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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Born Nur Maznah Binti Ismail in Kangar, Perlis, the musician Mona Fandey achieved national success with her song Ku Nyanyikan Lagu Ini in 1987 -- yet her career seemed destined to slowly fade away, with Mona and her husband living out their lives in comfortable obscurity. Until, that is, in 1993, when Mona Fandey became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder that led many people to believe she'd secretly been an evil bomoh, practicing the art of dark sorcery for decades before finally being brought to justice. So what's the truth? Was Fandey mentally ill? Was she framed? Or was there something more sinister and sorcerous afoot?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to tonight's classic episode fellow conspiracy realist. |
| 0:05.8 | This is a deep cut. |
| 0:09.1 | We called this, as you could see, if you saw the title, Pop Music, Black Magic, and Murder, the case of Mona Fandi. |
| 0:17.1 | I got to be honest, guys. |
| 0:18.9 | I don't remember a whole heck of a lot about this one. |
| 0:22.1 | Oh, dude, this is a wild one. |
| 0:24.4 | Yes, very much so. |
| 0:27.7 | I don't even want to spoil stuff with this. |
| 0:30.3 | It just unfolds in a way where you're like, wait, how it matches up with some of the rumors that you hear about super popular singers specifically, |
| 0:41.6 | but people in Hollywood, you're like, oh, yeah, they're definitely doing like rituals and stuff, |
| 0:45.9 | and they got power somehow through that stuff. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, how did they get famous? |
| 0:49.8 | It's a question a lot of people ask, especially in a society that worships celebrity, why not me? |
| 0:56.5 | What did this person do differently? |
| 0:58.9 | And often the public looks toward darker or more sinister explanations behind that success. |
| 1:06.7 | Well, and right off the bat, it seems to have a lot in common with some of the conspiracies and actual real occurrences surrounding some Swedish black metal bands that actually got into satanic rituals and murdering each other. |
| 1:19.5 | But this is in the realm of pop music, which I think is something that people don't often consider. |
| 1:24.9 | This is the story of Nur Mazna Binti Ismail, who was a, for a time, a quite successful |
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