From a dam that killed 450 people to ghost passengers vanishing mid-ride across Japan, March 12 is darker than your morning coffee. | The Morning Weird Darkness
From a dam that killed 450 people to ghost passengers vanishing mid-ride across Japan, March 12 is darker than your morning coffee. | The Morning Weird Darkness
Today we’ve got a date so loaded with bad luck that some people literally refuse to leave the house. There are arrests that may have cursed an entire day of the week forever, a ghost that hasn’t stopped screaming in almost five hundred years, a spark plug that shouldn’t exist, and a diamond so big it makes the Hope Diamond look like something you’d find in a gumball machine. Oh — and an entire city blew up. Happy Friday the 13th! | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 13 | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD
A hilltop crucifixion of children, the biggest gold nugget ever yanked out of the ground, unexpected and deadly tornadoes in February, and a round of golf for space cases.
Some dates in history collect oddities the way a junk drawer collects batteries and old keys — you open it up and wonder how all of this ended up in the same place. Today’s date is one of those. We’ve got soldiers looking up at an impossible sky, archaeologists crawling into a forgotten tomb full of mummies, a castaway whose stubbornness saved his life, a secret society that terrorized an island for decades, and a beloved rodent whose job performance would get anyone else fired. As usual, this is going to be a WEIRD and DARK morning.
In 1855, Choctaw warriors allegedly rode into the Oklahoma wilderness to hunt kidnappers – and discovered something far worse than human bandits at an earthen mound piled with decomposing children.
A disheveled stranger sat down next to me at a London bar and claimed to be the Devil. By the time she finished telling me the truth about Hell, I believed every word.
From an 1856 “ape-man” found near railroad tracks in Maine to the famous Jacko capture of 1884, Bigfoot sightings have an uncanny habit of occurring along railway lines — and no one knows why.
In the Christmas of 1965, a nine-year-old boy receives an Advent calendar that opens itself each night, revealing a shadowy figure drawing closer to his home — in a town where a child has been snatched and murdered every Christmas Eve for three years.
In this episode: “The Flash Flood”, “The Haunting of Hundley House”, “The Messenger of Donner Pass”, “House of Plenty”
A veteran truck driver with nearly 50 years on the road sees something in a Texas field that defies everything he thought he knew about the natural world.
In the deadliest place on Earth, where radiation can kill you in minutes, scientists found something growing on the walls — and it wasn’t dying… it was thriving.
Declassified FBI documents reveal the Bureau once agreed to examine alleged Sasquatch hair samples — and the correspondence between federal agents and cryptid researchers tells a story of scientific curiosity, bureaucratic persistence, and an ending nobody saw coming.
It’s Creepypasta Thursday! And I’m digging into the archives to bring you two stories tonight. The first is called “Born Lucky” by The Dead Canary. And then it’s “Never Use a Voice Recorder While You Sleep” by Chris Maxim.