IDENTITY CRISIS: Who Wants the World's First Brain Transplant to Fail?
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 305 minutes
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Summary
When a powerful state senator becomes the first human to receive a brain transplant, the operating room becomes a battleground where wives wrestle with losing their husbands, corrupt contractors scheme to protect their secrets, and multiple conspirators work to ensure the surgery fails. As the anesthesia takes hold, the senator has no idea that more people want him dead on the table than alive with a new body. Hear the story in “Identity Crisis!” | #RetroRadio EP0522
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Identity Crisis” (December 10, 1976)
00:46:09.187 = X Minus One, “Wherever You May Be” (June 26, 1956)
01:09:33.381 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 1” (February 04, 1974)
01:32:58.988 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 2” (February 05, 1974)
01:55:55.630 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 3” (February 06, 1974)
02:19:04.712 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 4” (February 07, 1974)
02:43:23.200 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 5” (February 08, 1974)
03:06:27.291 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
03:30:28.090 = Strange Adventure, “Jinx On The Speedway” (1945)
03:33:47.283 = Appointment With Fear, “Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
04:02:34.004 = BBC Haunting Women, “The Riding Crop” (October 28, 2005)
04:16:18.500 = Beyond The Green Door, “Alaskan Justice” (1966) ***WD
04:20:01.459 = Challenge of the Yukon/Sgt of the Yukon, “Magnanimous Ghost” (August 28, 1945)
04:34:27.235 = Box 13, “Round Robin” (August 14, 1949)
05:00:58.144 = 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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| 0:00.0 | Hey, weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, |
| 0:04.8 | I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing, what you like, what you don't like, |
| 0:09.2 | what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you were in charge, well, you get the idea. |
| 0:14.5 | I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website so you can send me your opinions, and it's |
| 0:19.0 | completely anonymous, so you can be completely |
| 0:21.4 | honest. This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so again, |
| 0:27.0 | and I'd appreciate you doing so. Visit weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com |
| 0:33.4 | slash survey. Hey, weirdos, just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, |
| 0:39.1 | we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. |
| 0:43.9 | I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at that time, usually the podcast episode for the |
| 0:48.7 | day, and then during the premiere, we all hang out in the YouTube live chat. |
| 0:52.5 | Even if you've already heard that day's |
| 0:54.2 | episode here in the podcast, you're still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every |
| 0:58.6 | weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends, too, because I have |
| 1:04.9 | no social life whatsoever. You can find my channel at weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. That's |
| 1:09.8 | weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. That's Weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. |
| 1:13.2 | Hi. I'm Darren Marler, host of the Weird Darkness podcast. I'd like to talk to you about something |
| 1:20.7 | that's very near and dear to my heart, my career. We've had a great run with Weird Darkness, and this October we'll celebrate ten years |
| 1:31.1 | doing this show. |
| 1:32.7 | Ten years. |
| 1:34.5 | We've had great reviews, a great response from amazing listeners like you, but unfortunately |
| 1:41.4 | now, we're not as well known as we could be. |
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