The Wanderlust: One of the Lucky

When a state-of-the-art AI director begins making bizarre, alien creative choices on a sci-fi production, a skeptical producer digs into its logs and discovers the strange decisions aren't malfunctions at all — they're instructions. IN THIS EPISODE: “Broadcast From Beyond” by Keith Conrad MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com 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

In June 1865, two children went into the woods for a picnic and never came home — and what was found a week later would horrify New England for nearly a decade before a wandering old man's confession turned the case into something far stranger than anyone imagined. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/busseywoods FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: It began when a teenager made a deal with the Devil in the mid 1970s. That’s when the werewolf sightings began – and some experts say there is proof of their existence. (Werewolves of Central England) *** Some think they are escaped circus freaks, others that they are strange medical experiments gone wrong. Some believe them to be ghosts or demons. What are the terrifying white animals or entities people are seeing in Pennsylvania – and could it be more than one kind of creature? (Mystery Monsters From P.A.) *** A couple moves to an old mining town with a dark past… and the darkness apparently hasn’t gone away yet. (The Old Mining Town) *** Is it any surprise that something strange might happen in a pub that used to be a church? One of our Weirdo family members tells her story. (Bandit) *** One of the best worst poets of all time has taken inspiration from a certain mountain in North Carolina – but even when there for the solitude, he wasn’t alone. (The Phantom Hiker of Grandfather Mountain) *** In 1946, a sadistic killer dressed in a white mask terrorized a small town at night. And to this day, the Moonlight Murders killer could still be at large. (The Unsolved Texarkana Murders) *** Plus, I’ll share a chapter from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings” by Troy Taylor, a story called “The Most Monstrous and Inhuman Criminal of Modern Times”.  CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:32.648 = Show Open 00:04:06.836 = Werewolves of Central England 00:12:36.537 = Mystery Monsters From P.A. *** 00:28:16.172 = Bandit 00:30:39.204 = The Old Mining Town 00:37:40.282 = The Phantom Hitchhiker of Grandfather Mountain *** 00:40:39.173 = The Unsolved Texarkana Murders 00:47:50.775 = The Most Monstrous And Inhuman Criminal of Modern Times, Part 1 00:53:29.952 = The Most Monstrous And Inhuman Criminal of Modern Times, Part 2 *** 01:20:10.413 = The Most Monstrous And Inhuman Criminal of Modern Times, Part 3 *** 01:40:39.633 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: 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.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Werewolves of Central England” by Hugh Landman for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/s6h83am “Mystery Monsters from P.A.” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/wps4dtr “Bandit” by Weirdo family member Eleanor, submitted directly to https://WeirdDarkness.com/submit “The Old Mining Town” by ADM for MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://tinyurl.com/tg9dfby “The Phantom Hiker of Grandfather Mountain” for North Carolina Ghosts:

Robert Ludlum didn’t make the name up. In 1887, a Rhode Island preacher named Ansel Bourne disappeared and woke up two months later in a Pennsylvania candy store, with no idea how he got there. EPISODE PAGE (includes sources and transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-bourneidentity/ LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  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 for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: May 24, 2026

When a skeptical doctor is challenged to spend a midnight hour inside the abandoned mill his new patient swears is haunted, he begins a journey that will force him to question everything science has taught him about the world. 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, “The Haunted Mill” (November 08, 1977) 00:46:03.754 = Mysterious Traveler, “Key Witness” (January 15, 1942) 01:13:37.539 = Mystery House, “Subrosa Justice” (April 07, 1946) 01:37:33.654 = Night Beat, “Byline For Frank” (June 29, 1951) 02:06:52.463 = CBC Nightfall, “The Wedding” (April 15, 1983) ***WD 02:37:26.781 = Nightmare, “Coincidence” (November 26, 1953) 02:59:09.365 = Obsession, “Summer Evening” (January 22, 1951) ***WD 03:21:53.060 = Origin of Superstition, “Ghost Ships” (July 30, 1947) ***WD 03:36:07.573 = Pat Novak, “Death In Herald Square” (November 30, 1947) 04:06:43.354 = Peril, “Assassin” (1953) ***WD 04:32:40.665 = Mystery Playhouse, “Corpus Delicti” (January 17, 1947) ***WD 04:56:50.543 = 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/WDRR0668

Somewhere between Scott Walker and a hospital ward, a woman waits on a beach for a great white ship and a father who left her fifteen years ago — and the song she inspired asks what's really in the small glass of water beside her bed. THE RETRO RADIO EPISODE FEATURING “SILENT SHOCK”: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0638/ THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/music WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listen