Sugar built empires, buried souls, and still runs the world from behind the grocery shelf. In this chilling, addictive episode of The Man-Eating Toaster, Pastor Nelly unwraps the story of humanity’s sweetest obsession, from sacred ritual to industrial slavery, from pirates and plantations to soda cans and snack aisles. It’s the tale of how pleasure became policy, how the pursuit of sweetness carved history in blood, and how our craving outlived every empire that tried to control it. This isn’t a story about dessert. It’s a story about domination, deception, and the price of a single taste.

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In the late 1500s, the quiet German town of Bedburg descended into terror when a farmer named Peter Stumpp was accused of unspeakable crimes and branded “The Werewolf of Bedburg.” Under torture, he confessed to making a pact with the Devil, claiming a black belt transformed him into a beast that hunted under the moon. But beneath the horror lies a deeper truth about fear, faith, and the beast within. Episode 41 of The Dancing Toaster explores how hysteria, sin, and superstition blurred the line between man and monster, revealing that the most terrifying transformations aren’t the ones written in folklore, they’re the ones that happen when humanity forgets the image of God.

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A fog-draped encounter outside Southend Hospital in 1983 opens a decades-spanning investigation into the life of Bill Ramsey, a man whose violent episodes, eerie wolf imagery, and headline-making 1987 attack on a police officer turned him into the so-called Southend Werewolf. Episode 40 of the Dancing Toaster traces Ramsey’s childhood trigger, the hospital incidents, and the notorious exorcism arranged by Ed and Lorraine Warren, then sifts witness accounts and media coverage to separate verifiable fact from legend. Along the way, we weigh clinical lycanthropy and neurological explanations against a spiritual warfare lens, asking why the violence stopped after a single ritual and what that means. Come for the chills, stay for the careful sourcing, and decide for yourself whether this was psychology under pressure or a brush with something old and hungry.

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In episode 39 of The Dancing Toaster, I take listeners through the shadowed streets and stories of Amsterdam, uncovering five locations where history and legend intertwine. From Bloedstraat, with its blood-soaked associations of executions and oppression, to Spooksteeg’s tale of jealousy and haunting, the infamous Spinhuis prison, the leaning Montelbaanstoren, and the sorrowful Schreierstoren—each site reveals how a city can carry centuries of grief, myth, and memory. Blending historical detail with biblical reflection, the journey explores whether places themselves can feel haunted, not necessarily by spirits, but by the weight of human sorrow and the echoes of a fallen world.

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In episode 38 of The Dancing Toaster, I take you on a guided tour through New Zealand’s most talked-about haunted hotels, weighing folklore, history, and faith. We visit St Bathans’ Vulcan Hotel and its infamous Room 1, where the legend of “Rose” lingers on. In Napier, the Art Deco Masonic Hotel becomes a case study for residual hauntings amid the city’s 1931 quake scars. Dunedin’s Leviathan Hotel raises hard questions about attribution as the story of Mrs. Antiss Silk collides with historical records. Christchurch’s Riccarton Racecourse Hotel anchors its eerie reputation to a real 1933 unsolved murder. The journey culminates at the Waitomo Caves Hotel, perched on tapu limestone and soaked in layered tales about Room 12, Room 14, and Cat Alley. Throughout, I challenge listeners to test claims, consider how expectation shapes experience, and reflect on a biblical worldview of the supernatural.

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A nation once woke to Pearl Harbor. In Episode 37 we ask what happens when a new shot shatters the silence. This urgent episode takes a raw look at Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but dives deeper into the people and the ideas that led us to this point. If you are tired of fear and hungry for clarity, come for a straight call to repentance, prayer, and revival, and leave with concrete steps for your family, church, and city. This is not business as usual. It is a line in the sand and an invitation to stand. Next week we continue our journey into the unexplained, but this week, we mourn, reflect, and prepare for what’s next.

Episode 36 of The Dancing Toaster take us to Campbelltown, Australia. In 1826, farmer Fred Fisher vanished. Weeks later a terrified witness claimed Fisher’s ghost sat on a bridge and pointed toward a creek. A police search uncovered Fisher’s buried remains, and neighbor George Worrall was convicted. This episode unpacks the facts behind the legend, and how folklore welded itself to a murder case, and why the annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost keeps the story alive. Along the way, we compare similar “ghosts for justice” tales like the Greenbrier Ghost of West Virginia. We'll weigh evidence against rumor, and explore a biblical lens for how hidden truths can come to light.

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In episode 35 of the Dancing Toaster we dive into the case of: The Enfield Poltergeist.

It remains one of the most infamous paranormal cases in modern history. In the late 1970s, the Hodgson family of North London found themselves at the center of a storm of strange disturbances—knocks that followed from room to room, furniture sliding on its own, toys flying like shrapnel, and the chilling voice of “Bill Wilkins” speaking through eleven-year-old Janet. Investigators, neighbors, journalists, and even police officers witnessed events they could not explain, while skeptics pointed to trickery and stress within the family. Was it a haunting, a hoax, or something darker masquerading as the dead? The case became so iconic that decades later it was dramatized in The Conjuring 2, cementing its place in pop culture and introducing the haunting of Green Street to a new generation. But behind the Hollywood spectacle lies a much more complicated, and perhaps more sinister, reality. In this episode of The Dancing Toaster, we dive deep into the chaos of Enfield, peeling back the layers of deception, grief, and spiritual danger that made it a story still debated to this day.

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In Part 2 of Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery, we return to Nova Scotia to examine the disturbing aftermath of one of the most controversial hauntings in North American history. Esther’s life spiraled after a traumatic event, followed by violent poltergeist activity, mysterious voices, and messages from unseen forces. But was she truly possessed, or simply used by those around her for money and fame? This episode explores biblical parallels to Esther's case, including the spirit of divination in Acts 16, the dangers of Mesmerism, and the spiritual implications of trauma. What happened to Esther may have been more than psychological. It may have been a spiritual war with no one to fight for her.

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In part 1 of this chilling deep-dive, we head north to investigate Canada’s most infamous paranormal case: The Great Amherst Mystery. Centered around Esther Cox, a young woman haunted by trauma, and perhaps something even darker. This episode explores the supernatural storm that engulfed Nova Scotia in the late 1870s. Furniture flew, thunder cracked from within walls, and lit matches fell from nowhere.

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