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Pleasing Terrors

Shadows of Savannah Part 2: The Dead Time

Pleasing Terrors

Mike Brown

Arts, Performing Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.

Transcript

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Some stories were never supposed to be told.

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Stories that exist in the stories that

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stories that exist in the twilight

0:16.0

between science and the supernatural,

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between history and the horror,

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stories that speak of terrifying things.

0:26.0

Stories that you want to hear.

0:29.0

Stories that you need to hear.

0:32.0

Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go.

0:38.4

My name is Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors. Shadows of Savannah Part 2, The Dead Time It is midnight in Savannah, and my wife Beatrice and I are standing in Monterrey Square looking across the street to the Mercer

1:15.8

House.

1:17.6

We have just finished a ghost tour, and for the last several hours have heard many of Savannah's darkest stories.

1:25.3

The story of the Mercer House was conspicuous by its absence,

1:30.3

and so we have come here to see the place for ourselves.

1:37.0

The house was made famous as the scene of what is now Savannah's most infamous murder in John Barrett's 1994 New York Times

1:46.7

bestseller midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

1:51.6

To this day no book has yet to match its 216 week run.

1:57.0

What made the book so compelling was

2:01.0

Behrant's first-hand interactions with virtually everyone involved in the criminal

2:05.2

case, as well as the cast of characters that enabled him to portray Savannah as a real life Southern Gothic setting.

2:15.6

The book reads like a novel and does so because Barrett fictionalized some of his accounts.

2:22.1

He placed himself in scenes with people that he never actually

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