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Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness
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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
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Gardenias on a Dead Line: True Crime Reimagined | #MurderNoir
Aug 28, 2026
A private eye takes a dead girl's case for a father who can't afford him, and comes home with a box of gardenias that have been cut for a month and still smell fresh.
EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-gardeniasonadeadlane
TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/55nmcphx
THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: The story in this episode is a fictionalized dramatization. Invented for it are the detective, his office, the gravedigger, the specific conversations, and the telephone call, and every name of a person or a place has been changed. The case underneath it is real.On the night of Thursday, June 24th, 1948, seventeen-year-old Mary Jane Reed, a switchboard operator, went on a first date with Stanley Skridla, a twenty-eight-year-old Navy veteran and telephone lineman from Rockford. They drank in taverns in Oregon, Illinois, a town on the Rock River in Ogle County, and the last place anyone could name was the Stenhouse, out on Route 2 at the south edge of town. They left around eleven-thirty. Skridla was found the next morning in the ditch along County Farm Road, shot with a .32. Mary Jane was found five days later along Silica Road, now called Devil's Backbone Road, shot once through the head, her slacks off her and her mother's wedding ring still on her hand. Roughly fifty people were questioned within a week. Nobody was ever charged, and the case was off the front pages by autumn.The casings, the photographs and the investigation reports all disappeared in the decades that followed. On November 15th, 1999 – Mary Jane's birthday – an untraceable floral arrangement addressed to her arrived at the old Stenhouse, by then the Road House, on a day the bar was closed. The owner, Mike Arians, had just been elected mayor, and the case has occupied him ever since. Her brother Warren Reed had her exhumed on August 23rd, 2005. Inside the burial vault, beside the casket, investigators found a dress and slip wrapped in newspapers dated June 25th, 1948 – four days before anyone found her. In 2007, forensic anthropologist Linda Klepinger examined the remains released to the family and reported that the skull and one vertebra had come from a different person. The DNA test that would settle it has never been run. Skridla was exhumed in 2015 on Arians's theory that Mary Jane's skull had been hidden in his coffin; it held one man and nothing else, though two .32 slugs came out of the ground with him and neither matched the gun Arians submitted.Warren Reed died on December 23rd, 2023, at eighty-one, without ever learning whose skull was in his sister's grave. The homicides remain open and unsolved.
The full account – the fifty interviews, the suitor in La Crosse, the missing wallet the record can
EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-gardeniasonadeadlane
TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/55nmcphx
THE REAL CASE BEHIND THIS STORY: The story in this episode is a fictionalized dramatization. Invented for it are the detective, his office, the gravedigger, the specific conversations, and the telephone call, and every name of a person or a place has been changed. The case underneath it is real.On the night of Thursday, June 24th, 1948, seventeen-year-old Mary Jane Reed, a switchboard operator, went on a first date with Stanley Skridla, a twenty-eight-year-old Navy veteran and telephone lineman from Rockford. They drank in taverns in Oregon, Illinois, a town on the Rock River in Ogle County, and the last place anyone could name was the Stenhouse, out on Route 2 at the south edge of town. They left around eleven-thirty. Skridla was found the next morning in the ditch along County Farm Road, shot with a .32. Mary Jane was found five days later along Silica Road, now called Devil's Backbone Road, shot once through the head, her slacks off her and her mother's wedding ring still on her hand. Roughly fifty people were questioned within a week. Nobody was ever charged, and the case was off the front pages by autumn.The casings, the photographs and the investigation reports all disappeared in the decades that followed. On November 15th, 1999 – Mary Jane's birthday – an untraceable floral arrangement addressed to her arrived at the old Stenhouse, by then the Road House, on a day the bar was closed. The owner, Mike Arians, had just been elected mayor, and the case has occupied him ever since. Her brother Warren Reed had her exhumed on August 23rd, 2005. Inside the burial vault, beside the casket, investigators found a dress and slip wrapped in newspapers dated June 25th, 1948 – four days before anyone found her. In 2007, forensic anthropologist Linda Klepinger examined the remains released to the family and reported that the skull and one vertebra had come from a different person. The DNA test that would settle it has never been run. Skridla was exhumed in 2015 on Arians's theory that Mary Jane's skull had been hidden in his coffin; it held one man and nothing else, though two .32 slugs came out of the ground with him and neither matched the gun Arians submitted.Warren Reed died on December 23rd, 2023, at eighty-one, without ever learning whose skull was in his sister's grave. The homicides remain open and unsolved.
The full account – the fifty interviews, the suitor in La Crosse, the missing wallet the record can
The House And Brain | #RetroRadio
Aug 28, 2026
A young London couple rent a room in a house that has stood unlivable for four hundred years, and the one woman who has ever managed to live there tells them the tenants who never left are already expecting them.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Double-Take” (July 28, 1978) ***WD
00:45:31.411 = The Weird Circle, “The House And Brain” (July 15, 1943)
01:12:40.459 = The Whistler, “Accident According To Plans” (May 07, 1945) ***WD
01:42:34.731 = Strange Wills, “Miser’s Gold” (October 05, 1946)
02:12:18.216 = Witch’s Tale, “Power of Lucifer” (February 22, 1934) ***WD(LQ)
02:38:53.520 = X-Minus one, “Caretaker” (January 30, 1957)
03:00:31.427 = ABC Mystery Time, “Suicide Club” (June 07, 1956) ***WD(LQ)
03:22:14.023 = Appointment With Fear, “And The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD
03:47:57.688 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Johnny Got His Gun” (March 09, 1940)
04:17:48.094 = Barrie Craig, “The Paper Bullets” (December 05, 1951)
04:47:10.982 = Tales of the Frightened, “Deadly Dress” (1957-1963)
04:51:49.238 = Beyond The Green Door, “Morton Gale – Vacation In Maine” (1966) ***WD
04:55:21.249 = Tales From The Tomb, “Do You Know Where The Children Are” (1960s)
05:00:31.667 = 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/WDRR0757
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, “Double-Take” (July 28, 1978) ***WD
00:45:31.411 = The Weird Circle, “The House And Brain” (July 15, 1943)
01:12:40.459 = The Whistler, “Accident According To Plans” (May 07, 1945) ***WD
01:42:34.731 = Strange Wills, “Miser’s Gold” (October 05, 1946)
02:12:18.216 = Witch’s Tale, “Power of Lucifer” (February 22, 1934) ***WD(LQ)
02:38:53.520 = X-Minus one, “Caretaker” (January 30, 1957)
03:00:31.427 = ABC Mystery Time, “Suicide Club” (June 07, 1956) ***WD(LQ)
03:22:14.023 = Appointment With Fear, “And The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD
03:47:57.688 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Johnny Got His Gun” (March 09, 1940)
04:17:48.094 = Barrie Craig, “The Paper Bullets” (December 05, 1951)
04:47:10.982 = Tales of the Frightened, “Deadly Dress” (1957-1963)
04:51:49.238 = Beyond The Green Door, “Morton Gale – Vacation In Maine” (1966) ***WD
04:55:21.249 = Tales From The Tomb, “Do You Know Where The Children Are” (1960s)
05:00:31.667 = 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/WDRR0757
Leah Roberts Vanished Chasing Kerouac Into The North Cascades
Aug 28, 2026
In March 2000, a 23-year-old from North Carolina left a note about Jack Kerouac, packed her Jeep, and drove west toward a mountain she'd only read about – and what searchers found in the woods nine days later still has no explanation.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LeahRoberts
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6mnafrd
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If you have information regarding Leah Roberts’s disappearance, contact the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office at 360-778-6600 or the Whatcom Communication Dispatch Center at 360-676-6711. A free-spirited young woman set off on a soul-searching road trip inspired by Jack Kerouac — but what she left behind in the wilderness was a wrecked Jeep, a haunting mystery, and no trace of herself. What happened to Leah Roberts? (Leah Roberts’ Last Road Trip) *** In the tropical beauty of Antigua, a chilling mystery unfolds as locals continue to vanish without a trace — leaving a trail of grief, fear, and dark speculation. (The Mystery of Antigua’s Missing People) *** Would you still eat a special love-attracting cake if you knew it was covered in someone's sweat from their armpits and... everywhere else? (The Horrifying History of Love Potions) *** As if death isn’t unnerving as it is, science is now suggesting that you might still be conscious after death — aware your body has failed, but powerless to escape the darkness. (We Might Know We’re Dead When We Die) *** Some believe doppelgängers are omens of death – and some found out personally. (Haunted By Your Own Ghost) *** Biblical legend, Cold War espionage, and decades of silence — the hunt for Noah’s Ark might be stranger than fiction… and it includes the CIA. (The CIA Searches For Noah’s Ark) *** What if a murderer didn’t act alone… but under orders from a mind-control program no one was supposed to know about? (Programmed To Kill: The MKUltra Murders)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:59.741 = Show Open
00:03:16.502 = Leah Roberts’ Last Road Trip
00:13:30.991 = Programmed To Kill: The MKUltra Murders ***
00:22:12.690 = The Mystery of Antigua’s Missing People
00:26:30.224 = The Horrifying History of Love Potions
00:35:18.384 = We Might Know We’re Dead When We Die ***
00:39:41.170 = Haunted By Your Own Ghost
00:46:44.479 = The CIA Searches For Noah’s Ark
00:54:56.045 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LeahRoberts
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y6mnafrd
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If you have information regarding Leah Roberts’s disappearance, contact the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office at 360-778-6600 or the Whatcom Communication Dispatch Center at 360-676-6711. A free-spirited young woman set off on a soul-searching road trip inspired by Jack Kerouac — but what she left behind in the wilderness was a wrecked Jeep, a haunting mystery, and no trace of herself. What happened to Leah Roberts? (Leah Roberts’ Last Road Trip) *** In the tropical beauty of Antigua, a chilling mystery unfolds as locals continue to vanish without a trace — leaving a trail of grief, fear, and dark speculation. (The Mystery of Antigua’s Missing People) *** Would you still eat a special love-attracting cake if you knew it was covered in someone's sweat from their armpits and... everywhere else? (The Horrifying History of Love Potions) *** As if death isn’t unnerving as it is, science is now suggesting that you might still be conscious after death — aware your body has failed, but powerless to escape the darkness. (We Might Know We’re Dead When We Die) *** Some believe doppelgängers are omens of death – and some found out personally. (Haunted By Your Own Ghost) *** Biblical legend, Cold War espionage, and decades of silence — the hunt for Noah’s Ark might be stranger than fiction… and it includes the CIA. (The CIA Searches For Noah’s Ark) *** What if a murderer didn’t act alone… but under orders from a mind-control program no one was supposed to know about? (Programmed To Kill: The MKUltra Murders)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:59.741 = Show Open
00:03:16.502 = Leah Roberts’ Last Road Trip
00:13:30.991 = Programmed To Kill: The MKUltra Murders ***
00:22:12.690 = The Mystery of Antigua’s Missing People
00:26:30.224 = The Horrifying History of Love Potions
00:35:18.384 = We Might Know We’re Dead When We Die ***
00:39:41.170 = Haunted By Your Own Ghost
00:46:44.479 = The CIA Searches For Noah’s Ark
00:54:56.045 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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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: Read Transcript
Siders Case: Indictment Identifies Gary Jr. As The Victim's Uncle | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Aug 27, 2026
The indictment read aloud in a Vinton County courtroom Wednesday names how Gary Siders Jr. is related to the child he is accused of abusing, his bond went up by a quarter of a million dollars in the same hearing, and two felony cases no news outlet has reported sit on a docket two counties away.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260827
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LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260827
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
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LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
CONTAINMENT FAILURE: Hunting Down Failed Experiments | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Aug 27, 2026
A government hunter tasked with tracking down escaped experiments begins to realize the monsters he captures may not be the only things he should fear.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-containmentfailure
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Hunt Down The Government’s Mistakes” by Devon Hoover: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39m68p6w
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 27, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-containmentfailure
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Hunt Down The Government’s Mistakes” by Devon Hoover: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39m68p6w
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 27, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
A BODY WITH NO TICKET: Murder On The Manchester Express | #RetroRadio
Aug 27, 2026
A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished from the moving train, leaving behind a dead young man with no ticket, no labels in his clothing, and six American watches in his pockets.
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 Cabinet of the Unsolved” (July 27, 1978) ***WD
00:45:18.840 = Suspense, “Palmer Method” (April 20, 1944)
01:14:52.189 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD
01:46:39.153 = The Creaking Door, “Anna” (December 21, 1964) ***WD
02:13:31.289 = The Saint, “Old Man’s Car” (August 14, 1949)
02:37:57.359 = Theater 1030, “The Sandman” (October 31, 1954) ***WD(LQ)
03:04:57.439 = Two Thousand Plus, “Brooklyn Brain” (June 21, 1950) ***WD
03:33:38.132 = The Unexpected, “Mercy Killing” (1947-1948)
03:48:21.926 = Nick Carter Master Detective, “Death After Dark” (February 19, 1944) ***WD
04:17:37.622 = Dark Venture, “Chase” (August 03, 1946) ***WD(LQ)
04:45:57.158 = Beyond The Green Door, “Eddie Fox – Hobo In Oakdale” (1966)
04:49:48.810 = Tales From The Tomb, “Comfort Lies In The Dark” (1960s)
04:54:06.864 = Incredible But True, “The Man Who Saw Everything” (1950-1951)
04:57:22.155 = Strange Adventure, “John Friday Talks Fast” (1945) ***WD
05:00:37.595 = 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/WDRR0756
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 Cabinet of the Unsolved” (July 27, 1978) ***WD
00:45:18.840 = Suspense, “Palmer Method” (April 20, 1944)
01:14:52.189 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD
01:46:39.153 = The Creaking Door, “Anna” (December 21, 1964) ***WD
02:13:31.289 = The Saint, “Old Man’s Car” (August 14, 1949)
02:37:57.359 = Theater 1030, “The Sandman” (October 31, 1954) ***WD(LQ)
03:04:57.439 = Two Thousand Plus, “Brooklyn Brain” (June 21, 1950) ***WD
03:33:38.132 = The Unexpected, “Mercy Killing” (1947-1948)
03:48:21.926 = Nick Carter Master Detective, “Death After Dark” (February 19, 1944) ***WD
04:17:37.622 = Dark Venture, “Chase” (August 03, 1946) ***WD(LQ)
04:45:57.158 = Beyond The Green Door, “Eddie Fox – Hobo In Oakdale” (1966)
04:49:48.810 = Tales From The Tomb, “Comfort Lies In The Dark” (1960s)
04:54:06.864 = Incredible But True, “The Man Who Saw Everything” (1950-1951)
04:57:22.155 = Strange Adventure, “John Friday Talks Fast” (1945) ***WD
05:00:37.595 = 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/WDRR0756
Dickens, Seances, and Why Ghosts Still Wear Victorian Clothes
Aug 27, 2026
Nobody in the Victorian era who claimed to see a ghost described lace and corsets – that look came from the magazine trade that discovered ghost stories were cheap to print and easy to cut to length.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VictorianGhosts
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4p69wekw
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Victorian-era ghosts… they seem to haunt not only our imaginations, but also our Halloween wardrobes. Why were people in the mid-to-late 1800s so obsessed with the supernatural? And why are we so fascinated by Victorian ghost stories still today? (What’s The Deal With Victorian Ghosts?) *** The story of Queen Esther is chilling – full of an Iroquois warrior woman’s quest for vengeance, brutal warfare, haunting legends, ghostly wails, and a curse that many believe still has power even today. (The Curse of Queen Esther) *** No one can remember exactly when the ghost story began, but records show it dates back to at least 1926. The tale centers around the Administration Offices of Rockford School District 205 on South Madison Street, formerly Rockford High School. Built in 1885, the school gained a spooky reputation due to eerie events reported in its underground tunnels. After a tragic accident in the school’s swimming pool claimed the life of a student named Gosta Anderson, strange sightings and sounds fueled the legend of his restless spirit, haunting the very site where he died. (Gosta’s Ghost) *** Plumas County, California, holds a chilling mystery that dates back to 1978. On a winter night with a half-moon, five friends left a basketball game at California State University, Chico, and drove away, never to be seen again. Their car was found abandoned on a remote mountain road, leading to a series of eerie discoveries, unanswered questions, and clues that still baffle investigators today. (The 5 Boys Who Never Came Back)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = Short fiction story “Lost Hearts” by M.R. James
00:24:29.734 = Show Open
00:27:12.649 = What’s The Deal With Victorian Ghosts?
00:36:13.257 = The Curse of Queen Esther ***
00:46:07.677 = The Five Boys Who Never Came Back
01:06:21.586 = Gosta’s Ghost
01:12:56.658 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podca
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/VictorianGhosts
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4p69wekw
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Victorian-era ghosts… they seem to haunt not only our imaginations, but also our Halloween wardrobes. Why were people in the mid-to-late 1800s so obsessed with the supernatural? And why are we so fascinated by Victorian ghost stories still today? (What’s The Deal With Victorian Ghosts?) *** The story of Queen Esther is chilling – full of an Iroquois warrior woman’s quest for vengeance, brutal warfare, haunting legends, ghostly wails, and a curse that many believe still has power even today. (The Curse of Queen Esther) *** No one can remember exactly when the ghost story began, but records show it dates back to at least 1926. The tale centers around the Administration Offices of Rockford School District 205 on South Madison Street, formerly Rockford High School. Built in 1885, the school gained a spooky reputation due to eerie events reported in its underground tunnels. After a tragic accident in the school’s swimming pool claimed the life of a student named Gosta Anderson, strange sightings and sounds fueled the legend of his restless spirit, haunting the very site where he died. (Gosta’s Ghost) *** Plumas County, California, holds a chilling mystery that dates back to 1978. On a winter night with a half-moon, five friends left a basketball game at California State University, Chico, and drove away, never to be seen again. Their car was found abandoned on a remote mountain road, leading to a series of eerie discoveries, unanswered questions, and clues that still baffle investigators today. (The 5 Boys Who Never Came Back)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = Short fiction story “Lost Hearts” by M.R. James
00:24:29.734 = Show Open
00:27:12.649 = What’s The Deal With Victorian Ghosts?
00:36:13.257 = The Curse of Queen Esther ***
00:46:07.677 = The Five Boys Who Never Came Back
01:06:21.586 = Gosta’s Ghost
01:12:56.658 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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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 Podca
An Omaha Bank Robbery Was Planned With Help From ChatGPT – And Failed | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Aug 26, 2026
Deron Lewis-Payne asked a chatbot about law enforcement response times and how to get ammunition as a felon; the phone holding those questions ended up in the federal record, and he's serving 121 months.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/WDN20260826-ChatGPTBankRobber
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
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/WDN20260826-ChatGPTBankRobber
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Philadelphia's Chucky Mask Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Aug 26, 2026
Philadelphia police say a man in a white doll mask spent the early morning of August 12th chasing strangers around City Hall, and on the night of August 25th, U.S. Marshals took him into custody at a Las Vegas apartment complex roughly two thousand miles away.
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The UFO Files Went Public And Distrust Hit A New High | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Aug 26, 2026
Five batches of declassified UAP records have gone up on a Department of War website since May, and two national surveys fielded in the same July stretch came back eighteen points apart on whether Americans think officials are still holding something back.
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