H.G. Wells’ “THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES” - A Classic Science Fiction tale from a master!
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: A.I. voices are NEVER used in the podcast.,.. EVER! This true crime and paranormal podcast is 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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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #ThrillerThursday, and this time I’m bringing you a short story from H.G. Wells about what we would probably consider today, “remote viewing” – but in a more permanent and unintentional manner. It’s a story he wrote back in 1895 entitled, ”The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes”.
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Originally aired: March 28, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Weirdo's. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find |
| 0:12.4 | stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, |
| 0:20.2 | conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 0:25.7 | Coming up with this episode, it's Thriller Thursday, and this time I'm bringing you a short |
| 0:30.4 | story from H.G. Wells about what we would probably consider today remote viewing, but in a more |
| 0:36.1 | permanent and unintentional manner. It's a story |
| 0:39.1 | he wrote back in 1895, entitled The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes. |
| 0:46.5 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the weird darkness. |
| 0:57.0 | The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still |
| 1:16.6 | more remarkable if Wade's explanation is to be credited. It sets one dreaming of the |
| 1:22.1 | honest possibilities of intercommunication in the future, of spending intercalorie five minutes on the other side |
| 1:28.7 | of the world, or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. |
| 1:34.2 | It happened that I was the immediate witness of Davidson's seizure, and so it falls naturally |
| 1:41.0 | to me to put the story upon paper. |
| 1:44.9 | When I say that I was the immediate witness of his seizure, I mean that I was the first |
| 1:50.3 | on the scene. |
| 1:51.8 | The thing happened at the Harlow Technical College, just beyond the highway archway. |
| 1:57.0 | He was alone in the larger laboratory when the thing happened. |
| 2:00.6 | I was in a smaller room |
| 2:02.0 | where the balances are, writing up some notes. The thunderstorm had completely upset my work, |
| 2:07.6 | of course. It was just after one of the louder peals that I thought I heard some glass smash |
| 2:13.8 | in the other room. I stopped writing and turned around to listen. |
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