SKINWALKER RANCH: Utah’s Infamous Paranormal Portal Where Science Meets the Supernatural
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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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.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Deep in the Utah wilderness lies a 512-acre ranch where cattle vanish without a trace, bulletproof wolves roam the land, and portals to other dimensions may actually exist. We step into the dangerously paranormal area of America known as Skinwalker Ranch.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In, “The Coyote Nap” (fiction)
00:22:40.584 = Show Open
00:23:46.180 = Skinwalker Ranch, Part 1
00:26:30.639 = Skinwalker Ranch, Part 2
00:42:27.726 = Skinwalker Ranch, Part 3
00:55:04.900 = Skinwalker Ranch, Part 4
00:1:03:38.463 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
https://weirddarkness.com/SkinwalkerRanchCoyoteNap (includes source links)
Rense01, Rense02, Ranker, All That’s Interesting, The Daily Beast, Strib, Fire of Learning, TheUnexplained@Medium,Utah.com, Equip.org
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Originally aired: June 16, 2025
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, 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. (AI Policy)
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SkinwalkerRanchCoyoteNap
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| 0:00.0 | Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything. |
| 0:09.0 | A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased |
| 0:17.4 | at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner. |
| 0:23.9 | An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls. |
| 0:30.9 | An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these |
| 0:41.8 | 20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror |
| 0:49.9 | that entrance as they terrify. The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal, |
| 1:00.6 | narrated by Darren Marler. |
| 1:02.7 | You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com. |
| 1:07.7 | They've been here for thousands of years, making their presence known in the shadows. |
| 1:14.2 | They might be seen by a lonely motorist on a deserted road late at night, or by a frightened |
| 1:19.5 | and confused husband in the bedroom he's sharing with his wife. |
| 1:23.6 | Perhaps the most disconcerting part of this phenomenon boils down to this question. |
| 1:29.3 | Has the government been aware of their presence all along and is covertly working with them |
| 1:35.2 | towards some secret end? |
| 1:37.7 | In the audiobook, Rungs of Disclosure, what once was fringe is now reality. |
| 1:44.1 | While listening, you'll meet regular people |
| 1:46.0 | just like you who have encountered something beyond their ability to explain. You'll also hear |
| 1:51.8 | from people of great faith and deep religious belief who continue to have these strange |
| 1:57.0 | and deeply unsettling encounters. Author L.A. Marzuli explores these ongoing incidents |
| 2:03.3 | to discover the answers to these questions. Who are they? What do they want? And why are they here? |
| 2:13.0 | Can you handle the truth? Listen to this audiobook, if you dare. Rungs of Disclosure, |
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