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- A Taste of the St. Louis World’s Fair
The World’s Fair is supposed to be a festival for accomplishments and advances in humanity throughout the world, but that wasn’t the case in 1904. Take a tragic stroll through St. Louis and learn about the unethical events that happened at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904.
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Seeing by Moonlight ...47 min - Vegas Field Trip, Part 2: The Spooks Are On the House
Episode Summary:
My Dark Path podcast explores the fringes of history, science, and the paranormal. This episode is a continuation of the “Vegas Field Trip” where stories of eerie happenings are explored as a backdrop following different tragic and fatal events in the past.
In this conversation, Thurkettle, Townsend, and Hodur explored hotel hallways, walking the floors of casinos ranging from some of the oldest to the biggest and most glamorous. Shared in this episode are more clips recorded by the team in the very places they were discussing in the pedestrian hallways around Bally’s, on the main floor of the Luxor, or in a restaurant in Binion’s.
Episode Highlights
About today’s conversation; More experiences of Thurkettle, Townsend, and Hodur in the dark tales of Las Vegas.
- The ghosts of Benny Binion’s hotel. La Palazza Mansion; The Death House
- Ghosts from the sins of corporations; the MGM fire disaster.
- The Curse of the Luxor
- A few Celebrity ghosts.
- Zac Bagans’ Haunted Museum
- Notes:
Three storytellers, Thurkettle, Townsend, and Hodur, rendezvoused in Sin City for a special My Dark Path field trip, recording clips of discussions had in key places surrounded by stories of supernatural happenings. The first clip was recorded in The El Cortez where the supposedly haunted room, 3300, sits in the historic wing our team was exploring. One of the biggest major criminal entities who made a fortune in driving the evolution of Las Vegas was Benny Binion; his hotel tells all about its ghosts. Despite being a convicted murderer and an experienced gambling hall boss even before his initial arrival to Vegas, there is a statue of Benny in Vegas today. His story started in Texas where he was born in 1904, but couldn’t go to school due to chronic poor health. Hence, Benny got his education by accompanying his father, a horse trader, on trips throughout the wild, wild west where many fellow horse traders also gambled.
As a teenager, Benny got more involved in the gambling business till he moved to El Paso where he began bootlegging and even committed murders, but walked scot-free based on his influence. When his destructive nature attracted attention beyond his influence, he moved to Las Vegas where he set up the Binion’s Horseshoe Casino, leveraging higher st
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Seeing by Moonlight ...49 min - Las Vegas Field Trip, Part 1 – The Past Comes to the Surface
Learn about the chilling details of how Lake Mead and Nevada experienced a series of bodies in barrels.
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Seeing by Moonlight ...43 min - Queens of the Night in New Orleans
Learn about the darker side of New Orleans and about the voodoo legend of Madame Marie Laveau.
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Seeing by Moonlight ...48 min - One Missing Picture, Two Missing Women
Learn about the unsettling details of one of the most famous unsolved cases.
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Seeing by Moonlight ...52 min - Amityville, Part 3 - A Date With the Warrens
Learn about the intriguing history of Ed & Lorraine Warren and their connection to Amityville.
Distance - Louis Lion
Brenner - Falls
Bloodline - Stephen Keech
Quiet Strength - Moments
Aquaducts - Falls
Spooked - jshirtsRead MF Thomas' novels
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Seeing by Moonlight ...53 min - Amityville, Part 2 – Haunted By the Living
In this continuation of the Amityville Horror, learn more about the details the remained out of the public eye and the fabricated story of the Lutz's claims that the house was haunted.
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Seeing by Moonlight ...43 min - Amityville, Part 1 – Many Stories, One Crime
Learn how the story of one of the most infamous mass murders in American history has been distorted over time. Join us to explore the crime that started the legend of the Amityville Horror.
Song credits:
Stroke of Midnight - FallsBrenner - Falls
At the Stroke of Midnight - Moments
IsolationKevin - Graham
Taped - Acreage
Hallowed Halls - Moments
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Seeing by Moonlight ...44 min - Alien Greys – What the Hills Saw, What We Remembered
In this episode we illuminate this dark path to learn more about the mysteries behind alien greys and what really happened to the Hills all those years ago.
Listen to learn more about:- How the Hills were allegedly hypnotized and tested by otherworldly beings.
- How people use the trauma of others to gain fame and profit.
- How fact and fiction merge when our minds want to make sense of the universe.
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Seeing by Moonlight ...40 min - The Fire Maiden in Love
Travel this dark path to learn how love, crime, and fire became a story that continues to resonate in Japan today.
Listen to learn more about:- How the Japanese fear and respect flames.
- The crimes of Yaoya Oshichi, and how they changed the history of Japan forever.
- How the writer, Ihara Saikaku, single handedly rewrote history.
Songs in the episode:
When Tomorrow Comes-MomentsBrenner - Falls
Siwa OasisIn - This World
Water Lilies - Cast Of Characters
DynastySimple - Thieves
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Seeing by Moonlight ...47 min
About My Dark Path
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My Dark Path explores the fringes of history, science, and the paranormal. In every episode, creator and host MF Thomas illuminates a topic taken from the dark corners of our world. Combining his…
personal, on-location research with insights from experts, researchers and historians, every episode will intrigue, excite, and perhaps, send a shiver down your spine. Visit www.mydarkpath.com for more information.
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