TRANSYLVANIA'S SHROUDED UFO HISTORY: 600 Years of Sightings We’ve Not Been Told About
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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HOUR ONE: “The Gadsden Hotel in Cochise County, Arizona” *** When you hear the name “Transylvania” the immediate image in your mind is probably that of Dracula. But this Romanian town has more creepiness than just the Count’s castle – it is also a hot spot for UFO activity and mysterious unexplained happenings. Some even think it could be the location of a portal to another dimension. (Is There A Dimensional Portal in Transylvania?) *** Sightings of unidentified flying objects might seem like a recent phenomena, with most reports occurring in the 20th and 21stcenturies. But UFO sightings go a lot further back in human history – and our ancient ancestors were just as shocked, confused and sometimes terrified, as we are today. (Ancient UFO Sightings)
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HOUR TWO: In the 1960s, Brian Leathley-Andrew investigated and reported on numerous cases of strange objects in the sky, trying to get to the truth of what people were seeing. But when sinister events began happening to him, he knew he had to walk away from his career in Ufology – or the government might make him go away. (UFO Hunter Becomes The Hunted) *** Saying the disappearance of David Glenn Lewis is bizarre doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. What started out as a strange missing person’s case would eventually be resolved. But the answer that would come would pose even more questions, proving the adage that “truth is stranger than fiction”. (The Disappearance of David Glenn Lewis) *** The idea of a person changing into a wolf, or shape-shifting into some type of animal or cryptid is mostly confined to the authors of fictional horror. But not all societies and cultures are so quick to label shape-shifting as make-believe. (Shapeshifters And Therianthropes)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: A man goes off for supplies, leaving his wife behind to tend to the home in his absence – but not only did he never come home with the groceries, but a ghost story grew out of it. (The Ghosts of Hunger Valley) *** A UFO incident which we have covered before, but is worth looking at again, is an incident in 1952. This was one of the first admitted entity sightings and probably also one of the earliest close encounters of the third kind investigated officially at the time it took place.
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
“The Gadsden Hotel in Cochise County, Arizona” from Paranormality Magazine
“Is There A Dimensional Portal in Transylvania?” by A. Sutherland for the Message to Eagle: (link no longer available)
“Ancient UFO Sightings” by A. Sutherland for Message to Eagle: (link no longer available)
“UFO Hunter Becomes The Hunted“ by Mike Lockley for Anomalien.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1fxu6h8y
“The Ghosts of Hunger Valley” by Charles Skinner, edited by Kathy Weiser, posted at LegendsOfAmerica.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/111pegi3
“Shapeshifters And Therianthropes” by James Fenner for List Verse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1qqh0ult
“The Disappearance of David Glenn Lewis” by CrystalDawn for Lost N Found Blogs: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1shqwhrt
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| 0:00.0 | Weird Darkness is celebrating our birthday this month. We use this annual celebration to help those |
| 0:04.7 | who struggle with depression. Every October, we raise money for organizations that help people |
| 0:09.3 | overcome depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide and self-harm. It's called Overcoming the |
| 0:14.8 | Darkness, and you can make a donation right now at weirddarkness.com slash hope. That's weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 0:23.1 | A gift of any amount helps, with every dollar bringing hope to someone affected by depression. |
| 0:28.1 | To donate, to get more information about overcoming the darkness, or to find hope to battle back |
| 0:32.9 | the darkness of depression in yourself or someone you love, visit weirddarkness.com |
| 0:37.4 | slash hope. |
| 0:38.6 | The fundraiser ends on Halloween night at midnight, so please give right now while you're |
| 0:43.8 | thinking about it. That's weirddarkness.com slash hope. We all know someone who struggles with |
| 0:49.4 | depression, whether we're aware of it or not. It's something those who suffer tend to deal with |
| 0:53.8 | in silence, in the shadows. |
| 0:55.8 | But the organizations we are supporting with our annual overcoming the darkness fundraiser |
| 0:59.8 | this month are working to make it easier for those in the darkness to come into the light, |
| 1:04.4 | to find help, and to learn they're not alone, that there are ways to overcome the darkness |
| 1:08.8 | of depression and live normal lives. |
| 1:11.8 | I do this fundraiser only one month out of the year, as October is the anniversary month for |
| 1:16.7 | weird darkness. We launched in October 2015. It's National Depression Awareness Month, and this |
| 1:21.8 | month is spooky and dark, kind of like depression. If you'd like to make a donation or learn |
| 1:26.5 | more about the fundraiser or find hope for yourself |
| 1:29.1 | or someone you know who struggles with depression, visit weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 1:34.9 | The fundraiser ends Halloween night at midnight. |
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