ELSEWHERE, KENTUCKY: The Government Buried It In Concrete And Erased It From Every Map
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: I have two tales of fiction to share with you. One story is from Weirdo family member and professional author T. Lee Harris called “Twenty-Seven Cents of Luck” - but first, Redditor XYLonex brings us a creepypasta titled simply, “Elsewhere, Kentucky”.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:00:58.635 = Show Open
00:02:03.584 = Elsewhere, Kentucky
00:18:07.350 = ***Twenty-Seven Cents of Luck
00:47:49.244 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Twenty-Seven Cents of Luck” by T. Lee Harris: http://www.tleeharris.com/
“Elsewhere, KY” by Reddit user XYLonex: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/362cil/elsewhere_kentucky/=====(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: April 27, 2022
EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/elsewhereky
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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes |
| 0:08.7 | for a fresh start with his family. |
| 0:11.4 | But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 0:16.7 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique |
| 0:22.3 | advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 0:28.9 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 0:35.3 | itself starts to crack. |
| 0:43.9 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years. |
| 0:50.9 | Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth. |
| 0:57.1 | Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode |
| 1:09.9 | event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st, |
| 1:13.7 | or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. |
| 1:23.1 | The real reason small town of Elsewhere, Kentucky disappeared from all maps, according |
| 1:32.3 | to locals, is because people who entered the old schoolhouse there went missing. |
| 1:37.3 | There are several reports of explorers just disappearing after they saw a child in the doorway. The last two college students |
| 1:46.3 | to visit found bones and decay in the schoolhouse and its cellar. Things got out of hand, |
| 1:52.6 | and one female ended up unconscious, supposedly due to a ghost attack. The curious college |
| 1:59.2 | kids reported the findings to the authorities, and not |
| 2:02.4 | long thereafter, the area was bulldozed. All remnants have been destroyed. But why go to all |
| 2:10.1 | of that trouble for something that wasn't true? I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:20.3 | Welcome, Weirdoes. |
| 2:27.8 | I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. |
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