Headless riders, vengeful skinwalkers, demon dogs guarding abandoned mines — the frontier may be gone, but its ghosts are still out there.
Headless riders, vengeful skinwalkers, demon dogs guarding abandoned mines — the frontier may be gone, but its ghosts are still out there.
It might be lesser-known that Amityville, or the hauntings of the Smurl family, or numerous other investigations made famous by Ed and Lorraine Warren, but a small home in Connecticut is one of the most terrifying and well-documented cases of the paranormal in recent history.
On Christmas Eve 1642, shepherds witnessed something impossible — two phantom armies fighting a brutal battle in the sky over Edge Hill. When investigators arrived, they saw it too, and testified under oath to the king.
From a ghost who returned a missing child only to reveal he’d been dead for years, to a bride whose body was found hidden in a chest fifty years after she vanished, these true Christmas hauntings prove the holidays have a dark side.
For decades, a ghostly woman in chains appeared in the upstairs bedroom of Victoria’s oldest home, pleading for help — until workmen digging near the front porch uncovered her skeleton buried seven feet deep in quicklime.
Long before Dickens penned A Christmas Carol, our ancestors gathered around midwinter fires to tell tales of spirits and monsters lurking in the darkness. Tonight, we explore why Christmas and ghost stories have been intertwined for thousands of years — then share true accounts that prove the tradition is very much alive.
It was Christmastime — a season of peace, light, and goodwill — which made the slow unraveling of their minds all the more disturbing.
In this episode: “The Flash Flood”, “The Haunting of Hundley House”, “The Messenger of Donner Pass”, “House of Plenty”
From Abraham Lincoln wandering the White House halls to a Reddit user’s cat being dragged backward by an invisible hand, we’re looking at haunted house claims both famous and personal—and asking whether any of them hold up to scrutiny.
Tonight on Weird After Dark, your ghost-hosts crack open the latest episode of Weird Darkness and take its strangest stories even deeper into the shadows. We’re dissecting the legendary Bell Witch — the only spirit bold enough to take on a future U.S. president and walk away victorious — then plunging into real-life medical “back-from-the-dead” nightmares, the true history behind the misunderstood pentagram, and the chilling, unsolved Lake Bodom murders of Finland. If you crave deeper dives into Darren Marlar’s newest Weird Darkness episode — with added history, research, and just a touch of spectral chaos — then dim the lights, bolt the doors, and join us in the dark.
The Bell Witch became one of America’s most famous hauntings, but the truth behind the violent spirit that allegedly tormented a Tennessee family for years remains shrouded in mystery and debate.
The Nota family has watched seven siblings die since 2000, their marriages collapse one after another, and claim unseen forces are destroying their lives.
Margaret Hamilton’s iconic black hat from The Wizard of Oz heads to auction with a starting bid of $100,000, carrying with it a strange journey through Hollywood’s shadow world of stolen treasures and secret collectors.
In 1846, 87 pioneers took what they thought was a shortcut to California—but a series of fatal decisions, impossible terrain, and early snowstorms trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where starvation drove survivors to unspeakable acts, and some say the tortured spirits of those who perished still haunt Donner Pass to this very day.
In 1773, America opened its first mental hospital where patients were chained to walls, strapped into terror-inducing “tranquilizer chairs,” and buried in unmarked graves—and some say they never left.
On January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short’s mutilated body was found severed in half in a vacant Los Angeles lot, launching Hollywood’s most infamous unsolved murder case that would forever brand her as “The Black Dahlia.” Nearly 80 years later, guests at the Biltmore Hotel still report encountering a desperate woman in a black dress on the sixth floor — the last place Elizabeth Short was seen alive, where her ghost may still be searching for someone to finally solve her brutal murder.
Scientists discover that human consciousness can jump through time, while researchers develop tools to literally see the quantum music of your thoughts
For thirteen years, the Smurl family reported being terrorized by invisible forces in their Pennsylvania duplex – entities that threw their German Shepherd against walls, sexually assaulted both Jack and Janet, and somehow knew to hide whenever priests came to investigate. The Catholic Church sent multiple clergy who witnessed nothing, the Warrens recorded hours of supposed evidence, and neighbors threw bricks at the house during the media circus, but no one could definitively prove whether the Smurls were victims of a genuine haunting or something else entirely.