Old-Time Radio Marathon, EPISODE 0222 #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. IN THIS EPISODE: America’s foremost exorcist, Theophilus Riesinger, faced off with Lucifer himself in the grueling 1928 case of a demonic possession in a rural Iowa convent. (The Exorcism of Emma Schmidt) *** One of the greatest magicians of all time was Chung Ling Soo. So adept at illusion, slight of hand, and fooling others that he was able to lead a double life… before being shot and killed performing his own magic trick. (The Magician Who Lived a Double Life) *** John Dee claimed he was visited by angels presented him with a secret language just angels, and the ability to perform a new magic they called Enochian. We’ll look at his claims. (John Dee And The Language of Angels) *** A little boy goes fishing on a Spring day. He disappears. Another boy goes fishing nearby on the exact same day. He also disappears. A third child goes missing many years later in the same general area. What happened? (The Missing Fishing Boys) *** Venice's Poveglia Island was a quarantine center and mass grave for victims of bubonic plague – so it should come as no surprise it is considered one of the most haunted places in all of Europe. (Poveglia: The Island of Ghosts) *** It is one of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries… what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke? We’ll look at a few theories. (Lost Roanoke) *** You snap a selfie of the squad at brunch, but it’s covered with shapes and light that definitely weren’t present IRL. The whole thing is giving you major paranormal feels. Is it a loved one from the other side, making a cameo in your latest feed pic? Or a simple technological mishap? (The Trouble With Ghost Orbs) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Cold Open and Show Intro 00:05:31.651 = The Trouble With Ghost Orbs 00:31:19.344 = The Magician Who Lived a Double Life 00:38:32.721 = Lost Roanoke 00:45:34.757 = Poveglia: The Island of Ghosts 00:53:58.463 = The Missing Fishing Boys 01:07:54.624 = John Dee And The Language Of The Angels 01:15:47.083 = The Exorcism of Emma Schmidt 01:23:30.260 = Show Close SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… BOOK: “Ghosts on Film” by Troy Taylor: https://amzn.to/3ORYS14 BOOK: “The Prestige” by Christopher Priest: https://amzn.to/47ulw6O FILM: “The Prestige” directed by Christopher Nolan: https://amzn.to/3DP1OVU BOOK: “Finding Marjorie West” by Harold Thomas Beck: https://amzn.to/451zviR BOOK: “Begone Satan!” by Fr. Carl Vogl: https://amzn.to/3rYIjHK “The Trouble With Ghost Orbs” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/443n228f; Vicki Carroll for Exemplore: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/pknn5n3r; Ann Massey for Spooky Isles: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9xp8t7; and Bonnie Page from the Sentinal & Enterprise:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y5w8h2m6

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar.  IN THIS EPISODE: In 1856, two young children – Joseph and George Cox – disappeared in the Allegheny Mountains. The story is tragic… and it also has a bizarre ending. (Lost Children of the Alleghenies) *** Is he an elf? A troll? Not only is it hard to classify Latin America’s El Duende – but it’s even difficult to know if he’s good, evil, or just a mischievous menace! (Duende The Menace) *** Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery just outside of Chicago is a mystery. No one knows exactly how it got its name; no one is sure when the first burial there took place or why it has since been abandoned; there is no explanation for the strange lights that are often seen there, or the ghostly lady, or the phantom horse and rider. (Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery) *** A man is found in a graveyard with a bullet to his skull, barely alive. He died later – but what exactly happened to him is a bit of a mystery. Our guess though is that it had something to do with him being a grave robber. (A Grave Robber’s Fate) *** Forensics has come a long way over the years, making it harder and harder for criminals to get away with crimes – particularly brutal crimes where DNA is usually left behind because of a struggle or physical assault. But despite technological advancements, there are still those cases that remain unsolved – and we’ll look at a few murders of women whose cases still can’t be closed. (Unsolved Female Murders) *** How’s the saying go… “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?” That’s good advice for the living – but probably even more apropos when dealing with female ghosts! (Famous Female Phantoms) *** Imagine you’re in a small town and suddenly you begin seeing people around you starting to change into beastly creatures. They begin attacking those around them, ripping them apart, eating like wild animals. Then suddenly you begin the transformation yourself… you are becoming a werewolf. But you were never bitten by a monster, nor were the townsfolk. How could this be happening? This actually happened in a small town in France… and one of the theories as to how it happened will not only surprise you, but have you wondering if it will happen to you someday. (The Town That Turned Into Werewolves) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Cold Open and Show Intro 00:05:35.813 = The Town That Turned Into Werewolves 00:22:53.521 = Famous Female Phantoms 00:28:51.261 = Unsolved Female Murders 00:42:35.969 = Duende The Menace 00:49:28.303 = Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery 00:55:12.504 = A Grave Robber’s Fate 00:59:53.366 = The Lost Children of the Alleghenies 01:05:54.158 = Show Close 01:08:34.779 = Bloopers/Outtakes SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… BOOK: “Hunting The American Werewolf” by Linda Godfrey: https://amzn.to/45p1poX BOOK: “A Terrible Mistake – The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments” by H.P. Albarelli Jr.: https://amzn.to/3OD2RgR BOOK: “Forbidden Archeology’s Impact” by Michael A. Cremo: https://amzn.to/45nqwbE ARTICLE: “El Duende – San Pedro Folklore” by Angel Nunez: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmmwvj “The Town That Turned Into Werewolves” by Nick Redfern:

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Key To Murder” (March 28, 1975) 00:48:06.972 = Incredible But True, “The Dusk is Deceptive” (ADU) 00:52:10.934 = Inner Sanctum, “Death Is An Artist” (January 23, 1945) 01:23:20.908 = The Key, “Robber Murdered” (ADU) 01:49:01.709 = The Lineup, “Man Dies of Poisoning” (August 10, 1950) 02:20:11.789 = Mindwebs, “The Hall of Machines” (ADU) 02:49:54.940 = Half Hour to Kill, “Blackout” (Never Aired / Audition Episode) ***WD 03:19:47.123 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Beckoning Fair One” (June 05, 1945) ***WD 03:48:39.176 = Murder Clinic, “Tragedy At Marsden Manor” (October 06, 1942) ***WD 04:18:43.802 = Murder at Midnight, “Creeper” (November 25, 1946) ***WD 04:44:21.556 = The Black Museum, “The Notes” (ADU) ***WD 05:09:31.315 = Show Close (ADU) = Air Date Unknown ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing. Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = = = "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46 = = = = = WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness. = = = = =CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0221

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. IN THIS EPISODE: If you are concerned about a family member’s excessive drinking, what do you do? Hold an intervention? Call Alcoholics Anonymous for advice? Perhaps confide in a close friend who might know what to do. In the case of teenaged sisters Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen, they were so frustrated with their mother’s drunken ways they decided to kill her. (Murderous Sisters) *** One reason people don’t like going to dentists is pain – even if there is no pain, just the idea of pain is enough to keep people away. But in the early 1900s there was a dentist so confident he could give you a painless tooth-extraction that he even changed his name to “Painless Parker”. But did his name live up to his claim? (A Dentist Named Painless Parker) *** Cliff Taylor reported seeing not just one, but two UFOs – and even more interesting, one of his sightings sounds like an extraterrestrial mothership… which appeared right next to his own house. And his was only a fraction of the hundreds of sightings that took place in 2008 just north of Philadelphia. (The Bucks County UFO Encounter) *** Of all the sites that are unexplained, the Bermuda Triangle is usually the first one that comes to mind. Located in the Caribbean, it is renowned for the ships and radio signals that have disappeared without explanation in recent years. Yet, there is another, perhaps lesser known region in which the inexplicable occurs. This location is often referred to quite simply as Mexico's Zone of Silence. (The Mexican Zone of Death) *** The definition of “punishment” is, “the infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed.” In most cases we look to serve punishment in proper proportion to the crime being committed – reserving the most severe punishments for the worst of the worst. But that has not always been the case – and there have been a lot of punishments doled out that we would consider worse than death – and for crimes we might not even consider crimes today. (Punishments Worse Than Death) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Cold Open and Show Intro 00:05:01.792 = Punishments Worse Than Death 00:25:49.973 = Murderous Sisters 00:38:01.037 = The Mexican Zone of Silence 00:43:37.158 = The Bucks County UFO Encounter 01:00:05.680 = A Dentist Named Painless Parker 01:06:24.666 = Show Close SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… BOOK: “The Jesuit Relations” by Allan Greer: https://amzn.to/441pgd9 BOOK: “Torture And Democracy” by Darius Rejali: https://amzn.to/3OseYgr BOOK: “The History of Torture” by George Ryley Scott: https://amzn.to/44XZA2l BOOK: “Execution” by Geoffrey Abbott: https://amzn.to/3KtWUS3 ARTICLE: “Bermuda Triangle Explained?” https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3n4u8knf “Murderous Sisters” by Trilby Beresford for Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8wvcj8; and A.W. Naves for Medium: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/59bek3w6 “The Bucks County UFO Encounter” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight:

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show.  IN THIS EPISODE: It was kept secret for years that the U.S. government spent millions of dollars and decades of research and experiments looking into the paranormal, trying to weaponize psychic powers like remote viewing and mind control. We were told they didn’t find much success – but could that be part of an ongoing secret? What if they did succeed, but don’t want us to know due to “national security” reasons? And what if they aren’t just spying on our enemies, but also on us, the country’s citizens? And if they can do that… can they also control our minds to make us think and do whatever they wish? It’s a disturbing journey. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “The U.S. Government Dabbles In The Occult” by Colin Dickey for The New Republic:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckjnw39 “Remote Viewing and the CIA” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mte672ey “Mind Control and MKUltra” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p96m772 BOOK: “Phenomena – The Secret History of the U. S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis” by Annie Jacobsen: https://amzn.to/3QudCnX BOOK: “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Military Base” by Annie Jacobsen: https://amzn.to/3s3g3Uv BOOK: “The Men Who Stare At Goats” by Jon Ronson: https://amzn.to/440YHox BOOK: “The Pentagon’s Brain – An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secrete Military Research Agency” by Annie Jacobsen: https://amzn.to/3YmhQQH BOOK: “Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain” by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder: https://amzn.to/3DKmeiX BOOK: “The Mystery Chronicles – More Real-Life X-Files” by Joe Nickell: https://amzn.to/43XgVHw BOOK: “The Seventh Sense – The Secrets of Remote Viewing As Told By A Psychic Spy For The U.S. Military” by Lyn Buchanan: https://amzn.to/3s28ygD BOOK: “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/3Ylpue5 VIDEO: (Spoon Bending) Jack Houck PK Party at 1985 Psychotronics Assoc. Conference: https://youtu.be/wFsfaCIE34s VIDEO: Roseanne Barr Reveals MKUltra In Hollywood: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p92cmz9 EPISODE: “Murdered By 1980s’s Video Games: The Truth Behind POLYBIUS and Berzerk”: https://weirddarkness.com/?s=polybius Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = = (Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have...