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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 326 minutes
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Summary
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Bound East For Haiti” (April 25, 1977) ***WD
00:46:30.827 = Origin of Superstition, “Bubbles In A Tea Cup” (1935) ***WD
01:00:55.877 = Peril, “Sidewalk Empire” (1953) ***WD
01:24:14.373 = Mystery Playhouse, “Not Quite Perfect” (November 09, 1945) ***WD
01:47:35.100 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse” (September 18, 1951)
02:17:02.942 = Price of Fear, “Remains To Be Seen” (September 01, 1973) ***WD
02:44:06.497 = Quiet Please, “The Evening And The Morning” (November 14, 1948) ***Wdz
03:13:25.519 = Radio City Playhouse, “Birthday Party” (July 25, 1949)
03:42:05.797 = Sam Spade, “The Civic Pride Caper” (April 13, 1951)
04:11:01.241 = The Sealed Book, “Beware of Tomorrow” (July 29, 1945) ***WD
04:40:03.242 = The Shadow, “The Killer’s Rendezvous” (December 15, 1940)
05:04:57.131 = Show Close
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(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.
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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 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes |
| 0:06.6 | for a fresh start with his family. |
| 0:09.0 | But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 0:14.5 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique |
| 0:20.3 | Advent calendar, a relic, counting |
| 0:23.2 | down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 0:27.0 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 0:33.3 | itself starts to crack. |
| 0:35.8 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that |
| 0:39.3 | has been waiting for him for years. Now, with his wife and two young sons in peril and the |
| 0:45.4 | final door of the calendar looming, Matt must find a way to stop this holiday horror, or risk |
| 0:51.8 | losing everything and everyone he loves. |
| 0:55.9 | 24 days, 24 doors, all leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. |
| 1:05.2 | Advent of Evil, the new novel by Scott Donnelly, based on a concept by Weird Darkness host |
| 1:10.5 | Darren Marler is now |
| 1:11.8 | available in full audiobook form, as well as Kindle, paperback, and hardback editions. |
| 1:17.7 | Visit Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil to give yourself the gift of terror. |
| 1:24.7 | Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. |
| 1:31.0 | Hey, weirdos. I want to share something fun that I've been doing that I think you might |
| 1:34.8 | enjoy, especially if you like horror fiction and audio drama. It's not in my podcast or |
| 1:41.1 | YouTube channel. It's over at Doorway to Nightmare. |
| 1:49.3 | Several times per week, they come out with new episodes of completely original audio terror written by the talents of Winslow Swan and Crimson McKenzie. |
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