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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

KING KONG – A 1938 Radio Drama!

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 309 minutes

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Summary

A film crew ventures to a mysterious island where ancient legends prove terrifyingly real — and the giant ape they capture and bring back to civilization will make his final stand atop the tallest building in the world. | #RetroRadio EP0565

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Beyond The Barrier” (March 07, 1977)
00:46:29.966 = KING KONG (1938) – no other information is known ***WD
01:22:49.214 = The Black mass, “Atrophy” (October 10, 1964) ***WD
01:49:23.180 = Beyond Midnight, “An Eye For An Eye” (May 02, 1969) ***WD
02:16:38.314 = Mindwebs, “The Metal Man” (July 08, 1979)
02:46:02.617 = Somebody Knows, “The Unsolved Murder of Paula Kohler Eubanks” (August 03, 1950)
03:15:37.714 = Mystery In The Air, “Crime and Punishment” (September 25, 1947) ***WD
03:41:06.151 = Murder at Midnight, “The House Where Death Lived” (December 23, 1946) ***WD
04:06:55.107 = The Black Museum, “The Leather Bag” (June 03, 1952) ***WD
04:35:26.379 = Mysterious Traveler, “Killer At Large” (June 06, 1950) ***WD
05:04:32.038 = 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

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.

0:37.9

The Black Museum. Affiliated stations present

0:40.9

Escape

0:41.8

All of fantasy

0:44.8

Inner Sanctum Miss

0:48.2

Lights out

0:51.2

Murder Murder At men of Lights out. Murder.

0:56.0

Admini

0:59.0

The sealed book.

1:06.0

Present.

1:07.0

Suspense.

1:09.0

I am the whistler. Welcome, weirdos. Suspense.

1:12.9

I am the whistler.

1:14.5

Welcome Weirdos.

1:19.0

I'm Darren Marler, and this is Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark.

1:21.4

Brought to you by Weird Darkness.com.

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