“THE FIRE SPOOK OF CALEDONIA HILLS” and 3 More Disturbing And True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: A smitten fan falls in love with a talented actress, and convinces himself she loves him in return. This sounds very much like a story out of today’s entertainment magazines – but this tale of unrequited love took place in the 1880’s. (The Lunatic James Dougherty) *** You don’t have to go to a cemetery or haunted house to experience the supernatural. You don’t need to drive a cursed road to encounter a ghost. Sometimes the paranormal takes place on military bases. (The Military And The Mysterious) *** The corpse of a murderer winds up doing advertising for a drug store. (The Murder of Maggie Walker) *** In 1922, an otherwise unremarkable farmhouse in Novia Scotia was the site of alleged poltergeist activity which made headlines all over Canada and the United States. A poltergeist that liked to set fires. (The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills)
(Dark Archives episode from August 31, 2020)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“The Fire Spook of Caledonia Mills” by Hammerson Peters for MysteriesOfCanada.com: https://tinyurl.com/y43ug999
“The Lunatic James Dougherty” by Robert Wilhelm for MurderByGaslight.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxkxo8b6
“The Military and the Mysterious” by Brent Swancer for MysteriousUniverse.org: https://tinyurl.com/y46jdmks
“The Murder of Maggie Walker” posted on the website Murders In History: https://tinyurl.com/y2qw2rup
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| 1:04.6 | In 2010, American horror novelist Stephen King wrote, |
| 1:09.2 | full dark no stars. An anthology comprised of four novellas. One of these novellas, |
| 1:16.2 | entitled 1922, tells the fictional story of a Nebraska farmer who experienced paranormal |
| 1:22.8 | activity on his family farm in the year 1922. It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction. |
| 1:31.2 | This idiom rings true when one compares the eerie plot of 1922 with an even more chilling, |
| 1:38.4 | real life case of supposed paranormal activity which took place that same year on a remote |
| 1:45.5 | Nova Scotian homestead far from the arid plains of Nebraska. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:03.5 | Welcome Weirdos. This is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, |
| 2:09.3 | supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. |
| 2:20.3 | Coming up in this episode, a smitten man falls in love with a talented actress and convinces |
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