Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A Missouri family's terrifying 90-minute encounter with a hovering UFO that manipulated trees with invisible force and left behind physical evidence so compelling it drew legendary researcher J. Allen Hynek to investigate. | #WDRadio APRIL 19, 2026
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HOUR ONE: A Missouri mobile home at the end of a dead-end path finds itself a part of a worldwide UFO frenzy in the summer of 1973 – with sightings of spacecraft, strange anomalies, hairy beasts, unexplainable imprints in the ground, and even encounters with extraterrestrial creatures. (The Missouri Mobile Home Alien Encounter, Part 1)
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HOUR TWO: A Missouri mobile home at the end of a dead-end path finds itself a part of a worldwide UFO frenzy in the summer of 1973 – with sightings of spacecraft, strange anomalies, hairy beasts, unexplainable imprints in the ground, and even encounters with extraterrestrial creatures. (The Missouri Mobile Home Alien Encounter, Part 2) *** Could we be trying to communicate in the wrong way with extraterrestrials? (Aliens and Quantum Messages) *** Imagine having the sniffles, blowing your nose, and finding what you’ve blown into the tissue is… glowing! (The Radium Girls)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
“The Missouri Mobile Home Alien Encounter” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p95kv5t
“The Piedmont UFO Incident” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/27n3x5py
“Aliens Could Be Sending Quantum Messages” by T.K. Randall for Unsolved-Mysteries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2zba2cf4
“The Radium Girls” by Dylan Wade Clark for Paranormality Magazine (link no longer available)
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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Last Wednesday, somewhere over Iowa, I watched a shiny object make a ninety-degree turn inside a cloud and then reverse course back into it. I don't know what I saw. But I know that the two responses most Christians would have to a sighting like mine are both wrong — and Scripture actually commands a third way that almost nobody practices.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Unidentified Flying Object
00:03:56.210 = Show Open
00:05:51.228 = A Word Before We Dig In
00:07:14.782 = The First Wrong Response – Dismissal
00:20:21.907 = The Second Wrong Response – Invention ***
00:30:54.794 = The Third Way – What Scripture Actually Commands ***
00:42:42.109 = What Testing Actually Looks Like ***
01:01:00.882 = The Landing ***
01:05:10.019 = Show Close
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REFERENCES & TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/ISawAUfoOverIowa

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Originally aired: April 19, 2026

A woman shattered by her brother's death and haunted by the promise he made the night he died finds herself wondering if the strange and impossible things her young son says and knows are somehow more than coincidence.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: JohnlockedDancer brings the original short story, “I’m a Freebatch Shipper”. *** Cole Smallwood sent me his creepy tale called “The Beastly Dog Pack”. *** John Parrish submitted his fiction story, “The Neighbor.” *** A creepypasta from author Stephanie Scissom called “To Keep a Promise”.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:14.166 = I’m a Free-Batch Shipper
00:03:09.078 = The Beastly Dog Pack
00:05:16.603 = The Neighbor
00:13:49.174 = To Keep a Promise, Part 1 ***
00:32:01.832 = To Keep a Promise, Part 2 ***
00:57:30.317 = Show Close
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“I’m a Freebatch Shipper” by Weirdo family member JohnlockedDancer (Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/johnlockeddancer/)
“The Beastly Dog Pack” by Weirdo family member Cole Smallwood
“The Neighbor” by Weird family member John Parrish
“To Keep a Promise” by Stephanie Scissom: https://tinyurl.com/yxy6azbf (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniescissom2019/)
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Originally aired: March 19, 2020

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/ToKeepAPromise

A condemned man awakens in the pitch-black dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition, and as his eyes slowly adjust to the darkness, he discovers that the blade of a massive swinging pendulum is descending toward him — one slow arc at a time.

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Originally aired: July, 2022

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A beloved Breton nobleman harbors a secret so monstrous that when his devoted wife finally pries it from him, her discovery sets in motion a betrayal that will leave him trapped — neither fully man nor fully beast — with no way back to the life he once knew.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Bisclavret: The Werewolf” by Mark Lord: https://amzn.to/3xYUxDz

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Originally aired: October 31, 2017

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/bisclavret/

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