Halloween Week: The Manhattan Alien Abduction

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast · Oct 29, 2025 · 1h 1m

At 3:00 a.m. on November 30, 1989, a Manhattan woman named Linda Napolitano claimed she was lifted from her 12th floor apartment window by a beam of blue light and taken aboard a glowing craft hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge. Within months, two alleged government bodyguards and more than twenty witnesses surfaced, saying they’d seen the same impossible event unfold above the East River. What began as a bizarre UFO report soon spiralled into a global sensation of obsession, paranoia, and accusation. What some say is the most credible UFO abduction story in history has also divide believers…