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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

BREAKING DOWN THE CAPONI ALIEN EVIDENCE: Real, Fake, or an Elaborate Conspiracy?

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

When 23-year-old Filiberto Caponi photographed a mysterious bandaged creature outside his Italian village home, he had no idea his evidence would trigger a government conspiracy that would force him to choose between prison and publicly calling his own encounters a hoax.

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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: The Filiberto Caponi alien encounters… the story, the evidence, and the theories to his veracity. The photos are intriguing, the tale is elaborate and intricate. But the conclusions range everywhere from it being a real incident, to an ingenious fraud, to a clever conspiracy to cover up the real truth of what happened.

SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
PHOTOS of the creature: https://weirddarkness.com/caponiphotos/
BOOK: “Unearthly Disclosure” by Timothy Good: https://amzn.to/3XXnBEe
“The Caponi Alien Evidence: Real, Fake, or an Elaborate Conspiracy?” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4b67wsj5
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Originally aired: July 19, 2023
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice. (AI Policy)
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CaponiAlien

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