“The True Story Behind ‘THE ENTITY’: The Doris Bithers Case” and More True Horrors! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: The investigation on August 22, 1974, in Culver City California was to be like any other one Dr. Barry Taff had done. Believing that this would be an open and shut case they showed up at Doris Bither’s house. Not expecting much. Little did they know this would be one of the biggest cases in the annals of paranormal history. (“The Entity Haunting: The True Story of Doris Bither”) *** One of the most mysterious disappearances of the American twentieth century took place when a man named Bruce Nelson Campbell stumbled out of his Jacksonville motel room one night, dressed only in a pair of green pajamas, and was never seen again. (“The Man In The Green Pajamas”) *** A woman moves into a flat by herself and immediately begins to feel an uncomfortable presence around her. (“Tiny Apartment, Big Presence”) *** On a cold January morning, John Hoskins slaughtered three members of his family. (“A Day That Began with Death: The Hoskins Family Murders of 1919”)
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“The Man In The Green Pajamas” written by Troy Taylor & Lisa Taylor Horton: https://tinyurl.com/y4a68c3p
“Tiny Apartment, Big Presence” written by KatsWhiskers: https://tinyurl.com/yxmb9d67
“A Day That Began with Death: The Hoskins Family Murders of 1919”, written by John Brassard Jr.: https://tinyurl.com/weq3ytl
“The Entity Haunting: The True Story of Doris Bither” written by Xavier Ortega: https://tinyurl.com/y8fv25w
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| 0:00.0 | Step into the extraordinary with auditory anthology, a podcast series where science fiction short stories come alive. |
| 0:08.0 | Narrated by me, your voice of weird darkness, and curated by Keith Conrad, each episode is a journey into imagination |
| 0:15.2 | explore cosmic wonders and futuristic tales and dive into a universe of stories |
| 0:20.3 | where the impossible is Possible, auditory anthology. |
| 0:24.3 | Available at auditory anthology.com and on Apple, Spotify, or your podcast player of choice. |
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| 0:37.8 | Stories and content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:39.6 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. Doris Bither claimed that spirits would physically attack her. |
| 1:00.5 | The reports ranged from Doris walking around her home and bumping into the ghosts to actual spectral rape. |
| 1:07.5 | Of course, Taff and Gainer were skeptical of all this. |
| 1:11.5 | Ghost apparitions are a hard thing to prove and collect evidence |
| 1:15.7 | for from a scientific perspective. Ghostly rape is even harder to believe. It was not until they saw the bruises in her inner thighs and all |
| 1:25.4 | over her body, as well as people outside the family corroborating by testifying that they had also |
| 1:31.9 | seen apparitionsitions that both investigators started to take heed |
| 1:36.4 | as to what Doris was saying. |
| 1:39.4 | Doris Bitha reported that two of the beings were the smallest ones and would hold her down, while the biggest or tallest one would rape her. |
| 1:48.0 | Doris's eldest son would admit to seeing his mother being tossed around the room. In one instance, he tried to intervene |
| 1:55.9 | and was thrown across the room by an unseen force. |
| 2:01.0 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the |
| 2:19.1 | paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, |
| 2:29.3 | unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 2:33.0 | Coming up in this episode, the investigation on August 22nd, 1974 in Culver City, California, was to be like any other one Dr. Barry Taft had done. |
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