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Weird After Dark

Weird After Dark

By: Darren Marlar
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 Welcome to WEIRD AFTER DARK -- a companion to the popular award-winning WEIRD DARKNESS podcast. Here, our "Ghost Hosts" discuss the latest episode of Weird Darkness, it's relevance to our reality or time, and even bring interesting nuggets of information that Darren Marlar didn't insert into the Weird Darkness episode being discussed... often with a bit of comedy to break the tension! If you want to go deeper into the topics covered in the Weird Darkness podcast, then Weird After Dark is the show to listen to! CREEPS and CRIME in CASUAL CONVERSATION!Weird Darkness, 2025 Social Sciences True Crime World
Episodes
  • Real Paranormal Incidents That Took Place at Christmastime

    Real Paranormal Incidents That Took Place at Christmastime
    Dec 26 2025
    EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/RealParanormalChristmas
    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.

    NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    29 mins
  • “ADVENT OF EVIL” DISCUSSION: Wednesday, December 24 – Reliquary (The Final Chapter)

    “ADVENT OF EVIL” DISCUSSION: Wednesday, December 24 – Reliquary (The Final Chapter)
    Dec 25 2025
    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 Eve, 1995, the night his house burned and his family died while he ran. Now Zurvan has returned to finish what he started, possessing Matthew's loved ones, murdering those around him, and enforcing one rule: open each door on schedule, or suffer consequences beyond imagination. Matthew tried to destroy the calendar. It came back. He refused to open a door. Snakes attacked his son. Now it's December 24th — the final door, the culmination of Zurvan's ancient mid-winter celebration — and Matthew is engulfed in flames, his home burning, his family scattered in the chaos. The countdown ends today.

    Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil
    #WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror

    NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
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    21 mins
  • “ADVENT OF EVIL” DISCUSSION: Tuesday, December 23 – Right Back To Where You Started

    “ADVENT OF EVIL” DISCUSSION: Tuesday, December 23 – Right Back To Where You Started
    Dec 24 2025
    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 night their house burned to the ground. Zurvan has possessed Matthew's best friend, his own son, and a detective whose head he twisted completely around. On December 22nd, he proved the Bible verse about Legion true — the decomposing corpse of Wilbur Ward rose from the basement, levitated through the hallway, and snapped Pastor Hart's neck like kindling. Matthew's world went dark. The demon's final words echoed into oblivion: "Time's up." Two doors remain. Two days until Zurvan's celebration officially arrives.

    Get the print version of the novel: https://weirddarkness.com/AdventOfEvil

    #WeirdDarkness #ChristmasHorror #HolidayHorror #SupernaturalThriller #HauntedCalendar #DarkChristmas #HorrorStory #DemonicEvil #CreepyTales #YuletideTerror

    NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    28 mins
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