“WHEN THE DARKNESS CAME IN 1708” and 3 More Freaky But True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: No one likes uninvited guests – and it appears, neither do those in the afterlife. (Dead Village) *** Ask Pedro Rodrigues Filho and he’ll tell you he’s a nice guy. After all, he may be a serial killer – but he only kills bad guys. (The Real-Life Dexter) *** A forest in beautiful in West Sussex, UK is only beautiful from the outside – for within, witnesses have seen mysterious things… including UFOs, mysterious deaths, and unexplained vanishings. (Danger Lurking In The Woods) *** What caused the sky to go dark in the middle of the day back in 1780? (New England’s Dark Day)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“New England’s Dark Day” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/2OEuVTl
“Dead Village” by Dreyk: http://bit.ly/33lz1Eg
“The Real Life Dexter” by Kara Goldfarb: http://bit.ly/2IUuQaP
“Danger Lurking In The Woods” by Ellen Lloyd: (link no longer available)
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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| 1:10.0 | The 19th of May, 1780, was a remarkably dark day. Candles were lighted in many houses. The birds |
| 1:22.0 | were silent and disappeared and the fowls retired to roost. A very general opinion prevailed that |
| 1:30.0 | the day of judgment was at hand. The end was coming and God had lowered his hand over the people |
| 1:37.0 | in England for their wickedness. Or at least that's what a lot of religious zealots believed in the |
| 1:44.0 | spring of 1780. The American colonies were embroiled in a war with England. Murder was rampant |
| 1:51.0 | and rebellion was in the air. It seemed that the people of America were doomed. But what really |
| 1:58.0 | happened that day? We don't know for sure. Even well over two centuries later. One thing we |
| 2:05.0 | do know, it was not the end of the world when the sky went completely black. |
| 2:12.0 | I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:24.0 | Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the |
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