“THE DEADLIEST, MOST HAUNTED ROAD IN BRITAIN” and More Strange and True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s a stretch of road that only opened in 1988 to connect two existing roads, but it is known for being one of the deadliest roads in all of Britain… and one of the most haunted places in the world. The official designation is the A616… but most people know it as the Stocksbridge Bypass. (The Deadly Stocksbridge Bypass) *** Experiencing something strange is one thing. Experiencing two strange things in two different places might be called a coincidence. But when you experience three strange things in three different places, as Chet Guthrie did – you have to wonder if maybe the weirdness if following you around. (Three Events In Three Places of Really Weird Happenings) *** The Georgian Britains were obsessed with clean air, which was not surprising… because there was practically no clean air to obsess about. Even less-so in and around the cemeteries. (The Stench of Georgian Graveyards) *** A woman typically carries a baby for nine months before pregnancy. Sometimes a bit longer, sometimes a bit shorter, but that’s the average. Technology has made it possible for the baby to be born much sooner if complications were to arise, and still survive to be a healthy child. But we might have a new record on shortest pregnancy. One woman in Indonesia is claiming she gave birth after being pregnant for only one hour. (The One Hour Pregnancy) *** Heavy fog is commonplace in London, and in 1952 one particular fog rolled in for a full five days, hovering over the city. But when it finally dissipated, over 12,000 Londoners lay dead. (The Deadly Fog of 1952) *** A borrowed gun, romantically linked cousins, and a rigged jury – all the makings of a great murder trial in 1887 New Jersey. (A Mount Holly Tragedy) *** Here’s an idea on how to fight the black plague… throat lozenges… made from toad vomit! Hey, it was good enough for Isaac Newton! It was his own recipe! (Toad Vomit Lozenges)
(Dark Archives episode from July 28, 2020)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
BOOK: “Dark Days of Georgian Britain” by James Hobson: https://amzn.to/2X5cKd6
VIDEO: Britain’s Most Haunted Road - Stocksbridge Bypass: https://tinyurl.com/y3epler8
“Toad Vomit Lozenges” by Laura Geggel for Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/y5dmuwy9
“Three Events In Three Places of Really Weird Happenings” by Chet Guthrie for Cleveland Banner: https://tinyurl.com/y5c2wxhc
“The Deadly Fog of 1952” from The Gypsy Thread: https://tinyurl.com/y3pr4mvx
“The One Hour Pregnancy” by Spooky at Oddity Central: https://tinyurl.com/yxd42hqz
“The Stench of Georgian Graveyards” by James Hobson from his book “Dark Days of Georgian Britain: https://tinyurl.com/y5485fkn
“A Mount Holly Tragedy” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder by Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/yxwqu7l5
“The Deadly Stocksbridge Bypass” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/y6qj6ps2
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| 0:20.8 | Ebenezer Scrooge learned the lesson in just one night, that it is more blessed to give than to |
| 0:26.5 | receive. Of course it took three ghosts scaring the crap out of him to get the point across, |
| 0:32.0 | but there's an easier and less terrifying way of going about it. Just scare it forward. |
| 0:37.2 | The next time you're in a drive-through buying fast food, donuts, or coffee, tell the attendant |
| 0:41.7 | you want to pay for the person behind you. In fact, you can miss a weird darkness.com slash |
| 0:46.4 | scare it forward and download a printout to give to the drive-through worker that they can pass |
| 0:50.8 | on to the person behind you in line, so you don't have to explain everything. It's a great way to |
| 0:55.6 | bring a little joy to someone during the holiday season, a time that's up and tough for many. |
| 1:00.4 | And hey, maybe the car behind you will want to pay for the car behind them and keep the streak going. |
| 1:31.4 | The haunting of the Stocksbridge bypass began even before the stretch of road was finished being built. |
| 1:39.8 | The first incident took place September 8, 1987. Two security guards were employed by the |
| 1:46.9 | Macalpine construction company during the building of the bypass. That night their supervisor Peter |
| 1:53.3 | Owens received a frantic call from them. He arrived at the site to find two big, tough men in a state |
| 2:01.2 | of hysteria. They told him of what had happened the night before, shortly after midnight. |
| 2:07.7 | They'd been driving along Piroid Lane close to the steelworks. They noticed some children playing |
| 2:14.0 | on the construction site they were tasked with guarding. The children were close to the electricity |
| 2:19.1 | pile on and far from any houses. They decided to investigate and parked the car, |
| 2:25.6 | pausing to watch the kids skipping and playing. While doing so, they noticed the children were |
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