PHINEAS GAGE: A Rod Blasted Through His Head, He Lost Half His Brain, Then He Got Up and Walked Away

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Even if you're not a psychology or neurology student, you
may have heard of the fascinating case of Phineas Gauge.
Never before in history was there an accident where a
person's brain was injured terribly but not fatally, leaving them
with few lasting health problems, but with a totally different personality.
This man, who was impaled by an iron rod not

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only lived through a horrible accident, but went on to
have an active life. Or He walked, talked, and even
held jobs without trouble, and yet he was profoundly changed.
Also called the American crew bar case, the case of
Phineas Gauge is unique. In the accident, parts of Gage's
brains were destroyed, fell out, or died within his skull.

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It took skilled doctors a month to put him right again.
And this all happened in the mid eighteen hundreds, hardly
a time of medical expertise. So if you're curious how
a man who had an iron rod in his brain
could survive and how his case shaped the medical and
psychological world today, keep listening. Just be aware, if you've

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never heard the story what happened to Phineas Gage is
bound to make you cringe. I'm Darren Marler and this
is Weird Darkness. Welcome weirdos. This is Weird Darkness. Here

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you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the
strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained
coming up in this episode. I've covered numerous stories here
in the podcast on people gone missing never to be

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seen again. 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 jilted spouse always being
angry about it. One thing that has not been a
constant is how society judges those involved in the infidelity.

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In eighteen eighty five, there were different opinions about both
adulterers as well as the ones who murdered a home wrecker.
Part of a 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

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subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing. Cryptid. Yeah, 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. A Kubo Dam in Japan

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is unique in 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. Shimokubo Dam is
supposedly so haunted that Japan says the stream of ghost
hunters and paranormal enthusiasts is out of control. A mysterious

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creature is reported to be living near a bridge in
Zimbabwe which has killed numerous men. What is the Beast
of Gwanda Town? A year before the infamous Lizzie Borden
was born came the birth of Lizzie Halliday, who, though
being less well known, went on to commit atrocities that
would have made Lizzy Borden's stomach turn. But first, his

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story is legendary. One day, while working on the railroad,
Phineas Gage tapped on an iron rod that set off
an explosion which sent an iron rod through his skull,
destroying parts of his brain. Yet he lived, but it
changed his life, his personality, and it changed the medical
and psychological world forever. We begin with that story. Now,

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mult your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights,
and come with me into the weird darkness. Back in

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the early and mid eighteen hundreds, railroad work was one
of the most dangerous jobs a person could have. The
Industrial Revolution was in full swing, which meant that new
machinery meant to make railroad construction and operations go faster
was being implemented and updated regularly. Unfortunately, many of these
new inventions and techniques could be dangerous, and there were

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few to no safety protocols. During the mid eighteen hundreds,
thousands of rail workers died every year and tens of
thousands were injured on the job. This, however, is where
Phineas Gage made his living. He was a railroad foreman
in eighteen forty eight and was well respected in his position.

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He worked regularly with explosives for rail machinery and blasting,
and was regarded by his employers as a good businessman, intelligent,
and very hard working. All of this didn't stop things
from going horrifyingly wrong. Though. One September in eighteen forty eight,
Phineas Gage was merely twenty five years old and he

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was already the foreman of the Rutland and Burlington railroad
just south of Cavendish, Vermont. Work was going well that
afternoon and all the machinery and explosives were working according
to plan, and his men were setting a blast, which
involved boring a hole deep into an outcropping of rock,
adding blasting powder and a fuse, then using a tamping iron,

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which looks like a giant metal javelin to pack it
deep into the rock. As sometimes happens, Gage led his
guard down while doing this routine task and became distracted.
He put himself in front of the blast hole, right
in front of the tamping iron, which was not yet
packed with clay to prevent ignition. He was looking over

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his shoulder to speak with some men and had just
opened his mouth to say something when the iron caused
a spark against the rock. This spark ignited the powder
and there was a massive explosion. Gage was just being
careless and in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It's worth saying that the tamping iron was javelin like,

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because that's precisely how it behaved. The force of the
explosion behind the spike drove it out with incredible force,
and it headed straight for Gage. The thirteen pound spike
entered the left side of his face, right through the
side of his cheek and open mouth because he had
been about to speak, and went up into his head.

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It went through the bone, the brain, and then out
the other side, but it didn't stop there. All three
feet seven inches of the rod went through his head,
then out the other side and landed roughly eighty feet away.
Smeared with blood and brains. As is to be expected,

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Gage collapsed onto the ground, convulsing. At this point, Gage's
fellow workers expected him to be dead. When a metal
spike goes through your head entirely, bits of skull and
brains fly out, and blood starts to go everywhere, you
expect a person to be one hundred percent dead. Miraculously, however,

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Gage was not only alive, but aware of what was
going on around him. After only a few minutes, he
sat up and spoke, then rose and with little assistance,
walked to an ox cart to be driven into town.
It was almost a mile ride and he sat upright
for the entire time, and he knew how to get home.

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Upon arrival there, he simply sat in a chair and
waited for the doctor to arrive. Hardly the kind of
actions you would expect from someone with a literal gaping
hole in their head. Even with this miraculous recovery, Gage
probably would have been dead without the help of doctors
Edward H. Williams and John Martin Harlowe. When Williams first

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came upon Gage sitting in a chair on the front
porch of his lodging, the site was one to behold.
Gage told the doctor, here's business enough for you, and
Williams observed that there was actual pulsing brain matter protruding
from a massive hole in the man's skull. Gage explained
what happened several times because Williams did not initially believe it.

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Then Gage vomited. The effort of him vomiting caused brain
matter about a cupful to leak out of his skull
onto the ground. At this point, a horrified Williams called
doctor Harlowe. Harlow noted how calm Gauge was, that he
was conversational, though understandably exhausted and bloodied. The two doctors

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then set about removing bone fragments, as well as about
an ounce of brain matter that was falling out. They
cleaned the wound and wrapped Gauge in a nightcap, then
waited and watched to see what would happen. When you've
been impaled through the head with a spike, the last
thing you're probably thinking of is going back to work.

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This was not the case with Phitteas Gage. Initially he
told the doctors he hoped he was not hurt and
that he intended to return to work work in a
few days. It seemed his employers were correct when they
called him hard working. Sadly, for Gage, it was not
meant to be. By the second day, he was showing
signs of memory loss, and then he slowly slipped into

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a semi comatose state. By day twelve, he was mostly unresponsive.
His family began to give up hope that he would recover,
and they even constructed a coffin. Doctor Harlow, though, wasn't
giving up yet. The reason Phidias Gage was doing so
poorly was that his wound had become the absolute worst

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kind of infected. Harlow realized this and decided to make
an attempt to save his life. He reopened the wound
and cut out the growing fungus which was beginning to
sprout from the top of his brain. He opened up
the muscles from the nose and from around the exit wound,
and saw that there was a massive abscess brewing underneath

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it all. He drained at least eight ounces of puss,
blood and bile from the wound, then retreated it and
bandaged it. This time, Gage's condition continued to improve, and
Harlow succeeded in bringing the impaled man back from the
brink of death again. Initially, there were not a lot

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of notable side effects from the accident, but one thing
that developed during his twelve days of decline was an
issue with half of his face. Behind the left eye
where the spike had passed, an infection began to grow.
The eye began to bulge, and bits of infected brain
and puss oozed from the socket. Gage stopped being able

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to see from that eye, and it developed tosis, or
a drooping of the eyelid. This tosis would not go
away for the remainder of his life, and the scars
from the initial injury still remained as well. In fact,
many muscles in the left side of his face never
fully recovered, leaving him with little movement on that side.
Outside of physical side effects, there were a multitude of

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mental and psychological ones. After all, a large portion of
his frontal lobe had been damaged, destroyed, or completely removed
from his head. Although he was pretty much functional, his
friends said he wasn't the same Gauge anymore and did
not behave as the kind, focused and friendly gentleman they'd

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become familiar with. He became vulgar, profane, and course with
his language and actions. He no longer seemed to care
how others reacted to what he said or did, and
Harlow noted in a report about Gage's recovery that he
behaved as if he had no impulse control at all.

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Unfortunately for Gage, this meant that he could no longer
return to his work on the railroad. As a foreman,
Gage would have to find another way to make a living.
In the eighteen hundreds, it was still considered acceptable to
put someone with a disability or disfigurement on display for
entertainment purposes. Although Gage held a series of jobs after

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his accident, including stagecoach driver, stable owner, and research subject.
One of the first things he did to get a
little cash was to put himself on display. He went
to Henry Jacob Bigelow, the professor of surgery at Harvard
Medical School, where he was studied, and he was presented
to medical school classes there as well as at the

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Boston Society for Medical Improvement. This didn't exactly pay the bills, though,
so Gage then went to Barnum's American Museum, yes, the
same Barnum with the circus. He was never in the circus,
but there were ads for public appearances and shows where
people could observe his still scarred face and hear the

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story of his unlikely survival. We have a limited number
of photos of Phineas Gage, and some supposed photos of
him are unconfirmed. However, we do know that he was
regarded as quite good looking even after his accident. Doctor
Harlowe commented in his notes that Gage was disfigured but
still handsome, and this may have been part of what

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made him such a fascinating subject. People wanted to come
see him, and they even made a life mask of
his face to preserve his appearance, which we still have
to this day. Even with his looks intact, Gage never
had a spouse or any children during the twelve years
he survived after his accident. As previously mentioned, we don't

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have many photographs of Gauge, but the few we do
have tells us something rather interesting about what he did
after the accident. While working with Barnum, Gage posed for
photographs with a tamping iron, supposedly the same one that
went right through his skull and out the other side.
He kept it with him when he traveled as well,

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and when he spoke to groups he took it along
as a morbid prompt. After his death, the spike was
recovered and it is now displayed alongside his damaged and
deformed skull in museums and shows. It may seem like
an odd thing to do, but it made the story
of his accident more marketable, and to this day it's

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still enough to make people cringe when they see the
size of the thing that destroyed a portion of Gage's brain. Unfortunately,
for Phineas Gage, his lifespan was still cut short even
after surviving such a horrifying accident. In eighteen sixty, Gage
began to have epileptic seizures that made it difficult for

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him to work. He returned to his mother and brother
in law in San Francisco to rest and rehabilitate, but
in May he had a sudden and severe convulsion. They
called a doctor, bled him and rested him, but the
convulsions kept happening. Finally, during one particularly bad epileptic seizure,

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Phineas Gage died on May twenty first, eighteen sixty. He
was only thirty six years old. Gage was then buried
in San Francisco's Lone Mountain Cemetery by his family, but
the story didn't stop there. Doctor Harlowe had not seen
or heard from Phineas Gage in years, and had pretty

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much given hope of ever coming across his famous former patient. However,
when he read Gage's obituary in eighteen sixty, it re
sparked his interest in the case, and he got in
contact with Gage's family. But it wasn't for condolences or sorrows.
It was because he wanted to dig up Gage's skull.

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Gage's mother shockingly consented, given that the man had saved
her son's life, and Gage's head was exhumed in eighteen
sixty seven. Harlow took the skull himself, as well as
the iron bar that had become gaugeous constant prop and
studied it for a time. Lancey was satisfied and had
recorded papers and studies about the incident. He gave the

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skull and spike to the War and Museum, where they
remain on display to this day. Although this case is
well over one hundred and fifty years old, that doesn't
mean it's still not talked about today. There has never
been a case quite like Phineas Gages where so much
of the brain was destroyed and the patient was still

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able to talk, walk, perform a job, and function in
day to day society. It was in a day where
medicine was still in its early phases and where phrenology
was still widely accepted. Yet this man, with help from
some very skilled doctors, was somehow able to survive and

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live on for over a decade more than that. This
is a fascinating case study for psychology, biology, and anatomy alike.
Gage's personality changes have been studied in relation to the
frontal lobe, and his lack of impulse control has been
scrutinized as well. The case has taught us about how

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the brain heals itself, where many of our brains controls rest,
and it has shaped how we do psychosurgery. The accident
is sometimes referred to as the first lobotomy. We still
don't fully understand what happened to Phineas Gauge or how
he survived, but his case study exists and likely will

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exist for years in textbooks around the world. In fact,
roughly two thirds of introductory psychology textbooks mention Phineas Gauge

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across continental homicidal lunatic with a range of nefarious pseudonyms.
Lizzie Halliday 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 Lizzie McNally

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in eighteen fifty nine, Ireland, born just a year before
her namesake, Lizzie Borden. She would go on to commit
far worse crimes than the original Lizzie and garner less
fame and attention. This is the story of the Irish
American serial killer Lizzie Halliday. Lizzie terrorized Hudson Valley, New

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York in the eighteen nineties just a few years after
the gruesome Whitechapel murders started Lizzie's reign, coinciding with both
Jack the Ripper. Lizzie is sometimes listed as an suspect
for these crimes and Lizzie Borden Halliday would generate less
fame than the notorious Lizzie bordon but looking at the crimes,

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Lizzie was equally, if not more, bloodthirsty than her counterparts.
Lizzie emigrated to the United States in eighteen sixty four
as a wee nipper. This was just after the devastating
Irish potato famines, and many of the Irish sought for
opportunities in the Americas, Lizzie's family among them. During Lizzie's

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pre notoriety 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 one
hundred sixty year hindsight, we can probably hazard a guess

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that the mysterious and sudden deaths of the first two
husbands was likely no coincidence. By the eighteen eighties wayward.
Lizzie had been married four times. Two of Lisbie's husbands
were dead at this point, Jue had fled, and the
fourth husband survived in arsenic poisoning. Lizzie was not even

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thirty yet. There was also a strange case of an
arson related insurance scam which saw Lizzie get two years
in prison and committed to an asylum. Paul Halliday was
an aging Civil War veteran in his seventies and a
widower with five adult sons. When Paul first met Lizzie,

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Paul was caring for both his farm and a mentally
disabled child, Frank Halladay. Some sources quote the son as
John Halliday, and had then sprung his new wife, Lizzie
from an asylum. Neighbors picked up on Lizzie's complete hatred
for Paul's son, while Lizzie would go about scheming how
to get rid of Frank. Halliday. Wasn't long into the

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marriage that the Halliday's house caught fire. Although Lizzie managed
to escape and call for help, the mentally challenged Frank
was inside and burned to death. Neighbors immediately rose suspicions
against Lizzie, especially as they alleged to have seen Lizzie
outside laughing while the house caught fire. However, despite even

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Paul knowing that Lizzie 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

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despite all of the infidelities and murder of his own son,
Paul still somehow found the strength in his heart to
take Lizzie back into his arms and appealed to the
judge to release Lizzie. She returned to live on his
farm once again. Paul Halliday disappeared soon after taking Lizzie back.

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The neighbors were suspicious of the differing explanations given by Lizzie,
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 McQuillan. The McQuillans
were a mother and daughter pair that Lizzie had stayed
with frequently in New York. It was while the elder mother,

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Sarah McQuillan, 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. Lizzie, no doubt, had caught a couple of
flies in her web at that point. While under arrest
for the McQuillan murders, the entire farm was scoured and
the tragic end to her fifth marriage was uncovered by

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way of Paul's deadly and horrifically mutilated remains. Justice had
finally caught up with Lizzie. Paul had been shot three
times and his body was mutilated when police found him.
Lizzie was then arrested for three murders, but let's be
on us, the death toll was probably much more than that.

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It was fortunate for Lizzie that she was arrested when
she was, as at the time the local townsfolk were
planning a lynching, Sheriff Beecher at the time having to
call for order in this small New York farming community.
Lizzie was sentenced to the electric chair and confined to
Sullivan County Jail, Lizzy was given a date with Old Faithful,

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becoming the first female sentenced to die by the electric
chair at the time. At the time of her verdict,
Lizzie reportedly lunged for Sheriff Beecher 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, Beecher's hand being

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yet another victim of Lizzie's these are unconfirmed reports. In
true Lizzie fashion, her time in prison was full of drama.
Lizzie refused to eat and had to be force fed
to retube. It was reported in the papers that she
tried to strangle Sheriff Beecher's wife. She set fire to
her bedclothes, tried to hang herself with the bottom of

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her prison dress, and slit her own throat with a
broken window in her cell. Eventually, Lizzy had to be
chained to the floor of her cell to stop any
further mischief. Outside of the prison, Lizzie became a celebrity.
Front page headlines were dedicated to the sensational story of
the serial killer during a time when the term serial

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killer hadn't even been coined. According to New York World
reporter Edwin Atwell. He wrote, in the case, from its circumstances, origin,
conception and execution, its unique characteristics, the abnormal personalities and
peculiar localities it involves, and above all, in the strange
and mystery of its great central figure, is unprecedented and

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almost without parallel in the annals of crime. The sensationalism
didn't end there, with many journalists picking up on Lizzie's
time spent in Europe during the eighteen eighties and began
to suspect that Lizzie was Jack the Ripper. We suspect
that this mysterious creature was connected with the horrible Whitechapel murders.

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The Daily Times reported, noting that Sheriff Beecher asked the
suspect point blank about her involvement. In addition, the sheriff said,
I said to missus Halliday, Lizzie, you're accused of the
Whitechapel murders? Are you guilty? Do you think I'm an elephant?
She replied that was done by a man originally sentenced

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to death for the three confirmed murders. Lizzie's sentence was
commuted to life in prison. There was nowhere near enough
evidence to tie Lizzie to the Whitechapel killings, but police
at the time strongly believed that only a small percent
of Lizzie's actual victims were discovered, and we can deduce
the same Lizzie's real victim tally will never be known.

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Despite confinement, Lizzie would somehow manage to murder again and
stabbed an attending nurse two hundred 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

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Antrum had managed to have the Eastern United States of
America in a grip of sensationalism and terror during the
late nineteenth century, and even while confined to a life
sentence with the keys thrown away, somehow managed to carry
on killing. She is, without a doubt the baddest Irish
woman of all time. She died in nineteen eighteen and

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was buried in an unmarked grave and the grounds of
Matiawan State Hospital. Probably the best place for Lizzy coming up.
Part of the tablet's translation, according to Isaac Newton, states,

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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,

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and it's no surprise there are many now who want
to know where it is. The first. The Shima Kubo
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. Shima

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Kubo 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, heywhere knows

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a donation today. Thank you. While the idea of a
haunted house is scary, the thought of a haunted dam

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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

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at least downplay its haunted reputation in the name of safety.
Should you believe the ghost or the government. The end
result of the construction of the Shima Kubo Dam is
Kana Lake, a reservoir popular with fishing enthusiasts and nature lovers.
It was created to prevent the type of flooding caused

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in nineteen forty seven 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 Fujikowa
and Kamikawa was controversial. The land needed required relocating many residents,
and the area was considered sacred. Workers said to have

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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

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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 Arii family,
especially the patriarch, who believed he heard whispers and screams
at night. The tail ends with him going insane and

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killing his family and himself. Frightened slash angry slash despondent,
townspeople erected their own statue and preserved, or at least
left standing, the house of a Rye, which of course
is believed now to be haunted by the family whose
murder does not show up on any official records. And

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then there is the Haunted Bridge, completed in nineteen sixty
eight over a portion of the lake. The Campira or
Kutahira Bridge is said to be cursed and may have
aided in the demise of the Ray family. People have
reported hearing female screams, seeing hands rising from the water,

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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,

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it's hurting the wholesome image if dams can have such
a thing of the Kana Lake area. As a result,
the Japan Water Agency's Shima Kubo Dam Operation and Maintenance
Office came up with this brilliant idea. Music Japan News
reports that they installed motion sensors in a parking lot

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at the dam, and when cars or people are detected
between eight pm and six am, a speaker on one
side plays the theme song of local superhero group singers
dressed as superheroes Kaijen Sentai, Damn Saver or Water Fantasia,
while on the other side plays jojiman a do shaji

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kiyo Morazuni or George Ben's dance song Don't Forget Sir
Charge composed by a group of damn officionados. Really does
it work? The sensors and speakers were just installed, so
it'll take a while. If the results are positive, if
they may want to sell the system to other haunted dams. Yes,

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there are others. The Hoover Dam crying sounds ghosts of workers,
the hales 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 in Idaho, haunted by victims of a flood caused
by a nineteen seventy five collapse and by demons from

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mccult activities. So I guess there are haunted dams. Is
that enough to say that dams can be damned? Throughout

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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

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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 mists of time. It is an item of
alleged great power, holding secrets of magic, alchemy, the human mind,

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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 smart

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Ragdine table, Tubulus Maradina, 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 etched
various symbols and inscriptions that spell out all manner of
magical knowledge, in particular having to do with alchemy and

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the transmutation of matter from one form to another. As
well as the method for creating the legendary Philosopher's stone
and for manipulating the 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

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state and enlightenment. While the appearance and the 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 originally written by the father of Hermetic

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magic and alchemy himself, the legendary fifth century philosopher and
priest Hermes Trisbugistus. 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

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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, and a tomb under the statue
of Hermes in Tayan in the eighth century by an
Arabic mage named Balinas, that it was unearthed by Alexander
the Great in an Egyptian tomb, or even that it

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was created by Thoth, the king Priest of Atlantis, a
full thirty eight thousand years ago. Whatever the case may be,
legends flock to and surround the tablet and where went
off to. One common tale is that it was buried
under the Pyramids in Egypt, while others claim it was
sequestered away within the Ark of the Covenant, or that

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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 Sinala in
the twelfth century, and that at least in this version,

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Hermes Trismagistus 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,

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and some of these were from highly influential people, including
Roger Bacon, Michael Mont, Aleister Crowley, Albertus Magnus, Eric John Homyard,
Julius Rusca, 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

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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
commentaries on the Emerald Tablet was penned by none other

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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,

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tis 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

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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,

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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 obscure shall fly from you. Its force
is above all force, for advanquishes every subtle thing and

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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 Trismegist,
having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world,
that which I have said of the operation of the

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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.

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He's also said to have believed that the tablet contained
the literal recipe for creating the legendary Philosopher's Stone. 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

(43:13):
with the Philosopher's 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
at a laboratory setting. He would write of the tablet,

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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

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all very intriguing, but in the end, 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

(44:23):
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

(44:45):
well as the uncertainty over who actually supposedly wrote it
or where it came from, were 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

(45:05):
emerald tablet, upon which were emblazoned 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

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any of it actually work? And if so, how did
the tablet ever 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 we're

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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 eighteen eighty five, there were different opinions about both

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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 the beast of Gwanda Town. These stories and more
still to come. We all know somebody who struggles with depression.

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You may not be aware of it, but you do.
It's something that people who suffer with it tend to
deal with in silence. And the organization that we are
supporting this month with our annual Overcoming the Darkness Fundraiser,
they're working to make it easier for those who are
in the darkness of depression to come into the light,
to find help, to learn they're not alone, and that
there are ways to overcome the darkness of depression and

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live normal lives. I know because I am one of
these people, and I found hope because I got help.
I do this fundraiser only one month out of the year,
October as our anniversary month. It also happens to be
National Depression Awareness Month. We're looking to raise five thousand
dollars by the end of this month by Halloween night
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so we have a long way to go, but not
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Go to weird Darkness dot com slash hope and let's
see how close we can get to that goal before
the end of Halloween. Weirddarkness dot com slash hope. Daniel Monahan,

(48:23):
aged forty five, 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 eighteen
eighty five, a young man named Patrick Garvey began working
as a bartender at Monaghan's saloon. Garvey, an attractive, thirty

(48:43):
four 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.

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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

(49:27):
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

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May ninth, eighteen eighty six, 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,

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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 Garvy, hitting him six times.
Garvey fell to the ground and died in front of
the house. Daniel went immediately to the police station and

(50:35):
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

(50:55):
the grounds of insanity, it was well received. One of

(51:17):
the most talked about mysteries in Guanda Town in Zimbabwe
is of a mysterious creature which reportedly lies hidden in
the Mitsubishi River near Metsubishi 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

(51:39):
to residents from Guana 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 their services of

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a prophet to unravel the mystery. Efforts are underway to
engage a Guanda based profit from the zion Apostolic Church
in Central Africa, Prophet Meluli Moyo, which is known for
solving a number of mysteries, and Manabeleland South Province mostly
in Guanda District. Go Go Maltabanda, who was the Gwanda

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Zanatha Treasurer, said the problem which was being experienced at
the Mitschabc River started in the nineteen seventies 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 nineteen seventies
with male learners that were mysteriously drowning in the river.

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At that time, pupils from Mount Kazalit Primary School, which
is close to mitcheb C 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 it 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

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it 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. Go Go Banda said. What made

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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 grown up 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.

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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 our
incidents where a person disappears in a river because of
an ancestral calling, but a person doesn't die, a ritual

(54:08):
is conducted by the family of the missing 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. A
Gwanda pastor from the zion Apostolic Church in Central Africa,
Michael Dovlu, said when he arrived in Gwanda in the

(54:30):
nineteen eighties, he found residents complaining about mysterious deaths along
the river. He said this year about three people had
mysteriously drowned in the river. Pastor Undovlu 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

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a bath along Mitsbeeshi River just close to the mechebusy Bridge.
Other people go to the river to collect water or
to wash their vehicle. 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

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to invite a profit 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
active witchcraft. He said, From there he would be informed

(55:35):
on how to proceed with the matter. Prophet Moyo said
if it was an active 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

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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.

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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. Given an opportunity,
I can get to the bottom of this matter, he said.
Prophet Moyo said he once intervened in Hallal Primary School

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and Athisha area in Kese where goblins were terrorizing teachers
and since he removed them, he has not received any
complaints from the school. He said. He also assisted the
community of garin Yamba where he removed a big snake
from a dam where people were mysteriously drowning. Prophet Moyo
said he recently assists did Matonda Wanema Primary School in

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Gwanda 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

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more rare to have a story about a corpse going
missing never to be seen again. That story is up
next on Weird Darkness. Before we continue with this episode,

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I do have a lot of people that I would
like to thank who have given to our Overcoming the
Darkness campaign. Kevin jumped online as our very first donation
this year with one hundred dollars. He says, we all
need a little help now, and then you are so
right about that, Kevin. Jacqueline also gave one hundred dollars.
Thank you, Mom. I know who you are. Carrie gave

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thank you. I appreciate that ironically your name is broke
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Actually they signed a Sage rat so thank you. Sage
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make a donation today at Weird Darkness dot com slash hope.
If you've not been thinking about it, well maybe start
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Just throw it online, maybe text it to somebody somebody,
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long list there of resources, many of them free, for
people who are struggling. So that's the place to go
Weird darkness dot com slash hope. Sometime in the early

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eighteen fifties, 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 Dowd. It was on an
isolated ridge surrounded by rugged surroundings, so the house was

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usually left empty. The farmhouse's lieutenant 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. Stockholm mites were happy to oblige.
No one had any idea where he had come from
or why he settled in Stockholm, and nobody was terribly

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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 birthmark covering Daniel's throat. From

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what others had 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

(01:02:36):
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 third of April, after Murdoch's
arrival in Stockholm, it was noted that he was not

(01:02:57):
putting in a crop spread, that his team and few
farm tools had 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 beside the hay mow.
When he took a closer look, he realized it was
the body of Daniel Murdoch, hanging by a rope attached

(01:03:21):
to a pearlin plate. Fortune cut down the corpse and
spread word of his gruesome find. When Murdoch's landlord heard
what had happened, Dowd 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

(01:03:42):
for burial. They were unnerved to see that the vivid
scarlet birthmark around Daniel's throat had completely vanished. Aaron 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

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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 Saltpeter solution was freshly spread over the corpse's face.
Around two a m. Jones, who had understandably preferred lounging

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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

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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 scene again. The
old farmhouse was henceforth shunned, as if the devil himself
lived there. No doubt, some in Stockholm thought that just

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might be the case. A 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 Murdock had not been dead
after all, but in a state of suspended animation. According

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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 and took his twin away for burial elsewhere,
or did body statures take the unattended corpse for sale

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to some medical school. All one can say is that
the strange exit of Daniel Murdoch gave residents of Stockholm
many many sleepless nights. Thanks for listening. If you like

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the show, please share it with someone you know who
loves the paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters, or
unsolved mysteries like you do. All stories on Weird Darkness
aren't purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you
can find links to the stories or the authors in
the show notes. The Impaled Brain a Phidias Gage was
written by Laura Allen for Graveyard Shift. Japan's Haunted Damn

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is by Paul Seaburn from Mysterious Universe. Beast of Gwanda
Town is from news Dza, Zimbabwe. The Worst Woman on
Earth is by Kieran w Four. Mystery Confidential, How Daniel
Murdoch saved on funeral expenses is posted at Strange Company.
Shot by a Jealous Husband was written by Robert Wilhelm
for a murder by gaslight and The Mystery of the

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Emerald Tablet is by Brent Sponsor from Mysterious Universe. Weird
Darkness is a registered trademark copyright Weird Darkness. And now
that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you
with a little light. He mocks proud mockers, but gives
grace to the humble Proverbs three, verse thirty four and

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a final thought, life is too short to hide your feelings.
Don't be afraid to say what you feel. I'm Darren Marler.
Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.

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