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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The Rock To Reopen? | Inside the Debate Over Reopening Alcatraz as a Federal Prison

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The federal government wants to bring America’s most notorious island prison back from the dead — and the case for and against it is more complicated than either side admits.

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The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast, the paddles charge, his family watches from

0:39.6

the corner of the room, and Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something, snap.

0:48.7

He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize. No windows, a door with no handle. Light with no source. And

0:57.9

seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file,

1:05.1

who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room, he says, and we have a great deal to get through.

1:16.8

Everything Bob has ever done is in that file. Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound

1:25.6

he carried that quietly poisoned the people around him. Every dark

1:30.6

corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary. Above them, a golden wheel

1:37.4

appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most. But this isn't just a life review.

1:45.9

Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient,

1:51.7

deliberate, with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human.

1:57.6

There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting

2:02.2

room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O won't tell him where that leads.

2:08.9

The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling

2:13.9

back the veil on the supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there.

2:19.0

Narrated by Darren Marler.

2:21.5

You die.

2:22.9

Then the reckoning begins.

2:26.4

The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook available now on the audiobooks page

2:32.1

at weirddarkness.com.

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