Forgottendarkness - Podcast Details

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Forgotten Darkness112 - The Death of Sadanori ShimoyamaThe president of the post-WWII Japanese railway system dies under mysterious circumstances, and in the following weeks, two incidents of railway sabotage occur. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses...2023-07-0514 min

Forgotten DarknessThe Real Stories of L.A. Noire, Part TwoThese five stories comprise the homicide cases in L.A. Noire. These are the murders of former aviator Jeanne French (“The Red Lipstick Murder”), teetotaller Dorothy Montgomery (“The Golden Butterfly”), soon-to-be-divorcee Rosenda Mondragon (“The Silk Stocking Murder”), housewife Laura Trelstad (“The White Shoe Slaying”) and the homeless Evelyn Winters (“The Studio Secretary Murder”). Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network...2023-06-0337 min

Forgotten Darkness110 - The Real Stories of L.A. Noire, Part OneThese are three of the stories that inspired cases in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire. Here are the stories of overstressed engineer Eugene White ("The Driver's Seat"), the accidental death of Jay Dee Chitwood and his wife's drunken confession ("A Marriage Made in Heaven"), and the avoidable disaster of O'Connor Electroplating ("Nicholson Electroplating"). Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the...2023-05-2225 min

Forgotten Darkness109 - The Champion Jail-BreakerJohn Frankford was a notorious thief of pretty much anything that wasn't nailed down. His 30 year career in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is a series of crimes, arrests, and jailbreaks, punctuated with the occasional jail sentence that's actually served. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dar...2023-04-0450 min

Forgotten Darkness108 - The Morner Family MurdersOn December 12, 1911, a missed milk delivery led to the discovery of four dead bodies on a farm near Albany, New York. The possible murderer can't be found. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (h...2022-11-2727 min

Forgotten Darkness107 - The Unaccountable Troublers of GloucesterIn the summer of 1692 Gloucester, Massachusetts was under siege by a mysterious group of men even as the infamous witch trials occurred only a few miles away in Salem. The besiegers of Gloucester were never captured or even located, if they really existed at all... Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ 2022-10-2515 min

Forgotten Darkness106 - Philadelphia’s Phantom StranglerFor three years in the 1920s, the women of northwest Philadelphia were terrorized by a madman who entered homes and attacked or even killed whoever was within. Were these killings work of serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson? Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Chi...2022-09-2534 min

Forgotten Darkness105 - Martin Wilkes and the Polish Church WarIn 1889, tensions between the Polish and Lithuanian congregants of St. Mary's in Plymouth, PA were fanned to a fever pitch by a violent troublemaker, a Polish man named Martin Wilkes. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com...2022-09-0535 min

Forgotten Darkness104 - The Thames Torso MurdersThe annals of late Victorian era crime are usually dominated by one name, but another series of murders, ones lesser-known but more grisly, took place from 1886-1889 with some outlying cases that may or may not have been connected. Were these murders all the work of the same offender? In some cases, were they even murders at all? Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Forgotten Darkness Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1NsgqAha9Z3bMhBxg8FuM2tRLqwjH5-_F&usp=sharing 2022-08-0646 min

Forgotten Darkness103 - The Tenth PlanetHypothetical planets are those theorized to exist, whether by observation or prediction by means of examining gravitational fields. Several hypotheticals are discussed, with the story of the planet Vulcan, at one time thought to exist between Mercury and the Sun, discussed in-depth. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music...2022-07-1315 min

Forgotten Darkness102 - The Deadly Dr. HydeIn 1910, Dr. B.C. Hyde was put on trial for the murder of Colonel Thomas Swope, a wealthy Kansas City landowner the year before. Also included in the charges were manslaughter and several counts of attempted murder. This is a case I've gone back and forth on several times. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons...2022-05-2431 min

Forgotten Darkness101 - The Mystery of J.C.R.An unidentified, mostly noncommunicative man in a Minnesota mental hospital, known as J.C.R., was the plaintiff in a case to prove his identity as a North Dakota rancher's son. Who was J.C.R.? Will we ever know? Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma....2022-05-0532 min

Forgotten Darkness100 - The Sable TerrorThe “woman in black” stalked the streets of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and other towns and villages in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties in the winter of 1886-1887 and into the 1930s. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 1886. Scra...2022-03-2936 min

Forgotten Darkness99 - The Bowery Slasher In the winter of 1891-1892, a series of slashing attacks - and one murder - took place in the rough streets of the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, barely a stone's throw from the seedy hotel where “Old Shakespeare” was slain only a few months before. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4...2022-03-0217 min

Forgotten Darkness98 - The Epworth PoltergeistIn the early 1700s, the Lincolnshire rectory of Reverend Samuel Wesley, whose son John went on to found the Methodist Church, was haunted by a poltergeist, one which the Wesley children named Old Jeffrey. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Bruce...2022-02-1122 min

Forgotten Darkness97 - The Cult of the Great Eleven, Part TwoIn 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin...2022-01-2036 min

Forgotten Darkness96 - The Cult of the Great Eleven, Part OneIn 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin...2021-12-2722 min

Forgotten Darkness95 - The Disappearance of the NaronicThe White Star Line lost many ships over the years, most famously the Titanic in 1912. But over its century of existence, it had only one ship vanish without a trace. Did it sink in a storm? Explode due to its volatile cargo? This is the story of the Naronic. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org...2021-12-1119 min

Forgotten Darkness94 -The Meeks Family MurdersIn 1894, an injured young girl arrives on the doorstep of a Missouri farmhouse. She was Nellie Meeks, and she was the sole survivor of the murder of her entire family. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Burnt Clothing of Gus Meeks.” St...2021-11-2325 min

Forgotten Darkness93 -Death Most Mysterious, Part TwoSeveral mysterious deaths are described here – two with hints of conspiracy and cover-up, those of Allyn King Foster and Rudolph Bogovich, and another case of apparently not-so-spontaneous combustion. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Allyn King Foster – January 17, 1942 “Au...2021-10-3121 min

Forgotten Darkness92 - Death Most Mysterious, Part OneSeveral mysterious deaths are described here – a quartet of cases described by Charles Fort, those of Captain George M. Colvocoresses, the English case of Lavinia Farrar, Lillian Green and her death at the Lake Denmark Hotel in New Jersey, and the “locked door” death of New York launderer Isidore Fink. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creati...2021-10-0421 min

Forgotten Darkness91 - The Kelayres MassacreThe election of 1934 saw Democrats gain headway nationally in the wake of the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Republicans in Kelayres, Pennsylvania, dominated by the Bruno family, weren't going to go down without a fight. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES 2021-09-1631 min

Forgotten Darkness90 - The Red Man of the TuileriesThe Tuileries Palace in Paris was supposedly haunted by a red, dwarfish figure that warned inhabitants of imminent catastrophy. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Red Man: The Tuileries Palace Ghost - Geri Walton The Li...2021-08-1917 min

Forgotten Darkness89 - William EtlingerIn 1909, in the book Pennsylvania Mountain Stories, Henry W. Shoemaker recounted the tale of “The Black Wolf of Oak Valley.” The names in this story were changed, and after digging around, I found the original tale that this story was based on: the 1896 saga of outlaw William Etlinger. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/lice...2021-08-0427 min

Forgotten Darkness88 - The Tichborne ClaimantIn 1854, heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, Roger Tichborne, disappears after a shipwreck. He's presumed dead until, in 1865, an Australian butcher comes forward and announces himself to be the missing nobleman. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Sir Roger Tichborne.” Sydney Morning Herald, J...2021-05-2830 min

Forgotten Darkness87 - The Green Bicycle MysteryIn 1919, 21-year old Bella Wright was shot on a roadside near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, England. The man thought to have committed the crime was acquitted. But the question remains: did he do it? Or if not, exactly what did happen that July evening? Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY...2021-05-0434 min

Forgotten Darkness86 - The Wheels of OrffyreusScientists and laymen alike have long sought to build a machine capable of perpetual motion. Several attempts are described here, especially focusing on the well-documented, and still controversial, efforts of Johann Bessler, better known as Orffyreus. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ...2021-04-1336 min

Forgotten Darkness85 - Don't Call It Murder, Call It A JobIn late 1930s Philadelphia, a murder-for-profit ring rivalling the French Affair of the Poisons, run by two cousins named Petrillo, is uncovered. This is the story of the Poison Ring. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. S...2021-03-2544 min

Forgotten Darkness84 - The Phantom Stabber of BridgeportFrom 1925-1927, the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut was terrorized by an individual who came to be known as the “Phantom Stabber.” This unidentified person stabbed at least 25 people, mainly teenage girls. None of his victims were seriously injured, though. But in the wake of the Bridgeport attacks, other cities in Connecticut begin to experience assaults of their own, leading to the question: just how many victims did the Stabber really have? Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: www.straightupstrange.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/group...2021-03-0543 min

Forgotten Darkness83 - The Periphery of the CanonIn the midst of the furor in the press, British and otherwise, circulating around the notorious Jack The Ripper murders in Whitechapel, references are made to a number of murders attributed to the same killer. Several of these cases are discussed here, and the particulars of them examined to determine whether the notion of their being Ripper murders is a theory with any merit. SOURCES “A Jack the Ripper in Holland.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, November 25, 1898. “Another Jack the Ripper.” Mound Valley (KS) Herald, September 8, 1893. “Brutal Murder in St. Catherine.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, Jan...2021-02-1236 min

Forgotten Darkness82 - The Mystery of Kaspar HauserIn 1828, a young man wandered into the city of Nuremberg. No older than fifteen or sixteen, he told a strange story, of how he had been kept in a dungeon for years, ignorant of where he was or who was keeping him there. And one day, he was pulled from his prison and sent to the city. For the next several years, controversy raged as to who this young man was. And in 1833 he would die, his death, like his life, a mystery. Was he a noble plucked from death and hidden away? Was he a foundling exiled from...2020-11-1934 min

Forgotten Darkness81 - The Demon of the BelfrySan Francisco, 1895. One of the more notorious trials of the 19th Century was that of Theo Durrant, "the Demon of the Belfry," for the murders of two young ladies in Emmanuel Baptist Church. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by...2020-10-2852 min

Forgotten Darkness80 - The Smallest of the SmallCaroline Crachami, "The Sicilian Fairy," was one of the earliest identified cases of primordial dwarfism known. She was barely a foot and a half feet tall. The Mexican Lucia Zarate had a similar condition. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by...2020-10-1020 min

Forgotten Darkness79 - Helen EikerThe story of Helen Eiker, a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania woman who was the first woman convicted of homicide in Adams County. At only 18, she was one of the youngest people convicted, as well. There was a loose connection with the Pennsylvania Dutch magical tradition known as pow-wow. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Da...2020-09-2620 min

Forgotten Darkness78 - The Phantom of O'Donnell HeightsIn the summer of 1951, a housing project in southeastern Baltimore claims to be the haunt of a hunchbacked, black-clad phantom which leaps extraordinary distances a la Spring-Heeled Jack. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ...2020-09-1221 min

Forgotten Darkness77 - The Death of Ocey Snead1909. 24-year-old Oceana Wardlaw Martin Snead is found in a bathtub in a nearly-vacant house in East Orange, New Jersey. The only other inhabitant, her aunt, claims she committed suicide. Was it suicide, murder, or a weird hybrid of the two? Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https...2020-08-2637 min

Forgotten Darkness76 - The Devil's FootprintsIn 1855, in new-fallen snow in Devonshire, a trail of small hooflike footprints led for miles. Similar footprints have been found on several occasions, most notably during the 1909 Jersey Devil sightings. But what are these mysterious footprints? Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC...2020-08-1127 min

Forgotten Darkness75 - Earle Leonard Nelson, Part ThreeThe Canadian authorities put Earle Leonard Nelson on trial for the two Winnipeg murders, and he meets his eventual fate. There’s also discussion of his bizarre past, and some other crimes that may or may not be his handiwork. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787544518302500/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening mus...2020-07-2148 min

Forgotten Darkness74 - Earle Leonard Nelson, Part TwoThe police are on the trail of “Adrian Harris,” even as Earle Leonard Nelson leaves the West Coast behind for a cross-country killing spree at a considerably quickened pace. But his spree comes to an end in June, 1927... Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Intro music “Strange Dream” by David Hilowitz. Opening music from https://filmmusi...2020-07-0441 min

Forgotten Darkness73 - Earle Leonard Nelson, Part OneThroughout 1926 and 1927, a so-called "Dark Strangler" roamed up and down the West Coast and eventually across the country. Earle Leonard Nelson was one of the more prolific American serial killers, but his name isn't as well known as many others. In the first part, I'll look at his crimes on the West Coast. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/...2020-06-1641 min

Forgotten Darkness72 - The Dwayyo and the SnallygasterIn the 1930s, a flying creature haunted Maryland, one whose name became almost synonymous with freakish beings. And thirty years later, another animal, one which was connected in some people’s minds to the previous one. These are most of the original accounts of these two creatures as described in the newspapers. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ ...2020-05-2644 min

Forgotten Darkness71 - Dr. Francis TumbletyCalled a “notorious quack,” Dr. Francis Tumblety was a peddler of fake medicines, an abortionist, part of the Lincoln assassination plot, or even Jack the Ripper – depending on who you believe. We’ll look at his career and crimes and whether or not he’s even viable as a Ripper suspect. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening mu...2020-05-1450 min

Forgotten Darkness70 - The Lost NinthSometime around the middle of the First Century AD, the Ninth Legion of the Roman army completely disappears from all records. In the oldest story I've yet covered on the podcast, I'll take a look at the known history of the Ninth Legion, as well as the theories on what happened to it. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/2020-05-0122 min

Forgotten Darkness69 - The Brownout StranglerCities during wartime often eliminate outdoor lighting, and severely limit indoor lighting, to cut down on the effectiveness of air raids. Most famous of these blackouts are those utilized in Britain during the two World Wars, and particularly in London during the German raids of the Blitz. The Australian government used a similar tactic to combat Japanese air raids, though these restrictions were eased in the middle of 1942. Around that time, a killer prowled the streets, taking advantage of the darkened conditions. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness ...2020-04-1830 min

Forgotten Darkness68 - The Dagg PoltergeistIn 1889, a lonely farmhouse in southern Quebec was afflicted by a series of ghostly manifestations, which seem to be centered on a Scottish orphan girl living in the home. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)2020-03-3128 min

Forgotten Darkness67 - The Murder of Betsy AardsmaOn November 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma was stabbed and killed among the bookshelves of the Pattee Library at Penn State University. 50 years later, the case remains unsolved, with the main suspect having died in 2002. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons...2020-03-1935 min

Forgotten Darkness66 - The Disappearance of Benjamin BathurstShortly after the signing of the treaty of Schönnbrun in October of 1809, bringing an end to Austrian involvement in the Fifth Napoleonic War, a British official on a mission to the Austrian court vanished without a trace. He was in Germany, on his way back to British territories, and while examining his horses at an inn near Berlin, he walked around to the other side of his horses – and disappeared, never to be seen again. Or that's the way it's usually told. Podcast Site: https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness I...2020-03-0328 min

Forgotten Darkness65 - The Ratcliffe Highway MurdersIn December 1811, two households in the borough of Wapping, one of the docks districts of east London were annihilated in a pair of brutal and apparently motiveless crimes. After the crimes, the murderer was disposed of in a novel and unusual fashion. Twenty years later, they were described in Thomas De Quincey's satirical essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” as “the sublimest and most entire in their excellence that ever were committed.” Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Openin...2020-02-1830 min

Forgotten Darkness64 - The Ships on the IceThe HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus disappeared on the Franklin Expedition searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Six years later, a ship bound for Canada from Ireland saw two ships on an iceberg off Newfoundland. Were they the lost Franklin Expedition? Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Floating Cities" and "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. ...2020-02-0527 min

Forgotten Darkness63 - A Blaze on BanyanLucille Miller was a California housewife who, in 1964, was accused of murdering her dentist husband in a fiery accident on a lonely road through a lemon grove. The ensuing case is one of the most muddled and morally-unclear I have ever come across. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Giant Wyrm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com...2020-01-2432 min

Forgotten Darkness62 - The Mapleton GhostA ghost haunts the railroad connecting Brooklyn and Coney Island in August 1894, but it soon proves to be... not what was expected. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Brooklyn Standard-Union, May 28, 1894. Brooklyn Eagle, March 7, 1943. “A.D. Mapledoram.” Brooklyn Citizen, March 28, 1909. “All lies within...2020-01-0722 min

Forgotten Darkness61 - The Case of George EdaljiSmall-town politics and old-fashioned racism come into play when the household of an Indian vicar in Great Wyrley, in Staffordshire, England is targeted for harassment. In 1903, a series of animal mutilations and maiming afflict the area and the vicar's son, a solicitor by the name of George Edalji, is convicted. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Giant Wyrm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) "Dark...2019-12-2641 min

Forgotten Darkness60 - Fire, Devil, BatCharles Fort related the story of how an elderly couple named the Krings were murdered and their house burned, and a number of mysterious bodies found nearby. Discussed here is the story of what actually happened. Also: unreported facts in the cases of the 1909 sightings of the Jersey Devil in Bristol, PA and a possible other interpretation of the famous Houston Batman. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/60 My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech...2019-12-1826 min

Forgotten Darkness59 - The Maniac of Beekman Hill, Part TwoThe net closes around Robert Irwin who, it turns out, is far more volatile than anyone knew. His is actually a rather sad story of mental illness, criminality, and someone who was essentially doomed to lead the life he did before he was even born. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES 2019-12-0748 min

Forgotten Darkness58 - The Maniac of Beekman Hill, Part OneOn Easter Sunday, 1937 the bodies of model Veronica Gedeon, her mother, and a man named Frank Byrnes were found dead in an apartment on East 53rd Street in New York City. Suspicion quickly falls on the father – but did he actually have anything to do with it? Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. ...2019-11-2734 min

Forgotten Darkness57 - Montie the Monster and OthersIn November 1945, the rural Sheep Hill district in northern Chester County just south of Pottstown, Pennsylvania was prowled by a mysterious beast capable of gigantic leaps and screams. And in March 1973, another animal appeared and killed animals at Ringing Hill in Pottsgrove Township. Also: the Wild Man of Chestnut Hill, the “Jersey Madman,” the Dorlan Devil, and the Coatesville “Roof Rabbit.” Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License...2019-11-1434 min

Forgotten Darkness56 - The Disappearance of Ambrose SmallAmbrose J. Small was a wealthy theater manager who disappeared without a trace on the evening of December 2, 1919 near one of his theaters in Toronto, Ontario. There was no shortage of theories and possibilities as to what happened. Was it the long-suffering wife? The obsessive, clingy mistress? The secretary who had robbed him? Or someone else? Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons...2019-11-0445 min

Forgotten DarknessHalloween 2019Second Halloween episode. This year's creepy stories are the tales of the cursed Zoarites of New York State; the black-veiled Reverend Moody of 1700s Maine; Connecticut's Moodus mystery booms, a battle of witches, and a cursed jewel; Detroit's Nain Rouge; a morbid phantom at Holly Tree Cottage, in England; the 1938 urban legend of the New Orleans “devil man"; and bizarre behavior and sightings at the scene of some fires in 1909 Rochester, New York. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music fro...2019-10-2958 min

Forgotten Darkness55 - The Hex Cat of Tumbling RunIn autumn 1911, the Tumbling Run valley in Pennsylvania was afflicted by a curse in the shape of a black cat. This is a story of misfortune, the supernatural, black cats in cages, and arson. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “After a witchcat.” Indiana Weekly Messenger, May 22, 1912. “All...2019-10-2327 min

Forgotten Darkness54 - Pigheaded WomenUrban legends from the Netherlands, France, Germany, and England, speak of women with the heads of pigs. Similar tales are still extant in the urban legends of the United States. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES London Examiner, February 26, 1815. “Lady Hyde Parker's masqued fete, &c.” London Morning Post...2019-10-1726 min

Forgotten Darkness53 - The Oklahoma Earless MurdersIn the summer of 1907, two bodies turned up in different sections of Oklahoma, shot, presumably robbed – and with their ears cut off. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another mystery.” McAlester Daily Capital, August 2, 1907. “Black Hand in Oklahoma.” Drummond Herald, August 15, 1907. “Brutal murder in box car.” Pa...2019-10-1131 min

Forgotten Darkness52 - Screaming SkullsThere is a tradition in certain homes in England – northern England, mainly – of keeping a skull in a house or else poltergeist phenomena will ensue. Generally these are called “screaming skulls,” although only a small number are reputed to make any sound whatsoever. What are these “screaming skulls”? A remnant of ancestor worship? Several skulls are described. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecomm...2019-10-0334 min

Forgotten DarknessPearl Bryan/Bobby Mackey's w/ Boos and Spirits 2019-10-031h 11

Forgotten Darkness51 - Murder Swamp and the Bodies in the BoxcarsFrom the 1920s until the 1940s, parts of western Pennsylvania were plagued by reports of beheaded and dissected bodies. Police believed they might have been the work of a notorious American serial killer... Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another victim of mad butcher.” Uniontown Morning Herald, November 4, 1940. 2019-09-2342 min

Forgotten Darkness50 - The Murder of L. Sealey HoukThe story of the murder of L. Sealey Houk and the arrest of Rocco Racco, as told in a reading from "Pinkertons Write History of the Houk Case for the Herald," New Castle Herald, October 3, 1908. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. 2019-09-1620 min

Forgotten Darkness49 - The Phantoms of '52The highways of the Midwestern United States were home to two unidentified individuals known as “phantoms” in 1952. Well, one individual and one that very well may have been mass hysteria. These are the stories of the 40 Phantom that haunted Ohio's roadways, terrified truck drivers, and resembled something from a Misfits song or Rob Zombie video; and the Blue Phantom, who took potshots at Illinois motorists (maybe), are featured. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Chil...2019-09-0930 min

Forgotten Darkness48 - The Affair of the Poisons, Part ThreeAllegations of Satanism and black magic take the place of poisoning as the Affair of the Poisons draws to a close. Episode 48 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217484829746190&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music: From https://filmmusic.io "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Barine...2019-08-3141 min

Forgotten Darkness47 - The Affair of the Poisons, Part TwoIn the wake of the sensational trial and execution of Madame de Brinvilliers, Paris was scandalized by the discovery of an occult underground believed to be responsible for a number of poisonings of people great and small alike. In Part One of this multi-part episode, I detailed the first few arrests made in the latter part of the 1670s, those associated with Madeleine de la Grange, with Louis de Vanens, and with Marie Vigoreaux and Marie Bossé. With the discovery of another woman's name, the arrests were soon to cross into some of the highest in the land. 2019-08-2331 min

Forgotten Darkness46 - The Affair of the Poisons, Part One - The Heirs of de BrinvilliersAfter the imprisonment and eventual execution of Madame de Brinvilliers, a network of murderers masquerading as fortune-tellers began to be revealed throughout Paris. Were these people actually guilty of widespread poisonings? Or was it merely a witch hunt? Episode 46 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217358250221781&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Bodin, Jean (Randy A...2019-08-1433 min

Forgotten Darkness45 - Madame de BrinvilliersCalled “one of the most famous poisoners and murderers of all time” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Marquise de Brinvilliers over a ten year period murdered her father and two brothers, as well as attempting a few other murders. The case also had an unintended aftermath... Episode 45 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217294657752009&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. 2019-08-0632 min

Forgotten Darkness44 - Bitten By PhantomsThe cases of the Romanian Eleonore Zugun, the Filipina Clarita Villanueva, and the English Giles children, all of whom were supposedly bitten by invisible phantoms. Episode 44 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217236750224357&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “13-year-old girl psychic puzzles Europe's scientists,” Kingsport (TN) Times, November 7, 1926. “A priest battles devils to save girl,” Singapore Free Press, May 23, 1953. “Dracula nervous fi...2019-07-2933 min

Forgotten Darkness43 - The Case of Eliza ArmstrongThe case of a missing girl in 1885 London leads to the passage of a law raising the age of consent and more strongly prosecuting sex offenses. But when the girl herself is returned to her mother unharmed, questions arise... Episode 43 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217189640926654&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “A missing daughter,” Pall Mall Gazette, July 13, 1885. “Charles Armstrong again.” Pall Mal...2019-07-2240 min

Forgotten Darkness42 - First Anniversary AnthologyAn anthology of some smaller stories. An attempted resurrection; a case of either auto-hypnosis or insanity, no one is sure which; a ghost in Newark, NJ; the Knickerbocker Ghost of Brooklyn; a headless flying man; a wild woman; and the Witch Rock of Hopkins Hill, RI. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “A witch's rock,” Winfield (KS) Daily Courier, September 3, 1885. “Brooklyn ghost: pshaw!” New York Times, November 23, 1894. "Bury son to restore life,” Los Angele...2019-07-1734 min

Forgotten Darkness41 - PedroIn the 1930s, two gold prospectors working in the mountains of Wyoming find a mummy of a tiny man only about a foot in height. Does it change everything we know about human evolution in North America? Or is the truth of the matter far more... normal than it appears on the surface? Episode 41 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217121741189203&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES 2019-07-1329 min

Forgotten Darkness40 - The West Ham DisappearancesTwo young girls mysteriously disappear, and a third is found murdered – and all lived in the same road in east London. Also, a number of other disappearances and murders which may, or may not, be connected... Episode 40 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10217056310913487&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES London Daily News, May 24, 1881. “Abduction of children from London,” Pall Mall Gazette, August 5, 1884. ...2019-07-0435 min

Forgotten Darkness39 - The Cock Lane GhostWilliam Kent had an unorthodox – for the early 1760s – life, living openly with a woman who was not his wife. Because of this scandal, and other factors, after his “wife's” death in 1762, he is accused of murder by what is – at least on the surface – her ghost. Episode 39 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216987632236563&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “A summary account of the proceeding...2019-06-2535 min

Forgotten Darkness38 - The Paxton BoysIn 1763, the Paxton Rangers are formed. They are meant to protect their hometown from marauding Native Americans, but after returning from upstate some of them began to take matters into their own hands and are condemned by none other than Benjamin Franklin. Episode 38 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216936469997539&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. Sources Brubaker, Jack. Massacre of the Conestogas. Charleston, SC: The His...2019-06-1833 min

Forgotten Darkness37 - Andrew Hellman, Alias Adam HornTwo articles about Andrew Hellman, who killed his first wife, his pregnant second wife, and very likely two of his children. Articles are from the Baltimore Sun and the Carlisle Weekly Herald. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. Sources “Andrew Hellman, alias Adam Horn, His Life, Character, and Crimes,” Baltimore Sun, December 2, 1843. “Another Atrocious Murder,” Carlisle (PA) Weekly Herald, May 3, 1843. 2019-06-1239 min

Forgotten Darkness36 - The Life and Death of Julia PastranaProfile of Julia Pastrana, Mexican "freak show" performer of the 1850s, who was misused - shockingly - after her death in childbirth, and her eventual return to Mexico. Episode 36 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216852024326450&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. Athens (Tennessee) Messenger, July 28, 1854. “A novel suit,” Baltimore Sun, November 10, 1855. “Common pleas – special term,” New York Herald, April 18, 1849. “Freaks' requests,” Reading (PA) Times, April 8, 1885.2019-06-0635 min

Forgotten Darkness35 - The Spiderman of DenverA retired railroad worker is murdered in his home in a classic locked door mystery. In the following weeks and months, apparently ghostly phenomena are noticed. But the truth was far weirder. Episode 35 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216795083982977&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. "Attic wraith re-enacts his murder of man he now says he knew in Denver earlier,” Greeley Daily Tribune, August 1, 1942. “Coneys pleads innoce...2019-05-2918 min

Forgotten Darkness34 - The Mouse TowerA German legend of an evil clergyman eaten by rats. But the story isn't all it's cracked up to be; countless variants of it exist across Europe. Episode 34 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216733467682608&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network (https://www.straightupstrange.com/). Baring-Gould, Sabine. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1877. Brewer, Ebenezer C. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama (vol. 3). Coryat, Thomas. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up In Five Moneths Travells (vol. 2). Glasgow: Univers...2019-05-2131 min

Forgotten Darkness33 - Rehmeyer's HollowOn November 27, 1928, a suspected curse-layer is brutally killed by three others. This is one of the more infamous stories near my home, and is one of the earliest "true" supernatural accounts I remember hearing. Episode 33 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216677669847697&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange Network (https://www.straightupstrange.com/). In reference to Alice Rehmeyer's statement at the beginning of the episode, “try” is the word generally used to denote pow-wow work; by “things for him to try” is meant essentially “problems to be cured.”2019-05-1331 min

Forgotten Darkness32 - The Origin of the PoltergeistEpisode 32 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216607565775139&type=3 Part of the Straight Up Strange network. https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Baring, Maurice. The Mainsprings of Russia. London: T. Nelson, 1914. Brockett, L.P. Bogomils of Bulgaria and Bosnia. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1879. Calmet, Augustine. The Phantom World (Henry Christmas, trans.). Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins, 1850 (originally published as Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprit et sur les Vampires, 1751). Comnena, Anna. The Alexiad (Elizabeth Dawes, trans.). London: Kegan Paul, 1928. Conway, M.D. Demonology and Devil-lore. N...2019-05-0339 min

Forgotten Darkness31 - The Kissing BugAn 1899 panic mentioned by Charles Fort - and relatively few since. Also other types of bug that were reported that summer - the ankle bug, the Dooleybug, the strangling bug, Sunkhazer flies and Walapai tigers. Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. 2019-04-2429 min

Forgotten Darkness30 - The Story of the GhostA young French woman, Mademoiselle Julie Gautard, kills herself in Youngstown, Ohio under somewhat mysterious circumstances. A year later, a "woman in white" ghost is seen near the house where she met her end. The Bonnell Mansion: https://www.ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll36/id/2820 “Missing from Columbus,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 1888. “Missing Miss Fairweather,” New York Times, November 13, 1888. “Obituary: Henry O. Bonnell.” The Iron Age vol. 51 part 1. Obituary is in February 2, 1893. “Solved a mystery,” Pittsburgh Dispatch, April 16, 1889. “The Fairweather mystery,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1888. Woodyard, Chris. The Headless Horror: Strange and Ghostly Ohio Tales...2019-04-1720 min

Forgotten Darkness29 - Robert NichollsA young boy from Los Gatos, CA poisons his foster parents. Or does he? All parties waffle back and forth quite a lot on whether the offense ever even took place. With stories of hypnotism, Spiritualism, and a bizarrely-placed newspaper advertisement. “Boy insists he tried to poison foster parents,” San Francisco Call, April 7, 1911. “Boy poisoner now declares tale untrue,” San Francisco Examiner, April 17, 1911. “Boy poisoner still sticks to first story,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 16, 1911. “Doctors smile at Mrs. Bazus' story,” San Francisco Examiner, April 6, 1911. “Mother barred from seeing boy 'poisoner',” San Francisco Examiner, April 11, 1911. “St...2019-04-0250 min

Forgotten Darkness28 - The Murder of Mabel MayerA 1927 California murder, once called "California's worst crime," but now little-remembered. A 15-year-old girl is slain at a vacant house amidst a series of other attacks possibly by the same offender. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216338563490250&type=3 “2 women hear girl's scream,” Oakland Tribune, July 5, 1927. “Actions of radium man are sifted,” Woodland Daily Democrat, July 14, 1927. “Barnett is cleared in Mayer girl death quiz,” Oakland Tribune, March 22, 1929. “Barnett is described as Santa Claus,” Oakland Tribune, March 20, 1929. “Barnett is given 20 years,” Oakland Tribune, March 21, 1929. “Brother of dead girl mystified...2019-03-2534 min

Forgotten Darkness27 - The Chase VaultThe famous paranormal story of the moving coffins of Barbados, several other instances of moving coffins, and the coffin of Henry VIII. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216261201196241&type=3 http://wearesouthdevon.com/kingskerswells-creeping-coffin/ Alexander, James E. Transatlantic Sketches. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 vols. Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. New York: University Books, 1965. Halford, Henry. An Account of What Appeared on Opening the Coffin of King Charles the First. London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1813. Lang, Andrew. “Death's Deeds: A B...2019-03-1332 min

Forgotten Darkness26 - The Lights of Capel EgrynMysterious lights are reported from a small village in northern Wales where a religious revival is underway, in 1904 and 1905. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216166050937544&type=3 http://inamidst.com/lights/egryn http://daibach-welldigger.blogspot.com/2015/11/mary-jones-welsh-prophetess-of-1905.html Clark, Jerome. Unexplained! Canton, MI: Visible Ink, 1999. Corliss, William A. “Fiery Exhalations in Wales,” Science Frontiers 136 (July/August 2001). Evans, Beriah G. “Merionethshire Mysteries,” The Occult Review 1:3 (March 1905). ---. “Merionethshire Mysteries – II,” The Occult Review 1:4 (April 1905). ---. “Merionethshire Mysteries – III,” The Occult Review 1:6 (June 1905). Fort, Charles. The Complete Books of Charles For...2019-02-2735 min

Forgotten Darkness25 - The Tillinghast AirshipNew England, 1909: a Massachusetts inventor of steam valves claims to have built an airplane, and sightings seem to back up his claims. Or do they? Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=ms.c.eJxNzMENADEIA8GOTgYHsPtv7JRPxHe02kBGoy1nDJv1xZMzZNtLCsXBbDnFiS26jXKJSSrOEwMIirGlTR0tSRS1Pkbej~%3BwDv68kOA~-~-.bps.a.10216069892053632&type=1 “Aeronaut had fight for life,” Boston Globe, July 24, 1909. “Airship story worries them,” Boston Globe, December 26, 1909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrée%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition Bartholomew, Robert E. and George S. Howard. UFOs & Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery. Amherst, N...2019-02-1430 min

Forgotten Darkness24 - Death Rides the Rails, Part 4Summing up the Midwest axe murders. Suspects, some bizarre letters, and a second serial killer operating at the same time. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10215988325414517&type=3. Spellings used in the letter by Eli Eloi received at Villisca: 'nation' is written Nay Shun. 'Mystery of life' is written Miss Tree of life. “Arrest a Villisca suspect,” Adams County (IA) Free Press, June 29, 1912. Connelley, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago: Lewis, 1918. Henry Lee Moore. http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/moo...2019-02-0243 min

Forgotten Darkness23 - Death Rides the Rails, Part ThreeSome speculative crimes that may be by the same killer. Three crimes are described, the murder of the interracial Casaway family in San Antonio, TX; the Hills in Ardenwald, OR; and the Cobles in Rainier, WA. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10215903375210815&type=3&uploaded=12 San Antonio “Claims he is innocent,” Austin American-Statesman, August 14, 1911. “Five in family killed while asleep,” San Antonio Express, March 23, 1911. “House in which tragedy occurred appears gloomy,” San Antonio Express, March 25, 1911. “M'Williams held in jail,” Houston Post, Augus...2019-01-2138 min

Forgotten Darkness22 - Death Rides the Rails, Part TwoThe infamous Villisca murder, the convoluted clues and divisive aftermath, when a charismatic conman came to town. Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10215817484383598&type=3&uploaded=16 “Axe murders claiming 31 victims during the last 4 years probed,” Green Bay (WI) Semi-Weekly Gazette, July 20, 1915. “Confesses Blue Island murder,” Princeton (IN) Daily Clarion, July 19, 1915. “Family and guests murdered in sleep,” Bayard News, June 13, 1912. “Farmer is a suicide after killing two,” Webster City Freeman, September 17, 1912. “Four are victims to mysterious axe,” Dixon (IL) Evening Telegraph, July 6, 1914. Getting the Axe. http://gettingtheaxe...2019-01-0838 min

Forgotten Darkness21 - Death Rides the Rails, Part OneBefore the infamous Villisca murders in Iowa, there was a series of other, eerily similar, axe murders across the Midwest indicating that that crime may not have been as isolated as is often thought... Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10215763725999672&type=3&uploaded=16 General Getting the Axe. http://gettingtheaxe.blogspot.com/ James, Bill and Rachel McCarthy James. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery. New York: Scribner, 2017. Taylor, Troy. Murdered in Their Beds: History and Hauntings of Villisca and t...2019-01-0141 min

Forgotten Darkness20 - The Presque Isle Incident/The Morristown MonsterA reading from “New Landing and Creature Reports" by John Keel, appearing in the Flying Saucer Review for November/December, 1966. Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. 2018-12-1825 min

Forgotten Darkness19 - The Drummer of TedworthThe story of another poltergeist, this one from Puritan-era England. Account from Joseph Glanvil's Saducismus Triumphatus (1681). Claude Lecouteux: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=claude+lecouteux&sprefix=claude+le%2Caps%2C260&crid=1P328HD6POO8 Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. 2018-12-1122 min

Forgotten Darkness18 - The Devil of GlenluceAn account of a talking poltergeist or demon which afflicted a weaver in Glenluce, Scotland in the late 1600s. An excerpt from Elizabeth Lynn Linton's Witch Stories (1861). Opening music by Kevin MacLeod. Closing music by Soma. 2018-12-0519 min

Forgotten Darkness17 - The Toledo ClubberI'll look at this almost forgotten serial killer who terrorized Toledo, Ohio in the 1920s. Then we'll examine other attacks in Toledo in elsewhere attributed to the Clubber, the fires he supposedly set, and suspects in the case (and by necessity, the murders of Beulah Purvis, Grace Loomis, and Dorothy Sielagowski). “6th woman victim of club killer,” Salem News, November 20, 1925. “A giant negro,” Seymour (IN) Tribune, February 15, 1927. “Akron Clubber comes to grief,” Coshocton Tribune, November 24, 1925. “Alleged assailant of Toledo woman is held,” Marion Star, November 15, 1926. “Alonzo Robinson,” http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robinson...2018-11-2939 min

Forgotten Darkness16 - The Mysterious Death of Joao PrestesA man in Brazil dies mysteriously, ostensibly burned by a UFO, in 1946. Also, a number of Chupacabra encounters; other Brazilian UFOs; people burnt as if by radiation in 1887 Venezuela; a "luminous cloud" over Pascagoula, Mississippi; and purple lightning in Maine. Broadus, Don. “A weird American phenomenon of 1874,” Flying Saucer Review 35: 3 (September 1990). Carrión, Felipe Machado. “The terrible death of João Prestes at Araçariguama,” Flying Saucer Review 19:2 (March/April 1973). Luce, Cynthia N. “Brazilian spooklights,” Fortean Times 49 (1987). Mauso, Pablo Villarubia. “The incredible saga of Joao Prestes,” https://www.ufocasebook.com/prestes.html Pratt...2018-11-2133 min

Forgotten Darkness15 - 3X, The Man Behind the GunQueens, 1930. A serial killer shoots two men and sends bizarre coded messages to the press, nearly 40 years before the infamous Zodiac. “3d parked car shooting laid to holdup man,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 20, 1930. “Another victim for New York's mystery slayer Thursday night,” Albuquerque Journal, June 20, 1930. “Deny harming balky witness in Nassau jail,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 10, 1933. “End of murders promised in new note by maniac,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 21, 1930. “Escaped L.I. inmate arrested in Phila. as maniac suspect,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 20, 1930. “First arrest made in hunt for crazy killer as third man is dying,” Can...2018-11-1333 min