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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

HE WOKE UP WITH A CORPSE IN HIS BED: A Story With a Double Twist You’ll Never See Coming!

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

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

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 314 minutes

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Summary

A young lawyer wakes up in the sweltering “SUMMER HEAT” to find a corpse in his bed—now he must figure out how to make it disappear before it ruins his life. | #RetroRadio EP0490

Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Clairvoyant” (October 01, 1976) ***WD
00:45:52.207 = Escape, “The Man Who Would Be King” (August 01, 1948)
01:15:19.001 = Everyman’s Theater, “Cat Wife” (October 18, 1940)
01:44:18.408 = Murder by Experts, “Summer Heat” (June 13, 1949) ***WD
02:13:47.436 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Country Boy” (December 18, 1957)
02:32:17.796 = Faces In The Window, “Lightning Rod Man” (January 17, 1953) ***WD (LQ)
02:55:58.122 = Dark Fantasy, “Dead Hands Reaching” (May 22, 1942) ***WD
03:20:02.719 = BBC Fear on 4, “Gobble Gobble” (December 24, 1992)
03:48:53.700 = 5 Minute Mysteries, “Scientific Clue” (late 1940s)
03:53:49.926 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirit Calling” (1960s)
03:58:23.787 = Future Tense, “A Pail of Air” (May 20, 1974) ***WD
04:25:36.223 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “Black Stockings & Broken Mirrors” (April 08, 1992)
05:09:17.911 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

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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slash G-O. As a member of this weirdo family, I value your input. And while I try to keep up with the

1:04.8

emails, online messages, and comments I receive, one thing I've not really done is ask your opinions about certain

1:12.2

things I offer in the podcast.

1:13.9

Do you like the Murder Noir episodes?

1:16.2

What about the old-time radio stuff?

1:18.0

Does the more comedic Mind of Marler uploads even belong in the podcast?

1:22.5

If you could change one thing about Weird Darkness, what would it be?

1:25.7

Take the survey at weirddarkness.com slash

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survey and let me know what you think about what I do and how I do it. It'll only take about

1:33.5

two minutes, but it'll be invaluable to me as a creator to find out what you like and don't like

1:38.8

what you'd like to see more of or less of. Visit weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com slash survey.

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