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A magazine writer who has spent a week seducing an ironmaster's wife in a Pennsylvania mill town accepts her husband's offer of a midnight tour of the blast furnaces, the night before she's due to run away with him. 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, “Flash Point” (September 01, 1978) ***WD 00:44:58.073 = Two Thousand Plus, “Veteran Comes Home” (July 05, 1950) ***WD 01:13:38.923 = Dark Venture, “Only Inhabitant” (November 19, 1946) ***WD 01:43:18.042 = The Weird Circle, “The Vendetta” (1943) 02:10:34.180 = The Whistler, “The Man Who Bought Death” (May 21, 1945) 02:40:04.994 = Strange Wills, “East of Hudson Bay” (October 12, 1946) 03:09:43.018 = Witch’s Tale, “Priest Of Sekhet” (May 08, 1936) 03:36:20.706 = X Minus 1, “Venus Is A Man’s World” (February 06, 1957) 03:57:52.005 = ABC Mystery Time, “The Tale” (1956-1957) 04:21:19.983 = Appointment With Fear, “Morning Glory” (July 18, 1943) ***WD(LQ) 04:47:56.713 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Adolph And Mrs. Runyon” (June 21, 1942) ***WD 05:20:20.563 = 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/WDRR0766

A young heiress starts getting stomach cramps after her kindly cousins move in with her, and the only one who warns her is the imaginary playmate she made up as a child. 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, “Will The Real Amy Stand Up” (August 28, 1978) ***WD 00:46:34.060 = The Shadow, “Death To The Shadow” (March 12, 1944) ***WD 01:15:36.982 = Sleep No More, “The Evening Primrose” (April 24, 1957) ***WD 01:44:29.770 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “The Blue Room” (February 27, 1984) 01:57:31.362 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “He Woke Up Dead” (March 27, 1945) 02:09:45.611 = Strange, “Deadman’s Reef” (1955) ***WD 02:21:50.562 = Suspense, “Death Went Along For The Ride” (April 27, 1944) 02:52:17.174 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953) 03:22:46.409 = The Creaking Door, “Three Wishes” (September 09, 1964) ***WD 03:50:13.934 = The Saint, “Color-Blind Killer” (September 18, 1949) ***WD 04:14:22.255 = Theater 1030, “The Thing In The Hall” (1968-1971) ***WD 04:43:45.325 = The Unexpected, “Birthday Present” (1947-1948) 04:58:31.555 = 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/WDRR0765

The ashes were still warm just before six in the morning, and by the time they had driven home for a camera and come back half an hour later, the star, the log, the bones and every scuff mark in the ground were gone. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-hothfieldwitches SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Hothfield Witches” by Ken DaSilva, submitted to Weird Darkness WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 06, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

A century after 11-year-old Janette Lawrence was brutally murdered walking home from a babysitting job, her ghost is still seen wandering the streets of Madison — seeking justice that never came. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/KluxenWoods FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I narrate a chapter from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings” by Troy Taylor. The chapter is entitled “1921: Murder at Kluxen’s Woods” - a murder that has yet to be officially solved, although many hundreds of people in the area feel they know exactly who got away with murder. A murder that resulted in a haunting! LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: 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.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Murder at Kluxen’s Woods” is from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings” by Troy Taylor: https://amzn.to/45NQExh (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 2021 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL This episode of Weird Darkness follows the 1921 murder of an 11-year-old babysitter beside a New Jersey winery, the two suspects tried and acquitted for killing her, and the ghost that motorists still report walking the same street toward a home she never reached.It opens on Fairview Avenue in Madison, New Jersey, on the evening of October 6, 1921, when 11-year-old Janette Lawrence left a babysitting job at the Sandt home and walked past the wooded edge of the Kluxen Winery estate toward her house at 142 Ridgedale Avenue. Two Boy Scouts found her body beside a tree stump in Kluxen's Woods about two hours later, stabbed 23 times, her hands bound behind her with the kind of cord local rose greenhouses used for shipping. The Madison borough council ordered the arrest of 14-year-old Francis Kluxen III, grandson of the winery's founder, the next day, and a judge released him on bail after calling the arrest unjustified. Morris County prosecutor John M. Mills went after a different man, 29-year-old greenhouse worker Frank Jancarek, on the word of Frank McGrory, a fired ex-convict who claimed Jancarek confessed to him the night of the killing. Jancarek's April 1922 trial in Morristown featured a letter opener with blood under its handle, a single hair that "closely resembled" his, a witness who conferred with the sheriff before picking him from a lineup, and a defense that told jurors to disregard the...

The tracking data showed the flock flying in a formation that spelled out a word, Butcher, and two weeks later the fisherman who first reported them, Jonathan Butcher, was dead at his wife's hand. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-butcher SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Canada Geese of Lake Pleasant” by A.S. Lowe: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-canada-geese-of-lake-pleasant/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 05, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL