The Golden Portrait That Exposed a Lifetime of Evil
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 298 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, “A Heart of Gold” (February 18, 1977)
00:49:10.976 = Theater 1030, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury (1968-1971) ***WD
01:14:54.686 = 2000 Plus, “The Giant Walks” (November 05, 1950) ***WD (LQ)
01:42:49.013 = The Unexpected, “Free Passage” (August 08, 1948)
01:57:30.052 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
02:11:56.382 = Dark Venture, “Only Inhabitant” (November 19, 1946) ***WD
02:41:35.501 = The Weird Circle, “Duel Without Honor” (January 14, 1945) ***WD
03:09:04.951 = The Whistler, “Beware the Bridegroom” (November 13, 1944) ***WD
03:38:30.802 = The Witch’s tale, “To Share and Share Alike” (December 05, 1935) ***WD (LQ)
04:04:50.007 = X Minus One, “The Stars Are The Styx” (July 24, 1956)
04:33:05.188 = The Zero Hour, “Terror In The Night” (April 30, 1974) ***WD
04:50:33.408 = 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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| 1:03.4 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes for a fresh start with his family. |
| 1:12.6 | But a series of brutal, |
| 1:18.6 | inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique advent calendar, a relic, counting down |
| 1:25.5 | to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 1:29.2 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 1:35.5 | itself starts to crack. |
| 1:38.2 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for |
| 1:43.0 | him for years. |
| 1:44.8 | Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth. |
| 1:52.0 | Some traditions were never meant to be completed. |
| 1:56.5 | 24 days. |
| 1:58.9 | 24 doors. |
| 2:01.4 | All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. |
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