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Every story we have printed, from the merely odd to the frankly impossible. Filter by strangeness, section, source or month.
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Chicago Man Descends Five Flights, Finds Stairway Without a Door at the Bottom
A fictional audio tale on the Weird Darkness podcast follows a man who leaves his phone behind and goes to collect a parcel.
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Family Ghost Named Dorothy Looks Different to Every Witness, Society Records Show
A writer revisits an 1892 psychical research case to ask why people standing in one haunted house describe unlike apparitions.
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Missing Work Phone Reappears on Kitchen Counter in 1912 Home
A homeowner of four uneventful years reports that a vanished phone returned to its usual spot after a thorough search.
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Majority of Americans Would Consider Buying a Haunted House, Survey Finds
A real estate firm's October poll reports that most would buy, two-thirds would keep quiet as sellers, and only four states are said to have ghost-disclosure rules.
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Defeated Archaeologist Toasts Rival, Presents Black Figurine From Syrian Dig
A retro radio drama, one of nearly a dozen in a five-hour broadcast, concerns a lost college election and a small gift of dubious intent.
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Faceless Man in Wide-Brimmed Hat Reported in Homes Worldwide, Said to Pass From Kin to Kin
A podcast episode gathers witness accounts of the so-called Hat Man, a figure said to appear to one family member and then to another.
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Dracula Was Late: England Kept Its Own Vampires Long Before the Count Landed at Whitby
A University of Hertfordshire researcher says English belief in the undead stretches from medieval Yorkshire pits to a Buckinghamshire bishop's absolution.
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Mother Pours Son's Pills Down Kitchen Drain in Tale of the 'Stick Man'
A horror episode of Weird Darkness, broadcast October 12, builds a story around a six-year-old boy, a secret bargain and a mudroom.
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Exeter Trapdoor Refuses Thrice to Open Beneath Condemned Man, Podcast Recalls
A Weird Darkness installment drawn from a book on failed executions revisits the 1885 morning on which John Lee was to hang.
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New Book Surveys England's Castles for Dangerous Ghosts and Forgotten Spirits
Historian Neil R. Storey's The Haunted Castles of England is said to catalogue apparitions and mysterious encounters within the nation's fortresses.
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Child Said to Be Locked In Grove City Library After Dark, Finds She Is Not Alone
A podcast episode billed under the Midnight in the Macabre banner offers a short horror tale of a ten-year-old and a presence among the stacks.
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Voice of Absent Mother Whispers at Bedroom Door; Teenager Keeps Phone Line Open Till Dawn
A Reddit user recounts a weekend alone at 17 that ended with a second voice answering the first, and a door that stayed shut.
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Nottingham Guide Says City's Caves Hold Chilling Secrets
Simon Unsworth of The Original Nottingham Ghost Walk speaks to Spooky Isles about the haunted caves and hidden history beneath the city.
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New Orleans Cobbler Defies Wealthy Patron Over Silk, Podcast Notes
A retro radio compilation from Weird Darkness revives a 1978 mystery drama set in 1829, where a diary is said to lie behind a chimney brick.
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Black Sphere Found Hovering at Jungle's Edge After Blue Light Crosses Twilight Sky
A six-man survey crew of former servicemen, working for a French power company, encounters something smooth and dark behind Co Khao, according to a podcast episode.
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Thirteen American Burial Grounds Said to Be Poor Places for Quiet Repose
Atlas Obscura's seasonal guide catalogues cemeteries from Georgia to California where, by local account, the dead have declined to stay put.
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Two 'Reporters' Tour Radio Man's Home for 45 Minutes; Paper Never Heard of Them
A Weird Darkness podcast episode revisits the Wytheville, Virginia, UFO inquiries of Danny Gordon and decades of reports of unsettling visitors in dark suits.
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Island Teachers Import Ghost by Sealed Envelope; Transfer Reported Smooth
A tale described as 'supposedly' true holds that two schoolteachers on Savary Island gave their new castle a resident spirit, with no ill effects.
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Dead Father Consults on Grapefruit-Sized Aneurysm in Vintage Radio Drama
A 1978 episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, rebroadcast by Weird Darkness, places a ghostly physician beside the fire in 1957.
