A year after Rico's mother vanished in the Grayfall Nature Preserve, his father finally knows what really happened to her — and he's invited Lexi over for a backyard barbecue to honor her memory. But the burgers don't taste right, the hot dogs don't look right, and Mr. Alejandro has one strange instruction before the first bite: no matter what, keep it in.

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In 1959, a quiet missionary village in Papua New Guinea became the site of one of history’s most astonishing UFO encounters—where a priest and his flock not only witnessed a hovering craft but exchanged waves with the humanoid figures aboard.

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

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The English and Americans aren’t the only ones with vampire problems – in China they have a nasty vampire that is also a master of disguise. (Jiangshi, The Vampire) *** Papua New Guinea had an avalanche of UFO sightings in the late 1950s – and one of the most infamous involved a priest and his parish. (Father William and the Flying Saucer) *** “It looked like a baby’s body with long arms and legs. It had a big head about the same size as the body, it was sort of melon shaped.” That’s how Bill Bartlet described the strange create he saw in 1977. (The Dover Demon Returns) *** Murdered in Montana in 1983, Marie Philbrick was killed in the days before DNA analysis. Bernard Pease Jr. was convicted of her murder, but was he really her killer? (The Murder Case of Marie Philbrick)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:36.878 = Father William and the Flying Saucer
00:09:16.267 = The Murder Case of Marie Philbrick ***
00:20:42.781 = The Dover Demon Returns ***
00:39:08.409 = Jiangshi, The Vampire ***
00:43:26.236 = Show Close & Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Jiangshi, The Vampire” by A. Sutherland for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2tvsk3n7
“Father William and the Flying Saucer” from Anomalien: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2cycfdnp
“The Murder Case of Marie Philbrick” from CrimeTraveller.org: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/aez456w
“The Dover Demon Returns” by Mark Sullivan for Boston.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/tbuu3vcw and Strange New England: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jztfkrsn
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Originally aired: March 05, 2023

“Northern Lights”: Two scientists built a time machine, and the cold thing that crawled back into the laboratory had every intention of staying.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Just To Keep Busy” (October 25, 1977)
00:46:13.238 = Quiet Please, “Northern Lights” (January 30, 1949)
01:15:51.524 = Radio City Playhouse, “Affliction” (September 25, 1949)
01:44:22.690 = Mercer McLeod, “Blood On The Doorstep” (1946-1947)
01:58:33.864 = Silver Theater: Dashiell Hammett’s “Maltese Falcon” (February 01, 1942)
03:55:05.423 = The Sealed Book, “Death At Storm House” (April 22, 1945)
04:25:16.859 = The Shadow, “The Phantom Voyage” (February 16, 1941)
04:50:03.811 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
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Since August 2025, a crowdsourced tracking app has logged more than 9,000 sightings of unidentified objects within 10 miles of US shorelines, with clusters off California, Florida, and naval training zones.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/UnderwaterUFOs

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A Belgian woman vanished from her Canary Islands home on a Sunday night in May, and four days later investigators were sifting through a landfill.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/oosterlinck

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Sharon Hoggatt came home to a planter she hadn't moved, a deadbolt no one had locked, and a growing sense that either her husband was losing his memory or someone else was inside their house.

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A writer is gifted the rope that hanged a notorious highwayman, and from that night forward, something with a face like impure wax begins following him through London — into his dreams, into his work, and finally into the jury box of a murder trial he was never meant to survive.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Trial For Murder” (October 24, 1977)
00:48:20.210 = CBC Nightfall, “The Wedding” (April 15, 1983) ***WD
01:18:54.528 = Nightmare, “Chance of a Ghost” (March 31, 1945) ***WD
01:40:57.831 = Obsession, “The Hangman” (January 15, 1951) ***WD
02:10:47.211 = Origin of Superstition, “Breaking The Wishbone” (1935)
02:25:03.766 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Lydia Reynolds Case” (November 23, 1947)
02:54:53.127 = Peril, “A Matter of Honor” (1953) ***WD
03:21:57.779 = Mystery Playhouse, “Two Men In a Furnished Room” (September 27, 1946) ***WD
03:45:48.955 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Night Has a Thousand Eyes” (August 19, 1953) ***WD
04:09:26.274 = Price of Fear, “Fish” (September 1973)
04:38:04.873 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Nick Knife” (August 01, 1945) ***WD
05:02:05.115 = Show Close

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(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.
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Long before the modern UFO craze, cowboys, trappers, and even future U.S. presidents reported eerie lights, sky-borne serpents, and crashed crafts with mysterious hieroglyphs—suggesting that the Wild West may have had more than just outlaws lurking in the night.

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

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If you have seen the film, Cowboys and Aliens then the idea of spacecraft in the Wild West will not be so, well, alien to you. Although the film, as enjoyable as it is, is one-hundred percent fiction, there are numerous accounts of UFO and alien encounters in the tentative years of the United States. (Real Encounters of Cowboys And Aliens) *** Michael and Janet wouldn’t report their UFO abduction for ten years out of fear of not being believed. But once they told the story, it would set the Ufology community on fire. (The Buff Ledge Abduction) (The Buff Ledge Abduction) *** What is the Bermuda Triangle? What’s going on in this mysterious patch of the Atlantic Ocean where dozens of ships, planes, and people have disappeared without explanation? (Inside the Bermuda Triangle) *** From the "little green men" of rural Kentucky to a string of lights over Arizona spotted by thousands of people, there are several convincing, real UFO sightings that not only remain unexplained, but might even suggest we’re not alone in the universe. (UFO Sightings That Remain Unexplained)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:41.674 = Show Open
00:03:36.481 = Real Encounters of Cowboys and Aliens
00:14:56.841 = Inside The Bermuda Triangle ***
00:25:04.794 = The Buff Ledge Abduction
00:35:30.437 = UFO Sightings That Remain Unexplained ***
01:00:56.192 = Show Close & Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Real Encounters of Cowboys And Aliens” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9b3f2s
“Inside The Bermuda Triangle” by Kaleena Fraga for All That’s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8shfn7
“The Buff Ledge Abduction” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9bwuhf
“UFO Sightings That Remain Unexplained” by Austin Harvey for All That’s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8wn67f
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Originally aired: March 25, 2024

A man broke through a hospital wall and was found in a Pennsylvania park after telling police he needed a walk. Oh, yeah... and he was naked.

SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/naked-punxsutawney-man

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Australian psychologists invented a secret army of genetically engineered super-raccoons to find out who was actually telling the truth on their conspiracy surveys.

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Five words from a faceless machine end Walter Hayes's career — and send him down a spiral where the only solution he can see is to be worth more dead than alive.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Sorry To Let You Go” (October 21, 1977)
00:45:08.893 = MindWebs, “Letters From Underneath The Earth” (January 24, 1983)
01:15:14.587 = Two On a Clue, “The Case of the Silent Witness” (October 03, 1944) ***WD
01:29:41.774 = Mystery In The Air, “Black Cat” (September 18, 1947) ***WD
01:55:27.900 = Molle’ Mystery Theater, “Creeper” (March 29, 1946)
02:24:33.240 = Mr. Keen, “The Missing Witnesses” (January 13, 1944) ***WD
02:52:57.583 = Murder at Midnight, “Ape Song” (April 13, 1947) ***WD
03:19:33.899 = Black Museum, “Auto Service Card” (March 28, 1952) ***WD
03:45:30.365 = Mysterious Traveler, “It’s Only Money” (January 08, 1952)
04:14:43.412 = Mystery House, “Death Passed My Window” (March 31, 1946) ***WD
04:40:59.457 = Night Beat, “Sanctuary” (June 22, 1951)
05:08:08.740 = 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.
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