FIVE MILES DOWN: 19th Century Scientists Discover An Underwater City of Hostile Deep Sea Humanoids
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 306 minutes
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Summary
It’s the late 19th century, and two scientists are exploring the Caybridge Trough in the Caribbean — down to about five miles deep, one of the ocean’s deepest parts. While down there they discover a strange underwater city inhabited by hostile humanoid creatures, who attack them… welcome to “City of the Dead!” | #RetroRadio EP0508
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “City of the Dead” (November 04, 1976)
00:45:56.923 = The Adventures of Superman, “Mystery of the Walking Dead” (November 05, 1949)
01:15:45.265 = The Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
01:42:02.466 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “What Was It” (June 28, 1980) ***WD
02:09:23.472 = The Haunting Hour, “Ptolemy’s Grave” (April 14, 1945)
02:36:43.316 = Hermit’s Cave, “The House of Purple Shadows” (November 10, 1940) ***WD
03:01:11.322 = Murder Is My Hobby, “Murder With a Boomerang” (1945-1950)
03:24:54.169 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Tinkerville Club Scandal” (April 22, 1946)
03:54:13.881 = Incredible But True, “Three Who Died” (1950-1951)
03:58:00.281 = Inner Sanctum, “I Walk In The Night” (February 26, 1946) ***WD (LQ)
04:23:48.728 = The Key, “The Archeologist” (1956) ***WD
04:49:18.946 = Show Close
(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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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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