“THE HORROR BEFORE AMITYVILLE” and More True Scary Stories plus some Horror Fiction! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: We’ve all heard of the Headless Horseman – but Sleepy Hollow's lesser-known ghost will terrify you all the more. (The Bronze Lady of Sleepy Hollow) *** Theodore Roosevelt was so tough, that during one of his speeches he was shot in the chest – but still kept going until his speech was over. And then there was Alice, his daughter – who may have been even tougher than Teddy! (A Bullet And a Voodoo Doll) *** An icy cold hand caresses a girl in the middle of the night. (A Comfort) *** For most people, spotting a UFO would be considered extremely unusual, but for two Ohio women, seeing a UFO was the least surprising part of their experience. (UFOs And Time Distortions) *** Was there another gunman in the notorious Amityville House murders? (The Defeo Family Massacre) *** AND A WHOLE LOT MORE!
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“The Defeo Family Massacre” posted at The UnRedacted: https://tinyurl.com/uuc9r6c
“The Bronze Lady of Sleepy Hollow” by Jessica Ferri for The Line Up: http://ow.ly/fmVz30mX4TL
“A Bullet And A Voodoo Doll” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: https://tinyurl.com/v8v8q7f
“A Comfort” by Lady Madonna, posted at YourGhostStories.com: https://tinyurl.com/yx4y7xvz
“UFOs and Time Distortions” by Tim Swartz at UFO Review: https://tinyurl.com/w4plgq2
The original horror short story, “I Was Born With Superhuman Abilities” by Alayne Winters – posted at Creepypasta.com: https://tinyurl.com/rlxl9lr
“Leaving the Hospital” by Weirdo family member, Louise Latham – submitted directly to Weird Darkness
“To the Moon and Back” submitted anonymously to Weird Darkness
The fictional story, “Don’t Let This Be You” by Hikari Shimizu – posted at Creepypasta.com: https://tinyurl.com/r42rmmm
“Grandma’s House” by Weirdo family member, Rachel West – submitted directly to Weird Darkness
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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. |
| 0:48.0 | The iconic Dutch colonial-style building at 112 Ocean Avenue Amityville is best known today for the extraordinary |
| 0:56.6 | account of a haunting at the house in 1976. |
| 1:00.9 | The Amityville horror, as it was soon known, became one of the most famous incidents of |
| 1:06.0 | paranormal activity ever recorded. |
| 1:09.0 | It would inspire a book and a successful series of Hollywood films. |
| 1:14.0 | The account of the Young Lutz family being tormented by demonic pigs, |
| 1:19.0 | plagues of flies and green slime oozing from the walls, terrified readers and moviegoers, all the more |
| 1:26.5 | so because it was labeled as a true story. |
| 1:30.4 | One surprisingly little-known fact about the Amityville horror is that it was an |
| 1:35.2 | admitted hoax. George Lutz and his wife Kathy invented the haunting with the help of lawyer |
| 1:41.9 | and literary agent William Weber. the far more frightening and mysterious than the fanciful tales of Poltergeist's Hollywood |
| 1:54.6 | gave the world, because in the same house, less than two years earlier, one of the strangest |
| 2:01.1 | and most baffling of mass murders in recent history occurred. |
| 2:05.7 | And the true events may not be the story that you're familiar with. |
| 2:11.2 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:15.0 | Welcome weird darkness. |
| 2:20.0 | Welcome weirdos, I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the |
| 2:28.7 | paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the Strange and Bazaar, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, |
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