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Dybbuk Box Said to Be Found Beneath Oak Tree, Accompanied by Letter From the 1900s
A paranormal website's page, headed with a title about buying a 'real cursed' box on eBay, offers little beyond a headline and a list of related stories.
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Father Drives Into Seaside Town With Homemade Stake to Hunt Daughter's Vampire
A Weird Darkness audio drama follows Terry McKinnon, who has already emptied a gun into his quarry to no visible effect.
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Grove City Teens Seek Blood Bats in Gantz Park; Two Boys' Car Left in Lot
A podcast episode from the MicroTerrors series follows two children, a father and a thirty-minute limit into a park said to harbor creatures that appear one night a year.
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Jester Marionette Found in Locked Trunk Beneath Farmhouse Attic Stairs
A Halloween enthusiast's dream of a quiet rural home takes a turn, according to a new audio drama, when a loose floorboard yields a Hebrew-marked chest.
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Cornwall Cottage Said to Tidy Itself Overnight; Tenant Baffled by Spotless Kitchen
A vintage radio drama, newly rebroadcast, tells of a cheap rental whose unrefusable housekeeper leaves no trace of her work.
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Candlelit Ghost Story Contest at Villa Diodati Said to Have Birthed Two Monsters
A Spooky Isles feature recounts how a storm-bound party, a book of German ghost tales and a challenge to write horror gave rise to Frankenstein and The Vampyre.
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Teenage Girl's 1912 Confession to 35 Axe Murders Anchors Podcast Tour of Haunted America
A Weird Darkness episode pairs the Louisiana 'Church of Sacrifice' case with phantom hitchhikers, poison-pen letters and a most-haunted house that may never have existed.
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Weary Traveller Finds Luxury Smoking Lounge at Heathrow; Room Never Seen Again
A Reddit user recalls a 10-hour layover, a door marked with a sticker, and a chamber of ottomans and free snacks that failed to reappear a month later.
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Midnight Carnival Said to Rise Behind Abandoned Gravel Pit as Three Friends Kneel
A Weird Darkness audio episode describes a boy, his two friends and a dead grandfather's words that summon music from the woods.
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Hatted Gentleman Hushes Sleepless Woman in Bedroom at 3 A.M., Reddit Post Reports
A woman in her mid-forties asks fellow readers whether a silent, searching intruder was a ghost or a trick of the waking mind.
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Thirty-Six Corpses Wired to a Bell: Radio Drama Sends Mark Twain to a Munich Morgue
A five-hour retro radio collection from Weird Darkness opens with a 1978 play about a dying American, a bell, and a very particular errand.
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Ma Barker's Cries Said to Echo From Bullet-Scarred House on Lake Weir
A podcast episode revisits the 1935 Florida shootout and the legend of an old woman's voice behind the empty walls.
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Night Staff at Old County Building Say Recorder Caught Voice: 'He's Coming Back'
Two employees of a building said to date from the 1800s report footsteps, bangs and a whispered warning captured on audio at 3 a.m.
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Denver Haunting Behind 'The Changeling' Headlines Two-Hour Halloween Broadcast
Weird Darkness Radio's latest archive program ranges from a mansion near Cheesman Park to werewolf trials, Ouija boards and the long history of the witch.
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Podcast Tours Whistling Abbey, Hairy Castle Beast and Centuries of Dancing, Meowing Mobs
A Weird Darkness episode, first aired in 2018, strings together haunted houses, a Russian anomaly zone, a vanished cadet and eight cases of mass hysteria.
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Culver City Mother Reports Three Unseen Assailants; Investigators Describe Green Mist in Bedroom
A 1974 case that later inspired the film The Entity is revisited in a podcast episode that also visits a vanished man, a murder and a haunted garage flat.
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Vanishing Spectacles, Lit Stoves and a Name in Cement Trouble Australian Household
A Reddit user says a year of jokes about a haunted house has turned serious, with lost glasses, a burning stove and carved lettering that appears to be changing.
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Princess Diana's Reported Dealings With Mediums and the Spirit World Examined
A Spooky Isles piece says the late princess sought out mediums, believed in reincarnation and reportedly met with ghostly encounters.
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Meditating Student Reports Faint White Smoke Rising From Palms
A Reddit user says a month of meditation in college brought a sense of unseen company and wisps that vanished when the practice stopped.
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Catman of Ferry Road Said to Roam Leith After Death
A writer for Spooky Isles says reported sightings of a well-known local figure following his murder have turned a sad case into a puzzle.
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Mary Celeste Found Adrift, All Hands Gone; Podcast Reopens Old Case
A Weird Darkness episode revisits the brigantine discovered empty in 1872, alongside a ghost said to have solved a murder and a beast said to have stalked France.
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Daniel Craig Buys Clerkenwell Pub With Reputed Cellar Ghost
The actor best known as James Bond is said to have acquired The Horseshoe, a 250-year-old London inn whose former staff describe an unseen presence below stairs.
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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.
