34 SECONDS OF HORROR | The Night the Hindenburg Fell, and The Hauntings That Followed!
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 190 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: In the Oakland Cemetery, a bronze monument to tragedy is said to bring death to anyone who touches it. (Black Angel of Death) *** While camping, a man has dreams of a dark-haired woman several nights in a row. Normally it wouldn’t be anything to be all that concerned about, but it’s something to fear if you are near the French Broad river. (Siren of the French Broad) *** Alien visitors, beings from a different dimension, our planet even had tree monsters and sentient pyramids showing up – and all in the year 1965. (The Inter-Dimensional Interlopers of 1965) *** A retired naval officer reports rocks falling through his home’s roof – dozens in a single day – with no explanation of where they came from. (Cappy Ricks and the Stones) *** In 1994 a man has a paranormal experience with a popular song recorded two decades earlier. (The Joker) *** Is there a clandestine space program designed to save the elite from a global catastrophe? (Alternative 3) *** On this date, October 24, 1953, Evelyn Hartley, a 15-year-old sophomore from La Crosse, Wisconsin, vanished without a trace while on her way to a babysitting job. It was like something out of a Halloween urban legend but in this case, the horror was real. (The Babysitter Who Vanished) *** The odd happening that takes place here and there in a house more than likely can be explained in some rational way. Even quite a few strange occurrences could probably be explained by science. But when the events seem to never stop, perhaps it’s time to think something else is going on. (An Assortment of Experiences) *** Legend tells a centuries-old curse was placed upon Dudleytown in Connecticut. The town turned into a horrible place where people committed suicide or went insane. (Cursed Dudleytown) *** Exactly 92 years ago today – October 24, 1926 - something went wrong during a performance by Harry Houdini. A week later, he would be dead. (Houdini's Final Performance) *** The Hamilton-Byrne family was anything but typical, rather it was a doomsday cult with a leader who believed herself to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. (Inside the Family Cult) *** AND MUCH MORE!
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:29.943 = Show Open
00:05:52.861 = The History and Hauntings of the Hindenburg Disaster
00:27:54.180 = Black-Eyed People, Why Are They So Different From The Rest Of Us? ***
00:43:29.354 = Bumps In The Night
00:45:45.168 = Evil Spirits And Demons of Marshes and Swamps in Slavic Folklore
00:50:51.703 = Old Man of the Cave ***
00:55:33.569 = The Seer of Possibilities (HORROR FICTION)
01:30:12.436 = Alternative 3 ***
01:53:15.007 = Black Angel of Death ***
01:57:49.531 = The Siren of French Broad
02:06:46.744 = The Interdimensional Interlopers of 1965 ***
02:18:25.414 = The Joker
02:22:07.498 = Cappy Ricks and the Stones
02:30:20.564 = Inside The Family Cult ***
02:37:24.232 = The Babysitter Who Vanished
02:45:42.580 = An Assortment of Experiences
02:54:21.925 = Cursed Duddleytown ***
02:59:43.212 = Houdini’s Final Performance
03:07:25.003 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/hindenburg
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The History and Hauntings Of The Hindenburg Disaster” (from the book “And Hell Followed With It” by Troy Taylor: http://amzn.to/2zrimTY
“Old Man of the Cave”: https://tinyurl.com/taa9h3w
“Evil Spirits And Demons Of Marshes And Swamps In Slavic Folklore”: https://tinyurl.com/t79ccnz
“Bumps in the Night”: (link no longer valid)
“Black Eyed People, Why Are They So Different From The Rest of Us”: (link no longer valid)
“The Seer Of Possibilities” (Creepypasta): https://tinyurl.com/ycz95rnp
“Alternative 3”: https://tinyurl.com/w4f5edr
“Black Angel of Death” by Orrin Grey: http://ow.ly/v2m430mkGWs
“The Interdimensional Interlopers of 1965” by Brent Swancer: https://tinyurl.com/rwy5jdd
“Siren of the French Broad”: https://tinyurl.com/sa2ewrt
“The Joker” by Rory Kavenagh – submitted directly to WeirdDarkness.com
“Cappy Ricks and the Stones”: https://tinyurl.com/ybc3o3rb
“The Babysitter Who Vanished” by Troy Taylor: https://tinyurl.com/w9ohx8k
“An Assortment of Experiences”: https://tinyurl.com/quqbbmg
“Inside the Family Cult” by Joel Stice: https://tinyurl.com/tobap65
“Cursed Dudleytown”: https://tinyurl.com/s3sg49m
“Houdini’s Final Performance” by Troy Taylor: https://tinyurl.com/sj5bsjw
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Originally aired: October 24, 2018
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| 0:00.0 | The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room. |
| 0:11.0 | And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap. |
| 0:18.0 | He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize. |
| 0:22.1 | No windows. |
| 0:23.4 | A door with no handle. |
| 0:25.4 | Light with no source. |
| 0:27.6 | And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file, |
| 0:35.6 | who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room, |
| 0:41.5 | he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file. |
| 0:51.6 | Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned |
| 0:57.8 | the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary. |
| 1:05.5 | Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most. |
| 1:12.8 | But this isn't just a life review. |
| 1:15.9 | Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate, |
| 1:22.8 | with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human. |
| 1:27.5 | There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting |
| 1:32.1 | room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads. |
| 1:38.9 | The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling |
| 1:43.9 | back the veil on the |
| 1:45.1 | supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then, |
| 1:53.7 | the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at |
| 2:02.6 | Weird Darkness.com. |
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