SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode Two

A murdered woman still haunts her room, a drunken boarder bursts from the shadows, and something in the basement wants to be found — welcome to the S.K. Pierce Mansion. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SKPierceMansion SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Many Hauntings of the S.K. Pierce Mansion” from SlightlyOddFitchburg.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p85u74e, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p88ef7h (Over time links 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.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: March, 2022

In an upscale Seoul district, a fortune-teller deals a custom tarot deck to greyhounds, turtles, and anxious owners who pay 20,000 won a session to find out what their pets have been secretly worried about. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/pettarot 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.

For six months, slaughtered lambs and severed deer heads kept turning up on the doorsteps of New Forest churches, always with an inverted cross set close by, and some of the people who found them stopped going to worship altogether. When police finally caught the man behind it, he gave the court his name as Count Dracula.  SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/NewForestVampire 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.

In 2016, a first-time director captured something on film he never intended to, and the people who've heard about what's buried in that footage tend to wish they hadn't. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-cominghome SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Coming Home” by JRT McMahon: https://www.creepypasta.com/coming-home/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 07, 2026

Thousands have stepped off marked trails and into America's wilderness never to be seen again, and the retired lawman who spent years cataloguing them found the same strange details surfacing case after case. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Missing411 READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/34vb6kex FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Thousands of people have vanished without a trace from America's wilderness areas, leaving behind baffling clues that defy conventional explanation. From children who disappear within seconds while picking berries to hikers in bright clothing who seem to evaporate from marked trails, these cases share disturbing patterns that suggest something beyond ordinary misadventure. What is happening in our national parks? And what strange forces might be responsible for those who seemingly step off the face of the earth? SOURCES and RESOURCES: David Paulides' "Missing 411" Book Series (Missing 411: Western United States & Canada * Missing 411: Eastern United States * Missing 411: North America and Beyond * Missing 411: The Devil's in the Detail)https://www.canammissing.com/missing-411.html CanAm Missing Project Website: https://www.canammissing.com George Knapp's Interview with David Paulides for Mystery Wire: https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/david-paulides-missing-411/ National Park Service Missing Persons Database: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/foia-reading-room.htm Documentaries on Missing 411: "Missing 411" (2016), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5864680; "Missing 411: The Hunted" (2019), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10524262 Coast to Coast AM Interviews with David Paulides: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/paulides-david/49441/ Mysterious Universe: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2024/08/Don-t-Want-to-Mysteriously-Vanish-Don-t-Do-These-Things-/ The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/ National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs): https://www.namus.gov/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Dennis_Martin,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Alfred_Beilhartz,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jaryd_Atadero,