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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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR 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 Club, “Topaz Flower” (April 24, 1947) 01:16:53.148 = Crime Classics, “Death Picture Hanger” (July 20, 1953) 01:46:38.330 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Nola Jerrold Wants To Kill Her Husband” (September 15, 1946) 02:10:54.934 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Three Thousand Dollars” (January 21, 1972) ***WD 02:36:19.806 = Diary of Fate, “Victor Wakeman” (June 29, 1948) ***WD 03:03:06.121 = Dimension X, “Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitorium” (September 22, 1950) ***WD 03:32:38.297 = The Eleventh Hour, “Country Road” (ADU) 03:58:20.749 = Escape, “The Sure Thing” (October 15, 1949) 04:26:55.837 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Sourdough” (February 05, 1958) 04:46:02.408 = Tales of the Frightened, “Chung Ling Soo” (December 16, 1957) ***WD 04:50:22.457 = Tales From the Tomb, “The Lick” (1960s) 04:53:51.912 = Incredible But True, “Naked Man of Newbury” (1950-1951) 04:57:38.785 = Strange Adventure, “Crossroads” (1945) ***WD 05:00:55.441 = 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. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0732

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 Tehran UFO Incident 00:25:46.548 = The Cash-Landrum Incident 00:29:03.352 = The Rendlesham Forest Incident 00:32:19.175 = The Belgian UFO Wave 00:36:28.126 = The Phoenix Lights *** 00:40:52.495 = The Nimitz UFO Encounter 00:44:15.325 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: - Paranormality Magazine article; (link no longer valid) - Halt, Charles. "Halt Memo," January 1981, archived by the UK National Archives. - Penniston, Jim, and John Burroughs. "Encounter in Rendlesham Forest." Thomas & Mercer, 2014. - BBC News. "Rendlesham Forest: 'Britain's Roswell' UFO spotted off Suffolk coast," September 2011. - Pope, Nick. "You Can't Tell the People." Pan Books, 2001 – A book by a former MoD UFO investigator discussing the cover-ups and inside stories of the British government's responses to UFO sightings, including the Rendlesham Forest incident. - Bruni, Georgina. "You Can't Tell the People: The Definitive Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery." Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000. - SOBEPS Reports on the Belgian UFO Wave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdEALPvl_4Q - "Belgium in UFO Fever" - Brussels Times - "The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident," by John F. Schuessler, provides an extensive analysis of the event, including medical records and witness testimonies. - "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry," a comprehensive study by Michael Swords and others, details the government's response to UFO sightings, including the Cash-Landrum case. - "Fire in the Sky: The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident," an article in the MUFON UFO Journal that revisits the incident, detailing the investigation and subsequent legal battle. - "Westall '66: A Suburban UFO Mystery," a documentary by Shane Ryan, explores the events through witness testimonies and expert interviews. - "The Westall UFO: A Suburban Mystery," a book by Keith Basterfield, provides a detailed account of the sighting, including the social and governmental context. - Articles and interviews archived by the Victorian UFO Action group, which has collected and analyzed first-hand accounts from witnesses and former students of Westall High School. - U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Report: This declassified document provides a detailed account of the Tehran UFO Incident, including descriptions from the pilots and ground control. - "Iranian Jet Chased UFO, Got Light Show": This article in the New York Times archives covers the public's reaction and the international reporting following the incident. - Interview with Lt. Parviz Jafari: Several interviews with Jafari provide first-hand accounts of the encounter, including technical details of the aircraft's malfunctions. - CIA Document on the Tehran UFO Incident: A collection of declassified CIA documents...

Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114 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 PAGE (includes sources and print version): https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-slenderman Weird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026.

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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR 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, “Different Readings, Parts 1 & 2” (November 21, 1951) ***WD 01:52:20.091 = Challenge of the Yukon, “Magnanimous Ghost” (August 28, 1945) 02:06:45.867 = Box 13, “Three To Die” (January 23, 1949) 02:33:16.175 = Calling All Cars, “Missing Mexican Sheiks” (January 03, 1934) ***WD (LQ) 03:05:07.603 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Handkerchief” (September 05, 1946) 03:34:32.775 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Hitch Hiker” (June 02, 1967) ***WD 04:00:52.848 = Chet Chetters, “If You Can’t Stand The Heat” (1992) 04:29:31.575 = The Clock, “Time In Reverse” (January 17, 1956) 04:53:57.175 = Beyond The Green Door, “Edgar Hayes – Amazon Trip Seek” (1966) 04:57:50.162 = Calling All Detectives, “Jerry Is Framed for the Murder of Mrs. Mayner” (July 07, 1948) ***WD (LQ) 05:05:52.977 = 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. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0731

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 fake paranormal images. The figure in it had no face, arms too long for its body, and a caption written like a piece of found history. Within a few years, that figure had a name recognized across the internet, a following that treated the images as more than fiction, and a reputation for turning up in places far stranger than a photo contest ever intended. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:02:02.673 = Show Open 00:03:13.025 = Slenderman: Blurring The Lines of Reality, Part 1 00:09:24.860 = Slenderman: Blurring The Lines of Reality, Part 2 *** 00:22:48.484 = Slenderman: Blurring The Lines of Reality, Part 3 *** 00:34:59.166 = Slenderman: Blurring The Lines of Reality, Part 4 *** 00:41:57.606 = Slenderman: Blurring The Lines of Reality, Part 5 *** 00:54:09.889 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Slenderman: Blurring The Lines Of Reality” by Marcus Lowth for UFOInsight.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9e9srj (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: March, 2022 This episode of Weird Darkness traces the Slender Man from an internet photo contest into real-world stabbings, arson, and a wave of suicides on a South Dakota reservation, then weighs whether an invented internet legend can, in some sense, become real.It opens with the character's exact origin: on June 10th, 2009, Eric Knudsen, posting under the name Victor Surge on the forum Something Awful, submitted two doctored photographs as part of a contest to create convincing paranormal images. Each carried a caption inventing a backstory, one referencing a photographer "presumed dead" in 1983 and another tying the figure to a fire at the Stirling City Library and the disappearance of a photographer named Mary Thomas in 1986. The figure in both images, faceless and unnaturally tall with elongated arms, spread across the internet within days and took on the name Slender Man, along with a folklore of his own: a preference for woods and abandoned buildings, the ability to travel at will, and warning signs that included nosebleeds, nightmares, and sudden paranoia.From there, the...