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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

She Woke Up in a Prison Cell With No Memory — and They Were Going to Hang Her in the Morning | Retro Radio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 316 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gideon Fell is called into a peculiar murder case involving a woman named Helen Barton, who sits in her prison cell awaiting execution for murder—but she can’t remember committing the crime, or even the victim’s death. Fell must race against time to uncover what really happened and whether there’s evidence that might save her before the fatal hour arrives. | “Clock Strikes Eight” | #RetroRadio EP0587

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Much Too Much” (May 02, 1977) ***WD
00:45:22.616 = BBC’s Appointment With Fear, “Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
01:14:09.337 = BBC’s Ghost Story, “On Harting Hill” (January 01, 2013)
01:28:47.280 = Beyond The Green Door, “Trent Perkins And Sword Swall” (1966) ***WD
01:32:17.692 = Black Book, “Vagabond Murder” (March 02, 1952) ***WD
01:46:47.555 = Nightmare, “Chance of a Ghost” (March 31, 1945) ***WD
02:08:50.858 = Box 13, “Short Assignment” (October 03, 1948)
02:35:23.126 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Trespassers Will Be Experimented Upon” (Feb 11, 1981) ***WD
03:05:59.399 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Highway of Death” (1990-1992)
03:34:14.338 = The Clock, “The Mystery of Loring Square” (October 04, 1955)
03:59:58.804 = The Crime Club, “Gypsy Sings of Death” (August 14, 1947) ***WD
04:28:44.149 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Death Paints a Picture” (October 20, 1946)
04:53:18.554 = Show Close

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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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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

B-monster movies, films directed by notorious names like Ed Wood or Roger Corman,

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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