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

THE BRAIN WITHOUT MERCY: A Mad Scientist Removed His Brain To Find The Location of Stolen Loot!

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

Darren Marlar

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

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 570 minutes

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Summary

A mad scientist removes the brain of a severely injured hijacker in a desperate bid to uncover the location of stolen loot! | #RetroRadio EP0465

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Brain Without Mercy” (July 26, 1976)
00:46:18.655 = The Clock, “Professor Leonard Higgens” (August 25, 1947)
01:08:35.367 = The Confession, “The Peter W. Greer Case” (August 09, 1953) ***WD
01:38:10.997 = The Crime Club, “Silent Witnesses” (March 27, 1947) ***WD
02:07:27.117 = Sounds of Darkness, “The Postman Knocks Death” (September 01, 1970)
02:32:37.830 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Live Forever” (December 10, 1971) ***WD
02:57:35.819 = Dimension X, “Vital Factor” (August 16, 1951) ***WD
03:27:17.709 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Survival of the Fittest” (January 23, 1945) ***WD
03:39:01.342 = The Creaking Door, “Aunt Mae” (1964-1968)
04:08:02.586 = The Eleventh Hour, “Project X112” (February 27, 1946) ***WD
04:35:19.673 = Escape, “Leiningen Versus The Ants” (May 23, 1948) ***WD
05:04:45.928 = Murder By Experts, “Summer Heat” (June 13, 1949) ***WD
05:34:14.956 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Space Baby/First Baby In Space” (June 18, 1958)
05:54:13.543 = Faces In The Window, “Lightning Rod” (January 17, 1953) ***WD (LQ)
06:17:53.868 = Dark Fantasy, “Superstition Be Hanged” (March 13, 1942)
06:42:07.060 = Diary of Fate, “John Haynes” (July 13, 1948) ***WD
07:08:44.186 = BBC Fear on 4, “Hand In Glove” (March 05, 1989)
07:37:45.496 = Five After the Hour, “Murder Has No Tongue” (June 27, 1945) ***WD
08:01:07.459 = 5 Minute Mysteries, “Misfit Clue” (late 1940s)
08:06:07.528 = Future Tense, “Martian Death March” (May 07, 1974) ***WD
08:33:40.918 = Gang Busters, “Cumberland Safecracker” (March 27, 1948)
08:58:05.435 = Barrie Craig, “Sneak Assassin” (November 21, 1954)
09:27:21.796 = 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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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

1:03.8

you heard in the podcast. I also post numerous articles that never make it into the podcast,

1:08.3

and I share those in the newsletter, too. Along with transcripts

1:11.3

of my horribalable humor podcast, Mind of Marler, you'll get videos of murder noir as I post

1:16.9

them, the most popular video of the week from my YouTube channel. Plus, I include bonus audio

1:21.7

in the newsletter every week that I don't post to the podcast, and if I still have room at the bottom,

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I'll stick a funny meme in there for you.

1:29.5

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1:37.3

The Black Museum

1:45.7

Affiliated stations present

1:48.7

Escape

1:49.6

Hall of fantasy

1:52.6

Inner Sanctum

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