“The Cherokee Legend of THE RAVEN MOCKER!” #WeirdDarknessRadio WEEK OF JUNE 01, 2025
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They've been here for thousands of years, making their presence known in the shadows. They might be seen by a lonely motorist on a deserted road late at night, or by a frightened and confused husband in the bedroom he's sharing with his wife. Perhaps the most disconcerting part of this phenomenon boils down to this question: has the government been aware of their presence all along and is covertly working with them towards some secret end?

In the audiobook, Runs of Disclosure, what once was fringe is now reality. While listening, you'll meet regular people just like you who have encountered something beyond their ability to explain. You'll also hear from people of great faith and deep religious belief who continue to have these strange and deeply unsettling encounters. Author L.A. Marzulli explores these ongoing incidents to discover the answers to these questions.

Who are they? What do they want? And why are they here? Can you handle the truth? Listen to this audiobook if you dare. Rungs of Disclosure Following the Trail of Extraterrestrials and the End Times by L.A. Marzulli Narrated by Darren Marlar Hear a free sample on the audiobook's page at WeirdDarkness.com

Welcome, Weirdos! I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness Radio, where every week you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up this hour... A girl's younger sister keeps seeing things that don't exist... until the truth is revealed when older sis is moving out.

It's called the Chronovisor, and it's said the device can look into events in the future as well as the past. Is it true? We may never know. The Vatican, the supposed owners of the device, are refusing to cooperate when questioned. An Alaskan hunter claims to have found a boy that had been kidnapped, not by humans or aliens, but by a mysterious creature known as the Ursinrot.

It's considered to be one of the most beautiful lakes in the United States. But there are also tales of ghosts, a giant lake monster, unexplained disappearances, and murders. That's only a sample of what you might find at Oregon's Crater Lake. They're powerful in the supernatural. Witches, demons, and poltergeists fear them because they are not from our world.

The Cherokee call them the Ravenmockers. We'll begin with that story. If you're new here, welcome to the show. And if you're already a member of this weirdo family, please take a moment and invite someone else to listen in with you. Recommending Weird Darkness to others makes it possible for me to keep doing the show. And while you're listening, be sure to visit WeirdDarkness.com where you can follow me on social media, listen to free audiobooks that I've narrated, and more. That's WeirdDarkness.com.

Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the Weird Darkness! There are many interesting and dangerous creatures in Cherokee mythology. One of them is the Ravenmacher. Another one is the Body Snatcher, a feared cannibal. It is said that the Ravenmacher fell to Earth like a shooting star.

They are powerful in the supernatural. Witches, demons, and poltergeists fear them because they are not of here. They are called Ravenmacher because of the cry they make in flight, and their dive mimics a raven. But they resemble a shooting star as they fly, like a ball of sparks. These creatures are ageless, and they look for people on their deathbed. They eat out the heart, stealing the time they have left on Earth, the person's life force, to add to their own.

It's unknown how long they can live. Perhaps forever. They'll also harvest the body parts of the dead to replace their own decayed limbs. They look like extremely old people. So old the gender is hard to tell, but they are armed with a piercing scream, the ability to fly, and fingernails like surgical blades and just as tough. This is why some old people look like they have been stitched many times.

If the Raven Mocker is disturbed in their life-stealing or feeding, the person they attack becomes infected, and that person too will become a Raven Mocker. There are talismans used to detect them. It's taboo to give specifics, but certain types of bones and feathers from an owl are tied with leather rope in a way that they will shiver when near.

Evergreen smoke repels them. Fire or impaled flesh on sharpened ash wood that's been lightning struck kills them. And also starvation. The one thing the Raven Mocker truly fears is discovery. If they don't feed or replace their rotting flesh within seven days, they starve, rot, and die. If the identity of a Raven Mocker is discovered, they will know that they can't hunt in that area anymore and they will be hunted.

So, if one is aware that they have been discovered, they will use any means necessary to stop that person from talking. There is a race of cannibal spirits who stay at the bottom of the deep rivers and live upon human flesh, especially the flesh of little children. They come out just as the sun rises, going from house to house until they find a home unlocked with the people asleep.

Once inside, they shoot them with arrows and carry the body down to the water, feasting on the body once it's submerged. So that no one discovers that the person is gone, they leave a shade or image of the dead person or little child that wakes up and goes about just as the original did. But there is no life to this one. Growing weaker, sicker, after seven days, it dies. The people bury it and think that they're burying the real person.

It was a long time before it was discovered that the cannibal spirits were taking people, and this is how it happened. There was a man who got so sick it was thought that he would soon die. The people around him stayed away and avoided his home. We weren't so caring back then. After several days of neglect, the man awoke to find an old woman who he didn't know checking his body, pinching and prodding him,

She told him to stay quiet, she'd make everything better. And despite her age and size, she easily lifted and carried the man to the river. When he went under with her, he saw that it wasn't like going underwater but like stepping through a room. It was another country, just like the world above. She took him to a village with many houses, people, and even children.

Several hunters came back with game, and the man saw that it was people, children, being prepared like deer or fish. The old woman took him to her home and said that when he was no longer sick, he would be eaten. She prepared him a meal of child, but he couldn't eat that. Then she realized that he couldn't eat what she could, and fed him meals of beans and bread.

The man did get well, and when he thought everyone was asleep, he slipped away back to the upper world. Upon returning home, everyone was shocked to see him, saying that they had just buried him. The village conjurers listened to his story and knew that the water had an opening doorway to the darkening lands – the underworld. So the conjurers had the chief make it so when people were sick or dying, others were to stay with them and care for them.

They were told to lock their doors before sleeping and to watch over each other to make sure they weren't taken for a meal again. Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes everything. A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased at a farmer's market releases an ancient djinn who demands a replacement prisoner.

An elderly woman possesses the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls. An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these 20 tales, Reddit NoSleep favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror that entrance as they terrify.

The Kaleidoscope, 20 Terrifying Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by A.P. Royal, narrated by Darren Marlar. Hear a free sample on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. Now there's a new way to share Weird Darkness with the weirdos in your life. It's a skill on your Amazon Echo device.

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I've always been afraid of my little sister. I know that sounds like I must be a pansy,

Jackie is two years younger and she has always been an introvert, but she sees things. Even now at 17, she is still tied to my mom's apron strings, never leaves the house and still sees things. Everyone thinks she's special. She has always told crazy stories, and when we were younger, she sometimes got me in trouble by telling our parents the most bizarre things about what she saw. She lied. A lot.

I was always innocent and she had to try and drag me into it. Dad told me one day that she had told him about an evil spirit in her room. Jackie would come down for breakfast in the morning with scratches on her back and face. She'd murmur to herself and we could hear things like "nasty demon." Mom was upset and took her to the doctors who said that she was doing it to herself and was showing signs of schizophrenia.

One time, Dad found bird beaks that were still dripping blood scattered and left in strange places around the house. They were stuffed under cushions, inside coffee cups, and poking out of air vents. He followed the trail of tiny feathers and drops of blood all the way back to Jackie's room. He went nuts that day. I remember hearing Mom and Dad fight over what to do about Jackie. They sat her down and asked her about the bird beaks.

She shook her head violently, chirping like a bird and screeching until they got the medicine down her throat. We were all so terrified of her. I kept my door locked at all times. When I started having nightmares and passing out every time something happened, Jackie was always standing there, staring at me with her pale green eyes. Her messy orange hair always creeped me out, but when she took the scissors to it and did a freaky hack job, I wondered if I would be next.

Mom was worried that I was going insane too, but when I turned 18, I decided to move out with my boyfriend. I've never forgotten that last day when I was packing my bags and boxes. Jackie sidled up to me and handed me an envelope. She giggled and backed away as I opened it up. When I did, I froze. There were pictures that she had drawn of me scratching her face and torturing animals. I looked up in confusion and saw her pointing at me with an evil grin.

"You're the one, Denise. You're the demon. You come to me at night, in your sleep." I didn't want to believe it, even though I did have a problem with sleepwalking when I was little. She whispered in my ear as I fought back the tears and disgust, "Keep bringing me the baby birds, Denise. I like the crunch. If you don't, I'll tell and you'll be taken away." I try to keep her happy, but now my boyfriend wakes up with scratches all over him.

Conspiracy theories run rife around the internet, and they will continue to do so. While not every theory that comes to light will stand a chance of there being any truth to it, there is a saying that in every rumor there is always a bit of truth. The Roman Catholic Church headquarters is the latest to have become embroiled in a conspiracy theory, as they have in the past,

One of the latest of these theories is that the Vatican has possession of a secret device with the name of "Chronovisor" and they use the device to look into events that will occur in the future, along with ones that have happened in the past. A book by the name of "The Time Machine" was written by H.G. Wells during the 19th century, a book of science fiction which attracted the pseudoscience and scientific communities.

The book was popular, and some physicists have believed that traveling through time is possible. There is a great deal of controversy in the scientific community today about time travel, with some scientists saying that they have proof that it is possible to travel in time. A group from the University of Queensland made a simulation in 2015 of how time-traveling photons might behave.

They suggested that when at a quantum level the grandfather paradox, which is what would make time travel impossible, might be resolved, they made use of photons – single particles of light – for simulating quantum particles traveling back through time. By being able to study the behavior, scientists revealed that strange aspects were possible of modern physics and so concluded that time travel is indeed possible.

With this having been said to have been established, the rumor about the Vatican owning a chronovisor is now not so hard to believe. A newspaper in Italy published an article with the title of "A machine that photographs the past has been invented."

In the article, it alleged that this machine was capable of this and it had the name of the "Chronovisor" and it had been invented by people inside the Vatican. The newspaper article went on to say that the device allowed the user to look into the future along with past events and the machine owned by the Vatican had one of the biggest and most closely guarded secrets that humanity had.

The article was said to have shed light on the time machine publicly, however people who were familiar with what went on inside the Vatican did not find the article all that surprising. It said a lot of scientists had been involved in the building of the chronovisor and that it had been built during the 1950s under the supervision of the Vatican.

The man who was said to have led the project was Father Pellegrino Maria Ametti. He was a physicist from Italy who went on to become a priest and is said to have been behind the project. It was said he received important and technical information from Enrico Fermi, the Nobel laureate along with rocket scientist Wimmer von Braun.

The newspaper article went on to describe the time machine as being a small object that had many antennae and which was made of precious alloy, cathode tubes, levers and dials. It was said the device could capture important events that occurred in the past and the future at specific locations.

Peter Krause, an author from Germany, wrote a book in 1997 that gave more details about the chronovisor which he called "Father Emeti Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine." It was said the priest had talked with Krause and told him that he had invented the time machine. Emeti gave confirmation that the time machine was used to witness the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, along with many other events that happened historically.

Ameddi had said that he had used the time machine to witness the crucifixion of Jesus, along with witnessing other people, including Napoleon, Cicero, and other events that happened in the past and in the Bible. Father Ameddi was asked where the time machine was and he would not answer. He would only say that he was not allowed to talk about the location of it or if it was still in use.

People who had been close to Emetti have been speculating whether Emetti had dismantled the time machine as he feared it might end up in the wrong hands. It has been reported that Emetti had said that if it should end up in the wrong hands, it might be behind the scariest dictatorship to be seen in the world. Father Emetti was also said to have said that Pope Pius XII told them not to disclose information about the device as it could be dangerous and might be used to restrain freedom of man.

The Vatican has always denied any claims of owning such a machine and say that if anybody was using such a machine with those characteristics, then they would be excommunicated. This led to conspiracy theorists claiming that the church was indeed hiding something. The rumor about the Vatican having the chronovisor is still hanging around the Vatican's neck, whether true or not.

In a picturesque Cornwall village near Truro, a haunting tale of a young woman named Betsy Trogaskis has captured the imaginations of locals and visitors alike. The village, nestled within the Cornwall area of outstanding natural beauty, is said to be haunted by the ghost of Betsy, who died tragically at the tender age of 19 in 1795.

Each year, on the anniversary of her death, flowers mysteriously appear on her slate gravestone, located just by the entrance to the church's gate at the Church of St. Clement. Historian Barry West has delved into the fascinating case of Betsy's spectral presence, seeking to uncover the truth behind this enduring phenomenon. Betsy's parents were known to round the old inn at St. Clement, also known as the Ship Inn in more recent times.

According to local lore, Betsy's life ended in sorrow as she took her own life, driven to such a desperate act after becoming pregnant with someone from a different social class. In the societal norms of that era, such a situation would have brought immense shame upon her family. Interestingly, Betsy's headstone rests in the Lich Gate rather than within the consecrated ground of the churchyard.

Some believe that this placement might be a result of the church's refusal to bury those who committed suicide in its hallowed grounds, considering it a grave sin according to church doctrine. However, conflicting stories have emerged about Betsy's cause of death. Mary West's latest visit to the village led him to the doorstep of author Helena Patterson, who has extensively researched the history of St. Clement. Helena shares an alternative version of the tale, stating that Betsy succumbed to tuberculosis.

This version of events was recounted to her by descendants of the Tregascus family, whom she had met over the past five decades. Regardless of the cause of Betsy's untimely demise, her ghost is said to roam the vicinity, forever tied to the location of her resting place. Sightings of a young girl donning a mop cap and an old-fashioned dress have been reported, intriguing both locals and curious visitors. The mystery surrounding Betsy's haunting doesn't end there.

The area seems to hold an aura of otherworldly energy, with reports of poltergeist-like activities. Some residents have attested to experiencing strange occurrences in certain cottages nearby, suggesting the presence of lingering spirits. Barry West's investigation has also led him to connect with Gail Phillips, a descendant of the Tregaskis family.

While there's uncertainty about the exact lineage, Gail's great-grandmother, Margaret Trogaskis, shares ties to the parish of St. Clement, stretching back several centuries. The enigma surrounding Betsy's grave, the apparitions, and the lingering energies continue to captivate the community. As flowers appear annually on her gravestone, her presence remains a poignant reminder of a young life cut short, and the enduring mysteries that envelop this charming Cornwall village.

Whether you believe in ghosts or not, the story of Betsy Trogaskis is undeniably one that has stood the test of time, inviting further exploration into the realms of the unknown.

Do you like my horror-able humor episodes called Mind of Marler? If so, and you'd like more, it now has its very own podcast. Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous frights, macabre madness. Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness. All the stuff you'd expect from me on Weird Darkness, but delivered with dark comedy, satire, and just the right amount of absurdity.

Monsters, myths, mysteries, mirth and more every Monday with Mind of Marlar. I like alliteration, can you tell? You can find a list of where you can subscribe to the podcast at WeirdDarkness.com under the menu tab for podcasts. I'm Darren Marlar. Welcome back to Weird Darkness. If you or someone you know struggles with depression or dark thoughts, I'd like to recommend the Hope in the Darkness page at WeirdDarkness.com.

There, I have gathered numerous free resources to help you fight depression, including the Crisis Text Line, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Save.org, iFred and more. These resources are absolutely free and they are there when you need them on the Hope in the Darkness page at WeirdDarkness.com. An intriguing email hit Bush, Alaska.

In it, a hunter from Marshall recounted how he found a boy alleged to have been abducted by the Urchenhak. Urchenhak are a recurring theme in traditional Yupik teachings and legends. Little people who dwell in the tundra, usually underground. They disorient, discomfort, and trap unwary humans. City folk usually dismiss Urchenhak as superstition,

Those who've lived in Yupik country for any period of time tend to be a little more inclined to listen. For one thing, the stories are persistent and often come from respectable observers. For another, when you're by yourself in the middle of nowhere, things happen that are hard to explain.

For instance, a few years back on a very remote solo kayak trip in the lower Yukon region, I swear I heard rocks tossed in my direction by unseen hands or whatever. Big rocks. Whoosh! Plunk! Weird. A little scary and not particularly on target, assuming they were trying to hit me. A close inspection of the presumed point of origin showed no evidence of anything. There was nowhere for anything bigger than a squirrel to hide.

I can't say that it was an urchin hack, but neither can I absolutely refute those who suggest it was. Yupik descriptions of the "little people" resemble those in widespread stories shared by many cultures around the world. A conference on such creatures is held every year in Twisp, Washington. Though accounts of sightings or of inexplicable events attributed to urchin hack are common in western Alaska, they seldom receive wide circulation outside the area.

The internet has changed that. I called Nick Andrew Jr. in Marshall, whose email started the latest excitement. He intended it as a private message to a family member, he said, and was a little disconcerted that it got forwarded far and wide. He confirmed the details, however, and gave me permission to use his name, requesting that I keep other names out of print.

Andrew was on a snow machine hunting birds the evening of May 7th, some distance out of town. "Three hours away if you had to walk it," he estimated. Preparing to return home, he decided to check a different location on a hunch. Stopping to look, he said, "I saw a small boy all alone in the middle of the marsh."

He recognized the child as a boy from the village. I asked him where is his dad or hunting partners. I grilled him with questions of who he was with and if he was alone. He was scared and had been crying. All his answers were "I don't know." He described the boy as "disoriented, dazed, confused and scared, with no concept of time. He did not appear tired nor was he hungry or thirsty."

But the lad was lucky, it seems. He was found at a spot frequented by large tundra brown bears. Andrew took the boy home, noting that there were no footprints in the spring snow to indicate anyone had walked into the area. He found that puzzling. He counted at least 10 other snow machines in the neighborhood, none of whom had spotted the boy. After getting the boy back to the village, he left his VHS radio on overnight, in case some other hunter reported a missing child. But no one did.

It wasn't until the next day that the story started emerging that he'd had what you would call an "out-of-the-ordinary experience," he told me. He'd had some missing time, just like people who report being abducted by UFOs. The boy said he was brought into Pilcher Mountain, a site often associated with urchin hack encounters. There he was questioned and saw other little beings.

"He said he made contact with a little girl abducted about 40 years ago," Andrew said. "She told him who she was and she wanted help." After that, the urchin hack decided to release the boy. And that's when he came too, I guess. A few minutes before I found him. Andrew maintained calm perspective about the experience. "Is this kid telling the truth?" he said, leaving the answer open-ended. Responses to the email by the time it was forwarded to me treated the news with gravity.

"Ladies, please share with your husbands or partners," read one forwarder. "Please tell your children about urchin hacks and their deceptiveness," said another. "Thank God he found this little boy alive," said yet another. Crater Lake in Oregon is considered to be one of the most breathtaking places in the United States. It is the deepest lake in the nation, and its waters are described as "unnaturally blue and crystal clear."

But despite the beauty of the lake and surrounding park, there are several creepy Crater Lake tales floating around, involving everything from ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, a giant lake monster, to unsettling accounts of disappearances, suicides, and murders. Supernatural occurrences aside, Crater Lake has a rather extensive history of accidental deaths, suicides, and even homicides,

In some cases, the bodies are irretrievable, lost in inaccessible wooded areas. This has resulted in more than a handful of skeletons cropping up over the years. Finn J.D. John of Offbeat, Oregon, details a few of these incidents, such as the story of a World War II fighter pilot who crashed in the park shortly after the end of the war, only to have his skull discovered 30 years later by a park ranger who got lost looking for the plane's wreckage.

There have been numerous UFO sightings in the area throughout the years, including an infamous case from the 90s. From the website UFOinfo, On Tuesday, February 4, 1997, at 6:15 p.m., a private pilot flying south of Diamond Lake Junction, Oregon, population 150, east of Crater Lake National Park, saw three disks speeding across the dark sky, pursued by several jet interceptors.

There were also reports of a "sonic boom" later that same evening, one so massive it set off car alarms all over the area. Crater Lake formed from volcanic activity ages ago. While the volcano itself has been long silent, allowing the park to become a popular tourist destination, there are remnants of its former fiery self still bubbling below the surface.

This became apparent in 1945 when the lake began "burping up" a bluish-gray cloud of smoke or gas that mushroomed over the lake several times from September to December, according to Crennan Turner from a 2009 public radio broadcast. Though these gas clouds were initially a mystery to spectators, in the 1980s scientists discovered hydrothermal vents at the bottom of Crater Lake.

This discovery, combined with several earthquakes that rocked park residents in the 1990s, suggests that the Crater Lake volcano might not be totally dead. The Klamath people, indigenous to the area, hold Crater Lake sacred. They see it as the crossroads between the spirit of above, called Skel, and the spirit of below, called Lau – a fiery and dark figure, basically the devil.

According to Andrea Lankford, author of "Haunted Hikes: Spine-Tingling Tales and Trails from North America's National Parks," Lau and Skell fought gory battles here. Lau ripped Skell's heart from his chest, and Skell retaliated by dismembering Lau and throwing the body parts into the lake. Hideous monsters gobbled up everything but Lau's head, but the lake still holds Lau's spirit.

When stirred, he may brew up storm clouds. When angered, he may appear in the form of a giant crayfish that climbs up out of the lake, snatches people off the rim of the crater that surrounds the lake, and drags them down into the water. Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, reportedly lives in many areas around the U.S., but the Pacific Northwest region, especially in Oregon, reports more Bigfoot sightings each year than any other state. Crater Lake is, of course, no exception.

"Weak and Weird" writer Cody Mayox states, "Bigfoot himself is known to show up here from time to time." Rangers once reported following a large, dark, putrid-smelling creature through the woods until it started throwing pine cones at them. Crater Lake is also a spot for two supposed Bigfoot deaths: one by car, though the body was whisked away by government agents , and the other killed by train.

In this case, the incident was not reported at the time because the men responsible were apparently drinking on the job. From the Crater Lake Institute's website, reporting on an incident from 1947, a park visitor, Mr. Cornelius, suddenly hands his startled wife his billfold and watch as he sits down on a snowshoot near the Old Lake Trail and slides to the lake, attempting suicide. Since the fall only broke his leg, Cornelius crawls to the water's edge and drowns himself.

No other information on this Mr. Cornelius could be found online. Just what was it that inspired him to commit suicide in such a grisly and painful fashion? Dubbed "the old man of the lake," a tree stump – most likely a hemlock – has been floating vertically in Crater Lake since 1896.

Now sun-bleached and bone-white, the Old Man has confounded park officials all these years, as it not only bobs in the water, but it's capable of traveling four miles in a single day, and it's buoyant enough to support the weight of a person standing on top of it. However, John Salinas offered up a reasonable explanation for the Old Man's physics-defying ways in 1996.

Some have suggested that when the old man slipped into the lake, he had rocks bound within his roots. This might naturally make him float vertically, though no rocks appear to still be there. At any rate, the submerged end could become heavier over time through being waterlogged. Acting like the wick on a candle, the shorter upper portion of the old man remains dry and light. This apparent equilibrium allows the log to be very stable in the water.

According to park ranger Jan Kerwin, she and other officials have witnessed spontaneous campfires on the lake's Wizard Island that seem to ignite out of nowhere. She details one such instance, as told by National Park's travel writer Haunted Hiker. She said, "One evening, Ranger Kerwin was patrolling the roads below the rim when she spotted 10 people standing around a roaring fire, camping illegally in the forest far from the designated campground.

The ranger parked her car and entered the woods to contact the illegal campers, but when she reached the site she could find no people and no campfire. Somewhat distressed by the campers' furtive behavior, the ranger got behind a tree and called for backup. The two rangers searched all over, but they still couldn't find any sign of the roaring campfire or the 10 campers Ranger Kirwan had seen just moments before.

Charles McCuller came to photograph Crater Lake's beauty in 1974. He never left the park. His remains were finally located in 1976, but this discovery only raised more questions than answers. All that was left of McCuller was his pants, socks, and fragments of his bones, as though the rest of his body had simply melted away.

No shirt, no coat, no boots which is especially strange considering that animals typically don't touch boots. McCuller also had expensive camera equipment with him, but this gear was never found. Could the photographer have fallen victim to foul play?

Despite numerous comments on articles about Crater Lake's weirdness insisting the Crater Lake Lodge is notorious for its hauntings, information dedicated to the ghost stories surrounding the lodge are particularly hard to find. About the only descriptive info out there comes from a 2004 Los Angeles Times profile of Craig Peterson, the park's facility engineer and environmental risk officer.

The writer of the article, Christopher Reynolds, makes mention of "ghost stories" about the little girl who roams the halls or the Chinese man in the elevator. Perhaps you just have to stay there and discover the finer details yourself. In 1977, a Georgia woman vacationing at Crater Lake examined something that haunted her for years to come: a giant, dragon-like creature swimming away from her boat, disappearing into the depths of the water.

As Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the U.S., once even thought bottomless, is it possible a Loch Ness-like monster really lives there? The Crater Lake Institute's website lists a detailed timeline of deaths that occurred in and around the park for the last 144 years. A particular note is the 1952 murder of two executives from United Motor Service, a subsidiary of General Motors.

The men's hands were tied behind their backs. They were gagged and led away from their car into the brush beside the road. There, the executives were shot in the head, execution style. While it initially appeared as though the motive was robbery, members of the men's families suggest they might have been assassinated for reasons related to their jobs. I'm Darren Marlar. Welcome back to Weird Darkness.

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This story comes from Weirdo family member Candice Cardenas. We'll call it "This Ghost Loves Brass." Here's the story in her own words: My husband, my daughter and I lived in a rental 1996 double-wide mobile home when I was pregnant with my second daughter. It was a big improvement from our tiny apartment and we quickly set about making the place our own. The house, though a bit outdated, was nice and we had no complaints.

However, things began to change with the birth of our youngest daughter. My experience took place around 2:30 in the morning. I was asleep in bed with both my three-year-old and my baby. I heard a very loud thud in the kitchen, then silence. My dog also heard it and sat at alert next to the kids. I grabbed a wooden dowel used to secure a faulty window and crept into the kitchen.

I saw a big jug of laundry soap sitting upright eight or nine feet into the center of the room. The laundry had not been done that day at all, so vibrations were not the culprit. Even so, I could not for the life of me figure out how it would travel that far just from tumbling off the washer. After checking the laundry room and finding everything in order, I relaxed a bit and went to get a drink of water. While standing at the sink, I hear the sound of a trombone play in my kid's playroom

My stomach flipped at the familiar sound of the musical toy. I was suddenly sure that I had actually had an intruder. I grabbed the phone and my wooden dowel and stepped slowly into the room. Nothing. Closet? Nothing. All doors and windows were locked and secure. I stood in the doorway with the toy at my feet, looking around confused and frazzled. "Bwamba-ba-ba!" The toy sounded off again.

At that moment, I realized I was likely dealing with something unseen. I said aloud, "Okay, I hear you. Hi, now please stop," and I promptly huddled back in bed with my kids. The next morning, I recounted my story to my husband, who worked the night shift. His face was blank at first, and then he began to explain that the laundry soap had been thrown into the kitchen twice the night I was in the hospital overnight, giving birth.

We had so many odd happenings in that house. We agree it did not feel malicious, though we certainly didn't like getting the wits scared out of us. We now live in a 100-year-old farmhouse with zero activity. Why that 1996 mobile home was so active, I will always wish I knew. That's how Candace tells the story. But I have to wonder if perhaps this ghost was in the laundry, simply trying to whiten the sheet it wears in the dark.

"Pure Normality" magazine's Nicole Whitney has a series called "Dreaming About." What does it mean? And in the April 2023 issue, she talked about "owls." Dreaming about owls. It can have various meanings depending on the context of the dream. Generally, it is said that dreaming of an owl symbolizes wisdom, transition, and wealth. To dream of an owl watching you can signify that the choices you make in life will determine your future success or failure.

Owls also represent vigilance and can indicate that you need to pay attention to the warning signs in your life or situation. Alternatively, dreaming of an owl can also mean that you're being too critical or judgmental of a situation. The symbol of an owl appearing in a dream may tell you to be less judgmental and open up to new ideas and perspectives. Owls may also represent the need for you to look inward at yourself, your emotions, and your inner strength.

When an owl appears in a dream, it may be trying to tell you something about yourself that you need to pay attention to. In some cases, dreaming of an owl can indicate that you are now entering a period of transition or change in your life. Owls are also a sign of knowledge, so dreaming about an owl may signify that you need to learn something or gain more understanding on a particular topic or situation.

Additionally, owls are a sign of wealth and abundance, so dreaming of an owl could be indicating that financial success is coming your way. Whatever the context of your dream, it is important to take note of any symbols and feelings associated with the owl in order to interpret its true meaning. Paying attention to the details of your dream and trusting your intuition is the best way to understand its message.

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Visit WeirdDarkness.com and you can follow me on social media, drop me an email, send me your own true paranormal story, listen to other podcasts that I host, and more. All stories used tonight are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find links to the stories or the authors in the show notes which I've already posted to WeirdDarkness.com. Betsy's Mysterious Flowers was written by Brandon Grimes for Paranormality Magazine. The Ravenmacher was written by Jeremy Nuren.

Secrets Between Sister was posted at BackpackerVerse.com. Does the Vatican Have a Time Machine? was posted at Disclose.tv. Abducted by the Urson Rat was originally published in the Anchorage Daily News. The Creeps of Crater Lake is by Christopher Schultz. This Ghost Loves Brass was submitted by a Weird Darkness listener, Candace Cardenas. And Dreaming About Owls was written by Nicole Whitney for Paranormality Magazine. Weird Darkness is a registered trademark. Copyright Weird Darkness.

And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Deuteronomy 15:7-8: "If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your poor brother. Rather, be open-handed and freely lend him whatever he needs." And a final thought:

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. Albert Barnes. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. Time travel might be a cool concept that's been a huge part of classic movies such as "Back to the Future."

However, could it actually be a "real thing"? A story about a mysterious Pan Am plane may have answered that question. The mystery of Pan Am Flight 914 has driven historians and skeptics crazy over the last few years. This begs the question: How did a plane possibly land 37 years after originally taking off? I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness.

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It all started one night in June 2018. The screams coming from underneath the house. It was so intense, the homeowners simply abandoned the property. I'll even share audio of the screams so you can decide for yourself if it's real. Weird Darkness listener Ellis Helmerson shared a story with me passed down through the generations about a true ghost sighting in her family.

Have investigators finally solved the strange disappearance of Pan Am's Flight 914? We'll begin with that story. If you're new here, welcome to the show! And if you're already a member of this weirdo family of ours, please take a moment and invite someone else to listen in with you. Recommending Weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show.

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The incredible story began all the way back on July 2, 1955, when Pan Am Flight 914 was scheduled to take off from its airport in New York. The plane was believed to be transporting 57 passengers and four crew members to Miami. It seemed like it would be a normal flight for everyone involved. However, this would prove to be far from the truth.

It turns out that something mysterious happened that would set this bizarre story into motion. After it took off from New York, it wouldn't take long before air traffic controllers lost the signal of Pan Am Flight 914. Just like that, it had completely disappeared from the radar, and no one understood what had happened.

Not only was there no indication that the plane had crashed somewhere remote, but there was also no sign of bodies of any of the passengers or crew members that were aboard. There were no leads whatsoever for 37 years. After an intense investigation, the authorities concluded that the plane must have crashed and that all of its passengers and crew must have died.

They were unable to locate the plane and came to a conclusion that it must have crashed in the sea somewhere, seeing that no plane had been found on land. As a result, the airline compensated all of the families of everyone involved with death benefits. However, those families were in store for some shocking news 37 years later. Fast forward to 1992, where something absolutely remarkable happened.

It was September 9th, and the setting for our incredible scene was an airport in the capital of Venezuela, Caracas. It seemed like a normal day at work for all the air traffic controllers. However, something would soon come to pass that would completely take them by surprise. A DC-4 Douglas aircraft appeared out of nowhere and had not even been picked up by the airport's radar. What did this mean?

One of the key figures who played a huge part in this Pan Am mystery was an air traffic controller by the name of Juan de la Corte. With the rest of his team, Juan turned up to work that day not expecting anything out of the ordinary. However, he ended up being completely wrong. With this mysterious DC-4 Douglas plane in his sights, he had no idea how it managed to evade the radar or what it would do next.

It wouldn't take long before Juan de la Corte got a contact signal from the Pan Am plane in question. Amazingly, it was the pilot who had somehow managed to appear without being traced on their radar. "Where are we?" the pilot asked.

He then confirmed something that completely took the air control by surprise. He continued, "We are Pan American Airways Flight 914 from New York to Miami with a crew of 4 and 57 passengers," he said. So what did Juan do? His initial report was followed up by a strange detail: that the Pan Am Flight 914 had gone in the wrong direction by approximately 1,800 kilometers.

Confused by this statistic, Juan was quick to ask the pilot some important questions. These included if they had experienced some sort of crash and if they had failed to make contact with anyone else. And although he cleared the plane for landing, it was what Juan heard next that truly took this story to the next level. Everything seemed to be going to plan as the plane touched down and brought itself to a stop.

However, Juan then heard the pilot say something that completely baffled him. "We were scheduled to land in Miami at 9:55 a.m. on the 2nd of July, 1955," the pilot said nonchalantly. Juan was quick to confirm to the pilot that he had actually landed in Caracas and that it was, in fact, May 21, 1992. Also, Juan was bewildered when he first laid eyes on the plane.

When Juan first laid eyes on the mysterious Pan Am Flight 914 plane, he was shocked at how outdated it looked. He specifically used the term "rugged" to describe the aircraft. Unlike other planes that looked pristine and modern, this plane looked like it had come from another universe. However, he tried to overlook its unorthodox appearance and continued to communicate with its pilot. It was at this point that the pilot did something that Juan never saw coming.

One was simply telling the pilot what day it was. However, as soon as he heard this, the pilot erupted into a fit of panic and yelled, "Oh my God!" on the radio. Just imagine the terror that pilot probably felt at that moment! We'll continue with our story of Pan Am Flight 914 and possible time travel when Weird Darkness returns.

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However, Juan then heard the pilot say something that completely baffled him: "We were scheduled to land in Miami at 9:55 a.m. on the 2nd of July, 1955." When Juan informed the pilot that he had actually landed in Caracas and that it was in fact May 21, 1992, the pilot erupted into a fit of panic and yelled, "Oh my God!"

The air control team could also hear the many passengers screaming and panicking in the background. As a result, Juan ordered a group of security guards to go down to the front and escort the people out of the Pan Am plane. But then Juan was in for another big surprise. The air control team had no worries that the security team would be able to calm the crew and passengers of Pan Am Flight 914 and bring them into the airport.

However, as soon as they approached the plane, the pilot instructed them not to get any closer. Then, Juan heard on the radio the pilot screaming and saying, "No, do not get near, we are leaving now." Sure enough, the plane took off once again and disappeared. But to where? Or when? According to Juan, the plane once again was untraceable on the radar after flying back into the clouds.

In light of this, the airport sent three jets out to try and track down Pan Am Flight 914. Nevertheless, they were unable to locate its whereabouts. Despite this, it certainly wasn't the end of the story. Another report claims to have identified the plane and its passengers' whereabouts just hours after the Caracas fiasco. It had reportedly arrived in Miami.

Reportedly, just a few hours after abruptly departing Caracas, the Pan Am plane landed at the airport that it had supposedly wanted to fly to all those years ago, Miami Airport. Naturally, the staff in Miami were just as perplexed about the plane's arrival as Juan de la Corte was. Upon its arrival, the staff checked the back office, and sure enough, they learned that the very same plane had previously taken off in New York on July 2nd.

1955. It made sense that the staff at Miami airport had plenty of questions for this mysterious plane. It would be a few hours of interrogation before the airport decided what it wanted to do with them. Ultimately, though, they let the passengers and crew go so that they could return home and reunite with their families. However, there was something even creepier at play here that would end up taking this story to a whole new level.

Amazingly, the family's biggest surprise wasn't the fact that they were able to finally reunite with long-lost relatives who they believed had died 37 years ago. What surprised them even more was how those passengers looked. Apparently, all of the passengers and crew looked exactly the same age as they did when they first took off back in 1955. While their families were 37 years older, they hadn't aged at all.

Also, it was a mystery as to how the plane could still run after so many years. It seems that the more people learned about this bizarre story, the more questions they had. Up until this day, there seems to be zero concrete answers to a number of hard-pressing questions. Firstly, where was the plane during those 37 years? Secondly, if the following is actually true, how did the passengers not age at all?

One popular YouTube expert in the supernatural and strange phenomena has recently attempted to try and answer these questions and many more. One YouTube channel that seeks to find the truth about supernatural phenomena is Alien Investigations. On this channel, the host dedicated an episode to the mystery of Pan Am Flight 914 and gave a detailed account of all the information he had collected over the years about the incident.

Although he came to the conclusion that he didn't believe in the story, he did find some fascinating details from a variety of sources that neither proved nor denied its validity. One of the theories presented was that the Bermuda Triangle had something to do with the plane's mysterious disappearance. Over the last 70 years, a number of planes have been the subjects of incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle.

A notorious body of water in the Atlantic Ocean, the Bermuda Triangle has reportedly claimed numerous planes over the years, with the most recent cases happening in 2017. However, investigators have played down the Bermuda Triangle having played a part in Pan Am Flight 914's disappearance. Despite the mystery of Pan Am 914 being nothing short of amazing, there is one fascinating detail that might actually prove the event.

Could this potentially be evidence of Pan Am Flight 914's ability to time travel? It seems that something happened in that defining moment when Juan was just about to calm the passengers and the pilot decided to fly away again. In the heat of the moment, the pilot reportedly dropped something, which fell out of the plane's entrance.

It was a classic "Birch Pocket Calendar," which was specifically from the year 1955, the exact same year the plane originally took off. The Pan Am mystery is just one of many others that have captured the imaginations and perplexed millions of historians. Every story is as mysterious as the next, and the one thing that many of these cases have in common is that they still don't have a definitive conclusion to this day.

Whether it's the classic story of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart or the Egypt Air Flight 990 of 1999, every story seems to be laden with the sense of mystery. Arguably the most famous aviation mystery in the history of mankind, historians until this day are still trying to locate the whereabouts of Amelia Earhart and her plane. Of course, Earhart is renowned for having been the first woman to fly across the Atlantic,

However, when she attempted to fly around the globe in 1937, it seemed that the ambitious pilot simply disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, never to be heard from again. Or was she? In recent times, a photo was unearthed that suggested that Amelia Earhart had in fact successfully flown around the world, only to be captured by Japanese forces during her time in the Pacific.

According to the documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, the photo pretty much proves that Earhart and Fred Noonan fell into the hands of the Japanese military. They were accused of being spies. However, the photo has since been debunked as it was taken before Earhart's disappearance.

Another aviation mystery came in 1971 when a man by the supposed name of Dan Cooper ended up stealing a Boeing 727 before jumping out of the plane with $200,000. It was the last time anyone saw the mysterious man. Despite the fact that his identity was shady and his real name has never been proven, the FBI is convinced that the criminal would never have survived despite the fact that he had a parachute.

and the case gave birth to Cooper veins. While many aviation mysteries have remained unsolved, others have been. This includes the Air Force Flight 571 that carried many Iroquoian passengers across the Andes on October 13, 1972. The plane, which carried five crew members and 40 passengers, went completely off the radar. After 72 days of searching, investigators found 16 survivors.

These passengers had no choice but to eat the passengers who had already died in order to survive. The bizarre story was eventually adapted into a 1993 film called "Alive." The most mysterious aviation cases seem to be when an entire plane full of passengers can never be found. Take the Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, for example, which disappeared on March 16, 1962.

It was carrying 93 American soldiers and in the blink of an eye disappeared off the radar on the way to the Philippines Clark Air Base. 200,000 square miles were covered in just eight days in order to try and find the passengers, but they were never found. Another aviation mystery that took a few years to solve was the Air France flight 447, which was scheduled to leave Rio de Janeiro on June 1, 2009,

Despite carrying 228 people, the plane went off the radar during the early hours of the morning. The airline was perplexed because there was no distress signal and this model had never crashed before. Eventually, investigators found out that the pilot had only slept for an hour the night before after a romantic evening with his girlfriend.

A recent story about a missing plane happened in January 2019 when soccer player Emiliano Sala mysteriously went missing while flying from Nantes, France to Cardiff, Wales to complete his transfer to a new soccer club. The talented forward was on board a private jet that went completely off the radar somewhere in the English Channel. For a number of weeks, authorities were unable to locate Sala's whereabouts and many searches were shut down.

However, the investigation has since come to a conclusion. So what was that conclusion? I'll let you know when Weird Darkness returns. If you have a true paranormal story that happened to you or someone you know, you can share it by clicking on "Tell Your Story" at WeirdDarkness.com and I might use it in a future episode. That's WeirdDarkness.com and then click on "Tell Your Story."

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For a number of weeks, authorities were unable to locate Sala's whereabouts on Air France Flight 227, and many searches were shut down. However, the investigation has since come to a conclusion. After searchers covered over 1,700 square miles over the English Channel, a private team eventually located the wreckage of Emiliano Sala's private jet

After a thorough investigation into the contents of the wreckage, it was confirmed that Salah's body was found, bringing a tragic end to a story that shook the world of soccer to its very foundations. Many teams around the world paid tribute to Salah by conducting one-minute silences before the start of their matches. There is no doubt that investigators will continue to look into this bizarre mystery.

and who knows, maybe information will soon surface backing up the incident as having actually been factual. Only time will tell. One thing is for sure, though, it is one of the most bizarre mysteries of the 20th century involving a plane. I wouldn't hold my breath for corroborating evidence to be discovered, though.

Most investigators have concluded that due to the contradicting evidence surrounding the Pan Am 914 mystery, whatever supposedly happened back in 1992 didn't actually happen. In fact, there are several versions to this same story. One story has the plane taking off from New York in 1955 and landing in Caracas in 1985, 30 years later, not 37.

Various stories spread over internet space claim to present the mysterious riddle of Flight 914. Accordingly, a Pan American Flight 914 took off from New York in 1955, vanished, and then the plane landed in Caracas in 1985, after 37 years. So let us examine if the paranormal claims are really true.

The alleged plane landing is often shown as a mysterious time travel or time-elapse incident, and many people in fact believed in the same. As evidence, related stories mention a voice recording between the plane pilot and eyewitnesses, air traffic controller Juan de la Corte being one. The runway calendar of 1955 is also mentioned as a sole proof of the incident.

Nonetheless, after a thorough search, there has nothing been found to record any evidence of any Flight 914 vanishing, to be found 37 years later. Over the years, the story in question has been sailing on the internet in various forms. It appeared in May 1985 in the tabloid Weekly World News, refurbished again in later years like in 1993 and in 1999.

While many believed it as a true story publication, Weekly World News was largely a fictional and satirical tabloid in the United States from 1979 to 2007. It was known for its characteristic black and white covers. Weekly World News was relaunched in 2009 as an online-only publication. In the tabloid papers, you can see different images of said eyewitness, air traffic controller Juan de la Corte.

In the first paper print, you can also see a satirical story titled "Mouse Hunter Shoots Himself in the Foot." Coming to the other picture of a flight with passengers standing besides, it actually shows an airline of Spain, Iberia, flying between Madrid and Buenos Aires in 1946. Fans of the science fiction TV series "Twilight Zone" may have experienced some déjà vu while hearing this story.

While the fictional story of Pan Am Flight 914 originated with the tabloid Weekly World News, it's reminiscent of a 1961 episode of the sci-fi show entitled The Odyssey of Flight 33. So, disappointing as it may be to those who love a good mystery, the claims that a Pan American vanished plane landed in Caracas Airport after 37 years are hoaxes that originated from a satirical publication.

or in today's vernacular, fake news. There is a house in a Welsh town at the center of a mystery which has seen its owners fleeing the country in utter terror. So petrified are they about the sounds that they hear underneath their home, they refuse to step foot inside it ever again. The police have been called, but the sound of screaming comes from underneath the basement and it has not been identified.

But they are convinced there is something going on below the ground. The claims may sound outlandish, like something from a Hollywood horror, but there are recordings that the owners have made inside the property which they say prove the existence of a dark, sinister secret. We'll listen to those recordings in just a moment. It all started one night in June 2018.

The owners, Alan and Christine Tate, were up late at the Ammanford house when the latter went to the kitchen to make a coffee. While standing over the kettle, she was convinced that she could hear strange noises and went to inform her husband. Women and children screaming, heavy knocking, men talking in a foreign language – these were just some of the sounds that disturbed the couple to the point where, within weeks, they would leave their home of 11 years and vow not to return.

They had no idea where the noises were coming from. But they were coming from somewhere, so they set out to investigate. "It was like a flushing noise that I heard first," says Christine from the couple's camper van that they now live in. "I told Alan about it and that I couldn't figure out where it was coming from.

He left his phone in the bathroom with the recorder on to try and pick up the source of the noise and then we could hear a machine running. We started to record all over the house and we picked up the sounds of chains, a motorbike starting and people screaming. It soon became apparent to Mr. and Mrs. Tate, both 62 years old, that the noises were of a subterranean nature. They appeared to be coming from the kitchen area,

not directly underneath the kitchen but underneath the basement that sits below it. Eager to discover more, Mr. Tate dug two 1.5-meter channels into the walls and placed recording equipment inside the shafts that he created. In his own words, the sounds he picked up included a woman screaming, sexual sounds, dogs barking, a printing press running, a motorbike

a car horn honking and what sounds like a police siren. The couple have hundreds of hours of recordings containing different sounds, all of which they claim are coming from underneath their house. Here is a compilation of some of the sounds they have recorded exactly as they captured it.

As you can tell, there is a lot of hiss. I went in and did some noise reduction and some hiss removal and this is what's left.

Some pieces sound unremarkable, but if you listen closely, you definitely can hear human screams in certain sections of the audio.

The ordeal has upset the family so much, they now travel around the UK trying to spread the word about what is going on in Ammanford. "Hundreds of people have been in touch with us and agree that this needs to be properly looked at," said Mr Tate.

"All I want is an explanation. Why are there people screaming? There must be something going on. We've placed microphones all over the place because we wanted to prove or disprove what we were hearing. Were these noises coming from the main road? Were they coming from a park? We put microphones at the front of the house and the back of the house, inside and out, and in the basement,

The device we left in the basement picked up the screaming and other noises. The other devices, which were recording simultaneously at the front and back of the property, picked up nothing at all. Mr. and Mrs. Tate sent Whales Online a key to the house, but advised that if they entered the property, they would do so with their own risk. Despite being in a busy town center, the property lies hidden down a narrow and lonely alleyway.

The street is filled with shops and other commercial properties, bar one empty building next door that's up for sale. The front door immediately leads to a staircase which rises to a winged first floor that is split in two. There's a room to the right and a larger sprawling room to the left. The kitchen sits directly above the now sealed-off basement. There is no direct access to the underground space, other than down a small hole with nine feet of darkness below it.

We left our own recording device at the edge of the hole for a number of hours. Meanwhile, neighbors we spoke to were largely unaware of the mystery on their doorstep. The recording we took showed a single spike. Unfortunately, it was us leaving the property. The recordings made by Mr. and Mrs. Tate, however, were carried out inside the walls of the basement rather than above a hole in its ceiling. They are adamant that something is going on.

They've set up a petition as they try desperately to get the authorities to investigate further. They claim police are ignoring their concerns and that "this matter needs an urgent, full investigation." Local police have confirmed that they've received correspondence from Mr. Tate and that officers attended the area in November of last year. They did not find any evidence of any wrongdoing.

Their assertion has not weakened Mr. and Mrs. Tate's firm belief that there are people – men, women, and children – living, sleeping, and working underneath the house. Mrs. Tate believes there are quite a lot of people down there, and the mystery might be connected to people trafficking as well as drug manufacturing. The couple refuse to return to Ammonford, in fear of what they might find. They even say they are concerned for their own safety.

"Such is the strength of their conviction that illegal activity is taking place underneath their house, they have felt compelled to leave. They are not prepared to say where in the UK they currently reside and they don't want pictures of themselves published in the press. 'We're travelling around the country handing out posters and flyers about what we think is going on,' said Mr Tate defiantly. 'We want as many people as possible to know about this so that the police are urged to carry out a more thorough investigation.'

"We don't want to go back until the matter has been resolved," he says. "I think we're dealing with a serious criminal gang," he continued, "and I think our lives could be in danger if they knew where we were." Fact or fiction? The unearthing of a sinister operation or a fanciful horror story? You can make up your own minds. Mr. and Mrs. Tate already have. Up next, I've got a story from a Weird Darkness listener!

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This next story comes from one of you, a Weird Darkness listener. Ellis Helmerson sent in this story: "I live in a village in Sweden called Bratfors. The village has a long history of ghost sightings and of sightings of weird creatures. My family has lived in this village for centuries, and many of my friends and family, including myself, have a history of seeing ghosts and weird figures. But I want to share a story that my dad told me when I was younger.

The story is a frightening encounter that my great-grandfather told my dad when he was a child. When my great-grandfather was younger, he used to walk between his farm and the main part of the village. The route to the main part of the village was a path that went on for about four miles before you got to the main part of the village. On one night, my great-grandfather had visited some friends in the main part of the village and was walking home. The only source of light that night was the moon,

After walking for about a mile, my great-grandfather saw a man walking in front, and he thought, "Great, somebody to talk to while I'm walking home." So my great-grandfather started running to get alongside this man so he could talk to him. But when he almost got right beside him, he realized in horror the man had no head.

He stopped dead in his tracks and looked in shock at this figure, but the figure didn't notice my great-grandfather and just kept on walking until it disappeared right before my great-grandfather's eyes. Werewolves have prowled our nightmares and campfire stories for centuries, but do these mythical man-beasts really walk among us today?

John Beale from Paranormality Magazine set out to investigate the history of werewolf legends and search for evidence that lycanthropes still lurk in the shadows. Modern pop culture has embraced the werewolf in movies, TV shows and books. But global folklore tracing back thousands of years warns people to fear the wolfmen.

Ancient Greek myths told of King Lycon being transformed into a ravenous wolf as punishment from Zeus after serving human flesh for dinner. Medieval Europe spun terrifying werewolf yarns to ward off wolves from killing livestock and stalking villages. The infamous Beast of Gavudan in France reportedly killed over 100 people from 1764 to 1767.

Later, American serial killer Albert Fish disturbingly claimed to have tasted human flesh and felt transformed into a werewolf. These frightening figures keep the werewolf legend alive in our modern consciousness. But does any tangible evidence prove werewolves still walk among us?

Sightings persist around the world, from farmers in Argentina reporting livestock slaughtered by upright wolf creatures to night stalkers in London's Hampstead Heath Park to a hulking canine beast terrorizing a town in Wisconsin. Intriguingly, witnesses often report the same chilling details like glowing animal eyes, enormous footprints, and spine-tingling howls.

Many sightings occur during a full moon, lending credence to the myths that werewolves transform beneath its glow. A moon-worshipping cult in Spain known as the "Clan of the Full Moon" even claims lycanthropy gives members superhuman strength and senses. Some paranormal experts theorize werewolves enter a frenzied state on full moon nights if they struggle to control their alter egos.

Scientific explanations for perceived werewolf traits offer rational insights into sightings. Conditions like hypertrichosis, which causes abnormal hair growth, or clinical lycanthropy, a psychological condition making sufferers believe they can transform into animals likely fueled historical beliefs in beastly metamorphoses.

Other theories suggest witnesses misidentify upright bears, or that serial killers don animal skins to camouflage their crimes. Yet questions remain: Why do werewolf legends span so many eras and cultures worldwide?

Why do modern sightings share such bizarre similarities? Could a primal, animalistic wildness lurk inside certain people, centuries of repression forcing it to emerge only on nights of the full moon? Or could werewolves be supernatural beings, immune to capture or scientific study? Though inconclusive, the evidence compels us to keep searching for the truth.

Werewolves might move among us even now in cities, forests, or even quiet suburban neighborhoods. They could be your coworkers, friends, or family members hiding a terrifying secret. As the world keeps investigating, we urge you all to beware the full moon, listen for howls in the night, and keep silver bullets handy just in case the wolfmen are out there and they are hungry.

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Visit WeirdDarkness.com and you can also follow me on social media. Drop me an email, send me your own true paranormal story, listen to other podcasts that I host, and more! All stories used tonight are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find links to the stories or the authors in the show notes which I've already posted to WeirdDarkness.com. The mystery of Flight 914 is from a variety of sources including JJ Foster, HoaxerFact.com, and Snopes.

Screams from the Basement was written by Robert Harries and the audio that was captured and used is from Alan Tate. My Great Grandfather Saw a Headless Ghost is by Weird Darkness listener Ellis Helmerson. Werewolves on a Prowl is by John Beale for Paranormality Magazine. Weird Darkness is a registered trademark. Copyright Weird Darkness. And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. James 1 verse 17...

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights who does not change like shifting shadows. And a final thought: you're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry, and be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagan, I'm Darren Marlar, thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.

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