Do you like the thumbnail design? You can get it on all kinds of merchandise in the Weird Darkness store at https://weirddarkness.com/store!“THE SECRET GOALS OF THE ILLUMINATI” and More Creepy, Terrifying, and Disturbing Stories! #WeirdDarknessLike the podcast on Facebook – https://facebook.com/weirddarkness, join the Weirdos Facebook Group – https://facebook.com/groups/marlarhouse, and sign up for the fee email newsletter - https://weirddarkness.com/newsletter! Please SHARE Weird Darkness with someone who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do! Recommending the show to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show!IN THIS EPISODE: (Dark Archives episode, with stories previously released April 15, 2017 and August 11-12, 2018) *** A common custom of folk magic in Pennsylvania turns into a horrifying scene. *** Tutbury Castle is best known as one of the prisons of Mary Queen of Scots, who was incarcerated there on four occasions. What many do not know is that it is extremely haunted. *** A woman moves into a new apartment with a friend – and slowly things go mad. *** Mysterious orbs… what are they? Ghosts? Tricks of the eye? Or are they energy beings from outside of our reality? *** A young girl sitting at a snow-covered bench gives a man a whole different kind of chill. *** A child has nightmares… then sleep paralysis… but what he experiences this night is more terrifying than anything he has ever even thought of. *** AND MORE!SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“Tutbury Castle” Written by Alan Toner from his book, “100 True Ghost Stories”: http://a.co/2hEMMyd “The True Story Of The Hex House” Written by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2DGK8N4 “Mysterious Orbs - Are They Energy Beings From Outside Of Our Reality?”: http://bit.ly/2LgeUAM “What Do You Like About Playing Under The Bed?” (Creepypasta): http://bit.ly/2Re7Ubb “Little Dark Eyes” Submitted by Ken DaSilva-Hill. All intellectual rights retained. Further reproduction in any form only with author’s consent.(Links to the rest of the stories/authors from this episode have been lost. Sorry.)Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ), Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission. 

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