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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“AMERICA’S MOST HAUNTED PRISONS” and More Creepy Paranormal Stories! #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

“AMERICA’S MOST HAUNTED PRISONS” and More Creepy Paranormal Stories! #WeirdDarkness

IN THIS EPISODE: Would you stay at your grandparents’ house if their entire neighborhood was haunted? (“Grandpa and Grandma’s House”) *** When it comes to hardened criminals in tough prisons, there is no escape… not even in death. (“America’s Most Haunted Prisons”) *** At least 45 deaths of young men are attributed to the Smiley Face Killer, but most police departments say he doesn’t exist. (“The Smiley Face Killer”) *** And finally, by special request, I will narrate the classic Edgar Allan Poe story - “The Black Cat”.

(Dark Archives episode, originally posted March 21, 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Grandpa and Grandma’s House”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yxxfrdma
“America’s Most Haunted Prisons” written by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/55828b4t
“The Smiley Face Killer”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yx2y4xvc
“The Black Cat” written by Edgar Allan Poe (1845): https://poestories.com/read/blackcat
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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:15.0

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:30.0

Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.

0:36.0

The young gentleman's name would be Oliver. Oliver Twist.

0:41.0

With Brian Cox as Fagin.

0:43.0

What have you seen? Street boy.

0:45.0

Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Callugia as Bill Sykes.

0:50.0

Look at me like a hello to my lawyer.

0:52.0

With original music by Dan Gillespie's cells.

0:56.0

Subscription required. See audible.co.uk for terms.

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Stories and content and weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only.

1:07.0

parental discretion is strongly advised.

1:10.0

When reason returned with the morning.

1:22.0

When I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch, I experienced a sentiment half of horror,

1:29.0

half of remorse, with the crime of which I had been guilty.

1:33.0

But it was at best a feeble and equivocal feeling and the soul remained untouched.

1:40.0

I again plunged into excess and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed.

1:47.0

In the meantime, the cat slowly recovered.

1:51.0

The socket of the lost eye presented. It is true a frightful appearance,

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