Welcome, Weirdo's. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find

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conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.

Coming up in this episode, as we head into a new year, I thought it would be appropriate

to make something old, new again.

It's a story I shared many years ago in the podcast, and I really enjoyed narrating

it.

Plus, it's very appropriate for the day.

The story was written in 1880 by Grant Allen.

It's titled My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies.

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Thank you. Belgravia 1880

I've been a wanderer and a vagabond on the face of the earth for a good many years now.

I have certainly had some odd adventures in my time. But I can assure you,

I never spent 24 queerer hours than those which I passed some 12 months since in the

great unopened pyramid of Abu Yila. The way I got there was itself a very strange one. I had come to Egypt

for a winter tour with the Fitz Simkinses, to whose daughter, Aditha, I was at that precise

moment engaged. You'll probably remember that old Fitz Simpkins belonged originally to the wealthy firm

of Simkinson and Stokoe, worshipful Vintners, but when the senior partner retired from

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