Ep. 40 – The Man Eaters

In 1896, the British decided to build a railroad across their colony in Africa. An Army colonel named John Henry Patterson was brought in to supervise construction of a railroad bridge across the Tsavo River. But Patterson never expected what would happen next. A pair of man-eating lions began to stalk and eat the workmen. This is the bizarre true story of The Ghost and The Darkness.

 

Notes:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/4/9/1250842/-Tsavo-Man-Eaters-The-True-Story-of-the-Ghost-and-the-Darkness

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/man-eaters-of-tsavo-11614317/

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eaters-Tsavo-J-H-Patterson/dp/1438285701

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Coldnoise, Memories, Life of Butterflies, Demise and Downfall, Weakness

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/

Lion Sound Effect by Michael Koenig

http://soundbible.com/1415-Growling-Lion.html

Ep. 39 – The Evangelist

During the early 20th century, America was caught up in a growing spiritualist movement that swept the nation. One hotspot for seances and new religious movements during the 1920s was Detroit. There, a self-styled “Divine Prophet” named Benny Evangelista met a brutal end. He and his entire family were murdered by an unknown assailant wielding an axe.  Here the true story of this bizarre unsolved murder, as well as the story of a man so determined to prove there was an afterlife, that he set in motion a plan to go there in person.

 

Notes:

http://weirddetroit.blogspot.com/2011/10/hauntings-have-been-part-of-human.html

A Ghost Story From Detroit’s Past You’ve Probably Never Heard

http://coldcaseshardcopy.blogspot.com/2011/07/divine-profetil-author-and-private.html

http://benny.weirdlectures.com

http://www.clickondetroit.com/features/st-aubin-street-massacre-1929-detroit-family-murders-still-unsolved

St. Aubin Street Massacre: The Benny Evangelist Family Murders

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Coldnoise, Tale for Mind, Memories, Who We Are, Malaika, Remember

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/

Ep. 38 – The Lonely Hearts

The first lonely hearts ads were published in 1695, just five years after the first newspapers were created. Almost from the very beginning, there have been criminals who have used these ads to prey on vulnerable people. Listen to three stories of different serial killers who found their victims through the lonely hearts ads.

 

Notes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susie-lee/timeline-online-dating-fr_b_9228040.html

https://www.prairieghosts.com/belle.html

http://www.wvculture.org/history/crime/powers01.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/lonely-hearts-murderer-article-1.362857

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck

Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck: The Lonely Hearts Killers

Belle Gunness: The Black Widow of the Midwest Who Lured Numerous Victims to Their Deaths

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Rocco Granata, Lost Memories

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rocco_Granata/

Phillip Weigl, Not the Streets You Used to Walk

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Philipp_Weigl/

Kai Engel, Silence

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Lee Rosevere, At the Edges of Sleep

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

Chris Zabriskie, Stories About the World That Was, Virtues Inherited, Vices Passed On

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/

Ep. 37 – The Witch Hunters

Throughout history there have been many self-appointed witch hunters who dedicated themselves to wiping out the minions of Satan. Hear the strange stories of witch hunts throughout history, including Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, the Salem Witch trials, and the unsolved murder of the British man who may have been killed in the 20th century for being a witch.

 

Notes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041671/800-year-old-remains-witch-discovered-graveyard-Tuscany-Italy.html

http://www.sawneybean.com/horrors/matthew.htm

Was the 1945 “Pitchfork Murder” of Charles Walton the Result of Occult Activity?

http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/education/

Hex Murder: Pow-Wow Witchcraft in York County, Pennsylvania

 

Music:

Kai Engel, Curtains are Always Drawn, Take a Look Around You, December, January, Tentative Steps

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Myuu, The End is Always Near

Naoya Sakamata, Chemical Afterimage

 

Ep. 36 – The Bennington Triangle

During the 1940s and early 1950s, a string of strange disappearances occurred around Glastenbury Mountain in Vermont. Theories range from alien abduction, to Bigfoot, to dimensional gateways, to a serial killer on the loose. The strange events that occurred throughout the region led to a writer dubbing it The Bennington Triangle.

 

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle

The Vanished Town of Glastenbury and The Bennington Triangle

http://www.benningtontriangle.com

Bennington Triangle: Strange Disappearances In Vermont

Why Do People Keep Disappearing From the “Bennington Triangle”?

 

Music:

Naoya Sakamata, E4@-24b

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Mist and Clouds, Snowfall Intro, Oneiri, Silence

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

 

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