“THE HAUNTED TOWN THAT INSPIRED H.P. LOVECRAFT” and True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: Engineers working to link Scotland and England with cables on the floor of the ocean have stumbled across an amazing find from Word War 1… a submarine that was sunk due to a sea monster! (The Submarine Sunk by a Sea Monster) *** Paul Bernardo, with the help of his wife Karla Homolka, stalked a Canadian suburb with a number of terrible rapes that were only the beginning of their life of cruelty. They would come to be known as the Ken and Barbie Killers. (The True Horror of the Ken and Barbie Killers) *** When you think of a con artist, you think of slick players like Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondorf from “The Sting”, masters of disguise and ID like Frank Abagnale from “Catch Me If You Can”, or even the mysterious Keyser Söze from “The Usual Suspects”. But I’m guessing what you never picture in your head is a Victorian woman named Madame Rachel. She never got her own movie, but she was the real deal. (The Con Woman Madame Rachel) *** In September 1871, strange and mysterious sights and sounds disturbed and annoyed the teacher and pupils of the male primary school in Charles Street, Newburyport. And then things got creepy. (The Shadow Over Newburyport)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“The Shadow Over Newburyport” posted at Esoterx.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y62cmsun
“The Submarine Sunk by a Sea Monster” from Earth-Chronicles.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ve7bwnvh
“The True Horror of the Ken and Barbie Killers” by Frankie Stein for FilmDaily.co: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5ddyr25y
“The Con Woman Madame Rachel” by Geri Walton: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/f5jnwjwz
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| 1:09.0 | Welcome we're those I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 1:21.0 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. |
| 1:34.0 | Coming up in this episode. Engineers working to link Scotland and England with cables on the floor of the ocean have stumbled across an amazing find from World War One. |
| 1:46.0 | A submarine that was sunk due to a sea monster. |
| 1:51.0 | Paul Bernardo with the help of his wife Carla Humolka stalked a Canadian suburb with a number of terrible rapes that were only the beginning of their life cruelty. |
| 2:02.0 | They would come to be known as the Ken and Barbie killers. |
| 2:07.0 | When you think of a con artist, you think of slick players like Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondor from the sting. |
| 2:14.0 | Masters of the skies and ID like Frank Abignail from Catch Me If You Can or even the mysterious Kaiser Soze from the usual suspects. |
| 2:23.0 | But I'm guessing what you never picked your in your head is a Victorian woman named Madame Rachel. She never got her own movie, but she was the real deal. |
| 2:35.0 | But first, in September 1871, strange and mysterious sights and sounds disturbed and annoyed the teacher and pupils of the male primary school in Charles Street Newberryport. |
| 2:48.0 | And then things got creepy. We begin with that story. |
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