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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

MORTMAIN: The Vengeful Ghost of Her First Husband

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 312 minutes

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Summary

A newlywed couple’s honeymoon drifts into darkness when the ghost of the bride’s first husband refuses to stay buried. | #RetroRadio EP0448

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Mexican Standoff” (May 24, 1976) ***WD
00:45:58.382 = Strange Adventure, “His Last Laugh” (1945)
00:49:24.513 = Adventures By Morse, “It’s Dismal To Die, Part 1” (December 16, 1944)
01:17:21.146 = Adventures By Morse, “It’s Dismal To Die, Part 2” (December 23, 1944)
01:44:37.101 = Adventures By Morse, “It’s Dismal To Die, Part 3” (December 30, 1944)
02:12:05.086 = Appointment With Fear, “Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
02:41:02.207 = BBC Ghost Story, “Mortmain” (April 22, 1992)
03:25:30.972 = Beyond The Green Door, “Eddie Fox-Hobo In Oakdale” (1966)
03:29:34.149 = The Black Book, “The Price of the Head” (February 02, 1952) ***WD
03:44:29.421 = Box 13, “Daytime Nightmare” (May 15, 1949)
04:11:13.231 = CBC Mystery Theater, “A Perfectly Happy Life” (1966-1968) ***WD
04:41:05.595 = The Clock, “The Manicurist” (July 14, 1947) ***WD
05:07:43.237 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

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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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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