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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma....

And on today’s Dark enigma we’re going to be exploring those claims of the devil made me do it. Ah, yes, push the blame off on the devil where it belongs, but is it really a devil that makes us do it, or are we just bad? As always, we will be playing our drinking game but only for those of you that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. As usual we have a theme… the Devil and all things devilish. I found a few drinks for those of you brave enough to face your demons, here’s a link. And for those of you not brave enough you can still play, you can stick to Tequila, because after all, it’s the devil’s drink of choice. Now for the business end… every time I say devil, demonic or demon that’ll be a single shot and every time I say Psychiatrist or Psychology it’ll be a double shot. Now that we have the business end out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma…

Each October, grocery stores beef up their candy displays, and thrill-seekers go searching for the scariest movie, creepiest haunted house, or spookiest ghost story. Devil Indeed, horror movies about the Devil and his minions, claiming to be inspired by actual events tend to fly off the shelves as All Hallows Eve approaches.

Although such real-life claims of demonic possession may be a touch more believable during this season of thrills and chills, during the rest of the year, most people have a hard time believing evil spirits can cause criminal behavior. This begs the question: once the body count is totaled, an arrest is made, and the evidence is collected, can a claim of the Devil made me do it ever act as a defense? Today we’re going to be looking at some historical claims of the devil made me do it and then after our break, we’re going to look at an actual court case that used that very defense. So let’s start in the most obvious of places, Salem Massachusetts, and the case of Dorothy Talbye and the devil in Salem.