Category: Daily Weird Darkness Podcast Episodes

What’s the deal with Friday the 13th? When did it begin? Is there anything to it? Is there anything we can do about it?

It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a very long while, and that’s narrate a Batman story for you!

More and more, reports are coming in about the after-effects of meeting BEKs – even years after the encounter… with one case of a woman letting a black-eyed kid into her home, and now she is dying.

We can fight off the sandman for a while, but after a certain point, sleeplessness leads to temporary madness and possibly even death.

If you came of age in Baltimore during the 50s and 60s, you probably heard the talk about Druid Ridge Cemetery’s most famous grave marker. Just about everyone knew about “Black Aggie,” the statue of a draped, melancholy and mysterious woman seated at the Agnus family plot in the south-facing side of the cemetery in Pikesville. Word was that her stony eyes turned red at night. Sit on her lap at midnight and you would meet your own end within two weeks. Teens, often fueled by beer and bravado, travelled to Druid Ridge at night to test the rumor. It was terrifying, exhilarating and the stuff of Baltimore urban legends for years. By 1967, she was she had disappeared. We’ll look at the legend of Black Aggie.

You wouldn’t think this would be Weird Darkness material, but there is an unsolved mystery here more than 130 years in the making. Dissecting the human nervous system is a taxing task—and in some cases, very little is known about the people whose bodies wound up on anatomists’ tables. In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case. And it’s proving to be quite difficult.