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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The Night a "Meteorite" Crashed on a Connecticut Farm | Then It Opened Up!

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 312 minutes

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Summary

When a Connecticut farm couple nurses an injured extraterrestrial visitor back to health, they have no idea they're caught between a grateful guest from the stars and a government that wants to take him by force. | “The Meteorite” #RetroRadio EP0578

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Meteorite” (April 11, 1977) ***WD
00:44:41.589 = Nick Carter Master Detective, “Legend of Shakespeare’s Ghost” (December 30, 1945) ***WD
01:14:18.754 = Box 13, “Shanghaied” (September 26, 1948)
01:41:23.022 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Wendigo” (June 01, 1968) ***WD
02:07:07.799 = The Clock, “Liz” (May 09, 1948) ***WD
02:32:48.141 = Creeps By Night, “Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan” (July 13, 1945)
03:02:18.635 = The Crime Club, “A Pitch In Time” (August 07, 1947) ***WD
03:32:19.786 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Henry Comes Home” (October 13, 1946)
03:57:07.662 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Neanderthal” (September 04, 1971) ***WD
04:25:52.903 = The Diary of Fate, “Victor Wakeman” (June 29, 1948) ***WD
04:52:39.218 = 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes

0:06.6

for a fresh start with his family.

0:09.0

But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town.

0:14.5

At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique

0:20.3

Advent calendar, a relic, counting

0:23.2

down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out.

0:27.0

As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality

0:33.3

itself starts to crack.

0:35.8

The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that

0:39.3

has been waiting for him for years. Now, with his wife and two young sons in peril and the

0:45.4

final door of the calendar looming, Matt must find a way to stop this holiday horror, or risk

0:51.8

losing everything and everyone he loves.

0:55.9

24 days, 24 doors, all leading to one unholy Christmas Eve.

1:05.2

Advent of Evil, the new novel by Scott Donnelly, based on a concept by Weird Darkness host

1:10.5

Darren Marlerler is now available

1:12.2

in full audiobook form, as well as Kindle, Paperback, and Hardback Editions. Visit Weirddarkness.com

1:19.2

slash advent of evil to give yourself the gift of terror. Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil.

1:31.4

This episode is sponsored by awful movie reviews on YouTube. I've been a fan of awful

1:36.1

movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never miss an episode. Every Friday,

1:40.6

you get a new comedic video covering a gosh awful, horrible, terrible, wretched,

1:45.2

or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre.

1:48.9

B-monster movies, films directed by notorious names like Ed Wood or Roger Corman,

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