Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

#WeirdDarkNEWS | Body In A Freezer, A Shrine Killing, Microwaved Fish, And More

Police in England ask a man where his friend has been, and as they walk him out of his flat, he tells them she's in the freezer. In a village in western India, a mother c

THE DAEMON WOOD: Terror At Saltpeter Creek | #MidnightInTheMacabre

For years, a man in eastern Baltimore County would walk to the edge of the deep woods behind his neighborhood, and stare into the trees until he could feel something in t

KNOCK, KNOCK: Three Listener Terrors Written By Kids | #MicroTerrors

Three young listeners wrote this week's stories. Ben starts hearing scratching at his bedroom door, just like the boy in the scary movie he can't stop thinking about; Ann

THE THREE-FINGERED MUMMIES OF PERU: Alien Or Hoax?

A mummified three-fingered hand with eight-inch fingers came out of a tunnel behind a stone door in the Peruvian desert, and the doctors in Cusco who X-rayed it found rea

HE CAME BACK FROM SPACE: But His Daughter Knows Something Is Wrong | #RetroRadio

At three in the morning, a spacecraft lands on the White House lawn and carries the president away, and when it brings him home 24 hours later just as promised, his daugh

#ConnectiveTissue | Six Shots At The Wolf That Wouldn’t Go Down

Terry Sherman fired four revolver rounds and two rifle shots at a wolf three times the size of anything he expected on his Utah land, and it walked into the trees, its tr

99 YEARS IN THE PEN: And He Came Out Looking Forty | #RetroRadio

All The Time In The World: Small-time con man Harry picks up his old cellmate at the gates of the state pen on the day the man finishes a 99-year sentence, and since his

BIG STUPE: The Gift That Had The Whole Crew Laughing | #MidnightInTheMacabre

On Waterfield's planet, the mining ship's psychologist dresses up as a jeweled king to impress the local chieftain, and the chief sends back a gift: a seven-foot, bowling

THE REAL ARKHAM ASYLUM: Danvers State Hospital

The Massachusetts hospital that Arkham Asylum is based on was built for 450 patients and crowded with more than 2,000, and today people live in apartments built into what

#WeirdDarkNEWS | Alien Abduction 911 Call, Head In A Canal, Dinosaurs, And More

A Georgia man calls 911 to report that his mother has been abducted by aliens. On a canal bank in eastern India, a few dogs are tearing at something wrapped in plastic. O

THE LANDLADY: A Room Was Already Waiting For Him | #MidnightInTheMacabre

Seventeen-year-old Billy Weaver steps off the train in Bath on a freezing night looking for a cheap room, and a BED AND BREAKFAST notice in a window holds his eye so hard

BLOWN OUT OF THIS WORLD: The Teacher Who Came Back Reversed | #RetroRadio

Watchers Of The Light: A small-town teacher goes for a lifeguard physical, and the doctor's X-rays show his heart beating on the right side of his chest and his liver tur

SWALLOWED BY THE MOUNTAIN: The Town That Vanished Overnight | #RetroRadio

The Fall of Gentryville: Overnight, the mountain village of Gentryville and all six hundred of its people vanish, and full-grown elm trees stand where the general store w

CIPHER IN THE CORN: The Coded Notes Found In Ricky McCormick's Pocket

In June 1999 a passing motorist spotted Ricky McCormick's badly decomposed body in a cornfield in West Alton, Missouri, and in the pocket of his jeans were two handwritte

THE DREAM DIVIDE: Are Your Dreams Glimpses Of A Parallel Universe?

For thousands of years people have wondered why some dreams keep returning to a place they've never been, or show events that haven't happened yet. One theory links those

BEHIND THE GRAY DOOR: The Punishment Room At Happy Sun Daycare | #MidnightInTheMacabre

A news blogger tracks down the people who worked at an abandoned country daycare, and the kids who went there, to learn what was in the room behind the gray door, where t

#WeirdDarkNEWS | Zombie Stabbing, Bodies In A Cave, Morgue Break-In, And More

A man in zombie makeup walks out onto the back patio during comedy night at an Austin coffee bar and picks up a knife. A mother and daughter go missing from a village in

NO END HOUSE: Nine Rooms, $500, And Nobody Has Ever Reached The End | #MidnightInTheMacabre

The No End House pays $500 to anyone who reaches the last of its nine rooms, and nobody ever has. David's friend Peter Terry goes silent online for five weeks after his o

THE SNALLYGASTER: Maryland's Blood-Drinking Dragon Of South Mountain

Maryland families once painted seven-pointed stars on their barns to keep away the Snallygaster, a dragon-like bird said to drink its victims' blood, and when sightings n

SHADOWS FROM THE GRAVE: The Uncle Who Knew He'd Be Dead In A Week | #RetroRadio

An uncle in Fresno tells his nephew, a Hollywood photographer, that he'll be dead within a week, then leaves him everything on one condition: he has to check the locks on