I BURNED MY HANDS, AND IT ERASED MY EXISTENCE: Not Even My Fortune Teller Remembered Me!
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 314 minutes
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Summary
A man who is rescued from an apartment fire suffers severe burns to his hands, erasing the lines on his palms (including his lifeline). He comes to believe this has also erased his past and identity, because no one – not even a fortune teller who had previously given him a reading – recognizes or remembers him anymore. (Hear “Lifeline” from CBC’s Nightfall! | #RetroRadio EP0528
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Lone Survivor” (December 21, 1976) ***WD
00:46:22.775 = Mystery House, “A Vacation From Murder” (July 12, 1946)
01:12:34.135 = CBC Nightfall, “Lifeline” (October 15, 1982)
01:42:29.120 = Obsession, “The Case of the Living Dead Egyptian Curse” (1950-1952)
02:07:16.147 = Origin of Superstition, “Opening Umbrella” (1935) ***WD
02:19:02.601 = Peril, “Last Man” (1952) ***WD
02:45:42.179 = Mystery Playhouse, “Breakdown” (June 12, 1945)
03:12:01.136 = Price of Fear, “Fish” (September 1973)
03:40:39.735 = Ellery Queen, “Saga of Ruffy Rux” (November 27, 1947) (LQ)
04:09:32.936 = Quiet Please, “Meet John Smith” (October 03, 1948)
04:38:55.130 = Radio City Playhouse, “The Promise” (May 30, 1949)
05:07:44.167 = 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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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:33.6 | We all know someone who struggles with depression, whether we're aware of it or not. |
| 0:37.3 | It's something those who suffer tend to deal with in silence, in the shadows. |
| 0:41.9 | But the organizations we are supporting with our annual overcoming the darkness fundraiser this month are working to make it easier for those in the darkness to come into the light, |
| 0:46.6 | to find help, and to learn they're not alone, that there are ways to overcome the darkness |
| 0:51.0 | of depression and live normal lives. I do this fundraiser only one month |
| 0:56.1 | out of the year, as October is the anniversary month for Weird Darkness. We launched in October |
| 1:00.6 | 2015, it's National Depression Awareness Month, and this month is spooky and dark, kind of like |
| 1:06.0 | depression. If you'd like to make a donation or learn more about the fundraiser or find hope |
| 1:10.7 | for yourself or someone you know who struggles with depression, visit weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 1:17.0 | The fundraiser ends Halloween night at midnight. |
| 1:20.0 | Please give what you can. |
| 1:21.6 | Weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 1:24.8 | The weather. |
| 1:25.8 | Tomorrow expect a biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 1:31.1 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild than untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you |
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