#FIRESIDEFRIGHTS VOLUME 32 #WeirdDarkness

On the afternoon of September 23rd, 1880, David Lang waved to two men in a buggy, took another step across his open pasture near Gallatin, Tennessee, and disappeared in the middle of that step. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DavidLang READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p93efjf FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: What if your thoughts, your self, your very awareness… weren’t inside your brain at all, but woven into the universe itself? (What If Consciousness Is Everything?) *** Across centuries and continents, there are eerie tales of tiny, otherworldly creatures captured by humans — only for terror, curses, or vanishing acts to follow. (Bagged, Bottled, and Bewitched: True Tales of Captured Fairies) *** On a deserted Scottish road in 1992, two men's terrifying close encounter with a hovering UFO led to missing time, haunting nightmares, and disturbing memories of alien beings. (The A70 Abduction Case) *** When Jake Bird was sentenced to die, he warned the court they’d perish before him — then one by one, they did. (The Hex of Jake Bird) *** One bright afternoon in 1880, David Lang took a step across his field — and vanished forever in front of witnesses who saw it happen. (Portal In The Pasture: The Strange Disappearance of David Lang) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:28.802 = Show Open 00:03:13.646 = Portal In The Pasture: The Strange Disappearance of David Lang 00:17:39.952 = Bagged, Bottled and Bewitched: True Tales of Captured Fairies *** 00:30:14.552 = The Hex of Jake Bird 00:38:59.953 = The A70 Abduction Case *** 00:52:57.434 = What If Consciousness Is Everything? 01:04:53.042 = Show Close 01:06:08.761 = Bloopers *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The A70 Abduction Case”: https://www.thenightskyii.org/a70.html “The Hex of Jake Bird”: https://weirddarkness.com/jakebird/ “Bagged, Bottled, and Bewitched: True Tales of Captured Fairies”: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2024/08/Strange-Tales-of-Captured-Fairies-Gnomes-and-Other-Mysterious-Little-People/, “Portal In The Pasture: The Strange Disappearance of David Lang”: https://weirddarkness.com/thevanishingfarmer/ “What If Consciousness Is Everything?”: https://weirddarkness.com/what-if-consciousness-is-everything/(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: May 07, 2025 More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at

Last episode for the full book! If you like what you heard, please feel free to leave a review at https://weirddarkness.com/review-twolosthours In 1987 the folklorist Thomas Bullard studied some three hundred abduction accounts and wrote that the Hill case defines the typical one, and by then Barney Hill had been dead for nearly eighteen years; after Betty died in 2004 she was buried beside him in Kingston, and her plaque carries the same line as his, "of The Interrupted Journey". The dress she wore that night is in a box in Durham with the Hills' papers, and the light the two of them watched over Route 3 rests on accounts the Air Force took down within days, while everything aboard the craft rests on memories recovered under hypnosis two and a half years later. From the book “TWO LOST HOURS ON ROUTE 3: The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction, 65 Years Later” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/TwoLostHours WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: October 17, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/Two-Lost-Hours-Route-Abduction-ebook/dp/B0HJY8N8CT

A sequel to “The Grove City Werewolf” episode (https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-grovecitywerewolf/). Sean Dyer comes back to Grove City, Ohio, for Halloween weekend and finds plywood where one of the library's glass doors used to be, and the girl now living next door to his aunt and uncle says the news has the break-in all wrong. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-gravecitylibrary WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 17, 2026 More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.

In 1930, Eva Dugan spent her last night at the Florence prison playing whist, and at dawn she went to the gallows. The drop took her head off, and three years later Arizona's voters replaced the noose with lethal gas. From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: October 16, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HM3LZM9M/

In 1901, New Mexico Territory hanged Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum for holding up a train, and the drop was set at seven feet. When the trap fell, the rope took his head off. From the book “BOTCHED EXECUTIONS: Four Centuries Of Failed Hangings, Electrocutions, Gassings, Injections And Firing Squads” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/botchedexecutions WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: October 16, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HM3LZM9M/