S19 Ep147: Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money w/Kevin Hile

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Darkness Radio presents Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money with Visible Ink Press Editor, Kevin Hile!

Legendary treasures. Mythical robberies. Lost riches. Buried plunder and fabulous wealth. Hidden dangers. Ancient curses and deathbed jinxes. Captivating tales of lost fortunes, hidden caches, the eternal allure of wealth, and the heartbreak of mysterious curses!

Read about the pursuit of riches turning to grief in this mesmerizing story collection! A thrilling exploration of the world's most intriguing and dangerous treasure hunts, Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money collects dozens of fascinating stories of reward, riches, greed, and ruin, including …

Curses, deaths, and centuries old treasure on Oak Island
Searchers hunted down and killed before finding a gangster’s stolen riches
The eternal quest for D. B. Cooper and his hijack ransom
Elaborate booby traps protecting ill-gotten gains
Cursed Aztec wealth lost as it journeyed to Spain
Mysterious caves holding secrets in the Grand Canyon
Montezuma’s revenge
The train-robbing Robin Hood myth of the Sam Bass Gang
Jean Lafitte and the Galveston Hoard
The lost Dutchman mine
Civil War coins hurriedly stashed after a brutal reign of terror
The missing Fabergé eggs
John Dillinger’s suitcase
King Kamehameha’s burial chamber
Captain Kidd's buried treasure
And more stories of doomed pursuits of plundered riches

Today on Darkness Radio, we sit down with Visible Ink Press Editor, Kevin Hile and talk about Jim Willis, the late Author of Lost Loot. Kevin also contributed to and arranged this book before it went to press. We discuss his personal relationship with Jim, and some of the topics included in the book!

Get your copy of "Lost Loot" here: https://bit.ly/4ghCPvE

Check out Jim Willis' other works here: https://visibleinkpress.com/search.php?query=Jim+Willis

Jerry Paulley of Hillbilly Horror Stories passed away Thanksgiving morning. Both Jerry and his wife, Tracy have been family to our Darkness Radio family for quite a few years now. Jerry collapsed with no heartbeat recently and had come out of a medically induced coma, but warned Tracy that the end was tragically near. Now, Tracy has hospital bills and interment costs to cover and she needs our help! If you have it in your heart to contribute, please click on this link to this GoFundMe page and contribute: https://bit.ly/4fMe5vI

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States Welcome into the best in paranormal podcasting. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host, Tim Dennis.
0:34.3	I want to start off today by doing a dedication. I want to dedicate this show, first of all, to our good friend Jerry Polly, who passed away last week at an early age from Hillbelly Horror Stories.
0:46.3	Our show today also deals with a good friend who passed away by the name of Jim Willis, who we're going to talk about his book today.
0:54.9	His book is lost loot, cursed treasures, and blood money.
0:59.6	It's ironic that we're, we scheduled in Jim's book today.
1:04.4	Jim's been gone for a little while now, but I found out about Jim's passing in an unusual way.
1:11.3	We actually had another one of Visible Ink Press's authors on.
1:14.2	We were talking about his project.
1:16.4	And after the show, he said, yeah, I guess between you, me and the fence post,
1:22.4	I've been tapped to kind of help with some of Jim's projects.
1:26.3	I said, well, what happened to Jim?
1:27.5	I was like, what happened?
1:29.5	Because Jim is one of my all-time favorite authors.
1:32.2	And I hadn't heard that anything had happened with Jim.
1:35.2	He said, oh, he passed away.
1:36.6	And I was immediately crushed because not only is he one of my favorite authors,
1:40.5	he's one of my uncle's favorite authors as well.
1:43.0	In fact, one of my uncle's first authors as well. In fact, one of my my uncle's
1:45.4	first paranormal books that he picked up was by Jim. And so I had, I had texted my uncle and I let
1:53.8	him know and he had shot me back a picture of that dog-eared copy of Jim's book that he had on
2:00.8	his shelf. And I think we just kind of shared
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