Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Show Notes

A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD 00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD 01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947) 01:42:47.242 = Harry Lime, “Horseplay” (November 23, 1951) ***WD 02:09:06.828 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “A Pair of Hands” (September 06, 1980) ***WD 02:37:07.458 = The Haunting Hour, “Death By Request” (September 08, 1945) ***WD 03:03:04.221 = Hermit’s Cave, “The Search For Life” (April 12, 1942) ***WD 03:28:48.436 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Lion’s Mane” (April 21, 1947) 04:00:34.450 = Mystery House, “Murder Is An Art” (August 09, 1946) 04:27:40.870 = Inner Sanctum, “Black Art” (May 15, 1945) ***WD 04:57:15.865 = Show Close

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