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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The Masked Madman's Twisted Game of Revenge

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 294 minutes

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Summary

A group of four actresses receives mysterious invitations to a remote, deserted house. Once there, they become trapped by a murderous madman (fiend) wearing a mask, who subjects them to terror and peril in a twisted game of hate and revenge. | “Mask of Hate” from Peril | #RetroRadio EP0558

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Stamped For Death” (February 14, 1977)
00:46:14.661 = Origin of Superstition, “Don’t Turn Back” (Jan 25, 1935) ***WD
01:00:31.775 = Peril, “Mask of Hate” (1940s/1950s) ***WD
01:24:40.034 = Mystery Playhouse, “Leg Man” (October 19, 1945) ***WD
01:49:13.995 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Leona’s Room” (February 25, 1949)
02:18:05.338 = Price of Fear, “Meeting In Athens” (July 07, 1973) ***WD
02:45:30.008 = The Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Three Frogs” (April 29, 1948) ***WD
03:14:18.532 = Quiet Please, “Good Ghost” (October 24, 1948) ***WD
03:43:00.258 = Radio City Playhouse, “Motive For Murder” (June 20, 1949)
04:09:14.078 = Mercer McLeod’s The Man With The Story, “Blood On The Doorstep” (1946-1947)
04:23:25.252 = Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, “Odd Place to Live” ( ***WD
04:24:26.717 = Sam Spade, “Kimberly Cross Caper” (March 23, 1951)
04:52:54.329 = 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes

0:08.7

for a fresh start with his family.

0:11.4

But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.

0:16.7

At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique

0:22.3

advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out.

0:28.9

As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality

0:35.3

itself starts to crack.

0:43.9

The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years.

0:50.9

Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth.

0:57.1

Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode

1:09.9

event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st,

1:13.7

or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil.

1:23.1

The Black Museum

1:28.0

Affiliated stations present

1:31.0

Escape

1:31.9

All of fantasy

1:34.9

Inner Sanctom Miss

1:38.3

Lights out

1:41.3

Murder Murder At Minow Lights out. Murder.

1:46.6

Adminine.

1:49.9

A sealed book.

1:55.9

Present.

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