Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

From morgue freezer alarms tripping with nobody inside to a Scream-masked figure waving at the security camera, twenty-one workers describe the moments they realized empty buildings are rarely as empty as they look.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/AloneOnTheJob

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Complete isolation sounds horrifying, but for people who work alone, it just becomes part of the process. *** Fog and mist are a staple of creating a perfect horror atmosphere. In some cases, such as movies like “The Fog” or “The Mist”, it is the creeping haze that is the danger itself. But then there is the true story from the Florida woods of a supernatural fog bank that appeared to eat people alive. *** How did The Devil's footprint get in a rock in North Carolina? *** One of our Weirdo family members didn’t used to believe in the supernatural – but that changed when he insisted that the ghost prove it exists. *** Mysterious fires and moving objects have terrified the residents of a house in central Morocco.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:03.467 = Show Open
00:02:51.044 = Creepy Working Alone Stories
00:27:01.430 = A Strange Carnivorous Mist ***
00:35:48.414 = Devil’s Rock
00:39:48.078 = Demanding Proof ***
00:41:53.899 = Poltergeist in Morocco
00:48:58.487 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Creepy Working Alone Stories” by Stefanie Hammond fore Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/tuxe6zd
“A Strange Carnivorous Mist” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/vyveg7a
“Devil’s Rock” posted at North Carolina Ghosts: https://tinyurl.com/trcpobe
“Demanding Proof” by Weirdo family member Christopher Gray, submitted directly to WeirdDarkness
“Poltergeist in Morocco” originally posted in Hespress of Morocco, translated by The Fortean:https://tinyurl.com/y8s7glte
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This week's Church of the Undead (#COTU) pulled me down a rabbit hole. The further I worked on it, the more it asked of me — more material, more questions of my own that needed answers... honestly, if I kept going it could easily become a book, and maybe someday it will. But for now I'm working toward the podcast version, and even that may not be ready for the usual Sunday release. I'll keep at it, but this may be a mid-week episode! Thanks in advance for your understanding! In the meantime, you can hear previous messages from the Church of the Undead series at https://weirddarkness.com/church.

A man on our block sat between burning cauldrons in a devil costume every Halloween, and the year I was finally brave enough to trick-or-treat at his house, he gave me something that wasn't candy at all.

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

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A local lake's water turned crystal clear overnight, every fish and plant gone from its depths, and the two university microbiologists who collected a sample to find out why brought something back to the lab that should never have left the water. (Amoeba) *** Two out-of-state hunters were found torn apart in a cabin north of town — one man's leg inside, the other's upper torso on the roof — and the night four friends gathered in a basement in the small mountain town of Linglestown to drink beer and laugh about the creature stalking the local woods, heavy footsteps started crossing the floor above them. (The Cycle) *** A secret modification had pushed Keck Observatory's telescope to 45 billion light-years — the very edge of the known universe — and when they called Caltech's astronomy chief for his opinion, what he saw wasn't a star, a galaxy, or a nebula, but something that appeared to be looking back. (A Scarecrow For God) *** In the 1970s suburban neighborhood where I grew up, every kid measured his bravery by whether he'd ever walked up the lawn of the man who dressed as the devil on Halloween, and the year my best friend and I finally took the dare, what was dropped into my candy bag turned a rite of passage into something far stranger. (Satan’s Fall)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:15.425 = Amoeba
00:18:17.841 = The Cycle
00:37:01.840 = A Scarecrow For God
00:54:23.851 = Satan’s Fall
01:29:01.448 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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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:
“Amoeba” was submitted by Sabby Ray: https://www.facebook.com/ray.saibal
“The Cycle” - an original story submitted by Michael Dieb at http://www.WeirdDarkness.com
“A Scarecrow For God”: https://www.creepypasta.com/a-scarecrow-for-god/
“Satan’s Fall”: http://www.creepypasta.org/creepypasta/satans-fall#read

(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: October 15, 2017

Old Alexander Jordan, terrified of being buried alive during one of his cataleptic fits, rigs a bell from his crypt to his nephew's bedroom — so that if he wakes inside the coffin, he can ring for help. But his nephew Ramsey has been waiting a long time to inherit the Jordan place, and a bell that rings in the dead of night can be silenced more than one way.

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 Case of the Chateau-Margaux” (October 12, 1977) ***WD
00:45:49.691 = Creeps By Night, “Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan” (July 13, 1944)
01:15:20.185 = The Crime Club, “Cupid Can Be Deadly” (October 16, 1947) ***WD
01:43:49.472 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Mad Men Strike Swiftly” (January 05, 1947)
02:08:13.766 = CBC Deep Night, “Birth” (July 08, 2005)
02:39:10.152 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Vacation With Death” (November 26, 1971) ***WD
03:07:52.353 = Diary of Fate, “Joe Mattuck” (March 16, 1948) ***WD
03:36:20.390 = Dimension X, “Potters of Firsk” (July 28, 1950) ***WD
04:03:51.650 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Stand-In For Death” (December 26, 1944) ***WD
04:15:18.925 = The Eleventh Hour, “Bad Day for Big Ben” (1960’s – Early 1970’s) ***WD
04:45:09.364 = Escape, “The Day The General Died” (April 16, 1949)
05:14:36.099 = 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/WDRR0654

When telephone lineman Sam Yoder picks up an impossible call from himself ten days in the future, the tips start paying off — until future Sam steers him straight into the middle of a bank robbery he's told to watch, but not stop.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Actress” (October 10, 1977) ***WD
00:46:36.193 = X Minus One, “Sam This Is You” (October 31, 1956)
01:15:29.980 = Zero Hour, “An Arms Length” (May 13, 1940) ***WD
01:32:52.045 = ABC Mystery Time, “The Tale” (1956-1957)
01:56:19.779 = Strange Adventures, “Malay Magic” (1945) ***WD
01:59:34.349 = Appointment With Fear, “The Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
02:28:21.070 = BBC Radio4 Ghost Story, “Lost Hearts” (October 29, 1978)
02:42:35.566 = Beyond The Green Door, “Frederick Morton” (1966)
02:46:35.493 = The Man In Black, “The Price Of The Head” (February 02, 1952) ***WD
03:01:20.239 = Barry Craig, “Ghosts Don’t Die In Bed” (September 07, 1954)
03:29:53.534 = Box 13, Double Right Cross” (November 28, 1948) ***WD
03:56:39.464 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Mr Higginbothom’s Catastrophe” (1967) ***WD
04:25:34.811 = The Clock, “The Hunter And The Hunted’ (November 22, 1955) ***WD
04:51:37.696 = 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/WDRR0653