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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

THE HEADLESS DEAD: History Is Written in Blood — and Sung in Latin!

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 321 minutes

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Summary

A skeptical tourist at the Tower of London plays an ancient organ — only to awaken haunted by headless phantoms demanding his return. Hear the tale from Dark Fantasy! | #RetroRadio EP0416

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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 Other Side of the Coin” (March 18, 1976)
00:47:22.209 = Murder By Experts, “It’s Luck That Counts” (August 29, 1949) ***WD
01:17:04.639 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Cold Equations, aka The Stowaway” (April 30, 1958) ***WD
01:34:56.399 = Dark Fantasy, “Headless Dead” (January 23, 1942)
01:59:34.029 = Diary of Fate, “David Dexter” (May 04, 1948) ***WD
02:29:11.019 = Fear on 4, “The Dead Drummer” (1988-1992)
02:57:36.539 = 5 Minute Mysteries, “Squealing Gearshift” (late 1940s)
03:02:43.369 = Future Tense, “Zero Hour” (May 23, 1974) ***WD
03:21:32.909 = Gang Busters, “Joe Fletcher” (January 24, 1948)
03:45:03.119 = Green Hornet, “A Rake” (August 22, 1939)
04:14:26.439 = The Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
04:41:20.629 = The Lives of Harry Lime, “Harry Lime Joins the Circus” (April 25, 1952) ***WD
05:06:56.277 = 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.
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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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything.

0:09.0

A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased

0:17.4

at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner.

0:23.9

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

0:30.9

An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these

0:41.8

20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror

0:49.9

that entrance as they terrify. The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal, narrated

1:01.1

by Darren Marler.

1:02.7

You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com.

1:07.7

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1:11.7

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1:14.1

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1:18.5

With your Amazon Echo or Smart Device, you can let me keep you company all day and all night.

1:23.8

And it's easy to tell your friends how to tune in, too.

1:26.5

Just tell your Amazon device, play Weird Darkness to start listening. Affiliated stations present escape. All of fantasy.

1:46.0

Dinner Sanctom Miss

1:49.0

Lights out.

1:54.0

Murder.

1:57.0

Adminor

2:00.0

The sealed book.

2:06.6

Present.

2:07.6

Suspense.

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