Welcome Weirdo's. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find

stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime,

conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.

Coming up in this episode, I'm sharing three incredible stories of fiction. I have the

Harvard Wormhole Experiment by Nathaniel Lewis, plus weirdo family member Mark Touse sent in a story titled

The Itch.

But we begin with a creepypasta, The Artist by C.J. Henderson.

Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into

the weird darkness.

There's this painting my wife loves called Death and Life by Klimt.

I don't know what she finds so fascinating about it.

I made all the right noises when she showed me her beloved framed print when we were first

dating, ooing and awing and making up some crap about warm and cold color schemes, and the specific

choice of angles and line.

She was an artist.

Our first few dates involved long walks through museums.

I took an art history course, as an elective when I was finishing up my doctorate.

I remembered enough of the lingo to charm my fantastically

gorgeous future wife and lure her back to my stupidly filthy apartment.

We're talking me as the foul bachelor frog sitting on a lily pad made of empty takeout containers,

surrounded by a pond of enough unwashed clothes to keep a laundromat

in business for a cool six months.

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