The Mill That Murdered Its Workers By Fire | The Pemberton Mill Disaster of 1860
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: The ghost of a man in gray haunts a London theater. *** The boogeyman – where did he come from, and is he based on a real person? *** A disaster that took place at the Pemberton Mill on January 10, 1860 – a disaster that left a community, and a nation stunned! *** A night of children telling scary stories to each other turns into the real thing. *** A young girl bumps into her father in the hallway… which is impossible, as her father isn’t home. *** James Bond, 007 himself tells his own personal story of the paranormal. Sir Roger Moore tells of his terrifying experience. *** A young teen girl wakes up in the dark of night being choked by a red-eyed being. *** Friends hear a crash in the kitchen… and though everything appears normal, what they eventually find is the stuff of nightmares. *** The discovery of a body in the local river leaves one town with a gruesome mystery – and possibly the framing of an innocent man for the murder. *** Known to the outside world as the City of the Dead, Dargavs is a truly remarkable and mysterious place we know little about. *** Do you ever get the feeling that you are being watched, or that someone is following you? Perhaps it’s not your imagination. *** A father in South Yorkshire claims his family is being haunted by the ghost of an old lady. *** Two men, a forest, and a ouija board – will that be enough to find a rumored black eyed child that has been seen there? *** A man hears pounding on the walls of his apartment – from the outside of the building. *** What appears to be a poltergeist continues to torment office colleagues… or is it just being playful? *** Plus, I’ll share an original creepypasta from a fan of Weird Darkness… it’s a story called “Amoeba”.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:08.632 = Show Open
00:03:54.136 = Drury Lane Theater
00:08:08.905 = Real Boogeyman
00:18:57.169 = Horror at Pemberton Mill ***
00:54:05.124 = Haunting of My Grandmother’s Cottage ***
00:56:29.486 = My Doppelganger
00:59:30.255 = Shaken Not Scared: Roger Moore’s Paranormal Experience
01:01:38.036 = Red-Eyed Being That Held Me Down
01:05:23.784 = Baldwinsville Homicide
01:14:54.581 = Tormented By a Spirit In Hell ***
01:16:49.421 = Dargavs – City of the Dead
01:20:29.666 = Faceless Specter That Follows Me
01:22:26.287 = Father Claims His Family Is Being Haunted By The Ghost of An Old Lady
01:25:53.932 = Black-Eyed Child of Cannock Chase
01:28:52.375 = Pounding Walls of An Apartment Building
01:30:47.170 = Playful Office Poltergeist
01:33:00.842 = “Amoeba” (Fictional Horror Story) by Sabby Ray
01:49:51.000 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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https://WeirdDarkness.com/AUDIOBOOKS = FREE Audiobooks Narrated By Darren Marlar
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/PembertonMill
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Drury Lane Theater” (from the book “100 True Ghost Stories: Terrifying Hauntings From The UK And Around The World” by Alan Toner): http://amzn.to/2hwQTWG
“The Real Boogeyman” (from the book, “Could It Be True: Vol 1, Urban Legends” by Cindy Parmiter”): http://amzn.to/2z8VgTh
“The Horror At Pemberton Mill” (from the book, “A Pale Horse Was Death” by Troy Taylor and Rene Kruse): http://amzn.to/2AWTceo
“The Haunting Of My Grandmother’s Cottage”: (link no longer available)
“My Doppelganger”: (link no longer available)
“Shaken Not Scared: Roger Moore’s Experience With The Paranormal”: (link no longer available)
“The Red-Eyed Being That Held Me Down”: (link no longer available)
“Tormented By a Spirit In Hell”: (link no longer available)
“The Baldwinsville Homicide”: (link no longer available)
“Dargavs – City of the Dead”: (link no longer available)
“The Faceless Specter That Follows Me”: (link no longer available)
“Father Claims His Family Is Being Haunted By The Ghost Of An Old Lady”: (link no longer available)
“Black Eyed Child of Cannock Chase”: (link no longer available)
“The Pounding Walls of an Apartment Building”: (link no longer available)
“The Playful Office Poltergeist”: (link no longer available)
The fictional story (creepypasta) “Amoeba” was submitted by Sabby Ray: https://www.facebook.com/ray.saibal
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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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Originally aired: February 20, 2020
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| 0:00.0 | The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room. |
| 0:11.0 | And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap. |
| 0:18.0 | He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize. |
| 0:22.1 | No windows. |
| 0:23.4 | A door with no handle. |
| 0:25.4 | Light with no source. |
| 0:27.6 | And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file, |
| 0:35.6 | who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room, |
| 0:41.5 | he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file. |
| 0:51.6 | Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned |
| 0:57.8 | the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary. |
| 1:05.5 | Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most. |
| 1:12.8 | But this isn't just a life review. |
| 1:15.9 | Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate, |
| 1:22.8 | with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human. |
| 1:27.5 | There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting |
| 1:32.1 | room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads. |
| 1:38.9 | The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling |
| 1:43.9 | back the veil on the |
| 1:45.1 | supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then, |
| 1:53.7 | the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at |
| 2:02.6 | Weird Darkness.com. |
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