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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

NEVER ENTER CONDEMNED CRAWFORD ORPHANAGE: You Won’t Like What You Find – Or What Finds You

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

“The Antique Doll” by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors | When Colin and Joshua sneak into the burned ruins of Crawford Orphanage on Halloween night, they're hoping to impress their classmates with tales of their bravery. But the orphanage holds more than just ash and memories—something that's been waiting ten years for visitors to arrive.

Find more family-friendly frights and creepy games to play on our website at http://MicroTerrors.com!
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrors
Other stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaU
Other narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com
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Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids™, 2025#ScaryStoriesForKids #StoriesForKids #KidsStories #HalloweenKids #MicroTerrors #HalloweenStories

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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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