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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The Real Reason You Can't Stop Humming Christmas Songs

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When a young boy finds himself unable to stop singing Jingle Bells no matter how hard he tries, his mother reveals a disturbing explanation for why Christmas carols become so impossibly stuck in people's heads.

“Lyrical Velcro” by Fionna Cosgrove 

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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.

1:19.1

Music Welcome to Micro-Terrors

1:34.3

Scary Stories for Kids

1:38.3

Where it's always the spooky season

1:43.3

Full of chills, thrills, and spine-tingling spooks.

1:54.2

Micro-terrorers are family-friendly frights for those ages eight and up, and while our stories are for younger years,

2:02.6

we are still talking about things that go bump in the night,

2:06.6

and some children may not be able to handle what others can.

2:11.6

Parental consent is recommended.

2:14.6

Now, for tonight's micro-terror.

2:23.8

Lyrical Velcro, written by Fiona Cosgrove.

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