{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories","slug":"weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","podcast_index_feed_id":475827,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a1570d70b941e8f0e16b68380622d72f.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T14:17:16.106491+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827"},"episode":{"title":"Real Werewolf Trials: The Executed Lycanthropes of Early Modern Europe","slug":"real-werewolf-trials-the-executed-lycanthropes-of-early-modern-europe","published_at":"2026-07-15T00:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/real-werewolf-trials-the-executed-lycanthropes-of-early-modern-europe","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/RealWerewolfTrials","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72979126/wd20260714_realwerewolftrials.mp3","summary":"Read an even deeper-dive into the werewolf trials here: https://weirddarkness.com/wolves-on-trial/ Across four centuries of European court records, dozens of men, women, and children confessed to shedding their skins for wolf-hides and hunting under the moon — and the magistrates who heard them believed every word. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RealWerewolfTrials READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/43rjhjvp FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We’re all familiar with the concept of werewolves – they are all over pop culture, movies, television, comic books, novels, and every other medium you could possibly imagine. And while they are considered fictional, or at least in the realm of cryptids, that doesn’t mean there aren’t true stories of reported werewolves in history. (Real Historic Accounts of Werewolves) *** Just the idea of going to prison is enough to scare people into living a squeaky-clean life, but if you’re one of the most dangerous prisoners known to exist, ordinary prison would look like a vacation as compared to life in the Florence ADX Supermax Prison. (Life In The Supermax) *** What was supposed to be a two day trip turned into a maritime mystery when the ship, the MV Joyita was discovered floating with no crew on board. What happened? (The Mysterious Abandonment of the MV Joyita) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:37.814 = Show Open 00:03:32.506 = Real Historic Accounts of Werewolves, Part 1 00:28:44.978 = Real Historic Accounts of Werewolves, Part 2 *** 00:42:51.099 = The Mysterious Abandonment of the MV Joyita *** 01:02:49.562 = Life In The Supermax *** 01:15:37.977 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad…","meta_description":"Read an even deeper-dive into the werewolf trials here: https://weirddarkness.com/wolves-on-trial/ Across four centuries of European court records, dozens…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4611,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/episodes/real-werewolf-trials-the-executed-lycanthropes-of-early-modern-europe/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/real-werewolf-trials-the-executed-lycanthropes-of-early-modern-europe.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}