{"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 Parasite: A Skeptic, a Hypnotist, and a Soul She Refused to Free | #RetroRadio","slug":"the-parasite-a-skeptic-a-hypnotist-and-a-soul-she-refused-to-free-retroradio","published_at":"2026-07-17T00:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-parasite-a-skeptic-a-hypnotist-and-a-soul-she-refused-to-free-retroradio","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0717","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73015544/wdrr0717.mp3","summary":"A skeptical London professor sets out to expose a plain, lame hypnotist as a fraud, never suspecting that the woman he dismisses has already decided he belongs to her. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Parasite” (April 07, 1978) ***WD 00:46:20.039 = Lux Radio Theater, “Ghost And Mrs. Muir” (December 01, 1947) ***WD 01:43:56.937 = Philip Marlowe, “Monkey’s Uncle” (March 07, 1950) 02:13:33.368 = Boston Blackie, “The Worthington Ghost” (March 19, 1946) ***WD 02:40:01.156 = The Black Mass, “Boarded Window” (February 12, 1964) ***WD 03:12:59.922 = Michael Shayne, “Recreate A Murder” (May 28, 1945) 03:42:41.656 = Beyond Midnight, “Something On His Mind” (May 30, 1969) 04:11:54.838 = MindWebs, “The Last Question” (March 05, 1983) ***WD 04:41:25.495 = Adventures In The Supernatural, “The Mysterious Carriage” (1932) ***WD 05:05:51.277 = 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. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0717","meta_description":"A skeptical London professor sets out to expose a plain, lame hypnotist as a fraud, never suspecting that the woman he dismisses has already decided he be…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":18401,"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-parasite-a-skeptic-a-hypnotist-and-a-soul-she-refused-to-free-retroradio/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-parasite-a-skeptic-a-hypnotist-and-a-soul-she-refused-to-free-retroradio.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}