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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“THE EASTER SUNDAY MASSACRE” and More True Scary Paranormal Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

“THE EASTER SUNDAY MASSACRE” and More True Scary Paranormal Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness

IN THIS EPISODE: Author Troy Taylor tells us about the horrors and hauntings of a murderous nightmare, taking place on the holiest day of the year. (“Easter Sunday Massacre”) *** Two young boys find a bloody shirt on a stone on the side of the road – and it leads to details of one of the most brutal murders in the history of Massachusetts. (“Massachusetts Butchery”) *** Why would a mother tell her daughter to never wander in their own backyard? (“Displaced Entities”) *** The true story of an actor who lost his fortune, his life, and his head. (“The Headless Ghost of St. Paul’s Chapel”) *** It probably comes as no surprise that nursing homes can be haunted. A Certified Nurse Assistant tells us his own personal experiences of it. (“Nursing Home Hauntings”) *** Plus, I’ll share a creepypasta that was specifically requested for me to narrate by one of you, my Weirdo Family. (“No End House”) *** “Doppelganger Confusion” *** “The Black Eyed Phenomenon – Not Just Kids?” *** “Is Your House On The List?” *** “Another Black-Eyed-Kids Encounter – Is This An Epidemic?” *** “What Caused Our Creaking Catwalk?” *** “In Reverse… The Doppelganger Student” *** “My Haunted In-Laws Place” *** “We Deliver, We Cater, We Scare” *** “Death In The Triangle” *** “The Mother Who Burned Her Daughter Alive”

(Dark Archives episode, with originally posted in 2017 and 2018)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Massachusetts Butchery” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder by Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/44c96wvt
“Displaced Entities” by Stacy K for Your Ghost Stories: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/xafzpt29
“The Easter Sunday Massacre” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/38dt633u
“The Headless Ghost Of St. Paul’s Chapel” by Jessica Ferri for The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yt49e66j
“Nursing Home Hauntings” by Morgan Jobe https://www.facebook.com/morgan.jobe
(Creepypasta) “No End House” by Brian Russell for Creepypasta Wiki: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4yx2nu5c
“Doppelganger Confusion” submitted anonymously: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3j8u6x4s
“The Black Eyed Phenomenon – Not Just Kids?” submitted by Roger M.: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3fu4chfj
“Is Your House On The List?” submitted by Keith W.: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/x3ve3rrp
“Another Black Eyed Kids Encounter – Is This An Epidemic?” submitted by Rick R.: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/wz9xu2j4
“What Caused Our Creaking Catwalk?” submitted by Amanda: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/da72mxmd
“In Reverse… The Doppelganger Student” submitted by Paul: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4r5rak7w
“My Haunted In-Laws Place” by Anna Olinick: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/22f8afed
“We Deliver, We Cater, We Scare” by Ian White: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/fnyeesfs
“Death In The Triangle: The History, Hauntings, and Horrors Of America’s Worst Factory Fire” by Troy Taylor and Rene Cruse from the book And Hell Followed With It: https://amzn.to/2I9MB2G
“The Mother Who Burned Her Daughter Alive” by Dennis McDougal from his book, Mother’s Day: https://amzn.to/2pGHCA4
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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:15.0

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red carp now back at Starbucks.

0:32.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:37.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was all wrapped up

0:43.0

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so gas.

0:47.0

For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so I feel like that won't change me a little.

0:54.0

Joy in every sip with red carp now back at Starbucks.

1:00.0

Stories and content and weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and as intended for mature audiences only.

1:06.0

parental discretion is strongly advised.

1:17.0

Easter Sunday in 1975 was like any other in Hamilton, Ohio.

1:22.0

Children hunted for eggs.

1:25.0

Mothers made last minute preparations for family dinners and entire families were dressed in new clothes to attend morning shirt services.

1:34.0

For the Rupert family the days started out happy.

1:37.0

They worshiped together at an early service and then gathered at 635 Minor Avenue in Hamilton, a middle class community about 30 miles from Cincinnati.

1:48.0

But what happened that afternoon March 30, 1975 went down in history as the deadliest shooting to ever occur in a private home in American history and it left a grim and troubling haunting behind.

2:04.0

I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness.

2:09.0

Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness.

2:21.0

Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained.

2:36.0

Coming up in this episode, other Troy Taylor tells us about the horrors and hauntings of a murderous nightmare taking place on the holiest day of the year.

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