January 5, 2000 | The Police and Dispatch Radio Chatter That Tracked a House-Sized UFO Over Illinois

An English archaeologist talks a terrified French sacristan out of a priceless medieval scrapbook for pocket change — and finds out that night why the old man was so eager to sell. | #RetroRadio EP0636 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Olive Darling and Morton Dear” (September 02, 1977) ***WD 00:46:14.207 = Appointment With Fear, “The Pit And The Pendulum” (September 18, 1943) ***WD 01:13:21.641 = BBC Radio 4/7 Ghost Story, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook” (December 29, 1997) 01:27:31.568 = Beyond The Green Door, “Edward Morse, Deep Sea Fishing, and Rats” (1966) 01:31:14.101 = The Black Book, “My Favorite Corpse” (February 24, 1952) ***WD 01:45:41.440 = The Avenger, “The Ghost Murder” (January 13, 1946) 02:15:40.001 = Box 13, “Damsel In Distress” (November 14, 1948) 02:42:26.663 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Champagne Safari” (April 28, 1967) 03:51:55.215 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Interface To Terror” (1990-1992) ***WD 04:19:42.714 = The Clock, “Aunt Emmy” (November 15, 1955) 04:46:39.145 = 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/WDRR0636

“Physician Of The Dead”: A scientist in revolutionary Paris believed the severed head keeps thinking after the blade falls, and the night he finally proved it was the night he learned whose voice was waiting in the sack. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0635 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options 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 Reunion” (August 31, 1977) 00:45:50.285 = The Unexpected, “Masterpiece” (September 26, 1948) 00:57:56.320 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Indian Fakir” (February 17, 1944) ***WD 01:11:34.960 = Nick Carter, “Death After Dark” (February 19, 1944) ***WD 01:40:50.656 = Dark Venture, “Eclipse” (August 07, 1945) 02:10:36.663 = The Weird Circle, “Pistol Shot” (March 18, 1945) 02:38:01.228 = The Whistler, “Murder Has a Signature” (January 15, 1945) ***WD 03:09:43.726 = Witch’s Tale, “Physician Of The Dead” (November 08, 1934) ***WD 03:38:45.995 = X-Minus One, “Soldier Boy” (October 17, 1956) 04:06:38.672 = Zero Hour, “The Housecall” (May 09, 1974) ***WD 04:23:53.977 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD (LQ) 04:47:55.048 = Strange Adventure, “South Of The Border” (1945) ***WD 04:51:10.640 = 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/WDRR0635

In the remote Canadian wilderness, an ill-fated hunting trip turns into a nightmare when one of the guides vanishes into the night, leaving behind only his screams of burning feet and a trail of something far more terrifying than any beast of the forest. FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” which I’ve placed a link to in the show notes. The story involves a hunting party that gets separated in the Canadian wilderness in search for moose. One of the party members is abducted by the legendary Wendigo. Fellow author Robert Aickman once said of the story, it’s "...one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Here’s hoping you agree with him. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:02:15.563 = Show Open 00:04:17.046 = A Brief Look At The Author 00:07:16.864 = The Wendigo, Part 1 *** 00:22:35.406 = The Wendigo, Part 2 *** 00:48:02.466 = The Wendigo, Part 3 *** 01:08:43.646 = The Wendigo, Part 4 *** 01:32:56.432 = The Wendigo, Part 5 *** 01:53:58.350 = The Wendigo, Part 6 *** 02:00:27.263 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1078714736 *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n8bff63y (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: April 09, 2020 EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/TheWendigo

“The Old Die Rich”: They found him in an alley, dead of hunger, with seventeen thousand dollars sewn into the lining of his coat. He wasn't the first. He wouldn't be the last. Every one of them old. Every one of them starved. Every one of them carrying a bank book whose entries went back fifty years — in ink only months old. Private investigator Mark Weldon has chased the pattern across the city, and the pattern keeps leading back to a brownstone on Eldridge Avenue, and a beautiful red-haired physicist with ice-blue eyes and a want-ad that only hires men nobody will miss. Her name is May Roberts. Her laboratory hums behind a locked door. And the old men who walk through it come home rich — just in time to die. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0634 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://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “To Be a Rose” (August 29, 1977) 00:46:54.231 = BBC Spinechillers, “Inner Critic” (April 2006) 01:00:50.698 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” (July 23, 1945) ***WD 01:13:48.186 = Strange Wills, “Lady And The Pirate” (June 29, 1946) ***WD 01:43:28.483 = Suspense, “Sisters” (February 03, 1944) 02:13:20.326 = Tales of the Frightened, “Deadly Dress” (1957) 02:17:58.583 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Old Die Rich” (March 26, 1953) ***WD 02:49:45.547 = The Creaking Door, ‘Face To Face Music of the Spheres” (June 01, 1964) ***WD 03:14:16.802 = The Saint, “Peter Great” (June 24, 1951) 03:43:54.405 = Theater Five, “Nameless Day” (November 09, 1964) 04:05:20.075 = Theater 1030, “Trespassers Will Be Experimented Upon” (1968-1971) ***WD 04:34:07.590 = Tales From The Tomb, “The Raven” (1960s) 04:43:33.852 = Two Thousand Plus, “The Brooklyn Brain” (June 21, 1950) ***WD 05:12:14.545 = 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/WDRR0634

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 ========== 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) ========== 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) ========== 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) ==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for material I use whenever possible. If I have overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it immediately. Some links may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) ========== "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 ========== WeirdDarkness®, WeirdDarkness© 2026 ========== To become a Weird Darkness Radio Show affiliate, contact Radio America at [email protected], or call 800-807-4703 (press 2 or dial ext 250).