NAZI GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON THE LOCH NESS MONSTER: Goebbels Mocks Nessie, Allies Fight Back

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome Weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness.
Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lure, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,
unsolved and unexplained coming up in this episode. As far

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back as time is recorded, mankind has had a fascination
with serious the Dog Star. But what is so special
about it? Aside from the fact that it's one of
the brightest stars in our sky? Might there be an
extraterrestrial connection as well? Ufl reports come in constantly to

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police stations and online websites dedicated to the subject of
ufology practically on a daily basis, and many sightings are
by people you'd consider above reproach, such as law enforcement, scientists,
military numerous sightings by airline pilots. But when you head
out into space and see a UFO, as is what

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happens with astronauts reports, that's something you take a much
closer look at. Jimmy Log left his wife after only
two years of marriage without first getting divorced. He married
another woman, whom he badly mistreated, so she left him,
but he had already started an affair with her sister,

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so he married her next. Now on his third wife,
he abused her as well. He was also a career criminal,
spending half his life living off the spoils of his thievery,
the other half behind bars when caught. So it probably
comes as no surprise that he was suspect number one

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when his third wife was found murdered. But first you
probably saw the title of this episode and immediately thought, what, well,
I'm going to tell you one of the most ridiculous
stories I've ever heard that is supposedly one hundred percent true.

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The access powers of World War II tried to kill
the lock ness monster. Will begin with that story. Now,
bult your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights,
and come with me into the weird darkness. Propaganda, misinformation,

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call it what you like. There are many reasons this
kind of meddling and foreign affairs is still so common,
but the primary reason is that it works both at
home and abroad. Misinformation campaigns are why some people think
carrots are good for vision, or that a human trafficking
ring was run out of a DC pizza joint. If

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those stories sound absurd, strap in for a blast from
the past. As the Axis powers of World War II
try to kill everyone's favorite lake monster. World War II
was arguably the apex of propaganda and information campaigns. Every
nation fighting the war used propaganda at home and abroad

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to further their war aims, either as a means to
rally the populace behind the war effort or to demoralize
the enemy. All it took was a little bit of
knowledge about the enemy and a whopping lie to take
the win out of their sales. Before the Allied invasion
of Sicily in nineteen forty three, a female radio announcer

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who broadcast swing music and demoralizing messages from Berlin told
members of the five hundred fourth Parachute Infantry Regiment that
they were jumping into a trap and they'd all die.
The troops actually loved the put on of Axis Sally,
as she came to be called, but it was for
the music, not the message. The Axis powers attempted to

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exert influence on enemy populations as well as their own.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in nineteen forty that
the Lockness Monster was just a made up thing designed
to boost tourism revenues. In a German newspaper, he cited
the Lockness Monster as a reason the people of the
United Kingdom were weak. The Lockness Monster has been a

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cryptozoological and biological mystery since as far back as nineteen
thirty three, when reports of a strange creature of unknown origin,
size or shape began coming from the lock If the
people of England and Scotland were dumb enough to believe
that there was a dinosaur swimming around their lake, Goebels

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reasoned to the German people, they were too dumb to
win the war. Benito Mussolini, the dictator of Fascist Italy,
took the anti lake monster rhetoric to a new level.
In the newspaper Papolo de Italia, he published the story
of an Italian pilot on a bombing run across the

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UK in nineteen forty one. He claimed the pilot had
dropped his bombs into the lake and hit none other
than NeSSI herself. He even saw the body float to
the surface before flying off. Not to be outdone, the
story was picked up by Allied newspapers in the British Commonwealth,
specifically Australia's The Daily Mail, who rewrote the story as

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a joke of monumental proportions. They even printed a counter story. NeSSI,
according to The Daily Mail, not only survived the attack
but was now considered a war hero to boot. According
to the story, local Jay McFarland Barrow and his son
were walking along the lock one day after the alleged

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bombing and saw the monster swimming away at high speed,
confidently shrugging off the access attack. Keep calm and carry on.
Jimmy Log was a professional thief whose life of crime

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spanned more than forty years. He was born in Philadelphia
in eighteen thirty five and was arrested there for larceny
at age ten. After his release, became an apprentice to
Joe Kaiser, a noted Baltimore pickpocket. He eventually graduated to
bank robbery and became quite accomplished it when he wasn't caught.

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Logue spent much of his time living a life of prosperity.
The rest he spent behind bars. His personal life was
just as erratic. At age twenty three, he married Mary
Jane Andres and left her after two years without the
formality of a divorce. He married Mary Gayan soon after.

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She already had an illegitimate son who took his father's name,
Alphonse f Coutaire and Logue mistreated Mary, so she left him,
went home to her father and died in eighteen sixty nine.
Before Mary Gayan left him, though Logue had taken up
with her sister, Joanna. Jimmy log and Joanna Gayan were

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married in the lock up of the Central Police Station
in eighteen seventy one. As Logue was preparing to serve
a seven year sentence at Cherry Hill Prison for burglary.
Joanna waited for him, and after his release, they went
to live at the Occidental Hotel in New York City.
Logue had plenty of money in bank accounts throughout the city,

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and with his partner Peter Burns, he resumed his career
of robbery and Burglarylugue was still in contact with his
step son Alphonse Cataire and agreed to set him up
in business as a barber. He bought a house in Philadelphia,
twelve fifty North eleventh Street and outfitted the first floor
as a barber shop. For a while, he and Joanna

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lived there, along with Caterre and two employees of the barbershop.
In February eighteen seventy nine, Jimmy and Joanna left Philadelphia
and returned to New York City. Log left Joanna there
and went on a thieving expedition to Boston with his partner,
George Mason. Upon his return, he was astonished to find

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that Joanna had disappeared. Catare told Log that Joanna had
returned to the Philadelphia house, had gotten drunk the previous
Saturday night, told him I'm off, left the house and
did not return. It was well known that Logue frequently
beat Joanna, and many believed that she couldn't take it
any more and left him. Logue began to search for

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Joanna and even placed an advertisement in Philadelphia newspapers offering
a reward of five hundred dollars for information as to
her whereabouts. He thought that she had run off with
Peter Burns and traveled to Denver looking for them. Joanna's brother,
Peter Gayan, believed that Log's actions were all for show
to hide the fact that he had murdered Joanna. Log

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was arrested again for robbery and disappeared after serving his sentence.
Nothing more was thought about Joanna's disappearance until eighteen ninety three,
when workmen were doing repairs to the kitchen of twelve
fifty North eleventh Street, and they unearthed the skeleton of
a woman under the floorboards. Around the bones of a

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finger was a wedding ring inscribed J L to j L.
Police soon learned that fourteen years earlier, the house belonged
to Jimmy Logue and his wife, Joanna, who disappeared in
eighteen seventy nine. Joanna's sister Ella Sides and brother Peter
Gayan identified the skull by some peculiar formations of the teeth,

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and were also able to identify other objects found with
the body. A handkerchief was tied around the neck of
the skeleton. The police believed that Joanna had been strangled.
Suspicion naturally fell on Jimmy log and the Philadelphia police
began a manhunt. On the evening of March fifth, eighteen
ninety five, an old man stopped at the house of

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Philadelphia Coroner Ashbridge. When Ashbridge answered the door, the man said,
I am Log, James Log, and I want to give
myself up as I understand there is a warrant out
for me. Log. It's been at least eight of the
intervening years in prison. He said he'd been in Chicago
when he learned of the warrant and returned to Philadelphia

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as soon as he could get some money. The coroner
took Logue to the station house, where he was formally arrested.
The police decided to keep the arrest secret, so they
booked him as William Casey and held him on the
sixth floor of the City Hall. The newspapers soon learned
that the mysterious prisoner on the sixth floor was none

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other than Jimmy log charged with murdering his wife. Logue
denied murdering Joanna and gave the police a detailed account
of his trip to Boston, including hotels where he and
Mason stayed and a theater where he saw the play
Robinson Crusoe while in Boston. The police were skeptical until
detectives went to several hotels and found their signatures on

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hotel registers and verified that Robin Crusoe was playing in
Boston in February eighteen seventy nine. Jimmy Lou's alibi was true.
Alphonse Cataire became the prime suspect in Johanna's murder. Detectives
traced Joanna's jewels to him, and it was learned that
around the time of her death, he had melted gold

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and silver in crucibles and sold the product. Under questioning,
Katare tried to pin the murder on Log. The story
was not believed, and questioning continued until he admitted Logue
knew nothing of Joanna's death. Kataire then made a confession
of sorts. He said that on the night of February

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twenty second, eighteen seventy nine, he found Joanna drunk. Fearing
she might go back to New York, where Log would
beat and abuse her, he carried her upstairs, put her
on the bed with her clothes on, then tied her
feet in hands and wrapped a clothes line around her body.
He left her there and went downstairs. When he returned,

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he found that she had rolled over on her face
and smothered under the bolster. He was afraid to tell
anyone what had happened, so he took her watch and jewels,
then hid the body under the floorboards in the kitchen.
In April eighteen ninety six, Alphonse F. Kataire was tried
for killing Johanna Log. He was convicted a first degree

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murder and sentenced to hang, but in June eighteen ninety seven,
Katar's advocates convinced the Board of Pardons to commute his
sentence to life in prison when Weird Darkness returns. As

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far back as time is recorded, mankind has had a
fascination with Serious the Dog Star. But what is so
special about it? Aside from the fact that it's one
of the brightest stars in our sky? Might there be
an extraterrestrial connection as well? We'll look into it up next.

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slash hope. Since ancient times and across multiple civilizations, Serious

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the Dog star, has been surrounded with a mysterious lure.
Esoteric teachings of all ages have invariably attributed to Serious
a special status, and the star's importance and occult symbolism
is an attestation of that fact. What makes Serious so special?

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Is it simply due to the fact that it is
the brightest star in the sky, or is it also
because humanity has an ancient mysterious connection with it. We're
about to look at the importance of Serious throughout history
and secret societies, and will describe the symbolism surrounding it.
Serious is located in the constellation Keenus Major, known as

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the Big Dog, and is therefore known as the Dog Star.
It's over twenty times brighter than our sun and is
twice as massive at nighttime. Siious is the brightest star
in the sky and its blue white glare never failed
to amaze stargazers since the dawn of time no wonder.

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Sirious has been revered by practically all civilizations. But is
there more to Serious than meets the eye? Artifacts of
ancient civilizations have revealed that Serious was of great importance
in astronomy, mythology, and occultism. Mystery schools consider it to
be sun behind the sun, and therefore the true source

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of our son's potency. If our Sun's warmth keeps the
physical world alive, Siious is considered to keep the spiritual
world alive. It is the real light shining in the east,
the spiritual light, whereas the sun illuminates the physical world,
which is considered to be a grand delusion. Associating Serious

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with the divine and even considering it as the home
of humanity's great teachers is not only embedded in the
mythology of a few primitive civilizations, it is a widespread
belief that has survived and even intensified to this day.
We'll look at the importance of Sirius in ancient times,

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analyze its prominence and secret societies, and will examine these
esoteric concepts as they're translated In popular culture, it was
revered as Saphus and was associated with Iris, the mother
goddess of Egyptian mythology. Isis is the female aspect of
the trinity, formed by herself, Osiris, and their son Horace.

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Ancient Egyptians held serious in such high regard that most
of their deities were associated in some way or in
an with the star. Anubis, the dog headed god of death,
had an obvious connection with the Dog Star, and tooth Hermes,
the Great teacher of humanity, was also esoterically connected with
the star. The Egyptian calendar system was based on the

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heliacal rising of Sirius that occurred just before the annual
flooding of the Nile during summer. The star's celestial movement
was also observed and revered by ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Babylonians,
and countless other civilizations. The star was therefore considered sacred,

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and its apparition in the sky was accompanied with feasts
and celebrations. The Dog Star heralded the coming of the
hot and dry days of July in August, hence the
popular term the Dog Days of Summer. Several occult researchers
have claimed that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built

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in perfect alignment with the stars. Especially serious, the light
from these stars was said to be used in ceremonies
of Egyptian mysteries. This ancient people, the Egyptians, knew that
once every year, the parent son is in line with
the Dog Star. Therefore the Great Pyramid was so constructed

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that at this sacred moment, the light of the Dog
Star fell upon the square stone of God at the
upper end of the great gallery, descending upon the head
of the high priest, who received the super solar force
and sought through his own perfected solar body to transmit
to other initiates. This added stimulation for the evolution of

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their godhood. This then was the purpose of the stone
of God, whereon in the ritual Osiris sits to bestow
upon him the illuminate the at crown or celestial light.
North and south of that crown is Love, who claims
an Egyptian him. And thus throughout the teaching of Egypt,

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the visible light was but the shadow of the invisible light.
And in the wisdom of the ancient country the measures
of truth were the years of the most high recent
scientific discoveries relating to the Great Pyramid and its mysterious
air shafts have led researchers to further confirm the importance
of Sirius within the Pyramid. A fascinating aspect of Sirius

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is the consistency of the symbolism and meanings attached to it.
Several great civilizations have indeed associated Sirius with a doglike
figure and viewed the star as either the source or
the destination of a mysterious force. In Chinese and Japanese astronomy,
Sirius is known as the star of the celestial Wolf.

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Several Aboriginal tribes of North America referred to the star
in canine terms. The Seri and Tono Oadam tribes of
the southwest described the Sirius as a dog that follows
mon sheep, while the Blackfoot call it dogface. The Cherokee
paired Sirious with an terras as a dog star guardian

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of the path of souls. The Wolf or a Skiddy
tribe of Nebraska knew it as the Wolf Star, while
other branches knew it as the Coyote Star. Further north,
the Alaskan Inuit of the Bearing Strait called it Moondog.
In nineteen seventy one, the American author Robert Temple published

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a controversial book entitled The Serious Mystery, where he claimed
that the Dogons, an ancient African tribe from Molly, knew
details about Sirius that would be impossible to be known
without the use of telescopes. According to him, the Dogon
understood the binary nature of Sirius, which is in fact
composed of two stars named Sirius A and Sirius B.

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This led Robert Temple to believe that the Dogons had
direct connections with beings from Sirius. While some might say
you can't be serious, sorry, a great number of secret
societies who have historically held within their ranks some of
the world's most influential people and belief systems, teach about
a mystic connection between serious and humanity. In his book

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The Serious Mystery, New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact five
thousand years Ago, which I have linked to on Amazon.
In the show notes, Robert Temple reveals the connection between
the Serious Star system and the secret traditions of an
African tribe. In Dogon mythology, humanity is said to have
been born from the Nomo, a race of Amphibians, who

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are inhabitants of a planet circling Serious. They are said
to have ascended from the sky in a vessel accompanied
by fire and thunder, and imparted to humans profound knowledge.
This led Robert Temple to theorize that the Nomos were
extraterrestrial and heahabotants of Sirius who travel to Earth at
some point in the distant past to teach ancient civilizations

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such as the Egyptians and Dogons about the Serious star system,
as well as our own solar system. These civilizations would
then record the nomost teachings in their religions and make
them a central focus of their mysteries. The Dogan's mythology
system is strikingly similar to the ones of other civilizations

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such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Israelites, and Babylonians, as it
includes the archetypal myth of a great teacher from above.
Depending on the civilization, this great teacher is known as
Enoch Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus, and is said to have
taught humanity Thurgic sciences. In occult traditions, it's believed that

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Thoth Hermes had taught the people of Atlantis, which according
to legend, became the world's most advanced civilization before the
entire continent was submerged by the Great Deluge. Accounts of
a flood can be found in the mythologies of countless civilizations.
Survivors from Atlantis traveled by boat to several countries, including Egypt,

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where they imparted their advanced knowledge. Occultists believe that the
inexplicable resemblances between distant civilizations such as the Mayas and
the Egyptians can be explained by their common contact with Atlanteans.
Was the religious, philosophic, and scientific knowledge possessed by the
priest crafts of antiquity secured from Atlantis, whose submergence obliterated

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every vestige of its part in the drama of world progress.
Atlantean son worship has been perpetuated in the ritualism and
ceremonialism of both Christianity and Pagandom. Both the cross and
the serpent were Atlantean emblems of divine wisdom. The divine
Atlantean progenitors of the Mayas and Keaches of Central America

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coexisted with the green and azure radiance of Gusha Motz
the plumed Serpent. The six sky born sages came into
manifestation as centers of light, bound together or synthesized by
the seventh and chief of their order, the Feathered Snake.
The title of winged or plumed Snake was applied to

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Quetzalakotal or Kukli Khan, the Central American Initiate. The center
of the Atlantean Wisdom religion was presumably a great pyramidal
temple standing on the brow of a plateau rising in
the midst of the city of the Golden Gates. From
here the Initiate priests of the Sacred Feather went forth,

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carrying the keys of universal wisdom to the uttermost parts
of the earth. From the Atlanteans, the world has received
not only the heritage of arts and crafts, philosophies and sciences,
ethics and religions, but also the heritage of hate, strife,
and perversion. The Alanteans instigated the First War, and it's

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been said that all subsequent wars were fought in a
fruitless effort to justify the first one and right the
wrong which it caused. Before Atlantis sank, its spiritually illuminated
initiates who realized that their land was doomed because it
had departed from the path of light withdrew from the
ill fated continent, carrying with them the sacred and secret doctrine.

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These Atlanteans established themselves in Egypt, where they became its
first divine rulers. Nearly all the great cosmological myths forming
the foundation of the various sacred books of the world
are based upon the Atlantean mystery rituals. According to Manly P.
Hall in his book The Secret Teachings of All Ages,

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which I have placed the Amazon link to in the
show notes, is thoth Hermes Trismegistus, the equivalent of the
Dogons Nomos, who are believed to originate from Sirius. Ancient
texts concerning Hermes describe him as a teacher of mysteries
who came from the stars. Furthermore, thoth Hermes was directly

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connected with Sirius in Egyptian mythology. The dog Star the
star worshiped in Egypt and reverenced by the occultists by
the former because its haliacal rising with the sun was
a sign of the beneficent inundation of the Nile and
the latter because it is mysteriously associated with tat Hermes,
god of wisdom and mercury in another form. Thus, Sothus

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Sirius had and still has a mystic and direct influence
over the whole living heaven, and is connected with almost
every God and goddess. It was Isis in the heaven,
and called Isis Sothus, for Isis was in the constellation
of the Dog, as is declared on her monuments, being

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connected with the pyramid serious way, therefore connected with the
initiations which took place in it. The Trismagistic treatise The
Version of the World from Egypt, refers to the Black
Rite connected with the Black Osiris, as the highest degree
of secret initiation possible in the ancient Egyptian religion. It

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is the ultimate secret of the mysteries of Isis. This
treatise says Hermes came to Earth to teach men's civilization,
and then again mounted to the stars, going back to
his home and leaving behind the mystery religion of Egypt
with its celestial secrets, which were someday to be decoded.
According to Robert Temple, the Serious Mystery interpreting the mythology

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of ancient cultures is not an exact science, and connections
are inherently difficult to prove. However, the symbolic link between
sirious and occult knowledge has constantly appeared throughout history and
has seamlessly traveled through the ages. In fact, it is
as revered today as it was millenniums ago. Modern secret

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societies such as the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and the Golden Dawn,
which are considered to be Hermetic orders due to the
fact their teachings are based on those of Hermes Tremagestus,
all attribute to Sirius the utmost importance. An educated look
at their symbolism provides a glimpse of the profound connection
between sirious and occultic philosophy. To claim that serious is

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important to hermetic orders would be a gross understatement. The
dog star is nothing less than the central focus of
the teachings and symbolism of secret societies. The ultimate proof
of this fact, many secret societies are actually named after
the star. In the Taro, the seventeenth numbered major trump

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is called litoix French for the star and Patrici young
girl kneeling with one foot in water and the other
on land her body, somewhat suggesting the swastika. She has
two urns, the contents of which she pours upon the
land and sea. Above the girl's head are eight stars,
one of which is exceptionally large and bright. Count de

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Gabeln considers the great star to be Sothus, or serious.
The other seven are the sacred planets of the ancients.
He believes the female figure to be Isis. In the
act of causing the inundations of the Nile which accompanied
the rising of the Dog Star. The unclothed figure of
Isis may well signify that nature does not receive her

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garment of verdure until the rising of the nile waters
releases the germinal life of plants and flowers. In freemasonry,
in Masonic lodges, Sirius is known as the blazing Star,
and a simple look at its prominence in Masonic symbolism
reveals its utmost importance. The Masonic author William Hutchinson wrote

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about Sirius, it is the first and most exalted object
that demands our attention in the lodge, the same way
the light of Sirius made its way into the Great
Pyramid during initiations. It is symbolically present in Masonic lodges.
The ancient astronomers saw all the great symbols of masonry
and the stars serious glitters in our lodges as the

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blazing Star. According to Albert Pike in his book Morals
and Dogma, the blazing Star originally represented Sirius or the
dog Star, the forerunner of the inundation of the Nile,
the god a Nubis, companion of Isis in her search
for the body of Osiris, her brother and husband. Then
it became the image of Horace, the son of Osiris himself,

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symbolized also by the Sun, the author of the seasons,
and the god of time, son of Isis, who was
the universal nature himself, the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life,
spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. It
was Hermes, also the master of learning, whose name in

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Greek is that of the god Mercury. In freemasonry, it's
taught that the blazing star is a symbol of deity
or omnipresence. The Creator is present everywhere and of omniscience.
The Creator sees and knows all. Serious is therefore the
sacred place all Masons must ascend to it's the source

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of divine power and the destination of divine individuals. This
concept is often represented in Masonic art. To achieve perfection,
the initiate must successfully understand and internalize the dual nature
of the world, good and evil, masculine and feminine, black
and white, et cetera, through alchemical metamorphosis. This concept is

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symbolically represented by the union of Osiris and isis the
male and female principles to give birth to Horace, the
star child, the christ like figure, the perfected man of Freemasonry,
who is equated with the blazing Star. The Egyptian hieroglyph
representing Sirius has been esoterically interpreted to be a representation

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of this cosmic trinity. This concept is so crucial for
Freemasons that it was embedded in some of the most
important structures in the world. As stated by Albert Pike previously,
the Egyptian god Horace and the star Sirius are often
associated in Masonic symbolism. The eye of Horace, or the

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all seeing Eye, is often depicted surrounded by the glittering
light of Sirius. Helena Bolvatsky and Alice Bailey, the two
main figures associated with theosophy have both considered Siious to
be a source of esoteric power. Plovotsky stated that the
star Sirius exerts a mystic and direct infa luence over

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the entire living heaven and is linked with every great
religion of antiquity. Alice Bailey sees the dog star as
the true great white launche and believes it to be
the home of the spiritual hierarchy. For this reason, she
considers Serious as the star of initiation. This is the
great Star of initiation because our hierarchy, an expression of

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the second aspect of Divinity, is under the supervision or
spiritual magnetic control of the hierarchy of Sirius. These are
the major controlling influences, whereby the cosmic Christ works upon
the Christ principle in the solar system, in the planet,
in man, and in the lower forms of life expression.
It is esoterically called the brilliant Star of sensitivity, according

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to Alice Bailey in esoteric astrology. Not unlike many esoteric writers,
Bailey considers Serious to have a great impact on human life.
All that can be done here in dealing with this
profound subject is to enumerate briefly, some of the cosmic
influences which definitely affect our Earth and produce results in
the consciousness of men everywhere, and which during the process

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of initiation, brings about certain specific phenomena. First and foremost
is the energy or force emanating from the Sun Sirious,
if it might be so expressed. The energy of thought
or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system
from a distant cosmic center via serious serious acts as
the transmitter or the focalizing center, whence emanates those influences

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which produce self consciousness in man Alice Bailey initiation human
and solar. So from the dawn of civilization to modern times,
from remote tribes of Africa to the great capitals of
the modern world, Serious was and still is seen as
a life giver. Despite the disparity between cultures and epochs.

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The same mysterious attributes are given to the dog Star,
which can lead us to ask, how can all these
definitions synchronize so perfectly? Is there a common source to
these myths about Serious The dog Star is invariably associated
with divinity and is regarded as a source of knowledge

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and power. These connections are particularly evident when what examines
the teachings and the symbolism of secret societies who have
always taught about the mystical link with this particular celestial body.
Is there a secret link between human advancement and serious
Unlocking this secret would mean unlocking one of humanity's greatest mysteries.

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Up next, ufl reports come in constantly to police stations
and online sites dedicated to the subject of ufology, practically
on a daily basis, and many sightings are by people
you'd consider above reproach, such as law enforcement, scientists, military
numerous sightings by airline pilots. But when you head out

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into space and see a UFO, as is what happens
with astronauts reports, that's something you take a much closer
look at, and that's what we'll do when weird darkness returns.

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We all know someone who struggles with depression, whether we're
aware of it or not. It's something those who suffer
tend to deal with in silence, in the shadows. But
the organizations we are supporting with our annual Overcoming the
Darkness fundraiser this month are working to make it easier
for those in the darkness to come into the light.
To fine help and to learn they're not alone, that
there are ways to overcome the darkness of depression and

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live normal lives. I do this fundraiser only one month
out of the year, as October is the anniversary month
for Weird Darkness. We launched in October twenty fifteen. It's
National Depression Awareness Month, and this month is spooky and dark,
kind of like depression. If you'd like to make a
donation or learn more about the fundraiser, or find hope
for yourself or someone you know who struggles with depression,

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visit Weirddarkness dot com slash hope. The fundraiser ends Halloween
night at midnight. Please give what you can Weird Darkness
dot com slash hope. Unexplained aerial phenomena have been reported

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over the year by many intelligent and credible people, including
police officers, scientists, astronomers, military personnel, pilots, and even astronauts.
For instance, during the first American orbital flight in February
nineteen sixty two, astronaut John Glenn, piloting the Mercury Capsule,

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saw three objects follow and then overtake him at varying speeds.
Glenn then observed what he called glowing snowflakes or fireflies
that swirled around his capsule. NASA officials surmised that the
fireflies were bits of ice that had become detached from
the sides of the capsule. Later, Mercury astronauts also reported

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the same phenomena, radioing back to NASA that more fireflies
could be produced when they tapped on the side of
the capsule. Three years later, in June nineteen sixty five,
astronaut James mcdivott on Gemini four photographed and filmed a
select integral shaped object with an antenna like extension. McDivitt

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said the object was silvery in appearance and was approximately
ten miles away. It looked like a beer can with
a pencil sticking out of it at an angle. McDivitt described.
After splashdown, the film was sent from the carrier to
be processed. When the NASA photo interpreter released three or
four pictures of the UFO a few days later, mcdivott

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stated that the quality of the photo was so bad
that it failed to reproduce what he had seen. Norad
suggested that the object might have been a satellite called Pegasus,
which was twelve hundred miles away at the time, even
though the object Macdivot had sighted appeared to be much
closer then. During December's Gemini seven flight, astronauts Jim Lovell

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and Frank Borman radioed mission control that they had a
bogie in sight, as well as many illuminated particles. NASA
suggested that the bogie and particles were fragments from the
launching of Gemini seven, but this is impossible if they
were traveling in a different orbit from Gemini seven, as
the astronauts described. In nineteen sixty six, during the flight

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of Gemini ten, two red glowing objects captured the attention
of astronauts John Young and Michael Collins as they circled
the Earth. They had ventured further into space than any
other human at the time, and suddenly both astronauts were
amazed to see that two glowing objects now occupied the
same orbital path as themselves. The official verdict attributed the

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objects to space junk discarded from an unmanned Saturn rocket
that had been launched earlier that month, but the astronauts
were adamant that these were not stars, and it's difficult
to imagine how a man made device could maneuver in
the erratic way the objects did when they suddenly left
orbit and quickly disappeared from sight. Because of the unwanted

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media attention generated by the Gemini UFO reports, NASA instructed
its astronauts to never use words such as bogie or
UFO if they cited something unidentified. Instead, they were to
use the code word Santa Claus when informing mission control
of unusual activity around their capsules. Additionally, mission controls stopped

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allowing their networks to hear live broadcasts from the astronauts. Instead,
they initiated a five second tape delay, possibly to quickly
prevent astronauts from accidentally broadcasting any unexpected UFO encounters. This
edict came just in time for the Apollo missions to
the Moon, where both astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldren

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supposedly saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the
Moon in July of nineteen sixty nine. According to former
NASA employee Auto Binder, unnamed radio hams who bypassed NASA's
broadcasting outlets picked up this message from Apollo eleven. These
babies are huge, huge, sir, enormous. Oh god, you wouldn't

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believe it. I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out
here lined up on the far side of the crater edge.
They're on the Moon watching us. These stories were repeated
in various UFO magazines, but it was not verified until
nineteen seventy nine, when Maurice Schatlane, senior engineer for NASA
contractor North American Aviation, confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported

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seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. The
encounter was common knowledge in NASA. In fact, all Apollo
and Gemini flights were followed by space vehicles of unknown origin.
Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed mission control, who
then ordered absolute silence. The late astronaut Leroy Gordon Gordo

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Cooper Junior set in two thousand that the government swept
under the rug the truth about unidentified flying objects. One
reason why Cooper was so insistent that UFOs are real
was his own personal sightings of the nineteen fifties while
assigned to a jet fighter group in Germany. While stationed
there in nineteen fifty two, formations of metallic looking circular

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objects passed over the air base on an almost daily basis.
UFOs continued to haunt Cooper when he was transferred several
years later to Edward's Air Force based flight Test Center
in the California Desert. In nineteen fifty seven, he was
one of an elite band of test pilots in charge
of several advanced projects, including the installation of a precision

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landing system. He had a camera crew filming the installation
when they spotted a flying saucer. They filmed it as
it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear,
and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed.
The camera crew managed to get within twenty or thirty
yards of the landed disc, filming all the time. It

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was a classic saucer, shiny, silver and smooth, and about
thirty feet across. As they approached, it took off and
disappeared into the clear sky. After the footage was forwarded
to Washington, the movie vanished, never to surface again. When
the Air Force later started Operation Blue Book in nineteen

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fifty two to collate UFO evidence and reports, Cooper says
he mentioned the film evidence, but the film was supposedly
never found. Rumors persist that American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts
continue to see UFOs while in space. As many if
NASA's programs are funded by the Department of Defense, most

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astronauts are subject to military security regulations and are forbidden
to publicly speak about their sightings. Hopefully, as time goes
by and more astronauts retire, they'll choose to publicly discuss
their UFO encounters. Only then will the public get a
better idea of the kind of strange mystery that await

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us in the deep dark reaches of outer space. Thanks
for listening. If you liked the podcast and you haven't
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true crime like you do. All stories in Weird Darkness
aren't purported to be true unless dated otherwise, and you
can find source links or links to the authors in

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the show notes. Why So Serious About Serious is by
Greg Prescott MS for Message to Eagle. The Assassination of
the Lockedest Monster is by Blake Stillwell or Military dot Com.
A Romance in Crime is from Robert Wilhelm for murder
by gaslight and code word Santa claus Is by Tim

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Schwartz from the now defunct Mysteries magazine. Weird Darkness theme
by Alibi Music. Weird Darkness is a registered trademark. And
now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave
you with a little light verse John four, verse eight.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God

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is love. And a final thought from Thomas S. Monson,
fill your mind with truth, fill your heart with love,
and fill your life with service. I'm Darren Marler. Thanks
for joining me in the Weird Darkness.

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