Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Dr. James Graham is building the ultimate weapon, and on an ordinary quiet evening a small, harmless-looking stranger knocks on his door asking only for a few minutes of conversation — a few minutes readers of Frederic Brown have been unable to shake for seventy years.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Weapon” by Frederic Brown (from 1951): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6prpd2n

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 18, 2026

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There's only one way out of the Forever Alley, a cop was parked in front of it all night, and the man inside still vanished.

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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 Forever Alley” (October 02, 1978) ***WD
00:47:30.644 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Screaming Skull” (April 01, 1968) ***WD
01:16:44.754 = The Clock, “Death Valley” (February 21, 1956)
01:42:13.284 = Creeps By Night, “Six Who Did Not Die” (July 11, 1944) ***WD
02:09:47.242 = The Crime Club, “Murder Rents a Room” (June 05, 1947)
02:39:56.431 = Crime Classics, “Alsop Family, How It Diminished” (August 24, 1953)
03:09:33.593 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Death Paints a Picture” (October 20, 1946)
03:34:59.577 = Deep Night, “The Intercom” (July 15, 2005)
04:08:57.297 = The Devil and Mr. O, “The fast One / Speed” (January 05, 1943)
04:38:25.599 = Diary of Fate, “Darrel James” (August 10, 1948) ***WD
05:05:37.816 = 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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SANParks has now confirmed that elephants trampled a suspected poacher in Kruger National Park and that his body was found intact, which is the one detail the version of his death that traveled the world can't survive.

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Six years after seven men were machine-gunned in a Chicago garage, a captured gangster named the killers to the FBI, and J. Edgar Hoover spent two years denying he had ever said a word.

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

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Unsolved St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” by Steve Shukis from Chicago True Crime (link no longer available)

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Originally aired: June, 2020

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Elizabeth Siders pleaded not guilty Wednesday to twenty-three counts across two Vinton County indictments, and her attorney declined to say whether the mother of the sixteen children taken from the Ohmer Street house is pregnant again.

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