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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“CALLING 555-TERROR” – True Tales of Terrifying Telephone Calls! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 208 minutes

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Summary

We usually expect our horror stories to involve a haunted house or a fog-shrouded graveyard. But in modern times some of the most terrifying stories have begun with a simple phone call.

YOU TUBE CHAPTERS AND TIME STAMPS…
00:00:00.000 = Title Story Preview and Show Open
00:03:39.296 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “See Naples And Die” (October 23, 1974)
00:49:41.200 = Weird Darkness Segment 1
00:57:25.112 = Strange, “Deadman’s Reef” (1955)
01:10:35.664 = Weird Darkness Segment 2
01:20:26.603 = Suspense, “Wet Saturday” (June 24, 1942)
01:50:12.895 = Weird Darkness Segment 3
02:02:47.315= Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953)
02:34:11.724 = Weird Darkness Segment 4
02:41:57.010 = Tales From The Crypt, “Isle Of Death”
03:20:21.537 = Show Close

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Calling 555-TERROR” by Jessika M. Thomas: http://bit.ly/2M7YdJW, and Aaron Edwards: http://bit.ly/33n6Jds
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library
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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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Originally aired: June 25, 2024

RETRO RADIO LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/calling-555-terror/

Transcript

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Imagine waking up one morning and when you look at your friends or loved ones you see their ears, noses and mouths stretched back with deep grooves on their foreheads, cheeks and chins.

0:42.0

All the people you know have suddenly turned into hideous demonic creatures, and it's not even

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remotely close to Halloween.

0:51.2

That's what one Tennessee man is experiencing right now. I talk about him in this week's

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Mind of Marler, which you can find at Mind of Marler.com.

1:00.9

As heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third-party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself.

1:09.0

Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature

1:14.0

audiences only.

1:15.0

Parental discretion is strongly advised. Sure, we've all received creepy phone calls from a random prankster, but what about those unexplained phone calls that led to tragedy?

1:37.5

Those calls which foretold of death approaching, or even more chilling, a phone call from the ghost of someone who's already dead.

1:46.0

Over the years, the wonderful invention of Alexander Graham Bell has not always been used to reach out to friends and family, but instead, at times, has become

1:56.7

the instrument employed to terrorize, horrify, or mystify.

2:02.3

Phone calls have been made by killers to contact their victims

2:05.6

families, taunting them. Others have taken prank calls to the next level and

2:10.7

people have come up missing or worse dead. Sometimes there is no explanation

2:17.3

whatsoever about a phone call that chills you to the

2:25.0

bone bone to the to which they're attached. I'm calling this episode, calling 555 terror.

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