{"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":"The Creepiest Urban Legend from Every U.S. State","slug":"the-creepiest-urban-legend-from-every-u-s-state","published_at":"2026-07-04T21:59:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-creepiest-urban-legend-from-every-u-s-state","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/StateLegends","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72822148/wdjul5_statelegends.mp3","summary":"Every state in the Union has its own creepy collection of urban legends — haunted playgrounds and vampires, cryptids and cursed roads, black-eyed children and shape-shifting monsters — and we're crossing all fifty to find the eeriest tale each one has to tell. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/StateLegends READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/StateLegends 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* SOURCES and RESOURCES: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mv357ex6 , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckpd7md , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3k9anyn3 , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3ahdkmkc , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3kmnpahx , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckpebp7 , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8s3eny , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2bz4zr7b , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5e9whsm4 , https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p83tczx (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: August 29, 2023 Every state in America is hiding something. Cross the country from Alabama to Wyoming and you'll find a haunted playground where swings move on their own…","meta_description":"Every state in the Union has its own creepy collection of urban legends — haunted playgrounds and vampires, cryptids and cursed roads, black-eyed children…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4902,"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/the-creepiest-urban-legend-from-every-u-s-state/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/the-creepiest-urban-legend-from-every-u-s-state.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}