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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: A man sits on a bench near the river. His suit is crumpled and ancient, his shoes broken. Now and then he sips from a bottle of cheap wine that has become his only friend. But he doesn't sip with good cheer and happiness, he drinks in horror…
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| 0:00.0 | Central Massachusetts is a land of oddities and apparitions. |
| 0:05.0 | Stories of the strange and paranormal have been passed down from generation to generation, |
| 0:10.0 | and only the local populace has any idea of just how vast and deep their superstitions run. |
| 0:16.3 | The world around you is much more than you can touch, taste, smell, see, and hear. |
| 0:23.6 | Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, but all of them give you a taste of what |
| 0:28.4 | it's like to be from the oddest part of the United States. You can't have a region of the country that has been said. the |
| 0:33.0 | honest part of the United States. You can't have a region of the country that has been |
| 0:34.7 | settled for centuries without getting a few odd tales out of it. |
| 0:39.0 | Open up a whole new world of fact and fiction that'll leave you with a deep appreciation for the strange |
| 0:45.2 | and bizarre. Ghosts and heroes await and the only thing they need to live on is you. |
| 0:51.2 | Slightly Odd Fitchburg by Ed Sweeney. |
| 0:54.4 | Now available on Kindle, Paperback, and Audiovoook versions on the audiobooks page at |
| 0:59.1 | Weird Darkness.com. Do you keep a journal or diary? If not, maybe you should consider it. It's been shown that journaling can help you reduce stress, help relieve depression, builds self-confidence, it boosts your emotional intelligence, helps |
| 1:16.6 | with achieving goals, inspires creativity, and more. In fact, my friend S. N. Lanise has created a weird darkness themed journal just for you. |
| 1:26.1 | Full of blank pages for you to use as a diary, make notes for class or office meetings, |
| 1:31.5 | jot down ideas for that novel you want to write. |
| 1:34.2 | Use it for keeping a mileage log if you travel for business, whatever you want. |
| 1:38.3 | In fact, she has numerous styles of journals to choose from. |
| 1:42.0 | Along with the Weird Darkness Journal, there's one for dealing |
| 1:44.5 | with grief, for teacher's notes, for medical residencies, keeping track of your meds or health routine, |
| 1:50.6 | and several others. Journals make a great gift for others, but it's also a great gift for yourself and your own mental health. No matter what you might want a journal for, my friend Anne has it, and you can see all of her journals including the one for |
| 2:03.6 | Weird Darkness on the sponsors and friends page at weird darkness.com. The Black Museum |
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