The Star: What Happens When a Rogue Star Enters Our Solar System? | H.G. Wells
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: “The Star” by H.G. Wells (‘The Graphic’ magazine, November 21, 1897)
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=====Originally aired: December 28, 2025
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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.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a story I narrated for the Auditory Anthology podcast a few months ago. |
| 0:05.6 | If you'd like to hear the fully produced version with music and sound effects, I've placed a link to the full version in the episode description. |
| 0:12.5 | And if you're a fan of classic sci-fi stories from the 50s and 60s or quirky, short, creepy stories, |
| 0:18.4 | you'll want to subscribe to Auditori Anthology, which you can |
| 0:21.3 | do at Auditori Anthology.com. |
| 0:27.6 | The Star by H.G. Wells, published by Experimenter Publishing Company in 1926. |
| 0:37.4 | It was on the first day of the new year that the published by Experimenter Publishing Company in 1926. |
| 0:42.5 | It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, |
| 0:45.8 | almost simultaneously from three observatories, |
| 0:48.2 | that the motion of the planet Neptune, |
| 0:51.9 | the outermost of all the planets that wheeled about the sun, |
| 0:54.2 | had become erratic. |
| 0:59.9 | Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December. |
| 1:05.3 | Such a piece of news was scarcely calculated to interest the world the greater portion of whose inhabitants were unaware of the existence of the planet Neptune, nor, outside the astronomical profession |
| 1:11.9 | did the subsequent discovery of a faint, remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed |
| 1:17.1 | planet cause any great excitement. Scientific people, however, found the intelligence |
| 1:23.7 | remarkable enough, even before it became known that the new body was rapidly |
| 1:28.2 | growing larger and brighter, that its motion was quite different from the orderly progress |
| 1:33.7 | of the planets, and that the deflection of Neptune at its satellite was becoming now of |
| 1:39.0 | an unprecedented kind. |
| 1:42.2 | Few people without training in science can realize the huge isolation of the solar system. |
| 1:48.0 | The sun, with its specks of planets, its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets, |
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