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July 17, 2025 596 mins
When a man moves into his dream home in the country, he discovers it was built not for the living—but for the dead! Hear the tale from The Hermit’s Cave!

A newly built country house turns into a nightmare for its new owner, Mr. Burton. His housekeeper, Millie, storms out in fear, believing the place is haunted. She warns Burton that the spirit of a woman who hanged herself in the home is restless. Strange phenomena begin: scientific experiments are disrupted and a violent curse brings death to the owner. | #RetroRadio EP0466

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Shotgun Wedding” (July 29, 1976)
00:45:28.170 = Green Hornet, “Research Racket” (November 09, 1939)
01:16:22.107 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
01:42:39.337 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Mists of Memory” (May 22, 1982)
02:09:38.886 = The Haunting Hour, “Devil’s Deep” (October 20, 1945) ***WD
02:34:32.819 = Have Gun Will Travel, “Deliver The Body” (July 19, 1959) ***WD
02:54:28.730 = Hermit’s Cave, “The House of Murder” (April 13, 1947) ***WD
03:18:50.429 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Feuding Radio Comedians” (1947-1948) ***WD (LQ)
03:42:37.812 = Sherlock Holmes, “Terrifying Cats” (February 25, 1946) ***WD
04:10:37.372 = Incredible But True, “Nemesis On The Left” (1950-1951) ***WD
04:14:13.248 = Inner Sanctum, “Creeping Wall” (January 08, 1946)
04:43:45.656 = The Key, “Night Prowler” (1956)
05:07:48.945 = Lights Out, “Uninhabited” (December 22, 1937) ***WD (LQ)
05:36:36.662 = The LineUp, “The Wild Wild Woman Case” (October 04, 1951)
06:06:16.522 = Macabre, “House in The Garden” (December 04, 1961) ***WD
06:35:41.631 = The Man Called X, “Into Berlin” (March 03, 1945)
07:05:15.345 = Philip Marlowe, “Busy Body” (June 18, 1949) ***WD
07:34:54.836 = The Shadow, “The Gibbering Thing” (September 26, 1943)
08:03:19.768 = Beyond Midnight, “Visits” (June 27, 1969) (LQ)
08:32:11.294 = MindWebs, “The Portable Phonograph” (April 01, 1979) ***WD
08:56:38.773 = Ellery Queen Minute Mysteries, “Time Bomb” (1939-1948) ***WD
08:57:32.249 = Dark Destiny, “Masquerade” (October 31, 1942) ***WD (LQ)
09:25:42.443 = Mystery In The Air, “Horla” (August 21, 1947) ***WD
09:55:34.268 = 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.
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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.
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