Never Challenge A Suspected Witch – “EXORCISM” by Ray Bradbury, a Fun Creepy Story! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Info on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScream
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s Thriller Thursday where I bring you stories of sci-fi or horror fiction. The name Ray Bradbury immediately brings to mind such fictional tales – classics, many of them… some of which I’ve narrated here in the podcast such as “The Jar”, “Skeleton”, and a disturbing one I recently posted here called “The Small Assassin.” But as good as Bradbury was at writing about the paranormal, he could also write comedy – and in tonight’s story he combines the two. “Exorcism” is a fun short tale about a nosy housewife who suspects an older woman in town is studying to become a witch… and decides to confront the old lady to voice her disapproval.
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Exorcism” by Ray Bradbury, from the book “The Stories of Ray Bradbury” from Rosetta Books:https://amzn.to/49nrJTG
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library.
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Originally aired: December 05, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | We all dream, but for some people, what should be a time for their bodies and minds to |
| 0:08.0 | rest turns into a nightmare from which they cannot escape. |
| 0:12.0 | Our next Weird Darkness live screen is Saturday night, December 28th on the Weird Darkness |
| 0:17.0 | YouTube channel, and during the live broadcast I'll share some of these chilling nighttime |
| 0:21.4 | stories. Tales of shadow people, sleep paralysis, and demons who stalk their victims in that |
| 0:27.5 | place between dreams and reality. I'll share true tales of prophetic dreams, some joyful, some |
| 0:33.6 | not. Sleepwalking incidents that are both amusing and disturbing. I'll also share real |
| 0:38.9 | stories of night terrors so horrifying that sleep became something to fear and dread for those |
| 0:44.9 | victimized by the night. You might not want to sleep after joining our next live screen. It's |
| 0:50.4 | Saturday, December 28th at 5 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, 7 p.m. Central, 8 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:56.8 | On the lighter side, I'll also be responding to comments and questions live on the air and doing a giveaway of some weird darkness merch. |
| 1:04.5 | Prepare yourself for our next live screen for chilling tales of what some people must endure in an attempt to get some sleep. |
| 1:12.6 | Find the details on the live screen page at weirddarkness.com. |
| 1:18.0 | As heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third-party agencies outside of my control |
| 1:23.2 | and should not imply an endorsement by weird darkness or myself. |
| 1:26.6 | Stories and content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended |
| 1:30.9 | for mature audiences only. |
| 1:32.7 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:43.0 | Welcome Weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories |
| 1:48.3 | of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, |
| 1:57.2 | mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 2:02.7 | Coming up in this episode, it's Thriller Thursday, where I bring you stories of |
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