A Late-Night Editor Discovered a Pattern in the Footage, and It Terrified Her | SHORT FICTION
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Originally aired: March 01, 2026
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: #WeirdDarkness 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 things strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold cases, conspiracy theories, and more. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “20 Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a blend of “Coast to Coast AM”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Unsolved Mysteries”, and “In Search Of”.DISCLAIMER: 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 Marler is now |
| 1:11.8 | available in full audiobook form, as well as Kindle, paperback, and hardback editions. |
| 1:17.7 | Visit Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil to give yourself the gift of terror. |
| 1:24.7 | Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. |
| 1:31.0 | Hey, weirdos. I want to share something fun that I've been doing that I think you might |
| 1:34.8 | enjoy, especially if you like horror fiction and audio drama. It's not in my podcast or |
| 1:41.1 | YouTube channel. It's over at Doorway to Nightmare. |
| 1:49.3 | Several times per week, they come out with new episodes of completely original audio terror written by the talents of Winslow Swan and Crimson McKenzie. |
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