THE NIGHT THE STARS WENT OUT: What Really Happened On Mount Wilson In 1949 | #MidnightInTheMacabre

On the night the beings from Alpha Centauri were due to land in 1949, every star in the sky over Mount Wilson blinked out for a full minute, and nobody seemed to notice except the narrator, Dorothy's brother Steve, and the astronomer Van Dyk. Eighteen years later, the narrator came back to the little iron house on the edge of the mountain, and Van Dyk was waiting to show him what was inside.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Room Where The Stars Live” from Quiet Please: https://tinyurl.com/y6nedu5t

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 22, 2026

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