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The Dark Paranormal

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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.
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  • He Felt It Arrive...Beneath Him · 31 min · Season 26 Episode 7In this unsettling true paranormal experience, our listener, Ewan, is a sleep specialist, one who has spent years explaining the strange things that can happen between waking and…
  • Encounters: The Rain Soaked Visitor · 18 minStarting a new job is unsettling enough without feeling that something from your past has found its way into your present. Our listener Laura had hoped to settle in quietly, keep…
  • Dark Realms: Whispers & Dead Arrivals - Sweden's Glimmingehus · 17 minWelcome, to Dark Realms, Across the open fields of southern Sweden stands a fortress built to keep danger out — and, perhaps, to keep certain things within. At Glimmingehus…
  • My Dark Replacement · 33 min · Season 6 Episode 26In today’s Early Access episode, we hear from a mother whose ordinary family life is gradually overshadowed by questions she never imagined having to ask. As familiar memories…
  • Encounters: It Wasn’t Her · 17 minThis week on Encounters, we travel to Nottingham, where Martin, a widower living alone, shares a deeply unsettling account of the strange activity that began in his home towards…
  • *FIXED* Tormented By The Dead...Disbelieved By The Living · 33 min · Season 26 Episode 5*Apologies all, the midweek 'Encounters' episode was released today instead of the (now correctly uploaded) Episode 5* This week, for both our mid-season AND Halloween episode…
  • Encounters: Dark Acts In Magna, Utah. · 18 minFor today’s Encounters, our listener Nate shares a series of increasingly disturbing paranormal experiences centred around a historic theatre in the old mining town of Magna…
  • Dark Realms: Athens, Ohio · 18 minBeyond Athens picturesque streets and university buildings lies a darker history, where the boundaries between the living and the dead are said to be unusually thin. From…
  • It Waits For Weakness: Cottage Number Four · 34 min · Season 26 Episode 4Today we hear from Rosie, whose job involves checking empty properties and preparing them for arriving guests, there has never been much reason to question what happens inside a…
  • Encounters: Don't Let It In · 19 minOn this week’s Encounters, Tom takes us to a remote campsite in Northumberland, where what should have been a relaxing weekend with a friend became an experience neither has been…
  • A Listener, Hated…By The Dead · 32 min · Season 26 Episode 3Some things are passed down through generations. Memories, traditions, family stories. But what if something far darker could be inherited too? For today’s listener, the…
  • Encounters: The True Haunting Of Tilmanstone Colliery · 14 minThis 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…
  • Dark Realms: Bhanghar Fort - The Dark Sorcerer · 18 minDeep 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…
  • A True Tale, A Dark Question: "Where Are They?" · 34 min · Season 26 Episode 2On 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…
  • ENCOUNTERS: Listeners' Darkest Moments: "I Prayed...But It Didn't Stop!" · 20 minWelcome, 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…
  • Season Debut: You Can't Outrun True Darkness · 36 min · Season 26 Episode 1Welcome 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…
  • Pre-Season: A Trilogy Of The Dark Arts · 1 h 52 minBefore 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…
  • Bonus: The Darkest Chapter - In Full · 1 h 54 minDuring 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…
  • S25: Finale: Beyond The Doorway · 31 min · Season 25 Episode 10For 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…
  • Dark Minisode Finale: A Cursed House · 18 minJoan 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…
  • Dark Realms: Sweden...The Devil Himself... Ängsö Castle · 18 minOn 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…
  • The 67 Exorcisms Of Anneliese · 32 min · Season 25 Episode 9In 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…
  • Dark Minisode: An Infinite Refrain · 20 minA 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…
  • Evil Fills The Gap · 36 min · Season 25 Episode 8Today, 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…
  • Dark Minisode: The Hospital Mortuary · 17 minFor 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…
  • Dark Realms: Dow Hill - The Death Road · 19 minOn 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…
  • Haunted Wales: Plas Teg - The Hanging Room · 35 min · Season 25 Episode 7Welcome 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…
  • Dark Minisode: Trapped By Fear 2/2: The Family Home · 16 minWelcome 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…
  • The Watseka Wonder, America's Strangest Possession Case: Dead Inside · 40 min · Season 25 Episode 6Welcome 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…
  • Dark Minisode: Trapped By Fear 1/2: The Terraced House · 17 minWelcome, 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…
  • Dark Realms: The Forbidden City, China. · 18 minWelcome, 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…
  • Haunted Lives: Sought Out By Darkness · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 25Welcome 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…
  • Dark Minisode: That Which Is Hidden · 18 minWelcome 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…
  • Dark Realms: The Morris–Jumel Mansion: The Haunting of Manhattan · 17 minWelcome, 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…
  • Our True Rental Terror: The Evil In My Closet · 33 min · Season 25 Episode 4Welcome 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…
  • Dark Minisode: Eyes From The Shadows · 18 minWelcome, 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…
  • The Möttlingen Possession: A Battle with Satan · 32 min · Season 25 Episode 3Welcome 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”…
  • Dark Minisode: Dead Air · 18 minWelcome, 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…
  • Dark Realms: Ye Olde Salutation Inn - Nottingham · 18 minWelcome 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…
  • Possessed In Paraguay · 37 min · Season 25 Episode 2Different Cultures, Different Experiences? Our Sponsors: * Check out Acorns and use my code acorns.com/darkparanormal for a great deal: https://www.acorns.com * Check out…
  • Dark Minisode: One Listener's Darkest Shift · 20 minWelcome, 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…
  • Season 25 Debut: The Holy Demon · 40 min · Season 25 Episode 1Welcome 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…
  • S25 Update...Debut Date Change: Monday 13th · 4 minAs 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…
  • Pre-Season Show: Eerie True Tales With The Hosts Of "Beyond The Bizarre" · 58 minWelcome, 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…
  • Season Finale: The Dark Relic · 37 min · Season 24 Episode 10Welcome, 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…
  • Dark Minisode: The Smell Of Dread · 19 minWelcome, 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…
  • Disbeliever · 39 min · Season 24 Episode 9Welcome 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…
  • Dark Minisode: The Dark Quadrant · 20 minWelcome, 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…
  • Dark Realms: Sandford Orcas Mansion: A Collector Of Ghosts · 17 minWelcome 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…
  • Mother, What Possessed You? · 40 min · Season 24 Episode 8Welcome 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…

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