1,800 Meters Deep and No One's Answering the Intercom | "The Engineer"
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: "The Engineer" by Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (Infinity Science Fiction, February 1956)
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=====Originally aired: January 27, 2026
EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheEngineer
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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| 0:00.0 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes |
| 0:06.6 | for a fresh start with his family. |
| 0:09.0 | But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 0:14.5 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique |
| 0:20.3 | Advent calendar, a relic, counting down |
| 0:23.5 | to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 0:27.0 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 0:33.3 | itself starts to crack. |
| 0:35.8 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that |
| 0:39.3 | has been waiting for him for years. Now, with his wife and two young sons in peril and the |
| 0:45.4 | final door of the calendar looming, Matt must find a way to stop this holiday horror, or risk |
| 0:51.8 | losing everything and everyone he loves. |
| 0:55.9 | 24 days, 24 doors, all leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. |
| 1:05.2 | Advent of Evil, the new novel by Scott Donnelly, based on a concept by Weird Darkness host |
| 1:10.5 | Darren Marlerler is now available |
| 1:12.2 | in full audiobook form, as well as Kindle, Paperback, and Hardback Editions. Visit Weirddarkness.com |
| 1:19.2 | slash advent of evil to give yourself the gift of terror. Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. |
| 1:31.4 | This episode is sponsored by awful movie reviews on YouTube. I've been a fan of awful |
| 1:36.1 | movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never miss an episode. Every Friday, |
| 1:40.6 | you get a new comedic video covering a gosh awful, horrible, terrible, wretched, |
| 1:45.2 | or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre. |
| 1:48.9 | B-monster movies, films directed by notorious names like Ed Wood or Roger Corman, |
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