“THE TERROR OF THE VAN METER VISITOR” and 6 More True Paranormal Horrors! #WeirdDarkness

Like the podcast on Facebook – https://facebook.com/weirddarkness, join the Weirdos Facebook Group – https://facebook.com/groups/marlarhouse, and sign up for the fee email newsletter - https://weirddarkness.com/newsletter! Please SHARE Weird Darkness with someone who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do! Recommending the show to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show!IN THIS EPISODE: (Dark Archives episode from November 16, 2018) *** Citizens of Van Meter, Iowa were confronted with a tall, human-like figure with bat-like wings, a single horn on its head, and it, apparently, was bullet-proof. What was this supernatural creature people were seeing? *** A bride-to-be becomes worried when her fiance disappears – so she contacts a psychic friend to see if she can help. *** Something sinister creeps into a Christian boarding house. *** Bram Stoker wrote his classic novel “Dracula” in 1897… but vampires are much, much older than that. *** A supposedly cursed doll has remained in the protection of one family for over four generations. But why would this family keep hold of such a demonic item? *** They are almost always silent, enigmatic figures usually seen at a distance up on ridges silhouetted against the darkening twilight sky, always at around dusk or dawn, quietly looking over and surveying their domain with unknowable purpose and often vanishing in the blink of an eye. What are the dark watchers of California? *** The Zozo demon has allegedly harassed hundreds via their Ouija boards. But is this demonic force from the spirit world or from our own minds?SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“Zozo and the Ouija Board” by Mark Oliver: https://tinyurl.com/rs897la “The Van Meter Visitor” by Troy Taylor: https://tinyurl.com/rtalbrh “Spirit Drawn to Teenage Emotions” by Lemurian Emerald: https://tinyurl.com/u778njg “Older Than Dracula” by Sam George: https://tinyurl.com/ybr5wfyw “Joliet: The Haunted Doll”: https://tinyurl.com/vjwfy48 “Back to Say Goodbye” by Judy Rad: https://tinyurl.com/u6b2rzg “The Dark Watchers of California” by Brent Swancer: https://tinyurl.com/u3z4a2b Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ), Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission. 

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