LINDA CORTILE: Abducted By Aliens, Then Kidnapped By The Men Who Saw It

22 October - 1 hour 29 mins
Podcast Series Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Early on November 30th, 1989, Linda Cortile says gray beings floated her out of her 12th-floor window in lower Manhattan and into a hovering craft, and two security men later told abduction researcher Budd Hopkins they'd watched it happen from their car near the Brooklyn Bridge.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I’ll share a heartbreaking story of love gone wrong. It's a tale of passion, betrayal, murder, and the electric chair. (Love And The Electric Chair) *** The terrifying true story of the abduction of Lin...

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