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

THE NORTHWOOD MURDERER: Serial Killer Franklin Evans and the Ghosts of Bussey's Woods

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

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1872, when elderly drifter Franklin Evans arrived at his sister's New Hampshire farmhouse, no one suspected that the shambling vagabond was actually a monster who had been stalking and butchering children across New England for nearly a decade—until his own grand-niece became his final victim and the truth about the unsolved Joyce murders finally came to light.

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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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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
The Devil’s Bible: http://www.ancientpages.com/2014/06/15/codex-gigas-devils-bible-ancient-secrets-worlds-largest-book/
Legend of Lucy Keyes: http://paranormalstories.blogspot.com/2009/09/legend-of-lucy-keyes.html
Northwood Murderer: https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/northwood/
The Ghost On The Road: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/27/the-ghost-on-the-road/
Old Hag Experiences: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/26/old-hag-experiences/
The Haunted Toy Phone: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/22/haunted-toy-phone/
Vodknik, The Czech Evil Water Sprite: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/19/vodnik-czech-evil-water-sprite/ | Extracted from the book “The Czech Republic – The Most Haunted Country in the World” http://amzn.to/2yJVdtk
Not a Customer: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/15/not-a-customer/  | Extracted from the terrifying book – “Kanashibari: True Encounters With the Paranormal In Japan” by Thomas Bauerle http://amzn.to/2wY8CM7
Black Eyed Kids in Louisiana: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/14/black-eyed-kids-lousiana/  
The Saints Who Could Be In Two Places At Once: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/13/saints-two-places/  | From the book “Ghosts of the Living” by G. Michael Vasey http://amzn.to/2wXZQh0
The Black Eyed Car Fatality: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/12/black-eyed-car-fatality/  | From the book by G. Michael Vasey “The Chilling, True Terror of the Black-Eyed Kids: A Chilling Compilation”http://amzn.to/2xHq7UA
The Quarry In Winter: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/11/the-quarry-in-winter/  
The Black Eyed Stalker: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/06/black-eyed-stalker/ 
My Mother’s Cat: https://www.myhauntedlifetoo.com/2017/09/04/my-mothers-cat/  | By Thomas Bauerle from the book “Kanashibari: True Encounters With the Paranormal In Japan”  http://amzn.to/2wY8CM7  
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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: September 29, 2017

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything.

0:09.0

A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased

0:17.4

at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner.

0:23.9

An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls.

0:30.9

An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these

0:41.8

20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror

0:49.9

that entrance as they terrify. The kaleidoscope,

0:55.4

20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal,

1:00.6

narrated by Darren Marler.

1:02.7

You're a free sample on the audiobooks page

1:05.1

at weirddarkness.com.

1:07.2

The Welcome, Welcome, Weirdo's, I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness.

1:19.6

Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and

1:26.0

bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and

1:32.9

unexplained.

1:33.8

If you're new here, welcome to the show.

1:36.8

While you're listening, be sure to check out weirddarkness.com for merchandise, to visit

1:41.0

sponsors you hear about during the show, sign up from my newsletter, enter contests.

1:45.9

Connect with me on social media.

1:47.8

Hear other podcasts that I host.

1:50.1

Listen to free audiobooks I've narrated.

1:52.5

Plus, you can visit the Hope and the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression,

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