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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“UFOs, BIGFOOT, GHOSTS and PARANORMAL FOREST FIRES” and more Creepy TRUE Stories! #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Help spread the darkness! VOTE FOR THIS EPISODE at https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvjsnkbz – you can vote up to 3X per day! Find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app at https://weirddarkness.com/listen. PLEASE SHARE WEIRD DARKNESS® in your social media and with others who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do!
IN THIS EPISODE: The author of Frankenstein always saw love and death as connected. She visited the cemetery to commune with her dead mother. And with her lover. (Mary Shelley’s Obsession With The Cemetery) *** A girl moves into a new apartment and discovers that a haunting doesn’t necessarily have to be frightening. (Ghostly Happenings In My Old Apartment) *** The July 1886 murder at the Shawmut Avenue laundry was so shrouded in mystery that even the victim’s name was uncertain. (The Wash-House Murder) *** Ghosts, high strangeness, and even Bigfoot – it appears they may all have something in common, and that would be forest fires. (Forest Fires and the Paranormal) *** How do you explain an experienced lookout reporting a blazing forest fire, only for it to disappear less than an hour later – leaving no trace? (Phantom Flames)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Phantom Flames” by F.A.Loomis from Idaho Magazine: http://ow.ly/beq730nL94u
“Forest Fires and the Paranormal” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: http://ow.ly/ROYC30nL8n1
“Mary Shelley’s Obsession With The Cemetery” by Bess Lovejoy for the JSTOR Daily: https://tinyurl.com/y9cgd29w
“Ghostly Happenings In My Old Apartment” by Cassie D, posted at MyHauntedLifeToo,com: https://tinyurl.com/ycexszvm

“The Wash-House Murder” by Robert Wilhelm, from the book “Wicked Victorian Boston”: https://amzn.to/2BGJOO0
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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. True Crime with a dash of the

0:37.0

with a dash of the paranormal, the garish, the strange in the darkly comic.

0:42.0

I'm Evan O'Lberg, host of Kind of Merrick. the mention, home to a curated collection of bizarre and compelling stories, the unsolved, the unsettling,

0:56.3

and the unbelievable. I cover it all, just so long as it's kind of murdering. Look for kind of murdering wherever you get your

1:03.8

podcasts. Stories and content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some

1:08.8

listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parent parental discretion is strongly advised.

1:15.0

It happened in the summer of 1976, the event that threw me entirely off the rails.

1:25.0

I had taken a summer job as a U.S. Forest Service employee near Central Idaho's primitive area.

1:32.0

I was paid to watch four forest fires from a rocky

1:35.2

pinnacle several thousand feet above the wild south fork of the Salmon River.

1:40.3

The lookout was Pilot Peak in the Payette National Forest near Warren, not to be confused

1:46.6

with Pilot Peak in the Boise National Forest.

1:50.7

Six or seven days after I arrived at my post by helicopter in July, I was trying to fall asleep next to a glass wall in the lookout tower.

1:59.0

Frustrated, with sleeplessness at 2 a.m. I opened my eyes and scanned the outline of black mountains around

2:06.2

me. The skies were cloudy, but the cloud ceiling was high enough for me to see ridge tops

2:12.2

up to 30 miles away. Almost immediately, my eyes fell on a

2:17.4

bright orange triangle near the crest of a mountain in the southwest.

2:23.0

Stunned by what I saw, I leaped from my bunk, pulled on pants in a coat, leased my boots, and

2:28.6

dug a flashlight out of a drawer, all the while glancing at what I perceived to be a forest fire.

2:34.6

I slapped my face, splashed cold water into my eyes and down my cheeks, and then walked

2:40.0

out onto the catwalk with binoculars. Sure enough, through the lenses I could see a patch of

2:46.0

flame and a couple of huge trees crowning out with fire. Breathing heavily, I went back

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