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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: She Overheard a Murder Plot On The Phone… But No One Believed Her

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 592 minutes

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Summary

A bedridden woman overhears a chilling phone call and desperately tries to stop a murder before it’s too late. A true classic starring Agnes Moorehead in the premiere episode of Suspense! | #RetroRadio EP0468

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Lovers And Killers” (August 05, 1976) ***WD
00:45:33.706 = Sleep No More, “Conqueror’s Isle” (November 21, 1956) ***WD
01:14:07.974 = BBC Spine Chillers, “The Blue Room” (1984)
01:26:36.956 = Stay Tuned For Fear, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945)
01:41:09.374 = Strange Wills, “Madman’s Diary” (August 17, 1946)
02:10:54.660 = Strange, “Phantom Wagoneer” (March 21, 1955) ***WD
02:24:29.921 = Suspense, “Sorry, Wrong Number” (August 21, 1943)
02:51:48.563 = Tales of the Frightened, “Shakespeare’s Hometown” (December 17, 1957)
02:56:06.679 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953)
03:26:00.988 = The Saint, “Monkey” (December 10, 1950) ***WD
03:55:33.909 = Theater 1030, “Two Little Punctures” (1968-1971) ***WD
04:22:34.658 = 2000 Plus, “Rocket And Skull” (October 10, 1951) ***WD
04:50:42.654 = The Unexpected, “Cargo Unknown” (1948) ***WD
05:05:22.311 = Unsolved Mysteries, “The Witch Doctor’ (1930s) ***WD
05:20:18.561 = Mercury Theater, “Dracula” (July 11, 1938) ***WD
06:16:04.005 = Dark Venture, “Eclipse” (August 07, 1945)
06:45:50.012 = The Weird Circle, “Mark of Plague” (1944)
07:13:26.045 = The Whistler, “Murder In Mind” (February 13, 1944) ***WD
07:39:47.861 = Witch’s Tale, “Priest of Sekhet” (February 27, 1933) ***WD (LQ)
08:05:14.743 = X Minus One, “The Sense of Wonder” (April 24, 1956)
08:33:05.838 = ABC Mystery Time, “Sherlock Speckled Band” (May 01, 1951)
09:00:56.934 = Strange Adventure, “The Jade God” (1945) ***WD
09:04:17.271 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
09:31:40.783 = Beyond The Green Door, “Philip Baine In The Yukon” (1966) ***WD
09:35:21.173 = The Black Book, “Vagabond Murder” (March 02, 1952) ***WD
09:49:51.036 = 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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Several times per week, you'll get an email that not only includes the audio player with a recent episode, but a deep dive article of that same subject, going more in depth than what you heard in the podcast.

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I also post numerous articles that never make it into the podcast, and I share

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those in the newsletter, too. Along with transcripts of my horrible humor podcast, Mind of Marler,

0:27.0

you'll get videos of murder noir as I post them, the most popular video of the week from my

0:31.9

YouTube channel. Plus, I include bonus audio in the newsletter every week that I don't post

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to the podcast, and if I still

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have room at the bottom, I'll stick a funny meme in there for you. Sign up for the free Weird Darkness

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newsletter at Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter. That's Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter. As a member of

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this weirdo family, I value your input, and while I try to keep up with the emails, online messages, and comments I receive, one thing I've not really done is ask your opinions about certain things I offer in the podcast. Do you like the murder noir episodes? What about the old-time radio stuff? Does the more comedic mind-of-marler uploads even belong in the

1:11.9

podcast? If you could change one thing about Weird Darkness, what would it be? Take the survey

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at Weirddarkness.com slash survey, and let me know what you think about what I do and how I do

1:22.5

it. It'll only take about two minutes, but it'll be invaluable to me as a creator. To find out what you like

1:28.2

and don't like, what you'd like to see more of, or less of, visit weirddarkness.com

1:33.0

slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com slash survey. The Black Museum

1:45.7

Affiliated stations present

1:48.7

Escape

1:49.6

Hall of fantasy

1:52.6

Inner Sanctum

1:55.8

Lights out

1:59.0

Murder Murder Murder Ah Lights out.

2:02.8

Murder.

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