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In September 1988, a boy with a slingshot found Joaquim Sebastião Gonçalves in the marsh grass at São Paulo's Billings Reservoir, three days after he'd swum across the water to fish, and the autopsy listed his eyes, ears, lips and abdominal organs as missing, with some of the wounds made while his blood was still circulating. Five years later, a researcher writing in a Brazilian UFO magazine concluded the crew of a flying saucer had killed him, and the case still goes by the name of a different reservoir several kilometers away, Guarapiranga. From the book “CONNECTIVE TISSUE: How Cattle Mutilations Link Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, Mind Control, And The Men In Black” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/ConnectiveTissue WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: November 11, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKTS19Z1 More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

A space zoologist sends his mind into the creatures of a jungle planet to judge whether it's safe for colonists, and finds thousands of insects in the treetops sitting perfectly still, all of them staring at the ground, all of them waiting for something he can't see. SOURCES and RESOURCES: “A Matter of Protocol” by Jack Sharkey: https://amzn.to/4ePZ1MG WeirdDarkness® | Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness | Midnight In The Macabre™ More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

An inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey told the FBI that a "thing" crawled into his throat and that his cellmate was helping the demon inside him grow, according to the complaint charging him with the cellmate's murder. An angler in Taiwan pulls up a bag of leg bones tied to a dumbbell. Officers in Egypt force open an apartment door to carry out an eviction and find the tenant's skeleton beside the bed. Police say a Philadelphia foster mother used her missing foster daughter's phone to text herself. And a fisherman in Oklahoma runs his boat into something just under the surface of a lake and calls it a "$3,200 … mistake". SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION:  http://weirddarkness.com/fairton-inmate-demon-bones-dumbbell-weird-darknews No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

It’s two sentences. The first is Bloody Mary as kids still play it. The second is the 1700s mirror ritual: girls ate an apple at a candlelit mirror and watched for a face over their shoulder. It was supposed to be their future husband’s, and a skeleton’s meant they’d die before they married. It leaves out the science explanation at the end of the segment, so the episode still gets to deliver that. READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n88rm8a FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Could there be floating balls of light not only possessed of some sort of intelli­gence, but which are capable of forming a unique bond with a person and even delivering painful stings when they so choose? (Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights) *** Cattle sometimes die suddenly on Silvies Valley Ranch’s 140,000 acres in Harney County — struck by disease or felled by a broken leg and unable to find a way out of the rugged, forested terrain. But by the time ranch hands discovered four more dead bulls within 24 hours, they knew they were likely dealing with deliberate, premeditated killings. (Oregon Cattle Mutilations) *** To quote one survivor of a near-death experience: “I know of no English words for the combination of joy, ecstasy, love, and requited longing that burned within me. It carried me to a dimension I never knew existed. In that moment, there was no pain of loss, only unity, rapture and reunion.” Is it possible that we may soon have scientific evidence for what lies beyond the veil? (New Evidence of Life After Death) *** Seeing specters in the reflection of a mirror or piece of glass is not just a cliché movie trope. There is a history that goes along with the happening. (Ghost In The Mirror) *** We’ve all heard of haunted forests – but there is one that is so disturbing it drives some people to want to commit murder! (Where The Woods Entice You To Murder) *** When it comes to ghostly apparitions, the White Lady are ubiquitous. But a theater in Sunderland, England has not just a White Lady specter, but also the haunting Grey Lady… and the ghost of a comedian. (Haunted Empire Theater) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:02:34.930 = Where The Woods Entice You To Murder 00:06:00.684 = Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights 00:18:48.818 = Ghost In The Mirror *** 00:42:17.288 = The Haunted Empire Theater *** 00:50:01.495 = Oregon Cattle Mutilations 01:00:12.085 = New Evidence of Life After Death *** 01:05:48.430 = Show Close 01:07:28.182 = “Say It Three Times” by Incorruption (SONG) *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break SOURCES and RESOURCES: Essex Ghost Hunters FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/EssexGhostHunters “Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights” from the Fortean Times: (link no longer available) “Oregon Cattle Mutilations” by Diana Kruzman for Oregon Live: https://tinyurl.com/y3sg3gle “New Evidence for Life After Death” by Michael Grosso for Consciousness Unbound: https://tinyurl.com/wou5am3“Ghost in the Mirror” by Micah Hanks for the Gralien Report: https://tinyurl.com/wuxunbx; Erin McCann for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.com/archives/2587; and Lyra Radford for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/wnzk58k

A mail carrier finds a mailbox taped shut and a note on the front door that says "9-1-1 Inside". In Spain, a woman lifts the lid of her late mother's chest freezer and finds a newborn inside. A hunter in Ghana points his gun at a coffin sitting above ground in a cemetery and threatens to shoot whoever's in it. Trick-or-treaters in San Diego bring home gummies printed with the words "psilocybin mushrooms". And a woman wanted for murder since 2009 calls the DMV to ask why her driver's license won't renew. EXPANDED STORIES & SOURCES: https://weirddarkness.com/mount-holly-911-note-baby-freezer-weird-darknews WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.