Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A physicist invents a machine capable of doing the impossible – and makes the mistake of showing it to a Hollywood mogul who immediately sees dollar signs. What begins as a scientific breakthrough soon becomes an experiment neither man can quite control. A man has to have a place to confess a horrible sin … and this is as good as any other!

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Don’t Shoot” by Robert Zacks (Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1955)
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 01, 2026

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In the Missouri Ozarks of 1879, Charles May walks into the woods to dig a ditch on the morning his son swears he'll make him pay for a bloody nose, and he never walks back out.

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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 Thing at Nolan” (November 20, 1978) ***WD
00:46:36.423 = Dimension X, “Competition” (November 19, 1950) ***WD
01:15:42.732 = The Eleventh Hour, “Escape To Die” (ADU)
01:40:44.847 = Escape, “Letter From Jason” (November 29, 1949)
02:10:11.926 = Murder By Experts, “Two Coffins To Fill” (July 04, 1949)
02:40:43.999 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Desert Object, aka The Alien, Nago” (December 25, 1957) ***WD
02:58:33.516 = Dark Fantasy, “Men Call Me Made” (December 19, 1941) ***WD
03:23:48.862 = BBC Fear on 4, “The Monkey’s Paw” (January 29, 1988) ***WD
03:51:34.254 = Theater Five, “Found Money” (December 02, 1964) ***WD
04:14:47.999 = Future Tense, “Pictures Don’t Lie” (May 09, 1994) ***WD
04:43:08.003 = Hall of Fantasy, “Markheim” (April 24, 1947)
05:09:09.878 = 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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Succubus visits run from the days of a future pope and his secret lover, Meridiana, to a Bakersfield, California, bedroom recently, where a young man says something held him down and laughed at him. What are sex demons? And could your girlfriend be one?

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Succubi are female-appearing sexual demons that approach men in a variety of ways, usually while they are sleeping, then seduce them. Often men report that their experiences with succubi are positive and enjoyable, but just as often, they report that the pleasure had a thread of something evil running through it… and that thread leads to utter destruction. (The Deadly Allure of the Succubus) *** And the woman you are living with right now – your own wife or girlfriend – is it possible she is a succubus? We’ll look a bit deeper into the signs of a succubus so you can be aware and on alert! (Is My Girlfriend a Sex Demon?) *** In recent years, stories of personal encounters with shadow people have flooded the Internet. So much so, that a subcategory of Reddit was created solely for those who have experienced a shadow person and wish to share their story. We’ll share some of those reports. (Real Life Encounters With Shadow People) *** Many towns have tales of an old woman who might be a witch of some kind. Warrington, England had its own local, evil crone. She was known as Old Peggy Gronach and was described as being “evil, ugly and haggard.” But was she truly a witch? Many people thought so! (The Strange Tale of an English Witch)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:23.650 = Show Open
00:03:40.413 = Real Life Encounters With Shadow People
00:14:09.248 = The Deadly Allure of the Succubus ***
00:30:04.307 = Is My Girlfriend A Sex Demon?
00:40:11.988 = The Strange Tale of an English Witch ***
00:47:33.051 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Real Life Encounters With Shadow People” by Audrey Webster: http://bit.ly/2YvO77h
“The Strange Tale of an English Witch” by Nick Redfern: http://bit.ly/2KdGAF9
“The Deadly Allure of the Succubus” by Cheryl Adams Richkoff: http://bit.ly/2KdnDlJ
“Is My Girlfriend a Sex Demon?” by Jacob Shelton: http://bit.ly/314rXdP(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: July, 2020

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This episode of Weird Darkness runs from shadow people and the succubus to a 1600s English witch whose neighbors believed she could turn into a horned beast.
It opens with shadow people as Reddit users describe them, from five pitch-black figures drifting around a bedroom in the late 1960s to a man in a top hat who sat in a chair beside a bed and talked, and a voice in the dark that told one sleeper, "don't move", before hands closed around the sleeper's throat.
From there the episode turns to the succubus, the female sex demon of legend, starting with the medieval tale of Gerbert of Aurillac, the future Pope Sylvester II, and his secret lover Meridiana, who is said to have predicted his death. The accounts carry on through French novelist J.K. Huysmans waking in a monastery cell, a young man in Bakersfield, California, held down in his bed in December 2012 by something that laughed and cried out, "Soon!", and an anonymous man who says he prayed to Lilith for a succubus and got one.
Next comes a checklist for men who suspect the woman they're living with is a succubus, from a girlfriend with no family at all to friends who can't explain why they hate her and the drained feeling that follows their nights together.
The episode closes in Warrington, England, in the 1600s, where a woman known as Old Peggy Gronach settled at a ruined farm after slipping away from witch-hunters in Norwich, and children who crept up to her cottage saw a hair-covered creature with red eyes and horns at the window just before Peggy came screaming out the front door. Years later, rumor had it that a skeleton with the body of a four-legged animal and a human skull had turned up half-buried in a field nearby.

Sharon Jacks went into Selby General Hospital in Marietta, Ohio, to lose her cancerous right leg below the knee, and her lawsuit, filed September 15th against the hospital and eight other defendants, says she woke up without her left leg, while the surgeon's mark was still on the right – the leg that was supposed to be amputated.

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A syndicated columnist who's made a career out of exposing fakes forces his way into an old oceanographer's glass bathysphere to debunk the six-mile-long structure at the bottom of the Bartlett Deep.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Man Who Found Out” by Roger Dee (Fantastic Universe, September 1954)

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 30, 2026

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