Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.
Missing 411: The People Who Vanish From America's Wild Places
Thousands have stepped off marked trails and into America's wilderness never to be seen again, and the retired lawman who spent years cataloguing them found the same strange details surfacing case after case.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Missing411
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/34vb6kex
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Thousands of people have vanished without a trace from America's wilderness areas, leaving behind baffling clues that defy conventional explanation. From children who disappear within seconds while picking berries to hikers in...
Window to Oblivion: The Flight That Fell Through Time | #RetroRadio
A Marine pilot vanished over the Atlantic in 1945 with no wreckage, no body, and no explanation — and more than thirty years later, forty people would swear he was still 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, “Window to Oblivion” (May 23, 1978)
00:44:05.587 = Mysterious Traveler, “The Visiting Corpse” (January 09, 1944)
01:12:38.749 = CBC Nightfall, “The Telltale Heart” (August 01, 1980)
01:40:47.122 = Obsession, “Solitary Genius”...
Four Arrested After a Newborn Nearly Starved in Florahome: The Cannon Case | #WeirdDarkNEWS
I swear, I could start a whole new podcast called "They Shouldn't Be Parents" with these stories coming from all directions. So sad. A follow-up welfare visit to a six-week-old in Florahome, Florida ended with the baby in intensive care and four adults from the same household in jail, after deputies described the conditions inside as among the worst child neglect they had ever encountered.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/CannonCase20260806
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The Siders Case: Elizabeth Awaits a Ruling, Attorney Disputes Photos | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Elizabeth Siders' attorney tells a national television audience that the photos and video claiming to show inside the house may not be genuine. The judge in her case still has not ruled on whether she will be evaluated at all.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260806
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The Marksman's Ring And The Nurse Who Turned Him Down | #RetroRadio
“The Girl He Left Behind”: A young nurse turns down her soldier sweetheart's marriage proposal but keeps the ring he insists she hold onto, and when word arrives that he was killed on the drive back to base, she discovers that the dead do not always accept being refused.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Girl He...
The Static Between Frames | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A TV studio worker wakes up to the same day he already lived — and he's the only person in the building who knows it.
IN THIS EPISODE: “Frame By Frame” by Keith Conrad
MORE Stories Like This: https://www.auditoryanthology.com
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Originally aired: August 06, 2026
EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/framebyframe
Jesse Butler Walks Free in Stillwater as DA Vows to Go Federal | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A Stillwater high school student who pleaded no contest to raping and strangling two of his ex-girlfriends finished his youthful offender probation this week without a single day in prison, and a newly sworn district attorney is now asking the federal government to take the case Oklahoma no longer can.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/jessebutler20260805
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THE GREAT AIRSHIP HOAX OF 1909: History’s Non-Existent Flying Machine
In 1909, all eyes turned to Worcester, Massachusetts, as a well-dressed businessman claimed he’d built a flying machine — and the world wanted to believe him so badly, they saw it in the sky whether it was there or not.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/airshiphoax
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ye27xce4
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We’ll look at the crazy story of the Great Worcester Airship Hoax of 1909! *** We’ll meet a cat that must have more than nine lives, as it su...
The Clockwork Confession (Ninety-Three-Year-Old Man) | #RetroRadio
An aging millionaire’s fixation on a battered toy car draws his family into a tense mystery rooted in a tragedy from the past.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Hundred Dollar Difference” (May 19, 1978) ***WD
00:44:49.646 = Sherlock Holmes, “Horseless Carriage” (February 24, 1947) ***WD
01:13:45.557 = Mystery House, “A Killing In Market” (May 31, 1946)
01:39:11.056 = Inner Sanctum, “Death Is An Artist” (Januar...
The Birth of the Nebraska Sea – The Ocean That Ate the Midwest | #MidnightInTheMacabre
It started with dust instead of smoke over an empty stretch of Colorado in the summer of 1973, and by the time anyone understood what the land was actually doing, the middle of the country had already begun to drop.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-nebraskasea
SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Great Nebraska Sea” by Allan Danzig (Galaxy Magazine August 1963)
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 05, 2026
(AUG 04, 2026 UPDATE) Siders Case: Grandfather Freed, All Four Now Seek Competency | #WeirdDarkNEWS
One Siders defendant walks free on a signature bond. The last of the four asks a judge whether she's fit to stand trial at all.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/SidersCase20260804
Siders Case: Vinton County Child Endangerment Case, July 15 Coverage – Weird DarkNEWS
The Siders Family's Other House and Their Years Off the Grid – Weird DarkNEWS, July 22
The 16 Siders Children: Vinton County Seeks Permanent Custody – Weird DarkNEWS, July 29
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A Disc Beside the Wing: Gatwick's Flying-Saucer Airprox | #WeirdDarkNEWS | #WeirdDarkNEWS
A commercial crew descending into Gatwick watched a dark-rimmed disc pass within a few hundred feet of the right wing, and the radar recorded nothing there at all.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/gatwicksaucer/
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Montague Summers – The Priest Who Hunted Vampires, Witches, and Werewolves” #WeirdDarkness
Dressed like a 17th-century priest and armed with a library of ancient texts, Montague Summers devoted his life to proving that witches, vampires, and werewolves weren’t just folklore — they were terrifyingly real.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/montaguesummers
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/montague20260803
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Can a priest believe in witches, werewolves, and vampires? The answer is yes – and his name was Montague Summers. Was he a kook, or was he seeing the truth that others ignored? (Montag...
Naked Man Claiming to Be Jesus Crashes Into Detroit Church | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Around three in the morning on July 31st, a naked man drove his car through the front doors of a Baptist church on Detroit's west side, rolled to a stop inside the vestibule, and told the people who arrived that he was Jesus Christ; nobody was hurt, and Detroit police say any charges wait on the results of a mental health evaluation.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/NakedJesusCrash
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The Harmon Children: Six Dead in a Mechanicville Apartment | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Six members of one family were found dead in a Mechanicville, New York apartment in June; by August, investigators had ruled the four children's deaths homicides and the mother's and grandmother's deaths suicides, and said the two women planned the killings by text in the days before the kids were to leave for a court-ordered summer with their father.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/HarmonChildren20260804
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THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER (H.P. Lovecraft) | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Two men carried spades and a telephone line into an ancient swamp cemetery after midnight, and only one of them stayed above ground.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-randolphcarter
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Statement of Randolph Carter” by H.P. Lovecraft: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-statement-of-randolph-carter/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 04, 2026
CATTLE MUTILATIONS: The Connection To Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, and Mind Control
Alien abductions, cryptid creatures, secret government programs, portals to other worlds, cattle mutilations – the San Luis Valley may be the strangest and most terrifying place you’ve never heard of.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CattleMutilations
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We’ve had several episodes before about mysterious locations that are host to strange, paranormal activity. Skinwalker Ranch, for example, or The Bennington Triangle, or even the harsh terrain of Alaska. Perhaps one of the locations that appears to persistently slip under the radar is the San Luis Valley in Colorado. The region...
The 10,000-Year Brain That Would Not Die (I Am Your Brother) | #RetroRadio
There is a story about a man who knew everything the world would ever know because he claimed to be born ten thousand years too soon — a man who could foresee every future but his own, and who spent his life searching for the one person alive who could tell him how he would die.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
Berzerk and Polybius: The Twin Legends of Killer Arcade Games | #WDRadio
In 1982, an 18-year-old dropped dead after playing the arcade game Berzerk — and decades of half-truths, copycat rumors, and a real murder at the same machine turned it into legend. We separate fact from fiction on the Berzerk curse and its shadowy cousin, Polybius, the government mind-control game that may or may not have ever existed.
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HOUR ONE: It’s rumored that an arcade game from 1980 might lead to the real death of its players. We’ll look at the death curse of Berzerk. (The Berzerk Death Curse, And The Polybius Urban Legend) *** And another arcade game in the early...
The Ghost Who Judged Her Every Suitor: Edmund Orme | #RetroRadio
Every time David Delano tries to propose to the beautiful Charlotte Marsden, a figure in old-fashioned evening dress appears in the room — visible only to him and to Charlotte's mother — and neither of them will explain who he is or why he keeps coming back.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Edmund Orme” (May 15, 1978) ***WD
00:46:57.073 = The Crime...
THE SKIES ARE WATCHING: UFO Events From Roswell to Rendlesham, From the Tic Tac to Today
From a New Mexico ranch in 1947 to a Navy fighter jet in 2004, we trace ten of history's most famous UFO encounters — the eyewitnesses who saw them, the governments who denied them, and the questions that still won't go away."
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/skiesarewatching
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4hfn747d
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:06:39.225 = Show Open
00:07:58.582 = The Roswell UFO Incident
00:12:38.079 = The Westall UFO Encounter
00:15:33.497 = The Pascagoula Abduction
00:19:27.674 = The Allagash Abductions ***
00:22:35.165 = The...
Slender Man, Walking Sam, and the God We Carved From Fear | #ChurchOfTheUndead
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Two doctored photographs posted to a comedy forum in 2009 spread, through thousands of anonymous contributors, into a mythology detailed enough that two eleven-year-old girls stabbed a friend nineteen times to prove their worth to it. Six years later, a South Dakota reservation would recognize pieces of the same figure inside a legend of its own, one that predated the internet by generations.
EPISODE BLOG P...
The Secret of Shen Si: The Widow of a Thousand Disasters | #RetroRadio
A young bride's uncanny knowledge of history's deadliest catastrophes convinces her husband she's hiding something — but the truth behind her secret is older than he could ever imagine.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Secret of Shen-Si” (May 22, 1978) ***WD
00:45:23.731 = BBC Radio 4 / Radio 7 GhostStory, “The Crowd” (December 30, 1986)
00:59:43.519 = Night Beat, “Expectant Father” (December 28, 1951) ***WD
01:27:08.605 = The Black Book...
SLENDERMAN: BLURRING THE LINES OF REALITY – The Truth Behind The Legend
The Slender Man began as two photographs and a caption, submitted to an internet forum in 2009 as nothing more than a creepy image contest. Within five years, people across the country were treating him as real – and some proved just how far that belief could go.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Slenderman
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8ka2re
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In 2009, a photograph appeared on an internet forum, submitted as an entry in a contest to create convincing fa...
SCOUT BROOKS & THE ASTRO NOGS: Assault on Thryos, Episode One | #MicroTerrors
Scout Brooks just wants to survive his first day of seventh grade — but a mysterious after-school astronomy club, run by an even stranger professor, has him wondering exactly what he's signed up for.
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THE ELEVATOR IN THE WOODS: The Boy Who Came Back | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Two best friends sneak out on the first night of summer break and find a working elevator standing alone in the middle of the woods — and the moment they step inside, the way home stops making sense.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ElevatorInTheWoods
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Elevator In The Woods” by Adrian Johnson: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-elevator-in-the-woods/
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Originally aired: August 01, 2026
(JUL 29, 2026 UPDATE) The Siders Case: The Twin Daughters Who Died Before the Raid | #WeirdDarkNEWS
Records that surfaced in the weeks after the Siders children were found also describe a set of conjoined twins who died in 2022, two more underage marriages inside the extended family, and a stalled Ohio bill that would have raised the marriage age before any of it happened.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/siderscase20260731
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History’s Oddest Individuals And Sinister Psychopaths
From bathing in girls’ blood to making homemade conjoined twins, we’ll look at a few famous psychopaths who are truly some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world. Plus, whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history’s oddest individuals put modern-day eccentricities to shame.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/oddindividuals
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdeejyx2
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:04.405 = Show Open
00:02:00.371 = Diogenes : A Crazy, Homeless Philosopher
00:04:07.881 = Tarrare: the Man Who...
The Necropolyst: The Professor Who Kept the Dead as Dolls
This episode covers real-life horror far more extreme than usual, including a Russian professor arrested in 2011 for keeping the mummified corpses of 29 women and girls in his apartment, each one fitted with a hidden music box. It also includes the story of a 19th-century whiskey heir who paid six handkerchiefs for a 10-year-old girl so he could watch cannibals kill and eat her, and the theory that Alexander the Great was declared dead nearly a week before he actually died. Content is more graphic than usual, so listener discretion is advised.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness...
ROOM 418: The Wrong Room to Hide a Body In | #RetroRadio
A killer holes up in a snowbound hotel room with a dead woman in the closet — and finds he can't stop talking to her.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Room 418” (May 09, 1978) ***WD
00:46:24.291 = SONG: “You Can’t Kill Me Twice” by Static Wax, inspired by ‘Room 418’ (July 30, 2026) *** https://weirddarkness.com/music
00:51:41.227 = The Whistler, “To Rent Danger” (Apr...
Death And Desire: A Tale of Fake Séances and Real Ghosts | #RetroRadio
A phony spiritualist who fakes contact with the dead to swindle grieving clients gets more than she bargained for when the voices calling back from Summerland might not be fake after all.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Death And Desire” (May 08, 1978) ***WD
00:45:30.201 = Sleep No More, “Woman in Grey” and “Suspicious Gift” (March 20, 1957)
01:14:18.462 = BBC Radio 4 Spine...
DON’T LOOK NOW: The Martians In The Mirror | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A man who claims he can see invisible Martians controlling humanity finds an unlikely ally in a stranger at a bar who has photographed something impossible with infrared film. But in a world where the watchers are always watching, proving the truth might be the most dangerous thing of all.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-dontlooknow
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Don’t Look Now” by Henry Kuttner, originally published in Startling Stories, March 1948
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 30, 2026
(UPDATE) The 16 Siders Children: Vinton County Seeks Permanent Custody | #WeirdDarkNEWS
In a single week, Vinton County told the world it does not intend to give the Siders children back. Three of the four adults charged with harming them have now asked the court to decide whether they are fit to stand trial at all. And two reporters who went looking for the family's past came back with the same address from different directions.
SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/siderscase20260729
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The True Crime Story of Edgar Allan Poe And The Murdered Cigar Girl
When a beautiful cigar shop girl is found dead under mysterious circumstances, a troubled Edgar Allan Poe becomes obsessed with solving the real-life crime—turning tragedy into fiction in a desperate search for truth.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/PoeCigarGirl
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’m sharing a chapter from the book “Nevermore: The Haunted Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” by Troy Taylor, which I narrated the audiobook for. But this chapter by itself was so interesting to me that I thought it would make a great episode of Weird Da...
SECRET BAR: The Regulars Have Been Down There a Long Time | #MidnightInTheMacabre
A bored twenty-one-year-old in New Orleans got an anonymous email inviting him to a bar with no name, and it gave him three separate chances to turn around before the elevator stopped going down.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-secretbar
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Secret Bar” by K. Banning Kellum: https://www.creepypasta.com/secret-bar/ (find more creepiness in K. Banning Kellum’s book “Gris Gris and Ju Ju, A New Orleans Horror” https://amzn.to/2EaYeH6)
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), origin...
The Dogman Files: Encounters from the American Wilderness
For over a century, witnesses across Michigan and Wisconsin have described the same impossible figure – upright, wolf-headed, and aware of being watched. Some walked away with scars, others with a story they were afraid to tell for decades.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/dogman
READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckpcp8s
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Across Michigan and Wisconsin, encounters with an upright, wolf-headed figure span more than a century – from nineteenth-century logging camps to farm roads, deer stands, and suburban backyards. Witn...
Nightmare: The Eight Doors | #RetroRadio
A man wakes up convinced he murdered someone in his sleep, and the marks on his own body say the dream might not have been a dream at all.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Cool Killer Carl” (May 05, 1978) ***WD
00:46:18.874 = Mystery Playhouse, “Nightmare” (November 28, 1944)
01:15:15.928 = Price of Fear, “Remains To Be Seen” (September 01, 1973) ***WD
01:42:19.483 = Adventures of...
Journey to Somewhere: A Train Full of Passengers Who Had Given Up on Life | #RetroRadio
Six strangers board a night train crawling through the worst winter in years — a divorced businessman, a runaway couple, a wealthy man running out of time, and an elderly woman being shipped off by her own family — each quietly hoping this trip might be the one that changes everything, for better or worse.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Myster...
ASYLUM IN THE WOODS: The Screams Are How You Know | #MidnightInTheMacabre
Four friends went into the Massachusetts woods looking for a paved road that starts in the middle of nowhere, and they found what was waiting at the end of it.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-asyluminthewoods
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Asylum In The Woods” by Redditor R.L. Rogers: https://www.creepypasta.com/the-asylum-in-the-woods/
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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: July 28, 2026
Roswell Wasn't First: UFO Crashes Dating Back to 1862
In 1947, the Army announced it had recovered a crashed "flying disc" near Roswell, then reversed itself within a day — a contradiction the Air Force didn't explain until 1994, when it revealed a classified spy program called Project Mogul. Roswell wasn't even the first: unidentified wreckage and bodies had been turning up for decades before it.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RoswellWasntFirst
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: When you hear the words “UFO crash” you likely think of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. And while that is the most famous of supposed extraterrestrial spaceship crashes, it is by...
