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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

(Bonus Episode) THE PRISON WHERE ESCAPE MEANS DEATH – 1 BILLION YEARS AGO

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

“Prison of a Billion Years” by CH Thames: A condemned murderer escapes from a maximum-security prison built a billion years in Earth's past, taking a reporter hostage into a lifeless world where the only escape leads to an impossible paradox.

From Imagination Science Fiction Magazine, April 1956

Transcript

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Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything.

0:09.8

A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased

0:17.4

at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner.

0:23.9

An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls.

0:30.9

An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these

0:41.8

20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror

0:49.9

that entrance as they terrify. The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal,

1:00.6

narrated by Darren Marler.

1:02.7

You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com.

1:08.6

Do you like my horrorable humor episodes called Mind of Marler?

1:13.0

If so, and you'd like more, it now has its very own podcast.

1:17.6

Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous freights, macabre madness.

1:22.7

Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness.

1:27.5

All the stuff he'd expect from me on Weird Darkness, but delivered with dark comedy, satire,

1:32.6

and just the right amount of absurdity.

1:35.1

Monsters, myths, mysteries, mirth, and more every Monday with Mind of Marler.

1:40.0

I like alliteration, can you tell?

1:41.9

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1:50.1

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1:54.3

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1:56.7

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2:01.1

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