BELA LUGOSI: The Horror Legend Who Died Penniless and Was Buried In His Cape

Jack, Doc, and Reggie encounter a frightened young woman, Sunny Richards, who believes she is doomed by an old family curse tied to murder, money, and the Richards family fortune. The boys try to prove the “curse” is human-made, not supernatural, while the case spirals into attempted murder, desert danger, hidden motives, and a criminal plot behind the supposed curse.  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 1” (December 12, 1949) 00:14:57.538 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 2” (December 13, 1949) 00:28:49.961 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 3” (December 14, 1949) 00:41:22.522 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 4” (December 15, 1949) 00:53:24.547 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 5” (December 16, 1949) 01:06:07.897 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 6” (December 19, 1949) 01:18:21.520 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 7” (December 20, 1949) 01:30:48.517 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 8” (December 21, 1949) 01:43:21.732 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 9” (December 22, 1949) 01:55:56.514 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 10” (December 26, 1949) 02:08:24.452 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 11” (December 27, 1949) 02:20:38.133 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 12” (December 28, 1949) 02:33:38.575 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 13” (December 29, 1949) 02:46:21.925 = I Love a Mystery, “The Million Dollar Curse, Part 14” (December 30, 1949) 02:59:22.082 = 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. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0671

A frail woman broke a Saginaw man's front window with a metal pipe on a March afternoon, and what she told the responding officers led police to a locked door in a nearby basement. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/saginaw-basement-escape Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

At 11:16 p.m. on a Saturday in February, a man inside a luxury Princeton apartment dialed 911 to report a fire and a dead body. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/hertgen-brothers/ Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

A 37-year-old mother of three left Bristol, Virginia in January 2026 for an assistant manager job 100 miles north — by April her family could not reach her, and by May her sister was filing a missing persons report. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/angel-whitaker/ GOFUND ME PAGE: gofundme.com/f/help-us-lay-angel-whitaker-to-rest Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

“A Point of Time”: When a 90-year-old physicist is dragged away by the secret police of a dystopian regime, his frail sister pays a "harmless" visit to the dictator who ordered the arrest — armed with a single handshake that could rewrite history itself. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Point of Time” (November 15, 1977) 00:46:35.294 = The Shadow, “The Chess Club Murders” (February 23, 1941) 01:15:46.575 = Sleep No More, “I Am Waiting” and “Browdean Farm” (January 23, 1957) 01:43:59.740 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “ Mrs. M” (February 21, 1984) 02:28:27.887 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October o1, 1945) ***WD 02:43:00.304 = Strange Wills, “Midnight On The Moor” (July 27, 1946) 03:12:57.607 = Strange, “Deja Vu in France” (1955) 03:27:51.047 = Suspense, “Sorry, Wrong Number” (February 24, 1944) ***WD 03:57:13.825 = Tales of the Frightened, “Just Inside The Cemetery” (December 06, 1957) 04:02:08.487 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953) 04:32:02.795 = The Creaking Door, “Yesterday You Died” (August 31, 1964) ***WD 05:01:02.446 = 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. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0670