FIELD OF SCREAMS: Gridiron Ghouls & Football Phantoms – True Hauntings From America’s Favorite Game
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: It's the curious details of a murder case that transfix true crime obsessives. Some have elements that are particularly violent, bloody, gruesome, and unsettling. Worse, some slayings remain unsolved, meaning that the perpetrator continued to walk among us after the deed was finished. From the famous Black Dahlia murder and America's Jack the Ripper to a body found in a tree and a weird note left before one German man’s disappearance, in this episode I’ll share several mysterious, unsolved deaths that will chill you to the bone. But first, we’ll begin with a few hauntings related to the gridiron… American Football Phantoms!
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate and Only Accurate For the Commercial Version)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:36.123 = American Football Phantoms
00:14:27.187 = Unsolved Murders, Part 1
00:23:11.627 = Unsolved Murders, Part 2
00:46:05.893 = Unsolved Murders, Part 3
01:06:06.613 = Unsolved Murders, Part 4
01:27:42.021 = Unsolved Murders, Part 5
01:40:51.445 = Unsolved Murders, Part 6
01:46:29.237 = Show Close
01:47:37.910 = Outtakes
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Chilling Unsolved Murders” from The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/foyleo4o
“Football Hauntings” by Giancarlo Ferrari-King for Bleacher Report https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2o64vefa, YourGhostStories.com (link no longer available), and Sports Planning Guide: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1ivxxh5l
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Originally aired: August 2018
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| 0:42.8 | Welcome, weirdos. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, |
| 0:50.3 | conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. |
| 0:57.0 | Coming up in this episode. |
| 0:59.0 | It's the curious details of a murder case that transfix true crime obsessives. Some |
| 1:05.6 | have elements that are particularly violent, bloody, gruesome and unsettling. |
| 1:11.3 | Worse, some slayings remain unsolved, meaning that the perpetrator continued to walk among |
| 1:16.8 | us after the deed was finished. |
| 1:19.5 | From the famous Black Dahlia murder and America's Jack the Ripper, to a body found in a |
| 1:24.1 | tree and a weird note left before one German man's disappearance. |
| 1:28.2 | In this episode, I'll share several mysterious, unsolved deaths that will chill you to the bone. |
| 1:37.9 | But first, let's begin with a few hauntings related to the gridiron, some American football phantoms. |
| 1:47.2 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into |
| 1:54.6 | the weird darkness. The Detroit Lions have long suffered since they traded former quarterback Bobby Lane in |
| 2:14.1 | 1958. |
| 2:15.2 | At the time of the trade, Lane was 31 years old, and management wanted to move on from the guy |
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