BRAIN DRAIN: Harvesting The Brains of the Brilliant – The Ultimate Intellectual Heist
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 315 minutes
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Summary
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Brain Drain” (March 24, 1976)
00:47:04.359 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Three Frogs” (April 29, 1948) ***WD
01:16:04.839 = Quiet Please, “How Beautiful Upon the Mountain” (May 03, 1948)
01:45:47.479 = Radio City Playhouse, “Correction” (January 10, 1949)
02:15:37.149 = Hollywood Mystery Time, “Murder By Coincidence” (August 19, 1945) ***WD
02:45:43.449 = Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, “King Olaf” (1930) ***WD
02:46:44.048 = The Saint, “The Ghost That Giggled’ (September 17, 1950)
03:15:13.589 = Sam Spade, “Report On Edith Hamilton” (April 17, 1949)
03:40:03.609 = The Sealed Book, “Murderer Unknown” (August 19, 1945) ***WD
04:09:39.009 = The Shadow, “The Sandhog Murders” (November 26, 1939)
04:32:29.449 = Sleep No More, “Thus I Refute Beelzy” and “The Bookshop” (March 06, 1957)
05:01:06.494 = Show Close
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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"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 | Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing. |
| 0:05.4 | I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen. |
| 0:07.9 | A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that. |
| 0:14.2 | For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot. |
| 0:19.0 | Like Teralis, porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square meter. |
| 0:22.4 | Love it. |
| 0:23.1 | All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%. |
| 0:25.9 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses. |
| 0:28.0 | And the Evanses. |
| 0:29.2 | And the Bertels. |
| 0:30.2 | They've been here for thousands of years, making their presence known in the shadows. |
| 0:36.6 | They might be seen by a lonely motorist on a deserted road late at night, |
| 0:41.0 | or by a frightened and confused husband in the bedroom he is sharing with his wife. |
| 0:46.1 | Perhaps the most disconcerting part of this phenomenon boils down to this question. |
| 0:51.8 | Has the government been aware of their presence all along and is |
| 0:56.1 | covertly working with them towards some secret end? In the audiobook, Rungs of Disclosure, |
| 1:03.2 | what once was fringe is now reality. While listening, you'll meet regular people just like you, |
| 1:09.5 | who have encountered something |
| 1:10.9 | beyond their ability to explain. |
| 1:13.8 | You'll also hear from people of great faith and deep religious belief who continue to |
| 1:18.5 | have these strange and deeply unsettling encounters. |
| 1:22.9 | Author L.A. Marzuli explores these ongoing incidents to discover the answers to these |
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