...

48:43Nov 1, 2026

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH SAT ALONE IN A ROOM: There Was A Knock On The Door | #MidnightInTheMacabre

Two days after alien visitors wiped out the human race in a single hour, a widowed anthropology professor sits alone in a room with his book...

25:14Nov 1, 2026

STAY TUNED FOR TERROR: A Halloween Old Time Radio Marathon | #RetroRadio

Halloween horror the way radio told it, with an organ sting, a host’s voice coming out of the dark, and a story nobody wanted to switch off...

599:10Oct 31, 2026

STATIC FROM THE GRAVE: A Halloween Old Time Radio Marathon | #RetroRadio

Ghosts, killers, and things that knock on the door after dark, played by the actors and sound-effects crews of radio's golden age for audien...

599:13Oct 31, 2026

DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL: A Halloween Old Time Radio Marathon | #RetroRadio

Old radio horror for Halloween, from the years when the monsters came out of a wooden cabinet in the living room and every listener had to p...

597:08Oct 31, 2026

"WAR OF THE WORLDS" by H.G. Wells, FULL LENGTH NOVEL | #MidnightInTheMacabre

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that intelligent life beyond Earth was watching us. Studying us. En...

355:06Oct 31, 2026

13 Halloween Ghost Stories For Kids | #MidnightInTheMacabre

The Headless Horseman rides through Sleepy Hollow, a phantom ship sails out of a storm, and Bess Houdini holds a séance every Halloween hopi...

81:59Oct 31, 2026

THE BLOOD BATS OF GANTZ PARK (Part 2): Halloween In Grove City | #MicroTerrors

It's still Halloween night in Grove City, Ohio, when Shawn Dyer wakes up on the damp grass of Marsh Cemetery, across Home Road from Gantz Pa...

24:44Oct 31, 2026

Halloween Ghost Stories By The Campfire | #MidnightInTheMacabre

A nervous teenager at a Finley garage sale warns a new kid not to buy the five-dollar scarecrow sitting in a chair by the house, then tells...

78:02Oct 31, 2026

WAR OF THE WORLDS: The Greatest Halloween Prank Ever

The 1938 radio drama of “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, as performed by Mercury Radio Theater and Orson Welles. SOURCES… “War of the Worl...

65:27Oct 31, 2026

THE COSMIC EXPRESS: A One-Way Ticket To The Jungles Of Venus | #MidnightInTheMacabre

In the glass-roofed New York of 2432, a bestselling author of caveman and cowboy adventures and his bride, a poet of birdsong and sunsets, b...

24:57Oct 30, 2026

TRESPASSERS WILL BE EXPERIMENTED UPON: The Genius Who Finally Met His Equal | #RetroRadio

Stranded on the Saskatchewan prairie with his world-famous wife, a five-time Nobel Prize winner refuses to fix their stalled car, certain th...

313:31Oct 30, 2026

CROPSEY: From Urban Legend To Serial Predator – The Boogeyman Comes To Life

A terrifying urban legend meant to scare children became all too real when a former janitor turned the shadows of Staten Island into his hun...

31:33Oct 30, 2026

A HOLY TERROR: Ambrose Bierce's Graveyard Gold Strike | #MidnightInTheMacabre

In a California gold camp abandoned by everyone but the dead, a prospector follows an old letter from his late friend, the camp's grave digg...

33:08Oct 29, 2026