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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 592 minutes
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Summary
Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Pension Plan” (June 17, 1976)
00:46:50.939 = The Key, “Gentleman Companion” (1956)
01:11:18.601 = The LineUp, “The Senile Slugging Case” (September 12, 1951)
01:41:07.458 = Macabre, “Weekend” (November 20, 1961) ***WD
02:08:37.180 = A Man Called X, “My Sweet Misses Me” (October 07, 1944)
02:38:31.945 = Philip Marlowe, “Unfair Lady” (June 04, 1949) ***WD
03:07:33.248 = Black Mass, “The Man In The Crowd” (July 29, 1964)
03:18:50.031 = Beyond Midnight, “Tangled Way” (1968-1970) (LQ)
03:45:00.153 = MindWebs, “Rebel / Through Time and Space” (March 4, 1979)
04:12:43.826 = Ellery Queen Minute Mysteries, “Sunken Moment” (1939-1948) ***WD
04:13:39.901 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “The House I Live In” (April 26, 1945)
04:43:18.225 = Mystery In The Air, “The Marvelous Barastro” (August 07, 1947)
05:12:45.601 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Radio Patrol” (November 29, 1946) (LQ)
05:43:40.426 = Dark Fantasy, “The Thing From The Sea” (November 28, 1941)
06:10:15.255 = Mr. District Attorney, “Thieves Fall Out” (December 03, 1941) ***WD (LQ)
06:34:03.512 = Barry Craig, “Never Murder a Mummy” (March 30, 1955)
06:59:05.875 = Murder at Midnight, “Death Across the Board” (September 18, 1946 – Never Aired)
07:25:46.242 = The Black Museum, “The Black Gladstone Bag” (January 22, 1952)
07:55:35.147 = Mysterious Traveler, “The Accusing Corpse” (January 13, 1949)
08:25:07.671 = Mystery House, “Death Passed My Window” (March 31, 1946) ***WD
08:51:36.996 = Night Beat, “Slasher” (November 10, 1950)
09:21:33.877 = Nightfall, “Child’s Play” (February 054, 1982) ***WD
09:49:06.331 = 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.
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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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"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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| 0:00.0 | Now, there's a new way to share weird darkness with the weirdos in your life. |
| 0:04.1 | It's a skill on your Amazon Echo device. |
| 0:06.5 | Just say, play Weird Darkness, and you'll immediately start hearing the newest episode. |
| 0:10.9 | With your Amazon Echo or Smart Device, you can let me keep you company all day and all night. |
| 0:16.3 | And it's easy to tell your friends how to tune in, too. |
| 0:18.9 | Just tell your Amazon device, play Weird Darkness to start listening. |
| 0:24.5 | Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. |
| 0:27.6 | Peer inside. |
| 0:29.0 | One twist changes everything. |
| 0:32.8 | A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. |
| 0:38.0 | A mysterious cigar box purchased at a farmer's market releases an ancient gin who demands |
| 0:44.5 | a replacement prisoner. |
| 0:47.0 | An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls. |
| 0:54.0 | An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. |
| 1:02.7 | With each turn through these 20 tales, Reddit No Sleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, |
| 1:10.9 | creating dazzling patterns of horror |
| 1:13.0 | that entrance as they terrify. |
| 1:16.6 | The kaleidoscope, |
| 1:18.5 | 20 terrifying tales of horror |
| 1:20.6 | and the supernatural by AP Royal, |
| 1:23.7 | narrated by Darren Marler. |
| 1:25.8 | You're a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com. |
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