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Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

GODDARD’S IMPOSSIBLE FLIGHT: Did This WW1 Pilot Really Fly Through a Time Portal To The Future?

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 1935, RAF pilot Victor Goddard flew through a mysterious storm only to emerge over an airfield that wouldn't exist for another four years — complete with yellow aircraft, blue-uniformed mechanics, and a chilling sense that he had become invisible to time itself.

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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: A university apartment is filled with ghostly voices, shadows and footsteps. *** The playful spirit of a child haunts a home in Canterbury, England. *** A woman hears footsteps in an empty bedroom. *** The biblical story of the witch of Endor. Just a story, or was she a real woman with supernatural powers? *** Did a British Air Force pilot somehow slip into a time portal and fly into the past? *** 87 years ago a fire broke out at the Ohio State Penitentiary – yet somehow, souls still linger there. *** AND MORE!

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Haunted University Apartment Filled With Ghostly Voices, Shadows, and Footsteps”: (link no longer available)
“The Playful Child Spirit of Canterbury England”: (link no longer available)
“Footsteps In An Empty Room”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8s3ftj
“Mystery of the Witch of Endor”: (link no longer available)
“Pilot’s Mysterious Time Slip Into The Future”: (link no longer available)
“Where The Dead Still Linger – History And Hauntings a the Ohio State Penitentiary” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr3e7uup
“Granny’s Last Visit”: (link no longer available)
“The Girl Genius Who Vanished”: (link no longer available)
“Taken By Gypsies” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8cpd4j
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Originally aired: November 03, 2018
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EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/GoddardFlight

Transcript

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0:00.0

They've been here for thousands of years, making their presence known in the shadows.

0:06.0

They might be seen by a lonely motorist on a deserted road late at night, or by a frightened

0:12.0

and confused husband in the bedroom he's sharing with his wife.

0:16.0

Perhaps the most disconcerting part of this phenomenon boils down to this question.

0:21.9

Has the government been aware of their presence all along and is covertly working with

0:27.3

them towards some secret end?

0:30.7

In the audiobook, Rungs of Disclosure, what once was fringe is now reality.

0:36.7

While listening, you'll meet regular people just like you who have encountered something beyond

0:41.5

their ability to explain.

0:43.7

You'll also hear from people of great faith and deep religious belief who continue to

0:48.4

have these strange and deeply unsettling encounters.

0:52.8

Author L.A. Marzuli explores these ongoing incidents to discover the answers

0:56.9

to these questions. Who are they? What do they want? And why are they here? Can you handle the

1:06.9

truth? Listen to this audiobook, if you dare. Rungs of Disclosure, following the

1:13.3

Trail of Extraterrestrials and the End Times by L.A. Marzuli, narrated by Darren Marler. Here

1:20.4

a free sample on the audiobooks page at Weird Darkness.com. He was flying in an open cockpit over mountainous terrain without radial navigational

1:31.6

aids or cloud-flying instruments.

1:33.8

In the high winds of the storm's strange brown-yellow clouds, he lost control of his

1:40.0

plane, which began to spiral toward the ground. Goddard was unable to stop the spin, and

1:46.9

he was uncertain of his location. Things looked really bad, and he feared that the rapid

1:52.2

fall would lead to a crash into the mountains. He seemed to have little chance to come out

1:57.8

of the clouds. As he looked around, he noticed the sky was darker

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