She Fulfilled Her Promise To Return As a Ghost – And Did So In a Completely Different State
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 10 of 12 in the #12NightmaresOfXmas series!
In this episode: “Mrs Pickman’s Ghost”, “Haunts of Hartland”, “The Things We Do For Love”, “The Christmas Rosebush”, “Please Help”, “Footprints In The Snow”, “The Chicken Ghost”
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All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults: https://amzn.to/3uT2vMA
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas, and welcome to Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, |
| 0:06.7 | supernatural, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. If you're new here, |
| 0:13.5 | be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Android so you don't miss future episodes. |
| 0:19.6 | This is a special 12 Nightmares of Christmas episode, and each day, from December 13th |
| 0:25.0 | through December 24th, I'm posting a new episode of Weird Darkness, featuring material |
| 0:30.3 | from the new book, The Spirits of Christmas, The Dark Side of the Holidays by Sylvia |
| 0:35.7 | Shultz. |
| 0:36.8 | So be sure to come back every day between now and the 24th, and be sure to catch up |
| 0:41.9 | with all the episodes you've missed up until this point for more holiday horrors. |
| 0:46.6 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, put another log onto |
| 0:53.2 | the fire. |
| 0:57.1 | And come with me into the weird darkness. Max Kubus lay awake in bed that early December night in 1913. |
| 1:17.6 | There was a real Wisconsin blizzard howling around the house, the winds piling the snow |
| 1:23.7 | into deep drifts. |
| 1:25.5 | But something else was keeping him from sleep. A faint, scratching |
| 1:29.9 | sound coming from somewhere in the house. It wasn't on the second floor where the family slept, |
| 1:35.9 | it seemed to be coming from the first floor. It sounded like someone walking around in |
| 1:42.2 | slippered feet, pacing the night away in the darkness. |
| 1:46.5 | Max couldn't stand it any longer. |
| 1:49.7 | He got out of bed, carefully not to wake his wife, Julia. |
| 1:53.6 | He tiptoed quietly across the room. |
| 1:56.6 | He held his breath as he reached for the doorknob. |
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