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

THE HIDDEN POISON: A Lesson on Trust and Divine Protection From The Tylenol Murders #COTU

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

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the autumn of 1982, seven innocent people in Chicago died after taking what they thought was safe medicine — but the poison hidden inside those Tylenol capsules reveals a chilling truth about the spiritual dangers that lurk behind things that appear perfectly normal in our daily lives.

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Darren Marlar is a licensed minister through the Universal Life Church: https://www.themonastery.org. Find his other podcast, Weird Darkness, in your favorite podcast app at https://weirddarkness.com/listen. “Church Of The Undead” theme music by Epidemic Sound.
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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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EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com: https://weirddarkness.com/COTU-TheHiddenPoison

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0:19.9

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0:25.0

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0:27.5

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0:34.3

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0:38.5

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0:43.0

Hello, weirdos, welcome to the Church of the Undead.

0:47.3

Earlier this week in the Weird Darkness podcast, I brought you a tragic story about the Tylenol murders.

0:54.0

The autumn of 1982 brought terror

0:56.1

to the quiet suburbs of Chicago. Twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman woke up with a sore throat

1:01.8

and runny nose on September 29th. Her parents, wanting to help their daughter feel better,

1:07.6

gave her what they thought was safe medicine, extra strength Tylenol.

1:12.8

By 7 o'clock that morning, Mary was dead.

1:16.7

That same evening, Adam Janice collapsed in his home in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

1:21.2

He'd taken the same brand of pain reliever after feeling sick at work.

1:26.1

When his brother Stanley and sister-in-law Teresa came to grieve

1:29.5

Adam's sudden death, they too took pills from that same bottle of Tylenol. Within

1:35.8

hours, they were also dead. The killing spree continued. Mary McFarland, a new mother of four,

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