The Literary Miracles of Patience Worth
Dark Histories
Ben Cutmore
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the voyages |
| 0:10.1 | and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world. These are the thrilling and |
| 0:15.0 | captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark, and so many other famous and not-so-famous |
| 0:20.7 | adventures from throughout history. |
| 0:22.8 | Go to Explorespodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app. |
| 0:27.0 | That's the Explorers Podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Founded is a history podcast that dives deep into the stories you missed about the founding of the United States of America |
| 0:35.8 | and the people who were a part of it. |
| 0:37.9 | We're diving deep into the founding father's diaries and finding all the drama. |
| 0:42.0 | The tea was hot before and after they dumped it into the harbor. |
| 0:45.5 | So come find all the stories you didn't know you wanted to know with me, Tori Phantom, on Founded. |
| 0:50.4 | Part of the Airwave Media Network and available everywhere you find your favorite podcast with new episodes every Friday. |
| 0:58.6 | In 1913, a St. Louis housewife named Pearl Curran sat down at a Ouija board and claimed to make contact with a spirit called Patience Worth, |
| 1:08.4 | a 17th century Englishwoman who spoke in an archaic language and spun |
| 1:12.7 | tales with uncanny speed. What began as a parlour amusement soon erupted into a literary mystery. |
| 1:19.8 | Novels, poems and dialogues flowed effortlessly through Pearl, though she had no known training |
| 1:24.8 | in such artistry. Was this the voice of a forgotten soul, |
| 1:28.9 | the hidden genius of an unlikely medium, |
| 1:31.5 | or just a big hoax, |
| 1:32.9 | either for profit or simply to kill boredom? |
| 1:36.3 | This is Dark Histories, |
| 1:37.8 | where the facts are worse than fiction. |
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