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Stories and content in weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only parental discretion is strongly Advised welcome weirdos I'm Darren merler and this is weird Darkness here you'll find stories of the Paranormal Supernatural legends lore crime conspiracy mysterious maob unsolved and unexplained if you're new here welcome to the podcast and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes if you're already a weirdo please share the
Podcast with others doing so helps make it possible for me to keep creating episodes as often as I do coming up in this episode I've covered numerous stories here in the podcast on people gone missing never to be seen again but it's much more rare to have a story about a
Corpse going missing never to be seen again one thing that has always been a constant in human history is adultery as is the jolted spouse always being angry about it one thing that has not been a constant is how Society judges those involved in the infidelity in 1885 there
Were different opinions about both adulterers as well as the one who murders a home wrecker part of the tablet's translation according to Isaac Newton states by this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you its force is above
All Force for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing cryptic yes but it appears to indicate immense power for the one who understands and wields it it comes from the Emerald Tablet and it's no surprise there are many now who want to know where it
Is the shimo Kubo Dam in Japan is unique and that it is supposedly haunted I've heard of haunted lakes and haunted roads that go around lakes or past Lakes but I've never heard of a lake that was created by a haunted Dam shukubo dam is supposedly so haunted that Japan says
The stream of Ghost Hunters and paranormal enthusiasts is out of control a mysterious creature is reported to be living near a bridge in Zimbabwe which has killed numerous men what is the Beast of guat town but first a year before the infamous Lizzy bord was born came the
Birth of Lizzy Halliday who though becoming less welln went on to commit atrocities that would have made Lizzie boron's stomach turn we begin with that story while listening be sure to check out the weird Darkness website at weird darkness.com you can sign up for the newsletter to win monthly prizes find
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Turn off your lights and come with me into the weird Darkness A cross-continental homicidal lunatic with a range of Nefarious pseudonyms Lizzy holiday was the Catskill Ripper the New York Ripper and most famously the worst woman on Earth according to the New York Times Halliday was born as Lizzy MCN in 1859 Ireland born just a year before her
Namesake Lizzie bordon she would go on to commit far worse crimes than the original Lizzy and Garner less Fame and attention this is the story of the Irish American serial killer Lizzy Halliday Lizzy terrorized Hudson Valley New York in the 1890s just a few years after after the gruesome White Chapel murders
Started Lizzy's reign coinciding with both Jack the Ripper Lizzie is sometimes listed as a suspect for these crimes and Lizzie bordon holay would generate less Fame than the notorious Lizzy bordon but looking at the crimes Lizzy was equally if not more bloodthirsty than her counterparts Lizzy immigrated to the
United States in 1864 as a Wei Nipper this was just after the devastating Irish potato famines and many of the Irish sought for opportunities in the Americas Lizzy's family among them during Lizzy's priety years she had two husbands simultaneously die within the first couple of years of their marriage
Lizzie first married Charles Hopkins and then Artemis Brewer after Charles dropped dead both men left Lizzie a widow but using our 160-year hindsight we can probably have haard to Guess that the mysterious and sudden deaths of the first two husbands was likely no coincidence by the 1880s Wayward Lizzie
Had been married four times two of liby's husbands were dead at this point one had fled and the fourth husband survived in arsenic poisoning Lizzie was not even 30 yet there was also a strange case of an arson related insurance scam which saw Lizzy get 2 years in prison
And and committed to an asylum Paul Halliday was an aging Civil War veteran in his 70s and a widower with five adult sons when Paul first met Lizzie Paul was caring for both his farm and a mentally disabled child Frank Halliday some sources quote the son as
John Halliday and had then sprung his new wife Lizzy from an asylum neighbors picked up on Lizzy's complete hatred for Paul's son while Lizzy would go about scheming how to get rid of Frank Halliday wasn't long into the marriage that the halliday's house caught fire although Lizzy managed to escape and
Call for help the mentally challenged Frank was inside and burned to death neighbors immediately Rose suspicions against Lizzy especially as they alleged to have seen Lizzie outside laughing while the house caught fire however despite even Paul knowing that Lizzy was more than likely involved there just wasn't enough evidence to
Bring a charge and the police also soon dropped the case not long after the fire Lizzie fled with a local man and left Paul and his suspicions behind this debacle resulted in the stealing of two horses and a further committal in an asylum but despite all of the
Infidelities and murder of his own son Paul still somehow found the strength in his heart to take Lizzy back into his arms and appealed to the judge to release Lizzy she returned to live on his farm once again Paul Halliday disappeared soon after taking Lizzie back the neighbors were suspicious of the differing
Explanations given by Lizzy and the police obtained a search warrant while searching the property they found the bodies of two women buried in the barn these were identified as Margaret and Sarah mcquillin the mcquillin were a mother and daughter pair that Lizzy had stayed with frequently in New York it was while the
Elder mother Sarah mcquillin was visiting Lizzie that a message was sent out to Margaret that her mother was Gravely injured and was asked to come to the farm to take care of her Lizzy no doubt had caught a couple of flies in her web at that point while under arrest for the
Mcquillin murders the entire Farm was scoured and the tragic end to her fifth marriage was uncovered by way of Paul's deadly and horrifically mutilated remains Justice had finally caught up with Lizzy Paul had been shot three times and his body was mutilated when police found him Lizzy was then arrested for three
Murders but let's be honest the death toll was probably much more than that it was fortunate for Lizzy that she was arrested when she was as at the time the local towns folk were planning a lynching Sheriff beer at the time having to call for order in this small New York farming
Community Lizzy was sentenced to the electric chair and confined to Sullivan County jail Lizzie was given a date with Old Faithful becoming the first female sentenced to die by the electric chair at the time at the time of her verdict Lizzie reportedly lunged for a Sher of
Beeer in the middle of the courtroom and bit down into part of his hand rumor has it that the bite would later cause the sheriff to lose the Hand by amputation Beer's hand being yet another victim of Lizzy but these are unconfirmed reports in true Lizzy fashion her time
In prison was full of drama Lizzie refused to eat and had to be force fed through a tube it was reported in the papers that she tried to strangle Sheriff Beer's wife she set fire to her bed clothes tried to hang herself with the bottom of her prison dress and slit
Her own throat with a broken window in her cell eventually Lizzie had to be chained to the floor of her cell to stop any further Mischief outside of the prison Lizzy became a celebrity front page headlines were dedicated to The Sensational story of the serial killer during a time when
The term serial killer hadn't even been coined according to New York World reporter Edwin Atwell he wrote In the case from its circumstance es origin conception and execution its unique characteristics the abnormal personalities and peculiar localities it involves and above all in the strangeness and mystery of its great
Central figure it is unprecedented and almost without parallel in the anals of crime the sensationalism didn't end there with many journalists picking up on Lizzy's time spent in Europe during the 1880s and began to suspect that Lizzy was Jack the Ripper we suspect that this mysterious creature was
Connected with the horrible White Chapel murders The Daily Times reported noting that sheriff beer asked the suspect Point Blank about her involvement in addition the sheriff said I said to Mrs Halliday Lizzy you're accused of the White Chapel murders are you guilty do you think I'm an elephant she replied
That was done by a man originally sentenced to death for the three confirmed murders Lizzie sentence was commuted to life in prison there was nowhere near enough evidence to tie Lizzy to the White Chapel killings but police at the time strongly believed that only a small percent of lizz's actual victims were discovered
And we can deduce the same lizz's real victim tally will never be known despite confinement Lizzy would somehow managed to murder again and stabbed an attending nurse 200 times to death the murder within the Asylum caused an uproar with other nurses in such a state of anxiety after losing one of their own
That the head of the Asylum feared a mass desertion of Staff this small framed woman from County anram had managed to have the Eastern United States of America in a grip of sensationalism and Terror during the late 19th century and even while confined to a life sentence with the
Keys thrown away somehow managed to carry on on killing she is without a doubt the baddest Irish woman of all time she died in 1918 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the grounds of maaan State Hospital probably the best place for Lizzy coming up part of the tablet's translation according to Isaac Newton states by this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you its force is above all Force for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing cryptic yes but it appears
To indicate immense power for the one who understands and wields it it comes from the Emerald Tablet and it's no surprise there are many now who want to know where it is but first the shimako dam in Japan is unique in that it is supposedly haunted now I've heard of haunted lakes and
Haunted roads that go around lakes or past Lakes but I've never heard of a lake that was created by a haunted Dam shimako dam is supposedly so haunted that Japan says the stream of Ghost Hunters and paranormal enthusiasts is out of control these stories and more when weird Darkness Returns hey weirdos our December weirdo watch party is Saturday December 23rd hosted by horror host Hall of Famers dra and CEST karita Dracula and his bride are bringing us the 1946 no riller shock starring Vincent Price I'm Dr cross Mrs Stewart I'm your friend I'm here to help
You in the film a psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium only to find out that the man who committed her was the man she witnessed commit a murder I'm going to try to find something that will convince her that she's insane the weirdo watch party is always free to
Watch online with everybody so grab your popcorn candy and soda and jump into the fun and even get involved in the live chat as we watch the movie This Christmas Eve Eve this delusion is quite common among mental cases in an institution of this sort it's shock starring Vincent Price presented by
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Saturday December 23rd for the weirdo watch Party while the idea of a haunted house is scary the thought of a haunted Dam holding back millions of gallons of water at the whim of a ghost is downright terrifying that's what many believe is the case in Japan where a haunted Dam attracts enough Ghost Hunters paranormal enthusiasts and attempted suicides that
The government is trying to change its reputation and debunk or at least downplay its haunted reputation in the name of safety should you believe the gat post or the government the end result of the construction of the shimbo dam is K Lake a reservoir popular with fishing enthusiasts and nature lovers it was
Created to prevent the type of flooding caused in 1947 by typhoon Kathleen which killed over a thousand people while that seems like a noble cause the construction of the dam between the cities of fujika and kamikawa was controversial the land needed required relocating many residents and the area was considered
Sacred workers said to have been killed doing the dangerous construction work were the very people who were being moved out by the dam and there are urban legends of bodies left unburied that were covered by the reservoir's waters if that's not enough to bring back ghosts there's also the
Murder knowing the displaced people were angry and many of them had moved back and were living near the dam and causing turmoil the government erected a Buddhist statue as a way of making peace according to another legend that didn't please the arai family especially the patriarch who believed he heard Whispers
And screams at night the tale ends with him going insane and killing his family and himself the frightened SL angry SL despondent towns people erected their own statue and preserved or at least left standing the house of arai which of course is believed now to be haunted by
The family whose murder does not show up on any official records and then there is the Haunted Bridge completed in 1968 over a portion of the lake the cira or kotohira bridge is said to be cursed and may have aided in the demise of the arai family people have reported hearing females screams
Seeing hands rising from the water and having just plain uneasy feelings feelings that cause some to contemplate and even occasionally commit suicide some even reporting a feeling that hands are trying to push them over the rail or guide their car off the road needless to say whether the ghost
Tales are real or urban legends it's hurting the wholesome image if Dam can have such a thing of the K Lake Area as a result the Japan Water agency's shimako Dam operation and maintenance office came up with this brilliant idea music Japan news reports that they installed motion sensors and a parking
Lot at the dam and when cars or people are detected between 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. a speaker on one side plays the theme song of local superhero group singers dressed as superheroes kijin Sentai Dam saver or water Fantasia while on the other side plays ximan Ando
Shaji Kio Mo wuni or Georg man's dance song Don't Forget sir charge composed by a group of damn afficianados really does it work the sensors and speakers were just installed so it'll take a while if the results are positive they may want to sell the system to
Other haunted dams yes there are s the Hoover Dam crying sounds ghosts of workers the hails bar Dam in Tennessee built on cursed Native American land there's the devil's gate Dam in California built on an alleged opening to the underworld and the Teton Dam and Idaho haunted by victims of a flood
Caused by a 1975 collapse and by demons from ult activities so I guess there are haunted dams H is that enough to say that dams can be Damned throughout human history there have been those mysterious books artifacts and Relics said to hold some sort of vast powers or mystical knowledge history is steeped in such tales and there have been many who have spent their whole lives trying to find these lost artifacts one such item that has managed
To elude clear understanding is an ancient text etched upon Stone which would go on to become one of the most influential manuscripts on the practice of alchemy and a basis for much occult knowledge but which remains buried in the midsts of time it is an item of alleged great power holding secrets of
Magic Alchemy the human mind and possibly even the universe itself one of the cornerstones of early Alchemy was a mysterious tablet said to contain a vast Trove of Secrets of magic and the universe and which would go on to become one of the most revered and sought-after pieces of magical
Documentation in all of Western occultism referred to variously as the smaragdine table tabula smagina or more commonly simply the Emerald Tablet this elusive object is said to be one or even a series of rectangular green plaques onto which are edged various symbols and inscriptions that spell out all manner
Of magical knowledge in particular having to do with Alchemy and the transmutation of matter from one form to another as well as the method for creating the legendary Philosophers Stone and for manipulating the very very matter of the universe itself it is even said to hold the secrets to transforming one's own
Consciousness and attaining a sort of enhanced conscious State and Enlightenment while the appearance and these secrets contained within are mostly agreed upon the tablet has a murky history wreathed in the unknown which has obfuscated its true Origins and author the most commonly cited version has it that the tablet was or Al
Written by the father of hermetic magic and Alchemy himself the legendary fifth century philosopher and priest Hermes trus back in ancient Greece Hermes supposedly wrote the Hermetic Corpus a series of sacred texts that are the basis of hermeticism and the Emerald Tablet is said to have been his Masterpiece other Myriad theories
Include that the tablet was written by the son of the biblical Adam and Eve Seth that it was discovered clutched in the Priest's dead hands in a tomb under the statue of Hermes in tyion in the 8th Century by an Arabic Mage named balanus that it was Unearthed by Alexander the
Great in an Egyptian tomb or even that it was created by tho the king priest of Atlantis a full 38,000 years ago whatever the case may be Legends flock to and surround the tablet and where it went off to one common tale is that it was buried under the the
Pyramids in Egypt While others claim it was sequestered away within the Ark of the Covenant or that it was returned to the buried ruins of Atlantis with so many Legends and myths spiraling about the Emerald Tablet it's hard to say who wrote it or when or where it is
Now what is known is that it was first translated into Latin by Hugo Von centala in the 12th century and that at least in this version Hermes trisma jce is credited as the author it is also known that the alleged writings upon it were highly influential in alchemy at
The time and this makes it all the more Curious that no evidence of the actual physical existence of the lost tablet has ever been uncovered we only know of it from written accounts and various translations and some of these were from highly influential people including Roger Bacon Michael Meyer Alistar
Crowley albertus Magnus John halard Julius rusa and Carl Young who claimed to have been visited by the tablet in his dreams none of these translations is exactly the same and may or may not be based on what was actually written on the physical tablet and further complicating matters is the fact that
Interpretations of what is written vary from writer to writer perhaps the most well-known and intriguing of the various translations and comment Aries on the Emerald Tablet was penned by none other than the English scientist mathematician astronomer Theologian and philosopher Sir Isaac Newton who actually wrote a surprising amount of work on the subject
Of alchemy Newton allegedly spent much time working with the text of the tablet and managed to produce one of the more famous translated sections which reads is true without lying certain and most true that which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is
Below to do the Miracles of one only thing and as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation the sun is its father the moon its mother the wind hath carried it
In its belly the Earth is its nurse the father of all perfection in the whole world is here its force or power is entire if it be converted into Earth separate thou the Earth from the fire the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry it
Ascends from the Earth to the heaven and again it descends to the Earth and receives the force of things Superior and inferior by this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you its force is above all Force for it
Vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing so was the World created from this are and do come admirable adaptations whereof the means or process is here in this hence I am called Hermes tmist having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world that which I have said of the
Operation of the sun is accomplished and ended the meaning seems very open to interpretation but Newton purportedly was very impressed by the knowledge and processes written of on the tablet and it has been postulated that it could have even had an influence on his theories of law of motion and universal
Gravitation he's also said to have believed that the tablet contained the literal recipe for creating the legendary Philosophers Stone and if one could comprehend the text and its intricate arcane messages and geometrical patterns then they would acquire the ability to Fashion the stone Newton was by many accounts actually
Quite obsessed with the Philosophers Stone writing much about it and he believed the Emerald Tablet was the key he also supposedly found within the text all manner of alchemical Secrets which he believed to be not merely symbolic but that these were literal processes that could be carried out and performed
In a laboratory setting he would write of the tablet I am a skeptic by nature but I have no alternative than to offer subjective support to the claim that the Emerald Tablet has transformative properties there are other things besides the transmutation of metals which none but they understand did Newton gain any secrets
From the tablet and did it indeed influences work no one really knows it is all very intriguing but in the end there there is no certainty that any of those who have translated the tablet ever even saw the actual tablet themselves it seems more likely that they worked with alleged transcripts of
The original tablet and that there's a very good chance that much of the information was changed or corrupted over time and through subsequent translations throughout history there's also the possibility that this seemingly almost mythical tablet may have never even existed at all and this is all merely a legend that
Has taken on a life of its own considering all of the conflicting and often confusing information on the Emerald Tablet as well as the uncertainty over who actually supposedly wrote it or where it came from We're left with very little that is concrete and cannot adequately unravel the myth from any possible
Reality we are in the end left with many questions and few answers was there ever this mystical Emerald Tablet upon which were emblazened profound secrets of the universe how did this come to be such a foundation for Alchemy throughout history who wrote this and where did it
Go to what exactly did it contain and was it literal methods of alchemy and magic or merely symbolic did any of it actually work and if so how did the tablet ever eat even exist at all the possible answers to this historical Enigma are varied but we will
Likely not know until that mysterious green tablet is finally found buried out there somewhere and lost to time when Weir Darkness Returns one thing that's always been a constant in human history is adultery as is the jilted spouse always being angry about it one thing that has not been a
Constant is how Society judges those involved in the infidelity in 1885 there were different opinions about both adulterers as well as the one who murders a home wrecker plus a mysterious creature is reported to be living near a bridge in Zimbabwe which has killed numerous men what is
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In the darkness page at weird darkness.com Daniel Monahan aged 45 lived with his wife Maggie and their children on Henry Street in Binghamton New York and kept a saloon in a building adjoining the house in 1885 a young man named Patrick Garvey began working as a bartender at Monahan's Saloon Garvey an attractive 34-year-old Irishman grew especially close to Maggie
Monahan before long she expressed her love for Garvey in return and the two began an intimate relationship Garvey became a frequent visitor at the Monahan home when Daniel was away and their romance became the subject of rumor in Binghamton Daniel had already suspected that improper relations existed between
His wife and his bartender so he fired Garvey and openly accused his wife of adultery Maggie replied that yes she did think more of Garvey than she did of her husband and she would go out with Garvey as much as she pleased Daniel pleaded with Maggie to abandon the romance and
Not disgrace their little daughters but Maggie ignored his pleadings and continued to meet Garvey not only in their own home but at various places in the city in desperation Daniel told her if she did not leave Garvey he would shoot the man Maggie told Garvey about her husband's threats and bought Garvey
A revolver to defend himself on May 9th 1886 Maggie told Daniel that she was taking the children for a walk they walked some distance from the house then met up with Patrick Garvey who was driving a horse and buggy they dropped the children off with a friend then went off to spend several
Hours alone together after she returned home with the children Daniel saw her sitting by a window he saw Garvey pass the house and wave at Maggie and saw her wave back enraged Daniel grabbed a revolver ran out the door and began firing at Garvey hitting him six times Garvey fell to the
Ground and died in front of the house Daniel went immediately to the police station and turned himself in Daniel Monahan's trial caused quite a sensation in Binghamton when it began the following May the popular sentiment regarding the murder was that Monahan was justified in shooting Garvey and had acted in a fit of
Frenzy when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the grounds of insanity it was well Received One of the most talked about mysteries in guanda town in Zimbabwe is of a mysterious creature which reportedly lies hidden in Mitsubishi river near Mitsubishi Bridge that's said to have claimed the lives of a number of men this mysterious being is blamed for a number of drowning accidents according to Residents from
Guat town the target of this creature has of late become men that go to the river to bathe some think that the creature could be a mermaid While others think otherwise saying its mannerisms do not fit those of a mermaid some residents from the town working with some Churches
Have decided to engage the services of a prophet to unravel the mystery efforts are underway to engage a guanda based Prophet from the Zion Apostolic Church in central Africa prophet meuli oo which is known for solving a number of mysteries in mellan South Province mostly in Gua
District goo meltab who was the guanda zena Treasurer said the problem which was being experienced at the mishab river started in the 1970s with school pupils that were mysteriously drowning in the river the problem has been ongoing for a long time now but it has never been investigated it started in
The 1970s with male learning ERS that were mysteriously drowning in the river at that time pupils from Mount calet Primary School which is close to mitabi River used to go there to collect water as the school didn't have water while there Learners would claim to have
Seen a fish in the water and then they would drown they used to get reports from other Learners who would survive the ordeal and then go back to school to inform their teachers now it's suspected that the creature is targeting men that are bathing at the river each time somebody
Drowns in the river there are usually a series of funerals which follow which are recorded in the town it's like that drowning incident that would have sparked or ignited some evil spirits which hover around the town goo bonda said what made the drowning cases suspicious was that all victims were men
She said the river was not too deep which made it difficult to understand how a grownup man could drown while bathing close to the edge of the river she said bodies of all the victims were later retrieved which ruled out chances that the creature was a mermaid she said
There was need to investigate the matter so that it could be resolved once and for all as it was bothering residents the way this creature operates is beyond my knowledge she said what we're used to are incidents where a person disappears in a river because of an ancestral calling but a person
Doesn't die a ritual is conducted by the family of the missing person person and the person comes back to them alive in this particular case where people die mysteriously I don't know what kind of ancestral Spirit operates in this way she said aanda pastor from the Zion Apostolic Church in central Africa
Michael indlu said when he arrived in guanda in the 1980s he found residents complaining about mysterious deaths along the river he said this year about three people had mysteriously drowned in the river Pastor wovu said that he had resolved to invite a renowned Prophet from his
Church to look into the matter there are men who are mostly gold panners from nearby mines who go to take a bath along Mesi River just close to the meisi bridge other people go to the river to collect water or to wash their vehicles a number of them have fallen victim to this
Creature we have therefore seen it best to engage someone to look into the matter and see how best it can be resolved we're working on modalities to invite a prophet from my church who has helped a number of communities to deal with their spiritual problems we have to
Go through the correct procedures and inform the relevant authorities he said Prophet moyo said he would visit the area and pray so that the Holy Spirit would reveal whether it was an ancestral matter or an act of Witchcraft he said from there he would be informed on how
To proceed with the matter Prophet moyo said if it was an act of Witchcraft then he could remove the creature and if it was an ancestral issue then appropriate people would be engaged to conduct a ritual to appease the ancestors he said from there a ritual
Would be expected to be conducted once a year with the knowledge of the town's leadership what is puzzling is that even though people are aware that the place is dangerous and has claimed a number of lives they still go back knowing the danger which might befall them
Whatever's in the water could be luring people there in order to take lives if it's an act of Witchcraft it could be the doing of an evil person who planted something in the water in order to gain wealth in exchange for human lives he said this mystery has never been
Investigated thoroughly every time someone drowns people call for the matter to be investigated but after a short time they relax if given an opportunity I can get to the bottom of this matter he said Prophet moo said he once intervened in H La Primary School in NAA area in
Kzzi where goblins were terrorizing teachers and since he removed them he's not received any complaints from the school he said he also assisted the community of gin yamba where he removed a big snake from a dam where people were mysteriously drowning Prophet moyo said he recently assisted matanda wanema
Primary School in Gua where a baboon was terrorizing teachers and Learners he said he also cleansed several homesteads in guanda Coming up I've covered numerous stories here in the podcast on people going missing never to be seen again but it's much more rare to have a story about a Corps going missing never to be seen again that story is up next on weird Darkness He has been spotted all over the world but photographic evidence is lacking as is any scientific proof but he still exists and is still seen and now you can search for bigfoot every month in the find Bigfoot calendar by Timothy Wayne Williams each month you'll be captivated by an original Timothy Wayne Williams
Painting beautiful and captivating but within each painting hides a monster bigfoot is hiding somewhere in each painting search for Bigfoot and invite others to do so as well with the new find Bigfoot calendar available now at weird darkness.com Bigfoot that's weird darkness.com Bigfoot sometime in the early 1850s a man named Daniel Murdoch quietly arrived in Stockholm a farming town in northern New York State he took out a three-year lease on an old farmhouse owned by an extensive landowner named Dow it was on an isolated Ridge surrounded by rugged surroundings so the house was usually
Left empty the farmhouses new tenant was a good match for such forbidding surroundings Murdoch was a morose unfriendly man who made it clear to his neighbors that he simply wanted to be left alone stockholmes were happy to oblige no one had any idea where he had
Come from or why he settled in Stockholm and nobody was terribly inclined to try and find out his speech and dress suggested he was Canadian but aside from that the man was a mystery Murdoch's only visitor and that only on rare occasions was his twin brother David the
Two were so indistinguishable that the only way to tell them apart was by the large Scarlet birth mark covering Daniel's throat from what others have been able to overhear of their conversations it seems the brothers had been among those seeking gold in California and that Daniel still held
Mining claims which David wanted made over to him as security for money that he had loaned Daniel for three seasons Daniel lived his lonely farming existence he disdained the usual local practice of swapping work with a neighbor choosing the arduous task of reaping hay and Grains on his own
At Night Never by light of day he could occasionally be seen bringing sled loads of his crops in the direction of the Canadian border on the 3rd of April after Murdoch's arrival in Stockholm it was noted that he was not putting in a crop rumors spread that his team and few farm
Tools ADV vanished one day a neighbor named Aaron Fortune walked across Burdock's property when he went past the open barn doors he saw something dangling inside the hoo when he took a closer look he realized it was the body of Daniel Murdoch hanging by a rope attached to a pearlin plate Fortune cut
Down the corpse and spread word of his gruesome find when Murdoch's landlord heard what had happened Dow tried to track down the Dead Man's twin but having failed to do so gave instructions that Murdoch be buried in the nearby graveyard a local Carpenter made a pine coffin and neighbors prepared the body
For burial they were unnerved to see that the Vivid Scarlet birth mark around Daniel's throat had completely vanished Arin fortune and a young Schoolmaster named Eli Jones reluctantly accepted the Grim task of setting up with the corpse the night before the funeral just before midnight a neighbor came with news that
Fortune's wife had been taken ill Jones who proudly proclaimed that he feared no ghosts agreed to finish the vigil over the body alone every two hours as was the custom in that time a cloth soaked in a salt peter solution was freshly spread over The Corpse's face around 2:
A.m. Jones who had understandably preferred lounging outside the house went indoors to perform his unpleasant ritual when he removed the cloth he saw that Murdoch's fiery birthmark had suddenly returned Jones was so frightened by the sight he ran screaming from the house not stopping until he reached the Fortune
Home when Dawn came Fortune Jones and a third man crept cautiously back to the Dead Man's home the candles were still flickering around the sheet draped table on which Murdoch had been placed but the corpse itself had vanished never to be seen again the old farmhouse was henceforth
Shunned as if the Devil Himself lived there and no doubt some in Stockholm thought that just might be the case few years later it burned down in that mysterious way that such old unoccupied buildings generally do for decades afterward the locals struggled to find answers to the mystery
Perhaps beroch had not been dead after all but in a state of suspended animation according to this Theory when the corpse was roused by Jones screams Murdoch fled to the river to redo his botched suicide or perhaps David Murdoch had arrived at the home after Jones fled
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Good morning, Fellow Weirdos, I'd like to hear the story of The Witch of Wall Street. She didn't kill anyone that I know of, but when she showed up at Wall Street, other traders swore the markets would change in her favor…. She was not considered a kind woman; her children thought she was unrelentingly cruel, especially since when she died, she had a LOT of money and hadn't spent it on them. Well, Have a well of being angels to others.
Good morning! Thanks again Darren! Stay warm ❤️
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Merry Christmas
Lizzie does sound genuinely mentally ill. She was clearly a very dangerous woman.