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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Something Is Living Under The Town, And It's Been Growing For Years! | Elmer Versus The Mutant Rats

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 293 minutes

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Summary

“Elmer Versus The Mutant Rats”: When a small-town manure hauler's quiet vacation gets interrupted by rats the size of chihuahuas, it turns out that's just the beginning — because something much, much bigger is living underneath the entire town. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0611

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater “Dead Men Do Tell Tales” (June 30, 1977) ***WD
00:45:41.626 = Strange Adventure, “The Diamond of Destiny” (1945)
00:48:58.380 = Appointment With Fear, “My Fate Cries Out” (December 04, 1976) ***WD
01:16:33.310 = BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 7 / Ghost Story, “The Mistletoe Bride” (December 25, 2006)
01:30:48.350 = Beyond The Green Door, “Travis Takes Poison” (1966) ***WD
01:34:53.578 = Box 13, “The Great Torino” (October 24, 1948)
02:01:33.996 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Elmers Versus The Mutant Rats” (1991-1992) ***WD
02:27:06.706 = The Clock, “The Story of Mr. Littlefield” (October 25, 1955)
02:51:11.356 = Creeps By Night, “Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan” (July 13, 1944)
03:20:41.850 = The Crime Club, “Sometimes a Sucker Wins” (September 04, 1947)
03:51:16.686 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of the Whirling Mirrors” (November 25, 1946)
04:15:51.390 = CBC Deep Night, “Man Radio” (July 29, 2005)
04:49:48.592 = 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.

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.


"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Bigfoot, a legend, a joke, or something real. I'm a former police officer, trained to follow

0:07.4

evidence, not myths, to question stories until facts take over. Then I stepped into the woods.

0:15.2

Welcome to the Sasquatch Odyssey podcast. Every episode features firsthand encounters from people who've come face to face with

0:22.3

something they can't explain. Real witnesses, real fear, real experiences that don't fade with time.

0:30.1

But this isn't Camp Fire storytelling. I also sit down with boots on the ground researchers

0:35.1

using hard science, critical thinking, and proven methods

0:38.6

to find answers. Footprints. Audio. Field data. No hype. No hoaxes. Just investigation.

0:47.5

One question drives it all. Does Sasquatch truly exist? If evidence matters. if mystery deserves scrutiny, join me on

0:56.3

Sasquatch Odyssey, and let's find out together. Have you ever wondered why Victorians mailed

1:00.8

dead birds as love letters? Why the 1800s had so many miracle tonics that were just cocaine?

1:08.2

Or why an entire town once blamed a goat for political corruption.

1:12.8

Then, dear listener, you have found your people.

1:16.5

Welcome to the Strange History Podcast, where every episode explores the bizarre, hilarious,

1:23.4

unsettling, and occasionally, someone please check on humanity corners of our past.

1:29.5

We dig up the stories your textbooks skipped.

1:32.6

From haunted mansions and medical oddities to forgotten jobs, cursed holidays, and historical

1:38.5

scandals so ridiculous they sound fake, but aren't.

1:43.2

And yes, there will be sarcastic commentary, historical chaos, and questionable fake sponsors

1:50.0

like Dr. Pumpernichael's patented goat-based relationship therapy side effects may include

1:57.0

regret.

1:58.4

So come join the adventure.

2:00.3

You can find the Strange History podcast on Apple Podcasts,

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