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A Tale of Two Worlds: When a twenty-year-old soap opera actor learns his character is being killed off after thirteen years on the show, the line between the role he's played since childhood and the empty life waiting for him outside the studio begins to dissolve in dangerous ways. 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, “A Tale of Two Worlds” (November 10, 1977) 00:46:15.153 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Lady From The Sea” (March 11, 1949) ***WD 01:14:21.337 = Price of Fear, “Goody Two Shoes” (May 30, 1983) ***WD (LQ) 01:41:21.809 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Message In Red” (November 07, 1945) 02:10:49.473 = Quiet Please, “Tap The Heat Bogdan” (February 06, 1949) 02:39:52.258 = Radio City Playhouse, “Plotters” (October 09, 1949) 03:07:38.434 = Starlight Theater, “Man Hires Hit Man To Kill Him” (late 40’s-early 50’s) ***WD 03:35:18.489 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Maltese Falcon” (February 08, 1943) 04:32:57.676 = The Sealed Book, “Welcome Home” (May 20, 1945) ***WD (LQ) 04:56:30.889 = 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/WDRR0669

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

When his nineteen-year-old son announces he's signing on with a starbound rocket the next morning, a farmer must decide whether to keep burying the truth about why he knows exactly what waits out there — or finally let his boy see it. “Wanderlust” by Alan E. Nourse (Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, October 1952)

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