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A Scottish poet published the rules in 1786: a candle, a mirror, an apple, and the face of your future husband looking over your shoulder. The girls who play it now chant a dead woman's name in a dark bathroom instead, a book that sold thirty million copies turned the same trick into a self-help plan, and some of us have carried it into the prayer closet without noticing. Listen through the end for the song “Say It Three Times” by Incorruption, based on this sermon’s message! EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version): https://weirddarkness.com/SayItThreeTimes Book: "CHURCH OF THE UNDEAD: Book One — Wendigo, Zombies, Werewolves, And Other Subjects You’d Never Hear From Your Pastor’s Pulpit” at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ454R1P Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

A cartoon says I have no soul, a hair-dye company says I'm going extinct, and a folklorist in Illinois says you should rub my head. I've been a redhead for fifty-seven years, and this is what the world thinks about me… and what God thinks of me. Oh, and you too if you are a redhead, a Ginger, a copper top, or whatever other moniker you've been tagged with due to your hair color. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114 EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-gingervitis Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

In 1896 the visitors pedaled airships. In 1952 they were blond and worried about the bomb. Today they're gray, from forty light-years away, and worried about the climate. Somebody keeps updating the aliens, and it might be us. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114 EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-wemadethemup Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

On Friday, September 11th, three weeks before anyone could buy it, I played the entire audiobook of my new book live on Patreon, start to finish, with the chat open the whole time.  Something I only do for my Patreon members! https://weirddarkness.com/patreon  Since 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say it's a serial killer network, and that police have been calling murder an accident. The FBI says there's no evidence any of it is connected. THE CONCRETE SMILED gives that theory its best case, at full strength, and then checks it against the record. Ninety-five sources, and every claim traced back to where it came from. THE BOOK OFFICIALLY RELEASES OCTOBER 1ST for Kindle, paperback, and audiobook on Amazon, with the Kindle edition up for pre-order now. Cover, description, and the full linked source list are athttps://weirddarkness.com/concretesmiled Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114 Two doctored photographs posted to a comedy forum in 2009 spread, through thousands of anonymous contributors, into a mythology detailed enough that two eleven-year-old girls stabbed a friend nineteen times to prove their worth to it. Six years later, a South Dakota reservation would recognize pieces of the same figure inside a legend of its own, one that predated the internet by generations. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-slenderman Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

This isn’t one of my usual stories or episodes – but it is still terrifying (to me, at least). Over the weekend, a devastating cyberattack locked me out of my Google account, YouTube channels, Dropbox, and many of the tools I rely on to produce Weird Darkness. For several days, I genuinely didn’t know if the show would survive.In this special emergency update, I explain what happened, why new episodes suddenly stopped, what became of the YouTube channels, where things stand now, and why this has been one of the darkest weeks of my life—both professionally and personally.The good news? Weird Darkness is still here.Thank you for your patience, your encouragement, and your prayers. It means more than you know.Listen and subscribe at: https://WeirdDarkness.com Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Everyone hears "bottomless pit" and braces for a sermon about hell — this one goes somewhere stranger, to the only hole in all of Scripture that keeps what you throw in. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114 EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-melshole READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/m3k2ae6w Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

In Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, a former nun clutches a crucifix, prays the words Jesus prayed the night before the cross, and then lets it fall to the floor. EPISODE PAGE (Includes Sources and Transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-disclosureday LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 14, 2026 Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

An Alabama prosecutor called the murder of a mother and her two children one of the most demonic crimes he had ever seen, and for fifty years other killers have gone a step further and told police a demon made them do it. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-devilmademedoit/ READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckk9bhj LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 07, 2026 Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Robert Ludlum didn’t make the name up. In 1887, a Rhode Island preacher named Ansel Bourne disappeared and woke up two months later in a Pennsylvania candy store, with no idea how he got there. EPISODE PAGE (includes sources and transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-bourneidentity/ LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: May 24, 2026 Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Two seventh-graders in Ohio rode hard to a pastor's door because they'd seen something on the ground that most adults around them would have walked past without noticing. Sources and Sermon Transcript: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-groundremembers LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: May 17, 2026 Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

The hunter never raised his rifle, never raised his voice, and somehow still got called the villain. LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other apps. Get the full list of options here for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: April 26, 2026 SOURCES & TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-hownottoarguewithacryptid Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Last Wednesday, somewhere over Iowa, I watched a shiny object make a ninety-degree turn inside a cloud and then reverse course back into it. I don't know what I saw. But I know that the two responses most Christians would have to a sighting like mine are both wrong — and Scripture actually commands a third way that almost nobody practices. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Unidentified Flying Object 00:03:56.210 = Show Open 00:05:51.228 = A Word Before We Dig In 00:07:14.782 = The First Wrong Response – Dismissal 00:20:21.907 = The Second Wrong Response – Invention *** 00:30:54.794 = The Third Way – What Scripture Actually Commands *** 00:42:42.109 = What Testing Actually Looks Like *** 01:01:00.882 = The Landing *** 01:05:10.019 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break REFERENCES & TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/ISawAUfoOverIowa LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other apps. Get the full list of options here for Weird Darkness: https://pod.link/1078714736. For Church of the Undead episodes specifically, you can find a list of apps here: https://pod.link/1651062114. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: April 19, 2026 Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Every Easter Sunday, pastors around the world deliver the same message: Jesus rose from the grave. And that is absolutely true. But today we are not talking about Sunday morning. We are talking about Saturday. What was happening in the realm of the dead during those three days while the disciples hid, the soldiers stood guard, and the world assumed evil had won? The answer is something you have almost certainly never heard from any pulpit, any pastor, or any religious speaker — ever. This is the Harrowing of Hell. SERMON TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-harrowingofhell “What The Heck Is a Nephilim” episode: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-whattheheckisanephilim/ “The Jerusalem Zombie Incident” episode: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-zombies/ Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church

Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114 Every May, priests, police officers, and doctors gather in Rome to study exorcism — and this year, they're studying something new: artificial intelligence. SERMON TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-aiexorcism Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026. Find us online at WeirdDarkness.com/Church