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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

"HAUNTING OF HUNDLEY HOUSE” and More Paranormal Holiday Tales! #12NightmaresOfXmas

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: "The Flash Flood", "The Haunting of Hundley House", "The Messenger of Donner Pass", "House of Plenty"

SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults: https://amzn.to/3uT2vMA
Music by Midnight Syndicate: https://www.midnightsyndicate.com
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0:00.0

Welcome, weirdos.

0:03.1

This is Weird Darkness.

0:05.3

Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, mysterious, macab, unsolved, and

0:13.0

the unexplained.

0:14.4

If you're new here, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Android so you don't

0:19.2

miss future episodes. This is a special 12 Nightmares of Christmas episode.

0:25.0

Each day from December 13th through December 24th, I'm posting a new episode of Weird

0:30.3

Darkness featuring material from the new book The Spirits of Christmas, The Dark Side

0:35.4

of the Holidays by Sylvia Shultz.

0:37.6

Be sure to come back every day from December 13th through the 24th for more holiday

0:43.6

horrors.

0:44.8

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

0:52.1

the weird darkness.

1:08.9

Music and come with me into the weird darkness. The middle years of the 19th century were a time of great advances and great optimism. Social reforms were the order of the day, and many people felt they

1:12.3

could change the world for the better through their ideas. It was not only in New England,

1:17.8

cradle of the young nation, that these changes were taking place. Even in the Midwest, at

1:23.3

that time still considered the wild frontier, social reformers sought to spread their ideas.

1:30.3

Judge Wade Lufborough purchased over a thousand acres of land bordering the Ohio River in

1:35.9

Claremont County, and in 1844, he founded a village he called, simply, Utopia.

1:43.3

Lufborough and his followers were supporters of the philosophy of a Frenchman named Charles

1:48.6

Fourier.

1:50.1

Foyer envisioned a society based on agriculture, far removed from the evils of mechanization

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