THE YUBA COUNTY FIVE: 5 Men Disappeared on a Mountain Road - What Happened Next Makes No Sense
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Five men disappear, and the more closely you look at the case, the more you question what exactly happened to each one of them. It is such a strange case, that a Yuba County, California police officer is quoted as saying, “This case is bizarre as hell.” (The Yuba County Five Disappearance) *** An incident of four men choosing to go skinny dipping ends up in court. (It’s a Matter of Honor, Your Honor) *** What started out to be a fun family outing on a pleasant summer day would soon take a horrible turn for an innocent five-year-old girl. (The Tragic Story of Nyleen Kay Marshall) *** Russian pilot Lieutenant Colonel Lev Vyatkin has had encounters with unidentified flying objects twice while in flight. And his second encounter left him shaken – and his plane’s wing glowing in the dark for days afterward. (UFO Shoots Ray at Russian Pilot) *** A pig pen goes up in flames – and you won’t believe what caused it! (Pig Poops Out Pedometer and Sparks Fire)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = A Quick Message From Darren
00:00:54.719 = Yuba County Five, Part 1
00:02:58.541 = Show Open
00:04:46.535 = Yuba County Five, Part 2
00:14:55.657 = It’s a Matter of Honor, Your Honor
00:25:30.428 = UFO Shoots Ray at Russian Pilot
00:31:12.900 = Tragic Story of Nyleen Kay Marshall
00:46:23.395 = Pig Pops Out Pedometer and Sparks Fire
00:48:01.237 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Yuba County Five Disappearance” by Jake Rossen for MentalFloss.com: https://tinyurl.com/y3mt46np
“It’s a Matter of Honor, Your Honor” posted at the website London-Overlooked: https://tinyurl.com/y23egyvd
“The Tragic Story of Nyleen Kay Marshall” by Crystaldawn for LostNFoundBlogs.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxeantme
“UFO Shoots Ray at Russian Pilot” by A. Sutherland for MessageToEagle.com: https://tinyurl.com/yywrvn5p
“Pig Poops Out Pedometer and Sparks Fire” by Mindy Weisberger for LiveScience.com: https://tinyurl.com/te2luo6(How to Dispose of Batteries: https://tinyurl.com/y33msrxt)
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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.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, weirdos. Just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at that time, usually the podcast episode for the day, and then during the premiere, we all hang out in the YouTube live chat. Even if you've already heard that day's episode here in the podcast, you're |
| 0:21.2 | still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central |
| 0:26.0 | time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends, too, because I have no social life whatsoever. |
| 0:31.6 | You can find my channel at weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. That's weirddarkness.com |
| 0:36.3 | slash YouTube. Hey, weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween |
| 0:40.1 | and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing, |
| 0:45.2 | what you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you were |
| 0:50.3 | in charge. Well, you get the idea. I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website |
| 0:54.7 | so you can send me your opinions. And it's completely anonymous, so you can be completely |
| 0:59.4 | honest. This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so |
| 1:04.4 | again, and I'd appreciate you doing so. Visit Weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com slash survey. |
| 1:12.8 | Before we begin this episode, I've had a lot of comments recently from people claiming |
| 1:17.8 | this podcast is narrated by an AI voice. |
| 1:21.9 | I don't know if that's a compliment or not, but no, I am a real flesh-in-blood person, |
| 1:29.0 | and I can prove that, because you can see videos of me in my YouTube reels, proving that I am reals, unless my selfie |
| 1:35.5 | videos are also AI generated. |
| 1:37.3 | Huh. |
| 1:38.3 | Then again, if I was to make an AI face for myself, I surely would not have chosen |
| 1:42.9 | this one. Or is that the point to make it |
| 1:47.2 | more believable? Maybe I'm actually a reptilian bent on taking over the world through people |
| 1:54.3 | joining my weirdo cult, and I lure them in with my golden voice and Santa Claus looks. |
| 2:01.1 | So I guess I'll have to let you decide, you puny, mortal earthlings. |
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