Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A silent-film director is found shot in his bungalow with every lamp in the house still burning, and a private eye from the east is paid to find the letters before the police do.

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The drug turned to gel in John Wayne Gacy's IV tube, Christina Riggs took the needles in her wrists, and Florida pushed them through both of Angel Diaz's veins. In Ohio, Joseph Clark lifted his head off the gurney to say "it don't work", Christopher Newton took a bathroom break during the vein search, and Romell Broom went back to his cell alive after two hours of needles.

From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions

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Originally aired: October 22, 2026

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A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD
00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD
01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
01:42:47.242 = Harry Lime, “Horseplay” (November 23, 1951) ***WD
02:09:06.828 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “A Pair of Hands” (September 06, 1980) ***WD
02:37:07.458 = The Haunting Hour, “Death By Request” (September 08, 1945) ***WD
03:03:04.221 = Hermit’s Cave, “The Search For Life” (April 12, 1942) ***WD
03:28:48.436 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Lion’s Mane” (April 21, 1947)
04:00:34.450 = Mystery House, “Murder Is An Art” (August 09, 1946)
04:27:40.870 = Inner Sanctum, “Black Art” (May 15, 1945) ***WD
04:57:15.865 = 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.

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Eleven stories, starting with an 18-month-old found breathing in a Gilbert, Arizona, hospital morgue hours after he was pronounced dead, and running through a beheading in West Bengal, an Oregon man who claimed his mother was possessed, an Amish woman's weed whacker, and a 1962 double murder near Battle Ground, Washington.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/toddler-found-breathing-in-morgue

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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Early on November 30th, 1989, Linda Cortile says gray beings floated her out of her 12th-floor window in lower Manhattan and into a hovering craft, and two security men later told abduction researcher Budd Hopkins they'd watched it happen from their car near the Brooklyn Bridge.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/linda-cortile-abduction

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9y2dhp9y

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a heartbreaking story of love gone wrong. It's a tale of passion, betrayal, murder, and the electric chair. (Love And The Electric Chair) *** The terrifying true story of the abduction of Linda Cortile – was she truly abucted by aliens or is there another explanation? (The Abduction of Linda Cortile) *** A man keeps seeing shadowy figures in his peripheral vision. (Her Feet Were Swinging) *** They say the widow's ghost lingers in the tower of the Drish House - and sets the house ablaze with phantom fire. (The Drish House Hauntings) * It is said that some hundred years ago, people in Jamaica believed the powers of so-called “Shadow Killers” - but who or what were they? (The Shadow Killers of Jamaica) *** Fifteen acres of land purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1976 is what comprises a place known as DeForest Park.  By day it is filled with sun, sand, and fun. By night, it is filled with shudders, scares, and screams. (The Darkness of DeForest Park) *** Friends were planning for a good time of dirt biking, hunting, and drinking beer. They should never have visited the cemetery. (The Haunted Farmstead) *** Two women walking home in the twilight come across the ghost of a woman dead for the past year. *** A man tells the terrifying story of how he was possessed by a demon. *** Two girls discover that even if you don’t believe a legend of ghostly children, you still shouldn’t tease them. *** If you vacation at Carlsbad Lagoon, you’ll need something stronger than sunscreen to protect you. *** Traumatic events can sometimes trigger poltergeist activity, but for one young girl, the torment seemed to have no end. *** The hills of Northern Chile are not safe for men walking alone at night.  A female spirit known as La Lola stalks the night, lost and enraged over the murder of her husband. *** Glowing eyes in the dark, a man in a dark suit, and a party in the other room… none of which are real, except to two young girls who swear it actually happened. *** Lehigh, Oklahoma – with the dark past of gangsters, the KKK, a corrupt sheriff… and the paranormal.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:58.241 = Show Open
00:04:17.776 = The Alien Abduction of Linda Cortile
00:14:07.986 = The Drish Hauntings ***
00:18:39.014 = The Darkness of DeForest Park
00:22:19.808 = The Haunted Farmstead
00:30:13.021 = The Shadow Killers of Jamaica ***
00:35:52.020 = Her Feet Were Swinging
00:40:01.137 = Love And The Electric Chair
00:49:28.171 = My First Spooky Experience ***
00:54:25.482 = The Haunting of Laura
01:04:28.440 = The Ghostly Kids of Hungry Hollow Road ***
01:07:07.740 = I Was Possessed By a Demon
01:10:47.811 = The Woman In The Blue Sari
01:13:13.484 = Carlsbad Lagoon
01:16:49.012 = La Lola, The Vengeful Female Spirit of Northern Chile
01:20:41.489 = Haunted Lehigh, Oklahoma ***
01:26:23.165 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Love And The Electric Chair” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y9x5dszv
“The Abduction of Linda Cortile” by Les Hewitt for Paranorms.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1s7n41oz
“Her Feet Were Swinging” from YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/504clul2
“The Drish Hauntings” by Elisabeth Tilstra for The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2dqwhue5
“The Darkness of DeForest Park” from BackpackerVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1x5i7veu
“The Haunted Farmstead” from GhostsNGhouls.com (link no longer valid)
“The Shadow Killers of Jamaica” from MessageToEagle.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4jjws8tp
“The Woman in the Blue Sari” by Amardeep Singh for MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3ozpxps6
“I Was Possessed By a Demon” by Jon Austin for Express.co.uk: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/m9m5jbe0
“The Ghostly Kids of Hungry Hollow Road” submitted anonymously to Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/drwxy79f
“Carlsbad Lagoon’s Sinister Siren” from BackpackerVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1d1sye5y
“The Haunting of Laura” from ThoughtCo.com (link no longer available)
“La Lola: The Vengeful Female Spirit in Northern Chile“ from ParanormalInvestigating.com (website no longer exists)
“My First Spooky Experience” submitted anonymously to Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mmw30w8x
“Haunted Lehigh, Oklahoma” by Paul Dale Roberts, submitted to MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4yj3u7ay(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.)
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Originally aired: February 2019

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