“THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DOROTHY JANE SCOTT” and More Scary True Stories! #WeirdDarkness #Darkives

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

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IN THIS EPISODE: Was Helen Duncan a fraud, or was she the real deal when it came to the Spiritualism movement? To this day people argue both sides – just as the court did in the 1940s. (Hellish Nell) *** They loved to drink, and party. They both loved kinky sex, fell in love, and decided to move in together. But their strongest bond would came later – when new couple decided to go on a killing spree. (The Sunset Strip Killers) *** No one could believe that mild-mannered Charlie Brandt had mutilated his wife and niece, until they discovered his grisly past… when he killed his mother when he was only thirteen. (Charlie Brandt Couldn’t Stop Killing) *** Encountering the supernatural is no fun and games… unless it is. (Haunted Stuyvesant Hall) *** We’ve all seen plastic bags take on a personality when blown with a light breeze, seemingly dancing on their own power. But what if what we only thought that was a plastic bag in the wind? Could it have been something more? (Last Dance) *** They say, “be careful what you wish for”. That is especially true if you’re doing your wishing through a spirit or Ouija board. (Wishing On the Ouija) *** The executioner tried three separate times to hang the man – rope around the neck, lever pulled… but John walked away alive each time. (The Man They Could Not Hang) *** How can you tell if you are seeing a ghost or something real if it looks as solid as anything else? (I Saw a Spirit) *** If you move into a house that looks like a scene from a horror movie, you probably shouldn’t be surprised when you have an encounter with the paranormal. (Ghost Girl In The Old Room) *** The body of Gareth Williams was found stuffed inside a duffel, with the bag's zipper padlocked from the outside. Was it because he was discovered to be a spy? (The Spy In The Bag) *** A father and son tending to their horses are puzzled by how strange the horses were behaving – until they looked up. (Huge Bright UFO Hovered Over Horses) *** While bow hunting, a young man sees what he describes as a Bigfoot… which isn’t something you often hear from a place like Kansas. (Bottomland Bigfoot in Eastern Kansas) *** On the way to the beach for some fun, two friends experience fear instead when confronted by a large winged creature. (Huge Winged Being) *** The Bethlem Royal Hospital insane asylum is so notorious that a word originally coined there entered the English language as a word for confusion and disorder… Bedlam (Bedlam – The Real Horror Story Behind the Name) *** Dorothy received phone calls regularly from a stalker, and it frightened her she considered buying a gun, and she began taking self-defense classes. But that didn’t stop her from disappearing without a trace. (The Disappearance of Dorothy Jane Scott)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Hellish Nell” by Troy Taylor: https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/duncan
“The Sunset Strip Killers” by Matt Gilligan: (link no longer available)
“Charlie Brandt Couldn’t Stop Killing” by William DeLong for All That’s Interesting (http://bit.ly/2pY4WfK); Interview audio courtesy of CBS (http://bit.ly/2rrJekF).
“Wishing on the Ouija” by Riley Winters for Ancient Origins: http://bit.ly/34PdxAs
“The Man They Could Not Hang” by Doug MacGowan for Historic Mysteries: http://bit.ly/2X1xm4y
“Last Dance” from Ghosts and Ghouls: (site no longer exists)
“Haunted Stuyvesant Hall” from Ghosts and Ghouls: (site no longer exists)
“Bedlam – The Real Horror Story Behind the Name” by Abby Norman: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yh97yb2n
“The Ghost Girl in the Old Room” by Amber Vandosol submitted at WeirdDarkness.com.
“Huge Bright UFO Hovered Over Horses” originally heard on the Ground Zero radio show with Clyde Lewis: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2k2y7b3d
“Bottomland Bigfoot in Eastern Kansas” submitted by Chad: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc8znky5
“The Spy In The Bag” by Orrin Grey: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdna2kre
“Huge Winged Being” submitted anonymously: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4h9pmp9s
“The Disappearance of Dorothy Jane Scott” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvsesfxj
“I Saw a Spirit” by Dangslow: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9nn7wt
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Originally aired: July 23, 2018
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