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The Mystery of the Tangled Way | #RetroRadio Jul 27, 2026

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A young scholar’s visit to his reclusive uncle on a lonely Shetland island leads him into a nightmare of black rituals, impossible memories, and a mystery that defies time itself.
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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 Figure in the Moonlight” (May 02, 1978) ***WD
00:45:48.366 = Macabre, “The Avenger” (December 18, 1961) ***WD
01:14:37.183 = Philip Marlowe, “Vital Statistic” (March 14, 1950)
01:44:11.159 = Boson Blackie, Ghost of Flo Newton” (May 28, 1947)
02:09:18.137 = The Black Mass, “O Mirror Mirror” (February 12, 1964) ***WD
02:24:19.861 = Michael Shayne, “Judge Stanton Murdered” (June 04, 1945) ***WD
02:54:00.924 = Beyond Midnight, “Tangled Way” (ADU) ***WD (LQ)
03:19:56.143 = MindWebs, “Eurema’s Dam” (1975-1984) ***WD
03:49:08.226 = CBS Radio Workshop, “The Case of the White Kitten” (July 13, 1956) ***WD
04:18:13.876 = Mystery in the Air, “Queen of Spades” (September 1, 1947)
04:45:13.199 = Strange Adventure “The Imposter” (1945) ***WD
04:48:29.470 = Calling All Detectives, “The Ship Julia Louise” (July 05, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
04:56:29.725 = Incredible But True, “Dragon of Buren County” (1950-1951)
04:59:59.123 = 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.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0726

Deals With the Devil: Five True Encounters Across History | #WDRadio July 26, 2026 Jul 27, 2026

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A blues legend, a saint, a haunted squire, and a possessed tailor — five people who, across four centuries, were each said to have come face to face with the Devil himself.
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HOUR ONE: Many tales describe encounters with the devil himself. Yet not all are the same. Sometimes Satan approaches his prey… other times, the lost soul goes seeking Lucifer to make a deal. Either way, the results are never favorable. (Diabolical Dealings With The Devil) *** It wasn’t until recently that I’d even heard of the cryptid, Ahool. In case it’s new to you as well, it’s a winged cryptid that some portray as a giant bat, others claim it’s a flying primate. Personally, I think it looks like a werewolf with bat wings. Whatever it is, we’ll learn a bit more about the Ahool. (The Cry Of The Ahool)
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HOUR TWO:   Of course a lot of people likely don’t believe in heaven or hell and many will dismiss such things as mythical tales or folklore. However there are places on Earth that could be considered hell – no not Detroit or Wichita. We’re talking about actual places that look like the entrances to purgatory. And perhaps they really are. (Secret Doors to the Underworld) *** A king, a gossoon and a bear walked into a bar. No, this is not the first line of a joke, but a common occurrence in Potrero Hill in San Francisco, California, during the 1880s. The king was Frank McManus, the gossoon was Frank’s baseball-playing brother, Cornelius, and the bear was a large inebriated ursine. (King of the Irish Hill) *** Why are some people suddenly vigorous, alert, and feeling much better shortly before they pass away? It is something that has happened since time began, but medical experts are still baffled by it. (Terminal Lucidity Phenomenon) *** While many say the most haunted hotel is the one in Colorado that was used in the film “The Shining” - there is evidence that one in Eureka Springs, Arkansas deals with even more paranormal activity. (The Crescent Hotel)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: Two men were found dead in the bushes, beheaded… and emasculated. But that was just the beginning of the Mad Butcher’s killing spree. (The Cleveland Torso Murders) *** Seeing reptiles in Oklahoma isn’t all that uncommon – even dinosaur fossils are found in the state. But there have also been reports of something much stranger – a snake/human hybrid creature more terrifying than it sounds. (Oklahoma Snake Man)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
“Baba Vanga” from Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.com/magazine
“Diabolical Dealings With The Devil” by Laura for Paranormal Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/y94czoxt,https://tinyurl.com/yc5uy7mj
“The Cry of the Ahool” by Gary Brandt from Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.com/magazine
“Secret Doors To The Underworld”, by Facts Verse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU6-lfWk3Zo
“King of the Irish Hill” by Paul Drexler for Crime Traveller: https://tinyurl.com/y7tmp6lz
“Terminal Lucidity Phenomenon” by Cynthia McKanzie for Message to Eagle: http://ow.ly/5G8W30ocL0Q
“The Cleveland Torso Murders” by Doug MacGowan for Historic Mysteries: https://tinyurl.com/ycwha94c
“The Crescent Hotel” by Amanda Penn for Vocal Media Horror: https://tinyurl.com/ycvral8j
“Oklahoma Snake Man” by Bab Salam (link to story no longer exists)
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MY WIFE HAS A REMOVABLE FACE: She Cleans It Every Night Behind a Locked Door | #MidnightInTheMacabre Jul 27, 2026

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On their third date she told him her face was removable, that she had to clean it every night behind a locked door, and that he must never look at what was underneath.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-wiferemovableface
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“My Wife Has a Removable Face” by Redditor N.S. Lewis: https://www.reddit.com/user/nslewis, https://www.creepypasta.com/my-wife-has-a-removable-face/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 27, 2026

The Blood Keeper Still Walks a Massachusetts Graveyard | #MidnightInTheMacabre Jul 26, 2026

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An insomniac walking a Massachusetts cemetery after midnight spots a light in the groundskeeper's shack, and finds nine men in blue shrouds beside a freshly dug pit.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-bloodkeeper
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Blood Keeper” by Christopher Maxim at https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 26, 2026

The House On Chimney Pot Lane: The Jungle In The Den, The Lion In The Wall | #RetroRadio Jul 25, 2026

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A Broadway couple buys the vacant Connecticut house no agent in town will touch, covers the den wall with a floor-to-ceiling photograph of an African jungle, and begins to notice that the lion in the picture doesn't always hold the same pose.
Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The House on Chimney Pot Lane” (April 28, 1978) ***WD
00:45:28.916 = The Haunting Hour, “Date In The Dark” (June 03, 1945) ***WD
01:10:28.151 = The Hermit’s Cave, “The House With a Past” (June 27, 1937)
01:34:32.198 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Millionaire Threatened” (1945)
01:59:10.650 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Haunted Bagpipes” (February 17, 1947)
02:28:37.363 = Mystery House, “Bury Me Not” (May 26, 1946) ***WD
02:54:24.361 = Inner Sanctum, “Desert Death” (January 09, 1945)
03:23:44.926 = Jeff Regan, “The Diamond Quartet” (August 14, 1948)
03:52:43.766 = The Key, “Night Prowler” (1956)
04:16:47.055 = Lights Out, “Uninhabited” (December 22, 1937) ***WD (LQ)
04:45:34.772 = Strange Adventure, “The Five Tickets” (1945) ***WD
04:48:49.470 = Calling All Detectives, “A Man Admits To Murder” (June 15, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
04:56:47.879 = Incredible But True, “The Face of Death” (1950-1951)
05:00:28.938 = 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.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0725

STARDUST: You Should Keep Your Opinions About Aliens To Yourself | #MicroTerrors Jul 25, 2026

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Mikka thinks space is boring and aliens are a punchline, and by the end of fifth period she has said so out loud to exactly the wrong person.
Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1655277373
Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com
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NEVER TRUST A PRETTY FACE: The Woman on Dawkins Lane | #MidnightInTheMacabre Jul 25, 2026

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A beautiful young woman knocks on an old soldier's door one summer evening asking to use his phone — and the six-year-old hiding in the back bedroom knows, before anyone says a word, that something is terribly wrong.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-NeverTrustAPrettyFace
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Never Trust a Pretty Face” by Weirdo family member Angie Trafford: https://www.facebook.com/AngieTraffordauthor/
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Originally aired: July 24, 2026

A Psychic in Wisconsin, a Body in a Creek, and a Case Reopened Jul 25, 2026

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A Louisiana woman vanished from her home in pink pajamas, a K9 search went cold, and a medium she'd never met told her daughters exactly where to find the body in the woods — and now, after a private forensic review, the sheriff's office has reopened the case it once closed as an accidental drowning.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/TheresaDawnJones
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*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
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Originally aired: July 24, 2026
This episode of Weird Darkness follows the disappearance and death of Theresa Dawn Jones near Bernice, Louisiana, a case that ran from a missing persons report to an accidental-drowning ruling to a homicide reinvestigation — and the phone call from a psychic medium a thousand miles away that pointed her family straight to the body.On the night of February 2nd, 2023, fifty-six-year-old Theresa Jones walked out of her home in the Evergreen community on Lake D'Arbonne wearing pink pajamas, leaving behind her phone, her wallet, her car keys, and the eyeglasses she needed to see, and by the time her boyfriend returned from a work trip in Lake Charles he found the house torn apart and Theresa gone. The Union Parish Sheriff's Office searched with a Lincoln Parish K9 unit that tracked her scent out to Highway 2 before losing it, chased sightings of a woman carrying gas cans and a stop at a Circle K in West Monroe, then stalled. Her daughters Ashley Deese and Brittany turned to Carolyn Clapper, a Wisconsin medium who took their call at 10:48 at night and, over forty-five minutes, described a fallen log at a tree line, a creek, and a sickness that would come over whoever went looking — directions that led Ashley to her mother's body in Edmonds Creek the next morning, found nude from the waist down with the water still shallow around her. Dr. Frank Peretti's autopsy in Little Rock ruled the death an accidental drowning with methamphetamine intoxication as a contributing factor, and the sheriff's office closed the case in August 2023, but Ashley never accepted it, and a retired Texas aquatic-death investigator named Greg Lawson publicly questioned why no rape kit or fingernail scraping was ever done. More than a year later, private forensic consultant John Oliveira of Applied Forensic Solutions reviewed the file and found only 150 milliliters of water in the lungs, livor mortis fixed in the legs rather than the face-down position she was found in, a clean upper jacket above the waterline, and bruising the autopsy never recorded — evidence pointing away from drowning and toward a body staged in the water after death. At the end of October 2025, Oliveira presented those findings to Union Parish detectives, and the sheriff's office reopened Theresa Jones's death as a possible homicide, more than two years after the paperwork first called it an accident.

Paranormal Flames That Chased An Alabama Family Jul 25, 2026

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In the summer of 1958, phantom fires struck the Tuck family's Talladega, Alabama home more than fifty times — bread igniting on its own, single garments bursting into flame, sulfur-smelling fires that followed the family across three homes before a nine-year-old confessed to a scheme that never explained the blaze witnessed by police in the yard, or the fires that started when the boy was gone.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/paranormalflames
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc4nrtuj
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In the late 1950s, the Tuck family of Alabama found themselves at the center of a terrifying ordeal as mysterious fires spontaneously erupted in their home. Despite their best efforts to escape the flames, the fiery phenomenon followed them from one residence to another, consuming their possessions and leaving them homeless. We’ll look at this case and other similar ones where the seeming explanation is nothing short of paranormal. (Paranormal Flames) *** In the sleepy Kentish hamlet of Charing, a centuries-old mystery unfolds every May Day. As the clock strikes midnight, ghostly children emerge from their moss-encrusted graves, their ethereal feet dancing to the silent fiddle's tune. It’s all part of the "Night of the Dancing Feet." (Dancing After Death) *** Before his wife's murder in June 2009, Eli Weaver had numerous affairs with women he met through online dating sites, where he called himself an "Amish Stud." But only one mistress was willing to kill for him. (Eli Weaver, Amish Stud and Murderer) *** The American West evokes iconic images often seen in movies: bold adventures, noon shootouts, resolute sheriffs and marshals maintaining order, and the cavalry arriving just in time. However, the history of the Wild West, replete with myths and stereotypes, presents a more complex and sometimes disturbing reality about justice in that era. (Wild West Justice) *** On the morning of July 13, 1997, the body of Denise Johnson was discovered inside her burning childhood home in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Emergency responders quickly realized they weren't dealing with a simple arson, but a murder as well. Now, more than two decades later, the case remains unsolved. (The Unsolved Murder of Denise Johnson) *** Hachishakusama, often referred to as the "Japanese Slender Man," is a haunting figure from Japanese urban legends that rivals the terror of her American counterpart. While the Slender Man has gained a cult-like following and has even inspired real-life horror stories, Hachishakusama's tale is equally spine-chilling and capable of keeping you up at night. (The Japanese Slender Man)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:21.690 = Show Open
00:04:30.483 = Paranormal Flames
00:23:29.009 = The Unsolved Murder of Denise Johnson ***
00:37:06.405 = Dancing After Death (Night of the Dancing Feet)
00:44:39.904 = Wild West Justice ***
00:54:40.356 = Eli Weaver, Amish Stud and Murderer
01:03:17.535 = The Japanese Slender Man ***
01:08:47.360 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:
Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
BOOK: “Ablaze – The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion” by Larry E. Arnold:https://amzn.to/3Uqdhmz
BOOK: “A Killing In Amish Country” by Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris: https://amzn.to/44wghmb
“Paranormal Flames” source: Marcus Lowth at UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4eb8xht2
“The Unsolved Murder of Denise Johnson” source: Jacob Shelton at Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8t3b7p
“Dancing After Death” by Ken DaSilva-Hill submitted directly to Weird Darkness and used with permission
“Wild West Justice” source: Christy Box at Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8db9vj
“Eli Weaver, Amish Stud and Murderer” source: Hannah Reilly Holtz at AllThatsInteresting.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4jfmybjh
“The Japanese Slender Man” source: Curry L Mitchell at ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdd7fthz
(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: May 01, 2024

A Drop of Blood and Plastic Fork Solve Arlington Killing: The Irasema Chavez Case #WeirdDarkNEWS Jul 24, 2026

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Fourteen years after Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than a hundred times in her Arlington apartment, a single drop of blood on her bedroom television stand and two plastic forks left on a restaurant table have led police to charge one of her former close friends with capital murder.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/IrasemaChavez
Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736
*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.

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