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🗓️ 17 December 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Ben from Dark Histories here. I just want to throw out a quick |
0:04.4 | heads up at the start of the episode this week to make sure everyone knows the |
0:07.7 | upcoming schedule. This week's episode will be the final episode of |
0:11.8 | season one and the final episode of season one and the final episode of |
0:13.7 | 2017. I'm going to take a short break over Christmas and return the first |
0:18.0 | week of January and I'd also like to ask again for your guys help with putting together |
0:22.3 | the Christmas |
0:22.9 | campfire bonus episode so if you have any tales of cults the paranormal |
0:27.5 | the unexplained Forteana or just straight up bizarre that you'd like to tell |
0:32.3 | others send them into my email at contact or just straight up bizarre that you'd like to tell others, |
0:33.2 | send them into my email at Contact at Dark Histories |
0:36.0 | before the 24th December, and I'll narrate them |
0:38.4 | to make up a bonus episode |
0:39.8 | that I'll release between Christmas and New Year. I'll give a few more details at the end of |
0:44.4 | the episode about that but for now on with the episode. dating back to 1823 the American Christmas elf is an immediately |
0:59.6 | recognizable character in modern Anglo-American Christmas traditions. |
1:04.0 | They are a short enthusiastic little helper who makes toys, |
1:08.0 | takes care of the reindeer and check in on children's behaviour. |
1:12.0 | The Christmas elf carries very little threat and aligns with the benevolent |
1:16.3 | nature of Santa Claus himself. In a more distant past tangled among European folklore where the elf roots are firmly buried in the frozen winter ground. |
1:26.5 | Their origins are far from friendly little cherubs making wooden trains however. |
1:31.6 | This is dark histories where the facts are worse than |
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