The Weird After Dark hosts explore Darren Marlar’s episode where a 13-pound iron rod shot completely through railroad foreman Phineas Gage’s brain in 1848—he stayed conscious, walked to the doctor, and lived 12 years with a totally different personality, revolutionizing neuroscience—while in Zimbabwe, a mysterious creature near Mtshabezi Bridge has drowned dozens of men in shallow water since the 1970s after they claim to see a fish. But the story that’ll keep you up at night? When Daniel Murdock was found hanged in 1850s New York, his distinctive scarlet birthmark had vanished from his throat, then reappeared at 2 a.m. during the funeral vigil—and when terrified neighbors returned at dawn, his corpse had completely disappeared from the locked room, never to be seen again.
