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The Dark Paranormal
by The Dark Paranormal
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
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Encounters: The True Haunting Of Tilmanstone Colliery
This week, we head to an old mining village in the southeast of England, where Jordan recalls a summer evening spent with a childhood friend. What began as an ordinary afternoon exploring a familiar place would become an experience neither of them could explain, and one Jordan has spent much of…
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Dark Realms: Bhanghar Fort - The Dark Sorcerer
Deep in the hills of Rajasthan, India, lies Bhangarh Fort, a once-thriving city now regarded as one of the most haunted places in the world. But what happened to its inhabitants, and why has this abandoned city become synonymous with curses, restless spirits and a darkness that supposedly awakens...
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A True Tale, A Dark Question: "Where Are They?"
On this week’s episode, Chloe takes us back to a home in North Georgia that left her with a feeling she couldn’t explain. Years later, memories of that time resurfaced—and left her with a question she still can’t answer. Today we question if keeping “sightings” or experiences to yourself is...
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ENCOUNTERS: Listeners' Darkest Moments: "I Prayed...But It Didn't Stop!"
Welcome, to "Encounters", our new minisode. On this week’s debut Encounter, Destiny shares an experience from one of the darkest periods of her life. One summer night, what begins as an unusually vivid dream becomes something far more invasive — an encounter that feels disturbingly physical…
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Season Debut: You Can't Outrun True Darkness
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In our Season 26 opener, we travel to Norway for an extraordinary account spanning almost an entire lifetime. From unsettling experiences beginning in early childhood to encounters that seemingly refuse to remain confined to any one house, Kevin has spent…
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Pre-Season: A Trilogy Of The Dark Arts
Before our return with Season 26 next week, we’re revisiting some of the most memorable experiences ever featured on The Dark Paranormal, presented for the first time as complete, uninterrupted stories. This week, we bring you all three parts of Kinar’s extraordinary “Dark Arts” trilogy in one...
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Bonus: The Darkest Chapter - In Full
During the season break, we've decided that each Friday, when there is no show, you will receive an amalgamation of experiences which have previously been split across episodes. So, we begin today with what was our season 13 Halloween special, The Darkest Chapter. Genuinely, two of the most...
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S25: Finale: Beyond The Doorway
For the Season 25 finale of The Dark Paranormal, we follow Kate through a series of experiences spanning childhood, adulthood, different homes, different cities and almost two decades of unanswered questions. Because what happens when the location changes, the people change, the years pass — but...
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Dark Minisode Finale: A Cursed House
Joan was just 21, raising her young son alone in a council house in the Northwest of England, when life began to feel increasingly difficult to explain. The property already carried unsettling rumours about the families who had lived there before, but Joan initially had far more ordinary…
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Dark Realms: Sweden...The Devil Himself... Ängsö Castle
On a quiet island in Sweden’s Lake Mälaren stands Ängsö Castle, a centuries-old estate whose pale walls conceal some of the country’s darkest and most enduring legends. Generations have told of figures still moving through its rooms, an encounter rooted in an ancient Scandinavian tradition, and a...
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The 67 Exorcisms Of Anneliese
In the final of our three journeys into documented paranormal history this season, we travel to 1970s West Germany and a case which remains almost impossible to separate from the controversy surrounding it. At its centre is a young woman, a deeply religious family, doctors, priests, recordings…
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Dark Minisode: An Infinite Refrain
A routine tuning job at a quiet Shropshire home leaves one experienced piano tuner confronting something that refuses to behave as it should. What begins as a small irregularity soon becomes harder to dismiss, especially when the history of the instrument starts to offer its own unsettling…
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Evil Fills The Gap
Today, a listener discovers how darkness can enter your life without spectacle, warning or any obvious moment of arrival. In this chilling experience, an ordinary day at work is followed by a succession of subtle disturbances that seem impossible to anticipate, confront or prove. As the unease...
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Dark Minisode: The Hospital Mortuary
For today's Dark Minisode, our listener Ray, a hospital porter with more than two decades on the job, tells us how he has long since grown used to the strange atmosphere that comes with late-night shifts, empty corridors and parts of the building most people never see. But one routine journey…
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Dark Realms: Dow Hill - The Death Road
On today's Dark Realms, we take a look at one of India's most feared locations. Dow Hill rises above Kurseong on the mist-covered slopes of the Himalayas, where dense forest surrounds historic boarding schools and an isolated stretch known locally as the Death Road. For generations, guards,...
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Haunted Wales: Plas Teg - The Hanging Room
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Twenty years ago, electrician and paranormal investigator Julian joined a nighttime vigil inside Plas Teg, one of Wales’s most notoriously haunted historic mansions. Julian has always tried to find rational explanations for the unusual things he has...
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Dark Minisode: Trapped By Fear 2/2: The Family Home
Welcome to our conclusion of last week's Dark Minisode. In the second part of this listener’s story, years have passed since a terrifying experience inside an Australian Victorian terrace first brought Pete and Betty into her life. Now, facing a completely different chapter with two young…
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The Watseka Wonder, America's Strangest Possession Case: Dead Inside
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In this episode, the second of our "3-6-9" series to shine a light on the more obscure documented experiences out there, we delve into one of the most bizarre lesser-known cases of paranormal activity. Rancy Venum, a young girl who experienced a series of...
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Dark Minisode: Trapped By Fear 1/2: The Terraced House
Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode. On today's show, a lifelong fear of the paranormal followed our listener from childhood into adulthood, shaped by years of experiences they could never quite explain. After moving to the other side of the country, and falling in love with an old Victorian…
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Dark Realms: The Forbidden City, China.
Welcome, to Dark Realms. Today’s Dark Realm has sincerely been one of my favourites to create. The Forbidden City, a vast imperial complex that for more than five centuries housed emperors, concubines, servants, guards and some of the most closely guarded secrets in Chinese history. Behind its...
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Haunted Lives: Sought Out By Darkness
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. This experience, like others we've discussed previously, is one written across an entire lifetime of seeing, sensing and being followed by things most of us will never have to face. Its author describes herself as a beacon to the other side, drawing in...
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Dark Minisode: That Which Is Hidden
Welcome to a Dark Minisode. Today we hear from Rachel in Sale, who tell us about the experiences she's had, as a self labelled sceptic, in her new home, that was her grandmothers old home. It's a genuine insight in to the literal and psychological barriers that are placed between ourselves... and...
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Dark Realms: The Morris–Jumel Mansion: The Haunting of Manhattan
Welcome, to another Dark Realm. High above the streets of Manhattan stands a mansion older than the United States itself. The Morris–Jumel Mansion has spent more than two centuries collecting stories that refuse to die. Today, we explore the documented history behind Manhattan’s oldest surviving...
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Our True Rental Terror: The Evil In My Closet
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. On today's show, a childhood shaped by addiction, fear and constant tension becomes the backdrop to an encounter that has never left its witness. As the atmosphere inside one family home grows increasingly oppressive, strange voices, impossible sightings and…
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Dark Minisode: Eyes From The Shadows
Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Today's Dark Minisode follows a listener from British Columbia whose recurring nightmares slowly began to bleed into waking life, leaving her convinced she was being watched wherever she went. As fear took hold during two of the darkest periods of her life, unexpected...
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The Möttlingen Possession: A Battle with Satan
Welcome to the Dark Paranormal Today’s show is audio only, which I explain at the start (not a software issue thankfully but a choice) as today is the first of our 3-6-9 “famous” experiences, touched on in the pre season episode, today we look at Gotlieben Dittus. A woman who lived in a quiet...
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Dark Minisode: Dead Air
Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Today our listener, Sam, takes an evening management job at a newly opened drive-through coffee shop in Glasgow, balancing her education, work and raising her one-year-old son. At first, the strange occurrences are easy to dismiss as faulty equipment or an old…
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Dark Realms: Ye Olde Salutation Inn - Nottingham
Welcome to Dark Realms, Today we explore the history behind the inn before descending into its labyrinth of caves to examine three of its most disturbing alleged hauntings: the mysterious little girl who appears to visitors with no known historical identity, the unsettling Shadow Man whose silent...
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Possessed In Paraguay
Welcome to The Dark Paranormal. Fot our second episode,we've opted to use Anonymous's" experience as more of a short-meets-discussion around both potential hereditary hauntings and 'abilities', and an alternate view on the use of a ouija board. It's a "mulling over the darkness" which in truth…
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Dark Minisode: One Listener's Darkest Shift
Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. For our first Minisode of Season 25, a retired train driver finally shares the terrifying experience he has kept almost entirely secret since he was nineteen. Assigned to an ageing cab rumoured to be haunted, his first shift takes a disturbing turn inside a notorious...
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Season 25 Debut: The Holy Demon
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal, For our debut episode, after a childhood shaped by grief, religious fear and the belief that something evil lived within her, "Sarah" spent years distancing herself from faith. But a chance encounter with a kind elderly priest offered her something she had...
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S25 Update...Debut Date Change: Monday 13th
As the title suggests, despite my best efforts the debut needs to be delayed until Monday 13th for the general feed, and Sunday for the Patreon feed. I ventured in to the “Dunning Kruger” effect with my unfounded confidence in video editing and after 16 hours of flailing have no choice but to…
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Pre-Season Show: Eerie True Tales With The Hosts Of "Beyond The Bizarre"
Welcome, to the calm before the storm. In this special pre-season episode of The Dark Paranormal, we’re joined by the wonderful Charlie and Tyler, hosts of Believing the Bizarre, for a brilliant conversation built around two chilling experiences they’ve brought with them. Each story is shared in...
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Season Finale: The Dark Relic
Welcome, to the Season 24 Finale. For the Season Finale, an anonymous academic returns from Italy with what appears to be a fake religious relic — a small brass reliquary capsule bought for a few euros at an antiques market in Padova. But when strange disturbances follow her home, she begins to...
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Dark Minisode: The Smell Of Dread
Welcome, to the Season 24 Dark Minisode Finale. When one of our more sceptical listeners returns to her childhood home due to her mother's illness, she expected sorrow, paperwork, and difficult memories. What she didn't, was an old presence from her past that seems to re-emerge. Through a…
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Disbeliever
Welcome to the penultimate episode of S24 of The Dark Paranormal. After the death of her mother, our listener Claire returns alone to the Derbyshire home she grew up in to begin clearing out decades of belongings. In a spare-room wardrobe, she discovers a hidden box containing old letters and a...
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Dark Minisode: The Dark Quadrant
Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. On Today's Dark Minisode, our listener Arthur describes being sent into the sealed basement archive of a failed document storage company outside of Leeds, expecting nothing more than dust, barcodes, and forgotten office equipment. But deep beneath that industrial...
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Dark Realms: Sandford Orcas Mansion: A Collector Of Ghosts
Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today we travel to Dorset, England, to explore the chilling folklore of Sandford Orcas Manor — a Tudor house near Sherborne long associated with some of Britain’s most unsettling ghost stories. Known as “the house that collected ghosts,” the manor’s legends include...
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Mother, What Possessed You?
Welcome back, to the Dark Paranormal., Today we have a planned treat, as we give you the English translation of the first ever submission to our Spanish language sister show "Osuridad Paranormal". Today, Ricardo shares the deeply unsettling story of a family conflict that appears to awaken...
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Dark Minisode: A Haunting In Quarantine
Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. For today's Dark Minisode, Zane from Colorado shares his unsettling experience as a live-in manager at a remote alpine property near Cortina d’Ampezzo in Northern Italy. Left alone during the 2020 lockdown to maintain the empty hotel, Zane expects isolation, silence,...
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Under The Black Star
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Where to begin...well, today's experience comes to us from our listener Sarah, who shares a lifelong haunting that begins with a disturbing childhood encounter in Manchester and follows her across years, homes, and continents. From an unsettling warning about...
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Dark Minisode: The Game Entity
Welcome, to a Dark Minisode. Brianna shares a terrifying college haunting from a small Christian university in Texas, where one seemingly harmless board game left her overwhelmed by dread before the night had even begun. What follows is a deeply unsettling account of instinct, warning signs…
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Dark Realms: Woodchester Mansion
Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today, we enter the shadowed corridors of an unfinished Gothic house hidden deep in a Cotswold valley. Built in the 19th century and abandoned before it could ever truly become a home, Woodchester is a place where bare stone, missing floors, empty rooms and Catholic...
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The Watching Dead - The Closing
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. Today we conclude Catherine’s story as it moves beyond childhood trauma and into adulthood, where grief, danger, motherhood, and unexplained spiritual protection collide in a deeply emotional true paranormal account. As she struggles to rebuild her life after...
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Dark Minisode: Frequency Through The Veil
Welcome to a Dark Minisode Today we hear from Johan, a listener who shares the extraordinary story of the lifelong connection he had with his twin sister, Abigail — a bond that seemed to go far beyond instinct, coincidence, or ordinary sibling closeness. From childhood moments of unexplained...
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The Watching Dead - The Beginning
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In part one of this chilling two-part listener experience, Catherine shares the beginning of a lifetime touched by trauma, loss, and unsettling paranormal encounters that seem to appear at the darkest moments of her life. From a children’s hospital ward where…
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Dark Minisode: "When The Moths Come"
Welcome, to this week's Dark Minisode In today's listener account, a lifelong pattern of unexplained paranormal experiences begins in early childhood and follows the narrator across multiple homes, states, relationships, and stages of life. From strange shapes in the dark and unsettling…
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Dark Realms: The Devil's Backbone - The Natchez Trace Parkway
Welcome back, to Dark Realms. Today, we travel the haunted length of the Natchez Trace Parkway, from its ancient footpaths and violent frontier past to the ghost stories still whispered around Witch Dance, Natchez Under-the-Hill, and the infamous King’s Tavern in Mississippi. Blending dark...
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A True Farmhouse Nightmare
Welcome back, to The Dark Paranormal. In this truly chilling listener account, a family moves into an old rural farmhouse in southern Alberta, hoping for space, quiet, and a fresh start surrounded by fields, barns, and open land. But it soon becomes clear that something about the property is…
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Dark Minisode: A Demon, Named "Mother"
Welcome, to this weeks Dark Minisode. For today's Dark Minisode, we hear about a listener with a lifelong sensitivity to unseen presences that leads back to one terrifying summer night in Tennessee, when a teenage girl’s safe bedroom becomes the centre of an experience she has never been able to...
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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.
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