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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

THREE SKELETON KEY: Where The Ocean Ends and Horror Begins!

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 304 minutes

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Summary

Trapped in a remote lighthouse, three men face a nightmarish siege by thousands of bloodthirsty rats in the harrowing tale of Three Skeleton Key, presented by Sleep No More! | #RetroRadio EP0413

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:50.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Man Who Preyed On Women” (March 12, 1976) ***WD
00:47:07.579 = The Shadow, “The Shadow Returns” (November 19, 1939)
01:12:29.619 = Sleep No More, “To Build a Fire” and “Three Skeleton Key” (February 20, 1957) ***WD
01:41:37.389 = BBC’s Spine Chillers, “Ale of Gobhniu” (1984)
02:07:33.639 = Strange, “Greenwood Acres” (October 10, 1955) ***WD
02:20:19.229 = Strange Wills, “Alias Doctor Svengali” (June 15, 1946)
02:50:29.739 = Suspense, “Five Canaries In The Room” (June 08, 1943)
03:18:26.299 = Tales of the Frightened, “Just Inside the Cemetery” (1957)
03:23:32.309 = Tales From The Tomb, “Don’t Drink With Strangers” (1960s)
03:27:22.099 = Theater Five, “A Genuine Grenotte” (September 25, 1964) ***WD
03:48:29.339 = Theater 1030, “The Thing In The Hall” (1960s) ***WD
04:18:02.599 = 2000 Plus “Insect” (May 17, 1950) ***WD
04:47:37.369 = The Unexpected, “Heard But Not Seen” (1948)
04:59:43.674 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

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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