Category: Weird After Dark

Buckle up for a wild ride through darkness. We’re tearing into Darren Marlar’s packed episode of “Weird Darkness” featuring an infamous Sydney theme park tragedy possibly linked to ancient sacrifices, a baffling Philadelphia disappearance shrouded in deliberate silence, the unsettling theory that alien space stations might be watching Earth right now, a brutal Victorian-era murder, and a master Cold War spy hiding in plain sight. From the Ghost Train fire at Luna Park to cosmic paranoia and Cold War espionage – this episode has everything. Join your ghost hosts as we dive into The Horned Man and the Ghost Train Tragedy of 1979. It’s going to be a bumpy, weird night.

Do you know about the ancient Celtic curse that spawned Michael Myers and the low-budget magic that turned a $2 Captain Kirk mask into the face of pure evil? We’re diving deep into the 1978 Halloween novelization – the little bits of the story that didn’t make it to the screen, the backstory, the reason Michael is the way he is… and we look at the indie filmmaking genius that created a horror legend.

A nurse encounters something impossible during her hospital rounds—a seven-foot figure in black bent over a dying patient. She sees it twice. The patient dies hours later. Then, across the Atlantic at England’s Mermaid Inn, centuries-old spirits are getting up to very different mischief—moving guests’ clothes, soaking them mysteriously, and causing relationship-ending arguments. Join us as we explore two very different hauntings: one clinical and terrifying, the other chaotic and strangely playful. From the Grim Reaper’s hospital visit to poltergeists sabotaging couples, this episode has it all.

The Weird After Dark ghost hosts trace Halloween’s dark evolution from ancient Celtic human sacrifice and bog body rituals to today’s $12 billion surveillance spectacle. They explore how a terrifying festival meant to appease chaos and death transformed through 2000 years of assimilation, moral panics, and corporate commodification into a holiday where Ring doorbells track every trick-or-treater and people sign 40-page waivers to experience simulated torture—revealing that the veil thinning today isn’t between worlds, but between our private lives and the data profiles corporations hold about us.

Our ghost hosts dissect the Mothman crisis where over 100 witnesses reported a seven-foot winged creature with glowing red eyes that chased cars at 100 mph, caused a dog to vanish chasing mysterious lights, and peered through windows at terrified families—thirteen months before 46 people died in the Silver Bridge collapse. But the most haunting revelation? The real horror of unexplained phenomena isn’t what happened in the dark, but the lasting psychological trauma it leaves behind: pure, untethered dread that victims can never fully explain or escape.

The Weird After Dark ghost hosts dissect Darren Marlar’s episode exploring four reality-bending phenomena, including the 1958 case of James Eugene Harrison whose blood-soaked car was found after serial killer Roy Victor Olson confessed to murdering him—only for Harrison to appear alive three months later with no memory of his disappearance. The hosts argue these interconnected stories share a disturbing common thread: the barrier between internal psychological states and external physical reality may be far more porous than we believe, with suppressed darkness and trauma potentially manifesting as physical phenomena in the world around us.

The Weird After Dark hosts trace Halloween from 2,000-year-old Samhain rituals where Celts made human sacrifices and buried victims with griddle cakes in their stomachs to appease winter’s darkness, all the way to today’s $12.2 billion corporate spectacle where Ring doorbells track 15.8 million trick-or-treaters and people pay to be tortured at extreme haunts. The chilling conclusion? We’re still negotiating with darkness and making offerings to chaos, but the veil dissolving now isn’t between the living and dead—it’s between authentic community and corporate surveillance, between real fear and manufactured safety.

We’re diving into Darren Marlar’s latest episode where 150 spirits haunt the luxury liner Queen Mary—including an 18-year-old crushed by door 13 who still follows visitors through the engine room, and a little girl murdered in room B-474 who cries for her mother in the cargo hold. But the real story that blew our minds? A Massachusetts war veteran was violently attacked with scissors and razors in the 1830s, arrested for defending himself, and spent fifteen months in jail—all because he refused to shave his beard.