“GIANT BUGS AND MANTIS MEN” and More Creepy True Stories! #WeirdDarkness

A woman who, upon returning to her cherished home, finds it inhabited by a family of strangers who seem oblivious to her presence. | #RetroRadio EP0424 Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Intruders” (March 30, 1976) 00:46:59.839 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Speak No More, aka Telepathic” (May 07, 1958) ***WD 01:06:41.359 = Dark Fantasy, “Death Is a Savage Deity” (January 30, 1942) 01:30:49.649 = The Diary of Fate, “Walter Vincent” (May 25, 1948) ***WD 01:59:58.959 = Fear on 4, “Dispossessed Daughter” (January 29, 1989) 02:28:47.509 = Five After the Hour, “Life And Times of a Happy Man” (May 16, 1945) ***WD 02:52:59.739 = Five Minute Mysteries, “Announcer’s Delight” (late 1940s) 02:58:02.073 = Future Tense, “The Parade” (May 27, 1974) ***WD 03:24:15.329 = Gang Busters, “Oliver Brothers” (January 31, 1948) 03:47:18.769 = The Green Hornet, “The House That Jack Built” (August 24, 1939) 04:16:45.589 = The Hall of Fantasy, “The Shadow People” (September 21, 1953) ***WD 04:41:15.339 = The Lives of Harry Lime, “Suzie’s Cue” (May 02, 1952) ***WD 05:06:40.080 = 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. Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library 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 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. = = = = = CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0424

A faceless, 7-foot shadow figure has been stalking the desolate Pine Ridge Reservation for generations, appearing on dark roads and whispering commands that drive young people to take their own lives. Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate 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. DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. IN THIS EPISODE: An 11-year-old boy experiences the extraterrestrial in his own back yard. *** Floating white mist, pink orbs, ghosts, and more – and they all reside in Fiddletown, California.  *** Charles E. Peck was killed instantly in a horrible 2008 Metrolink commercial train accident, but before anyone knew he was dead, his family members received 35 calls from his phone for several hours following the disaster.  *** A museum has hung a chair from the ceiling, specifically to keep people from sitting in it.  Not because they are afraid it will break – but because they are afraid the chair will kill you. *** If you spend the night amongst the dead in a graveyard, don’t be surprised if something supernatural happens to you. (I Spent The Night In a Graveyard)  *** An old man regrets not obeying his wife’s dying wish. (The Stubborn Piano) *** Over 200 lobotomies were performed at the Ridges Asylum – without anesthesia or an operating room.  Is it any wonder why it’s now considered to be haunted?  (The Ridges Asylum) *** A Vietnam veteran has his first paranormal investigation in a Nevada town with a population of more dead souls than alive.  (Marine Protectors) *** In a quiet Virginia cemetery is a peculiar tomb that has mystified visitors for nearly two hundred years.  Who is buried there?  No one seems to know. (The Grave of the Female Stranger) *** Demons hitchhiking, reports of a mysterious entity, strange suicides… they all have been seen and experienced on a certain Indian reservation in South Dakota.  (Walking Sam) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… (Sorry, but this information has been lost over time.) SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE… “UFO In My Front Yard” by Blake Lacy: (link no longer available) “Haunted Fiddletown” by paranormal investigator Paul Dale Roberts: (link no longer available) “This Man Kept Calling His Loved Ones… Even Though He’d Been Dead For Hours” by Erin McCann:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/35ja28pf “The Deathly Stoop Chair of Thomas Busby”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89pwvy “Walking Sam” by Brent Swancer:

Lucy begins coughing up long red hairs and finding them throughout her apartment. As she searches for answers, she learns an unsettling truth. Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate 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. DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. IN THIS EPISODE: Elva Heaster was dead – but that didn’t stop her ghost from solving the murder. *** In Stephen King’s “Pet Semetery”, beloved family pets could come back from the dead. *** In Washington there is a hole that some say brings animals back to life – for real. *** In the middle of the Brompton Cemetery grounds, shrouded by trees stands a mausoleum… and what some believe is a time machine. *** The Mothman is apparently no longer bound to Point Pleasant, West Virginia – in 2017 he appeared 55 times in Chicago. *** And we BEGIN this episode with, a chapter from the book, “Beautiful Nightmares: Women of Horror Anthology” entitled "HAIR" by Faith Marlowe. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:14.973 = “Hair” (title story) 00:51:05.987 = The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder 00:59:25.235 = The Monster of Mel’s Hole 01:10:01.307 = The Chicago Mothman Sightings 01:15:11.155 = London’s Time-Traveling Mausoleum 01:28:43.973 = Show Close SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Hair” by Faith Marlow, from the book “Beautiful Nightmares: Women of Horror Anthology”: https://amzn.to/3LolYK6 (no longer in print) “The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p98d8pu “The Monster of Mel’s Hole”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1xpq30ql “The Chicago Mothman Sightings”: (link no longer available) “London’s Time-Traveling Mausoleum”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/7pgczqce ===== (Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) = = = = = "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a...

When a charming suitor sweeps Jeannie off her feet, a string of brutal murders makes her wonder if she’s fallen for a killer! Hear the tale from The Clock in “Thou Shalt Not Kill!” | #RetroRadio EP0423 Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Saxon Curse” (March 29, 1976) 00:47:40.179 = The Clock, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (June 22, 1947) 01:14:01.799 = Creeps By Night, “The Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan” (July 13, 1944) 01:43:44.169 = Sounds of Darkness, “Double Trouble” (March 03, 1970) 02:08:41.889 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Ancestor” (October 29, 1971) 02:38:03.559 = Dimension X, “Child’s Play” (June 23, 1951) 03:02:47.799 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Death In The Everglades” (December 05, 1944) ***WD 03:15:33.209 = The Creaking Door, “Alive In The Grave” (November 30, 1964) 03:44:46.379 = The Eleventh Hour, “The Man Who Was Dead” (1941-1946) 04:09:04.249 = Escape, “The Brute” (April 11, 1948) 04:38:40.449 = Murder By Experts, “Summer Heat” (June 13, 1949) 05:08:07.114 = 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. Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library 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 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. = = = = = CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0423

In the early 1900s, children's worst nightmares became reality when Albert Fish stalked New York as a real-life boogeyman who tortured, murdered, and cannibalized his young victims over a decade-long reign of terror. Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate 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. DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. IN THIS EPISODE: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” *** A UK woman sees a little sailor boy… a dead one. *** A 15-foot high B-25 bomber goes missing – in just 20 feet of water. *** A woman wakes up twice in the middle of her own surgery… but that’s not the scariest part. *** A rocking chair mysteriously moves itself to a completely different room. *** Two Romanian climbers found a strange yellowish object and as soon as they touched it something unexplained happened. *** Is teleportation impossible – tell that to Major Tudor Wellesley Pole. *** A new member joins a new age group – and she creeps everyone out. But they soon realize the feeling is warranted. *** September, 1952… was it a cryptid? An alien? We look more closely at what has become known as “The Flatwood Monster” from Braxton County, West Virginia. *** What began as a practical joke on some friends in a Revolutionary War cemetery backfires on the perpetrator. *** He’s been known by a few different names: “The Werewolf of Wysteria,” “The Gray Man”, even the “Brooklyn Vampire”. No matter the alias, Albert Fish is a murderer whose attacks took place over the span of ten years, causing terror in New York and throughout the United States. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Title Story Teaser and Show Open 00:01:56.729 = “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe 00:10:37.576 = “Little Sailor Boy” 00:12:03.373 = “The Pennsylvania Ghost Bomber” 00:16:41.758 = “Operation Horror” 00:19:19.136 = “The Rocking Chair” 00:20:04.463 = “Bizarre And Unexplained Disappearances In The Bazau Mountains” 00:23:19.705 = “Mysterious Teleportation Case of Major Tudor Pole” 00:27:23.180 = “The Thing That Follows Her” 00:29:34.802 = “Meeting With The Flatwoods Monster” 00:37:17.650 = “The Scare That Backfired” 00:41:41.866 = “The Boogeyman Albert Fish” 00:51:11.185 = Show Close SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE… “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1kzyvu38 “Little Sailor Boy” by Anthonly Michael Eyre for MyHaunteLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jxjnqdla “The Pennsylvania Ghost Bomber” by Troy Taylor: