HORROR AT PEMBERTON MILL and More Terrifying True Stories, Plus a Creepypasta! #WeirdDarkness

Published: March 9, 2024, 1 a.m.

IN THIS EPISODE: The ghost of a man in gray haunts a London theater. *** The boogeyman \u2013 where did he come from, and is he based on a real person? *** A disaster that took place at the Pemberton Mill on January 10, 1860 \u2013 a disaster that left a community, and a nation stunned! *** A night of children telling scary stories to each other turns into the real thing. *** A young girl bumps into her father in the hallway\u2026 which is impossible, as her father isn\u2019t home. *** James Bond, 007 himself tells his own personal story of the paranormal. Sir Roger Moore tells of his terrifying experience. *** A young teen girl wakes up in the dark of night being choked by a red-eyed being. *** Friends hear a crash in the kitchen\u2026 and though everything appears normal, what they eventually find is the stuff of nightmares. *** The discovery of a body in the local river leaves one town with a gruesome mystery \u2013 and possibly the framing of an innocent man for the murder. *** Known to the outside world as the City of the Dead, Dargavs is a truly remarkable and mysterious place we know little about. *** Do you ever get the feeling that you are being watched, or that someone is following you? Perhaps it\u2019s not your imagination. *** A father in South Yorkshire claims his family is being haunted by the ghost of an old lady. *** Two men, a forest, and a ouija board \u2013 will that be enough to find a rumored black eyed child that has been seen there? *** A man hears pounding on the walls of his apartment \u2013 from the outside of the building. *** What appears to be a poltergeist continues to torment office colleagues\u2026 or is it just being playful? *** Plus, I\u2019ll share an original creepypasta from a fan of Weird Darkness\u2026 it\u2019s a story called \u201cAmoeba\u201d.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE\u2026
\u201cThe Drury Lane Theater\u201d (from the book \u201c100 True Ghost Stories: Terrifying Hauntings From The UK And Around The World\u201d by Alan Toner): http://amzn.to/2hwQTWG
\u201cThe Real Boogeyman\u201d (from the book, \u201cCould It Be True: Vol 1, Urban Legends\u201d by Cindy Parmiter\u201d): http://amzn.to/2z8VgTh
\u201cThe Horror At Pemberton Mill\u201d (from the book, \u201cA Pale Horse Was Death\u201d by Troy Taylor and Rene Kruse): http://amzn.to/2AWTceo
\u201cThe Haunting Of My Grandmother\u2019s Cottage\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/uefe6cj
\u201cMy Doppelganger\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/syqf2zk
}\u201cShaken Not Scared: Roger Moore\u2019s Experience With The Paranormal\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/waa4doh
\u201cThe Red-Eyed Being That Held Me Down\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/uqvf7an
\u201cTormented By a Spirit In Hell\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/yx2p3mfa
\u201cThe Baldwinsville Homicide\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/u7b7qch
\u201cCity of the Dead\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/vmzpgs2
\u201cThe Faceless Specter That Follows Me\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/ufa9a3y
\u201cFather Claims His Family Is Being Haunted By The Ghost Of An Old Lady\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/r9ug4ow
\u201cBlack Eyed Child of Cannock Chase\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/s6r7wgq
\u201cThe Pounding Walls of an Apartment Building\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/w5cxyee
\u201cThe Playful Office Poltergeist\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/wpm738d
The fictional story (creepypasta) \u201cAmoeba\u201d was submitted by Sabby Ray: https://www.facebook.com/ray.saibal
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library.
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Originally aired: February 20, 2020

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