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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Worst School Fire Ever, Spy Poisoned on a Park Bench, A U.S. President Killed By His Own Speech

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

One man's completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don't know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire. And it's a day to triple-check your grammar. | The Morning Weird Darkness

*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

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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 #WeirdDarkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered why Victorians mailed dead birds as love letters?

0:04.0

Why the 1800s had so many miracle tonics that were just cocaine?

0:09.3

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

0:13.9

Then, dear listener, you have found your people.

0:17.4

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

0:25.4

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

0:30.6

We dig up the stories your textbook skipped.

0:33.7

From haunted mansions and medical oddities to forgotten jobs,

0:43.6

cursed holidays, and historical scandals so ridiculous they sound fake, but aren't.

0:49.0

And yes, there will be sarcastic commentary, historical chaos, and questionable fake sponsors like Dr. Pumpernichael's patented goat-based relationship therapy, side effects,

0:57.2

may include regret. So come join the adventure. You can find the Strange History podcast on

1:04.5

Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, IHeart Radio, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. Because history wasn't

1:14.5

just weird. It was beautifully catastrophically weird. Bigfoot, a legend, a joke, or something real.

1:22.6

I'm a former police officer, trained to follow evidence, not myths, to question stories until facts

1:29.3

take over. Then I stepped into the woods. Welcome to the Sasquatch Odyssey podcast. Every episode

1:36.8

features firsthand encounters from people who've come face to face with something they can't

1:41.2

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

1:48.2

But this isn't Campfire storytelling.

1:50.6

I also sit down with boots on the ground researchers

1:53.2

using hard science, critical thinking, and proven methods to find answers.

1:58.4

Footprints, audio, field data, no hype. No hoaxes. Just investigation.

2:05.6

One question drives at all. Does Sasquatch truly exist? If evidence matters, if mystery deserves

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