“MY COUCH IS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL” and More True Paranormal Horrors! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: If you are convinced that someone you know is possessed, never try to exorcise the demon on your own – always call an expert. One woman didn’t do that. (My Couch Is Possessed By The Devil) *** When the unsinkable ship, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sent 1,500 people to an icy grave, why did many people blame it on the curse of a mummy – a mummy that wasn’t even onboard the ship, but was sitting in a British museum? (Did a Mummy’s Curse Sink the Titanic) **** An investigation of San Francisco's famed White Lady of Stow Lake revealed some interesting findings about the City By The Bay’s most infamous phantom resident. (The Real Story Behind San Francisco’s Most Famous Ghost) *** Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living. We’ll look at the great New England panic around blood-sucking creatures of the night. (The Great Vampire Panic) *** (Dark Archives episode from May 19, 2020)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires” by Michael Bell: https://amzn.to/2zORTSy
BOOK: “Vampires, Burials and Death” by Paul Barber”: https://amzn.to/36ctToA
BOOK: “The New England Vampire Belief: Image of the Decline” by Faye Ringel: https://tinyurl.com/yap5h2kh (More from Faye Ringel: https://amzn.to/40qgCov)
“My Couch Is Possessed by The Devil” by Paul Seaburn for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/ycbl95w6
“Did a Mummy’s Curse Sink The Titanic?” by Jacob Shelton for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/ybzdckrr
“The Real Story Behind San Francisco’s Most Famous Ghost” by Katie Dowd for SF Gate: https://tinyurl.com/ydyxvnq2
“The Great Vampire Panic” by Abigail Tucker for Smithsonian Magazine: https://tinyurl.com/ycy29ucu
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Stories and |
| 0:37.0 | content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners |
| 0:41.0 | and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:43.0 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. Children playing near a hillside gravel mine found the first graves. |
| 1:01.7 | One ran home to tell his mother who was skeptical at first until the boy produced a skull. |
| 1:07.0 | Because this was Griswold, Connecticut in 1990, police initially thought the burials might be the work of a local |
| 1:15.1 | serial killer named Michael Ross, and they taped off the area as a crime scene. |
| 1:21.2 | But the brown decaying bones turned out to be more than a century old. |
| 1:26.2 | The Connecticut State Archaeologist Nick Bellantoni soon determined that the hillside |
| 1:30.9 | contained a colonial-era farm cemetery. New England is full of such unmarked |
| 1:36.3 | family plots and the 29 burials were typical of the 1700s and early 1800s. The dead, many of them children, were laid to rest in thrifty, |
| 1:47.4 | Yankee style in simple wood coffins, without jewelry or even much clothing, their arms resting by their sides or crossed over their |
| 1:56.7 | chests. |
| 1:57.7 | Except, that is, for burial number four. |
| 2:03.0 | Bellantoni was interested in the grave even before the excavation began. |
| 2:08.0 | It was one of only two stone crypts in the cemetery, |
| 2:11.0 | and it was partially visible from the mine face. |
| 2:15.0 | Scrapping away soil with flat-edged shovels and then brushes and bamboo picks, |
| 2:20.0 | the archaeologist and his team worked through several feet of earth before reaching the top of the crypt. |
| 2:26.0 | When Bellantoni lifted the first of the large flat rocks that formed the roof, |
| 2:31.0 | he uncovered the remains of a red painted coffin and a pair of skeletal feet. |
| 2:36.6 | They lay, he remembers, in perfect anatomical position. |
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