Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious Macabre, Unsolved and Unexplained
A man robs a grave, murders a hermit, and then decides to take up bombing. A ghost has been standing in the same flooded tunnel for over 160 years. Workers may still be sealed inside one of America’s most famous landmarks. A gunman holding dozens of hostages picks up the phone and calls a radio station. A soldier walks off base in the middle of the night — and keeps walking. And a real boy named Ken becomes the most famous plastic man in history.
For decades, drivers on a Chicago highway have been picking up the same young woman in a white dress — and dropping her off at the same cemetery where she’s been buried since the 1930s.
After the infamous Kansas City Massacre, reports of Frank Nash’s ghost haunting Union Station keep the memory of his violent end alive.
Every second Monday at midnight, a blood-faced ghost walks the ruins of Rollesby Hall — but whose blood stains his face, and whose death keeps him there, depends on who you ask.
From a colonial massacre site that refuses to stay quiet to a comedian who may still be entertaining guests in his Hollywood bungalow — March 5th is stranger than it should be. | The Morning Weird Darkness
One man’s completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don’t know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire. And it’s a day to triple-check your grammar. | The Morning Weird Darkness
Across Britain, in ancient cellars, along crumbling walls, and beneath modern city streets, the Roman legions never truly left — and people are still seeing them march.
A woman’s body was pulled from the icy depths of Lake Crescent after three years — her flesh transformed into soap, her face unrecognizable, and her identity a mystery that would unravel one of the most sensational murder trials in Washington state history.
For centuries and across nearly every culture on earth, enormous black dogs with glowing red eyes have appeared to the living as omens of death — and the people who dismissed the legend rarely lived long enough to regret it.
For centuries and across nearly every culture on earth, enormous black dogs with glowing red eyes have appeared to the living as omens of death — and the people who dismissed the legend rarely lived long enough to regret it.
From invisible walls that stop cars and people cold, to centuries of witnesses watching ancient Roman armies march through a lake that shouldn’t be dry — something unexplained is breaking through the boundary between our world and whatever lies beyond it.
It’s the official day of romance (at least according to Hallmark Cards). Valentine’s Day bring up feelings of love and adoration, moments of affection, gifts to show one’s heartfelt emotions for another. But February 14th doesn’t always bring the warm and fuzzies. Sometimes the day brings tragedy, heartbreak, or just something of the bizarre and strange.
Sea monster tales have existed for thousands of years, with stories of giant squids and octopuses being especially common. But where’s the last place you’d expect to find such a creature? The desert of Oklahoma, perhaps?
From a vengeful saint’s ghost striking down a Viking conqueror to an occult-obsessed music producer who foresaw death at a séance and then walked straight into his own dark prophecy, February 3rd is one of history’s most unsettling dates.
They answered expecting a familiar voice, but the person calling had been dead for hours, days, or even twenty years — and somehow, they still had something to say.
When ten-year-old Stephen was grabbed by invisible hands and dragged toward the foot of his bed, his parents dismissed it as a nightmare—but years later, his mother revealed a terrifying secret she’d been hiding since she was ten herself.
A grieving couple’s desperate wish brings something to their door in W.W. Jacobs’ 1902 classic, ‘The Monkey’s Paw.’ Then, H.P. Lovecraft reveals the disturbing truth behind one artist’s unnervingly lifelike paintings in ‘Pickman’s Model.
Three young brothers vanish from their father’s backyard on Thanksgiving Day, a hijacker parachutes into the night with $200,000 and is never seen again, and a grandfather’s ghost story leads to the discovery of a 200-year-old mass murder — these are just some of the chilling mysteries that have turned America’s day of gratitude into something far more sinister. From unsolved killings and baffling disappearances to haunted hotels and tragic shipwrecks, this episode explores the dark side of Thanksgiving that most families never discuss at the dinner table.
WDRadio Week of October 26, 2025 | The night is coming. Porch lights and decorations won’t change what moves through the darkness on October 31st. Every plastic skeleton dangling from a suburban tree, every polyester witch costume hanging in a store window, every carved pumpkin glowing on a doorstep – they’re echoes of something that began long before any of us were born, something older and more terrifying than most people realize.