“THE CRAZY CASE THAT TRUE CRIME LOVERS MUST HEAR” and More True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: What do you get when you mix auto theft, disappearances, amnesia, murder, and far too many tattoos? You get one of the craziest true crime cases you’ll ever hear. It’s the disappearance and apparent murder of James Eugene Harrison, but just wait for the twist. (The Man Who Wasn’t Murdered) *** The first witch trial in the Americas took place in 1626 – and I’ll tell you the story of how poor Joane Wright came to be accused, and what the verdict came down as. (America’s First Witch) *** In 1938, 34-year-old Alma Fielding reported objects mysteriously flying around her home. In 2017, Kate Summerscale, author of the true crime classic “The Suspicions of Mr Whicher”, set out to investigate the unexplained case of the Croydon poltergeist. (The Housewife, The Ghost Hunter, And The Croydon Poltergeist) *** When you hear a knocking in the closet, or footsteps in the attic. When you hear a door to the basement creak open, or a plate crash to the floor in the middle of the night… is it a ghost? An intruder? Or could you be dealing with a darkling? (The Dark Darklings)
(Dark Archives episode from November 16, 2020)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
BOOK: “The Suspicions of Mr Whicher” by Kate Summerscale: https://amzn.to/38Q7uR6
“America’s First Witch” from Strange Company: https://tinyurl.com/y36z72jy
“The Man Who Wasn’t Murdered” from Strange Company: https://tinyurl.com/yxayopj9
“The Housewife, The Ghost Hunter, And The Croydon Poltergeist” by Kate Summerscale for The Guardian: https://tinyurl.com/yykzsgs9
“The Dark Darklings” by Mason Felinity for Haunted American Tours: https://tinyurl.com/nlx7zh
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Visit the Church of the Undead: http://undead.church/
Find out how to escape eternal darkness at https://weirddarkness.com/eternaldarkness
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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| 0:00.0 | Congratulations to Mike A. Hurn. He is my email newsletter winner for November, and Mike |
| 0:05.9 | has won a Weird Darkness Prize Pack, which includes a Weird Darkness pen, button, phone |
| 0:10.2 | stand, bumper sticker, fidget keychain, magnet, and more. Congratulations, Mike! If you want |
| 0:15.4 | to win next month, be sure that you're signed up for the free Weird Darkness email newsletter. |
| 0:20.1 | You can sign up by clicking on the Contests tab at WeirdDarkness.com. |
| 0:26.4 | The Evan user's scrooge learned the lesson in just one night, that it is more blessed |
| 0:30.9 | to give than to receive. |
| 0:33.1 | Of course, it took three ghosts scaring the crap out of him to get the point across, but |
| 0:37.8 | there's an easier and less terrifying way of going about it. Just scare it forward. |
| 0:43.0 | The next time you're in a drive-through buying fast food, donuts, or coffee, tell the attendant |
| 0:47.3 | you want to pay for the person behind you. In fact, you can visit WeirdDarkness.com slash |
| 0:52.0 | scared forward and download a printout to give to the drive-through worker that they can pass |
| 0:56.3 | on to the person behind you in line, so you don't have to explain everything. It's a great |
| 1:00.8 | way to bring a little joy to someone during the holiday season, a time that's often tough |
| 1:05.2 | for many. And hey, maybe the car behind you will want to pay for the car behind them and |
| 1:09.6 | keep the streak going. |
| 1:11.3 | It's scared forward. Get started at WeirdDarkness.com slash scared forward. That's WeirdDarkness.com |
| 1:17.6 | slash scared forward. |
| 1:22.4 | Stories and content in WeirdDarkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended |
| 1:26.3 | for mature audiences only. parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:39.2 | Welcome Weirdos. I'm Teran Marlar and this is WeirdDarkness. Here you'll find stories |
| 1:45.7 | of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, |
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