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In a storm-bound country sanatorium, a brilliant scientist driven mad by one fatal mistake insists the immortal Count Cagliostro speaks to him from beyond the grave — guiding his hand toward an experiment that has already killed once before. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options 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, “Passport To Freedom” (September 15, 1977) 00:45:51.080 = Peril, “Undivided” (early 1950s) ***WD 01:08:41.986 = Mystery Playhouse, “Female of the Species” (June 07, 1946) ***WD 01:33:50.352 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Murder Need An Artist” (May 06, 1950) ***WD 02:00:25.283 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Dead Man’s Cavern” (April 15, 1944) ***WD 02:25:41.142 = Quiet Please, “Is This Murder” (January 16, 1949) 02:54:03.552 = Radio City Playhouse, “Unguarded Moment” (August 29, 1949) 03:22:02.393 = It’s Murder, “Picture Wire Murder” (August 10, 1944) 03:36:41.570 = The Sealed Book, “Ghost Makers” (September 09, 1945) 04:06:11.396 = The Shadow, “Nightmare at Gaelsbury” (February 02, 1941) 04:30:25.714 = Sleep No More, “The Storm” (December 19, 1956) ***WD 04:57:35.046 = 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/WDRR0642

Twelve-year-old Joseph can step out of his sleeping body and drift through walls — and something in the dark has started watching him do it. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Ink Filled Dream” by Blue Hero: https://www.creepypasta.com/ink-filled-dream/ “Never Use a Voice Recorder While You Sleep” by Chris Maxim: https://www.creepypasta.com/never-use-voice-recorder-sleep/  ***Read the prequel to this story at https://www.creepypasta.com/the-attic-in-the-basement/ “Born Lucky” by The Dead Canary: https://www.creepypasta.com/born-lucky/ Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = = = (Over time links seen above 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.) = = = = = "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. = = = = = Originally aired: November 14, 2018 CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/inkfilleddream

A man discovers a tiny hole in his back, and by morning something has begun building a home inside him. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Holes” by S. R. Underschultz: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdjm36d7 “I Was Born With Superhuman Abilities” by Alayne Winters: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2zsjba5f “Leaving the Hospital” by Weirdo family member, Louise Latham “To the Moon and Back” submitted anonymously to WeirdDarkness.com “Don’t Let This Be You” by Hikari Shimizu: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/594memkb “Grandma’s House” by Weirdo family member, Rachel West Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = = = (Over time links seen above 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.) = = = = = "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. = = = = = Originally aired: December 16, 2018 CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/holes/

A 2023 video of Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao claiming witches and Wiccans had taken over Monterey, California, resurfaced as he stepped into the top Navy role. PRINT VERSION OF THIS STORY: https://weirddarkness.com/HungCaoWiccans Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options 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. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

A private eye called out to a quiet farm on a still September afternoon finds two sisters poisoned and shot, a brother in the wind, and a barn even the animals won't go near. THE TRUE CRIME CASE THIS STORY IS BASED ON: On September 5, 1893, on a farm outside Winnebago, Illinois, widow Bridget Hart returned from a brief errand in her potato field to find her twenty-six-year-old daughter Mary lying face-down on the porch steps, bleeding from her mouth and nose, and her twenty-three-year-old daughter Nellie staggering in the barn with a green stain of arsenic-laced Paris green pesticide running down her dress. Before she died the following afternoon, Nellie identified her own brother — thirty-five-year-old John Hart, the family's black sheep, recently returned home after years of drifting and feuding with his siblings over his share of their late father's $50,000 estate — as her attacker. He had forced both sisters to drink the poison and shot each of them at close range, Mary four times. John fled on horseback but was captured that same night in a Rockford barber shop, where he calmly drank a small dose of laudanum as police closed in. He was tried in January 1894, convicted in under an hour despite a defense that blamed his brothers, claimed malaria and mental illness, and accused the dead girls themselves of conspiring to poison him, and was hanged in the Winnebago County jail yard on March 16, 1894 — bringing to a close a case made stranger still by the fact that his father had taken his own life two years earlier with the very same poison. ORIGINAL CASE SOURCES… https://www.hauntedrockford.com/the-hart-family-murders/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: April 27, 2026 EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/noir-parisgreen