The Dark Paranormal
True Crime & Paranormal
About
True Stories, from terrified people. The darkest unexplained stories, direct from the source. Keep one eye open, or you may end up on the show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Episodes
- Dark Minisode: "When The Moths Come"
This episode features a listener's account of ongoing paranormal experiences from childhood into adulthood, describing phenomena such as apparitions, voices, and unexplained energies.
- Dark Realms: The Devil's Backbone - The Natchez Trace Parkway
This episode of Dark Realms investigates the haunted Natchez Trace Parkway, discussing its history, folklore, and ghost stories associated with locations like Witch Dance and King's Tavern.
- A True Farmhouse Nightmare
This episode of The Dark Paranormal features a listener account of a family who moves into an old rural farmhouse in southern Alberta and soon discovers that something about the property is deeply wrong, experiencing strange noises, doors…
- Dark Minisode: A Demon, Named "Mother"
This episode details a listener's lifelong sensitivity to unseen presences, focusing on a terrifying summer night in Tennessee where a teenage girl's bedroom became the center of an unexplainable experience involving fear, memory, and a po…
- The Demonic Trinity: A Culmination
This episode of The Dark Paranormal concludes a trilogy focusing on a submitter named Alex. The story details experiences with entities referred to as "Algea," which evolve and become unpredictable, leading to questions about psychic sensi…
- Dark Minisode: Dark Gifts
A skeptic's move into a new apartment turns terrifying when a housewarming gift seems to awaken a watchful presence. The experience fractures her reality and strains relationships as the atmosphere grows oppressive.
- Dark Realms: Bold Street - From Spectres To Time Slips
The Dark Paranormal podcast investigates Bold Street in Liverpool, known for its paranormal activity. This episode covers alleged time slips, apparitions, and local legends, exploring the street's layered history and its connection to the…
- Haunted From The Inside
This episode features an anonymous listener recounting a lifetime of disturbing paranormal experiences, including childhood trauma, haunted locations, and encounters with unseen forces. The story explores themes of trauma, spirits, and sur…
- Dark Minisode: The Stone Steps
This Dark Paranormal minisode recounts a listener's unsettling experiences in Keswick, starting with a garden discovery that challenges her worldview, as her dogs appear to sense the encroaching danger.
- Season 24 Debut: A Darkness In Quebec
Kris details a lifetime of eerie experiences in a remote Quebec lakeside home, from childhood to early adulthood. The listener submission describes persistent disturbances and a palpable sense of darkness, suggesting some locations hold on…
- Pre-Season Dark Realms Special: Cannock Chase
This episode delves into the eerie folklore and history of Cannock Chase, examining paranormal sightings such as the black-eyed children and the Pig-man. It explores why this seemingly peaceful woodland has become infamous for unsettling s…
- Season Finale: The Jingle Man
The season finale of The Dark Paranormal features accounts from a support group who experienced an unexplained phenomenon they call "the Jingle Man." The episode shares their stories, focusing on genuine encounters with a potentially dark…
- Dark MInisode: Haunted? Or Summoned?
This episode features a personal account of childhood paranormal experiences, exploring potential connections between hardship, sensitivity, and the supernatural. The story touches on grief, survival, and communication with loved ones who…
- Dark Realms: The Scole Experiments
This episode delves into the Scole Experiments, a debated paranormal investigation featuring claims of lights, spirit communication, and materialisations. It questions whether the phenomena were genuine or a result of belief under flawed c…
- My Twin...Or My Demon?
In this penultimate episode of The Dark Paranormal, a listener shares a personal, lifelong account of an unsettling presence that persisted from her childhood into adulthood. The story explores themes of family, loss, and lingering, unexpl…
- Dark Minisode: "Stay"
In "Stay," a listener seeking a new beginning after a divorce moves into a furnished rental on Lea Park Vale. The historic home's hidden past soon makes it feel like a danger rather than a refuge.
- Tell Me Who You Are?
Listener Ben recounts moving into an old inland house with his grandmother, experiencing unsettling discoveries and a dark presence. The episode details a terrifying account of rituals and a haunting that profoundly affected their lives.
- Dark Minisode: The Fire And The Figure
This minisode features Jamie detailing a series of paranormal events experienced in his family home over ten years. The occurrences progressed from doors opening on their own to a constant feeling of being observed.
- Dark Realms: Britain's Last Witch
This episode examines the case of Helen Duncan, a Scottish medium called Britain's "last witch," focusing on her séances, claims of contact with the dead, and entanglement with British law during WWII.
- The Haunted Experiment
The Dark Paranormal features an investigator documenting eight years of paranormal activity in a haunted house, transforming a scientific experiment into a personal encounter with the unexplained.
- Dark Minisode: A Simple Mall...After Hours
Listener Sam recounts years of unsettling experiences working retail in a mall and plaza, detailing spontaneously activating toys, moving objects, and shaking furniture. These incidents, witnessed by co-workers and partially recorded, sugg…
- What Are You?
A father moved into an old house in southern England and experienced disturbances in his young son's nursery. He questions whether these events were due to grief, psychology, coincidence, or something else.
- Dark Minisode: Gifted With Evil
In this episode, a listener
- Dark Realms: The Tower Of London
This episode of Dark Realms investigates the Tower of London, focusing on three lesser-known hauntings within the Norman fortress. It explores chilling presences, historical accounts, and eyewitness testimonies, examining how the site's hi…
- The Field Of The Fae
A listener recounts a summer workaway in rural Ireland where encounters escalated from a storm-torn caravan to experiences at a local fairy field, exploring the intersection of folklore and personal fear when the land seems to respond.
- Closet Of Secrets
This Dark Minisode explores a listener's experience in a university apartment. Subtle but chilling unexplained phenomena occur, leading to questions about the lingering presence.
- The Living Frequency
This episode explores a listener's lifelong paranormal encounters, starting with an experience at a dying parent's bedside. The story delves into unexplained activity, unsettling encounters, and protection from unseen forces, questioning w…
- Dark Minisode: Where Evil Feeds
This dark minisode features a care worker's ongoing account of paranormal activity at an old residential facility. The episode details unexplained occurrences, from strange sounds to mysterious recordings, and explores the emotional toll o…
- Dark Realms: Guy Lyon Playfair - Beyond Enfield
This episode examines the extensive career of Guy Lyon Playfair, a psychical researcher known for the Enfield poltergeist. It delves into his earlier, intense investigations of poltergeist activity in Brazil during the 1970s, highlighting…
- The Bedroom
A retired couple moving to Spain find their dream home harbors a dark secret. Strange nightly events challenge their reality and lead to a terrifying discovery.
- Dark Minisode: Haunted By Disbelief
In this minisode, a lifelong skeptic shares how escalating disturbances within a shared home gradually dismantled his beliefs about reality, grief, and love. The episode focuses on the impact of dismissed beliefs when confronted with inexp…
- Beyond The Gate
A firefighter shares a personal account of exploring a road in Northwest Indiana known for violence and tragedy. The experience of crossing into this place had lasting effects on his life, including dreams and relationships, suggesting som…
- Dark Minisode: The Nun
A former police officer shares a true paranormal experience from a Victorian-era station in northwest England. The story details unsettling encounters, a recurring apparition, and an atmosphere defying rational explanation, exploring skept…
- Rose Hall Great House - Jamaica
This episode of Dark Realms delves into the history of Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica, examining its reputation for hauntings, dark folklore, and dark magic.
- The Watchers At Blackwater
This episode details a listener's true experience of isolation and a disturbing presence near a forgotten reservoir, exploring the boundary between rational explanation and paranormal encounters.
- Pre Season: The Curtained Demon
This pre-season episode features Jacqui sharing lifelong paranormal experiences, including childhood encounters, sleep paralysis, and unexplained events involving her children.
- The Over Attachment
The Dark Paranormal season finale features a listener
- Dark Minisode: Grave Attachments
In the season finale minisode, an anonymous listener from Utah details a lifelong paranormal experience that began with visiting an abandoned cemetery as a child and escalated into frightening nightly encounters.
- Dark Realms: Raynham Hall
This episode of Dark Realms focuses on Raynham Hall, exploring its history of tragedy, scandal, and paranormal encounters. It delves into three disturbing legends associated with the estate, highlighting why it remains a site of persistent…
- Something With Evil Intent
This episode of The Dark Paranormal revisits a lifetime of unsettling childhood experiences within a family home, where multiple members witnessed unexplained phenomena. The episode explores whether these experiences can truly be left behi…
- Dark Minisode: Paranormal Patterns
This episode features an anonymous listener recounting personal experiences with the supernatural throughout their life, including childhood encounters and presences felt in their homes. The story explores themes of empathy, the supernatur…
- Dark Realms: Rockwood Asylum - Ontario
This episode delves into the troubled history of Rockwood Asylum in Ontario, Canada. Once an institution rife with cruelty and suffering, its grounds are now known for unexplained phenomena and a palpable sense of dread, making it one of C…
- Evil Noticed
A listener shares personal, unexplained paranormal experiences spanning from her childhood to early adulthood, including encounters with eerie voices and shadowy figures. The episode explores the difficulty of rationalizing these events an…
- Dark Minisode: Red Light, Spells Danger
In this Dark Minisode, listener Marie recounts her personal journey of seeking paranormal connection over decades, triggered by a childhood loss. Her experiences highlight the fine line between curiosity and invitation, the effects of fear…
- Dark Realms: The Octagon House - Washington DC
The Dark Paranormal investigates the legends surrounding the Octagon House in Washington D.C., a historic landmark known for alleged hauntings. The episode delves into stories of tragic deaths and spectral occurrences within the mansion.
- I Don't Believe In Ghosts...But
This episode features Bear discussing his family's history of mediumship, cursed items, and premonitions, questioning if his experiences in a childhood bedroom and a Chicago hotel are supernatural or coincidental.
- Dark Minisode: Keys To The Other Side
A junior school teacher recounts a month of escalating paranormal activity in her Victorian home following her mother's death. The events included footsteps, moving objects, and feelings of oppression, culminating in multiple presences bei…
- Dark Realms: Lancaster Castle
This episode of The Dark Paranormal delves into the history and hauntings of Lancaster Castle, exploring legends associated with its dungeons, monastic past, and the tower linked to witch trials. It highlights the castle's dark history of…
- A Demonic Return
Amrutha, a previous guest, details a new paranormal encounter in her husband's ancestral home. Subtle disturbances escalated into sleep paralysis, apparitions, and mimicry, suggesting a demonic return.
- Dark Minisode: Burned By A Demon
This minisode features a woman from rural Missouri recounting a childhood terrorized by unexplainable phenomena and a darkness that influenced her life into adulthood. After surviving isolation and manipulation, she details her journey tow…