Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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More Than 50 Decomposing Bodies Inside a Chicago Funeral Home | #WeirdDarkNEWS Aug 08, 2026

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State regulators arrived at South Chicago Chapel for a routine license check and walked out having ordered the removal of more than fifty unrefrigerated human remains, some infested with rodents and maggots, from a funeral home whose director had already been shut down once before.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SouthChicagoChapel
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Dismembered Man Found In Three Suitcases: Orlando Stepson Charged | #WeirdDarkNEWS Aug 08, 2026

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Orange County deputies say a 71-year-old man reported missing near Orlando turned up dismembered inside three suitcases dumped along White Road, and that the man now charged with his murder was his own stepson.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/WhiteRoadSuitcases
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Arctic Encounter: The Silence At The Top Of The World | #RetroRadio Aug 08, 2026

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Two enemy fighter pilots—one American, one Soviet—crash side by side in the frozen Arctic, drained of all power by something that fell from the stars and is patiently waiting for them to freeze.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Arctic Encounter” (May 26, 1978) ***WD
00:44:08.465 = Quiet Please, “A Time To Be Born” (March 27, 1949)
01:13:26.009 = Radio City Playhouse, “Local Storm” (December 04, 1949)
01:37:38.711 = Hollywood Mystery Time, “Case of the Glowing Eyes” (May 20, 1943) ***WD
02:06:19.867 = Sam Spade, “Death Bed Caper” (June 20, 1948)
02:35:47.495 = The Sealed Book, “Out of the Past” (May1 3, 1945) ***WD
03:05:17.187 = The Shadow, “The Club of Doom” (December 19, 1943)
03:29:21.706 = Sleep No More, “The Bet Clerks Quest” (April 03, 1957)
03:58:42.609 = BBC Spine Chillers, “Ghosting” (January 22, 2004)
04:26:40.026 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “The Voice of Death” (March 06, 1945) ***WD (LQ)
04:39:07.050 = Tales From The Tomb, “The Raven” (1960s)
04:48:33.312 = Incredible But True, “The Man Who Walked Behind” (1950-1951)
04:51:44.006 = Strange Adventure, “Death Rides The Desert” (1945)
04:55:01.207 = Beyond The Green Door, “New Hebridos Fisherman” (1966)
04:58:48.586 = 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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A Diner Open 25 Hours a Day | #MidnightInTheMacabre Aug 08, 2026

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A driver who never stops on the long haul home pulls off a Massachusetts highway at midnight for a burrito, and finds a spotless chrome diner whose sign promises it's open twenty-five hours a day.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-diner25hours
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“A Diner Open 25 Hours a Day” by Christopher Maxim: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 08, 2026

SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode Two Aug 08, 2026

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Scout Brooks just wanted to survive his first day of seventh grade. Instead, he found himself recruited into a mysterious after-school club, named 'The Chosen One' by the strange Professor Nog, and handed a box of secrets he's not allowed to talk about. Meanwhile, somewhere far beyond the stars, a man named Farrow remains a prisoner of creatures no one back on Earth even knows exist.
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The Many Hauntings Of The S.K. Pierce Mansion Aug 08, 2026

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A murdered woman still haunts her room, a drunken boarder bursts from the shadows, and something in the basement wants to be found — welcome to the S.K. Pierce Mansion.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SKPierceMansion
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Many Hauntings of the S.K. Pierce Mansion” from SlightlyOddFitchburg.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p85u74e, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p88ef7h
(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: March, 2022

Seoul's Pet Tarot Readers Decode What the Dog Is Thinking | #WeirdDarkNEWS Aug 07, 2026

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In an upscale Seoul district, a fortune-teller deals a custom tarot deck to greyhounds, turtles, and anxious owners who pay 20,000 won a session to find out what their pets have been secretly worried about.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/pettarot
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The New Forest Vampire Who Left Lambs at Church Doors | #WeirdDarkNEWS Aug 07, 2026

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For six months, slaughtered lambs and severed deer heads kept turning up on the doorsteps of New Forest churches, always with an inverted cross set close by, and some of the people who found them stopped going to worship altogether. When police finally caught the man behind it, he gave the court his name as Count Dracula.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/NewForestVampire
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*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
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Coming Home – Not Everything on Camera Was in the Script | #MidnightInTheMacabre Aug 07, 2026

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In 2016, a first-time director captured something on film he never intended to, and the people who've heard about what's buried in that footage tend to wish they hadn't.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-cominghome
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Coming Home” by JRT McMahon: https://www.creepypasta.com/coming-home/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 07, 2026

Missing 411: The People Who Vanish From America's Wild Places Aug 07, 2026

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Thousands have stepped off marked trails and into America's wilderness never to be seen again, and the retired lawman who spent years cataloguing them found the same strange details surfacing case after case.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Missing411
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/34vb6kex
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Thousands of people have vanished without a trace from America's wilderness areas, leaving behind baffling clues that defy conventional explanation. From children who disappear within seconds while picking berries to hikers in bright clothing who seem to evaporate from marked trails, these cases share disturbing patterns that suggest something beyond ordinary misadventure. What is happening in our national parks? And what strange forces might be responsible for those who seemingly step off the face of the earth?
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
David Paulides' "Missing 411" Book Series (Missing 411: Western United States & Canada * Missing 411: Eastern United States * Missing 411: North America and Beyond * Missing 411: The Devil's in the Detail)https://www.canammissing.com/missing-411.html
CanAm Missing Project Website: https://www.canammissing.com
George Knapp's Interview with David Paulides for Mystery Wire: https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/david-paulides-missing-411/
National Park Service Missing Persons Database: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/foia-reading-room.htm
Documentaries on Missing 411: "Missing 411" (2016), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5864680; "Missing 411: The Hunted" (2019), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10524262
Coast to Coast AM Interviews with David Paulides: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/paulides-david/49441/
Mysterious Universe: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2024/08/Don-t-Want-to-Mysteriously-Vanish-Don-t-Do-These-Things-/
The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs): https://www.namus.gov/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Dennis_Martin,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Alfred_Beilhartz,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jaryd_Atadero, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecksburg_UFO_incident
(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.)
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Originally aired: March 26, 2025
Across North America, more than two thousand people have vanished in and around national parks under circumstances that resist every ordinary explanation. Former law enforcement officer David Paulides has spent years documenting these cases in his Missing 411 series, isolating the ones that can't be written off as voluntary disappearances, accidents, or animal predation — and finding that what remains follows a disturbing set of recurring patterns he calls profile points.This episode of Weird Darkness walks through those patterns one by one. It opens with the national park clusters and the failure of search and rescue dogs — trained trackers that lose the scent at a dead stop, panic, or never catch it at all — then moves to the berry-picking connection, with more than a century of cases: Lillian Carney in 1897 Maine, Alice Rachel Peck and her account of "The Black Man" who carried her, Eddie Hamilton, Wesley Piatote, Jack Pike, Simon Skogan, Gary Bailey, and the strange 1965 Kuninga family encounter in Finland. From there it examines the bright-clothing factor through the best-known cases in the catalog — Dennis Martin's 1969 vanishing in the Great Smoky Mountains, Alfred Beilhartz in Rocky Mountain National Park, and Jaryd Atadero in Colorado's Poudre Canyon — followed by the recurring role of granite boulder fields, nearby water, sudden weather, and victims who step out of sight around a bend and are gone.The episode also weighs what happens when bodies are recovered, often in previously searched areas or terrain the victim could not have reached, and lays out the range of proposed explanations — from unreported crimes and disorientation to cryptids, folklore entities, and Indigenous traditions of places where the veil between worlds runs thin — without landing on any of them. It closes with practical wilderness-safety guidance for anyone who'd rather not become a Missing 411 case themselves.

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