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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“DO WE ALL HAVE A PERSONAL DEMON?” and More True Horrors! #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Check out the other podcasts I host at https://weirddarkness.com/links. PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too!
IN THIS EPISODE: You might have heard someone say during a severe storm, “it’s raining cats and dogs out there!” Of course, it wasn’t really raining felines and Fidos. But there have been instances of it raining frogs and fish. But did you hear about the time when for two-weeks straight it rained rocks and stones? (Raining Rocks, Storming Stones) *** In the film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” the ending… sorry, spoiler here, but it has been since 1977 so you have had plenty of time to see it… at the end of the film, the aliens drop off dozens of humans that they’ve abducted over the years, and then welcome a volunteer human to leave with them – like an extraterrestrial foreign exchange student program. It’s a fascinating concept, an extremely well-written premise for the film… but could that actually happen? Better question… has it already happened? (The Zeta Reticuli and Project Serpo) *** It could be argued that while William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was a real person in history – that his story is more legend than fact. But then, being a notorious outlaw, pretending to die, and convincing everyone you are dead – then living out the rest of your life until you were an old man… that does probably deserve the label of “legend’. Is that story the fact… or is it fiction? (The Billy The Kid Conspiracy) *** Stories of giant, winged predators in the sky streaking down and attacking children and even full-grown men have been around since… well… ever. Some don’t believe it possible, but if you do a Google search for “man-eating bird” you’ll quickly find out they were not only real – but alive not that long ago. Or, perhaps… still soaring the skies, looking for their next meal… especially in and around New England. (Man-Eating Thunderbirds of New England) *** We’ve all heard of guardian angels – the idea that each one of us has a personal, supernatural protector following us at all times, battling for our souls to keep us from spiritual harm, if not physical. But if that’s true – could we also each have a personal demon as well? A being also battling for our souls to send us to hell? One famous witch hunter believed exactly that. (Do We All Have a Personal Demon?)

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Do We All Have a Personal Demon?” by Melissa Brinks for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5jt3bmde
“Raining Rocks, Storming Stones” originally published in the Atlanta Journal, reposted at The Fortean:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4dc8m864
“The Billy The Kid Conspiracy” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdddrvn5
“The Zeta Reticuli and Project Serpo” posted at Gaia: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr3r6xtm
“Man-Eating Thunderbirds of New England” by Kevin J. Guhl for ThunderbirdPhoto.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/38vdk35d
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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Step into the extraordinary with auditory anthology, a podcast series where science fiction short stories come alive.

0:26.2

Narrated by me, your voice of Weird Darkness, and curated by Keith Conrad,

0:30.8

each episode is a journey into imagination.

0:34.0

Explore cosmic wonders and futuristic tales

0:37.0

and dive into a universe of stories

0:39.0

where the impossible is possible.

0:41.3

Auditory anthology, available Auditory anthology.com and on Apple, Spotify or your

0:47.6

podcast player of choice. Stories and

0:52.5

content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is

0:55.8

intended for mature audiences only.

0:57.8

parental discretion is strongly advised. 16th century Europe was a violent era in history when mass hysteria and religious teachings led people to see witches and

1:15.0

demons and everything they did. The fear of Hellfire caused self-proclaimed

1:20.3

witch hunters to rise up and among them was the infamous Peter Bensfeld, a man who loved

1:27.7

torture and hated Protestants among many other things. Bensfeld was a respected man in his time,

1:35.0

and his teachings on demonology and witches are still read to this day.

1:40.0

Perhaps his most well-known work is his classifications of the Seven Princes of Hell,

1:47.0

Seven demon lords who each punished sinners for particular crimes committed during their lifetime.

1:54.1

No one knows what hell is like, assuming you believe it exists, but according to the dogma,

2:00.0

there is no way to escape from hell, and the seven princes of hell, as described by Bingsfeld

2:06.1

were meant to make people atone for their crimes in life.

2:10.1

The demons may be interesting, but there's certainly not beings anyone wants to befriend.

2:16.0

Try to avoid it, but if he can't stop sinning, you're about to find out who you'll meet in the afterlife.

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