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In 2006 Ukraine, beams split the sky. Time stopped. Something inhuman came to Earth — and took people from their homes. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/UkraineUFOs SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Ukraine Alien Abduction” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p82rjjp VIDEO: UFO Spotted Near Explosion In Ukraine: https://weirddarkness.com/ufo-spotted-near-explosion-in-ukraine/ (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: July, 2022 Weird Darkness digs into Ukraine's decades-long record of UFO sightings and humanoid encounters, from a husband and wife carried aboard a disc-shaped craft outside their own front door, to horned figures stripping orchards near an ancient fortress honeycombed with tunnels, to a truck driver who described being walked across the surface of the moon by three men who had flagged him down for car trouble.It opens with the case reported in the June 20th, 2008 edition of the Ukrainian newspaper Facts, in which 34-year-old Vladimir Voronezhskiy and his 29-year-old wife Olga described being taken aboard a disc-shaped craft outside their home in the early hours of the morning. The evening began when their daughters Vanessa and Angelica came back from a nearby shop describing a "flying star", then drew matching sketches of a round object flashing white, yellow and red. Olga and Vladimir went outside and watched an object hovering over a distant river, and Olga's mobile phone captured only a blurred yellow smear. Around 2 am the bedroom filled with white light, the roof appeared to turn transparent, and the couple ran outside to find a disc hanging roughly 350 feet from the house. Olga rose into the air in a spiraling motion while Vladimir grabbed for her leg and missed, and the two of them found themselves inside a bare room with glass-like walls, surrounded by three-foot entities with gray skin, oversized heads and three fingers on each hand, moving without visible legs in the manner of a caterpillar. Olga was placed in a medical chair and watched the entities open an incision across her abdomen with instruments she had never seen before, feeling no pain, then close it so completely that no scar remained; Vladimir, held back by what felt like an invisible wall, was paralyzed by four metal rods laid on his chest after he struggled, and a voice entered his head promising he would be home soon. A taller figure, roughly five feet tall with its face fully covered, told him only that the procedures "had to be done". The couple were then seated in front of transparent walls where the sun looked like a diffused spot of light and the Earth appeared no bigger than a tennis ball, taken down to a world where the inhabitants lived in open pits below the surface, and told that humans and cattle alike had been brought to Earth from another planet. Vladimir refused repeated attempts to make him copulate with a female entity, even after it took the form of a beautiful human woman, and the conversation turned instead to human emotion and why our species has not yet destroyed itself. UFO researcher Yuriy Stepanov later placed Vladimir under hypnotic regression, which produced...

A trapeze flyer chasing a somersault no one has ever landed shares a drink with a circus fire eater who calls himself Lou Cipher, and walks away believing a bargain has been struck. 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 Quadruple” (June 28, 1978) ***WD 00:45:39.406 = Witch’s Tale, “Tourists Accommodated” (March 03, 1938) ***WD(LQ) 01:09:36.259 = X Minus One, “Open Warfare” (January 23, 1957) ***WD 01:30:53.254 = Zero Hour, ‘Death Is The Puppeteer” (May 24, 1974) ***WD 01:48:16.561 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD(LQ) 02:12:17.632 = Appointment With Fear, “The Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD 02:41:04.353 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Truth” (January 13, 1940) ***WD 03:09:34.283 = Barry Craig, “The Case of the Naughty Necklace” (November 28, 1951) 03:37:22.883 = BBC Radio 4, “The Murders In The Rue Morgue” (January 22, 2000) 04:33:33.619 = Night Beat, “Pay Up Or Die” (May 01, 1952) ***WD 05:01:46.546 = 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/WDRR0748

Jim Harker kills a traffic constable on a fog-blind road at midnight and drives away without reporting it, and from that night forward every trip down that same stretch of road brings the sound of a police siren only he can hear. 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, “Lady Bluebeard” (June 26, 1978) ***WD 00:46:20.038 = The Creaking Door, “Death On The Road” (December 07, 1964) ***WD 01:15:09.868 = The Saint, “Conley Silver Mine” (July 31, 1949) ***WD 01:39:33.865 = Theater 1030, “The Pedestrian” (1968-1971) ***WD 02:05:17.574 = 2000 Plus, “The Other Man” (June 07, 1950) ***WD 02:35:51.037 = The Unexpected, “ The Necklace” (1947-1948) 02:47:49.587 = Columbia Workshop, “Carmilla” (July 28, 1940) (LQ) 03:17:15.893 = Dark Venture, “Ten Dollar Bill” (August 14, 1945) 03:46:13.757 = The Weird Circle, “Fall of the House of Usher” (1943) 04:13:26.305 = The Whistler, “Masters Tree” (April 30, 1945) 04:42:57.851 = Strange Wills, “So Deep Stream” (September 28, 1946) 05:12:41.544 = 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/WDRR0747

On the night of June 24th, 1948, seventeen-year-old switchboard operator Mary Jane Reed went out on a first date in Oregon, Illinois and was never seen alive again, and nearly eighty years later the little river town is still arguing over who killed her – and still reporting that she never quite left. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/MaryJaneReed READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7bcv8z FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: In 2016, near the infamous Nazca Lines, an incredible find came to light – not gold or jewels, not remnants of pottery, but a tomb. But what was found within the tomb has raised more questions than answers, as the resident mummies appears not to be human… just humanoid. (The Nazca Three-Fingered Mummy) *** Once in a while you’ll hear of a horrible tragedy and the victim will be described as “ground into mincemeat”. In some case, this is not much of an exaggeration. (Ground Into Mincemeat) *** In 1983 Diane Downs shot her own children – Christie, Danny and Cheryl, in the backseat of the car. Miraculously, Christie Downs survived. (The Survival of Christie Downs) *** When it comes to demonic possession, it’s often chalked up to mental illness – but sometimes the events surrounding the possessed person are so bizarre and unexplainable, you are almost forced to believe in the supernatural. Such was the case with Don Decker. (The Pennsylvania Rain Man) *** Cannibalism – just the word itself is enough to creep you out. Fortunately, cases of it are usually distant, in some far-off, remote, jungle area, done by natives who have yet to discover civilization. At least, that’s what we like to believe. Unfortunately, it happens worldwide, nearer than you think. Like… in America. And in some cases, not so long ago. (American Cannibals) *** The death of a young girl and her boyfriend leave an Illinois town devastated… and it also left behind a lingering ghost. (The Ghost of Mary Jane Reed) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00.00.000 = The Foreboding 00:00:40.145 = Show Open 00:03:09.286 = The Ghost Of Mary Jane Reed 00:17:55.776 = The Pennsylvania Rain Man *** 00:29:45.637 = The Survival Of Christie Downs 00:38:06.795 = Nazca’s Three-Fingered Mummies *** 00:42:54.737 = American Cannibals 00:52:58.187 = Ground Into Mincemeat *** 00:57:59.897 = 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: Albert Fish episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/46rmaca3 “The Nazca Three-Fingered Mummy” from TheSchareChamber.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/364kxnar “Ground Into Mincemeat” posted at StrangeAgo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3rmddv3e “The Pennsylvania Rain Man” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8bz5ez “The Survival of Christie Downs” by Marco Margaritoff for All That’s Interesting:

A man whose hunger has never once been satisfied agrees to babysit for six hours… but the food runs out in two hours. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-ImAGlutton SOURCES and RESOURCES:  “I’m a Glutton” by R. A. Brewster: https://www.creepypasta.com/im-a-glutton/ WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 17, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL