“THE WEREWOLF OF DEFIANCE” and 3 More Strange True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: Defiance Ohio is a small town that reported a rash of werewolf sightings in the early 1970's, and it's a legend that still persists to this day. (The Werewolf of Defiance) *** What would happen if the First Lady of the United States disclosed that she believed she traveled with extraterrestrials to Venus? That’s exactly what happened to the First Lady of Japan! (First Contact With The First Lady) *** The island of Guam is well known for the part it played in World War II – but 120 miles northeast of Guam is the tiny island of Tinian, and while it too had a part in World War II, it also contains secrets millennia old of a people that might have existed before the oldest people recorded living there. (The Mysterious People Before Time) *** Robert Nelson had no professional background in medicine or refrigeration, he didn’t even have a college degree, but this everyday TV repairman found himself in the center of the cryogenics movement – and that’s when things started to get messy. (Cryogenics And The TV Repairman)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Cryogenics And The TV Repairman” by Marco Margaritoff for All That’s Interesting https://tinyurl.com/yaowv6j6
“First Contact With The First Lady” from AncientCode.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxww2yv2
“The Mysterious People Before Time” by A. Sutherland for AncientPages.com: https://tinyurl.com/yyuzyu4g
“The Werewolf of Defiance” from ArmedWithSilver.com: https://tinyurl.com/y4zlhnxh (Defiance werewolf, “Toledo Blade” newspaper articles: Article One= https://tinyurl.com/y3dtkx4v, Article Two= https://tinyurl.com/y2q2c8tl, Article Three= https://tinyurl.com/y5l89z25; Defiance werewolf, Crescent News” newspaper article: https://tinyurl.com/yya7vyku; “Werewolf Shamans In The Ancient Woodlands…” published paper: https://tinyurl.com/yxka58st)
“Ohio Police Capture Drunken Local Werewolf” by Jack Dickey for Deadspin.com: https://tinyurl.com/y6rpckbv
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| 1:07.1 | The Weirwolf of Defiance is one of those local legends that sounds like the beginning of a classic |
| 1:13.2 | horror movie. Two railway workers hooking up train cars late at night. One looks over to see a |
| 1:20.4 | towering werewolf, Fangs Beard, who proceeds to attack the hapless victim. Hollywood as it might |
| 1:27.9 | sound, that's the story that Ted Davis reported to police in 1972. The werewolf may have attacked |
| 1:35.3 | him with a club rather than his claws, but otherwise the story sounds like so many other tall tales. |
| 1:42.6 | Except the Davis wasn't the only one seeing dogmen in the wild. Another employee of the railway |
| 1:49.2 | also reported a wolf man stalking the rails. Then a week later a grocer driving home sees a |
| 1:56.0 | likened throw in his headlights. With so many reports of hairy broods coming into the station, |
| 2:02.4 | local defines police open an investigation. A neighboring Toledo newspaper gets hold of the story |
| 2:09.2 | and suddenly it's Weirwolf fever in defiance. While no Weirwolf was ever found, |
| 2:16.2 | the legend has stuck to the town and locals still talk about it to this day. |
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