FAMILY SECRETS: A Ghost Story
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
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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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Originally aired: October 06, 2017
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FamilySecrets
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| 0:00.0 | Do you like my horrorable humor episodes called Mind of Marler? |
| 0:05.9 | If so, and you'd like more, it now has its very own podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous freights, macabre madness. |
| 0:15.1 | Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness. |
| 0:19.9 | All the stuff he'd expect from me on weird Darkness, but delivered with dark comedy, satire, |
| 0:25.0 | and just the right amount of absurdity. |
| 0:27.5 | Monsters, myths, mysteries, mirth, and more every Monday with Mind of Marler. |
| 0:32.4 | I like alliteration, can you tell? |
| 0:34.3 | You can find a list of where you can subscribe to the podcast at weirddarkness.com |
| 0:38.5 | under the menu tab for podcasts. |
| 0:40.5 | There, alone with the strange apparition, she was terrified. |
| 0:56.8 | Suppose the ghost was angry, suppose it didn't wish to be disturbed. |
| 1:01.9 | In the end, however, Isabeth collected her wits and spoke. |
| 1:06.7 | Why do you sit there? |
| 1:08.5 | She began in a voice that was barely audible. |
| 1:17.4 | The ghostly child sat perfectly still, its posture unmoved for several moments. |
| 1:24.5 | Then, as if roused suddenly, the little head came up, and the face of a young girl was clearly visible in its evanescence. |
| 1:26.7 | And then, a voice like wind and dry grass. |
| 1:30.4 | I sit because I cannot stand. |
| 1:33.3 | I stay because I cannot leave. |
| 1:49.7 | Welcome, weirdos. I'm Darren Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, |
| 1:57.5 | conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. |
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