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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“THE BROWN LADY OF RAYNAM HALL” and More True Paranormal Christmas Tales! #12NightmaresOfXmas

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

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

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Episode 2 of 12 in the “Twelve Nightmares of Christmas” series!
In this episode: “The USS Constellation”, “Lord Combermere Returns”, “The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall”, “The Ghost of Anne Boleyn”, “The Eilean Mor Lighthouse”, “The Mystery of the Mary Celeste”, “The Palatine Light”

SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults:https://amzn.to/3uT2vMA
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0:00.0

Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness.

0:05.3

Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.

0:14.2

If you're new here, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Android so you don't miss future episodes.

0:24.9

This is a special 12 Nightmares of Christmas episode. Each day from December 13th through December 24th, I'm posting a new episode of Weird

0:31.2

Darkness, featuring material from the new book The Spirits of Christmas, The Dark Side

0:36.8

of the Holidays by Sylvia Schultz.

0:38.7

Be sure to come back every day from December 13th through the 24th for more holiday

0:44.4

horrors.

0:44.9

Now bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, put another log onto

0:51.7

the fire, pour yourself an eggnog, and come with me, into the weird

0:56.5

darkness.

1:17.7

After America won independence, England, the new young nation had miles upon miles of coastline to protect.

1:20.1

Ships were built to form America's First Navy.

1:23.6

One of these was the USS Constellation, One hundred and seventy-five feet long, with three main masts, she was launched at Harris

1:32.9

Creek, Maryland on September 7, 1797, as a 36-gun frigate.

1:39.6

Her first captain was Thomas Truxton, and he started the ship's bloody career with a bang,

1:46.2

quite literally.

1:48.2

On February 5, 1799, the Constellation got into a battle with the French frigate Leensurgents

1:55.0

in the West Indies.

1:56.8

The French ship was captured, but in the heat and terror of battle, a sailor named Neil Harvey

2:02.6

deserted his post.

2:04.9

Truxton found out and ordered a Lieutenant Starrett to run Harvey through with his sword.

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