SHE JUST WANTED FRIENDS, THEY KILLED HER INSTEAD: The Betrayal, Murder and Injustice of Mary Collins
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: A pale-faced figure in a cape has haunted a quiet Wisconsin town for decades — vanishing without a trace, but never from memory. We’ll look at the legend of the Mineral Point Vampire. *** Navy radar specialists witness four mysterious craft emerge from the ocean depths and vanish at impossible speeds, adding weight to a startling theory: what if intelligent beings from Venus colonized Earth’s oceans long ago without our knowledge? It’s an interesting if not far-out theory. *** They’re meant to be places of privacy, but in these haunted rooms, something unseen is always watching… and it never leaves. And that idea is even more disconcerting when you find out that you’re being watched by a ghostly entity… while you’re using the bathroom. *** An innocent young woman placed her trust in the wrong hands — what happened next would horrify even the most hardened investigators. It’s the tragic and horrifying true story of Mary Collins.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:02:00.023 = Show Open
00:03:56.591 = She Just Wanted Friends: The Mary Collins Story
00:21:44.683 = From Mines To Monsters To Mineral Point: One-Stop Shopping For Vampires, Ghosts & Goblins
00:35:44.216 = Ancient Guardians of the Deep: The Venusian Ocean Civilization Theory
00:46:47.347 = Porcelain Portals of the Paranormal: Haunted Bathrooms
00:56:02.303 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “The W-Files” by Jay Rath: https://amzn.to/458kQVZ
“SHE JUST WANTED FRIENDS: The Mary Collins Story”: https://medium.com/@TheCrimeChronicles./how-mary-collins-was-stabbed-133-times-6cc490d885ac,https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article276120786.html,https://medium.com/@crimedesk/betrayed-by-trust-the-tragic-murder-of-mary-collins-174207ec4792,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZJXiOeZa-o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTSDt7-X9E,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mckGn-yHnWo, https://lostsoulsofamerica.wordpress.com/2022/03/23/murdered-in-north-carolina-the-case-of-mary-collins%EF%BF%BC/, https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/she-just-wanted-friends-the-tragic-murder-of-mary-collins
“ANCIENT GUARDIANS OF THE DEEP: The Venusian Ocean Civilization Theory”: https://anomalien.com/new-theory-ufos-belong-to-aliens-from-venus-who-live-in-the-oceans/, https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/navy-sailor-recounts-ufo-sighting-off-california-coast/, https://anomalien.com/new-us-military-video-released-of-group-of-ufos-taking-off-from-ocean/, https://anomalien.com/uss-jackson-radar-specialist-uap-emerged-from-the-ocean/
“FROM MINES, TO MONSTERS, TO MINERAL POINT: One-Stop Shopping for Vampires, Ghosts, and Goblins”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5u8OfSS_Y, https://www.ranker.com/list/mineral-point-vampire/april-a-taylor,https://www.wisconsinology.com/the-weird/the-mineral-point-vampire,https://authorlyngibson.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/the-vampire-of-mineral-point/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpsG8lJRpJE, https://driftlesstimesmedia.com/2024/05/05/mineral-point-vampire-wisconsin-folklore/
“PORCELAIN PORTALS TO THE PARANORMAL: Haunted Bathrooms”: https://www.ranker.com/list/most-haunted-bathrooms/patrick-thornton
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Originally aired: May 13, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories don't just disturb us. |
| 0:09.9 | They stay with us, long after the last word. |
| 0:14.0 | This one begins with a young woman named Mary Collins. |
| 0:17.9 | Bright, trusting, and brimming with creativity, Mary was born with a rare genetic |
| 0:23.0 | disorder that made life harder, but never stopped her from living it with joy. |
| 0:28.7 | She loved sushi, vibrant hair dye, makeup tutorials and photography. |
| 0:34.2 | She adored her family, and she believed, sometimes to her own detriment, in the goodness of others. |
| 0:41.2 | Mary's world was often smaller than most. |
| 0:44.7 | Despite her age of 20, her cognitive abilities were comparable to that of a child just entering |
| 0:50.4 | their early teens. |
| 0:52.1 | But she found happiness in simple things, and, like so many of us, |
| 0:57.2 | she longed for connection. Unfortunately, that longing led her into the path of people who |
| 1:03.2 | didn't see her as a friend, but as something far more exploitable. In the spring of 2020, after months of isolation due to COVID lockdowns, Mary accepted |
| 1:14.7 | an invitation to hang out with a couple she believed were her friends, one of whom she had |
| 1:19.5 | known from high school. |
| 1:21.4 | It was a chance to break free from quarantine loneliness, to feel like part of something. |
| 1:27.4 | She left home excited, even as her |
| 1:29.3 | grandmother worried deeply. What followed is a story that exposes how cruelty hides behind |
| 1:36.6 | the faces we think we know, and how easily the most vulnerable can slip through the cracks |
| 1:42.4 | of justice. This is not just Mary's story. It's an |
| 1:47.2 | indictment of a system that failed her and a testament to the family who refuses to let |
| 1:52.7 | her voice be forgotten. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, Weirdoes. Here you'll find stories of the |
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