A young doctor returns to her childhood slum to open a free clinic, but when a dying patient vanishes from her examination room and his grieving cousin swears the boy has simply gone home, she begins to wonder what kind of people she's really been treating.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “All Unregistered Aliens” (February 09, 1978) ***WD
00:45:43.486 = Calling All Cars, “Burma White Case” (December 06, 1933) ***WD (LQ)
01:14:27.499 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Clue In The Clouds” (February 26, 1944) ***WD
01:45:06.776 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Cable Car Incident” (1967) ***WD (LQ)
02:11:42.746 = Chet Chetter’s, “Biloxi And the Bogus Beavers From Bornac” (1990-1992) ***WD
02:40:43.122 = The Clock, “Ghost Story” (December 13, 1955)
03:07:11.394 = Creeps By Night, “Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan
03:36:40.775 = SONG: Static Wax, “The Dead Man’s Bell” (based on the Strange Burial of Alexander Jordan): https://weirddarkness.com/music
03:43:07.328 = The Crime Club, “Dead Man Control” (March 20, 1947) ***WD
04:11:24.922 = Crime Classics, “Peaceful Pass T. Edwin Bartlett Grocer” (June 22, 1953)
04:40:59.478 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Little Meteorite Wanted To Be a Star” (February 02, 1947)
05:07:17.930 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0694

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Centuries before Hollywood dressed it in a nun's habit, the demon Valak prowled the pages of forbidden grimoires as a winged boy astride a two-headed dragon, commanding legions of serpents to do his bidding.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):https://weirddarkness.com/valek

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/24s8nzb9

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Although Valak is depicted in the films "The Nun" and in “The Conjuring 2” as a habit-wearing spirit, the real demon appears as a child riding a two-headed dragon — at least according to a 17th-century demon-hunting manual. (The Reality Behind The Demon, Valak) *** The Vatican is one of the most well-guarded areas in the world. But if rumors are to be believed, all that security isn’t only to protect the pontiff… but some dark, disturbing secrets… and a machine that could change everything we know to be true. (The Vatican’s Secret Machine) *** We’ll look at that time a force field was accidentally created at a 3M plant. (3M’s Accidental Force Field) *** In 1872 George Wheeler met and married May Tillson in Boston. He made a home for May and her younger sister Della, first in New York, then in California. Along the way, George fell in love with young Della and when she planned to marry someone else he was faced with a dilemma: he could not marry her himself and he could not bear to see her wed to another. The solution he chose pleased no one. (Thus She Passed Away) *** In the 1800s scientists and doctors needed cadavers to study human anatomy and practice their skills. To help accommodate the need, it was made legal to sell dead bodies. What could possibly go wrong? (The Unsettling Anatomy Act)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:16.547 = Show Open
00:03:31.777 = The Reality Behind The Demon Valak
00:11:37.807 = The Unsettling Anatomy Act ***
00:24:33.689 = 3M’s Accidental Force Field
00:34:11.149 = Thus She Passed Away ***
00:44:01.086 = The Vatican’s Secret Machine
00:53:13.339 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Reality Behind The Demon, Valak” by Gina Dimuro for All That’s Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/43vu356n
“3M’s Accidental Force Field” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3vvnwbpv
“Thus She Passed Away” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yyztmnat
“The Unsettling Anatomy Act” by SM for ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8vdns9
“The Vatican’s Secret Machine” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8kxxz8
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Originally aired: December, 2021

This episode of Weird Darkness moves from a centuries-old demon mistaken for a nun, through the Victorian trade in stolen corpses and a force field that appeared inside a 1980 factory, to a San Francisco trunk murder and a Catholic priest who claimed to have built a machine that could film the past.It opens with the demon Valak, who reaches modern audiences through The Nun and The Conjuring 2 as a pale, nun-robed figure but appears in the 17th-century grimoire Clavicula Salomonis Regis, or The Key of Solomon, as the 62nd spirit: a boy with angel's wings riding a two-headed dragon, commanding a legion of serpents and an army of thirty demons while hunting snakes and hidden treasure. The nun costume was the invention of director James Wan, who reshaped a vision the medium Lorraine Warren described to him — a swirling hooded figure carrying female energy — into a holy icon turned against her Catholic faith. Warren and her husband Ed, the demonologists who rose to fame after the 1976 Amityville investigation, reportedly met a spectral hooded figure at the Borley church in southern England, where lore held that a nun had been bricked alive in the convent walls after an affair with a monk. The Key of Solomon, which lists the seventy-two demons King Solomon was said to have vanquished, sat on the Vatican's Index librorum prohibitorum until the Church abandoned that list of prohibited books in 1966, though copies kept turning up in the hands of Catholic priests.From there the episode turns to the Anatomy Act of 1832, the ...

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On a bright July afternoon in 1986, twenty-five-year-old London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office to show a house to a client her diary noted only as "Mr Kipper," and she was never seen again.
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HOUR ONE: It is considered by many, Britain’s most well-known disappearing person case. Even now, over three decades later, people in the UK are still fascinated and intrigued by the unexplained vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh. (The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery) *** John List planned the murders of his own family so carefully, he almost got away with it. In fact, it took 18 years to catch him. (The Family Man Who Murdered His Family) *** We’ll look at what it was like to be a woman in the 17th Century… and accused of witchcraft. (Witchly Accusations) *** If you drink whiskey, or even if you don’t, you’re likely familiar with “Jameson Irish Whiskey.” But did you know that cannibalism played a part in its history? (Whiskey and Cannibalism) *** A strange phenomenon takes place in Arkansas, and despite the numerous sightings and investigations, there is still no explanation for it. (Unexplained In Arkansas)
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HOUR TWO: Seeing a lifelike human skeleton in a doctor’s office, especially in the past couple of centuries, was – and in many cases still is - commonplace. But where did one go to get such lifelike skeletons if you were a doctor in the 1800s? Why, a skeleton factory, of course! (The Skeleton Factory) *** The story of Kate Watson is a grim one – living as a prostitute in the Old West, and when that wasn’t enough she took up cattle rustling. Her husband wasn’t any better. So it’s probably no surprise that she was strung up until dead. But maybe you should wait to pass judgement until you hear the whole story. (The Lynching of Cattle Kate) *** In March of 2004, teenager Brianna Maitland left work in the late evening hours and was never seen again. To this day it is still one of Vermont’s most infamous mysteries. (The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland) *** Plus, “The Haunted Adirondack Mountains”
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: Parents always feel their child is special in some way – something that makes their child better in some way than other children. Parents of indigo children are no different, with some parents thinking their children have psychic abilities. Doctors say that these children have ADD or ADHD, but one parapsychologist says indigo children have something even more special – possibly even paranormal - inside them. (Supernatural Indigo Children) *** When you think of a mad scientist you most likely think of Victor Frankenstein – but it’s rumored Mary Shelley took inspiration for the character from a real mad scientist by the name of Andrew Ure. (Andrew Ure: A Real Life Mad Scientist) *** The story of Kate Watson is a grim one – living as a prostitute in the Old West, and when that wasn’t enough she took up cattle rustling. Her husband wasn’t any better. So it’s probably no surprise that she was strung up until dead. But maybe you should wait to pass judgement until you hear the whole story. (The Lynching of Cattle Kate)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW:
"The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery” by Amelia Gentleman for The Guardian: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2v2z6tp6
“The Family Man Who Murdered His Family” from The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/392yt322
“Witchly Accusations” by Jessica Nelson for the UK’s National Archives: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/j7nnd3ax
“Whiskey and Cannibalism” posted at The Scare Chamber: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9rx24777
“Supernatural Indigo Children” by Gina Dimuro for All That’s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/apk85b29
“Unexplained in Arkansas” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/27zaptdb
“Haunted Adirondack Mountains” by Molly Briggs for Paranormality Magazine: http://weirddarkness.com/magazine
“The Skeleton Factory” from Strange Ago: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2j8reje3
“Andrew Ure: A Real Life Mad Scientist” posted at The Scare Chamber: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3n5tfpeh
“The Murder of Nurse Cindy” posted the The Trouble With Justice: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2kfah7mv
“The Lynching of Cattle Kate” posted at Strange Company: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utdy2sh6
“The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland” by Orrin Grey for The Line Up: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/je9s98ru
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A five-inch copper idol called the Queen of Thieves has been pocketed, prayed to, and outlived every clever thief who ever thought he'd stolen her — and she's already choosing the next.

ABOUT THE SONG: Heard in the Weird Darkness Retro Radio episode "Queen of Thieves" (https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0689/) which presented "Ranee of Rajputana," a 1978 CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama about a little copper idol worshipped by thieves and the man who couldn't stop paying tribute to her.
The idol speaks for herself. She has been lifted from feast tables and palace altars for centuries, slipping from one clever hand to the next, blessing every theft and quietly collecting every soul. She doesn't need her latest keeper — she chose him, the way she's chosen all of them — and no one who has ever held her has gotten free. Sweet, smiling, and patient, she lets him believe the luck is his, right up until he understands that he was never the thief at all. He was the prize. She is the Queen of Thieves. A solo recording by Alena Ingram for Weird Darkness Records.

ABOUT THE SOURCE EPISODE: "Ranee of Rajputana" first aired January 24, 1978, as episode 770 of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, the anthology hosted by E.G. Marshall and produced and directed by radio-drama legend Himan Brown. Written by Sam Dann, it follows a smooth, embezzling investment counselor who pockets a small copper idol — the Ranee, a heathen goddess said to be worshipped by thieves — from a wealthy client's party. When the sharp-eyed widow decides that a man who would steal that can't be trusted with her fortune, his tidy life unravels into worship, murder, and a reckoning with the little goddess he can no longer put down.

ABOUT THE RADIO SHOW: CBS Radio Mystery Theater ran from 1974 to 1982, Himan Brown's deliberate revival of golden-age radio drama — nightly, hour-long suspense, horror, and mystery plays opened and closed by the show's signature creaking door. Weird Darkness revisits these broadcasts in its Retro Radio series, dusting off classic old-time radio for a new generation of listeners after dark.

ABOUT ALENA INGRAM: Alena Ingram is a solo vocalist on Weird Darkness Records — a voice built for the years between 1945 and 1965. Now in her early 40s, she came up the hard way; she was the girl your parents warned you about long before she ever stepped into the spotlight. Smoky, gravel-edged, and all attitude, she sings like she knows more than she's letting on — a crooked smile that gives away the mischief in her, a small scar that hints at the rougher life she'll never talk about. Sultry, guarded, and just a little dangerous, she doesn't have a single mood so much as a single presence: she becomes whatever the song needs. One night she's the woman you pity in a slow, aching ballad; the next she's the one you should have run from, fronting a brassy big-band swinger. The heartbreak and the menace belong to the song; the smoke, the nerve, and the mischief are always hers. Candlelit lounge or packed ballroom, if it lives somewhere in those two decades, it sounds like it was waiting for her.

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS RECORDS: Weird Darkness Records is the music arm of the Weird Darkness brand, turning the show's strange, dark, true-crime, and macabre stories into original songs across a roster of acts — Static Wax, Dark Weirdness, Crossroads Haint, Incorruption, and Monster Flakes. Find the full catalog of songs at WeirdDarkness.com/MUSIC and on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and other music streaming platforms.

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A burglar, a car thief, a pickpocket, and a roof full of teenagers all heard the same thing in the dark — a voice that wasn't there, telling them to get out before it was too late.

EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/somethingunseen

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7mzj4ap

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Creepy, paranormal encounters sometimes cause people to stop short of committing an action they might regret. (Supernatural Intervention) *** Weird family member Atreada tells of a horrifying series of nights when she and her sister encountered a demon under one of their beds. (Man Beneath The Bed) *** In York County, Pennsylvania a suspected witch is murdered – and thus began the dark story of the Hex House. (Dark Magic in Hex Hollow) *** Was there a conspiracy to murder Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe? We’ll look at the theories and evidence for and against the idea. (Killing Marilyn)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:00:36.259 = Show Open
00:01:59.484 = Supernatural Intervention
00:28:49.825 = Man Beneath The Bed ***
00:33:42.600 = Dark Magic of Hex Hollow
00:39:33.099 = Killing Marilyn ***
00:59:36.847 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Supernatural Intervention” by Anna Lindwasser: http://bit.ly/2IHZl58
“Man Beneath the Bed” by Weirdo family member Atreadia, submitted directly to WeirdDarkness.com (http://weirddarkness.com/submit/)
“Dark Magic in Hex Hollow” by Orrin Grey: http://bit.ly/2GD8860
“Killing Marilyn” posted at The Unredacted: http://bit.ly/2GGF7GS
(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)

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Originally aired: December 06, 2021

Weird Darkness moves through four shades of the unexplained in this episode: the unseen voices and strangers that talk people out of crimes and catastrophes, the demon that lived under two sisters' bed in Texas, the 1928 witch-killing that gave a Pennsylvania hollow its name, and the still-contested death of Marilyn Monroe.It opens with a run of first-person accounts pulled from Reddit, each describing the moment something unseen stepped in to stop a crime or a catastrophe. A burglar hiding in the closet of an elderly woman's house watches a ghostly old man pat a departing paramedic on the back, then feels breath on the neck and a voice ordering the intruder out. Middle-schoolers creeping through their darkened school are warned off by a voice none of them claims, and they avoid a library that proved to be wired with a silent alarm and motion detectors. In California, a fourteen-year-old abandons a car-theft job a mile from the pickup, spooked by a rising sense of dread, and later learns the vehicle was bait in a police sting that swept up everyone else sent after it. A pickpocket lifts a wallet clean off a stranger, only for the man — blind, sunglasses raised — to calmly ask for it back. Threaded among them are a blown tire that derails a despairing teenager's suicide plan, church doors that lock the instant two thieves reach for them, and a Hobby Lobby shopper whose five stolen pieces of balsa wood seem to trail straight to a table saw and a flesh-eating MRSA infection.From there the episode turns to a listener named Atreada, who shared a room and a bed with her older sister in SunRay, Texas. For a week the bed shook hard enough to slam against the wall and wake the whole house, blamed each night on two children supposedly roughhousing. On the fourth night a hand rose from the gap between bed and wall as an evil laugh filled the room, and on the last night the sisters aimed a flashlight and saw the thing climb out and bolt — an old man in rags, barefoot, with glowing eyes, talon-like fingers, broken teeth, ears jutting at odd angles, and thin transparent strands hanging from an otherwise bald, corpse-like head.Next comes the true story behind Spring Valley County Park in York County, Pennsylvania, a place once called Hex Hollow. In 1928 a Powwow folk-magic practitioner named John Blymire became convinced he was cursed, and a witch called Nellie Noll — the Marietta River Witch — named Nelson Rehmeyer as the source. To break the hex, Blymire needed a lock of Rehmeyer's hair and his copy of ...

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