He Threw the Skull Into the Sea… But It Came Back Screaming
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 309 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, “The Ripple Effect” (February 04, 1977)
00:46:17.627 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Screaming Skull” (April 01, 1968) ***WD
01:15:31.737 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Peace to the Frifalites” (1989)
01:42:59.621 = The Clock, “Nicky” (March 04, 1948)
02:12:21.736 = The Crime Club, “Death Deals a Diamond” (July 17, 1947)
02:41:39.176 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “The Case of the Darkened Face” (September 22, 1946) ***WD
03:06:46.080 = CBC Deep Night, “Ice Screams” (August 05, 2005)
03:40:44.312 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Shrinking People” (July 27, 1943)
04:09:02.141 = Diary of Fate, “Phillip Vale” (June 01, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
04:38:23.197 = Dimension X, “Knock” (May 06, 1950)
05:07:42.545 = Show Close
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(LQ) = Low Quality
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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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| 0:00.0 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes |
| 0:08.7 | for a fresh start with his family. |
| 0:11.4 | But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 0:16.7 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique |
| 0:22.3 | advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 0:28.9 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 0:35.3 | itself starts to crack. |
| 0:43.9 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years. |
| 0:50.9 | Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth. |
| 0:57.1 | Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode |
| 1:09.9 | event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st, |
| 1:13.7 | or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. |
| 1:23.1 | The Black Museum |
| 1:28.0 | Affiliated stations present |
| 1:31.0 | Escape |
| 1:31.9 | Hall of fantasy |
| 1:34.9 | Inner Sanctom Miss |
| 1:38.3 | Lights out |
| 1:41.3 | Murder Murder At Minow Lights out. Murder. |
| 1:46.6 | Adminine. |
| 1:49.9 | A sealed book. |
| 1:55.9 | Present. |
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