“THE INFAMY OF DANVERS STATE HOSPITAL” and More True Paranormal Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: Mother Shipton was known for her prognostication skills – but she was even more well known for her grotesque appearance. So much so that she was nicknamed The York Witch, and the Devil’s Daughter. But others have another name for her… hoax. (The Devil’s Daughter) *** A family heirloom begins acting strange when a woman moves into her deceased grandmother’s home. (I Moved Into My Dead Grandmother’s House) *** Is it possible that ghosts, visions, and other paranormal experiences are not only real – but also good for your mental health? (Therapeutic Ghosts) *** After it closed, the old hospital site became a popular destination for thrill-seeking kids looking for the scare of a lifetime. Why does Danvers State Hospital rank among history’s most infamous asylums? (The Infamy of Danvers State Hospital) *** Attend any amateur magic show and most assuredly you will hear a certain word at least once. Why do illusionists use this word? What does it mean – if anything? We’ll look at the very interesting history behind the word “Abracadabra.” (Say The Magic Word)
(Dark Archives episode, originally posted January 20, 2020)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Arkham’s Dark Past” is by Darren Marlar
“I Moved Into My Dead Grandmother’s House” by Kelsey for Your Ghost Stories: https://tinyurl.com/rjcvecr
“The Devil’s Daughter” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/vp6vlo4
“Therapeutic Ghosts” by Andreas Sommer for Aeon: https://tinyurl.com/r7xcv2v
“The Infamy of Danvers State Hospital” by William DeLong for All That’s Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/rd223yu
“Say The Magic Word” from Ancient Origins: https://tinyurl.com/sl9nlzm
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| 1:18.1 | The hospital is a long and brutal history, beginning when its own architect became mentally |
| 1:24.1 | unwell and hacked his workers to death with an axe. He was convicted and sentenced to spend |
| 1:30.9 | the rest of his life in the very same hospital he had been building. The hospital was built |
| 1:37.1 | in honor of Elizabeth Argonne, the mother of hospital founder Amadeus. The hospital's |
| 1:42.9 | dark history began in the early 1900s when Amadeus' mother Elizabeth, having suffered |
| 1:48.9 | from mental illness most of her life, committed suicide. However, it was later revealed that |
| 1:55.5 | the man had actually euthanized his own mother and had repressed the memory. Amadeus then |
| 2:02.3 | decided, as the sole heir to the estate, to remodel his family home in order to properly |
| 2:07.7 | treat the mentally ill so others might not suffer the same fate as his mother. Thus the |
| 2:14.0 | establishment of the Elizabeth Arkham asylum for the criminally insane. During the period |
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