“The VAMPIRE PLAGUE of 1725” | 4 Terrifying True Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Margaret Allen was hanged to death. But it’s the strange life she lived and the odd nature of her crime that still interests people in her case. (The Hanging of Margaret or Bill) *** 12-year-old Gabriel enjoyed playing games with an online friend. But when he borrowed less than two dollars for an in-game purchase from this friend, then ignored his requests to continue playing, he found himself dying the most horrifying murder you can imagine. And despite law enforcement knowing who the murderer is, he is free now – and no one knows where to find him. It is a brutally horrible story you do not want children in the room for. (A Deadly Gaming Friendship) *** Being the victim of a stalker is terrifying – not knowing when or where the person might show up next, or what they’ll do to you when they do show up. But there are those who have an even more terrifying situation – where the stalker follows them their entire lives, and there’s nothing they can do to stop it – because the stalker is paranormal. (Phantom Stalkers) *** The 1725 newspaper headline read “Bloodsucker Devastates Village!” And thus began a great vampire epidemic. (The Vampire Plague of 1725)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Show Open
00:02:50.431 = The Vampire Plague of 1725
00:10:22.149 = The Hanging of Margaret or Bill
00:18:14.717 = Mysterious But Appreciative (from Weird Darkness listener Bryan Barnes)
00:31:58.167 = Phantom Stalkers
00:48:21.875 = A Deadly Gaming Friendship
00:53:42.097 = Show Close
00:56:00.731 = Bloopers
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Vampire Plague of 1725” by Jack Doyle for Ozy.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2tu2hcpu
“The Hanging of Margaret or Bill” by Romeo Vitelli for Providentia.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5awpvbh9
“A Deadly Gaming Friendship” by R.A. Brewster for RABrewster.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/585afzhv
“Phantom Stalkers” by Jacob Shelton for Ranker.com’s Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/a3uyx6vw
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Originally aired: July 13, 2021
SOURCES PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/VampirePlague
TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3xxabzfc
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| 1:00.0 | Hey, Weirdos, our next Weirdo Watch Party is Saturday, January 18th, and sci-fi film host |
| 1:06.3 | and all-around nice guy, Juk Sua, is back with another terrible B-movie. |
| 1:11.5 | This one from the infamously inept Roger Corman. |
| 1:14.8 | From 1958, it's War of the Satellites. |
| 1:17.6 | And yet you propose to follow this tenth failure with another attempt, using more of your |
| 1:22.3 | volunteers? |
| 1:23.3 | An unknown force declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys |
| 1:28.6 | warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere. |
| 1:34.0 | We are obviously in the grip of a force stronger than we can oppose. |
| 1:38.0 | It's a movie eight weeks in the making, and it shows on every frame of film. |
| 1:43.2 | See the last few seconds with a wire holding up a planet. |
| 1:46.0 | See the satellites spinning in different directions every time you see them. |
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