Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Lost in the Newfoundland fog on the way to see their daughter and baby grandson, a couple from Brampton, Ontario, picks up a hitchhiker who sends them to the Eternity Cove Hotel and Lounge, where the man behind the desk already knows their names.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Everybody Does It” (February 07, 1979) ***WD
00:46:36.858 = Nightfall, “Last Visit” (October 24, 1980) ***WD
01:14:14.307 = Nightmare, “The Leech” (April 07, 1954)
= SONG, “The Leech” by Static Wax (based on the story from Nightmare)
01:40:32.231 = Obsession, “Shadow of Huntley House” (February 26, 1951)
02:04:55.681 = Origin of Superstition, “Crossing Your Fingers” (1935) ***WD
02:19:39.383 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Give Envelope To John St. John” (May 21, 1949)
02:50:37.999 = Peril, “The Wonderful Deception” (1953) ***WD
03:17:06.552 = Mystery Playhouse, “Leg Man” (October 19, 1945) ***WD
03:43:37.489 = Price of Fear, “Fish” (September, 1973)
04:13:37.333 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Vanishing Magician” (November 06, 1943) ***WD
04:44:24.135 = Quiet Please, “Tanglefoot” (June 04, 1949) ***WD
05:13:43.832 = Show Close

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(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.

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Dex and Trey talk a friend into a few days of camping at a spot Dex's cousin swears by, four miles uphill from the car, and the girl he's been crushing on for almost a year is coming too. On the second day they find a paw print wider than Trey's spread hand, and that night a howl comes out of the dark so loud they have to cover their ears.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):
https://weirddarkness.com/werewolf-camping-story

SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Werewolves Are A**holes” by Reddtior u/JoshuaWaggoner90: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6bn65be

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 26, 2026

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The night is coming. Porch lights and decorations won't change what moves through the darkness on October 31st. Every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume hanging in a store window, every carved pumpkin glowing on a doorstep – they're echoes of something that began long before any of us were born, something older and more terrifying than most people realize.
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW: https://weirddarkness.com/HalloweensHeinousHistory

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Fifteen stories, starting with the therapist who told a Boston jury about Sandra Birchmore's dead mother at the foot of the bed, holding Sandra's unborn baby, and running through a silent black triangle dropping into a canyon, a "black magic" 911 call in Charlotte, a collapsing tomb lid in Brazil, and Skinwalker Ranch hair sent off for DNA testing.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: http://weirddarkness.com/sandra-birchmore-trial

No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast

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Mary Collins was a 20-year-old Charlotte woman with a genetic disorder her family says left her with roughly the mental capacity of a 15-year-old, and on March 28th, 2020, as North Carolina went into lockdown, she went to an apartment in NoDa to hang out with people she thought were her friends. Police found her body hidden inside a mattress in that apartment a week later, and on October 12th, 2026, a Mecklenburg County jury convicted Lavi Pham and James Salerno of first-degree murder and sent both men to prison for life without parole.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mary-collins-murder-charlotte

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/44thvtsx

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A pale-faced figure in a cape has haunted a quiet Wisconsin town for decades — vanishing without a trace, but never from memory. We’ll look at the legend of the Mineral Point Vampire. *** Navy radar specialists witness four mysterious craft emerge from the ocean depths and vanish at impossible speeds, adding weight to a startling theory: what if intelligent beings from Venus colonized Earth’s oceans long ago without our knowledge? It’s an interesting if not far-out theory. *** They’re meant to be places of privacy, but in these haunted rooms, something unseen is always watching… and it never leaves. And that idea is even more disconcerting when you find out that you’re being watched by a ghostly entity… while you’re using the bathroom. *** An innocent young woman placed her trust in the wrong hands — what happened next would horrify even the most hardened investigators. It’s the tragic and horrifying true story of Mary Collins.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:19.087 = Show Open
00:04:15.805 = She Just Wanted Friends: The Mary Collins Story
00:23:51.438 = From Mines To Monsters To Mineral Point ***
00:37:48.428 = Ancient Guardians of the Deep: The Venusian Ocean Civilization Theory ***
00:48:44.149 = Porcelain Portals of the Paranormal: Haunted Bathrooms ***
00:57:59.314 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“A Voice Stolen: The Mary Collins Story” (UPDATED): https://weirddarkness.com/avoicestolen/
“ANCIENT GUARDIANS OF THE DEEP: The Venusian Ocean Civilization Theory”:https://weirddarkness.com/ancient-guardians-of-the-deep-the-venusian-ocean-civilization-theory/
“FROM MINES, TO MONSTERS, TO MINERAL POINT: One-Stop Shopping for Vampires, Ghosts, and Goblins”:https://weirddarkness.com/mineralpointvampire/
“PORCELAIN PORTALS TO THE PARANORMAL: Haunted Bathrooms”: https://www.ranker.com/list/most-haunted-bathrooms/patrick-thornton
BOOK: “The W-Files” by Jay Rath: https://amzn.to/458kQVZ
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