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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

THE DEMETER'S FINAL VOYAGE: Dracula's Deadliest Chapter

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When the Russian schooner Demeter drifted into Whitby harbor with its dead captain lashed to the wheel and its entire crew missing, the ship's log revealed a horrifying truth: something ancient and evil had been hunting them one by one across the dark waters. The final entries, written in the captain's trembling hand, chronicle the crew's descent from unease to terror as they realize their cargo of fifty earth-filled boxes conceals a predator that feeds in the night and cannot be killed.

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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “The Last Voyage of Demeter” by Bram Stoker: https://amzn.to/3KZnJ0z
BOOK: “Dracula” (full novel) by Bram Stoker: https://amzn.to/44sXcj4
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EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LastVoyageOfDemeter
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.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.4

I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.

0:07.9

A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.

0:14.2

For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.

0:19.0

Like Teralis, porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square meter. Love it. All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%. So now you can keep up with the Joneses. And the Evanses. And the Bertels. Hey, weirdos. As we get closer to Halloween and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing, what you like,

0:38.1

what you don't like, what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you were in charge,

0:43.1

well, you get the idea. I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website so you can send me

0:47.7

your opinions, and it's completely anonymous, so you can be completely honest. This is a new

0:53.0

survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so again,

0:57.1

and I'd appreciate you doing so.

0:59.0

Visit weirddarkness.com slash survey.

1:02.0

That's weirddarkness.com slash survey.

1:05.0

Hey, weirdos, just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently,

1:09.0

we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up Darkness YouTube channel recently, we've been having fun doing a live chat

1:11.0

each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at

1:16.4

that time, usually the podcast episode for the day, and then during the premiere, we all hang

1:21.0

out in the YouTube live chat. Even if you've already heard that day's episode here in the

1:25.2

podcast, you're still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends,

1:33.2

too, because I have no social life whatsoever. You can find my channel at weirddarkness.com

1:38.7

slash YouTube. That's weirddarkness.com slash YouTube.

1:56.1

Gone from my sight, or Parable of Immortality, a poem by Luther F. Beecher.

2:04.8

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand

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