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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Celebrating 100K Subs on YouTube / “Fireside Frights” Style

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Church of the Undead "Sleep Paralysis" episode: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-sleepparalysis/ 

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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: August 13, 2025

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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing. I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen. A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that. For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot. Like Teralis porain, pay in from only 22 pounds per square meter. Love it. All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%. So now you can keep up with the Joneses. And the Evanses. And the Bertels. The weather. Tomorrow, expect a? Biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.

0:39.3

The night will be wild and untamed.

0:41.4

Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.

0:45.2

By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:51.3

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:53.5

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:56.4

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:59.7

If you've ever wanted to learn more about stories I share in the podcast, you'll want to sign up for the free weird darkness newsletter.

1:06.7

Several times per week, you'll get an email that not only includes the audio player with a

1:10.9

recent episode, but a deep dive article of that same subject, going more in depth than what you

1:16.4

heard in the podcast.

1:17.4

I also post numerous articles that never make it into the podcast, and I share those in the

1:21.9

newsletter, too.

1:22.7

Along with transcripts of my horrible humor podcast, Mind of Marler, you'll get videos of murder noir as I post them the most popular video of the week from my YouTube channel.

1:32.6

Plus, I include bonus audio in the newsletter every week that I don't post to the podcast.

1:37.9

And if I still have room at the bottom, I'll stick a funny meme in there for you.

1:42.0

Sign up for the free Weird Darkness newsletter at

1:44.6

Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter. That's Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter.

1:50.5

The darkness has been spreading for nearly a decade, weirdos. What started as Whispers in

1:56.3

the Shadows back in October 2015 has grown into something far more unsettling, a gathering of 100,000

2:04.2

souls who crave the strange, the supernatural, and the stories that make others check their

2:09.9

locks twice before bed. Tonight we're celebrating the kind of stories that keep rational minds awake

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