“WAKE THE DEAD” and More True and Macabre Stories (PLUS BLOOPERS)! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: I’m pretty sure that unless you were born of a virgin, died, and then rose from the grave three days later, no one has had any real success at bringing people back from the underworld. But that’s exactly what people who practice necromancy try to do – wake the dead. They can’t be successful at it though, can they? (Raising The Dead) *** The people of Japan have a myth of a terrible snake-like creature with death-dealing powers called a Tsuchinoko. But unlike many legends, there have been modern sightings of this bizarre cryptid. Is it real? If so, what could it be? (Is The Legendary Tsuchinoko Real?) *** At the age of only 14, George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person in history to be put to death in the electric chair. Then, seventy years later he was proven innocent. (The Execution of an Innocent) *** A snowy November day, a bus full of students, and an icy lake. It was about to become the day of the worst school-related accident in Washington state history. (School Bus Plunges To An Icy Death) *** They were cigar-shaped, glowed red and could turn on a dime. Which ruled out even the most sophisticated rockets of the time. What is it that World War II fighter pilots were seeing in the skies flying with them? (The UFOs of World War 2) *** (Originally aired June 01, 2020)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II by Keith Chester: https://amzn.to/2MdWUHl
“Is The Legendary Tsuchinoko Real?” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://tinyurl.com/y7aoznc2
“The Execution of an Innocent” from Bugged Space: https://tinyurl.com/yagynb2y
“Zombie Science” by Kimberly Hickok for Live Science: https://tinyurl.com/ybud3hly
“Raising The Dead” by Jen Jeffers for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/y9g48lkz
“The UFOs of World War 2” by Adam Janos for History: https://tinyurl.com/yamx3hnl
“School Bus Plunges To An Icy Death” by Daryl McClary for History Link: https://tinyurl.com/ybtxdrrl
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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. |
| 0:47.0 | There are a few things in life more permanent and guaranteed than death. |
| 0:59.0 | Yet that doesn't stop us from imagining what life would be like if death was only temporary. |
| 1:06.1 | In numerous movies and TV shows, reanimated human corpses roam the world, having avoided |
| 1:12.4 | the permanent stillness of death, only to devour the living. |
| 1:17.0 | Now, we know zombies aren't real, but reanimated corpses aren't exactly a figment of the imagination. |
| 1:24.6 | Both necromancers and scientists have been attempting to restore life to the dead for hundreds |
| 1:30.2 | of years. |
| 1:32.0 | In the 1800s, |
| 1:33.0 | Geovani Aldini became famous for his spectacular demonstrations of |
| 1:38.0 | reanimating human and animal corpses |
| 1:41.0 | by stimulating them with powerful electrical shocks. |
| 1:45.0 | He would hook a battery up to dismembered humans or animals and cause the corpse to convuls as though it were alive. |
| 1:54.0 | Audience members were awestruck, despite the fact the creature never actually came back |
| 1:59.8 | to life. |
| 2:01.7 | Aldini knew he wasn't actually reviving the dead, though that didn't stop him from trying, and |
| 2:07.6 | neither did the scientists who followed him. By the 1930s, attempts to resurrect the death with electricity had fizzled, but the fascination |
| 2:18.0 | with reanimation was far from dead. |
| 2:21.7 | One of the most famous scientists in the field of reanimation is Robert E. Cornish, an American |
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