Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“The Picture of Dorian Gray”: When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would bear the burden of aging and sin in his place, he is free to pursue a life of endless pleasure and cruelty — but the portrait keeping his terrible secret cannot stay hidden forever. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0627

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Case Closed” (August 10, 1977) ***WD
00:47:29.369 = Witch’s Tale, “Knife of Sacrifice” (August 27, 1935) ***WD
01:12:01.970 = X-Minus-1, “Colony” (October 10, 1956)
01:40:40.845 = Zero Hour, “Fairs Fair You Know” (May 08, 1974)
01:57:50.909 = ABC Mystery Time, “Picture of Dorian Gray” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
02:21:51.144 = Strange Adventure, “The Dance of Death” (1945) ***WD
02:25:07.056 = BBC Radio 4/Radio 7 Ghost Story, “A School Story” (November 28, 1980)
02:39:35.347 = Beyond The Green Door, “Burt Simms, Bush Pilot” (1966)
02:43:20.027 = The Black Book, “On Schedule” (February 17, 1952) ***WD
02:57:49.195 = Author’s Playhouse, “Inexperienced Ghost” (December 04, 1944) ***WD
03:25:39.040 = Box 13, “Triple Cross” (November 07, 1948)
03:52:14.887 = CBC Mystery Theater, “A Perfectly Happy Life” (1968) ***WD
04:21:54.961 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Interface To Terror” (1992) ***WD
04:49:36.773 = 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.
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A devoted father and long-distance truck driver vanished in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest under chillingly bizarre circumstances, leaving behind only a locked truck and haunting eyewitness accounts.

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

IN THIS EPISODE: In May 1995, Devin Williams, a devoted father and trucker, vanished under mysterious circumstances in Arizona's Tonto National Forest. His journey turned into a mystery, marked by sightings of a semi-truck driving erratically and Devin's last known moments of confusion. Despite an abandoned truck with undisturbed cargo and the eerie discovery of his skull two years later, the question remains: What happened to Devin Williams in those remote woods? (The Bizarre Disappearance of Truck Driver Devin Williams) *** What do astronomers say about those who deny the moon landing really took place? The conspiracy theory gets an assist from, believe it or not, the New York Mets! (The Faked Moon Landing And The New York Mets) *** New England has a lot of great places to visit, and travel times to these locations are minimal. One of the most infamous would be Rhode Island – home to story of vampire Mercy Brown. (Vampires of Rhode Island) *** Until the Humpty Doo poltergeist outbreak of 1998, Australia’s most notorious poltergeist was a very persistent, wall-bashing, stone-throwing entity known as the “Guyra Ghost” which terrorized William Bowen, his wife and three children in their tiny weatherboard cottage just outside Guyra, New South Wales in early 1921. (The Guyra Ghost) *** In 1814, London experienced one of the most bizarre disasters in British history. An unfortunate chain of events at the Horseshoe Brewery led to the death of 8 women and children as they were caught up in London’s Great Beer Flood. But, what really happened? And, did Londoners really get drunk, as beer flowed past their homes in the streets, free for the taking? (The Great London Beer Flood) *** Ghost marriages in China have led to a very unsavory and deeply disturbing trade. They are called ghost marriages, because the groom is given a dead woman to marry… often forced to do so. And the stories are, understandably, horrifying. (Forced to Marry a Corpse) *** In September 1982, people wanting to get away from aches and pains from the flu or just a headache shopped store shelves for relief… and ended up dead. Their Tylenol had been laced with poison. (The Tylenol Murders)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:03:08.999 = The Bizarre Disappearance of Truck Driver Devin Williams
00:13:03.500 = Fake Moon Landing and the New York Mets ***
00:19:25.407 = Vampires of Rhode Island
00:24:01.762 = Forced To Marry a Corpse
00:30:24.402 = Guyra Ghost ***
00:37:42.119 = Great London Beer Flood
00:51:25.871 = Tylenol Murders ***
00:57:52.445 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
BOOK: “Mercy: The Last New England Vampire” by Sarah L. Thomson: https://amzn.to/3OCqiaR
“The Great London Beer Flood” by Lenora for Haunted Palace Blog: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4mksvfhe
“The Faked Moon Landing And The New York Mets” by Michael Richmond for The Conversation: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/56av32z3
“The Bizarre Disappearance of Truck Driver Devin Williams” by Zach Brown for Oola.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/24kah92v
“Vampires of Rhode Island” by David Albaugh for BasementOfTheBizarre.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2s4mykvd
“The Guyra Ghost” posted by Paul Cropper at TheFortean.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2whkdd7n
“Forced To Marry a Corpse” by Ossiana Tepfenhart for Medium: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3wcc49bz
“The Tylenol Murders” by Dr. Howard Markel for PBS: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckth74h
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Originally aired: February 28, 2024

“Haunted Hangman”: When the gallows mysteriously fail on the morning of his execution, a convicted murderer's claims of innocence force a desperate prison governor to question whether the real killer has been inside the prison walls all along. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0626

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Hope Springs Eternal” (August 08, 1977)
00:46:14.384 = The Creaking Door, “Haunted Hangman” (May 25, 1964) ***WD
01:14:51.392 = The Saint, “Train” (June 03, 1951) ***WD
01:43:24.206 = Theater Five, “Living Credit” (November 06, 1964) ***WD
02:03:28.560 = Theater 1030, “The Thing In The Hall” (1971) ***WD
02:32:51.631 = Two Thousand Plus, “The Other Man” (June 07, 1950) ***WD
03:03:25.093 = The Unexpected, “Silver Fox” (September 19, 1948)
03:18:07.579 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
03:32:33.909 = Dark Venture, “Pursuit” (July 31, 1945) ***WD
04:02:18.917 = The Weird Circle, “Moonstone” (1945)
04:29:30.760 = The Whistler, “Body Wouldn’t Stay In The Bay” (January 08, 1945)
05:01:14.851 = 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.
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When two girls ignore the whispered warnings about the haunted woods at the edge of their neighborhood, they come face to face with proof that some legends are far more than legend.

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