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NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

Matthew Klein now knows the truth. The advent calendar was not some random antique that found its way to his doorstep by chance. It was built with purpose. Built with intent. Constructed from the charred remains of his childhood home — and from the cursed spirit board that destroyed his family thirty years ago.Wilbur Ward, the neighbor who ran toward the flames that Christmas Eve, saw something in that fire. Something that changed him. Something that compelled him to salvage the blackened wood, retreat to his shed, and craft an object of precise and deliberate malevolence before vanishing without a tr...

The runaway has returned. After thirty years of silence, thirty years of a carefully constructed life built on the ashes of his real identity, Matthew Klein stands once again on Damson Way. But the boy who fled Bayville on Christmas Eve, 1995 no longer exists. His house is gone — nothing but a snow-covered void between two aging homes. His family is gone — consumed by flames that he alone escaped. And the town has moved on, rebuilt itself over the tragedy like scar tissue covering a wound that never properly healed.But something in Bayville remembers.Nicole Ward still lives next door, in t...

The sequence has been revealed. YES. L. M. 2. 3. What Matthew and his brother Steven unleashed with a spirit board thirty years ago left its fingerprints on the calendar's tenth door — a message hidden in plain sight, waiting for him to finally understand.Now the calendar has made its intentions unmistakable. A small cloth flag bearing the colors of Bayville, New York emerged from door eleven. Maroon. White. Mustard-yellow. A sun rising over hills. The emblem of a town Matthew fled as a ten-year-old boy, his family's screams still echoing in his ears as flames devoured everything he knew.He hasn't be...

Matthew Klein has been stripped of everything that once defined him. His badge sits on Lieutenant Sears' desk. His gun is locked away. Detective Davenport circles closer, connecting dots that all lead back to one man — a man who now looks less like a grieving friend and more like a suspect at the center of a killing spree.The advent calendar cannot be destroyed. Matthew hurled it into the frozen Atlantic at Gull's Rest, and it returned — dripping with saltwater, mocking his defiance from its place beside the fireplace. He refused to open a door, and his son paid the pric...

The advent calendar arrived nine days ago. No sender. No explanation. Just twenty-four numbered doors and a carved face with empty eyes that seemed to know exactly who Matthew Klein used to be.Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard.Three people are dead. A teenage boy has been twisted into a puppet for murder. A phantom child wrapped in ash and embers stalks the shadows, demanding obedience. And Matthew Klein — the man who ran while his family burned thirty years ago — has been branded with a wound that will not let him forget.He tried to destroy the calendar. The...

The rules were clear. The warnings were given. And when the clock struck midnight, Matthew Klein discovered that his defiance would not be answered with his own suffering — but with the screams of a loved one.

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#WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theo...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

Matthew Klein thought he could break the rules and walk away. He threw the calendar into the frozen Atlantic and dared to believe the nightmare was over. But when your ghost hosts sit down to dissect the brutal consequences of his rebellion, one thing becomes terrifyingly clear — in this game, the dead always collect what they're owed. Join us as we unravel the first eight days of this demonic countdown, examine the chilling omen-to-consequence pattern that has left Marshport reeling, and ask the questions that keep us awake at night: What do...

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The Ghost Hosts unpack Day 7 as Matthew confesses the calendar's deadly pattern to Pastor Hart. When door number seven crosses an unforgivable line, Matthew makes a desperate decision that may have unleashed something far more dangerous than the calendar itself.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

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Join the Ghost Hosts as they unpack the most emotionally devastating chapter yet: Matthew's full confession to Anika about his hidden identity, his serial killer uncle, and the deadly advent calendar—only to discover that door number five's bloody cross might have already claimed its victim before they even knew to look.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theo...

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In this episode of Weird After Dark, the ghost hosts break down chapters one through four of Scott Donnelly's horror novel "Advent of Evil," narrated by Darren Marlar. The story follows Matthew Klein, a small-town Maine police officer whose carefully constructed quiet life shatters when a mysterious advent calendar arrives on his doorstep. Each day's trinket predicts — and seemingly causes — escalating tragedies throughout Marsh Port, from a possessed teenager's violent outburst to a brutal public murder involving a giant Christmas tree star. By day four, the calendar forces Matthew to confront the...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

The Ghost Hosts discuss the latest chapter of of Advent of Evil, a horror narrative following police officer Matthew Klein in the seemingly peaceful town of Marshport, Maine, beginning on December 1st. Klein's life is immediately disrupted by a bizarre armed robbery committed by his best friend’s son, swiftly followed by the arrival of a mysterious, antique wooden advent calendar left on his porch. As Matthew opens the first few numbered doors, the trinkets revealed—such as a burning miniature house and a red feather—precede increasingly violent and unnatural events...

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Our Ghost Stories discuss tales from two master storytellers, two very different nightmares, one devastating truth — whether you're wishing on a cursed talisman or descending into an artist's cellar, some doors should never be opened. Join your ghost hosts as they dissect the hidden horrors lurking beneath W.W. Jacobs' domestic tragedy and H.P. Lovecraft's subterranean terror.

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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

Our Ghost Hosts discuss the second part of a horror narrative focusing on police officer Matthew Klein and the mounting dread caused by an antique advent calendar. Klein finds the gift for December 2nd is a red feather, and later that day, he witnesses a terrible car crash caused by a cardinal smashing into a vehicle, confirming his suspicions that the calendar is tied to real-world mayhem. Simultaneously, he investigates a recent assault committed by a friend’s son who claimed he was influenced by an unknown young boy who told hi...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

The Ghost Hosts talk about the first chapter in the horror narrative "Advent of Evil" – detailing the confusing events that befall Matthew Klein, a small-town police officer in Marshport, Maine, on the first day of December. Matthew’s routine day is first disrupted by a bizarre armed robbery where he arrests Zack Welch, a well-behaved high schooler and the son of his best friend, for attacking a cook while wearing a mascot mask. The mystery deepens when Matthew arrives home to find a heavy, antique wooden advent calendar left on his porc...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/DemonSkeleton

In this episode of Weird After Dark, we pull back the curtain on one of the strangest artifacts ever smuggled out of Japan — a nine-foot-tall "devil skeleton" that arrived in New York City in 1895. What was initially presented as the genuine remains of Satan himself turned out to be something arguably more disturbing: a meticulously crafted composite of cow, horse, human, and shark bones, manufactured by Japanese priests and buried beneath a temple to rule their region through fear. We explore the forensic takedown by Dr. William J. O'Sullivan, connect the de...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/starchild

In this episode of Weird After Dark, the Ghost Hosts dive deep into the latest Weird Darkness episode exploring the Mexican Mine Starchild Skull – a 900-year-old anomaly discovered in Copper Canyon that continues to baffle scientists and fuel alien-human hybrid theories. They break down the skull's impossible characteristics: a brain capacity larger than an adult male's in a five-year-old child, bone that's half as thick yet three times stronger than normal, and DNA sequences that allegedly match nothing in Earth's genetic databases. The hosts also touch on other stories from the ep...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/BigfootConnection

The Ghost Hosts explore the possible connection between unexplained disappearances and alleged Bigfoot encounters as presented in the Weird Darkness Episode, “The Bigfoot Connection.” They look at disturbing cases like the experienced park ranger who vanished in 1987, leaving behind only his belongings and mysterious journal entries, and the 12-year-old boy who somehow survived two freezing nights alone in the wilderness. What secrets lie hidden in shadowy forests of North America? Could there be something big and furry out there that could explain the vanishing of people into thin air? Is there some...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/thanksgiving

In this episode of Weird After Dark, the Ghost Hosts discuss the Weird Darkness episode “True Thanksgiving Horrors” – with numerous stories surrounding the holiday, such as three young brothers whovanish from their father's backyard on Thanksgiving Day, a hijacker who parachutes into the night with $200,000 and is never seen again, and a grandfather's ghost story tat leads to the discovery of a 200-year-old mass murder — just some of the chilling mysteries that have turned America's day of gratitude into something far more sinister. From unsolved killings and baffling disappearances to haunted hotels a...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/HarbingersOfDoom

From the Mothman to a Sasquatch in the Ontario woods, from a woman who got away with murder to devil worshippers in the Arizona desert — your Weird After Dark ghost hosts have a lot to unpack in this episode as they discuss the newest episode of Weird Darkness.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI v...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/RedheadAliens

The ghost hosts of Weird After Dark are back to dissect the latest episode of Weird Darkness. From copper-blooded Atlanteans and man-eating red-haired giants to a severed head with toy eyes and Carl Jung's descent into the occult, no strange stone is left unturned.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/morgan-geyser-escape 

In this episode of Weird After Dark, we're breaking down the catastrophic weekend when Morgan Geyser, the Slender Man stabber, cut off her ankle monitor with scissors and disappeared for 12 hours before anyone noticed — giving her a 170-mile head start across state lines. From the secret 43-year-old boyfriend climbing through her window at the "supervised" facility to her capture at an Illinois truck stop where she told police to "just Google" her name, we're exposing every shocking failure in a system that was supposed to keep a high-risk attempted murderer under con...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/GreyAlienAgenda

The Ghost Hosts discuss three distinct topics related to the latest episode of Weird Darkness, “The Grey Alien Agenda: Abductions, Experiments, and Stealing Souls”. One segment focuses on UFO encounters, then turning to the concept of "Parasitic Greys" attempting to hijack human souls and they also cover the psychological phenomenon of collective false memory, or the "Mandela Effect," by analyzing the widespread, yet unsubstantiated, belief that a 1990s movie called "Shazaam" starring comedian Sinbad exists, despite evidence suggesting confusion with the film Kazaam. The collection also features a brief piece on Lake...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/BellWitchHaunting

Tonight on Weird After Dark, your ghost-hosts crack open the latest episode of Weird Darkness and take its strangest stories even deeper into the shadows. We’re dissecting the legendary Bell Witch — the only spirit bold enough to take on a future U.S. president and walk away victorious — then plunging into real-life medical “back-from-the-dead” nightmares, the true history behind the misunderstood pentagram, and the chilling, unsolved Lake Bodom murders of Finland. If you crave deeper dives into Darren Marlar’s newest Weird Darkness episode — with added history, research, and just a tou...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/AIRomance

The Ghost Hosts discuss the latest episode of Weird Darkness, with feeling romantic love toward an algorithm, alien souls walking the earth, and a royal costume party that turned into a human bonfire. Weird After Dark exposes how far we’ll go to escape loneliness.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedPhoneNumbers

Discover the eerie messages, cryptic recordings, and spine-chilling voicemails waiting on the other end of the internet's most notorious phone numbers – some still active, others forever silenced.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/PatrickCross

When Patrick Cross bought a Flying V guitar that survived a fatal bar fire in Michigan, he had no idea the instrument harbored an evil entity that would cost him his job, his health, and nearly his sanity.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

This episode includes AI-generated content.

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/JeffreyMacDonald

When Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald called police to report that drug-crazed hippies had murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters, he had no idea that he would become the prime suspect—or that a mysterious woman in a floppy hat would haunt the case for decades.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/AlbertOstman

Tonight on Weird After Dark, we dig into the jaw-dropping tale of a prospector who claimed he was kidnapped and held captive for six days by an entire Sasquatch family. This isn’t blurry-photo Bigfoot folklore — this is the wild, forensic-level account that helped shape modern Sasquatch mythology, and we’re tearing it open piece by terrifying piece.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/DevilsBiteGirl

Step back into the shadows with us on Weird After Dark as we peel open the sinister layers behind one of the most chilling cases ever featured on Weird Darkness — the haunting 1953 ordeal of Clarita Villanueva, the Manila teen whose body erupted with bite marks no one could explain. Tonight, we’re diving deep into the historical chaos, the conflicting testimonies, the medical bafflement, and the political panic that turned this case into a global paranormal firestorm. If you thought the episode was unsettling… wait until you hear wh...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/CelebritiesVanished

Hollywood has no shortage of scandals and tragedies, but some of the most haunting cases involve celebrities who simply vanished without a trace, leaving behind nothing but mysterious clues and unanswered questions. From child actors on the verge of stardom to legendary musicians and rising starlets, these talented individuals stepped out the door one day and disappeared into thin air. Some left cryptic notes, others abandoned cars near rivers, and a few walked away from fame itself—but none were ever seen again. Their disappearances remain unsolved mysteries that continue to ca...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/BeforeRoswell

In this deep-dive episode, the hosts explore compelling evidence that UFO encounters and alien visitations began decades before the famous 1947 Roswell incident. Drawing from the latest Weird Darkness episode by Darren Marlar, they examine detailed accounts from 1900-1930 that challenge the conventional timeline of modern UFO history.The discussion covers three distinct periods: the turn of the century (1900-1909) featuring controlled aerial maneuvers, underwater submersible objects, and bizarre entity encounters including a traumatic abduction in the Netherlands; the wartime surge (1910-1919) with increased sightings during WWI, the controversial Red Baron dogfight...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/SevenSistersRoad

Join us as we plunge into the darkest corners of American folklore and history, starting with Nebraska's terrifying Seven Sisters Road—where a farmer's madness left seven women hanging from the hills and their screams still echo through the darkness over a century later. We'll dissect the tangled web of legend versus historical truth, explore the documented lynchings that may have spawned the myth, and examine the ongoing paranormal phenomena that keep locals away after dark. Then we shift gears to examine a deadly 19th century feud in Vineland, New Jersey, wh...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/matrix-disproved 

Join your ghost hosts as they unpack groundbreaking 2025 research proving we're not living in a simulation using Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems—reality contains "non-algorithmic truths" no computer can capture. The same mathematical proof suggests AI can never achieve true consciousness and reveals that our ability to understand computational limits proves human minds transcend pure computation, pointing toward intelligent design. It's a mind-bending journey from physics and mathematics straight into questions about the nature of reality itself.

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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/DonnerPartyGhosts

Join us on Weird After Dark as we conduct a deep analysis of three profoundly disturbing tales from the latest Weird Darkness podcat: the Donner Party's descent into survival cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the lingering hauntings at Donner Pass, Mary Ann Cotton's calculated poisoning spree that made her Britain's first female serial killer, and spine-chilling paranormal encounters reported by military personnel—from glowing crosses in veteran cemeteries to mysterious creatures in Afghanistan and impossible phenomena at Arctic bases, proving that darkness takes many forms and respects no boundaries. Duration: 00:53:09

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/DevonDevil

Weird After Dark digs deep into one of history's most baffling mysteries: the Devil's Footprints of Devon, England. On a frozen February morning in 1855, residents across South Devon woke to find up to 100 miles of impossible cloven hoofprints burned into fresh snow—tracks that defied physics by passing through locked gates, climbing over rooftops, squeezing through four-inch drainpipes, and stopping deliberately at people's front doors. The ghost hosts unpack the mass panic that gripped Victorian England, explore theories ranging from badgers and escaped kangaroos to experimental balloons and UFOs, examine similar in...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/RolandDoe

Welcome to Weird After Dark, where we dive deep into the latest Weird Darkness episode. Today we're unpacking Darren Marlar's episode, "The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist: What Really Happened." In January 1949, an exterminator stands in a Maryland bedroom hearing scratching sounds inside the walls – but finds no droppings, no nests, no evidence any animal was ever there. Over the next four months, forty-eight witnesses including Jesuit priests, doctors, and hospital staff document a thirteen-year-old boy displaying strength requiring five grown men to restrain him, speaking in voices that don't match hi...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/HornedMan

Buckle up for a wild ride through darkness. We're tearing into Darren Marlar's packed episode of “Weird Darkness” featuring an infamous Sydney theme park tragedy possibly linked to ancient sacrifices, a baffling Philadelphia disappearance shrouded in deliberate silence, the unsettling theory that alien space stations might be watching Earth right now, a brutal Victorian-era murder, and a master Cold War spy hiding in plain sight. From the Ghost Train fire at Luna Park to cosmic paranoia and Cold War espionage - this episode has everything. Join your ghost hosts as we dive...

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A gentleman bandit who left poetry at crime scenes, an asylum where horror was policy, twin girls who remembered dying in a past life, and a nurse who drove 600 miles to her death without explanation—join us as we unpack the darkness behind four of the most bewildering stories from Weird Darkness.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theo...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/MichaelClearly

In 1895 Ireland, a modern, independent woman named Bridget Cleary fell ill—and her husband became convinced she'd been replaced by a fairy changeling. What followed was two nights of ritualistic torture ending in her brutal murder by fire, all witnessed by her own family who believed they were saving her soul. This is the horrifying true story that became a children's rhyme and the last time Irish courts would ever accept "fairy beliefs" as a legal defense for killing your wife.



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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/HalloweenNovel

SYNOPSIS: Think you know Michael Myers? Think again. Join us as we rip open the pages of the 1978 Halloween novelization—the story John Carpenter's film left in the shadows. We're talking ancient Celtic curses, a deformed Irish boy named Enda seeking bloody revenge, and a supernatural evil that's haunted humanity for millennia. But that's just the beginning. We'll also pull back the curtain on the low-budget magic that created a horror icon: $320,000, 20 days of shooting, a $2 Captain Kirk mask painted white, and bags of leaves raked between every single take in su...

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In this episode of Weird After Dark, your ghost hosts dig into one of the most infamous moments in broadcast history — the 1938 War of the Worlds radio panic. Following Darren Marlar’s replay of the original Mercury Theatre production, the hosts unpack how Orson Welles’ Halloween broadcast managed to convince thousands that Earth was under attack by Martians. From ancient fears of the red planet and Percival Lowell’s “canals” to H.G. Wells’ biting social critique and the raw anxieties of Depression-era America, they explore the perfect storm that turned fiction into f...

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You thought the Bigfoot mystery was just about footprints in the mud? Think again. In this episode of Weird After Dark, we dig deeper into Darren Marlar’s latest Weird Darkness story — “Bigfoot: Man, Monster, or Myth?” From its hoaxed beginnings to bone-chilling encounters that leave witnesses shattered, we’re unpacking the science, the fear, and the strange truth that keeps Bigfoot’s legend alive. Weird After Dark — where the stories you thought you knew… go even deeper.

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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/grimreaperappearsinhospital/

A nurse encounters something impossible during her hospital rounds—a seven-foot figure in black bent over a dying patient. She sees it twice. The patient dies hours later. Then, across the Atlantic at England's Mermaid Inn, centuries-old spirits are getting up to very different mischief—moving guests' clothes, soaking them mysteriously, and causing relationship-ending arguments. Join us as we explore two very different hauntings: one clinical and terrifying, the other chaotic and strangely playful. From the Grim Reaper's hospital visit to poltergeists sabotaging couples, this episode has it all.

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From mothers who poisoned their children for attention to two young boys who rode horses across America alone - this episode explores the darkest depths of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy alongside the incredible story of the Abernathy brothers, proving that both unimaginable evil and extraordinary courage can exist in the same world.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy th...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/NicolasFlamel

TEASE: The Weird After Dark ghost hosts explore the line between history and legend, from Nicolas Flamel's quest for immortality through alchemy to Stalin's bizarre 11-year experiment eliminating weekends to control Soviet workers. They examine how both mystical seekers and totalitarian regimes have tried to conquer time itself—and the devastating social chaos that follows when humans attempt to bend reality to their will.

NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Da...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/JureGrando

TEASE: The Weird After Dark hosts explore Europe's first documented vampire who knocked on doors for sixteen years promising death, violated his widow nightly, and when villagers finally opened his coffin in 1672, he was perfectly preserved with tears streaming down his face—screaming as they sawed through his neck. But the cosmic horror deepens when they examine our moon's 'impossible perfection': positioned exactly 1/400th the distance from Earth as the sun while being exactly 1/400th its size, creating the precise conditions for life—leading to mind-bending theories that future humans traveled back...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/wdr20251026

The Weird After Dark ghost hosts trace Halloween's dark evolution from ancient Celtic human sacrifice and bog body rituals to today's $12 billion surveillance spectacle. They explore how a terrifying festival meant to appease chaos and death transformed through 2000 years of assimilation, moral panics, and corporate commodification into a holiday where Ring doorbells track every trick-or-treater and people sign 40-page waivers to experience simulated torture—revealing that the veil thinning today isn't between worlds, but between our private lives and the data profiles corporations hold about us.

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EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/mothmanharbingerofdoom/

SYNOPSIS: We conduct an in-depth analysis of Darren Marlar’s Weird Darkness episode “Mothman: Harbinger of Doom,” exploring the concentrated year of terror that gripped Point Pleasant, West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The discussion examines over 100 credible witness accounts of the seven-foot winged creature with glowing red eyes, beginning with the harrowing high-speed chase of the Scarberry and Millat couples, the mysterious disappearance of Newell Partridge’s dog Bandit, and Marcella Bennett’s traumatic close encounter. The hosts analyze the creature’s consistent physical descriptions, its connection to UFO sightings and “men in...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/PhineasGage

Synopsis:The Weird After Dark hosts dissect Darren Marlar's latest episode exploring medical mysteries, historical crime, ancient artifacts, and supernatural phenomena. The discussion begins with the legendary case of Phineas Gage, a 25-year-old railroad foreman who in 1848 Vermont was distracted while packing explosives when a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch tamping iron sparked ignition, shooting through his left cheek, up through his brain, out the top of his skull, and landing 80 feet away covered in blood and brain matter—yet Gage remained conscious, walked to a doctor, and survived for 12 years, though his per...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/NazisVsNessie

TEASE: The Weird After Dark “Ghost Hosts” unpack Darren Marlar's latest episode where WWII propaganda turned deadly serious when Mussolini claimed Italy bombed and killed the Loch Ness Monster to prove Allied weakness, a 40-year career criminal's wife disappeared in 1879 only to be found 14 years later strangled under the kitchen floorboards, and Mali's Dogon tribe possessed impossible knowledge about Sirius B—a star invisible without telescopes—centuries before Western science discovered it, claiming fish-like aliens gave them the information. But the real bombshell? NASA astronauts have been seeing UFOs since 1962, leading the agen...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/ManWhoWasNotMurdered

SYNOPSIS: The Weird After Dark ghost hosts dissect Darren Marlar's episode "The Man Who Was Not Murdered," exploring four interconnected stories about reality-bending phenomena. The main focus is the 1958 case of James Eugene Harrison, whose blood-soaked station wagon was found in Jacksonville, Florida, leading serial killer Roy Victor Olson to confess to murdering and burying him with accomplice James Leach—only for Harrison to mysteriously appear alive in Phoenix three months later with no memory of his disappearance, leaving authorities unable to explain whose blood saturated his car or what happened dur...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/queenmary/

SYNOPSIS: Darren Marlar explores haunted maritime history and tales of persecution in this episode of Weird Darkness. The main feature examines the RMS Queen Mary, a 1936 luxury liner that carried celebrities like Bob Hope, Elizabeth Taylor, and the Kennedys before being drafted as the "Grey Ghost" troop transport during WWII. Now permanently docked in Long Beach, California as a hotel and museum, the ship is considered one of the most haunted structures in America, with up to 150 spirits reported aboard. Notable ghosts include "Half Hatch Harry" (18-year-old crew member John Pedder...

EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/halloweensheinoushistory/

SYNOPSIS: The Weird After Dark podcast unpacks Darren Marlar's Weird Darkness episode "Halloween's Heinous History: The Petrifying Path from Blood Rituals to Trick-or-Treating," tracing the holiday's evolution from ancient Celtic terror to modern consumer spectacle. The discussion begins 2,000 years ago with Samhain, when the Irish Celts believed the veil between worlds dissolved on October 31st, making animal and human sacrifices to appease destructive forces and ensure winter survival. The hosts examine archaeological evidence including bog bodies like Lindow Man, whose stomach contents and threefold death reveal ritual sacrifice practices. They explore...