Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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  • THE DREAM WOMAN: A Knife, a Nightmare, and the Fear of Sleep | #RetroRadio
    There is a man not yet sixty with the face of someone eighty, who sleeps only by daylight and spends every night awake with a buckhorn knife within his reach, ever since a woman came to him in a dream.

    Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR

    CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
    00:00:00.000 = Show Open
    00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Long Way From Home” (June 09, 1978) ***WD
    00:45:43.568 = Theater Five, “A Little Knowledge” (November 25, 1964)
    01:09:03.546 = Big Town, “Fatal Joke” (March 01, 1949) ***WD
    01:38:29.576 = Harry Lime, “Operation Music Box” (October 05, 1951)
    02:03:50.732 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “The Dream Woman” (July 19, 1980) ***WD
    02:31:08.192 = The Haunting Hour, “Uptown Express” (June 17, 1945)
    02:55:58.095 = Hermit’s Cave, “Notebook On Murder” (September 15, 1940)
    03:20:26.062 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “King Murdered” (1945-1950) ***WD
    03:44:39.315 = Sherlock Holmes, “Queue For Murder” (March 04, 1947) ***WD
    04:14:18.238 = Mystery House, “Murder Hires a Hall” (June 07, 1946) ***WD
    04:38:24.888 = Inner Sanctum, “Death In Depths” (February 06, 1945)
    05:08:02.259 = Show Close

    (ADU) = Air Date Unknown
    (LQ) = Low Quality
    ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
    CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0742

    More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.
    5 hr 9 min
  • The Real Mummy's Curse in the Online Human Remains Trade | #WeirdDarkNEWS
    A team of researchers went looking at what gets bought and sold under the heading of "mummified remains", and what they found sitting on ordinary shopping and social media sites turned into a peer-reviewed warning about what those centuries-old body parts can still do to the living.

    SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/mummytradecurse

    Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736

    *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*

    WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.

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    10 min
  • Melissa Casias: A Gunshot, a Gun Nearby, and a Death Left Undetermined | #WeirdDarkNEWS
    A woman who worked at one of the most secure laboratories in the country walked away down a rural New Mexico highway on a summer afternoon, and the questions that opened that day have only multiplied since.

    SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/casias

    Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736
    *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
    WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.

    LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS has new episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit WeirdDarkness.com • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

    More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.
    23 min
  • DEATH SPELL: A Beautiful Wife and a Fatal Spell | #RetroRadio
    “Death Spell” – A wealthy man swears his beautiful wife is quietly working a spell to kill him, every doctor insists he's in perfect health, and the struggling artist who moves onto his estate is about to learn what a person's own belief can do to them.

    Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR

    CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
    00:00:00.000 = Show Open
    00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Death Spell” (June 08, 1978) ***WD
    00:44:39.155 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of Darkened Face” (September 22, 1946) ***WD
    01:09:46.058 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Chest” (January 28, 1972)
    01:38:01.666 = Diary of Fate, “John Haynes” (July 13, 1948) ***WD
    02:04:38.792 = Dimension X, “And The Moon Be Still As Bright” (September 29, 1950) ***WD
    02:34:03.364 = The Eleventh Hour, “Death And Understanding” (ADU)
    02:58:52.083 = Escape, “Night In Havana” (October 22, 1949)
    03:27:44.423 = Everyman Theater, ‘This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940) ***WD
    03:55:00.211 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Gift” (February 08, 1958)
    04:13:23.936 = Dark Fantasy, “Sleeping Death” (June 12, 1942) ***WD
    04:29:07.558 = BBC Fear on 4, “Dead Man’s Boots” (February 01, 1991)
    04:58:16.638 = Show Close

    (ADU) = Air Date Unknown
    (LQ) = Low Quality
    ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
    CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0741

    More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.
    5 hr
  • THE HEIDI WYRICK HAUNTING: She Was 3 Years Old – Her Imaginary Friend Had Been Dead for 15 Years!
    A three-year-old girl's imaginary friend turned out to be a real man – one who had been dead for fifteen years before she was born.

    BOOK: “They Told Me My Newborn Died – They Lied: A Global History of Stolen Babies” by Darren Marlar: https://amzn.to/45fNXpt

    EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/heidiwyrick

    READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5a4fwj7t

    FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Deep in the Balsam Mountains of North Carolina, a shaggy eight-foot creature has been stealing gems and watching women bathe since the early 1900s — and the word used to name him came from a Lewis Carroll poem written the moment after a sleepless night at a dying man's bedside. (The Boojum) *** In 1980, a group of artists in Baltimore took out an ad in a major international magazine — not to sell anything, and not to promote a show. They were sending an invitation. The guests they were hoping to attract just hadn't been born yet. (Krononauts Party) *** A three-year-old girl in rural Georgia started playing with an imaginary friend — and then her family found out he was real, and had been dead for fifteen years. The question that nobody has been able to answer isn't whether she knew him. It's how. (The Heidi Wyrick Haunting)

    CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
    00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
    00:01:23.333 = Show Open
    00:03:14.569 = The Heidi Wyrick Haunting, Part 1
    00:13:30.069 = The Heidi Wyrick Haunting, Part 2 ***
    00:32:01.091 = The Boojum ***
    00:53:27.330 = Krononauts Party ***
    01:01:57.222 = SONG: “Krononauts Party” by Dark Weirdness (https://weirddarkness.com/music)
    01:06:24.212 = Show Close
    *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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    Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps
    *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*
    SOURCES and RESOURCES:The Heidi Wyrick Haunting: https://weirddarkness.com/heidi-wyrick/
    The Boojum: https://weirddarkness.com/boojum/
    Krononauts Party: https://weirddarkness.com/krononauts-party/
    (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
    WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
    Originally aired: August 11, 2026
    Weird Darkness moves through three cases this episode: a decade-long haunting in rural Georgia that a university parapsychologist wired with scientific instruments, an eight-foot gem-hoarding creature that Appalachian locals have hunted for over a century, and a 1980 Baltimore art stunt that advertised a party for time travelers.It opens with the Wyrick haunting, which began in March of 1989 when three-year-old Heidi Wyrick walked in from the backyard of her family's new home on Swint Loop in Ellerslie, Georgia, and asked to keep swinging with an old man her mother couldn't see. The friend Heidi called Mr. Gordy matched James Gordy, a former caretaker of the property who had died in 1974, down to his silver hair, dark suit, and top hat; a second, wounded visitor she named Con matched Lon Batchelor, a man who lost his hand in a cotton gin accident and died in 1957. Before she could read, Heidi ran straight to Gordy's headstone in a cemetery of hundreds and later picked his face from a blind photo lineup. By 1993 the activity had turned violent, with a faceless dark figure, claw marks appearing on Heidi and her father Andy across consecutive nights, and a ribbon found wound around the throat of infant daughter Jordan, and the family brought in Dr. William Roll, a parapsychologist known from Unsolved Mysteries, who recorded an electromagnetic spike past 40 milligauss, elevated positive ions, and nearby seismic activity, then admitted he could not explain the scratches. Medium Amy Allan, later of The Dead Files, and a second psychic working separately placed the same entities in the same rooms, and the Wyricks finally left the house after Andy and Lisa found Heidi suspended upside down above her bed. The case appears in the Discovery Channel's 2002 film A Haunting in Georgia and the 2013 movie The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, and in The Veil: The Heidi Wyrick Story, the firsthand account written by Heidi's aunt Joyce.From there the episode climbs into the Balsam Mountains of western North Carolina for the legend of the Boojum, a creature said to stand six to eight feet tall, covered in shaggy gray hair, with a disturbingly human face. According to Haywood County lore, the Boojum hoards the region's real gemstones – North Carolina is the only state that holds all four major precious gems, and the 1,869-carat uncut emerald pulled from the North American Emerald Mine in Hiddenite in 2003 is a matter of record – stashing them in moonshine jugs buried in hidden caves. The first written accounts cluster around the Eagle Nest Hotel, a forty-room hay-fever resort that opened on Eagle Nest Mountain in 1900 and burned in 1918, where guests were warned that the Boojum hid in the mountain laurel to watch women bathing in the forest pools. At the center of the legend is a woman named Annie, who chose to live with him as his wife and whose calls across the ridges are said, in local folk etymology, to have given the word "hootenanny" its name. The segment traces the creature's name back to Lewis Carroll's 1876 nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, sets the story against the Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears and the eviction of Appalachian families to create Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and lands in present-day Waynesville, where Boojum Brewing carries the legend's name.The episode closes with the Krononauts, a group from Baltimore's avant-garde art scene who, in January of 1980, ran an advertisement on page 90 of Artforum magazine inviting time travelers to a party in Baltimore on March 9th, 1982, a date chosen because all nine planets would line up more closely than they had in nearly two hundred years, an alignment popularized by the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect. Hundreds of people came, the New York Times covered it and described the scene as an epidemic of temporary lunacy, and no one produced any evidence of time travel, since the organizers' real aim was the permanent paper trail, built on the logic that a documented invitation could be found and answered from any point in the future. The segment follows the same experiment forward through MIT graduate student Amal Dorai's 2005 Time Traveler Convention and physicist Stephen Hawking's 2009 reception at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, where Hawking mailed the invitations only after the party had ended and took the empty room as evidence for his chronology protection conjecture, and it ends with an original song, "Krononauts Party," by Dark Weirdness.

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    More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Something in the Grain of the Old Pine Table | #RetroRadio
    “The Kitchen Table” – A young couple pays a suspiciously low price for a neglected old farmhouse and lovingly begins restoring the home’s long-buried kitchen — never guessing that the house has been waiting a very long time for someone willing to listen to what it needs to say.

    Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR

    CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
    00:00:00.000 = Show Open
    00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Undying Heart” (June 05, 1978)
    00:45:25.646 = The Black Book, “On Schedule” (February 17, 1952) ***WD
    00:59:54.814 = Front Page Drama, “Ghost of the Catacombs” (September 28, 1933) ***WD
    01:14:48.366 = Box 13, “The Philanthropist” (January 30, 1949)
    01:41:26.286 = Calling All Cars, “The Smashed Windshield” (February 07, 1934) ***WD
    02:10:53.679 = Casey, Crime Photographer, “Duke of Skid Row” (September 19, 1946)
    02:40:09.682 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Kitchen Table” (May 26, 1967) ***WD
    03:06:10.931 = Chet Chetter’s, “Peace To The Frifalites” (1989)
    03:33:38.814 = The Clock, “The Double Cross” (June 24, 1956)
    03:57:42.053 = The Crime Club, “Epitaph For Lydia” (May 01, 1947) ***WD
    04:26:56.841 = Crime Classics, “Final Day of General Ketchum, How He Died” (July 27, 1953)
    04:55:59.262 = Calling All Detectives, “Jerry Stumbles Into a Pickpocket Convention” (July 09, 1948) ***Wda
    05:01:40.662 = Show Close

    (ADU) = Air Date Unknown
    (LQ) = Low Quality
    ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
    CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0740

    More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.
    5 hr 3 min
  • SIXTEEN HOURS: The Time Traveler With a Warning From The Future | #MidnightInTheMacabre
    On a quiet ER night shift, a badly burned stranger in a strange metallic suit is wheeled in, gasps a warning about a catastrophe that's coming, and then vanishes from the gurney — leaving behind a device counting down to a disaster only one nurse knows is on its way.

    EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-sixteenhours

    SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Time Traveler” by Keith Conrad for Auditory Anthology (https://www.auditoryanthology.com)

    WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.

    Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 11, 2026

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    12 min
  • GODS, GRIFTERS, AND ARMAGEDDON: Lies and Lures of Cult Leaders
    What happens when self-declared prophets, alien messengers, and doomsday fanatics build secret empires in plain sight — and convince others to follow them to the end of the world?

    EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cults

    READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utz5hrfd

    SOURCES and RESOURCES:
    New York Post - “Inside Manhattan’s secret ‘cult’”. *** News.com.au - “Congregation for the Light: Inside New York’s ‘cult next door’” *** Sinisterhood Podcast - Episode 16: “Congregation for the Light” *** The Commentator - “The Cult Around the Corner” *** Brooklyn Magazine - “Murray Hill Has A Secret Homophobic Aryan Doomsday Cult” *** https://yucommentator.org/2018/10/cult-stern-35th-the-light *** https://nypost.com/2014/11/02/the-secret-society-cult-that-operates-out-of-murray-hill/ ***https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381978851_Raelism_An_Unconventional_Religious_Pathway_to_Transhumanism*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism *** https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/raelism *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid *** https://www.bota.org/ ***https://www.botaineurope.org/ *** https://articles.skeptics.nz/2023/04/24/builders-of-the-adytum-the-tarot-cards-and-qabalah-in-naenae *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builders_of_the_Adytum *** https://ilovehistory.utah.gov/1847-1904-lds-practice-of-polygamy/ *** https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/fldsprofile.pdf ***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints *** https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai ***https://www.godsdirectcontact.org/spiritualpractice/Master_Ching_Hai.htm *** https://suprememastertv.com/en1/v/211271952624.html *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai *** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai *** https://nypost.com/2018/01/11/the-cult-leader-behind-the-worlds-fast-growing-vegan-chain/ ***https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubccommunityandpartnerspublicati/52387/items/1.0385823 *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science *** https://eng.the-liberty.com/2016/6323/ *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_Realization_Party *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuho_Okawa *** https://www.cdamm.org/articles/cut-tsl *** https://summitlighthouse.org/aboutus/church-universal-and-triumphant/ *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant ***https://articles1.icsahome.com/articles/denouement-of-the-prophets--cult-the-church-universal-and-triumphant-in-decline *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_communities *** https://people.com/adam-arthur-rosenthal-twelve-tribes-religious-sect-accused-murder-8753907 *** https://nypost.com/2018/06/05/religious-cult-probed-for-child-labor-after-factory-expose/ *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles_of_Infinite_Love *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Gaston_Tremblay *** https://ktxs.com/news/big-country/ktxs-special-report-mystery-still-surrounds-house-of-yahweh-*** https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/houseofyahwehprofile.pdf ***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfulfilled_Watch_Tower_Society_predictions *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Yahweh *** https://www.apologeticsindex.org/316-house-of-yahweh *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwaubian_Nation *** https://people.com/crime/story-behind-united-nuwaubian-nation-moors-georgia-cult *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_York *** https://www.adl.org/resources/news/leader-anti-government-sect-sentenced-135-years *** https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/nuwaubian-nation-moors/ *** https://billygraham.org/answers/how-is-christianity-different-from-other-religions
    (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)

    WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
    Originally aired: March 28, 2025
    Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar pulls back the curtain on modern cults hiding in plain sight, from city apartments to desert compounds to Montana doomsday bunkers. This episode profiles more than a dozen secretive groups, including Manhattan's Congregation for the Light, the alien-worshipping Raëlian Movement and its Clonaid cloning claims, the polygamist FLDS led by imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs, Supreme Master Ching Hai, Japan's Happy Science, Eckankar, Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant, the Twelve Tribes, the House of Yahweh, and the pyramid-building Nuwaubian Nation of Malachi Z. York. Along the way, Darren digs into why people get drawn in, the warning signs of a dangerous group, and what sets biblical Christianity apart from them all.

    More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.
    55 min
  • 86 HOURS AWAKE: My Coffee Addiction | #MidnightInTheMacabre
    A lifelong night owl pushes their sleepless habit a few nights too far, and what starts happening once he finally closes his eyes is the reason he’s now sworn off sleep for the rest of his life.

    EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-coffeeaddiction

    SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Have a Coffee Addiction” by Ashley Ingraham

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    Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: August 10, 2026

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    11 min
  • Madame LaLaurie: The Devil of the French Quarter | #WDRadio
    Madame Delphine LaLaurie was one of the most admired socialites in New Orleans, and the Royal Street mansion she left behind is still called the most haunted address in the French Quarter.
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    HOUR ONE: 
Winnie had two trunks when she arrived at the train station – trunks that contained the severed body parts of her two best friends. She had murdered them, it seems, all in the name of love. (Winnie Ruth Judd: Trunk Murderess) *** Was British government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly murdered? (Many Dark Actors: Dr. David Kelly) *** Madame Delphine LaLaurie, made popular by Kathy Bates in American Horror Story: Coven, was a first class monster. A figure of high society, she was well known for her mistreatment of slaves. But no one knew just how sick she truly was. (The Monster of Royal Street)
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    HOUR TWO: Reddit users share some of the strangest, creepiest, most terrifying phone calls they’ve ever received – many that left the recipient with no explanation as to what just happened. (Creepy Phone Calls) *** Elizabeth Bathory was beautiful – and wanted to stay that way. So determined was her desire for a youthful appearance that she would bathe in the blood of young girls, thinking of it as a macabre fountain of youth. But how much truth is there to this story? And are there ghosts today, haunting their residences thanks to the Blood Countess? 
(Ghosts of the Blood Countess)
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    SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: A former schoolhouse has accrued a sinister reputation as one of the most haunted, weirdest places in Japan. (Haunted Schoolhouse In Japan) *** The gold rush brought many to North Carolina – men looking to get rich, and rich men looking to get richer. But the greed also brought cruelty to some mine owners… and that cruelty sometimes brought death… and hauntings. (The Skinflint Mine Entity) *** Was a certain female reporter murdered because she knew too much about the death of John F. Kennedy? (The Dorothy Killgallen Murder) *** Something bizarre and terrifying is living below the streets of London – and there are many theories as to what it might be. (Strange Things Below London)
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    SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
    “The Monster of Royal Street: Delphine LaLaurie”: https://tinyurl.com/ssf9lm3
    “Many Dark Actors: Dr. David Kelly”: https://tinyurl.com/uf4jv5m
    “Winnie Ruth Judd: Trunk Murderess” by Troy Taylor: http://ow.ly/kpFb30nhABS
    “Creepy Phone Calls” by Aaron Edwards for Graveyard Shift: https://tinyurl.com/spnqq2s
    “Ghosts of the Blood Countess” by Amy’s Crypt for Paranormal Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/r4lh7rn
    “Strange Things Below London” by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/ulutgp7
    “The Murder of Dorothy Kilgallen” by Jessika M. Thomas for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/tjzpaz7
    “The Skinflint Mine Entity” from North Carolina Ghosts: https://tinyurl.com/w6ofq7g
    “Haunted Schoolhouse In Japan” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/w4n98c6
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    (Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for material I use whenever possible. If I have overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it immediately. Some links may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
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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." — John 12:46
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    2 hr 2 min

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