“YOUR OTHER SELF: DISTURBING DOPPELGANGERS” and “MERCY BROWN, VAMPIRE” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: We uncover the chilling case of Mercy Brown; a tale of tuberculosis, superstition, and unearthing graves. The story takes us to a place between reality and myth… and vampires. *** But first – for hundreds of years people have had chilling encounters with what would be described as their doubles. We're peeling back the veil between our world and the uncanny world of duplicates that haunt our imagination – and very possibly our reality. We’ll look at real-life cases of these spectral twins and explore the history and hauntings of doppelgangers!
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Vampire, Mercy Brown” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4p9zxjuk
“Your Other Self: Disturbing Accounts of Real Doppelgangers” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycknh8n2
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Step into the extraordinary with auditory anthology, a podcast series where science fiction short stories come alive. |
| 0:26.2 | Narrated by me, your voice of Weird Darkness, and curated by Keith Conrad, |
| 0:30.8 | each episode is a journey into imagination. |
| 0:34.0 | Explore cosmic wonders and futuristic tales |
| 0:37.0 | and dive into a universe of stories |
| 0:39.0 | where the impossible is possible. |
| 0:41.3 | Auditory anthology, available Auditory anthology.com and on Apple, Spotify or your |
| 0:47.6 | podcast player of choice. Stories and |
| 0:52.5 | content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is |
| 0:55.8 | intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:57.8 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. Tails of Doppelgangers go back hundreds of years and are some of the most unnerving and disturbing unexplained |
| 1:15.8 | encounters on record. |
| 1:18.0 | What's more, there are legends from multiple ancient civilizations and cultures around the world from thousands of years ago that |
| 1:25.7 | also clearly speak of entities that we would recognize as a doppelganger in the modern world. The word itself, doppelganger, is of Germanic origin, meaning |
| 1:37.8 | double walker, quite literally a body double. And, quite often, appearances of these other versions of oneself were |
| 1:46.6 | a portent of bad things to come, with many believing them to be a sign of a person's |
| 1:52.1 | impending death. |
| 1:54.4 | While there are many tales and accounts of Doppelganger encounters in the modern world, |
| 1:59.6 | arguably some of the most intriguing comes to us from previous centuries, not least as they often |
| 2:06.4 | involved well-known figures who would seemingly have had a lot to lose by making such |
| 2:11.4 | rash claims. In some extreme circumstances persecution from the church. |
| 2:17.0 | Perhaps one of the earliest recorded encounters with a doppelganger occurred in Paris in 1612 when a man claimed to have seen his wife. |
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