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Darren Marlar

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Comedic creeps. Sarcastic scares. Frivolous frights. Macabre madness. Darren Marlar dives into history, true crime, and the paranormal with a big dose of snark.

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  • 1 week ago | spreaker.com | Darren Marlar

    Adapted from Ambrose Bierce’s ghostly short story, a man is summoned home to learn of his mother’s mysterious death.

  • 2 weeks ago | spreaker.com | Darren Marlar

    HOUR ONE: They're powerful in the supernatural. Witches, demons and poltergeists fear them because they are not from our world. The Cherokee call them the Raven Mockers. (The Raven Mocker) *** Betsy’s Mysterious Flowers *** A girl’s younger sister keeps seeing things that don’t exist – until the truth is revealed when older sis is moving out. (Secrets Between Sisters) *** It’s called the Chronovisor – and it is said the device can look into events in the future as well as the past. Is it true?

  • 3 weeks ago | spreaker.com | Darren Marlar

    HOUR ONE: Different peoples build their identity around different facets of their culture: the Italians around their food, the Greeks around their architecture, America around expanding waistlines. The Isle of Man, however, has pinned its identity today on low tax rates, motorcycle races and, oh yes… mermaids and fairies. (Catching Mermaids on Man) *** Would you be willing to eat your meals off the chest of a corpse, in the process, taking on their sins as your own?

  • 4 weeks ago | spreaker.com | Darren Marlar

    HOUR ONE: More than a hundred years ago, reports described it as “the most weird and gruesome apartment in the world.” Why display an entire room full of grotesque items and open it to the public? (New York Charnel House) *** Kell’s Irish Pub in Seattle has a creepy vibe to it, even if the displays and decorations inside aren’t meant to be. Perhaps that’s because the building started its life as a massive mortuary.

  • 1 month ago | weirddarkness.substack.com | Darren Marlar

    The moon hung thin in the sky on the night of June 24, 1948, when seventeen-year-old Mary Jane Reed climbed into Stanley Skridla's Buick for a date from which neither would return. The small town of Oregon, Illinois—nestled along the shadowy banks of the Rock River—would never be the same after that night.

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Darren Marlar 🎙 (Mind of Marlar)
Darren Marlar 🎙 (Mind of Marlar) @darrenmarlar
5 Jun 25

“BLOWUPS HAPPEN” by Robert Heinlein (FULL AUDIOBOOK) #WeirdDarkness A high-stakes nuclear facility teeters on the brink of disaster — not from mechanical failure, but from the fragile minds of the men who keep it running. LISTEN FOR FREE: https://t.co/RB7iYS45UD https://t.co/B7ZLRuVpeT

Darren Marlar 🎙 (Mind of Marlar)
Darren Marlar 🎙 (Mind of Marlar) @darrenmarlar
5 Jun 25

“HOLY CRAP, A ZOMBIE!” and Other Unusual Health Tips | #MindOfMarlar It turns out fear isn’t just good for our fight-or-flight survival—it’s actually good for you in other ways. READ or LISTEN: https://t.co/Jq8L9UmVpE

Darren Marlar 🎙 (Mind of Marlar)
Darren Marlar 🎙 (Mind of Marlar) @darrenmarlar
5 Jun 25

LOUISIANA TAKES AIM AT CHEMTRAILS: The State That Might Declare War On Basic Physics! Louisiana's House just passed a bill to ban "chemtrails," potentially making it the first state to accidentally outlaw commercial aviation while opening the floodgates for conspiracy theorists https://t.co/YpUu99lI1y