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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 295 minutes
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Summary
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A God Named Smith” (June 02, 1977) ***WD
00:46:15.088 = Everyman Theater, “This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940) ***WD
01:13:30.876 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Mutants” (March 26, 1958) ***WD (LQ)
01:31:25.222 = Faces In The Window, “Black Cat” (November 22, 1952) ***WD
01:55:05.244 = Dark Fantasy, “Sea Phantom” (February 06, 1942)
02:19:08.639 = Fear on 4, “Hairy Hand of Dartmoor” (1988-1992)
02:46:37.714 = 5 Minute Mysteries, “Clue In The Hand” (1947-1950)
02:51:38.723 = Future Tense, “Cold Equation” (May 08, 1974) ***WD
03:15:02.972 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “Black Stockings & Broken Mirrors” (April 08, 1992)
03:58:43.198 = Guests of Doom, “Programs 11 & 12” (1930s) ***WD
04:24:25.909 = The Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
04:50:43.138 = 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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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered why Victorians mailed dead birds as love letters? |
| 0:04.0 | Why the 1800s had so many miracle tonics that were just cocaine? |
| 0:09.3 | Or why an entire town once blamed a goat for political corruption? |
| 0:13.9 | Then, dear listener, you have found your people. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to the Strange History Podcast, where every episode explores the bizarre, hilarious, unsettling, |
| 0:25.4 | and occasionally, someone please check on humanity corners of our past. |
| 0:30.6 | We dig up the stories your textbook skipped. |
| 0:33.7 | From haunted mansions and medical oddities to forgotten jobs, |
| 0:43.6 | cursed holidays, and historical scandals so ridiculous they sound fake, but aren't. |
| 0:49.0 | And yes, there will be sarcastic commentary, historical chaos, and questionable fake sponsors like Dr. Pumpernichael's patented goat-based relationship therapy, side effects, |
| 0:57.2 | may include regret. So come join the adventure. You can find the Strange History podcast on |
| 1:04.5 | Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, IHeart Radio, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. Because history wasn't |
| 1:14.5 | just weird. It was beautifully catastrophically weird. Bigfoot, a legend, a joke, or something real. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm a former police officer, trained to follow evidence, not myths, to question stories until facts |
| 1:29.3 | take over. Then I stepped into the woods. Welcome to the Sasquatch Odyssey podcast. Every episode |
| 1:36.8 | features firsthand encounters from people who've come face to face with something they can't |
| 1:41.2 | explain. Real witnesses, real fear, real experiences that don't fade with time. |
| 1:48.2 | But this isn't Campfire storytelling. |
| 1:50.6 | I also sit down with boots on the ground researchers |
| 1:53.2 | using hard science, critical thinking, and proven methods to find answers. |
| 1:58.4 | Footprints, audio, field data, no hype. No hoaxes. Just investigation. |
| 2:05.6 | One question drives at all. Does Sasquatch truly exist? If evidence matters, if mystery deserves |
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