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A 21-year-old Plymouth State student was shot in the head inside her own family's home, and the person charged with pulling the trigger is her teenage brother.
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Three men walked into Kyle Bevan's cell at one of England's most secure prisons, stabbed him more than 25 times, tucked his body into bed to look asleep, and walked out four minutes and 39 seconds later.
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Top Left: Mark Fellows, known as âThe Iceman,â was already serving a whole-life term for two gangland murders. West Yorkshire Police / SWNS
Top Center: David Taylor was also serving time for murder and awaiting trial over a separate killing when the prison attack took place. West Yorkshire Police / SWNS
Top Right: Lee Newell was previously convicted of killing another child killer inside his prison cell in 2013. West Yorkshire Police / SWNS
Bottom Center: Kyle Bevan, who was serving a life sentence for killing his partnerâs toddler, was stabbed to death by three inmates. Dyfed-Powys Police / SWNS -
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A ransom note sent five days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home opened with an apology for her death â and offered to return her body for a price.
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Across four decades on Heswall's Dawstone Road, drivers and a motorcyclist reported a seven-foot horned figure that seized their vehicles and threw them into the sandstone wall.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Dawstone Road is where some say the veil between our reality and the unknown is thin. A motorist's brush with death in 1961 sparked a chain of inexplicable events. From encounters with horned entities to unexplained accidents, the road holds secrets that seem to defy rational explanation. (The Demon of Dawstone Road) *** There is a dark history and supernatural secrets at the Manila Film Center. Built as a symbol of power and prestige during the Marcos regime, its construction was rushed, resulting in a catastrophic collapse that claimed numerous lives. But the horror didn't end there. Stories of hauntings, spectral hands reaching out, and cries for help still echo through its halls. (Horrors At Manila Film Center) *** When 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins vanished during a hotel party, it sparked a viral whirlwind of speculation and suspicion. Despite authorities ruling her death an accident, questions lingered â as they should, seeing as her body was found in the hotel freezer. (Frozen Corpse at Crown Plaza) *** For over a century, these ghostly orbs have captivated and spooked travelers in Queensland, Australia. Are they supernatural spirits or mere mirages? (The Ghostly Orbs of Min Min) *** AND MORE!
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:02:07.004 = Demon of Dawstone Road
00:11:30.917 = Horrors at Manila Film Center ***
00:31:46.055 = Frozen Corpse at Crown Plaza ***
00:40:24.583 = Ghostly Orbs of Min Min
00:50:15.674 = Blowing Smoke Up Your Enema ***
00:56:56.461 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âBlowing Smoke Up Your Enemaâ by Bipin Dimri for Historic Mysteries: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckujv2n
âThe Demon of Dawstone Roadâ by Tom Slemen for Anomalien.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/muvz6wbv
âHorrors At Manila Film Centerâ by Lucia for TheGhostInMyMachine.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9es3ka3j
âFrozen Corpse at Crown Plazaâ by Amanda Sedlak-Hevener for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8drf6j
âThe Ghostly Orbs of Min Minâ by Kimberly Lin for Historic Mysteries: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ea9zway9
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Originally aired: April 15, 2024
This episode of Weird Darkness travels from a haunted stretch of English road and a tower built on dead workers to a teenager found frozen in a hotel kitchen, a century of phantom lights in the Australian Outback, and an 18th-century medical practice involving tobacco and a part of the body it had no business near.It opens on Dawstone Road in Heswall, where a Neston motorist crashed through a six-foot sandstone wall in the winter of 1961 and later told a surgeon at Clatterbridge Hospital that a horrible devil had pushed his car sideways, despite no alcohol in his blood. That March, a 23-year-old Wallasey man named Rory was thrown from his motorbike at the Baskervyle Road junction by a seven-foot horned figure that seized his handlebars, and he woke to a face with pointed ears and luminous eyes muttering about the pit. The road's reputation reaches back to November 1934, when a posse hunted a demonic creature that a wealthy mansion owner blamed on his escaped bulldog, an explanation a local policeman rejected by asking how a broad bulldog squeezed through iron gate bars. The pattern continued through a stalled Hillman Imp shoved backwards in 1969 and a nurse's 1978 sighting of a horned man in black standing beside a ten-foot hole that glowed red and echoed with screaming.From there the episode moves to the Manila Film Center, the cinema palace Imelda Marcos rushed to completion for the first Manila International Film Festival in January 1982, where part of the structure collapsed on November 17, 1981 and buried workers in wet cement during a 24-hour construction schedule. Eyewitness Nena Benigno described seeing men carried out frozen in cement that had not fully hardened, while official counts from the Marcos regime claimed only a handful of deaths against outside estimates ranging as high as 169. Architect Froilan Hong put the toll at seven and denied the burial stories, yet legends persisted that the dead were entombed in the walls, and a medium reportedly brought in by Imelda Marcos to exorcise the building announced during a trance that the spirits now numbered 169 after the road death of project supervisor Betty Benitez.Next comes the death of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins, found face-down in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare in Rosemont on the morning of September 11, 2017, nearly a full day after security footage caught her stumbling through the hotel and entering an unused kitchen. The Cook County Medical Examiner ruled the death an accident from hypothermia, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.112 and epilepsy medication cited as contributing factors, but her mother Teresa Martin questioned how a teenager could open the freezer's heavy steel doors and filed a $50 million lawsuit against the hotel. Viral speculation drew comparisons to the 2013 death of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel, fueled by footage in which background music was mistaken for a cry of help and an anonymous tip claiming a gang had killed her for $200.The episode then crosses to the Outback near Boulia in Queensland, where Min Min lights have trailed travelers since Europeans first documented them in 1838, hovering about three feet off the ground, changing color, and following people on foot, on horseback, and in cars. A stockman riding past the burned ruins of the Min Min Hotel reported a glow the size of a watermelon that chased him to the edge of town, and Arrernte elder Mavis Malbunka tied the lights to a Dreamtime story of a mother searching for a child fallen from the Milky Way. University of Queensland physiologist Jack Pettigrew traced the phenomenon to a Fata Morgana, an optical illusion in which warm air over cold bends light from sources hundreds of kilometers beyond the horizon, a finding he published in 2003 after recreating the effect with car headlights ten kilometers away.The episode closes on the tobacco enema, the 18th-century practice of blowing smoke into a patient's rectum to revive the drowned, with resuscitation kits hung near English waterways for emergency use. Nicholas Culpeper adapted the method from Native American medicine and Richard Mead carried it forward, and an early 1746 account credits a husband with reviving his apparently drowned wife by inserting a pipe stem and puffing smoke through it. Nicotine absorbed this way could raise a patient's heart rate, which gave the treatment a plausible mechanism, and the 1774 Institution for Affording Immediate Relief to Persons Apparently Dead from Drowning built its work around it before being renamed the Royal Humane Society, which still operates in England today. -
A young woman hired to care for an invalid widow in a crumbling Hudson River mansion soon learns why her brooding employer forbids every mirror in the houseâand why the dogs are always watching.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âReflected Terrorâ (February 10, 1978) ***WD
00:46:05.827 = Deep Night CBC, âIce Screamsâ (August 05, 2005)
01:20:02.229 = Calling All Detectives, âThe Necktieâ (1947)
01:29:12.083 = The Devil and Mr. O, âBalance Sheetâ (December 24, 1971(
01:59:18.938 = Diary of Fate, âWalter Vincentâ (May 25, 1948) ***WD
02:28:14.559 = Dimension X, âThe Paradeâ (August 25, 1950) ***WD
02:55:28.216 = The Strange Dr. Weird, âThe Man Who Lived Twiceâ (January 30, 1945) ***WD
03:08:09.231 = The Eleventh Hour, âBombâ (ADU)
03:34:51.891 = Escape, âActionâ (July 21, 1949)
04:04:04.818 = Murder By Experts, âThe Big Moneyâ (July 25, 1949)
04:33:28.472 = Exploring Tomorrow, âDiamond Mountain of Venus / aka Inferiorityâ (June 04, 1958)
04:53:28.724 = Show Close
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(LQ) = Low Quality
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A 36-year-old bartender came home from her overnight shift in Brooklyn, and within hours her teenage son and her sister found her dead on the floor with her neck cut.
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A three-year-old visiting Johnson's of Old Hurst ended up inside the crocodile enclosure, was pulled out by a member of the family that runs the zoo, and the stranger arrested over it was assessed as unfit for police interview.
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Five drivers were shot along Interstate 70 the evening Kansas City opened its World Cup, and the man police are hunting has not been found.
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On a bright July afternoon in 1986, twenty-five-year-old London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office to show a house to a client her diary noted only as "Mr Kipper," and she was never seen again.
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HOUR ONE: It is considered by many, Britainâs most well-known disappearing person case. Even now, over three decades later, people in the UK are still fascinated and intrigued by the unexplained vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh. (The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery) *** John List planned the murders of his own family so carefully, he almost got away with it. In fact, it took 18 years to catch him. (The Family Man Who Murdered His Family) *** Weâll look at what it was like to be a woman in the 17th Century⊠and accused of witchcraft. (Witchly Accusations) *** If you drink whiskey, or even if you donât, youâre likely familiar with âJameson Irish Whiskey.â But did you know that cannibalism played a part in its history? (Whiskey and Cannibalism) *** A strange phenomenon takes place in Arkansas, and despite the numerous sightings and investigations, there is still no explanation for it. (Unexplained In Arkansas)
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HOUR TWO: Seeing a lifelike human skeleton in a doctorâs office, especially in the past couple of centuries, was â and in many cases still is - commonplace. But where did one go to get such lifelike skeletons if you were a doctor in the 1800s? Why, a skeleton factory, of course! (The Skeleton Factory) *** The story of Kate Watson is a grim one â living as a prostitute in the Old West, and when that wasnât enough she took up cattle rustling. Her husband wasnât any better. So itâs probably no surprise that she was strung up until dead. But maybe you should wait to pass judgement until you hear the whole story. (The Lynching of Cattle Kate) *** In March of 2004, teenager Brianna Maitland left work in the late evening hours and was never seen again. To this day it is still one of Vermontâs most infamous mysteries. (The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland) *** Plus, âThe Haunted Adirondack Mountainsâ
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: Parents always feel their child is special in some way â something that makes their child better in some way than other children. Parents of indigo children are no different, with some parents thinking their children have psychic abilities. Doctors say that these children have ADD or ADHD, but one parapsychologist says indigo children have something even more special â possibly even paranormal - inside them. (Supernatural Indigo Children) *** When you think of a mad scientist you most likely think of Victor Frankenstein â but itâs rumored Mary Shelley took inspiration for the character from a real mad scientist by the name of Andrew Ure. (Andrew Ure: A Real Life Mad Scientist) *** The story of Kate Watson is a grim one â living as a prostitute in the Old West, and when that wasnât enough she took up cattle rustling. Her husband wasnât any better. So itâs probably no surprise that she was strung up until dead. But maybe you should wait to pass judgement until you hear the whole story. (The Lynching of Cattle Kate)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHTâS SHOW:
"The Suzy Lamplugh Mysteryâ by Amelia Gentleman for The Guardian: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2v2z6tp6
âThe Family Man Who Murdered His Familyâ from The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/392yt322
âWitchly Accusationsâ by Jessica Nelson for the UKâs National Archives: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/j7nnd3ax
âWhiskey and Cannibalismâ posted at The Scare Chamber: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9rx24777
âSupernatural Indigo Childrenâ by Gina Dimuro for All Thatâs Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/apk85b29
âUnexplained in Arkansasâ by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/27zaptdb
âHaunted Adirondack Mountainsâ by Molly Briggs for Paranormality Magazine: http://weirddarkness.com/magazine
âThe Skeleton Factoryâ from Strange Ago: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2j8reje3
âAndrew Ure: A Real Life Mad Scientistâ posted at The Scare Chamber: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3n5tfpeh
âThe Murder of Nurse Cindyâ posted the The Trouble With Justice: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2kfah7mv
âThe Lynching of Cattle Kateâ posted at Strange Company: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utdy2sh6
âThe Vanishing of Brianna Maitlandâ by Orrin Grey for The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/je9s98ru
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." â John 12:46
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Centuries before Hollywood dressed it in a nun's habit, the demon Valak prowled the pages of forbidden grimoires as a winged boy astride a two-headed dragon, commanding legions of serpents to do his bidding.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Although Valak is depicted in the films "The Nun" and in âThe Conjuring 2â as a habit-wearing spirit, the real demon appears as a child riding a two-headed dragon â at least according to a 17th-century demon-hunting manual. (The Reality Behind The Demon, Valak) *** The Vatican is one of the most well-guarded areas in the world. But if rumors are to be believed, all that security isnât only to protect the pontiff⊠but some dark, disturbing secrets⊠and a machine that could change everything we know to be true. (The Vaticanâs Secret Machine) *** Weâll look at that time a force field was accidentally created at a 3M plant. (3Mâs Accidental Force Field) *** In 1872 George Wheeler met and married May Tillson in Boston. He made a home for May and her younger sister Della, first in New York, then in California. Along the way, George fell in love with young Della and when she planned to marry someone else he was faced with a dilemma: he could not marry her himself and he could not bear to see her wed to another. The solution he chose pleased no one. (Thus She Passed Away) *** In the 1800s scientists and doctors needed cadavers to study human anatomy and practice their skills. To help accommodate the need, it was made legal to sell dead bodies. What could possibly go wrong? (The Unsettling Anatomy Act)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:16.547 = Show Open
00:03:31.777 = The Reality Behind The Demon Valak
00:11:37.807 = The Unsettling Anatomy Act ***
00:24:33.689 = 3Mâs Accidental Force Field
00:34:11.149 = Thus She Passed Away ***
00:44:01.086 = The Vaticanâs Secret Machine
00:53:13.339 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âThe Reality Behind The Demon, Valakâ by Gina Dimuro for All Thatâs Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/43vu356n
â3Mâs Accidental Force Fieldâ by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3vvnwbpv
âThus She Passed Awayâ by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yyztmnat
âThe Unsettling Anatomy Actâ by SM for ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8vdns9
âThe Vaticanâs Secret Machineâ by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8kxxz8
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Originally aired: December, 2021
This episode of Weird Darkness moves from a centuries-old demon mistaken for a nun, through the Victorian trade in stolen corpses and a force field that appeared inside a 1980 factory, to a San Francisco trunk murder and a Catholic priest who claimed to have built a machine that could film the past.It opens with the demon Valak, who reaches modern audiences through The Nun and The Conjuring 2 as a pale, nun-robed figure but appears in the 17th-century grimoire Clavicula Salomonis Regis, or The Key of Solomon, as the 62nd spirit: a boy with angel's wings riding a two-headed dragon, commanding a legion of serpents and an army of thirty demons while hunting snakes and hidden treasure. The nun costume was the invention of director James Wan, who reshaped a vision the medium Lorraine Warren described to him â a swirling hooded figure carrying female energy â into a holy icon turned against her Catholic faith. Warren and her husband Ed, the demonologists who rose to fame after the 1976 Amityville investigation, reportedly met a spectral hooded figure at the Borley church in southern England, where lore held that a nun had been bricked alive in the convent walls after an affair with a monk. The Key of Solomon, which lists the seventy-two demons King Solomon was said to have vanquished, sat on the Vatican's Index librorum prohibitorum until the Church abandoned that list of prohibited books in 1966, though copies kept turning up in the hands of Catholic priests.From there the episode turns to the Anatomy Act of 1832, the British law that legalized dissecting unclaimed bodies from workhouses and hospitals to end the grave-robbing of the resurrectionists, yet instead built an organized corpse trade across Victorian England. The twelfth-century St. Bartholomew's left wicker baskets beneath its King Henry VIII gate for body dealers to fill, while a Liverpool Street express known as the "dead train" carried sealed funeral wagons of stacked corpses toward Cambridge. Deepening the trade, the New Poor Law of 1834 confined the destitute to workhouses whose officials profited from selling the dead, and in 1858 the master of St. Mary Newington workhouse, Alfred Feist, was caught funneling pauper bodies to Guy's Hospital through the undertaker Robert Hogg, who staged fake funerals and collected double payment. Anatomists prized the bodies of fetuses and children, keeping their skulls intact â only one of fifty-four specimens in a Cambridge collection had received a craniotomy â and the public's dread boiled over in Manchester in 1832, when a grandfather opened the coffin of a three-year-old who had died at the Swan Street Cholera Hospital and found a brick where the boy's head should have been.Next comes a stranger kind of dread, set in the summer of 1980 at a 3M plant in South Carolina, where workers slitting twenty-foot-wide polypropylene film at a thousand feet per minute walked into an invisible wall they could not push through. The static-charged field, which one worker measured past the limit of a 200-kilovolt handheld electrometer, pulled people toward it so strongly they had to back away on foot, swallowed a passing fly, and by one account could have held a bird in its grip before vanishing as abruptly as it formed. Managers reproduced the effect the next morning under lower humidity, and the plant production manager reportedly said he didn't know whether to fix it or sell tickets; later accounts claim a researcher who published on the phenomenon was contacted by NASA and federal agencies before the grounding fault was corrected and the field never returned.The episode then moves to a true-crime case in San Francisco, where around midnight on October 20, 1880, George A. Wheeler walked into a police station and confessed to strangling his sister-in-law Della Tillson and packing her body into a trunk in their room at 23 Kearney Street. Wheeler had fathered two children with Della, both of whom died, while her sister â his deaf wife, May â lived across the hall posing as his sister-in-law, and the arrival of the miner George Peckham, who hoped to marry Della and take her to Sacramento, drove Wheeler to kill rather than let the two leave together. He told reporters that Della sat in his lap and asked him to end her life, that she died with her head on his shoulder, and his defense of hereditary insanity failed across two trials, the second forced by a California Supreme Court ruling over improperly admitted testimony from a book on medical jurisprudence. On January 23, 1884, five thousand people gathered outside the jail, entrance tickets sold for ten dollars apiece, and Wheeler â newly drawn toward Catholic conversion under Father Cottle â kissed a crucifix, commended his spirit, and dropped to a broken neck.The episode closes inside the Vatican with Father Pellegrino Ernetti, an Italian priest, exorcist, and musical scholar who claimed in the 1950s to have helped build a device called the Chronovisor that could see and hear the past. Ernetti said a team of twelve anonymous scientists, among them the physicist Enrico Fermi and the rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, tuned the machine to a speech by Mussolini, then Napoleon, a Roman market under Emperor Trajan, a Cicero oration, and a 169 B.C. performance of Quintus Ennius's lost tragedy Thyestes, which he said let him publish its full text. When the magazine La Domenica del Corriere printed a Chronovisor image of Christ's face on the cross on May 2, 1972, it was soon matched to a mirrored photograph of a wood carving by the sculptor Cullot Valera, and Ernetti â who said the machine was too dangerous to exist and had been dismantled and hidden â left behind no device, no named living witnesses, and a 1993 presentation to four cardinals whose contents were never disclosed. -
A young doctor returns to her childhood slum to open a free clinic, but when a dying patient vanishes from her examination room and his grieving cousin swears the boy has simply gone home, she begins to wonder what kind of people she's really been treating.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âAll Unregistered Aliensâ (February 09, 1978) ***WD
00:45:43.486 = Calling All Cars, âBurma White Caseâ (December 06, 1933) ***WD (LQ)
01:14:27.499 = Casey Crime Photographer, âClue In The Cloudsâ (February 26, 1944) ***WD
01:45:06.776 = CBC Mystery Theater, âThe Cable Car Incidentâ (1967) ***WD (LQ)
02:11:42.746 = Chet Chetterâs, âBiloxi And the Bogus Beavers From Bornacâ (1990-1992) ***WD
02:40:43.122 = The Clock, âGhost Storyâ (December 13, 1955)
03:07:11.394 = Creeps By Night, âStrange Burial of Alexander Jordan
03:36:40.775 = SONG: Static Wax, âThe Dead Manâs Bellâ (based on the Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan): https://weirddarkness.com/music
03:43:07.328 = The Crime Club, âDead Man Controlâ (March 20, 1947) ***WD
04:11:24.922 = Crime Classics, âPeaceful Pass T. Edwin Bartlett Grocerâ (June 22, 1953)
04:40:59.478 = Danger Dr. Danfield, âLittle Meteorite Wanted To Be a Starâ (February 02, 1947)
05:07:17.930 = Show Close
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Introducing: JUKEBOX WEIRDO!
Official Weirdos, you've got a new perk â and it's yours alone. (https://weirddarkness.com/official)
JUKEBOX WEIRDO is a members-only music feature, and it works just like the name suggests: you punch in the request, you pick who plays it. Send me a topic â anything you'd want a song about â and tell me which act from the Weird Darkness Records roster should perform it.
Static Wax? Dark Weirdness? Crossroads Haint? Incorruption,? Monster Flakes? Alena Ingram? You send me the song topic and the artist you want to perform it! It's your call!
Here's what makes these special: they never leave the building. Unlike the rest of the Weird Darkness Records catalog (https://weirddarkness.com/music), JUKEBOX WEIRDO tracks won't go to Spotify, Apple Music, iHeart Radio, Pandora, YouTube Music, or anywhere else. They live only behind the Patreon wall, for Official Weirdos only. And the topic doesn't have to come from an episode or a story. Any fun, strange, dark, or downright weird idea that fits the Weird Darkness mold works â that's the whole point. It's YOUR choice!
To request a song, if you are a Patreon member (https://weirddarkness.com/official), send me a private message there with two things: your song idea, and the artist you want singing it.
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Four aged friends gather in an eccentric doctor's shadowed study, where he offers each of them a single glass of water he swears was drawn from the Fountain of Youth.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âDr. Heideggerâs Experimentâ (February 07, 1978) ***WD
00:47:39.915 = Arch Obolerâs Plays, âEngulfed Cathedralâ (May 06, 1939) ***WD
01:17:52.594 = BBC Radio 4/Radio 7 Ghost Story, âJonasâ (mid 1970s)
02:46:16.760 = Night Beat, âTheyâ (August 17, 1951)
03:15:39.186 = Beyond The Green Door, âMrs Curlew â Poisoner Marries Majorâ (1966) ***WD
03:19:27.495 = The Black Book, âMy Favorite Corpseâ (February 24, 1952) ***WD
03:35:06.168 = *SHOW NAME UNKNOWN*, âBlack Ghostâ (1930) ***WD
04:01:09.186 = Barry Craig, âThe Judge And The Champâ (October 17, 1951) ***WD
04:31:00.486 = Box 13, âThe Hot Boxâ (December 26, 1948)
04:57:42.628 = Show Close
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(LQ) = Low Quality
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A burglar, a car thief, a pickpocket, and a roof full of teenagers all heard the same thing in the dark â a voice that wasn't there, telling them to get out before it was too late.
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READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7mzj4ap
FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Creepy, paranormal encounters sometimes cause people to stop short of committing an action they might regret. (Supernatural Intervention) *** Weird family member Atreada tells of a horrifying series of nights when she and her sister encountered a demon under one of their beds. (Man Beneath The Bed) *** In York County, Pennsylvania a suspected witch is murdered â and thus began the dark story of the Hex House. (Dark Magic in Hex Hollow) *** Was there a conspiracy to murder Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe? Weâll look at the theories and evidence for and against the idea. (Killing Marilyn)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:36.259 = Show Open
00:01:59.484 = Supernatural Intervention
00:28:49.825 = Man Beneath The Bed ***
00:33:42.600 = Dark Magic of Hex Hollow
00:39:33.099 = Killing Marilyn ***
00:59:36.847 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âSupernatural Interventionâ by Anna Lindwasser: http://bit.ly/2IHZl58
âMan Beneath the Bedâ by Weirdo family member Atreadia, submitted directly to WeirdDarkness.com
âDark Magic in Hex Hollowâ by Orrin Grey: http://bit.ly/2GD8860
âKilling Marilynâ posted at The Unredacted: http://bit.ly/2GGF7GS
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Originally aired: December 06, 2021
Weird Darkness moves through four shades of the unexplained in this episode: the unseen voices and strangers that talk people out of crimes and catastrophes, the demon that lived under two sisters' bed in Texas, the 1928 witch-killing that gave a Pennsylvania hollow its name, and the still-contested death of Marilyn Monroe.It opens with a run of first-person accounts pulled from Reddit, each describing the moment something unseen stepped in to stop a crime or a catastrophe. A burglar hiding in the closet of an elderly woman's house watches a ghostly old man pat a departing paramedic on the back, then feels breath on the neck and a voice ordering the intruder out. Middle-schoolers creeping through their darkened school are warned off by a voice none of them claims, and they avoid a library that proved to be wired with a silent alarm and motion detectors. In California, a fourteen-year-old abandons a car-theft job a mile from the pickup, spooked by a rising sense of dread, and later learns the vehicle was bait in a police sting that swept up everyone else sent after it. A pickpocket lifts a wallet clean off a stranger, only for the man â blind, sunglasses raised â to calmly ask for it back. Threaded among them are a blown tire that derails a despairing teenager's suicide plan, church doors that lock the instant two thieves reach for them, and a Hobby Lobby shopper whose five stolen pieces of balsa wood seem to trail straight to a table saw and a flesh-eating MRSA infection.From there the episode turns to a listener named Atreada, who shared a room and a bed with her older sister in SunRay, Texas. For a week the bed shook hard enough to slam against the wall and wake the whole house, blamed each night on two children supposedly roughhousing. On the fourth night a hand rose from the gap between bed and wall as an evil laugh filled the room, and on the last night the sisters aimed a flashlight and saw the thing climb out and bolt â an old man in rags, barefoot, with glowing eyes, talon-like fingers, broken teeth, ears jutting at odd angles, and thin transparent strands hanging from an otherwise bald, corpse-like head.Next comes the true story behind Spring Valley County Park in York County, Pennsylvania, a place once called Hex Hollow. In 1928 a Powwow folk-magic practitioner named John Blymire became convinced he was cursed, and a witch called Nellie Noll â the Marietta River Witch â named Nelson Rehmeyer as the source. To break the hex, Blymire needed a lock of Rehmeyer's hair and his copy of The Long Lost Friend, an 1820 spellbook by John George Hohman. On November 26, 1928, Blymire and two accomplices, John Curry and Wilbert Hess, beat Rehmeyer to death in his home and tried to burn it down; the house refused to burn, which locals took as proof of his power. Blymire and Curry drew life sentences and Hess ten to twenty years, and the surviving hex house opened as a museum in 2007 â its story helping to inspire horror novelist Brian Keene and Shane Free's 2015 documentary on the killing.The episode closes with the death of Marilyn Monroe, found nude and lifeless in her Brentwood home in the early hours of August 5, 1962, a telephone in her hand and empty pill bottles on the nightstand. The official verdict was probable suicide by barbiturate overdose, but Sergeant Jack Clemmons, the first officer on the scene, found no glass or water for swallowing some sixty pills, no vomit, and housekeeper Eunice Murray running laundry while the body lay cooling. Thomas Noguchi's autopsy turned up lethal levels of Nembutal and chloral hydrate in her blood and liver, yet not a trace in her stomach. Witnesses placed Attorney General Robert Kennedy at the house that day and again near 10 p.m., tied to rumors of a red diary detailing her affairs with Robert and President John F. Kennedy and referencing a plot against Castro. A competing account, advanced years later by a Court TV investigation, holds that her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson gave her a chloral hydrate enema to wean her off Nembutal, unaware that her internist Hyman Engelberg was still prescribing it, and that the fatal drug interaction â not the Kennedys, and not her own hand â is what killed her. -
A Turkish team has government clearance to drill, scan, and lower a drone beneath a boat-shaped mound near Mount Ararat that some believe is the wreck of Noah's Ark.
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On a Saturday morning in SĂŁo Paulo, three instructors hoisted Maria Eduarda over the edge of an abandoned bridge â and her safety rope never left the platform.
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A federal judge ordered sixteen-year-old Timothy Hudson jailed until trial for the killing of his stepsister Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship, finding that no monitor could be trusted to contain him.
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A 12-year-old in southern Brazil told her family kidnappers had beaten her and would kill her unless they paid â and police spent sixteen hours hunting captors who never existed.
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From the Texas Killing Fields and Gilgo Beach to a corpse left decomposing in a hotel water tank and three infants found frozen in a family freezer, these are the notorious dump sites where killers hide their victims â and the strangest places human remains have ever turned up.
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Where are bodies dumped most often? What are some of the strangest places bodies have been found, and what odd situations ended up in death? Weâll look at some weird stories of dead bodies being found. (Strange Dumping Grounds) *** A man is found dead â obviously murdered. But even after a positive identification, some believed the body was not of the man authorities thought it was â and an even larger mystery was, whose monogrammed handkerchief was stuffed in the corpseâs mouth? (The Ruttinger Mystery) *** In Florida, there is a short stretch of freeway that is so full of incidents of danger, death, and the paranormal, that many consider it cursed â and most definitely haunted. Locals have deemed it, the Dead Zone. (Hauntings On Highway I-4)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:23.979 = Show Open
00:04:03.422 = Strange Dumping Grounds
00:24:34.042 = Oddest Places Bodies Found ***
00:35:56.964 = Hauntings On Highway I-4
00:49:22.317 = The Ruttinger Mystery ***
00:59:26.329 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
âStrange Dumping Groundsâ by Jessika M. Thomas (http://bit.ly/2XwwVyc), Mariel Loveland (http://bit.ly/2XzEog1), and Rachel Stewart
âThe Ruttinger Mysteryâ by Robert Wilhelm: http://bit.ly/2IAzhJh
âHauntings On Highway I-4â by Brent Swancer: http://bit.ly/2XB62JG
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Originally aired: December 06, 2021
Weird Darkness maps the ground where the dead are hidden, traveling from America's most notorious body-dumping fields to a cursed quarter-mile of Florida interstate and a strangled German lace salesman pulled from the Staten Island mud in 1891.It opens with the dump sites scattered across the United States, where unidentified victims are still pulled from soil and water decades after they were left. In the New York Central Pine Barrens of Long Island, as many as eleven bodies have surfaced, four of them between 2000 and 2003 and two decapitated, in killings attributed to the Butcher of Manorville. Lake Tahoe keeps its secrets through physics rather than concealment, its thousand-foot depths holding a near-constant 39 degrees that stops bodiesârumored to date to Mafia disposals in the 1950sâfrom decomposing enough to float. Sugar planter Edgar Watson terrorized the Florida Everglades in the early 1900s, allegedly killing laborers each harvest to dodge their wages, and in 2016 two alligators were found feeding on a corpse in the same swamp. Leakin Park in Baltimore has given up roughly 70 bodies since 1946, while the Texas Killing Fields along I-45 between Houston and Galveston have yielded 30 since 13-year-old Colette Wilson vanished in 1971âamong them Krystal Jean Baker, whose 1986 murder was tied to Kevin Edison Smith by DNA in 2012. Over 100 bodies have come out of the Mojave Desert, sending photographer William Bradford and William Floyd Zamastil to prison, and the still-unidentified Gilgo Beach killer dumped as many as 17 victims along Ocean Parkway, three of them strangled, bagged in burlap, and linked to the Long Island Serial Killer. Pelham Bay Park concealed at least 65 bodies between 1986 and 1995, the East River surrendered 26 in the spring of 2010 alone, and Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, confessed to ending at least 49 women's lives.From there the episode turns to bodies found where no one thinks to look. Canadian student Elisa Lam decomposed for as long as 19 days inside a rooftop water cistern at Downtown Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel while guests drank and bathed from the same supply and complained the water tasted off. In Xi'an, China, a woman starved to death trapped in an elevator over the Chinese New Year, her hands mangled from a month of clawing at the doors after workers skipped a required inspection. Elmer McCurdy, killed by police in 1911 after robbing a train of $46 and two jugs of whiskey, was embalmed with arsenic and toured carnivals as a sideshow attraction until a film crew for The Six Million Dollar Man snapped his arm off at a Long Beach amusement park in 1976 and found bone beneath the wax; he was finally buried in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1977. A Disneyland Paris worker was electrocuted behind the scenes of the Phantom Manor ride in 2016, a German mother kept three of her infants in freezer wrapping for some 30 years until her grown children uncovered them while digging for frozen pizza, and Joshua Maddox, missing since 2008, was discovered seven years later wedged in the chimney of his parents' Colorado cabin with no sign of injury.Next comes a quarter-mile of Interstate 4 near Lake Monroe, Florida, that locals call the Dead Zone. The asphalt covers four unmarked graves of Dutch immigrants who died in the Yellow Fever epidemic that erased the 1870s settlement of St. Joseph's, graves that landowner Albert Hawkins fenced and protected after stumbling on them in 1905, and which earned a reputation for lightning strikes, house fires, and a fatal hit-and-run befalling anyone who disturbed them. The state promised to relocate the remains before construction but paved over them, and as work began in 1960 Hurricane Donna changed course to follow the road's path; the highway opened in 1963 with a deadly truck crash at that exact spot. Somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 accidents have clustered along the short stretch since, Hurricane Charley retraced Donna's route over it in 2004, and drivers report their radios filling with growls, children's laughter, and disembodied voices in a place with no nearby transmitters.The episode closes with the 1891 murder of Karl Emanuel Ruttinger, a German lace salesman from Dresden whose body watchman Samuel Mortin found half-floating in the mud below Tottenville, Staten Island, his arms bound behind his back and a linen handkerchief monogrammed "W.W." rammed down his throat with a stick. Suspicion fell on his brother-in-law, William Wright, who had sailed with him from Liverpool and shared his boarding-house room, yet Wright stood only five-foot-four at 120 pounds, far too slight to overpower a six-foot, 200-pound man alone. The trail twisted through a throat-cutting suicide at the Astor House by a man calling himself Fred Evans, a string of conflicting witness identifications, and the discovery that Ruttinger's life had been insured for more than $20,000 just a month before the voyageâraising the possibility that the corpse was not Ruttinger at all. A Tottenville inquest ruled that it was indeed Ruttinger, suffocated by persons unknown, and in 1892 the Equitable Life Assurance Society paid his mother Therese roughly $22,000, conceding privately that settling was cheaper than proving the fraud they suspected. -
A lonely Massachusetts crossroads has been claiming the lives of lawmen for over two hundred yearsâeach one stabbed in the back in a spot so open no killer could possibly reach him, while the only sound in the dark is a woman's cold laughter.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)âŠ
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, âThe Talking Womenâ (February 06, 1978) ***WD
00:47:04.966 = 2000 Plus, âThe Giant Walksâ (November 08, 1950) ***WD
01:15:57.050 = The Unexpected, âNightmareâ (October 31, 1948)
01:29:30.334 = Unsolved Mysteries, âWriting On The Wallâ (October 05, 1949) ***WD
01:44:12.246 = Dark Venture, âHideoutâ (January 07, 1947) ***WD
02:09:03.788 = The Weird Circle, âDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeâ (1945)
02:36:35.446 = The Whistler, âDanger Is a Beautiful Blondeâ (March 05, 1945)
03:07:19.667 = Strange Wills, âMadmanâs Diaryâ (August 17, 1946)
03:37:02.993 = Witchâs Tale, âHaunted Crossroadsâ (October 17, 1932) ***WD
04:01:39.046 = X Minus One, âHostessâ (December 12, 1956)
04:29:47.425 = ABC Mystery Time, âFour Fatal Jugglersâ (1957) ***WD
04:53:37.561 = Strange Adventure, âDiamonds In The Desertâ
04:56:54.720 = Show Close
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(LQ) = Low Quality
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This installment of #RetroRadio â old-time radio in the dark â gathers twelve vintage broadcasts spanning crime, science fiction, the supernatural, and the just plain strange, drawn from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, 2000 Plus, The Unexpected, Unsolved Mysteries, Dark Venture, The Weird Circle, The Whistler, Strange Wills, The Witch's Tale, X Minus One, Masters of Mystery, and Strange Adventure.CBS Radio Mystery Theater opens the night with "The Talking Women," written by Sam Dan and starring Ed Ames, as host E.G. Marshall introduces wealthy executive Robert Bayswell, a man whose endless "business trips" to New York have quietly covered a five-year affair with his mistress, Lolly "Dolores" Harbison. When Bayswell decides to end the relationship and return to his wife Martha, a struggle over a loaded .38 revolver sets a chain of events in motion â one that draws in nightclub photographer Julie Palmer and homicide detective Sergeant DeLuca, both circling a death no one can quite explain.2000 Plus delivers the science-gone-wrong terror of "The Giant Walks," in which the obsessed Dr. Ellsworth, having used a pituitary revitalizer to breed giant rats four feet long, sets his sights on the next logical subject â a human being. His powerfully built test subject Barstow is grown to thirty feet of muscle and bone, while uneasy assistant Weston watches the experiment spiral past anything Ellsworth can hope to control.The Unexpected stars radio's Lurene Tuttle in "Nightmare," the tale of understudy actress Jenny, who answers her door to a hideous, dwarf-like old peddler selling two dolls â one that cries and one that laughs. Against the peddler's strange warning, she chooses the laughing doll, and its contagious, mocking laughter begins to follow her everywhere she goes, into the theater, the subway, and her sleepless nights.Unsolved Mysteries presents a true-style ghost story told by foreign correspondent Jackson, who recalls a visit to a centuries-old medieval castle in Northumberland, England, complete with drawbridge, moat, and turrets â and its resident phantom, the Lady Evelyn, said to warn the family of any impending disaster. Sleeping in the haunted wing, Jackson is roused by a figure who writes a message in letters of fire across the stone wall, a warning tied to the RMS Titanic.Dark Venture stars William Conrad in "Hideout," the confession of small-time gambler Sam, who sits in on one of Phil Collins's famous high-stakes poker games, wins and loses a fortune, and ends the night shooting political big shot Mike Barnes. Fleeing to Chicago and a rooming house run by Dave Jordan, Sam stumbles into a carnival fortune teller, Madame Zara, who reads the cards and tells him he will die within three days at the hands of a man with white hair â just as hired killer Whitey Burke begins closing in.The Weird Circle summons its bellkeeper for the immortal Robert Louis Stevenson tale "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," in which Dr. Henry Jekyll brews a potion meant to separate the good and evil halves of a single man. The draught gives life to the stooped, deformed, and wholly malevolent Edward Hyde, who terrorizes the streets of London while lawyer Mr. Utterson, Dr. Lanyon, and the faithful butler Poole try to understand what their friend has unleashed.The Whistler brings the Signal-sponsored noir "Danger Is a Beautiful Blonde," as bored construction engineer Van Stevens, killing time in a small coast city on a Saturday night, is picked up on the street by a beautiful young blonde in a slick convertible. She drives him to a seaside mansion full of priceless art, and the flirtation turns to ice the moment she asks him to look under her bed â where a dead man lies hidden.Strange Wills stars distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William as attorney John Francis O'Connell in "Madman's Diary," a probate-court reading of the last testament of the late Professor Lucifer Nicolai. The diary records the professor's decade-long obsession: an electromagnetic experiment to separate the human mind from the body and hurl it backward along light waves into the past. His subject, a young orphan named Alice, is sent first to the age of King Arthur and Guinevere, then far deeper â a quarter-million years before Christ.The Witch's Tale, narrated by 122-year-old Nancy, the Witch of Salem, and her wise black cat Satan, tells "The Haunted Crossroads," where state troopers keep dying at a barren Massachusetts intersection â each one stabbed in the back in a spot so open no killer could possibly reach him and flee unseen. After young Trooper Tom Fallon falls beside his uncle Sergeant Pat McGee and friend Gene Hardy, the only clue is a woman's cold laughter in the dark and a curse reaching back to 1721 and a hanged woman named Goody Fairfax.X Minus One, hosted by Isaac Asimov, presents "Hostess," the story of biologist Rose Smollett, who brings home a guest from another world â the Hawkinsite physician Dr. Harg Tolan, a six-limbed being who breathes cyanide from a cylinder at his mouth. Tolan has come to Earth to study the dreaded "inhibition death," the wasting illness that kills his people, and his quiet questions about the missing persons bureau begin to unsettle Rose's policeman husband, Drake.Masters of Mystery offers the island thriller "Four Fatal Jugglers," in which business partners Gordon Penrose and Dave Copeland â tangled together by Gordon's wife Lydia and her demands for a divorce â head off for a weekend of duck hunting on a tiny, isolated island in the middle of a lake. Lydia's protective brother Bob is drawn in too, and with old grudges, suspicions of murder-by-hunting-accident, and a hunting knife in play, the trip becomes a deadly game of who can be trusted.Strange Adventure closes the night with a desert tale of two weather-beaten prospectors, gangling Slim Sandstone and his stocky partner Geordie Gaines, who walk into the bank of George Alden and deposit a canvas sack half-filled with uncut diamonds. Their secret field out on the desert is rich beyond belief, and the greedy banker schemes to maneuver the pair out of their claim â never suspecting what a salted diamond strike can teach a smart financial tycoon. - Laat meer zien
