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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

She Survived the Sinking — But Lost Her Mind | “And The Deep Shuddered”

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 306 minutes

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Summary

A visitor touring an asylum encounters a serene white-haired woman who believes she is still aboard a doomed ocean liner — and the truth behind her delusion is far more heartbreaking than it first appears. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0594

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Countess” (May 26, 1977)
00:45:11.826 = The Zero Hour, “The Price of Admission” (May 03, 1940) ***WD
01:02:36.228 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Time Loser” (1957) ***WD
01:26:36.855 = Strange Adventure, “The Road To Rawhide” (1945) ***WD
01:29:50.123 = Appointment With Fear, “And The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD
01:55:33.788 = BBC Radio, “Red Letter Day” (1986-1987)
02:09:47.141 = Beyond The Green Door, “Mosley Searches For Schneider” (1966)
02:13:23.389 = The Black Book, “The Price of the Head” (February 02, 1952) ***WD
02:28:08.135 = Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, “The Ghost To Ghost Matter” (May 18, 1958) ***WD
02:51:45.567 = Box 13, “Double Mothers” (October 10, 1948)
03:18:40.326 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Two Little Punctures” (September 22, 1967) ***WD
03:45:43.706 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Elmer Vs. The Invaders” (1990-1992) ***WD
04:12:51.496 = The Clock, “The Millionaire” (October 11, 1955)
04:42:17.347 = 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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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Awful Movie Reviews on YouTube.

0:03.6

I've been a fan of awful movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never miss an episode.

0:08.8

Every Friday, you get a new comedic video covering a gosh, awful, horrible, terrible, wretched,

0:13.9

or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre.

0:17.6

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0:22.4

flicks made on budgets lower than your monthly grocery bill, special effects you'd swear

0:26.6

were created by someone who's colorblind, cinematography so shaky, you'd swear a three-year-old

0:31.0

was trying to hold the camera, audio recording in the film that, well, you see where I'm going

0:35.6

here. They even take requests for awful movies you'd like to see them review in the future. You'll probably learn about flicks you've never even heard of while laughing along with the host. You can find awful movie reviews on YouTube by simply searching for awful movie reviews. I've also placed a link to them on my sponsors page so you can find them easily. And if you're like me, at the end of each

0:54.5

awful movie review, you'll be saying it aloud with the host, what an awful movie.

1:02.0

When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes for a

1:07.6

fresh start with his family. But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.

1:15.0

At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique Advent calendar,

1:22.6

a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out.

1:27.5

As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls.

1:32.1

People go mad, and reality itself starts to crack.

1:36.4

The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years.

1:42.8

Now, with his wife and two young sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming,

1:48.4

Matt must find a way to stop this holiday horror, or risk losing everything and everyone he loves.

1:56.6

24 days, 24 doors, all leading to one unholy Christmas Eve.

2:05.9

Advent of Evil, the new novel by Scott Donnelly, based on a concept by Weird Darkness host,

2:11.3

Darren Marler, is now available in full audiobook form, as well as Kindle, Paperback, and Hardback

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