A Strange Christmas Game: The Christmas Disappearance at Martingdale Manor
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Hello, children – it’s Santa! I ho ho ho hope you like my podcast! If you like the stories I’m telling in my podcast, please tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too! Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas!
STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…
“A Strange Christmas Game” by Mrs. J.H. Ridell: http://bit.ly/36zAo3S
“The Flames of Sligachan” by Amy Brannigan and Caroline Brannigan: http://bit.ly/2LVTMAa
“Clockwork Christmas” by Richard Ankers: https://adbl.co/2PMnQzh
All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ). All other music by Nicolas Gasparini (http://bit.ly/2LykK0g).
I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use. If I somehow overlooked doing that for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I’ll rectify it the show notes as quickly as possible.***Spooky Santa™ and Weird Darkness® are creations and trademarks of Marlar House Productions and Weird Darkness, LLC. Copyright © Weird Darkness, 2023
"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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| 0:00.0 | There'll be parties for hosting marshmallows for toasting and caroling out in the snow. |
| 0:10.0 | There'll be scary ghost-dor. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh! |
| 0:14.0 | Better watch out. |
| 0:16.0 | Better not dry. |
| 0:18.0 | Better not, powd, I'm telling you why, because I'm coming to... |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, no, hello! |
| 0:24.6 | Hello, children, it's Santa with another episode of Spooky Santa. |
| 0:30.6 | Well, I have some new scary stories to share with you, so be sure to talk to your mom or dad and make sure that you have permission to listen. |
| 0:41.3 | And I do have some very scary ones today. |
| 0:44.3 | I have a strange Christmas game. |
| 0:47.3 | It's written by Mrs. J. H. Riddle. |
| 0:50.3 | It's about a brother and a sister who spend Christmas in a haunted house, and they witness |
| 0:55.6 | the ghostly reenactment of a murder. |
| 0:59.3 | We'll also have a spooky holiday tale called Clockwork Christmas by Richard Anchors. |
| 1:05.2 | Plus, I have an extra special story that was emailed to me from two of my children on my |
| 1:10.6 | good list. Yes, two children, |
| 1:13.1 | sisters, they wrote a scary story together. It's called the Flames of Sligation by Amy and Carolyn |
| 1:22.0 | Brannigan. So, are you ready? Bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with Spooky Santa for another holiday chiller. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. |
| 1:39.3 | The A Clockwork Christmas by Richard Akers. |
| 1:56.9 | Somewhere in a distant past of copper and brass, a small girl witnessed a miracle. |
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