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Our story continues as Aleister Crowley began performing the seven magical rituals of The Rites of Eleusis. He soon joins the Ordo Templi Orientis, meets the mother of 1930’s filmmaker, Preston Sturges, travels to America to help—or not help—the Germans during World War 1, and eventually forms The Abbey of Thelema. All this and more the last episode on Aleister Crowley!

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Our story continues as Aleister begins a normal life and a father and husband, only to take on an dangerous mountain climbing expedition that ends in tragedy, possibly kills two people in Calcutta, forms a new group called AA and does some questionable things with the poet Victor Neuburg and is sued by his od friend, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.

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He was born Edward Alexander Crowley on the night of October 12 1875 during the height of the Victorian era in the town of Leamington in England. Aleister Crowley wrote in his diary: “I had arrived at the conclusion that the Plymouth Brethren were an exceptionally detestable crew. I wanted sin. A supreme spiritual sin. But hadn’t the slightest idea how to go about it. […] The Stockholm experience had allowed me to discover what I wanted to spend my time on. I would be an Adept in the Secret Arts, a Magus and through my own true will I could guarantee immortality and control the secret forces of nature.”

There were three things Crowley to master at this point in his life; poetry, mountain climbing, and the search for spiritual truth.

The Book of the Law. It would become Crowley’s most infamous works. It was a new order, or religion, that Crowley would be the master of – or the new prophet. It contained the line, “Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

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Within a year of D&D’s first release, the game became the biggest thing in the war gaming community. Not long after, the popularity of the game began to creep into the college world. College kids all over the world began forming clubs and entering the fantasy world of Dungeon and Dragons.

What really propelled the game from an activity played by small groups of people to a name that would become familiar to everyone, whether they played it or not, was the unfortunate circumstances of a 16-year-old college student named James Dallas Egbert III. It was what happened to Egbert that began the belief in many that this fantasy roll-playing game was actually a promotion of such practices as Satanism, witchcraft, suicide, pornography, and murder.

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This is the story of the life and death of Ted Healy, the man who started the Three Stooges. The thing about Ted’s death is that many, even today, think it was murder. He was born Ernest Lea Nash on October 1, 1896 in Kaufman, Texas. In 1908, his family moved to New York.

It was there he became friends with another boy in the neighborhood named Moses Horwitz. Moses, who was nicknamed Moe by his family, had five brothers. Two of Moe’s younger brothers were Samuel Horwitz, who was called Shemp, and Jerome Lester Horwitz, who was known as Babe, but would later to be known as Curly. In his autobiography, Moe described his relationship with Healy as inseparable.

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Last week we told the story of how Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin came across Bigfoot and took the famous film. This week, we look at those that claim that it was a hoax. Hear the stories of Bob Heironimus, Philip Morris and others. What is the truth? We probably will never know!

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On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were riding on horseback, round a bend near Bluff Creek, California. They said they came across a large, hairy beast known as Bigfoot. Roger was able to capture the creature on 16mm film. Bob Gimlin said his first thoughts were, “wow, they really do exist!”

Patterson thought he had proof of Bigfoot’s existence and really expected the scientists to accept it. But only a few scientists were willing to even look at the film! This is what they say happened in 1967.

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In 2014, a film was released called Annabelle, a prequel to the film the The Conjuring. In the film, the Annabelle doll is a creepy looking vintage porcelain doll that causes all kinds of mischief. In reality, the actual doll in the true story the doll is based on, is actually a normal looking Raggedy Ann Doll.

The film is a work of fiction, an imaginary tale but there is a doll called Annabelle and they say it was possessed, and by they, I mean Ed and Lorraine Warren. The story begins in 1970…

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Thomas H. Ince died at the age of 44 aboard William Randolph Hearst’s yacht – or shortly after he left the yacht, depending on whose version of the story you listen to. Many important celebrities were aboard the yacht that night, including the biggest names in motion pictures of the day. This may or not include legendary filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

Ince’s death has been the subject of much speculation and scandal over the years and, if you want the definitive truth on what happened, you’re listening to the wrong podcast.

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In 1945, five Military planes took off from Florida on a three-hour training mission and they never returned. A search plane with 13 men was sent out to look for survivors, and it was never seen again. Were these disappearances a horrible accident or were the 27 men another victim of the Bermuda Triangle. Today, I have the story of the unsolved mystery of Flight 19 as well as a little history of how the triangle can to be, on Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

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