#BotchedExecutions | John Wayne Gacy And Five More Needles That Went Wrong

A silent-film director is found shot in his bungalow with every lamp in the house still burning, and a private eye from the east is paid to find the letters before the police do. EPISODE PAGE (includes list of sources and the real case behind the story): https://weirddarkness.com/alvarocourt WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD 00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD 01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947) 01:42:47.242 = Harry Lime, “Horseplay” (November 23, 1951) ***WD 02:09:06.828 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “A Pair of Hands” (September 06, 1980) ***WD 02:37:07.458 = The Haunting Hour, “Death By Request” (September 08, 1945) ***WD 03:03:04.221 = Hermit’s Cave, “The Search For Life” (April 12, 1942) ***WD 03:28:48.436 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Lion’s Mane” (April 21, 1947) 04:00:34.450 = Mystery House, “Murder Is An Art” (August 09, 1946) 04:27:40.870 = Inner Sanctum, “Black Art” (May 15, 1945) ***WD 04:57:15.865 = 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. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

Eleven stories, starting with an 18-month-old found breathing in a Gilbert, Arizona, hospital morgue hours after he was pronounced dead, and running through a beheading in West Bengal, an Oregon man who claimed his mother was possessed, an Amish woman's weed whacker, and a 1962 double murder near Battle Ground, Washington. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/toddler-found-breathing-in-morgue *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

Early on November 30th, 1989, Linda Cortile says gray beings floated her out of her 12th-floor window in lower Manhattan and into a hovering craft, and two security men later told abduction researcher Budd Hopkins they'd watched it happen from their car near the Brooklyn Bridge. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/linda-cortile-abduction READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9y2dhp9y FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a heartbreaking story of love gone wrong. It's a tale of passion, betrayal, murder, and the electric chair. (Love And The Electric Chair) *** The terrifying true story of the abduction of Linda Cortile – was she truly abucted by aliens or is there another explanation? (The Abduction of Linda Cortile) *** A man keeps seeing shadowy figures in his peripheral vision. (Her Feet Were Swinging) *** They say the widow's ghost lingers in the tower of the Drish House - and sets the house ablaze with phantom fire. (The Drish House Hauntings) * It is said that some hundred years ago, people in Jamaica believed the powers of so-called “Shadow Killers” - but who or what were they? (The Shadow Killers of Jamaica) *** Fifteen acres of land purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1976 is what comprises a place known as DeForest Park.  By day it is filled with sun, sand, and fun. By night, it is filled with shudders, scares, and screams. (The Darkness of DeForest Park) *** Friends were planning for a good time of dirt biking, hunting, and drinking beer. They should never have visited the cemetery. (The Haunted Farmstead) *** Two women walking home in the twilight come across the ghost of a woman dead for the past year. *** A man tells the terrifying story of how he was possessed by a demon. *** Two girls discover that even if you don’t believe a legend of ghostly children, you still shouldn’t tease them. *** If you vacation at Carlsbad Lagoon, you’ll need something stronger than sunscreen to protect you. *** Traumatic events can sometimes trigger poltergeist activity, but for one young girl, the torment seemed to have no end. *** The hills of Northern Chile are not safe for men walking alone at night.  A female spirit known as La Lola stalks the night, lost and enraged over the murder of her husband. *** Glowing eyes in the dark, a man in a dark suit, and a party in the other room… none of which are real, except to two young girls who swear it actually happened. *** Lehigh, Oklahoma – with the dark past of gangsters, the KKK, a corrupt sheriff… and the paranormal. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:00:58.241 = Show Open 00:04:17.776 = The Alien Abduction of Linda Cortile 00:14:07.986 = The Drish Hauntings *** 00:18:39.014 = The Darkness of DeForest Park 00:22:19.808 = The Haunted Farmstead 00:30:13.021 = The Shadow Killers of Jamaica *** 00:35:52.020 = Her Feet Were Swinging 00:40:01.137 = Love And The Electric Chair 00:49:28.171 = My First Spooky Experience *** 00:54:25.482 = The Haunting of Laura 01:04:28.440 = The Ghostly Kids of Hungry Hollow Road *** 01:07:07.740 = I Was Possessed By a Demon 01:10:47.811 = The Woman In The Blue Sari 01:13:13.484 = Carlsbad Lagoon 01:16:49.012 = La Lola, The Vengeful Female Spirit of Northern Chile 01:20:41.489 = Haunted Lehigh, Oklahoma *** 01:26:23.165 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Love And The Electric Chair” by Troy Taylor:

Charles "Snake" Stuart says he found an eight-foot Bigfoot dead in New York's Adirondacks, that a Cornell University DNA report shows what it is, and that Cornell has until 5:00 p.m. on November 1st to take back its denial or pay him $10 million. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/bigfoot-body-cornell-dna *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.