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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Inn Spectre: A Cistercian Abbey, A Wine Cellar Coven, And A Husband With Plans | #RetroRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 305 minutes

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Summary

The Crown and Mitre Inn stands on the bones of an old abbey, and the man who bought the inn for what's buried under the cellar floor is about to find out he's not the only one who can call a ghost up the stairs.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The House By The Seine” (October 27, 1977)
00:48:21.264 = Sleep No More, “Waxwork Man and Snake” (January 09, 1957) ***WD
01:16:28.954 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “Figures” (February 14, 1984)
01:54:50.053 = Strange Wills, “One Shining Night” (July 20, 1946)
02:24:24.864 = Strange, “Deadman’s Reef” (1955) ***WD
02:36:29.815 = Suspense, “Life Ends at Midnight” (February 17, 1944)
03:07:07.268 = Tales of the Frightened, “Hands of Fate” (December 09, 1957) ***WD
03:11:39.865 = The Creaking Door, “Inn Spectre” (July 27, 1964) ***WD
03:37:49.809 = The Saint, “Nursemaid” (July 15, 1951)
04:06:47.629 = Theater Five, “Deedle Deedle Dumpling My Son X-1” (November 13, 1964) ***WD
04:28:40.805 = Tales From The Tomb, “A Ghost Or a Vampire” (1960s)
04:34:07.376 = 2000 Plus, “Robot Killer” (August 30, 1950) ***WD (LQ)
05:02:34.445 = 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.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0661

Transcript

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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. The Black Museum. Affiliated stations present.

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