TRACKING THE YETI: A History of Himalayan Bigfoot Sightings
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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HOUR ONE: Is it possible that in 1927 we picked up signals from an artificial satellite sent to our planet by an extraterrestrial intelligence? Some believe the evidence is overwhelming. (Mystery of the Alien Satellite) *** When a great famine struck Europe in 1314, mothers abandoned their children and in some cases, even ate them. Could this be the gruesome beginnings of the story we know as Hansel and Gretel? (The Grimm Reality Behind Hansel and Gretel) *** But first… I doubt there’s a single person over the age of twelve living in the modernized world that hasn’t at least heard of Bigfoot. A large portion of them have probably heard it’s other name – Sasquatch – as well. But far fewer are familiar with his even more reclusive Siberian cousin: the Russian Bigfoot that’s we’ve come to know as the Yeti, or more fondly… the Abominable Snowman. We’ll begin with that story! (Why They Call This Snowman Abominable)
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HOUR TWO: Ever heard of Shadrack Ireland? No, it’s not a place – it’s a person, actually. A preacher – and one of the most bizarre religious leaders ever to walk the soil of New England. And as strange as his religious practices and teachings were – his death was just as crazy. (The Perfect Man) *** Lisa woke up to find her boyfriend staring at her. When she asked him what was wrong, he replied, “I’m going to kill you and drink your blood.” Is it possible that the film, “Interview With The Vampire” made Daniel Sterlin turn into a real-life bloodthirsty monster? (Interview With The Wannabee Vampire) *** Gerald Foos built a secret passageway in his motel – not to smuggle drugs or store weapons, but so he could spy on his motel guests having sex. And it gets even creepier than that. (Peeping Tom Motel) *** A family loses two children by apparent poisoning… and then the mother’s death two months later under the same mysterious circumstances. Obviously there was a murderer living amongst the family, or somewhere in the town. Wasn’t there? (The Mystery of the Garrett Family’s Tragic Deaths)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: In 1938, stories of a "killer ghost" began to be told in eastern Kentucky. Even though no one ever saw this malevolent apparition, it was said to have caused five very similar and unexplained deaths. (The Ghost That Killed With Chains)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
PHOTO: Dyatlov Pass Frame 17 Photo: https://tinyurl.com/ycvcts35
BOOK: “Yeti, Sasquatch and Hairy Giants” by David Hatcher Childress: https://amzn.to/3rA4mQu
BOOK: “Bigfoot and Other Mysterious Creatures” by Rupert Matthews: https://amzn.to/38O4Rho
BOOK: “Yeti: The Abominable History” by Graham Hoyland: https://amzn.to/2WRFqFV
BOOK: “The Third Horseman – A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot” by William Rosen: https://amzn.to/3rAEofH
BOOK: “Beyond the Grave, A History of America’s Most Haunted Graveyards” by Troy Taylor:https://amzn.to/34PEpTf
“The Mystery of the Garrett Family’s Tragic Deaths” from Pennsylvania Oddities: https://tinyurl.com/yxagv9uo
“The Perfect Man” by Dr. Romeo Vitelli for Providentia: https://tinyurl.com/y5c7j66y
“Peeping Tom Motel” by Rachel Souerbry for Ranker’s Graveyard Shift: https://tinyurl.com/y6hbepuh
“Interview With The Wannabe Vampire” from The Scare Chamber: https://tinyurl.com/y5evjtca
“The Grimm Reality Behind Hansel and Gretel” by Joseph Williams for All That’s Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/qkemcwg
“The Ghost That Killed With Chains (Carl Pruitt: The Killer Ghost)” by Troy Taylor from the book, “Beyond the Grave, A History of America’s Most Haunted Graveyards”: https://amzn.to/34PEpTf
“Mystery of the Alien Satellite” by Ellen Lloyd for the now defunct UFOarea.com
“Why They Call This Snowman Abominable” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://tinyurl.com/y86xfgbw
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, |
| 0:04.8 | I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing, what you like, what you don't like, |
| 0:09.2 | what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you were in charge, well, you get the idea. |
| 0:14.5 | I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website so you can send me your opinions, and it's |
| 0:19.0 | completely anonymous, so you can be completely |
| 0:21.4 | honest. This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so again, |
| 0:27.0 | and I'd appreciate you doing so. Visit weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com |
| 0:33.4 | slash survey. This episode is sponsored by awful movie reviews on YouTube. |
| 0:38.6 | I've been a fan of awful movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never miss an |
| 0:42.8 | episode. |
| 0:43.4 | Every Friday, you get a new comedic video covering a gosh, awful, horrible, terrible, wretched, |
| 0:48.6 | or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre. |
| 0:52.3 | B monster movies, films directed by notorious names |
| 0:55.3 | like Ed Wood or Roger Corman, flicks made on budgets lower than your monthly grocery bill, |
| 1:00.1 | special effects you'd swear were created by someone who's colorblind, cinematography so shaky, |
| 1:04.9 | you'd swear a three-year-old was trying to hold the camera, audio recording in the film that, |
| 1:08.7 | well, you see where I'm going here. They even take |
| 1:11.3 | requests for awful movies you'd like to see them review in the future. You'll probably |
| 1:15.0 | learn about flicks you've never even heard of while laughing along with the host. You can find |
| 1:19.6 | awful movie reviews on YouTube by simply searching for awful movie reviews. I've also placed |
| 1:24.3 | a link to them on my sponsors page so you can find them easily. And if you're like me, at the end of each awful movie review, you'll be saying it aloud |
| 1:31.4 | with the host, what an awful movie! |
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