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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

THE SHADOW, “Ghost Town”: The Only Residents At This Hotel Are Specters

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

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

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 312 minutes

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Summary

The Shadow finds his way to the ghost town of Bad Creek, where the only other residents in the lonely hotel are the eerie—sometimes deadly—ghostly guardians of a nearby gold mine. | #RetroRadio EP0494

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Tortured Twins” (January 18, 1977)
00:44:21.449 = The Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Message In Red” (November 07, 1945)
01:13:49.112 = Quiet Please, “The Third Man’s Story” (September 06, 1948)
01:38:39.894 = Radio City Playhouse, “Witness For The Prosecution” (April 25, 1949)
02:07:27.768 = Half Hour To Kill, “Blackout / Audition Episode, Never Aired” (October 29, 1946) ***WD
02:35:45.672 = Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, “Greatest Lover” (1930) ***WD
02:36:44.920 = Sam Spade, “Chateau McCloud Caper” (January 26, 1951) ***WD
03:06:03.595 = The Sealed Book, ‘Out of the Past” (May 13, 1945) ***WD
03:35:33.286 = The Shadow, “Ghost Town” (October 06, 1940)
04:02:41.242 = Sleep No More, “Waxwork Man And Snake” (January 09, 1957) ***WD
04:30:48.932 = BBC Spine Chillers, “Figures” (February 14, 1984)
05:09:10.031 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

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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"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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