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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

WHAT ARE THE FRESNO NIGHTCRAWLERS? Walking Pants, Aliens, or Cryptid?! | WEEK OF JULY 13, 2025

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Security cameras have captured footage of pale, stilt-legged beings moving through the darkness — creatures so bizarre that even experts can't explain what they are.
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HOUR ONE: There are roads on Long Island that are much more than a line between two points. Some roads contain legends that travel with you on your journey. (Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road) *** In 1981, a cabin in the woods played host to a brutal family murder. We’ll look into the still unsolved murders of the Keddie killings. (The Unsolved Keddie Killings) *** Sightings of strange, pale creatures are being reported in California – and now over two decades from the first sighting, we still don’t know what the Fresno Nightcrawlers truly are. (Freaky Reports of Pale Crawlers)
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HOUR TWO: Violence, mayhem, even rape. Horrifying atrocities committed by the most evil of human beings – but in one case, in Culver City, California, it wasn’t a man who engaged in these obscenities, but specters of the paranormal. (A Famous Case of Frightening Entities) *** We’ll delve into a handful of out-of-body experience stories directly from those who lived through them – and they might change your opinion about the afterlife. (Surviving Out of Body Experiences) *** We’ll look at true encounters from Redditors who claim to have come across doppelgangers – their exact duplicates, or duplicates of those they love – and it’s almost always a disturbing experience. (Creepy Encounters With Real Doppelgangers)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: During the grueling Great Northern Expedition, naturalist Georg Wilhem Steller came face-to-face with one of the sea's most mysterious creatures. Or did he? (Steller’s Sea Ape) *** Weirdo family member Jamie Tyroler shares what happened to her and a few friends when they rummaged through a demolished building, only to find something still existing there. (The Ninth Street Entity) *** Weirdo family member Daniel Hagan shares how he once explored some woods on his bike and ended up pedaling for his life to escape paranormal beasts that appeared from nowhere. (Demon Dogs) *** Digging in their backyard, two brothers find what appear to be small human heads carved of stone… but the curious find turns creepy once they bring the heads into the house, resurrecting sightings of a wolf-like creature not seen in almost seventy years. (Hexam Heads and the Wolf of Allendale) *** In 1886 Chicago, one of the nation’s very first serial killers would build a sadistic chamber of horrors to live out his most demented fantasies. (Murder Castle of Chicago)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
“Freaky Reports of Pale Crawlers” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2O9fG6C
“Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Road” by Arthur Criscione: http://bit.ly/2LXUr4K
“The Unsolved Keddie Killings” by Orrin Grey: http://bit.ly/2LYC8fK
“Steller’s Sea Ape” by Andrew Thaler: http://bit.ly/2XMpxDM
“The Ninth Street Entity” by Weirdo Family member Jamie Tyroler
“Creepy Encounters With Real Doppelgangers” by Nathan Gibson: http://bit.ly/2YkPTwL
“Demon Dogs” by Daniel Hagan, submitted at https://WeirdDarkness.com/submit
“Surviving Out of Body Experiences” by Audrey Webster: http://bit.ly/2M3bMKx
““A Famous Case of Frightening Entities” by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2M3YGg3
“Hexam Heads and the Wolf of Allendale” by Neil Boothman: http://bit.ly/2Kut2Fn and http://bit.ly/2Kiufk0
“Murder Castle of Chicago” by Brent Swancer (link no longer available)
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"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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0:00.0

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.

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Several times per week, you'll get an email that not only includes the audio player with a recent episode, but a deep dive article of that same subject, going more in depth than what you heard in the podcast.

0:17.5

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

0:21.4

those in the newsletter, too. Along with transcripts of my horrible humor podcast, Mind of Marler,

0:27.0

you'll get videos of murder noir as I post them, the most popular video of the week from my YouTube

0:32.1

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

0:38.0

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

0:42.1

Sign up for the free Weird Darkness newsletter at Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter.

0:47.3

That's Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter.

0:50.2

As a member of this weirdo family, I value your input.

0:53.2

And while I try to keep up with the emails, online messages, and comments I receive, one thing I've not really done is ask your opinions about certain things I offer in the podcast. Do you like the murder noir episodes? What about the old-time radio stuff? Does the more comedic Mind of Marler uploads even belong in the podcast?

1:12.8

If you could change one thing about Weird Darkness, what would it be?

1:16.1

Take the survey at Weirddarkness.com slash survey, and let me know what you think about what

1:21.1

I do and how I do it.

1:23.0

It'll only take about two minutes, but it'll be invaluable to me as a creator to find

1:27.3

out what you like

1:28.2

and don't like, what you'd like to see more of, or less of, visit weirddarkness.com

1:33.0

slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com slash survey. Among the many strange encounters in the world of the paranormal, there are often those that

1:53.6

serve to be particularly baffling.

1:56.7

These are the cases that hover out beyond our ability to really classify them or

2:01.9

put a name to them.

2:03.8

Are they ghosts, mysterious animals, aliens, or what?

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