#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE LAST WISH OF JIM CURRAN” and 5 More Ghostly Holiday Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this episode: “The Aircraft Carrier ‘Glory’”, “Number 149 Squadron”, “Back Already?”, “Told You So”, “Dear Theodosia”, “Last Wishes”
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| 1:02.0 | Welcome, Weirdos. This is Weird Darkness. I'm Darren Marlar. |
| 1:10.0 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. |
| 1:19.0 | If you are new here, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Android so you don't miss future episodes. |
| 1:26.0 | This is a special 12 Nightmares of Christmas episode. Each day from December 13th through December 24th, |
| 1:34.0 | I'm posting a new episode of Weird Darkness featuring material from the new book, The Spirits of Christmas, |
| 1:40.0 | The Dark Side of the Holiday, by author Sylvia Schultz. Now, bolt your doors. |
| 1:46.0 | Lock your windows. Turn off your lights. Put another log onto the fire. |
| 1:52.0 | Pour yourself an eggnog and come with me into the Weird Darkness. |
| 2:00.0 | A few days after Christmas, 1955, a Mr. Harry Matherall was working as a painter at Rosseth Dockyard in Fife, Scotland. |
| 2:19.0 | Early that morning, he showed up to work on the aircraft carrier Glory, which was in the Dockyard for renovation. |
| 2:27.0 | Matherall had an early breakfast in the dining hall, then went aboard the ship. He kept his work clothes in Cabinate on the Galley Deck, |
| 2:37.0 | so that was where he headed first. Outside the cabin was a locker where he kept a lamp needed for work. |
| 2:43.0 | This was a double lamp that could light both the cabin and the corridor, so it had a thick electrical cord attached to it. |
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