“THE UFO INVASION OF ILLINOIS” Plus 5 More Creepy True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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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 = Disclaimer and Lead-In
00:04:57.974 = Show Open
00:06:49.527 = Frankenstein Author Mary Shelly Kept Her Dead Husband’s Heart
00:11:16.574 = Clinton Road: Take a Terrifying Drive Down America’s Most Haunted Roadway
00:16:14.826 = Malawi Vampires
00:20:27.635 = Coins and Guitar Picks
00:26:31.909 = Mysterious Lights of Dover
00:29:54.012 = The 2000 UFO Invasion of Illinois
00:45:22.763 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
Episode Page at WeirdDarkness.com: https://weirddarkness.com/UFOInvasionOfIL
“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
TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdu4rhax
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| 1:16.6 | Something happened in Illinois in January 2000 that has never really been explained. |
| 1:26.6 | A number of UFO sightings occurred in the southwestern part of the state and got a lot of attention. |
| 1:33.3 | And it wasn't just in Illinois. |
| 1:36.2 | The sightings gained national attention because there has likely been no other time that so many people witnessed something so unexplainable that it managed |
| 1:46.5 | to perplex people all over America. |
| 1:49.8 | The incident involved a number of reliable witnesses, which consisted mostly of police officers |
| 1:55.5 | from a number of small towns in the area, and led many to believe that something very strange was going on in the |
| 2:03.5 | skies over Illinois. Even more convincing than mere sightings, the officers maintained radio |
| 2:10.8 | contact through most of the event, which carefully tracked the progress of the UFO that passed over the area. |
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