#12NightmaresOfXmas “A BAD ACTOR Murders Christmas” 5 True Scary Holiday Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: “The Ghost of William Terris”, “Christmas Hauntings”, “Calvert Mansion”, “The Dana House”, “I Am Your Brother”
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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| 1:20.2 | Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories |
| 1:44.2 | of the paranormal, supernatural, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. If you're |
| 1:52.4 | new here, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Android so you don't miss future |
| 1:58.2 | episodes. This is a special 12 Nightmares of Christmas episode. Each day from December |
| 2:04.6 | 13th through the 24th, I'm posting a new episode of Weird Darkness featuring material |
| 2:10.1 | from the new book The Spirits of Christmas, The Dark Side of the Holidays by Sylvia Schultz. |
| 2:16.6 | Be sure to come back every day from December 13th through the 24th for more holiday horrors. |
| 2:23.1 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, pour yourself an egg knot, |
| 2:30.1 | and come with me into the Weird Darkness. |
| 2:42.9 | William Terris was the Kenneth Brauna of his day, a superstar of the popular melodramas, |
| 2:50.1 | handsome, talented, he was royalty of the theater set, and played most often at the Adelphi |
| 2:56.8 | theater in the Strand. And that was where he met a violent end on the evening of December |
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