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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

ADVENT OF EVIL: Tuesday, December 23 – Right Back To Where You Started

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-two days ago, a mysterious advent calendar arrived on Officer Matthew Klein's doorstep — no sender, no explanation, just twenty-four doors and a carved bearded face with hollow eyes. Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard. The entity behind it has a name now: Zurvan, an ancient demon whose mid-winter worship culminates on December 24th — the same demon that ten-year-old Matthew and his seven-year-old brother Steven accidentally summoned through a spirit board on Christmas Eve, 1995, the night their house burned to the ground. Zurvan has possessed Matthew's best friend, his own son, and a detective whose head he twisted completely around. On December 22nd, he proved the Bible verse about Legion true — the decomposing corpse of Wilbur Ward rose from the basement, levitated through the hallway, and snapped Pastor Hart's neck like kindling. Matthew's world went dark. The demon's final words echoed into oblivion: "Time's up." Two doors remain. Two days until Zurvan's celebration officially arrives.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Advent calendar arrived 22 days ago. No sender. No explanation. Just 24 doors, a carved,

0:12.8

bearded face with hollow eyes, and a serpent-shaped marking on its back. Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard.

0:22.7

Officer Matthew Klein has watched the calendar's daily offerings transform into omens of death,

0:28.6

a miniature house that burst into flames, a crystal star dipped in blood, a photograph

0:34.0

of his own children.

0:35.6

He threw the calendar into the Atlantic Ocean. It came back.

0:39.4

He refused to open a door. Snakes poured from the wood and attacked his son. The entity has a name

0:46.2

now. Zervon, an ancient demon whose midwinter worship culminates on December 24th. Father Olson warned that Zervon feeds on psychological

0:57.0

torment, that he has been attached to a spirit board for generations, destroying every family

1:02.9

who ever possessed it, the same spirit board that 10-year-old Matthew and his seven-year-old

1:08.7

brother Stephen used to contact their dead uncle on Christmas

1:12.3

Eve, 1995.

1:14.8

The night their house burned to the ground.

1:18.9

Zurbon has taken everything.

1:20.8

He possessed Matthew's best friend Simon and forced Detective Davenport to kill him.

1:25.9

He turned Matthew's son Logan into a vessel, speaking

1:28.6

through him with a voice from the pit. He twisted Davenport's head completely around, while

1:34.2

Matthew watched, helpless. In December 22nd, Zervon proved he is more powerful than anyone

1:41.6

believed. First, the single page from the Bible about a demon-possessed man with an entity called

1:47.6

Legion, where he was possessed by many demons, not just one.

1:52.6

Then, decomposing corpse of Wilbur Ward, the man who built the calendar from the charred

1:56.8

remains of the spirit board, rose from the basement, levitated through the hallway, and declared

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