#12NightmaresOfXmas “THE BROWN LADY” and 6 More True Paranormal Christmas Tales! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: “The USS Constellation”, “Lord Combermere Returns”, “The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall”, “The Ghost of Anne Boleyn”, “The Eilean Mor Lighthouse”, “The Mystery of the Mary Celeste”, “The Palatine Light”
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Welcome weirdos, I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, |
| 0:46.8 | mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. If you're new here, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or |
| 0:55.0 | Android so you don't miss future episodes. This is a special 12 |
| 0:59.8 | nightmares of Christmas episode. |
| 1:02.8 | Each day from December 13th through December 24th, I'm posting a new episode of Weird |
| 1:08.2 | Darkness, featuring material from the new book, The Spirits of Christmas, The Dark Side of the Holidays by Sylvia Schultz. |
| 1:16.3 | Be sure to come back every day from December 13th through the 24th for more holiday horrors. Now bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, put another log onto the fire, |
| 1:30.0 | pour yourself an eggnog, and come with with me into the weird darkness. After America won independence from England, the new young nation had miles upon miles of coastline to protect. |
| 1:57.2 | Ships were built to form America's first Navy. |
| 2:00.6 | One of these was the USS Constellation. |
| 2:04.4 | 175 feet long, with three main masts. |
| 2:08.9 | She was launched at Harris Creek, Maryland on September 7, 1797, as a 36-gun frigate. |
| 2:16.8 | Her first captain was Thomas Truxton, and he started the ship's bloody career with a bang, quite literally. |
| 2:25.3 | On February 5, 1799, the constellation got into a battle with the French frigate Leonsergent in the West Indies. The French ship was captured, but in the |
| 2:35.8 | heat and terror of battle a sailor named Neil Harvey deserted his post. Truxton found out and ordered a lieutenant starret to run Harvey through with his sword. |
| 2:47.8 | After the battle, Harvey wounded but still alive was tied to the end of a cannon and blown to pieces on Truxton's orders as a warning |
| 2:57.1 | to other sailors not to slack off on duty. |
| 3:01.1 | Not surprisingly, Harvey's ghost is one of the most frequently seen on the ship. |
| 3:07.0 | He's even been mistaken for a costumed tour guide. |
| 3:11.0 | The constellation saw many missions throughout her long service to the United States Navy. |
| 3:16.6 | She provided support for land troops fighting Seminole Indians and distinguished herself in the |
| 3:22.0 | War of 1812. She tussled with slave traders and |
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