I Died and Woke Up as a Contestant on a Twisted Afterlife Game Show
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: “N.D.E.” (“Where To Next?”) by Luther Kross
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“N.D.E.” (short horror fiction) by Luther Kross: https://www.facebook.com/lutherkross
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EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/WhereToNext
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.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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| 0:33.6 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes |
| 0:38.8 | for a fresh start with his family. |
| 0:41.5 | But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 0:46.8 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique |
| 0:52.4 | advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night |
| 0:55.9 | when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 0:59.0 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 1:05.4 | itself starts to crack. |
| 1:08.1 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting |
| 1:12.7 | for him for years. Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, |
| 1:19.7 | Matt must confront the truth. Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. |
| 1:28.8 | 24 doors. |
| 1:31.2 | All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. |
| 1:36.7 | Advent of Evil, a 24-episode horror event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st, |
| 1:43.9 | or get the entire novel at WeirdDarkness.com |
| 1:47.4 | slash Advent of Evil. |
| 1:50.2 | There's no better feeling than waking up surrounded by comfort from Dunelm, the home of your kind of cozy. |
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