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

THE MAN IN THE BLACK HAT: Luck, Death, and the Grey Eyed Stranger

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

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 584 minutes

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Summary

A gambler with a run of good luck receives a free car from a mysterious man with gray eyes. As his winnings pile up, the gray‑eyed stranger reappears again and again, even after the gambler witnesses him commit murder. It’s a chiller from Sleep No More! | #RetroRadio EP0476

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Graven Image” (September 06, 1976)
00:45:33.445 = Radio City Playhouse, “Blind Vengeance” (March 21, 1949)
01:14:50.442 = Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, “Strange Vigil” (1930) ***WD
01:15:51.501 = Sam Spade, “Prodigal Panda Caper” (December 29, 1950) ***WD
01:44:45.271 = The Sealed Book, “Death Spins a Web” (April 01, 1945) ***WD
02:14:07.119 = The Shadow, “The Laughing Corpse” (March 10, 1940) ***WD
02:39:48.766 = Sleep No More, “Over the Hill” and “The Man in the Black Hat” (December 05, 1956) ***WD
03:03:08.645 = BBC Spine Chillers, “The Light of the Moon” (1984)
03:17:05.922 = Strange Wills, “Emily” (August 31, 1946)
03:46:46.558 = Strange, “Flying Dutchman” (1955) ***WD
03:59:44.311 = Suspense, “Singing Walls” (September 02, 1943)
04:29:19.384 = Tales of the Frightened, “White House” (December 20, 1957) ***WD
04:33:39.410 = The Saint, “Christmas Eve Problems” (December 24, 1950)
05:03:05.399 = Theater Five, “All Bright Young Ones” (October 12, 1964)
05:24:06.434 = The Unexpected, “Revenge” (1948) ***WD
05:38:52.106 = Dark Venture, “Chase” (August 03, 1946) ***WD (LQ)
06:07:11.642 = The Weird Circle, “Burial of Roger Malvin” (October 22, 1944)
06:34:16.694 = The Whistler, “Till Death Do Us Part” (July 30, 1944) ***WD
07:01:49.673 = Witch’s Tale, “Troth of Death” (May 29, 1933)
07:25:13.650 = X Minus One, “The Seventh Order” (May 08, 1956)
07:53:24.377 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death Walked In” (1956-1957) ***WD
08:17:25.579 = Strange Adventure, “A Savage Honor” (1945) ***WD
08:20:40.223 = Appointment With Fear, “And The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD
08:46:23.888 = Beyond The Green Door, “James Neal And Bowler” (1966)
08:49:56.610 = Boston Blackie, “The Ghost of Flo Newton” (May 28, 1947)
09:15:03.289 = Box 13, “Speed To Burn” (June 26, 1949)
09:41:33.885 = 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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like, what you'd like to see more of, or less of. Visit weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's

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Several times per week, you'll get an email that not only includes the audio player with a recent episode, but a deep dive article of that same subject, going more in depth than what

1:03.8

you heard in the podcast. I also post numerous articles that never make it into the podcast,

1:08.3

and I share those in the newsletter, too. Along with transcripts

1:11.3

of my horribalable humor podcast, Mind of Marler, you'll get videos of murder noir as I post

1:16.9

them, the most popular video of the week from my YouTube channel. Plus, I include bonus audio

1:21.7

in the newsletter every week that I don't post to the podcast, and if I still have room at the bottom,

1:27.3

I'll stick a funny meme in there for you.

1:29.5

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The Black Museum

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Escape

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Hall of fantasy

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Inner Sanctum

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