Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Six members of a space expedition find themselves hunted by a shapeshifting monster that appears from nowhere on a desolate alien world, seeming to pick them off one by one.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SixFrightenedMen

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Six Frightened Men” by Randall Garrett (Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ June 1957)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 07, 2026

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The skyrockets at a Mars casino town's Marsy Gras keep ruining $1,000 photographs of the night sky at the Mars Observatory, so the astronomers start offering tourists free horoscopes, and every one warns the reader he'll lose consistently at Harvey's Club.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HoroscopeRacket

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “$1,000 A Plate” by Jack McKenty: https://amzn.to/3NcdSFo

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 06, 2026

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On The Joe Rogan Experience, former intelligence officer David Grusch described video of human-looking bodies at a crash site, passed along a secondhand account of a deadly clash with living reptilians, and alleged a criminal ring inside a federal agency. Author Timothy Alberino says most of it should come as no shock to longtime UFO researchers, and Grusch predicts the evidence he says exists, none of it public yet, will come out before President Trump leaves office.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and original article): https://weirddarkness.com/DavidGruschOnRogan

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4jekr2mw

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Originally aired: October 05, 2026

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The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Serpent of Saris” (December 04, 1978) ***WD
00:44:33.459 = Sam Spade, “Critical Author Caper” (August 15, 1948) ***WD
01:13:27.490 = The Sealed Book, “Death Rings Down The Curtain” (July 01, 1945)
01:43:56.502 = The Shadow, “The Case Of The Burning Skull” (March 18, 1945) ***WD
02:09:25.037 = Sleep No More, “The Man In The Black Hat” (December 05, 1956) ***WD
02:33:35.834 = BBC Radio 4 Spine Chillers, “Falling To Pieces” (April 2006)
02:45:51.849 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Dead Man’s Paradise” (April 17, 1945) ***WD(LQ)
02:57:48.298 = Strange, “Phantom Wagoneer” (March 21, 1955) ***WD
03:12:20.632 = Suspense, “Donovan’s Brain, Part 1” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
03:42:36.925 = Suspense, “Donovan’s Brain, Part 2” (May 25, 1944) ***WD
04:11:33.984 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD
04:41:19.375 = The Creaking Door, “Dummy” (June 08, 1964) ***WD
05:13:12.446 = 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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Jim's DUI keeps him off Uber, so he signs up with a rideshare app called Cerber, and his first fare, a seven-and-a-half-foot man who never lets Jim see his face, pays $1,279.37 for one ride to Fort Miley.
A NOTE FROM DARREN: I thought I’d bring back a classic from my flagship podcast, Weird Darkness. I often get comments on YouTube, on Facebook, or receive an email saying that someone liked a certain episode for this reason or that. Usually it’s a comment about how creepy or scary a specific story was, or it’s someone sharing an incident that happened to them that was similar. Or more often than not, just a note of encouragement to thank me for the podcast (which I do love getting, by the way). But very few episodes have garnered the amount of positive feedback that “I Drive For Cerber” has, which I have posted several times simply because people keep asking for it. So for those of you who have never heard it before, or for those of you who loved it the first time and wouldn’t mind another go-around, I proudly present, “I Drive For Cerber” by Mofucious.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cerber
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Drive For Cerber” by Mofucious: https://www.creepypasta.com/i-drive-for-cerber/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 05, 2026
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