The Terrifying Shadow In My Christmas Calendar Already Killed Three Children - Will I Be Next?
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
“THE ADVENT CALENDAR HORROR” by Michael Whitehouse #WeirdDarkness #HolidayHorrors
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a short story of fiction I bring back every Christmas simply called “The Advent Calendar”, written by Michael Whitehouse. *** (Originally aired December 24, 2020)
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“The Advent Calendar” by Michael Whitehouse: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-advent-calendar/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Weirdo's! |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 0:13.0 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange |
| 0:20.0 | and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, The Strange and Bazaar, |
| 0:22.7 | crime, conspiracy, |
| 0:23.9 | mysterious, |
| 0:26.2 | macabre, unsolved, |
| 0:27.5 | and unexplained. |
| 0:29.8 | Coming up in this episode, |
| 0:31.8 | it's a short story of fiction that I bring back |
| 0:32.8 | every Christmas, |
| 0:34.2 | simply called the Advent calendar, |
| 0:36.9 | written by Michael Whitehouse. |
| 0:38.8 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into |
| 0:45.9 | the weird darkness. |
| 0:47.0 | Music It was the Christmas of 1965, it was the Christmas of 1965, before man had landed on the moon, before the wall had fallen, |
| 1:16.7 | before many things good and bad. |
| 1:18.9 | For me it was the last time that I knew innocence, before the creeping shadow which |
| 1:24.9 | engulfed my family, before the madness, before, before. |
| 1:32.0 | It was the Advent calendar, that damned thing which I had to have. Each door, a promise |
| 1:41.4 | of Christmas, and each window a misted reminder of the warmth and kindness |
| 1:47.1 | of the festive season. |
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