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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

China's Booming Fingernail Economy Has People Hoarding Their Own Body Parts Like Medieval Dragons

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A woman in China just made $21 selling something you threw away this morning - her childhood collection of fingernail clippings, now grinding their way into traditional medicine bottles across the nation.

READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.com/mm-china-fingernail-clippings-market/

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Darren Marler, host of the Weird Darkness podcast. I'd like to talk to you about

0:07.5

something that's very near and dear to my heart, my career. We've had a great run with

0:14.6

weird darkness, and this October we'll celebrate 10 years doing this show. Ten years.

0:21.8

We've had great reviews, a great response from amazing listeners like you.

0:27.4

But unfortunately, now, we're not as well known as we could be.

0:32.8

What that means is that I won't be able to win meaningless and irrelevant podcast awards. I won't be

0:39.3

able to humble brag on newly acquired accolades and magazine article interviews. I won't reach

0:45.6

one million subscribers. And who wants to live in a world like that? Did you know that for the

0:53.6

price of a single bag of weird dark roast coffee in a weird

0:57.4

darkness mug, or the price of clothing yourself with a weird darkness t-shirt or hoodie,

1:03.3

that you can help me buy 0.01% of an ad on Google?

1:08.2

It's true, and it's just that easy. Share the podcast. Get involved. Your small

1:16.1

act of sharing with only 10, 20, or even 50,000 friends and loved ones can bring this

1:23.3

podcast to literally tens of people. Isn't that what's most important in this world? Get involved. Share

1:33.3

the podcast with others. Use your social media, email, and text to promote each and every

1:40.2

episode I release. Further the cause.

1:46.8

Help weird darkness reach more listeners.

1:50.7

And help make me less obscure.

1:52.6

Thank you.

1:54.8

Hey, is that good?

1:58.0

Yeah, I tried to fake sounding sincere as best I could.

1:59.6

I don't think this is going to work, though.

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