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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

You Don't Get Something for Nothing. Not from Him. Not From The Man With Grey Eyes.

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 295 minutes

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Summary

“The Man In The Black Hat”: A gambler down on his luck gets the surprise of his life when a stranger with cold gray eyes hands him the keys to a brand-new car — no strings attached, no explanation given. From that moment on, nothing but good fortune follows him. But so does the man in the black hat. No matter where he goes, no matter what happens, that same gray-eyed figure keeps turning up — watching, waiting. Who is he? What does he want? And why can't anything seem to stop him? | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0625

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Thousand and First Door” (July 29, 1977)
00:47:20.330 = Screen Guild Theater, “The Maltese Falcon” (September 20, 1943)
01:15:59.326 = The Sealed Book, “Death Laughs Last” (September 02, 1945)
01:45:34.035 = The Shadow, “The Shadow Challenged” (January 19, 1941) ***WD
02:14:35.283 = Sleep No More, “Over The Hill” and “The Man In The Black Hat” (December 05, 1956) ***WD
02:37:55.162 = BBC Radio 4 Spine Chillers, “Falling To Pieces” (April 2006)
02:50:12.599 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD
03:04:45.016 = Strange Wills, “Black Interlude” (June 22, 1946)
03:34:37.800 = Strange, “The Ghost Train” (September 18, 1955)
03:48:16.621 = Suspense, “Locked Room” (January 27, 1944)
04:17:35.994 = Tales Of The Frightened, “Call At Midnight” (1957)
04:22:22.192 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953)
04:52:16.501 = 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.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0625

Transcript

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0:00.0

The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room.

0:11.0

And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap.

0:18.0

He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize.

0:22.1

No windows.

0:23.4

A door with no handle.

0:25.4

Light with no source.

0:27.6

And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file,

0:35.6

who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room,

0:41.5

he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file.

0:51.6

Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned

0:57.8

the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary.

1:05.5

Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most.

1:12.8

But this isn't just a life review.

1:15.9

Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate,

1:22.8

with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human.

1:27.5

There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting

1:32.1

room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads.

1:38.9

The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling

1:43.9

back the veil on the

1:45.1

supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then,

1:53.7

the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at

2:02.6

Weird Darkness.com. The Black Museum. Affiliated stations present.

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