DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU: This Is The Last Story You’ll Ever Read
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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IN THIS EPISODE: A skilled counterfeiter named Justin is forced to lay low when his partner turns up dead and the police start asking questions. Holed up in a New York apartment with a printing press and a growing sense of unease, Justin tries to stay one step ahead of discovery. But as the days stretch on, the pressure mounts — and someone, somewhere, seems to know exactly where he is.
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.DISCLAIMER: Ads 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. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Stories Not For The Nervous” by Alfred Hitchcock: https://amzn.to/4o9Fz34
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Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | As a member of this weirdo family, I value your input, and while I try to keep up with |
| 0:04.6 | the emails, online messages, and comments I receive, one thing I've not really done is ask |
| 0:10.6 | your opinions about certain things I offer in the podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | Do you like the Murder Noir episodes? |
| 0:16.2 | What about the old-time radio stuff? |
| 0:18.0 | Does the more comedic Mind of Marler uploads even belong in the podcast? |
| 0:22.5 | If you could change one thing about Weird Darkness, what would it be? Take the survey at |
| 0:26.7 | weirddarkness.com slash survey and let me know what you think about what I do and how I do it. |
| 0:32.6 | It'll only take about two minutes, but it'll be invaluable to me as a creator to find out |
| 0:37.3 | what you like and |
| 0:38.1 | don't like, what you'd like to see more of, or less of. Visit weirddarkness.com slash |
| 0:43.5 | survey. That's weirddarkness.com slash survey. If you've ever wanted to learn more about |
| 0:49.1 | stories I share in the podcast, you'll want to sign up for the free Weird Darkness newsletter. |
| 0:54.9 | Several times per week, you'll get an email that not only includes the audio player with a recent episode, but a deep |
| 0:59.7 | dive article of that same subject, going more in depth than what you heard in the podcast. I also |
| 1:05.2 | post numerous articles that never make it into the podcast, and I share those in the newsletter, too. |
| 1:10.1 | Along with transcripts of my hororable humor podcast, Mind I share those in the newsletter, too. Along with transcripts |
| 1:11.2 | of my horrible humor podcast, Mind of Marler, you'll get videos of murder noir as I post them, |
| 1:17.2 | the most popular video of the week from my YouTube channel. Plus, I include bonus audio in the |
| 1:22.1 | newsletter every week that I don't post to the podcast, and if I still have room at the bottom, |
| 1:27.2 | I'll stick a funny |
| 1:28.0 | meme in there for you. Sign up for the free Weird Darkness newsletter at Weirddarkness.com |
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