THE GHOST WHO FORGOT HALLOWEEN: Who Knew Ghost School Would Be So Boring?
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 311 minutes
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Summary
A sleepy ghost named Wilbur is failing ghost school because he can't stay awake and keeps forgetting important ghostly duties, including Halloween itself. | #RetroRadio EP0526
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Quiet Evening at Home” (December 17, 1976)
00:45:57.482 = House of Mystery, “The Ghost Who Forgot Halloween” (October 27, 1945) ***WD
01:17:18.992 = Incredible But True, “Familiar Streets” (January 28, 1951) ***WD (LQ)
01:20:49.852 = Inner Sanctum, “Strands of Death” (March 12, 1946) ***WD
01:50:44.622 = The Key, “The Deception” (1956) ***WD (LQ)
02:16:29.766 = Lights Out, “The Signalman” (August 24, 1946)
02:45:53.924 = Lux Radio Theater, “Strangers on a Train” (December 03, 1951)
03:40:41.819 = Macabre, “House In The Garden” (December 04, 1961) ***WD
04:10:06.928 = Philip Marlowe, “Rustin Hickory” (September 10, 1949)
04:39:29.749 = Escape, “The Abominable Snowman” (September 13, 1953)
05:08:22.640 = Show Close
(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(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 | October is birthday month for Weird Darkness. This year makes 10 years of doing the show. |
| 0:05.3 | But while it's our birthday, we want the gifts to go to those who help people who suffer from |
| 0:09.5 | depression, anxiety, or thoughts of suicide or self-harm. That's what our annual overcoming the |
| 0:14.9 | darkness campaign is all about. It's the only fundraiser I have all year long. You can bring hope |
| 0:20.3 | to those who are lost in the darkness of depression. |
| 0:23.0 | You can make a donation right now at weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 0:27.7 | I'll close out the fundraiser at the end of October and announce how much we raised. |
| 0:31.5 | The more we raise, the more people we can help. |
| 0:34.2 | To donate, get more information about the fundraiser and the organizations we're supporting, or find hope for yourself or someone you know who are fighting to help. To donate, get more information about the fundraiser and the organizations we're |
| 0:37.7 | supporting, or find hope for yourself or someone you know who are fighting depression, visit |
| 0:42.5 | Weirddarkness.com slash hope. Please donate now while you're thinking about it. Weirddarkness.com |
| 0:48.7 | slash hope. Weird Darkness is celebrating our birthday this month. We use this annual celebration |
| 0:54.0 | to help those who struggle with depression. |
| 0:56.5 | Every October, we raise money for organizations that help people overcome depression, anxiety, |
| 1:01.5 | and thoughts of suicide and self-harm. |
| 1:03.9 | It's called Overcoming the Darkness, and you can make a donation right now at weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 1:10.6 | That's weirddarkness.com slash hope. That's weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 1:13.2 | A gift of any amount helps, with every dollar bringing hope to someone affected by depression. |
| 1:18.3 | To donate, to get more information about overcoming the darkness, |
| 1:21.3 | or to find hope to battle back the darkness of depression in yourself or someone you love, |
| 1:26.0 | visit weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 1:28.7 | The fundraiser ends on Halloween night at midnight, so please give right now while you're |
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