{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories","slug":"weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","podcast_index_feed_id":475827,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a1570d70b941e8f0e16b68380622d72f.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T14:17:16.106491+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827"},"episode":{"title":"“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce (1893) | #MidnightInTheMacabre","slug":"the-damned-thing-by-ambrose-bierce-1893-midnightinthemacabre","published_at":"2026-07-23T05:00:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-damned-thing-by-ambrose-bierce-1893-midnightinthemacabre","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-thedamnedthing","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73119386/mitm20260723_thedamnedthing.mp3","summary":"A coroner's inquest convenes over a mutilated body in a lonely California cabin, where the only witness swears the thing that killed his friend was standing in plain sight the whole time. (Originally published in the magazine “Town Topics” on December 7th in 1893… a magazine, interestingly enough, not known for horror at all, but more for art, music, and society.) EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-thedamnedthing SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce: https://tinyurl.com/y6amz952 WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 23, 2026","meta_description":"A coroner's inquest convenes over a mutilated body in a lonely California cabin, where the only witness swears the thing that killed his friend was standi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1403,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/episodes/the-damned-thing-by-ambrose-bierce-1893-midnightinthemacabre/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-damned-thing-by-ambrose-bierce-1893-midnightinthemacabre.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}