True Hitchhiking Horror Stories: Killers, Victims, and Ghosts Thumbing Rides

A murderer insists he is perfectly sane, even as he explains in careful detail how he killed the old man and hid the body beneath the floorboards. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-telltaleheart WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 21, 2026

When Martian invaders armed with deadly alien weapons arrive in the Kentucky hills to test their arsenal on unsuspecting humans, they make the fatal mistake of choosing Lem Coy—the local moonshiner's 'simple' son who's too dumb to die and strong enough to make extraterrestrials wish they'd stayed home. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-martiansandthecoys SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Martians And The Coys” by Mark Reynolds, originally published in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy,” June 1951 WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 21, 2026

A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that theft and worse would be so easy. 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, “Murder at Troyte’s Hill” (April 17, 1978) ***WD 00:45:26.180 = Weird Circle, “Markheim” (May 20, 1945) 01:13:15.849 = The Whistler, “Return of Innocent” (April 02, 1945) 01:42:35.169 = Strange Wills, “Margin For Love” (September 07, 1946) 02:12:13.142 = Witch’s Tale, “Suicide” (January 22, 1937) ***WD 02:35:32.097 = X-Minus-1, “The Moon Is Green” (January 02, 1957) 03:03:54.289 = Zero Hour, “Mind of the Beholder” (May 21, 1974) ***WD 03:21:09.669 = ABC Mystery Time, “My Adventure in Norfolk” (1957) ***WD (LQ) 03:45:10.191 = Strange Adventure, “The Friendly Ghost” (1945) ***WD 03:48:27.530 = Arch Obeler’s Plays, “Another World” (July 29, 1939) ***WD (LQ) 04:17:11.933 = Barrie Craig, “The Case of the Borrowed Knife” (November 07, 1951) 04:45:37.476 = 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/WDRR0721

A Baldwin County 911 call brought deputies to a Daphne family's front yard, where a mother lay dead and a father had run house to house leaving bloody handprints on the doors. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/bakerstabbing 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.

A Pennsylvania man came home to an opened bottle of wine, a bedroom light he swore he'd left off, and the woman he'd stopped dating months earlier shouting his name through the glass. SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/match-date-stalker 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.