Weird Darkness is celebrating its eighth birthday this month, and our way of celebrating is to raise money for organizations that help people who struggle with depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide and self-harm.

It's called Overcoming the Darkness, and you can make a donation right now at WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming. That's WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming.

A gift of any amount will bring us that much closer to our goal, and your donation helps that many more people who are affected by depression, so no gift is too small. Our goal is to raise at least $5,000 this month.

If you've not donated yet, or if you'd like to give again, or maybe you'd like to grab the link and share the fundraiser on your own social media and challenge others to give, visit WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming. That's WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming.

The fundraiser ends on Halloween, so please give right now while you're thinking about it. WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming.

October is birthday month for Weird Darkness, and this makes eight years of doing the show. But while it's our birthday, we want the gifts to go to those who help people who suffer from depression, anxiety, or thoughts of suicide or self-harm.

That's what our overcoming the darkness campaign every October is all about. You can bring hope to those who are lost in the darkness. You can make a donation right now at WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming.

That's WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming. I'll close out the fundraiser at the end of October and announce how much we raised. Our goal is to raise at least $5,000 this month, but the more we raise, the more people we can help to climb out of their own personal darkness.

If you've not donated yet, or if you'd like to give again, visit WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming. That's WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming. The fundraiser ends on Halloween, so please give right now while you're thinking about it. WeirdDarkness.com-slash-overcoming.

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Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar, and this is WeirdDarkness. Here you'll find true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.

Coming up in this episode of WeirdDarkness. Have you heard of the death-positive movement? Would you visit a death cafe? Would you join a coffin club? Why the sudden positive twist on what's typically so morbid? What's so great about death?

When it comes to homes, the ghosts go bump in the night. When it comes to automobiles, do they go punk in the night?

Irreline pilots in the UK are reporting strange objects in the sky. Not just one pilot, but several, and not just one UFO, but many. And the sightings were close. Very close. So close that they're being described as near misses.

In today's world, parents often worry about whether their kids are eating healthy and getting a good education, and in the case of long car trips, whether the children have their phones fully charged. It's tough being a modern parent, but at least you don't have to worry like Europeans did about your spawn being snatched by fairies.

Two men go out for a weekend of elk hunting. And come back, with the story of a creature so strange, they don't know what to call it.

At a downtown Chicago church, people are turning up in droves, not for the preaching or the powerful worship band, but to see a painting of the Virgin Mary, crying real tears.

Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the weird darkness.

Perhaps you are one of the many people who are not aware of a new day dawning in our relationship with death.

The vast majority of us avoid death and seem to deny that it will ever happen to us personally. But as they say, none of us will get out of here alive.

We started having more open conversations about death and what happens afterwards in the 1960s and 70s, with the publication of such books as on death and dying and life after life.

People began talking about death again, and an interest developed to know more about the dying process and how to help the dying and their loved ones.

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