A Miser’s Murder: The Unsolved Killing of Charles Henry
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/CharlesHenry
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Ebeneezer Scrooge had nothing on a man named Charles Henry. Charles was miserly, and cruel. No doubt he had a long list of people who could’ve been accused of wanting him dead. *** When it comes to B-movie horror, you can’t do much better than the 1958 classic “The Blob”. But don’t believe it’s just science fiction – reports have been coming for years of people in real life actually coming across some type of amorphous creatures very similar to what was originally seen on the big screen. *** The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, Annabelle, and many other books and films have been based on Ed and Lorraine Warren and the stories they tell. But it appears they may not be as advertised. If fact, they’ve been shown to be fraudulent on more than one occasion. *** Whether or not you believe in curses, luck, or fate it may be hard to explain away some of the eerie items people have had in their keeping, only to get rid of them as quickly as possible for fear of suffering more calamities. *** A woman describes her home as a child as evil – even on sunny days, the gloom would overtake her. *** In an old cemetery in North Carolina, a young girl is buried – but not in a coffin as you might expect. She was buried while submerged in a keg of rum.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:18.836 = Show Open
00:03:38.797 = Miser Henry’s Murder
00:10:39.439 = Unlucky Possessions
00:27:00.103 = My Haunted Childhood Home ***
00:29:29.674 = The Blobs
00:41:55.110 = The Rum Keg Girl
00:47:07.349 = When The Warrens Were Exposed As Frauds ***
01:14:48.146 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Miser Henry’s Murder” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdhek2cw
“Unlucky Possessions” by T.C. Bridges for Haunted Ohio Books: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck36nt7
“My Haunted Childhood Home” by Marie Davis, posted at MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc8cbkwm
“The Blobs” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2wu24zca
“The Rum Keg Girl” posted at North Carolina Ghosts: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/27ssnbh8
“Were The Warrens Exposed as Frauds?” by Christopher Shultz at Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8tyrhr
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Originally aired: November, 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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