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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR (1943): “Pit And The Pendulum” #WeirdDarkness #RetroRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Please SHARE this episode with someone who loves old time radio shows like you do:https://weirddarkness.com/archives/18066And get FREE full-length pulp audiobooks, pulp eBooks, and old-time radio shows by emailing WeirdDarkness@RadioArchives.com!
IN THIS EPISODE: Created by suspense writer John Dickson Carr, BBC Radio’s “Appointment with Fear” is often compared to the American series Suspense. John Dickson Carr also wrote for Cabin B-13 and WWII propaganda scripts. If you are a John Dickson Carr fan or a Suspense fan, you’ll probably enjoy the few existing episodes of this excellent mystery program. Unfortunately, there are only four surviving episodes today.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'd like to give a huge thank you to everybody who stepped up to donate to our overcoming the Darkness campaign last month.

0:07.7

Because of your generosity, we were able to raise 5,585 this year to help people who struggle with depression.

0:15.8

And we'll be dividing this equally four ways.

0:18.4

So $1,394.25 will go to each of our four beneficiaries, the Suicide and Crisis Life Line, the Crisis

0:27.8

Text Line, Save.org, and the International Foundation for Research and Education of Depression, or I-Fred.

0:35.0

If you'd like to learn more about these organizations that'll be receiving your generous

0:39.4

donation, you can find them all on the Hope in the Darkness page at weird darkness.com

0:44.8

slash hope. That's weird darkness dot com slash hope and once again thank you for

0:50.9

making our campaign not only successful, but a true pleasure to be a part of.

0:56.0

I couldn't be prouder of our weirdo family.

0:59.7

Central Massachusetts is a land of oddities and apparitions.

1:04.0

Stories of the strange and paranormal have been passed down from generation to generation,

1:08.9

and only the local populace has any idea of just how vast and deep their superstitions run.

1:15.1

The world around you is much more than you can touch, taste, smell, see, and hear.

1:22.4

Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, but all of them give you a

1:26.4

taste of what it's like to be from the honest part of the United States. You can't

1:31.7

have a region of the country that has been settled for centuries

1:35.1

without getting a few odd tales out of it. Open up a whole new world of fact and fiction

1:40.9

that'll leave you with a deep appreciation for the strange and

1:44.1

bizarre ghosts and heroes await and the only thing they need to live on is you

1:49.6

slightly odd Fitchburg by Ed Sweeney.

1:53.2

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