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A man allegedly shot his own father six times in the back, then drove to a casino — where he ended up naked, flipping off a cop, and under arrest. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/naked-casino-murderer WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS

On this date, a Persian king was dethroned and executed by his own son — who had every brother killed to secure power and was himself dead of plague before the year ended — and that is just where February 25th gets started. | The Morning Weird Darkness *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. EPISODE PAGE: https://WeirdDarkness.com/MWD20260225 NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of #WeirdDarkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

A murderer who thought he'd gotten away with the perfect crime discovers — too late — that his victim had a plan of her own. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0592 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Wine, Women, and Murder” (May 20, 1977) ***WD 00:45:46.094 = The Sealed Book “Murder Must Be Paid For” (August 05, 1945) 01:15:15.158 = The Shadow, “Joey’s Christmas story” (December 22, 1940) ***WD 01:44:18.098 = Sleep No More, “The Evening Primrose” (April 24, 1957) 02:13:10.886 = BBC Radio 4 Spine Chillers, “Eat Your Heart Out” (October 20, 2007) 02:27:01.031 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD 02:41:33.448 = Strange, “Hillbilly Feud” (1955) ***WD 02:55:51.451 = Suspense, “Finishing School” (December 30, 1943) 03:25:03.953 = Tales of the Frightened, “Chung Ling Soo” (December 16, 1957) ***WD 03:29:24.002 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953) 03:59:18.311 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirit Calling” (1960s) 04:03:52.173 = The Saint, “Missing Husband” (April 29, 1951) 04:32:42.285 = Theater Five, “June Seventeenth Where Are You?” (November 02, 1964) 04:53:50.007 = 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/WDRR0592

A woman's body was pulled from the icy depths of Lake Crescent after three years — her flesh transformed into soap, her face unrecognizable, and her identity a mystery that would unravel one of the most sensational murder trials in Washington state history. No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast SAPONIFICATION: How a Cold Lake Preserved a Murder (DEEP-DIVE ARTICLE): https://weirddarkness.com/saponification/ Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://take.supersurvey.com/QGZCRXPVS IN THIS EPISODE: He and his lover took all their possessions and 12,000 doses of LSD to go live in the Satanist sex castle of Corpsewood Manor. Then their story ended with a bloodbath. (The Corpsewood Manor Murders) *** 6-year-old Sheila Fox’s disappearance is strange in that there is more than one account of her abduction – contradictory accounts. So what happened to her on that August day in 1944? (Girl In The Green Mac) *** A skeptic of the paranormal housesits for friends in their haunted house. This should get interesting. (The Skeptic And The Playful Ghost) *** We’ve all heard of werewolves, and in recent episodes we’ve touched on other creatures of a similar nature such as were-dogs, were-hyenas, and the like. There are were-tigers, and were-… well, you get the idea. But here’s one I’ll be you never heard of. A were-tree. (When Creatures Change Form) *** According to one of our Weirdo family members, it’s possible to live in a haunted house without ever seeing any sign of the paranormal – until you decide to begin remodeling. (It Began In The Conservatory) *** How do you run from something that is faster than any human being alive, and is invisible? (Hiker Confronts Invisible Bipedal Entity) *** Have you ever woken up and don’t remember even walking into your bedroom to go to bed the night before? For one person, that was just the beginning of the outlandish things to follow. (I Don’t Think I Was Dreaming) *** On June 16, 1936, Hallie Latham, a waitress living in Port Angeles, Washington, married her third husband, a beer truck driver and well-known ladies’ man named Monty Illingworth. She had no idea on what was undoubtedly a happy day that she had just made the worst mistake of her life – or that she was soon to become a legend in death. (The Lady of the Lake) *** Japan has rightly earned itself a reputation as a wellspring of the weird, of that there can be no doubt. Of special interest here is all of the strange creatures and entities said to inhabit this land, ranging from mysterious monsters, to phantoms, to everything in between. (Phantoms and Monsters of Japan) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Short Message From Darren 00:00:20.772 = The Foreboding 00:01:17.437 = Show Open 00:04:23.448 = The Lady of the Lake 00:10:55.435 = It Began In The Conservatory 00:15:06.180 = Invisible Entity *** 00:19:10.803 = Changing Creatures 00:28:36.433 = Girl In The Green Mac 00:32:55.663 = I Don’t Think I Was Dreaming *** 00:38:17.881 = The Skeptic And The Playful Ghost 00:41:28.955 = Corpsewood Manor 00:49:45.020 = Phantoms and Monsters of Japan 01:32:41.830 = Show Outro*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break HELPFUL LINKS & RESOURCES… https://WeirdDarkness.com/STORE = Tees, Mugs, Socks,...

A South African family decided that a death certificate was simply not dramatic enough proof of death, so they upgraded their documentation strategy significantly. *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/dead-serious-body-evidence WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. #WeirdDarkness, #WeirdDarkNEWS