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A lonely teenage girl invents an imaginary friend to cope with isolation. As real-life companions enter her world, the imaginary friend turns hostile — manifesting physically and attacking to preserve its existence in her make-believe realm. Hear “Child of Fate” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater! | #RetroRadio EP0457 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, “Child of Fate” (June 24, 1976) 00:46:33.864 = Theater Five, “Last Land Rush” (October 06, 1964) 01:06:33.079 = Theater 1030, “The Sandman” (1968-1971) ***WD (LQ) 01:33:45.605 = 2000 Plus, “Giant Walks” (November 08,1950) ***WD 02:02:52.238 = The Unexpected, “Birthday Present” (1947) 02:17:48.203 = Unit 99, “Meet Citizen at 26th and D” (April 04, 1958) 02:41:23.539 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD 02:56:01.041 = Columbia Workshop, “Carmilla” (July 28, 1940) (LQ) 03:25:39.220 = Dark Venture, “Elizabeth Is Frightened” (July 22, 1947) 03:55:46.286 = The Weird Circle, “Ghost’s Touch” (September 17, 1944) 04:23:20.796 = The Whistler, “Mirage” (October 03, 1943) 04:52:48.926 = X Minus One, “How To” (April 03, 1956) 05:21:24.474 = The Zero Hour, “The Blessing, Part 1” (November 19, 1973) 05:51:34.005 = The Zero Hour, “The Blessing, Part 2” (November 20, 1973) 06:21:42.496 = The Zero Hour, “The Blessing, Part 3” (November 21, 1973) 06:51:34.674 = The Zero Hour, “The Blessing, Part 4” (November 22, 1973) 07:21:38.573 = The Zero Hour, “The Blessing, Part 5” (November 23, 1973) 07:51:43.168 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD (LQ) 08:15:55.236 = Strange Adventure, “The Code of Honor” (1945) ***WD 08:19:26.159 = Appointment With Fear, “Morning Glory” (July 18, 1943) ***WD (LQ) 08:46:14.603 = BBC Ghost Story, “The Crowd” (1986-1987) 09:00:45.796 = Beyond The Green Door, “Alfred Porter, Ghosts, Vampires” (1966) 09:04:44.649 = The Black Book, “Different Readings, Part 1” (November 21, 1951) ***WD 09:21:44.794 = The Black Book, “Different Readings, Part 2” (November 21, 1951) ***WD 09:30:21.834 = All Star Western Theater, “Ghost In Little Deer Canyon” (November 29, 1947) 09:58:50.632 = 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. = = = = = "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. = = = = = CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0457

A teenage girl suspects her mysterious new neighbor is a vampire — but is it paranoia, or has the Boogey Man finally come for her? It’s “The Bogey Man Will Get You” from Stay Tuned For Terror! | #RetroRadio EP0456 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, “Checkmate” (June 21, 1976) 00:45:49.743 = Mr. and Mrs. North, “Pretty Hands Couldn’t Do It” (December 05, 1950) 01:10:36.938 = Obsession, “Summer Evening” (January 22, 1951) ***WD 01:33:32.768 = Origin of Superstition, “Boogey Man” (1935) 01:47:59.947 = Mystery Playhouse, “Corpus Delecti” (January 17, 1947) ***WD 02:12:24.081 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Murder Needs An Artist” (May 06, 1950) ***WD 02:39:10.601 = The Price of Fear, “Not Wanted On This Voyage” (1973-1983) ***WD 03:07:20.679 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Singing Rat” (January 09, 1943) (LQ) 03:37:02.233 = Quiet Please, “Let the Lillies Consider” (June 28, 1948) 04:02:03.144 = Radio City Playhouse, “One From Three Leaves Two” (February 21, 1949) 04:32:04.434 = Lights Out, “Strange Couple Stays Overnight” (1935) ***WD (LQ) 05:01:25.553 = Max Gaines Mystery, “Arthur Gusy” (mid 1940s) 05:25:28.626 = Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, “Preston Hall” (1930) ***WD 05:26:31.062 = Sam Spade, “The Champion Caper” (August 07, 1949) ***WD 05:54:45.020 = The Sealed Book, “Death at Storm House” (April 22, 1945) ***WD (LQ) 06:25:08.481 = The Shadow, “Murder In The Death House” (January 07, 1940) 06:50:30.835 = Sleep No More, “Homecoming And Aunt Cassie” (April 17, 1957) ***WD 07:19:28.080 = BBC Spine Chillers, “Ghosting” (1984) 07:47:38.564 = Stay Tuned for Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD 08:02:21.904 = Strange Wills, “Midnight On The Moor” (July 27, 1946) 08:32:29.840 = Strange, “Deadman’s Reef” (1955) ***WD 08:44:46.901 = Suspense, “The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson” (July 27, 1943) 09:14:14.762 = The Saint, “Plot In Prison” (January 19, 1950) ***WD 09:42:29.520 = 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. = = = = = "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness. = = = = = CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0456

HOUR ONE: Love, money, divorce, anger, and murder. One Pennsylvania family had it all and then some in the late 1800’s. (The Butler County Tragedy) *** Count Saint Germain and Jacques Saint Germain, John and Wayne Carter, the Casket Girls of New Orleans. Despite many years between all of their lives, they all still have one grisly thing in common. All were thought to be, and possibly were, real vampires tied to the Big Easy… a place where real blood-suckers continue to live and roam the streets even now in the twenty-first century. (Vampires of New Orleans) *** They have a long history in the United Kingdom, stalking the moors and fog-carpeted streets in the night. But it appears hounds from Hell have also made their way to the Americas. (American Hellhounds) ========== HOUR TWO: On a barren field in the U.S. state of Georgia, five granite slabs rise in a star pattern. Each of them weighs over 20 tons and on top of them, there is a capstone. Nobody knows who built it or why they were placed there, but one popular opinion that their purpose is to guide humanity after a predicted post-apocalyptic event that will come in the not so distant future.  (The American Stonehenge) *** When you think "fairies," what comes to mind? You probably picture an adorable and sparkly creature akin to Disney's Tinker Bell, a lovely - and above all, friendly - presence. You may even want to make contact with them. Unfortunately, glittering humanoids with butterfly wings are the stuff of children's books. Retrace faerie folklore, and you'll discover their secret scary origins. (The Dark Side of Fairies) *** In the Summer of 1949, a geologist named Vadim Kolpakov discovered a strange feature on the surface of the earth in the Bodaibo, Irkutsk, region of South-Eastern Siberia.  Encircled by a largely treed area, this anomaly is oval with a conical crater that contains a small ball-like mound in its middle.  The geologic mystery has baffled scientists who are uncertain of what caused this weird formation. (What Caused the Patomskiy Crater) *** Is there any truth behind the enduring legend of the werewolf? 
(Planet Werewolf) *** The Red Pen ========== SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW: Big Matt, “Long Road” song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWEvHVz2V6U “American Hellhounds” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/yczhkvde “The Butler County Tragedy” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/yyn78amz “Vampires of New Orleans” by Brian Harrison for Exemplore: https://tinyurl.com/ycyy4vjp Episode containing “The Elves of Iceland”: https://weirddarkness.com/?s=Elves+Iceland “Planet Werewolf” by Lea Rose Emery for Graveyard Shift: https://tinyurl.com/vcetp96 “The Dark Side of Fairies” by Amber Fua for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/rbexptk “The American Stonehenge” by Mihai Andrei for ZME Science: https://tinyurl.com/yaogafuz “What Caused the Patomskiy Crater?” by Lochlan McClelland for Historic Mysteries: https://tinyurl.com/wu9r5bc “The Red Pen” by Kjirsty Beth for Paranormality Magazine ==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid,...

A 16th-century witch hunter believed each person is caught between a guardian angel and their own personal demon — one who knows their deepest habits and weaknesses — and he mapped out the seven princes of Hell who rule over humanity's sins. Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate IN THIS EPISODE: You might have heard someone say during a severe storm, “it’s raining cats and dogs out there!” Of course, it wasn’t really raining felines and Fidos. But there have been instances of it raining frogs and fish. But did you hear about the time when for two-weeks straight it rained rocks and stones? (Raining Rocks, Storming Stones) *** In the film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” the ending… sorry, spoiler here, but it has been since 1977 so you have had plenty of time to see it… at the end of the film, the aliens drop off dozens of humans that they’ve abducted over the years, and then welcome a volunteer human to leave with them – like an extraterrestrial foreign exchange student program. It’s a fascinating concept, an extremely well-written premise for the film… but could that actually happen? Better question… has it already happened? (The Zeta Reticuli and Project Serpo) *** It could be argued that while William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was a real person in history – that his story is more legend than fact. But then, being a notorious outlaw, pretending to die, and convincing everyone you are dead – then living out the rest of your life until you were an old man… that does probably deserve the label of “legend’. Is that story the fact… or is it fiction? (The Billy The Kid Conspiracy) *** Stories of giant, winged predators in the sky streaking down and attacking children and even full-grown men have been around since… well… ever. Some don’t believe it possible, but if you do a Google search for “man-eating bird” you’ll quickly find out they were not only real – but alive not that long ago. Or, perhaps… still soaring the skies, looking for their next meal… especially in and around New England. (Man-Eating Thunderbirds of New England) *** We’ve all heard of guardian angels – the idea that each one of us has a personal, supernatural protector following us at all times, battling for our souls to keep us from spiritual harm, if not physical. But if that’s true – could we also each have a personal demon as well? A being also battling for our souls to send us to hell? One famous witch hunter believed exactly that. (The Witch Hunter List of Seven Princes In Hell) 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. DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Lead-In 00:01:33.059 = Show Open 00:04:49.731 = The Witch Hunter List of Seven Princes...

“Prison of a Billion Years” by CH Thames: A condemned murderer escapes from a maximum-security prison built a billion years in Earth's past, taking a reporter hostage into a lifeless world where the only escape leads to an impossible paradox. From Imagination Science Fiction Magazine, April 1956