“THE HMS DAEDALUS SEA SERPENT” and More Creepy True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app at https://weirddarkness.com/listen. PLEASE SHARE Weird Darkness with someone who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do! RecommendingWeird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show!IN THIS EPISODE: A notorious criminal is brought to justice, and later found to have just as notorious of a brain. (Hanging of a Notorious Brain) *** A burst of UFO activity took place on New Year’s Eve outside of New York in 1982… so many sightings and reports it was impossible to ignore, even by skeptics. (The Hudson Valley Flap) *** A social experiment initiated by Stalin’s Soviet Union ends with hundreds dead on the first day – but that was only the beginning of the horrors of what would later be known as “Cannibal Island”. (Joseph Stalin’s Cannibal Island) *** A woman is involved in an accident, and once out of the hospital everyone appears to be afraid upon looking at her face… even her. But it’s not the scars that are causing terror. (The Reflection That Drove To Death) *** One day in 1863 Doctor Joseph Rogers found himself dealing with a very distressing case. A young pregnant woman had been sent to a workhouse because her circumstances were so dire. Her name was Sarah Ann Eldridge, and her husband, Alfred Eldridge, was in prison waiting to be executed. (The Murderer’s Wife) *** On August 6th, 1848 the crew of the HMS Daedalus spotted something monstrous from the deep – and it has become the most well-documented sea serpent sighting in history. (The HMS Daedalus Sea Monster)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Hanging Of a Notorious Brain” by Traci Taylor for 981TheHawk.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7t456fm
“Joseph Stalin’s Cannibal Island” by Garret S. Griffin for MSN.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4pfxptws (BOOK: “Cannibal Island: Death In a Siberian Gulag” by Nicolas Werth: https://amzn.to/3Waxw6J)
“The Reflection That Drove To Death” by Julia Njord on Medium.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3h8bwy3b
“The Hudson Valley Flap” by Jazz Shaw for The Debrief: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr3md848
“The HMS Daedalus Sea Monster” by Michael Kilianski for Creative History Stories: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckzhht2
“The Murderer’s Wife” posted at London Overlooked: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2rhr8rrn,https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5xpzksp4
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| 0:39.6 | workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features, like huddles for quick check-ins, |
| 0:44.9 | or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners inside and outside of your company. |
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| 0:58.4 | Hey, Weirdos. If you played, identify the imposter in the Weird Darkness Weirdos Facebook |
| 1:06.1 | group for tonight's episode. The story title that was a hoax, and it's not one of the stories |
| 1:11.0 | tonight, is Black Cherries of Death. |
| 1:16.4 | Stories and content and Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended |
| 1:23.2 | for mature audiences only. Rental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:30.5 | For over 20 minutes, the crew of the HMS Daudalus, a royal Navy warship, watched what they claimed |
| 1:37.4 | to be a giant 100-foot-long snake-like beast with a dragon's head swimming near their boat. |
| 1:45.3 | Scientists today think they most likely saw a whale, but wouldn't a bunch of experienced |
| 1:50.7 | sailors know the difference between a whale and a serpent? |
| 1:55.9 | I'm Darren Marlar, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:01.0 | Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories |
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