Episodes

  • Seven Sisters Road, Time Slips, and Bad Doctoring

    Seven Sisters Road, Time Slips, and Bad Doctoring
    Nov 13 2025
    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, where newspaper libel led to murder and a shocking acquittal, before diving into the layered horrors of Hawaii's McKenzie State Park—haunted by ancient night marchers, tortured prisoner spirits, and modern unsolved violence. We wrap up with a mind-bending 1959 time slip in Wyoming, where three travelers stumbled into a restaurant that had burned down years earlier and shared a meal with the dead. It's folklore, true crime, and the unexplained colliding in one comprehensive deep dive into the weirdest 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 theories, is NOT an AI voice.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    56 mins
  • The Matrix, Disproved By Science!

    The Matrix, Disproved By Science!
    Nov 11 2025
    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.

    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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    33 mins
  • WEIRD AFTER DARK: Donner Party Ghosts, A Female Serial Killer, and Creepy Military Encounters

    WEIRD AFTER DARK: Donner Party Ghosts, A Female Serial Killer, and Creepy Military Encounters
    Nov 11 2025
    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.

    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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    53 mins
  • The Devon Devil

    The Devon Devil
    Nov 9 2025
    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 incidents from remote islands to modern-day sightings, and reveal why this perfect storm of freak weather, animal tracks, possible hoaxes, and mass hysteria created a legend that still haunts Devon nearly 170 years later.

    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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    30 mins
  • The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist: What Really Happened

    The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist: What Really Happened
    Nov 8 2025
    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 his own, and developing scratch marks forming words in places he cannot physically reach. Father William Bowdern loses forty pounds and develops oozing boils across his body while performing up to thirty exorcism sessions, keeping a meticulous 26-page diary of every detail. Coming up on Weird After Dark... how does the boy at the center of America's most documented exorcism case grow up to become a NASA engineer whose heat-resistant technology helps put men on the moon – spending seventy years insisting "I was just a bad boy" while living in terror that colleagues would discover his secret? We break down Darren's deep dive into the evidence, the witnesses, and the question that divides believers and skeptics to this day.

    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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    26 mins
  • The Horned Man and the Ghost Train Tragedy of 1979

    The Horned Man and the Ghost Train Tragedy of 1979
    Nov 7 2025
    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 into The Horned Man and the Ghost Train Tragedy of 1979. It's going to be a bumpy, weird night.

    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.
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    32 mins
  • Black Bart, The Topeka Insane Asylum, The Pollack Twins, and Case of Judy Smith

    Black Bart, The Topeka Insane Asylum, The Pollack Twins, and Case of Judy Smith
    Nov 6 2025
    EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/blackbart

    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 theories, is NOT an AI voice.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    37 mins
  • The Murder of Bridget Cleary

    The Murder of Bridget Cleary
    Nov 5 2025
    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.



    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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    31 mins