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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

THE CORPSE THAT WOULDN’T DIE: Drowned in the Seine, Resurrected in Guilt and Madness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 597 minutes

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Summary

A doomed marriage, a forbidden affair, and a murder on the Seine lead to a chilling descent into madness and guilt when the corpse of a weak husband refuses to stay buried in “The Corpse That Would Not Die” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater! | #RetroRadio EP0452

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Corpse That Wouldn't Die” (June 07, 1976)
00:46:32.039 = Obsession, “The Hangman” (January 15, 1951) ***WD
01:16:31.161 = Origin of Superstition, “Throwing Salt” (1935)
01:31:19.180 = Mystery Playhouse, “Two Men In a Furnished Room” (September 27, 1946) ***WD
01:55:22.360 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Four Hours to Kill” (May 13, 1949) ***WD
02:24:36.634 = The Price of Fear, “Meeting In Athens” (July 07, 1973) ***WD
02:52:14.437 = Quiet Please, “Not Responsible After 30 Years” (June 14, 1948)
03:21:49.491 = Radio City Playhouse, “Elementals” (February 14, 1949)
03:51:50.350 = Judy and Jane, “Marijuana Plot” (March 25, 1942) ***WD
04:02:30.525 = Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, “Thrifty Nephew” (1930) ***WD
04:03:30.238 = The Saint, “Return of Harry Morgan” (November 12, 1950) ***WD
04:32:08.136 = Sam Spade, “Tears of Night” (July 24, 1949) ***WD
04:59:35.171 = The Sealed Book, “Escape By Death” (April 15, 1945) ***WD
05:30:40.329 = The Shadow, “The Cat That Killed” (December 31, 1939)
05:56:59.120 = Sleep No More, “Passenger To Bali” (April 10, 1957) ***WD
06:24:39.965 = BBC’s Spine Chillers, ‘’A Fare To Remember” (1984)
06:37:40.396 = Strange Wills, “One Shining Night” (July 20, 1946)
07:07:27.227 = Strange, “Captain Robinson” (1955)
07:21:23.424 = Suspense, “Murder Goes For a Swim” (July 20, 1943)
07:51:23.760 = Tales of the Frightened, “Voice From The Grave” (1957)
07:56:22.118 = Theater Five, “Subject Number 428A” (October 02, 1964)
08:17:13.779 = Theater 1030, “The Pedestrian” (1968-1971) ***WD
08:43:08.751 = Two Thousand Plus, “Green Thing” (September 27, 1950) ***WD
09:13:02.526 = Unit 99, “Silk Stocking Bandits” (March 28, 1958)
09:38:49.888 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Writing On The Wall” (1936) ***WD
09:53:31.800 = 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.
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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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:10.9

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0:16.3

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0:18.9

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0:24.5

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0:27.6

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0:29.0

One twist changes everything.

0:32.8

A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game.

0:38.0

A mysterious cigar box purchased at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands

0:44.5

a replacement prisoner.

0:47.0

An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls.

0:54.0

An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs.

1:02.7

With each turn through these 20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality,

1:10.9

creating dazzling patterns of horror

1:13.0

that entrance as they terrify.

1:16.6

The kaleidoscope,

1:18.5

20 terrifying tales of horror

1:20.6

and the supernatural by AP Royal,

1:23.7

narrated by Darren Marler.

1:25.8

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