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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar | Weird Darkness | Full-Time Voice Actor

Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.

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73:52

ZURVAN: Why Roman Soldiers Built Temples to This...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/28

The True Story Behind Zurvan - The Demon From The Novel, "Advent of Evil"In Persian Mithraism, there was a deity associated with time and fate. His followers celebrated him during mid-winter festivals — festivals that reached their peak on December 24th. In the novel Advent of Evil, that deity appears as a demon who operates through a cursed advent calendar, enforcing strict rules: one door opened every day, no skipping, no ignoring. Break the rules, and there are consequences. Researchers tracing

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14:45

Santa Was Cornered by a Helper Monkey, The Elves Had...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/27

“OPERATION: CORNERED KRINGLE” By Scott Donnelly#scarystories #halloweenstories #halloweenkids #storiesforkids #kidsstories #scarystoriesforkids #microterrorsVisit our website: https://MicroTerrors.comFacebook page: https://www.facebook.com/microterrorsOther stories, novels, and more from author Scott Donnelly: https://amzn.to/3LymHaUOther narrations, podcasts, and audiobooks from voice artist Darren Marlar: https://WeirdDarkness.com= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird

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51:37

Harvard's Secret Experiment Opened a Door To Another...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/27

I was just a janitor mopping floors when a Harvard professor invited me to witness history – the opening of the first wormhole. What came next cost me fifteen years of nightmares.IN THIS EPISODE: It’s Thriller Thursday! This week - “The Artist” by C.J. Henderson *** “The Harvard Wormhole Experiment” by Nathaniel Lewis *** “The Itch” by Weirdo family member Mark Towse YOUTUBE CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:05.760 = “The Artist” by C.J. Henderson00:16:35.736 = *** “The

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147:09

Real Paranormal Incidents That Took Place at...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/26

Charles Dickens didn't invent the Christmas ghost story — he was continuing a tradition that stretched back centuries. These true tales of holiday hauntings show why the longest nights of winter were once considered the most dangerous.IN THIS EPISODE: Before Halloween claimed the spooky spotlight, Christmas Eve was once the traditional time for telling ghost stories - a centuries-old custom that gave us Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and brought families together around crackling fires to

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39:46

ADVENT OF EVIL: Wednesday, December 24 – Reliquary...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/25

Twenty-three days ago, a mysterious advent calendar arrived on Officer Matthew Klein's doorstep — no sender, no return address, just a heavy wooden box with twenty-four numbered doors and a carved face with hollow eyes. Since then, every trinket inside has proven to be an omen of death, each prophecy fulfilled in violence and horror. The entity behind it is Zurvan, an ancient demon from Persian Mithraism — the same demon ten-year-old Matthew accidentally summoned through a spirit board on Christmas

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56:11

The Haunting of Edge Hill | England's Most Documented...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/25

On Christmas Eve 1642, shepherds witnessed something impossible — two phantom armies fighting a brutal battle in the sky over Edge Hill. When investigators arrived, they saw it too, and testified under oath to the king.Episode 12 of 12 in the #12NightmaresOfXmas series!IN THIS EPISODE: “Christmas Carols in the Woods”, “St. Mary’s Church”, “The Lady In The Pantry”, “Mrs. Eustace Returns”, “The Phantoms of the Mamie R. Mine”, “The Wreck of the General Arnold”, “Up In Flames”, “The Battle of Edgehill”,

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63:49

The Babs Switch School Fire: The Oklahoma Schoolhouse...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/25

When Santa's costume caught fire at a small-town Christmas program in 1924, the crowd rushed to the only door — but it opened inward, and they couldn't escape. One little girl vanished that night, and nearly a century later, two ghost children are still seen at the building where the bodies were taken.IN THIS EPISODE: “When The Show Didn’t Go On: The Iroquois Theater Fire” *** “A Deadly Christmas: Ghosts of the Babbs Switch School Fire” *** “Horror For The Holidays: Ghosts of the Ashtabula Bridge

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57:43

Something Was Wrong With Mom's Christmas Nutcracker

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/24

There's a reason that 100-year-old nutcracker was marked 80% off. And on Christmas Eve, my mom and I found out exactly what it was.STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…The Grither”: https://tinyurl.com/qvkfdtg“Christmas Tree Decorations”: https://tinyurl.com/rapx4d7“Die Nutcracker, Die!” by Dax Varley: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6“Machete Santa” by Medeia Sharif: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6“Saturn Rising” by Ty Drago: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa

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37:05

Portland 1973, A Mother's Final Christmas: The...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/24

On Christmas Eve 1973, a woman hiding from her ex-husband was found — and five children woke up without parents on Christmas morning.Episode 11 of 12 in the #12NightmaresOfXmas series!In this episode: “The Eternal Beatle”, “Home For The Holidays”, “The Kennedy Road Phantom”, “Santa Stuffs The Stockings”, “Santa And The Elf”, “The Ghost In The Living Room”, “That’s Not Santa!”, “Poe Finds His Inspiration”SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of

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68:34

The Christmas UFO Invasion Witnessed by the Military

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/24

Over three nights in December 1980, during the Christmas weekend, dozens of military personnel at a British air base witnessed something in the woods that remains officially unexplained.IN THIS EPISODE: Imagine celebrating the holidays around your Christmas tree – and it begins shaking for no reason! (The Swaying Christmas Tree) *** What dark secret made Charlie Lawson slaughter his family on Christmas Day? (The Murder of the Lawson Family) *** A Weirdo family member tells of an odd yet heartwarming

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34:14

Krampus Chased Me: This European Tradition Would Be...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/24

In Austria, naughty children don't get coal — they get beaten by a goat-horned demon who might drown them in a river.Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too! STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES… ”The Tradition” by Andrea Stanet: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6“Girls Night Out”: https://tinyurl.com/u4zjhwu“Krampus”: https://tinyurl.com/whz5qc8All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme

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31:47

ADVENT OF EVIL: Tuesday, December 23 – Right Back To...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/24

Twenty-two days ago, a mysterious advent calendar arrived on Officer Matthew Klein's doorstep — no sender, no explanation, just twenty-four doors and a carved bearded face with hollow eyes. Since then, Marshport has become a graveyard. The entity behind it has a name now: Zurvan, an ancient demon whose mid-winter worship culminates on December 24th — the same demon that ten-year-old Matthew and his seven-year-old brother Steven accidentally summoned through a spirit board on Christmas Eve, 1995, the

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29:55

She Fulfilled Her Promise To Return As a Ghost – And...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/23

When the Kubis family moved into their Milwaukee home in 1913, they didn't know the previous owner had made a deathbed promise to return—and she was a woman of her word.Episode 10 of 12 in the #12NightmaresOfXmas series!In this episode: “Mrs Pickman’s Ghost”, “Haunts of Hartland”, “The Things We Do For Love”, “The Christmas Rosebush”, “Please Help”, “Footprints In The Snow”, “The Chicken Ghost”SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas:

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49:22

Six Serial Killers Woke Up at the North Pole at...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/23

When six of history's most infamous serial killers mysteriously wake up at the North Pole on Christmas Eve, Santa offers them one final chance at redemption—but the Holiday Spirit doesn't work on everyone.IN THIS EPISODE: It’s an original short holiday horror story from Jon Allen, called “Here Comes Santa’s Claws”. *** (Originally aired December 23, 2021)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“Here Comes Santa’s Claws” by Jon Allen, https://twitter.com/writerjonallenVisit our Sponsors & Friends:

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24:32

I Was Forced to Shovel Snow Alone Next to an...

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/23

On Christmas Eve, a teenager shoveling snow beside an abandoned house with a deadly history becomes convinced that Death himself is watching from its darkened windows—and waiting to collect.Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too! STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES…”The Carol Singers”: https://tinyurl.com/s978sjj“The Sock Puppet”: https://tinyurl.com/wgrpaog“The Tell-Tale Scarf” by Judith Graves:

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30:58

ADVENT OF EVIL: Monday, December 22 – Death Rising

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/23

The demon has a name — Zurvan. For thirty years it waited, dormant within the charred fragments of a spirit board, sealed inside an advent calendar built by hands it had already corrupted. Now Detective Davenport lies dead, his head twisted completely around as punishment for a door Matthew failed to open. Logan has been freed from the demon's grip, but Zurvan does not forgive, and it does not forget — Father Olsen warned that when a host is lost, it will seek another. Pastor Hart fled drenched in

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111:54

Have Yourself a Very Mothman Christmas

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/22

In November 1966, a winged creature with glowing red eyes began terrorizing the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia — and thirteen months later, just ten days before Christmas, the Silver Bridge collapsed during rush hour, killing 46 people returning home from holiday shopping. Was the Mothman a harbinger of doom... or something far more sinister? | WEEK OF DECEMBER 21, 2025 #WDRadio==========HOUR ONE: Most all of us think of Christmas as a time of love, warmth, joy, and charity… but for

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21:24

The Clown Puppet That Took Their Daughters

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/22

She asked for a doll, but the gift waiting under the tree had other plans for her — and her sisters.Ho ho ho, kids! If you like the stories Santa is telling, tell your friends and family about the Spooky Santa podcast so they can listen too! STORY AND MUSIC CREDITS/SOURCES… ”The Clown Puppet”: https://tinyurl.com/rmzhwoa“Devil In The Closet”: https://tinyurl.com/rbcqqoo“The Carol” by Jessica Bayliss: https://tinyurl.com/wkp7uu6All music used with permission of the artists. Spooky Santa theme by

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38:34

Christmastime Monsters That Are Scarier Than Krampus

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/22

Long before Santa slid down chimneys, other figures roamed the winter nights — and they weren't bringing presents. They were bringing punishment.IN THIS EPISODE: ‘Tis the season for not only reindeer, grinches and magical snowmen but also fearless children, negligent parents and dumb thieves. “Home Alone” may be the first Christmas movie that comes to mind upon hearing that description, but it turns out there’s a long and storied tradition of true stories of children left alone around the holidays

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29:25

The Perfect Christmas Tree Has a Curse Attached

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories ·

2025/12/22

When Mrs. Hostutler finally found the perfect Christmas tree, she never stopped to wonder why it was growing out of a grave.Episode 9 of 12 in the #12NightmaresOfXmas series!In this episode: “The Perfect Christmas Tree”, “A Rose For Her Hair”, “Eternal Love”, “Guides In The Snow”SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…All stories in this episode are from the book, “The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays” by Sylvia Shults: https://amzn.to/3uT2vMA= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

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