022: Hell Broke Loose

Pleasing Terrors

Mike Brown

Arts, Performing Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In Austin, Texas in 1884 a female servant was killed in a gruesome ax murder. Feeble attempts were made to find the murderer, but to no avail. Soon a series of gruesome ax murders and attacks followed. Each one more horrific than the other, and the murders spread beyond the black servant population to the white community.

What originally was considered a black problem in the South twenty years after the Civil War became society's problem. This was a birth. The birth of legions of Demons cast out by Jesus. The birth referred to in the occult addicted mind of William Butler Yeats in his poem The Second Coming. The birth of something much more sinister.

Episode Highlights:

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Yeats obsession with the occult and marriage to medium Georgie Hyde-Lees
The murder of Molly Smith
Many believed a demon had come to Austin
The Gospel of Mark and Jesus casting out demons in the Gerasenes
The legend of the boogeyman can be found in all cultures
The attack of Susan Hancock and murder of Jimmy and Eula Phillips
Christmas Day, 1885 the day "Hell Broke Loose"

Resources:

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

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0:00.0	This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised. Some stories were never supposed to be told.
0:15.0	Stories that exist in the twilight,
0:22.0	between science and the supernatural,
0:26.2	between history and the horror.
0:29.2	Stories that speak of terrifying things.
0:33.5	Stories that you want to hear.
0:36.3	Stories that you need to hear.
0:39.3	Stories that will sink their teeth in
0:41.5	and never let you go.
0:45.1	My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors. Terror's.
0:55.0	Episode 22, Hell broke loose. Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the Falcon cannot hear the Falconer.
1:19.0	Things fall apart, the sinner cannot hold.
1:24.4	Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
1:27.7	The blood-dim tide is loosed.
1:30.8	And everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
1:35.0	The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
1:41.0	Surely some revelation is at hand.
1:45.0	Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
1:48.0	The Second Coming.
1:50.0	Hardly are those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight.
1:59.0	Somewhere in the sands of the desert, a shape with the lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and
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