THE COLONY: When a UFO Sighting Leads to Mind Control in a Small Town
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 309 minutes
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Summary
A young couple's UFO sighting near a small New Hampshire town leads to their imprisonment and the horrifying discovery that all 634 residents have been mentally enslaved by alien beings who now want to add two more to their collection. | #RetroRadio EP0509
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Colony” (November 09, 1976)
00:44:39.658 = Lights Out, “Execution” (April 27, 1943)
01:13:15.955 = Lux Radio Theater, “Sorry Wrong Number” (January 09, 1950) ***WD
02:12:54.835 = Macabre, “Weekend” (November 20, 1961) ***WD02:40:14.541 = Philip Marlowe, “Eager Witness” (August 27, 1949)
03:08:42.718 = Clyde Beatty Show, “Zombie” (June 29, 1950) ***WD03:36:01.521 = The Black Mass, “Death of Halpin Fraser” (May 20, 1964) ***WD
04:07:08.545 = Beyond Midnight, “Little Happenthatch” (May 23, 1969) ***WD
04:32:55.124 = MindWebs, “Or All The Sea With Oysters” (May 20, 1979)
04:57:10.874 = Show Close
(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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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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