“MATTOON’S MAD GASSER” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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“The Mad Gasser of Mattoon” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4j3xh6sa
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Originally aired: June 28, 2021
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| 1:07.0 | In early September 1944, a stream series of events occurred in the small Central Illinois town of Matoon. |
| 1:16.4 | According to eyewitnesses, numerous sightings and even physical evidence left behind, the town |
| 1:22.3 | was under attack by a mysterious man in black who was for |
| 1:26.3 | unknown reasons spraying some sort of paralyzing gas into the windows of unsuspecting |
| 1:32.2 | residents. |
| 1:33.8 | Who this man was, what his agenda might have been, and where he vanished too, all remain a |
| 1:39.6 | mystery to this day. |
| 1:42.1 | In this episode, we look at the strange but true story of the Mad Gasser of |
| 1:47.0 | Matoon. I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. |
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