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EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 5 MIN

CROSSROADS HAINT, "Ghosts Of The Nancy Hale"

from Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark · host Darren Marlar

All songs are eventually released to major streaming platforms and music apps such as Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and most other services worldwide. Songs always appear here first before distribution elsewhere.Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does.ABOUT THE SONG: "Ghosts of the Nancy Hale" — Southern Gothic blues with Chicago and Bayou influence. Inspired by the Weird Darkness Retro Radio episode "Ghosts of The Nancy Hale: The Six Who Did Not Die" featuring the story from Creeps by Night — "The Six Who Did Not Die," originally broadcast July 11, 1944. Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does.Every track is inspired by the strange, the haunted, the historical, and the occasionally unspeakable stories covered on the Weird Darkness podcast — murder ballads, cursed places, restless spirits, and the kind of folklore that keeps front porch lights burning all night.ABOUT THE SOURCE EPISODE: "The Six Who Did Not Die" aired on Creeps by Night on July 11, 1944, on the Blue Network, and was rebroadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Service program Mystery Playhouse hosted by Peter Lorre. The story is set aboard the sloop Nancy Hale, anchored off the atoll of Mandariva in the Gambier Islands, and follows the captain's decision to murder his six native pearl divers rather than split the take from an unusually rich bed. When he returns for more, the sea is waiting with its own verdict.

All songs are eventually released to major streaming platforms and music apps such as Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and most other services worldwide. Songs always appear here first before distribution elsewhere.Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does.ABOUT THE SONG: "Ghosts of the Nancy Hale" — Southern Gothic blues with Chicago and Bayou influence. Inspired by the Weird Darkness Retro Radio episode "Ghosts of The Nancy Hale: The Six Who Did Not Die" featuring the story from Creeps by Night — "The Six Who Did Not Die," originally broadcast July 11, 1944. Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does.Every track is inspired by the strange, the haunted, the historical, and the occasionally unspeakable stories covered on the Weird Darkness podcast — murder ballads, cursed places, restless spirits, and the kind of folklore that keeps front porch lights burning all night.ABOUT THE SOURCE EPISODE: "The Six Who Did Not Die" aired on Creeps by Night on July 11, 1944, on the Blue Network, and was rebroadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Service program Mystery Playhouse hosted by Peter Lorre. The story is set aboard the sloop Nancy Hale, anchored off the atoll of Mandariva in the Gambier Islands, and follows the captain's decision to murder his six native pearl divers rather than split the take from an unusually rich bed. When he returns for more, the sea is waiting with its own verdict.

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