GODDARD’S IMPOSSIBLE FLIGHT: Did This WW1 Pilot Really Fly Through a Time Portal To The Future?

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

In 1935, RAF pilot Victor Goddard flew through a mysterious storm only to emerge over an airfield that wouldn't exist for another four years — complete with yellow aircraft, blue-uniformed mechanics, and a chilling sense that he had become invisible to time itself.
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: A university apartment is filled with ghostly voices, shadows and footsteps. *** The playful spirit of a child haunts a home in Canterbury, England. *** A woman hears footsteps in an empty bedroom. *** The biblical story of the witch of Endor. Just a story, or was she a real woman with supernatural powers? *** Did a British Air Force pilot somehow slip into a time portal and fly into the past? *** 87 years ago a fire broke out at the Ohio State Penitentiary – yet somehow, souls still linger there. *** AND MORE!
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Haunted University Apartment Filled With Ghostly Voices, Shadows, and Footsteps”: (link no longer available)
“The Playful Child Spirit of Canterbury England”: (link no longer available)
“Footsteps In An Empty Room”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8s3ftj
“Mystery of the Witch of Endor”: (link no longer available)
“Pilot’s Mysterious Time Slip Into The Future”: (link no longer available)
“Where The Dead Still Linger – History And Hauntings a the Ohio State Penitentiary” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr3e7uup
“Granny’s Last Visit”: (link no longer available)
“The Girl Genius Who Vanished”: (link no longer available)
“Taken By Gypsies” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8cpd4j
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Originally aired: November 03, 2018
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice. (AI Policy)
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/GoddardFlight