Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Just over a week ago, Terry McKinnon caught up with Harriet Hartman in a motel room and put bullets into her chest, and she barely flinched; she had him by the throat before she tossed him aside and told him to go home. Now he's driving into Eastgate with a gun in his pocket and a wooden stake he made himself, because that seaside town full of boarded-up houses is the only one around where she's never killed anyone.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Eastgate” by Ryan Peacock: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4mkyrur6

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 24, 2026

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On Halloween night in Grove City, Ohio, Lucy Buxton's dad drives her and Shawn Dyer to Gantz Park with two flashlights and a thirty-minute limit, so they can look for the Blood Bats, which legend says come out only on this one night of the year and trace back to Archibald Rhysand, a Union soldier who was rumored to eat bats on the battlefield. Two teenage boys got to the park first that night, with a pair of pumpkins and a handful of firecrackers, and their car is still sitting in the lot.

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Eric Sherman finally has a farmhouse with no HOA, no neighbors complaining about his Halloween displays, and plenty of room for his props, until a loose floorboard at the foot of the attic stairs gives up a locked black trunk marked in Hebrew, with a grinning jester marionette inside.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Trunk” by J.M. Cennamo: https://tinyurl.com/yyt88343

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 23, 2026

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In 2014, Ohio killed Dennis McGuire with a drug pair no one in the country had used in an execution, Oklahoma laid a sheet over Clayton Lockett's needle while the drugs went into his tissue, and Arizona gave Joseph Wood fifteen doses as a reporter counted about 640 gasps. Then come 23 more lethal injections from 1985 to 2010, among them Joseph Cannon, whose needle came out of his arm in Texas, and Bennie Demps, who said in Florida, "They butchered me back there."

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 23, 2026

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Mary Mallon insisted she had never had typhoid in her life, and in March 1907, when a health department doctor brought police and an ambulance to the Park Avenue house where she cooked, Mary met them at the door with a long kitchen fork.

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p92wk9h

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A woman keeps seeing her deceased father-in-law out of the corner of her eye. (Pop) *** The sad tale of Mary Mallon still haunts us today. You may know her better as Typhoid Mary. (The Lingering Ghost of Typhoid Mary) *** John George Haigh took the plunge into murder when he knocked out his old boss and dumped the body into acid – then set out to kill again. (The Acid Bath Murderer of England) *** A girl in an almost empty movie theater feels someone, or something, tugging at her shirt. (The Haunted Houston Movie Theater) *** They spoke a strange language, had bright green skin, and were utterly inexplicable. Who were they? (The Green Children of Woolpit) *** A ghostly boy appears outside a restaurant in Nebraska. (The Haunting Little Boy From Nebraska) *** A dark house, a baby sitter, an unexplained noise, and a shadowy figure. Normally the setup of a cliché horror movie – but this time, it was real. (The Hunchback Shadow Man) *** Over the last two decades, there have been frequent reports of a ghostly woman who wanders the halls of Greystone Mansion, leaving traces of lilac perfume in her wake. (The Greystone Mansion Murders) *** Is the White House haunted? The evidence seems to build more and more every year. (Is The White House Haunted?)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:31.646 = Show Open
00:03:41.263 = Haunted Houston Movie Theater
00:06:44.298 = Haunting Little Boy From Nebraska
00:09:31.873 = The Greystone Mansion Murders ***
00:17:25.446 = Green Children of Woolpit
00:21:44.234 = Hunchback Shadow Man
00:30:25.865 = Is The White House Haunted?
00:41:34.353 = Pop ***
00:46:02.167 = Acid Bath Murderer of England
00:53:54.347 = The Lingering Ghost of Typhoid Mary ***
01:18:00.668 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Pop” by Melda for YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5das43vj
“The Lingering Ghost of Typhoid Mary” by Renee Kruse and Troy Taylor from the book, “A Pale Horse Was Death”:http://amzn.to/2sAZLTP
“The Acid Bath Murderer Of England” by Steven Casale for TheLineUp.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1azg5pop
“The Haunted Houston Movie Theater” by Weirdo Family Member, Christi Butler: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5fvlv8u7
“The Haunting Little Boy From Nebraska” Erin Stone for MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1o4zoncc
“The Hunchback Shadow Man” by Nelchen for YourGhostStories.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1mzdp7ar
“The Greystone Mansion Murders” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/18cxj4n7
“The Green Children of Woolpit” posted at TheLineUp.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1sjg6jqu
“Is The White House Haunted?” posted at Beyond Reality News (website no longer exists)(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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