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For years, a man in eastern Baltimore County would walk to the edge of the deep woods behind his neighborhood, and stare into the trees until he could feel something in there staring back, and he'd stay put until it seemed angry enough to hurt him before he finally turned and walked home. By the night he threw a party in those same woods, out on a little point of land reaching into the creek and well away from the deep part, he'd long since stopped thinking about whatever had been watching him.

SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Daemon Wood” written by Rob Funkhouser for WeirdDarkness.com

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Three young listeners wrote this week's stories. Ben starts hearing scratching at his bedroom door, just like the boy in the scary movie he can't stop thinking about; Annie laughs at a zoo sign that reads MONSTER EXHIBIT; and deep in a foggy forest, a kid hides under a hollow tree root while something called the Chasing Figure stomps around outside.

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A mummified three-fingered hand with eight-inch fingers came out of a tunnel behind a stone door in the Peruvian desert, and the doctors in Cusco who X-rayed it found real bone and skin.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Could it possibly be true that the three-fingered mummies found in Peru, eventually deemed to be a hoax, are in fact real extraterrestrial bodies? New evidence seems to say so! (The Mysterious Three-Fingered Mummies of Peru – Alien or Hoax?) *** In the early morning hours of August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead inside her Los Angeles home of an apparent drug overdose — but suspicions of foul play have persisted ever since. (The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe) *** Within the span of about 80 years two terrifying beasts emerged to haunt the imaginations of two European communities. From the werewolf of Ansbach to the mysterious Beast of Gévaudan, these creatures blurred the line between reality and legend, leaving a trail of death bodies, and people who even hundreds of years later in these areas are still frightened to go out after dark. (Two European Werewolves) *** The Hellfire Club, a secret society from the 1700s, provided a space for high-standing individuals to indulge in intellectual pursuits and social activities without judgment… but it also became infamous for its rumored hedonistic behaviors and dark rituals, though its true purpose and activities remain shrouded in mystery even today – making the rumors about it all the more tantalizing. (The Secret World of the Hellfire Club) *** In 2003, Christine Paolilla shocked her Texas community by going from a bullied high school student to a convicted killer. It’s a tragic story of friendship, love, drugs, violence, and murder. (From Miss Irresistible to Mrs Murderer) *** Oakville, Washington, a small town with fewer than 1,000 residents, experienced an unusual event in the summer of 1994. On August 7th, clear gelatinous blobs fell from the sky, soon followed by a mysterious illness affecting the townspeople. Despite various theories, from jellyfish particles to star jelly, the true nature of the Oakville Blobs remains a mystery, leaving the town and the rest of the world without clear answers. (What Were The Oakville Blobs?)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Anatomy of the Impossible (Short Story)
00:02:43.814 = The Foreboding
00:03:35.952 = Show Open
00:06:41.937 = The Mysterious Three-Fingered Mummies of Peru – Alien or Hoax?
00:17:19.802 = The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe ***
00:24:37.497 = Two European Werewolves
00:36:52.963 = From Miss Irresistible to Mrs Murderer ***
00:42:34.577 = The Secret World of the Hellfire Club
00:50:34.875 = What Were The Oakville Blobs? ***
00:55:36.773 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Mysterious Three-Fingered Mummies of Peru – Alien or Hoax?” sources: Anomalien,https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8mhubm; Ancient-Origins, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8fjedt; Metabunk, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmk27w
“The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe” source: AllThatsInteresting.com, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mwuhzyf2
“Two European Werewolves” sources: Amusing Planet, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrx7ske5,https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2c83z9mp
“From Miss Irresistible To Mrs Murderer” source: Unspeakable Crimes (Ranker), https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yzn37f77
“The Secret World of the Hellfire Club” source: HistoricMysteries.com, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bde5smnt
“What Were The Oakville Blobs” by Kelsey Christine McConnell for The-Line-Up.com (used with permission),https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/46ussh63
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This episode of Weird Darkness covers the three-fingered mummies of Peru, the death of Marilyn Monroe, two European werewolf scares, a Texas quadruple murder, the Hellfire Club, and the Oakville Blobs.
It opens with a mummified hand with three eight-inch fingers, found in a tunnel behind a stone door in southern Peru; physicians in Cusco X-rayed it for Brien Foerster and found real bone and skin. DNA tests in 2018 called the Nazca mummies human, but a later study of one named Maria found an elongated skull with no sign of deliberate shaping and feet with only three toes.
From there, Marilyn Monroe was found unresponsive in her Los Angeles bedroom in the early hours of August 5th, 1962, and the coroner ruled it a probable suicide, though no pill residue turned up in her stomach and theories still tie her death to the Kennedys and the mob.
Next, in 1685, the people of Ansbach caught a wolf that had been attacking children, dressed its body to look like their dead Burgomaster, Michael Leicht, and hung it from a gibbet. About 80 years later in France, the Beast of Gévaudan killed 14-year-old Jeanne Boulet and kept attacking for three years, until hunter Jean Chastel killed a large wolf with human remains in its stomach in June 1767.
After that, Christine Paolilla, a bullied Texas teenager whose classmates voted her "Miss Irresistible" after two friends gave her a makeover, was convicted in 2008 of murdering those friends, Tiffany Rowell and Rachael Koloroutis, along with Marcus Ray Precella and Adelbert Nicholas Sanchez, on July 18th, 2003. She went to work at Walgreens less than an hour after the killings.
Then comes the Hellfire Club, where, the story goes, a live baboon in ceremonial dress leaped out of a chest onto the Earl of Sandwich's shoulders, and where Sir Francis Dashwood's 18th-century secret society later met in the Hellfire Caves he had dug, feeding rumors of black masses.
The episode closes in Oakville, Washington, where clear gelatinous blobs fell on August 7th, 1994, and residents came down with flu-like symptoms; microbiologist Mike McDowell identified one bacterium in the goo before the samples reportedly disappeared from his lab. Theories run from jellyfish scattered by Air Force bombing runs to star jelly, and the Federal Aviation Administration rejected the idea of airplane toilet waste, which would have been blue.

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At three in the morning, a spacecraft lands on the White House lawn and carries the president away, and when it brings him home 24 hours later just as promised, his daughter is the only one who notices he's started calling her by a name her father never used.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Enemy From Space” (March 26, 1979) ***WD
00:45:32.120 = Price Of Fear, “Goody Two Shoes” (May 30, 1983) ***WD(LQ)
01:13:32.592 = Ellery Queen, “Mischief Maker” (January 15, 1944) ***WD
01:39:57.199 = Quiet Please, “The Hat, The Bed, And John J. Catherine” (June 11, 1949) ***WD
02:09:49.719 = Radio City Playhouse, “Fanny” (August 21, 1948) ***WD
02:39:51.235 = Sam Spade, “Hot Hundred Grand Caper” (September 19, 1948) ***WD
03:10:59.072 = The Sealed Book, “My Beloved Must Die” (July 22, 1945)
03:41:32.835 = The Shadow, “Out Of This World” (October 21, 1945) ***WD
04:10:12.927 = Sleep No More, “Death of Oliver Becaille” and “Fishhead” (December 26, 1956) ***WD
04:41:27.897 = Spinechillers, “Cupboard Beneath The Stairs” (April, 2006)
04:55:30.827 = Strange Adventure, “Mystery Of Loon Lake” (1945)
04:59:42.322 – Show Close

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Terry Sherman fired four revolver rounds and two rifle shots at a wolf three times the size of anything he expected on his Utah land, and it walked into the trees, its tracks ending in a patch of mud about sixty feet short of the creek. Within about eighteen months, the same ranch had a UFO sighting, a cattle mutilation textbook in every detail, and a reported doorway between one reality and another.

From the book “CONNECTIVE TISSUE: How Cattle Mutilations Link Bigfoot, Alien Abductions, Mind Control, And The Men In Black” by Darren Marlar at https://weirddarkness.com/ConnectiveTissue

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