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Decoding The Unknown

The Curse of Hex Hollow: The True Story Behind the York Hex Slayers

Decoding The Unknown

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Explore the dark world of curses, witchcraft, and pow wow remedies. Discover the story of the York Hex Slayers, three men who killed Nelson Rehmeyer in a desperate attempt to lift a hex in 1928 Pennsylvania. Uncover the practices of pow wow practitioners and the beliefs that led to one of America's most notorious murder trials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, ready, welcome back to another episode of Code in the Unknown.

0:02.2

This is The Witch of Raymar's Hollow, written by Katie, read by me, that's the format of the show,

0:06.7

we're going to explore it together. Let's just jump in.

0:18.8

So you know our curses and witchcraft aren't real, right? Yes Katie, I absolutely do. That of it's real. How about traditional folk remedies and natural cures for things?

0:23.0

Hmm, might be a little bit more believable, but honestly, we'll get into this later,

0:27.0

and let me tell you now, a lot of things conceived of in 1820 do not hold up.

0:31.0

Yeah, natural cures. Fine.

0:33.0

Traditional folk remedies, I'm sure there's some stuff that works.

0:35.5

All I require is that if there's some old remedy from the past, let's just give it some scientists

0:40.5

and they can do some dobleline studies with placebo and such and see if it actually works.

0:44.3

That's how they figure things out and then they're like, oh yeah,

0:47.1

people eating like tree bark in the past because it had like penicillin or like

0:51.1

some painkiller in it.

0:52.4

And people like this tree bark makes you better

0:54.1

And be like please and then they're tested it.

0:57.1

Because it contains this like penicillin drug or whatever and it would be great and then I'll be like cool

1:01.8

All we just need to do is test it, that I'm fine with natural cures.

1:04.8

Today we're looking at the story of the so-called witch Nelson Raymeyer and the people who murdered him who became known

1:11.2

as the York Hex Slayer.

1:13.4

Saying that three times fast.

1:15.3

It is a mouthful.

1:16.7

Thanks to YouTube commenter Trevor Leib for suggesting this topic, so now let's head back to

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