Something Was Wrong With the Silent Man on the Subway | 2 Short Horror Fiction Stories! Image

Something Was Wrong With the Silent Man on the Subway | 2 Short Horror Fiction Stories!

14 June - 51 mins
Podcast Series Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A bored New York commuter who passes the time on the A train by quietly sorting his fellow riders into types becomes fixated on one unremarkable man whose blank stillness never breaks — a man who takes the same seat in the same car to ride to the end of the line and right back again — until the need to know what he really is pulls the commuter off his own route and down into the tunnels after him.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/StrangersOnTheSubway

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: "The Statues" — Forced to babysit his toddler cousin in his aunt's house full of religious statues, a teenager finds a black gargoyle crouched in the baby's room that his aunt sw...

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CONSPIRACY IN DALLAS | The Case That Lee Harvey Oswald Was Set Up to Take the Fall

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“Conspiracy In Dallas” posted at The Unredacted: http://bit.ly/weirddarkness2YVxMdq “The Dog That Wasn’t There” by Weirdo family member Daniel Mulberry “The Rolf Neslund Murder” by Elizabeth Tilsa: http://bit.ly/weirddarkness2KywOAX “The Lingering Ghost of Nell Cropsey” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/weirddarkness2UnJ2Rb (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: November 28, 2021 Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar moves from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas to a phantom black dog in the English county of Dorset, the murder and dismemberment of a retired sea captain on a quiet island in Washington's San Juan archipelago, and the 1901 killing of a young woman in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, whose spirit is said to still walk her family home.It opens in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, where President John F. Kennedy was shot and the Warren Commission, headed by Judge Earl Warren, concluded in 1964 that ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald...

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