January 5, 2000 | The Police and Dispatch Radio Chatter That Tracked a House-Sized UFO Over Illinois

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In January 2000, something massive drifted through the night sky over southwestern Illinois – so big and strange that a handful of small-town cops, watching from different locations, tracked it in real time over their radios, completely baffled by what they were seeing.

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The strange sighting of a UFO in the year 2000 still has people looking to the skies of southwestern Illinois. *** “Frankenstein” Author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart for thirty years! *** If you’ve ever wanted to play a game of catch with a ghost boy, race a phantom Camaro, or encounter a mythological beast, Clinton Road in New Jersey should be your next destination. *** In Malawi vampires attack people and suck blood from them. This is not lore or scary story-telling… it’s happening now. *** Imagine a coin rolling past you in a long hallway – yet you are completely alone in the building. *** For years, mysterious lights of Dover have puzzled observers – and it has been happening for centuries.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:04:40.051 = Show Open
00:06:32.182 = Frankenstein Author Mary Shelly Kept Her Dead Husband’s Heart
00:10:58.940 = Clinton Road: Take a Terrifying Drive Down America’s Most Haunted Roadway
00:15:49.891 = Malawi Vampires
00:20:06.777 = Coins and Guitar Picks
00:24:47.649 = Mysterious Lights of Dover ***
00:28:05.675 = The 2000 UFO Invasion of Illinois
00:43:41.181 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Something Is Up There – The 2000 UFO Invasion of Illinois”: https://tinyurl.com/wvafyps
“Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Kept Her Dead Husband’s Heart for 30 Years”: https://tinyurl.com/uygjtvg
“Clinton Road: Take a Terrifying Drive Down America's Most Haunted Roadway”: https://tinyurl.com/w734whf
“Malawi Vampires”: https://tinyurl.com/wzrexro
“Mysterious Lights of Dover”: https://tinyurl.com/uxrvyd8
“Coins And Guitar Picks”: https://tinyurl.com/uv2axne
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Originally aired: November 12, 2018

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0:00.0	The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room.
0:11.0	And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap.
0:18.0	He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize.
0:22.1	No windows.
0:23.4	A door with no handle.
0:25.4	Light with no source.
0:27.6	And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file,
0:35.6	who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room,
0:41.5	he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file.
0:51.6	Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned
0:57.8	the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary.
1:05.5	Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most.
1:12.8	But this isn't just a life review.
1:15.9	Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate,
1:22.8	with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human.
1:27.5	There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting
1:32.1	room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads.
1:38.9	The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling
1:43.9	back the veil on the
1:45.1	supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then,
1:53.7	the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at
2:02.6	Weird Darkness.com.
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