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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

FINDING OUT BY MAIL THAT YOU ARE DEAD: Hospital Accidentally Declares 531 Living Patients Deceased

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A computer glitch transforms routine mail into premature obituary notices for over 500 very-much-alive people.

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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.

1:34.1

I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

1:39.9

Main Health proved that sometimes the only thing worse than getting medical bills in the mail is getting paperwork meant for your grieving relatives.

1:43.6

On October 20th, 531 customers opened

1:46.8

their mailboxes to find estate vendor letters, those cheerful documents explaining to your next-of-kin

1:53.0

how to deal with your corpse, despite the minor technicality that you're still breathing, walking around,

1:59.0

possibly wondering whether to switch health care providers?

2:01.9

The letters went out thanks to a computer glitch, which is the modern equivalent of

2:05.7

the dog ate my homework, except the dog is made a binary code and nobody believes you.

2:11.0

These weren't death certificates per se, just helpful instructions for surviving family

2:15.6

members on the administrative aftermath of shuffling

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