“I Don't Experience Thursdays” and More Creepypastas
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/thursdays
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: He hasn't experienced a Thursday since preschool — and after a lifetime of wondering what his other self has been doing in his absence, he decides this week to give him the day off. (I Don’t Experience Thursdays) *** A stroke left him barely able to walk or speak — and when an off-the-grid doctor offered to replace the damaged lobe of his brain with one from a deceased donor, he was on a plane to Nicaragua within the month. (I Am Not Myself These Days) *** His best friend moved two states away when they were nine, and after a year of letters back and forth, one finally invited him out for Halloween — so he and his mom packed the car and drove ten hours into the middle of nowhere. (Letters From Ben) *** He woke to emergency alarms aboard the SSE Sentinel — and when he asked the ship's computer how many of his fifteen hundred crewmates were still alive, it told him there were twenty-two life forms left on board, and only one of them was human. (Awaiting Input) *** He'd been chatting with a girl on Reddit for months — and when she asked him to answer five would-you-rather questions for the novel she was writing, he typed out his answers and went about his day. (I Played a Game on Reddit)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:40.708 = I Don’t Experience Thursdays
00:08:45.325 = I Am Not Myself These Days ***
00:20:48.793 = Letters From Ben
00:37:17.591 = Awaiting Input ***
00:53:59.172 = I Played a Game on Reddit ***
01:07:03.698 = Show Close & Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“I Don’t Experience Thursdays” by Fritz Bassus: https://tinyurl.com/y7fj6ufy
“I’m Not Myself These Days” by Micah Edwards: https://tinyurl.com/yahdkmgr
“Letters From Ben” by Nick Botic: https://tinyurl.com/yd8ym8zn
“Awaiting Input” by Jackson Barnard: https://tinyurl.com/ycqehy7g
“I Played a Game On Reddit” by Holly Riordan for Thought Catalog: https://tinyurl.com/yaj8xx4k
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Originally aired: April 23, 2020
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| 0:00.0 | The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room. |
| 0:11.0 | And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap. |
| 0:18.0 | He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize. |
| 0:22.1 | No windows. |
| 0:23.4 | A door with no handle. |
| 0:25.4 | Light with no source. |
| 0:27.6 | And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file, |
| 0:35.6 | who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room, |
| 0:41.5 | he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file. |
| 0:51.6 | Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned |
| 0:57.8 | the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary. |
| 1:05.5 | Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most. |
| 1:12.8 | But this isn't just a life review. |
| 1:15.9 | Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate, |
| 1:22.8 | with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human. |
| 1:27.5 | There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting |
| 1:32.1 | room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads. |
| 1:38.9 | The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling |
| 1:43.9 | back the veil on the |
| 1:45.1 | supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then, |
| 1:53.7 | the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at |
| 2:02.6 | Weird Darkness.com. |
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