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A teenage girl recovering from an illness begins hearing a disembodied voice begging to be let into a ruined building on the property. Her father and the family’s minister investigate the ruins to uncover the source of the voice. | “The Pleading Voice” from CBS Radio Mystery Theater | #RetroRadio EP0567 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Pleading Voice” (March 10, 1977) ***WD 00:46:24.386 = Starlight Theater, “Man Hires Hit Man To Kill Him” (late 1940s) ***WD 01:14:04.441 = Sam Spade, “The Vendetta Caper” (March 30, 1951) 01:43:11.328 = The Sealed Book, “The Man With The Stolen Face” (July 15, 1945) ***WD 02:12:35.306 = The Shadow, “The Curse of Shiva” (December 01, 1940) ***WD 02:36:15.238 = Sleep No More, “The Bet Clerks Quest” (April 03, 1947) 03:05:36.141 = BBC Fresh Blood, “A Fare To Remember” (March 2006) 03:18:25.761 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” (July 23, 1945) ***WD 03:31:23.249 = Strange Wills, “Death Is My Destiny” (November 23, 1946) 04:01:13.682 = Strange, “Captain Robinson” (1955) 04:14:58.876 = Suspense, “The Black Curtain” (December 02, 1943) 04:43:11.724 = 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. = = = = =#ParanormalRadio #ScienceFiction #OldTimeRadio #OTR #OTRHorror #ClassicRadioShows #HorrorRadioShows #VintageRadioDramas #WeirdDarkness CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0567

A reporter arrives in a small country town investigating rumors that a man has returned from the dead. He uncovers that the supposedly resurrected man was actually murdered, and his daughter resurrected him via sorcery for vengeance. As the reporter digs deeper, he becomes entangled in a web of revenge and dark supernatural secrets. | “Lazarus Rising” from CBC’s Nightfall | #RetroRadio EP0566 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Sign of the Four” (March 08, 1977) ***WD 00:45:30.804 = Mystery House, “A Case of Homicide” (ADU) ***WD 01:10:49.650 = CBC Nightfall, “Lazarus Rising” (November 12, 1982) 01:38:49.898 = Origin of Superstition, “Hat On a Bed” (1935) ***WD 01:52:27.483 = Peril, “Darkness Within” (1953) ***WD (LQ) 02:20:15.349 = Mystery Playhouse, “The Ghost With The Gun” (October 26, 1945) ***WD (LQ) 02:44:40.087 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Four Hours to Kill” (May 13, 1949) ***WD 03:13:42.114 = Price of Fear, “Not Wanted On This Voyage” (1973-1983) ***WD 03:41:39.580 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “One Diamond” (May 06, 1948) 04:11:09.637 = Quiet Please, “Calling All Souls” (October 31, 1948) 04:40:21.801 = Radio City Playhouse, “Legend of Teresa” (June 27, 1949) 05:08:42.147 = 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. = = = = =#ParanormalRadio #ScienceFiction #OldTimeRadio #OTR #OTRHorror #ClassicRadioShows #HorrorRadioShows #VintageRadioDramas #WeirdDarkness CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0566

Matthew confesses the calendar's dark pattern to Pastor Hart and learns that the ashen specter of his late brother Steven has been appearing to others, spreading his buried secrets throughout Marshport—and when door number seven crosses an unforgivable line, he makes an irreversible decision that may be more dangerous than the calendar itself. Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil #WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror

Before convicts were shipped to Australia, they rotted aboard decommissioned warships anchored in the Thames — floating dungeons so brutal that a condemned man called them "a college of villainy" where every prisoner graduated "a master of arts in scoundrelism." IN THIS EPISODE: It was in 1975 when the first skull of what was believed to be Bigfoot was found. But the owner of the skull hadn’t been dead too long, for the local people said they remembered the creature before it died. And even more shocking – they personally knew some of its descendants – a cross-breeding of Bigfoot and human beings! (Villagers Remember Descendants of Bigfoot) *** A young woman falls unconscious and awakes with a fantastical story about fairies kissing her, how she was treated like a princess by them, and falling in love with one of the fairy men. While you might say it was just a fanciful dream, how do you explain that this girl also woke up with clairvoyant abilities? (The Fairies and Anne Jeffries) *** On 15 July 1910 the Sheffield Evening Telegraph recorded the anniversaries of the day. One particular entry was this: “Prison hulks first seen on the Thames…1776”. But what were the prison hulks, and what was life like on board these ‘floating hells,’ as they came to be known? (Floating Hells) ***Depending on whether or not you want to get the scare of your life, you will either want to, or not want to honk your car’s horn three times on Burnt Mill Road in the Pine Barrens area of New Jersey. If you do, you risk an encounter with the Atco Ghost. (The Atco Ghost Legend of New Jersey) *** Archaeologists excavating the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen just discovered something chilling… a 13-foot long scroll – a lost chapter from Egypt’s “Book of the Dead”. (Queen Nearit’s Book of the Dead) *** Feeling the Lord Ganesha wanted milk, a man ran to get some and placed it before the elephant headed statue in a temple near his home. Then it happened… the milk disappeared as if the statue had consumed it. And then the same thing happened to others… and others. (The Hindu’s Milk Miracle) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:02:52.155 = Anne Jefferies And The Fairies: The Servant Girl Who Returned From Fairyland With Strange Abilities 00:08:02.738 = *** Floating Hells: The Rotting Ships Where Convicts Awaited Transportation 00:26:23.492 = *** The Atco Ghost: The Boy Who Chases His Ball Into the Road 00:29:25.081 = Queen Nearit’s Book of the Dead: 50 Coffins, a Board Game, and a 13-Foot Scroll to the Underworld 00:34:25.521 = The Hindu Milk Miracle: India Ran Out of Milk Because the Statues Were Drinking It 00:39:32.718 = *** Zana: The Bigfoot Who Gave Birth to Human Children 00:44:41.808 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Fairies And Anne Jeffries” by Brian Haughton: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yf4vany4 “Floating Hells” by Rose Stavely-Wadham for British Newspaper Archive: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jjrumumw “The Atco Ghost Legend of New Jersey” by Christina Skelton: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hy5jehz6 “Queen Nearit’s Book of the Dead” posted at BuggedSpace.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ukz7vnds “A Mass Scientific Mystery in India” by Michael Gross for Consciousness Unbound:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/7tac5377 “Villagers Remember Descendants of Bigfoot” by Ron Strickler for...

The bloody cross from door number five finally reveals its victim, and when Matt opens door six to find a miniature lion, he races to prevent another tragedy—only to come face-to-face with a masked killer in a deadly confrontation. Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil #WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror