"The Elephant Man": Joseph Merrick's True Story

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit preferably to the life available to him elsewhere. Yet alongside darkness there is light and love in his story, and a sense of his own indomitable spirit throughout it all.

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0:16.7	How did they use their feminine characteristics
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0:31.1	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.0	This episode is sponsored by Warner Brothers and Salem's Lot,
0:41.0	the spine-tingling new horror film from the legendary Stephen King.
0:45.6	It is so exciting, it is that time of year, it is a spooky season.
0:49.7	Oh, it's just the best time of year.
0:52.4	No surprise that we love this time of year of course.
0:56.0	There is no better fit for this season than a good horror film.
0:59.0	Salem's Lot is one of Stephen King's favorite stories, I'm sure you've heard of it, and it's adapted from the lot is
1:05.0	a lot
1:08.0	an author who returns to his home home town in Maine
1:11.5	but things are not as they should be. The place is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
1:18.8	Of course it is. Why wouldn't it be? The place is called Salem. Salem's lot is the latest adaptation of
1:24.2	Stephen King's bestseller from the creators of the record-breaking horror
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