The Shadow Signal

Author: Josh Rutledge and Stefan Gearhart

The Shadow Signal is a monthly deep dive into high strangeness, hosted by Stefan Gearhart and Josh Rutledge. From UFOs and cryptids to psychic phenomena and government secrets, we explore the bizarre and unexplained one jaw-dropping episode at a time.
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Omens & Harbingers of Doom
Episode 5
Friday, 24 October, 2025

In this chilling October episode of The Shadow Signal, Josh and Stefan explore the eerie legend of the Black Bird of Chernobyl—a dark, winged entity said to have appeared before the 1986 nuclear disaster. From Mothman to ghostly funeral processions and ancient banshee wails, they uncover humanity’s long history of omens and harbingers that seem to warn of catastrophe before it strikes. Are these spectral messengers coincidence, collective intuition, or something far stranger?