“THE TROUBLE WITH GHOST ORBS” and More Dark Historic Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: America’s foremost exorcist, Theophilus Riesinger, faced off with Lucifer himself in the grueling 1928 case of a demonic possession in a rural Iowa convent. (The Exorcism of Emma Schmidt) *** One of the greatest magicians of all time was Chung Ling Soo. So adept at illusion, slight of hand, and fooling others that he was able to lead a double life… before being shot and killed performing his own magic trick. (The Magician Who Lived a Double Life) *** John Dee claimed he was visited by angels presented him with a secret language just angels, and the ability to perform a new magic they called Enochian. We’ll look at his claims. (John Dee And The Language of Angels) *** A little boy goes fishing on a Spring day. He disappears. Another boy goes fishing nearby on the exact same day. He also disappears. A third child goes missing many years later in the same general area. What happened? (The Missing Fishing Boys) *** Venice's Poveglia Island was a quarantine center and mass grave for victims of bubonic plague – so it should come as no surprise it is considered one of the most haunted places in all of Europe. (Poveglia: The Island of Ghosts) *** It is one of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries… what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke? We’ll look at a few theories. (Lost Roanoke) *** You snap a selfie of the squad at brunch, but it’s covered with shapes and light that definitely weren’t present IRL. The whole thing is giving you major paranormal feels. Is it a loved one from the other side, making a cameo in your latest feed pic? Or a simple technological mishap? (The Trouble With Ghost Orbs)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “Ghosts on Film” by Troy Taylor: https://amzn.to/3ORYS14
BOOK: “The Prestige” by Christopher Priest: https://amzn.to/47ulw6OFILM: “The Prestige” directed by Christopher Nolan: https://amzn.to/3DP1OVU
BOOK: “Finding Marjorie West” by Harold Thomas Beck: https://amzn.to/451zviR
BOOK: “Begone Satan!” by Fr. Carl Vogl: https://amzn.to/3rYIjHK
“The Trouble With Ghost Orbs” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/443n228f; Vicki Carroll for Exemplore: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/pknn5n3r; Ann Massey for Spooky Isles: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9xp8t7; and Bonnie Page from the Sentinal & Enterprise:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y5w8h2m6
“Poveglia: The Island of Ghosts” by Genevieve Carlton for All That’s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3byfnvhv
“The Magician Who Lived a Double Life” by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckvppfw
“John Dee And The Language of Angels” by Riley Winters for Ancient Origins: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckupdm8
“Lost Roanoke” by Grace Felder for The Archive: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mtay6ns6
“The Missing Fishing Boys” by Crystal Dawn for LostNFoundBlogs: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39xur8tf
“The Exorcism of Emma Schmidt” by Charlie Hintz for Cult of Weird: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3zdmbdfz
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OTHER PODCASTS I HOST…
Paranormality Magazine: (COMING SEPT. 30, 2023) https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag
Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors
Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio
Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Weirdos, I've just begun something I'm really excited about on my YouTube channel, |
| 0:04.8 | Streaming Audio Books. Right now, the book that is live streaming is, |
| 0:09.3 | Suffer the Children, American Horrors, Homicides, and Hauntings by Troy Taylor. |
| 0:14.1 | One of the most brutal and bloody books I've ever narrated. |
| 0:17.7 | If you'd like to hear the live stream, just visit WeirdDarkness.com slash YouTube, |
| 0:22.5 | and it'll take you directly to my YouTube channel. |
| 0:25.1 | It's WeirdDarkness.com slash YouTube. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey Weirdos, if you're listening to the WeirdDarkness podcast via the Stitcher app, |
| 0:32.4 | you might not know that on August 29, 2023, the app is no longer going to be available. |
| 0:38.5 | Your lists, downloads, preferences, and listening history are all going to disappear from Stitcher. |
| 0:43.4 | You'll want to find a new podcast app in order to listen to podcasts. |
| 0:47.4 | If you visit WeirdDarkness.com slash Listen, you can find a long list |
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| 0:56.8 | Again, the Stitcher podcast app is no longer going to work after August 29th. |
| 1:02.0 | Visit WeirdDarkness.com slash Listen to find a new podcast app. |
| 1:06.9 | Stories and content and WeirdDarkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is |
| 1:10.8 | intended for mature audiences only. parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:16.0 | Are they spirits in the form of light or just flex of dust on a camera lens? |
| 1:29.3 | The debate about Orbs has lingered since the advent of photography in the 1900s. |
| 1:35.1 | Professional photographers give a technological rationale called backscatter for the random |
| 1:40.4 | appearance of Orbs in digital photography, while spiritists claim they are ghosts, |
| 1:46.4 | even assigning characteristics based on the color of the orb. |
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