Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

In the story, David and Alice Leiber are a happily married couple living in Los Angeles, but when Alice gives birth to a healthy baby boy, she fears the baby is somehow abnormal and will kill her.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Small Assassin” by Ray Bradbury from “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”: https://amzn.to/3AT6E6Q

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 20, 2026

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In a future where the government runs legal murder, a clothing man on his seventh hunt tracks his victim to a sidewalk cafe in New York and finds her sitting alone with both hands on the table.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Complete Recovery” (January 01, 1979) ***WD
00:47:03.252 = Witch’s Tale, “The Priest of Sekhet” (February 27, 1933) ***WD(LQ)
01:13:22.062 = X Minus One, “Seventh Victim” (March 06, 1957)
01:36:47.331 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death Walked In” (1956-1957) ***WD
02:00:48.532 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
02:29:08.838 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Truth” (June 28, 1945) ***WD
02:57:20.767 = Barry Craig, “Murder Island” (January 09, 1979) ***WD
03:27:38.576 = Ghost Story, “The Tower” (January 02, 1987)
03:41:19.292 = Night Beat, “Old Itch” (July 03, 1952)
04:10:21.392 = The Black Book, “My Favorite Corpse” (February 24, 1952) ***WD
04:24:48.069 = Box 13, “Dan And The Wonderful Lamp” (March 27, 1949)
04:53:16.118 = Strange Adventure, “the Jade Ring” ( ***WD
04:56:30.783 = Tales of the Frightened, “Voice From The Grave” (1957-1963)
05:01:17.266 = 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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Mark Twain's errand on the Mississippi began in a Munich morgue, where 36 shrouded corpses lie wired to a bell and a dying American asked him to save his soul.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dead House” (December 29, 1978) ***WD
00:46:13.308 = Suspense, “Fugue In C-Minor” (June 01, 1944) ***WD
01:16:07.828 = The Creaking Door, “Haunted Hangman” (May 25, 1964) ***WD
01:45:44.388 = The Saint, “Real Gone Guy” (July 30, 1950) ***WD
02:14:27.824 = 2000 Plus, “The Giant Walks” (November 05, 1950) ***WD(LQ)
02:43:19.062 = The Unexpected, “Find The Man” (1947-1948)
02:59:11.818 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
03:15:35.171 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, 1947)
03:45:22.054 = The Weird Circle, “What Was It” (October 10, 1943) ***WD
04:13:45.720 = The Whistler, “Death Watch” (June 25, 1945) ***WD
04:43:21.733 = Strange Wills, “Crosswinds” (November 09, 1946)
05:12:56.628 = 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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On January 16th, 1935, federal agents poured more than 1,500 rounds into a two-story house on Lake Weir in Ocklawaha, Florida, and when the shooting stopped, Fred Barker and his mother, Ma Barker, were dead inside, and visitors to the empty house say an old woman's cries still come from behind its bullet-riddled walls.

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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jtk393c3

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Lingering Ghost of “Ma” Barker haunts the shores of Lake Weir in Florida. *** Sex with ghosts… is it erotic or horrific? *** An axe-wielding maniac stalked the streets of the Big Easy, and the only way to avoid slaughter was to play jazz. 

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:11.112 = Show Open
00:02:21.878 = The Axman of New Orleans
00:11:56.246 = Ghost Sex: Erotic or Horrific ***
00:21:34.894 = The Lingering Ghost of Ma Barker ***
01:17:33.555 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Ghost Sex: Erotic or Horrific” written by G. Michael Vasey: http://amzn.to/2FQGHTV
“The Lingering Ghost of ‘Ma Barker”: https://tinyurl.com/y5pdb6rd
“The Axman of New Orleans”: https://tinyurl.com/y46okmow(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: January 24, 2021

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In the early 1980s, a witness swore flames rose from a man's leg in Virginia's chair, Alabama needed three jolts to kill John Evans, and Mississippi's gas chamber left Jimmy Lee Gray striking his head on a steel pole. In Georgia, "Repeat the execution" was the commissioner's answer when an official told a tape recorder that Alpha Otis Stephens was still alive.

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 19, 2026

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