Inland Empire Weird

True stories, local lore, and strange happenings from the IE

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📣 CALL FOR STRANGE SIGHTINGS

Got a weird story? Inland Empire Weird is collecting ghost encounters, UFO sightings, cryptid rumors, glitch-in-the-matrix moments, and eerie hometown legends from across the IE.

If you’ve seen something strange or heard a story that’s stuck with you—send it in. IE Weird is building an archive of the Inland Empire’s spookiest encounters, and your story might just become the next case file.

📡 No detail is too small. No vibe is too off.

Inland Empire Weird: Story Submissions | Cognito Forms

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I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

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1896 Mystery Airship Wave

Paranormal Category: UFO / Historic Aerial Phenomenon | Location: Redlands, Riverside, and San Bernardino Valley | Timestamp: First Reported

📡 Case file drop, gravewalkers: 1896 Mystery Airship Wave is live.

Long before Roswell, California’s skies turned strange. From San Francisco’s bay fog to Riverside’s citrus groves, witnesses swore they saw glowing cigar-ships with winged frames and silent, impossible speed. Some claimed they glimpsed pilots. Others blamed pranksters or hysteria. The truth? Still floating somewhere above us.

Read the full transmission at Inland Empire Weird !

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👀 New post is up!

This week on Inland Empire Weird: “Hidden Orb Over Fontana”

A strange light appears in the sky—too fast, too bright, and definitely not a plane. Was it a drone? A military test? Or something… else? Dive into this eerie firsthand account of a late-night sighting that left more questions than answers.

Read all about this week’s weird IE encounters!

Hidden Orb Over Fontana

Paranormal Category: UFO | Location: Fontana, CA (210 Freeway near Cherry Ave) Timestamp: First reported March 2019

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Tuning in for the first time, gravewalkers?

Get ready for the first drop of Inland Empire Weird: your weekly dispatch of high strangeness, desert hauntings, and unforgettable encounters. We’re kicking things off in the clouds this month—starting with a glowing orb drifting over Fontana in 2019, silent with an orange glow. Then we follow the static to Landers, where the Integratron still hums with alien blueprints and desert weirdness. And finally, we rewind way back to 1896, when cigar-shaped airships floated over the Inland Empire before planes were even invented.

📡 New case files broadcast every Wednesday at 9AM PST starting July 30th.

If your phone buzzes or you feel watched while reading… don’t worry. That’s just the archive opening its eyes ꩜ .ᐟ

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True Stories, Local Lore, and Strange Happenings from the IE. Click to read IE Weird, by Inland Empire Weird, a Substack publication.

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🕯️ Welcome to Inland Empire Weird 🕯️

A haunted notebook. A glitch in the archive. A map drawn in rumors and side-eyes.

Inland Empire Weird is a living record of the strange, spooky, and unexplainable stories tucked into Southern California’s Inland Empire. Desert whispers, drained lakebeds, haunted schools, and the kind of stories your tío only tells after a few beers. Some are firsthand encounters, others passed down or dug up from forgotten blog posts and comment sections. All of them blur the line between truth and myth.

Curated by a lifelong IE local (aka The Curator), this digital archive exists to document the eerie energy hiding in our backyards and basements. It’s a space for memory, mystery, and the weird things you can’t shake.

🕸️ Got a story? Submit it—messy, secondhand, anonymous—just as long as it’s strange.

Because the Inland Empire is haunted. We’re just writing it down.

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