WEIRD AFTER DARK: Mothman's Doom, Missing Time, and Naked Martians
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
SYNOPSIS: Hosts Ghost and Ghoul Friend conduct an in-depth analysis of Darren Marlar's Weird Darkness episode "Mothman: Harbinger of Doom," exploring the concentrated year of terror that gripped Point Pleasant, West Virginia between November 1966 and December 1967. The discussion examines over 100 credible witness accounts of the seven-foot winged creature with glowing red eyes, beginning with the harrowing high-speed chase of the Scarberry and Millat couples, the mysterious disappearance of Newell Partridge's dog Bandit, and Marcella Bennett's traumatic close encounter. The hosts analyze the creature's consistent physical descriptions, its connection to UFO sightings and "men in black" encounters in the area, and the tragic Silver Bridge collapse that killed 46 people in December 1967—questioning whether Mothman was a harbinger of the disaster or directly responsible for it. The episode expands beyond Mothman to explore related phenomena including 19th-century mystery airships, 1960s UFO encounters with missing time, psychic abilities and their psychological toll, Steven Stayner's kidnapping survival story, and the absurdly dangerous 1908 Great Race from New York to Paris. Throughout, the hosts examine how unexplained encounters create lasting psychological trauma—fear without memory, dread without explanation—that fundamentally changes those who experience the unknown.
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| 0:00.0 | October is birthday month for Weird Darkness. This year makes 10 years of doing the show. |
| 0:05.3 | But while it's our birthday, we want the gifts to go to those who help people who suffer from |
| 0:09.5 | depression, anxiety, or thoughts of suicide or self-harm. That's what our annual overcoming the |
| 0:14.9 | darkness campaign is all about. It's the only fundraiser I have all year long. You can bring hope |
| 0:20.3 | to those who are lost in the darkness of depression. |
| 0:23.0 | You can make a donation right now at weirddarkness.com slash hope. |
| 0:27.7 | I'll close out the fundraiser at the end of October and announce how much we raised. |
| 0:31.5 | The more we raise, the more people we can help. |
| 0:34.2 | To donate, get more information about the fundraiser and the organizations we're supporting, or find hope for yourself or someone you know who are fighting to help. To donate, get more information about the fundraiser and the organizations we're |
| 0:37.7 | supporting, or find hope for yourself or someone you know who are fighting depression, visit |
| 0:42.5 | weirddarkness.com slash hope. Please donate now while you're thinking about it. Weardarkness.com |
| 0:48.7 | slash hope. We all know someone who struggles with depression, whether we're aware of it or not. |
| 0:54.3 | It's something those who suffer tend to deal with in silence, in the shadows. |
| 0:58.2 | But the organizations we are supporting with our annual Overcoming the Darkness fundraiser |
| 1:02.3 | this month are working to make it easier for those in the darkness to come into the light, |
| 1:06.9 | to find help, and to learn they're not alone, that there are ways to overcome the darkness |
| 1:11.3 | of depression and live normal lives. I do this fundraiser only one month out of the year, |
| 1:17.3 | as October is the anniversary month for Weird Darkness. We launched in October 2015. It's National |
| 1:22.7 | Depression Awareness Month, and this month is spooky and dark, kind of like depression. |
| 1:27.3 | If you'd like to make a donation |
| 1:28.4 | or learn more about the fundraiser or find hope for yourself or someone you know who struggles with |
| 1:33.4 | depression, visit weirddarkness.com slash hope. The fundraiser ends Halloween night at midnight. Please |
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