A three-year-old girl's imaginary friend turned out to be a real man – one who had been dead for fifteen years before she was born.
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https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5a4fwj7tFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Deep in the Balsam Mountains of North Carolina, a shaggy eight-foot creature has been stealing gems and watching women bathe since the early 1900s — and the word used to name him came from a Lewis Carroll poem written the moment after a sleepless night at a dying man's bedside. (The Boojum) *** In 1980, a group of artists in Baltimore took out an ad in a major international magazine — not to sell anything, and not to promote a show. They were sending an invitation. The guests they were hoping to attract just hadn't been born yet. (Krononauts Party) *** A three-year-old girl in rural Georgia started playing with an imaginary friend — and then her family found out he was real, and had been dead for fifteen years. The question that nobody has been able to answer isn't whether she knew him. It's how. (The Heidi Wyrick Haunting)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:23.333 = Show Open
00:03:14.569 = The Heidi Wyrick Haunting, Part 1
00:13:30.069 = The Heidi Wyrick Haunting, Part 2 ***
00:32:01.091 = The Boojum ***
00:53:27.330 = Krononauts Party ***
01:01:57.222 = SONG: “Krononauts Party” by Dark Weirdness (
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01:06:24.212 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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Originally aired: August 11, 2026
Weird Darkness moves through three cases this episode: a decade-long haunting in rural Georgia that a university parapsychologist wired with scientific instruments, an eight-foot gem-hoarding creature that Appalachian locals have hunted for over a century, and a 1980 Baltimore art stunt that advertised a party for time travelers.It opens with the Wyrick haunting, which began in March of 1989...
