THE SIGNALMAN: A Ghost At The Tunnel Mouth, A Harbinger of Doom! Classic Horror by Charles Dickens
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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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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“The Signalman” by Charles Dickens: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/signalmancharlesdickens
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Originally aired: December, 2022
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| 1:02.2 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange |
| 1:09.2 | and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, The Strange and Bizarre, Crime, Conspiracy, Mysterious, Macab, Unsolved, and Unexplained. |
| 1:18.3 | Coming up in this episode, I'm bringing you a classic horror story from Charles Dickens |
| 1:22.8 | called The Signal Man. |
| 1:25.1 | The story is so popular that it's been adapted multiple times, especially on old-time radio. |
| 1:31.7 | In the United States, the story was adapted for radio for the Columbia Workshop in |
| 1:35.7 | 1937, then for the radio show The Weird Circle in 1945, lights out in 1946, |
| 1:43.8 | Hall of Fantasy in 1950, Suspense in 1956, Beyond Midnight in |
| 1:49.9 | 1970, and CBC Radio's Nightfall in 1982. |
| 1:55.3 | Suspense also had a TV adaptation in 1953, starring Boris Karloff and Alan Webb. The story was adapted by Andrew |
| 2:03.3 | Davies as the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas for 1976. Elements of the Signal Man are used |
| 2:10.8 | in Andrew Lloyd-Weber's 2004 musical The Woman in White. And more recently, in 2019, the story was adapted into an audio drama as part of the debut |
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