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

for a fresh start with his family.

But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.

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

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

As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality

itself starts to crack.

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

Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth.

Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode

event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st,

or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. A cyber security professional's conversations with ChatGPT

spiraled from scientific curiosity into a months-long delusion that left him believing

he alone could save the world.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

Jacob Irwin's story starts in a way that probably sounds familiar to a lot of people.

The 30-year-old from Wisconsin worked in cybersecurity and used ChatGPT as a tool for his job.

Nothing unusual there, many of us do, but somewhere along the way those conversations took a turn that nobody saw

coming. Between May and August 24, Erwin spent 63 days in psychiatric hospitals. He had no previous

diagnosis of mental illness. His medical records

tell a troubling story, grandiose hallucinations, pyranoid thought processes, reactions

reactions to things nobody else could see or hear. When crisis responders arrived at his

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