The Mayor Who Vowed to Hunt Down a Murderer | The Clues Led Back To Him
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 338 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, “So Shall Ye Reap” (April 04, 1977) ***WD
00:44:58.382 = Strange Wills, “Killer And Saint” (November 30, 1946)
01:14:37.399 = Strange “Deadman’s Reef” (1955) ***WD
01:26:42.350 = Suspense, “Night Reveals” (December 09, 1943)
01:55:40.528 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD
02:27:27.523 = The Saint, “Hawthorne House Mystery” (April 08, 1951)
02:56:47.565 = Theater Five, “A Nightmare” (October 29, 1964)
03:17:39.771 = Theater 1030, “The Thing In The Hall” (1968-1971) ***WD
03:47:02.841 = 2000 Plus, “Alone” (November 15, 1950)
04:17:30.054 = The Unexpected, “Sweet Sixteen” (August 22, 1948)
04:32:14.764 = Unsolved Mysteries, “The Rue Morgue Mystery” (June 17, 1942) ***WD
04:47:08.457 = Escape, “Bloodbath” (June 30, 1950) ***WD
05:14:56.584 = 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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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Awful Movie Reviews on YouTube. |
| 0:03.6 | I've been a fan of awful movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never miss an episode. |
| 0:08.8 | Every Friday, you get a new comedic video covering a gosh, awful, horrible, terrible, wretched, |
| 0:13.9 | or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre. |
| 0:17.6 | B-monster movies, films directed by notorious names like Ed Wood or Roger Corman, |
| 0:22.4 | flicks made on budgets lower than your monthly grocery bill, special effects you'd swear |
| 0:26.6 | were created by someone who's colorblind, cinematography so shaky, you'd swear a three-year-old |
| 0:31.0 | was trying to hold the camera, audio recording in the film that, well, you see where I'm going |
| 0:35.6 | here. They even take requests for awful movies you'd like to see them review in the future. You'll probably learn about flicks you've never even heard of while laughing along with the host. You can find awful movie reviews on YouTube by simply searching for awful movie reviews. I've also placed a link to them on my sponsors page so you can find them easily. And if you're like me, at the end of each |
| 0:54.5 | awful movie review, you'll be saying it aloud with the host, what an awful movie. |
| 1:02.0 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes for a |
| 1:07.6 | fresh start with his family. But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 1:15.0 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique Advent calendar, |
| 1:22.6 | a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 1:27.5 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls. |
| 1:32.1 | People go mad, and reality itself starts to crack. |
| 1:36.4 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years. |
| 1:42.8 | Now, with his wife and two young sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, |
| 1:48.4 | Matt must find a way to stop this holiday horror, or risk losing everything and everyone he loves. |
| 1:56.6 | 24 days, 24 doors, all leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. |
| 2:05.9 | Advent of Evil, the new novel by Scott Donnelly, based on a concept by Weird Darkness host, |
| 2:11.3 | Darren Marler, is now available in full audiobook form, as well as Kindle, Paperback, and Hardback |
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