Cursed Christmas Ghost
True Weird Stuff
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4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today's True Weird Stuff - Cursed Christmas Ghost
In the late 1800s, May Yohé had it all: a successful musical theatre career. A handsome, royal husband. A lavish, extravagant lifestyle. And then...it was all gone. If you're the superstitious type, you'd believe she was yet another victim of the most famous jewel in the world. Passed down to her husband, Lord Francis, those who've inherited it have suffered great misfortune. That's the power of the curse of the Hope Diamond.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus |
| 0:06.2 | content and conversation. Curses and restless spirits and haunted places. Not the first thing |
| 0:15.8 | that comes to mind during the Yield Tide season, But ghosts pay no attention to the calendar. |
| 0:21.7 | Ghosts no longer measure the hours and days the way we, the living, do. |
| 0:27.5 | A ghost has nothing to look forward to, no future to dream of. |
| 0:32.6 | A ghost has only the eternal now, pinned to this world by an anchor made of resentment, |
| 0:39.6 | resistance, rage, |
| 0:42.0 | or regret. |
| 0:43.6 | And curses? |
| 0:45.0 | That's not real. |
| 0:46.9 | Is it? |
| 0:49.7 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. |
| 1:06.4 | Real, run, weird stuff. |
| 1:12.8 | We don't think of the Christmas season as a spooky time, |
| 1:16.9 | even though one of our most beloved Christmas tales is really a ghost story. |
| 1:23.3 | It's a ghost who visits the greedy, cruel businessman Ebenezer Scrooge one Christmas Eve. Scrooge's |
| 1:30.2 | former partner, Jacob Marley, long dead and now spectral, draped in heavy chains, pleading |
| 1:37.5 | with Scrooge to change his selfish ways lest he too find himself condemned and lost for all eternity. |
| 1:45.7 | Scrooge doesn't want to hear it. |
| 1:47.8 | The prophets over people crowd are almost always deaf to any plea made to their humanity. |
| 1:53.8 | With the ghostly Marley banished, Scrooge settles into an uneasy sleep, |
| 1:59.8 | only to be visited by three spirits, been on showing Scrooge settles into an uneasy sleep, only to be visited by three spirits. |
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