A Lantern For The Dead

The Dark Paranormal

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Welcome back, o The Dark Paranormal.

This week’s episode is intentionally a slow burn—but sincerely don’t mistake that for comfort. Emily’s lifelong experiences are a chilling reminder that not all hauntings come with jump scares and flickering lights. Sometimes the most disturbing stories are the ones that unfold over years, stitched together by eerie moments we try to dismiss… until we no longer can. Her account, the growing awareness of her psychic abilities, and the unsettling truth that when you look into the unknown—it looks back, makes this episode an unnerving prelude to what’s coming. Because next week, the darkness doesn’t just linger—it takes form. And it doesn’t knock. It forces its way in.

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0:00.0	Right now at Matalan, get 20% off menswear and homeware.
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0:20.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a...
0:23.3	Biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.
0:29.2	The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.
0:35.2	By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.
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0:46.4	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Live from Liverpool, the Dark Paranormal, Season 20.
1:20.1	Well, hello everyone and welcome back to another installment of the Dark Paranormal.
1:27.4	This is episode four, and because this is our anniversary season, so to speak, with it being season 20 and the fifth year of the show,
1:31.0	we have something a little different to announce.
1:34.4	So, today and today only, we will not be announcing any new Patreon names, but only for this week.
1:42.8	And the reason for that is we have a little announcement
1:46.2	regarding Patreon. I've long since said I want season 20 to be something a bit different, a bit
1:52.5	special, and therefore for the entire month of June, there is a free week trial that you can go and check.
2:03.4	I've always said I wanted season 20 to be something special,
2:07.7	to try and give something different to you guys each and every week.
2:11.6	And therefore, for the duration of June and the duration of June only,
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