The Bell Witch Haunting: America's Most Famous Ghost Story

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Among all of the supposed hauntings that have gripped certain
people and places throughout history, there are some that truly
stick out. Whether it be because they are infused with
a certain peculiar sense of dread or evil, that they're
so intense or even deadly, or that they are simply
so mind boggling and striking as to stick and twist

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into the mind like splinters. These are the hauntings that
truly enthrall us and make us think. One such bizarre
and frightening case has truly resonated within the world of
the weird, and it is a profoundly menacing haunting carried
out by some wicked, unknown thing that has gone on

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to be one of the most famous ghostly encounters in
American history. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, weirdos.
I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll

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find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,
unsolved and unexplained coming up in this episode. The pentagram
is most often seen in film and television as a

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symbol of satan or dark witchcraft, but that is not
the reality of the pentagram. The symbol has a much
wider and richer history than what is portrayed in today's
entertainment mediums. While the practices and beliefs of Wicca, Gnostics
and Druids use the pentagram in their practices as do Satanists,

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the pentagram was and sometimes still is used by Christian
believers as well, which I'm sure comes as quite a
shock to those who don't know the full history behind
this five pointed star. I have told innumerable stories involving
the death of someone, be it brutal, mysterious, or even

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darkly humorous, but it is high time I share a
few stories of people who died but then returned to
the living, not as ghosts, but as regular, flesh and
blood human beings who just happened to survive their own death.
The Lake Bodham murders may well be the most famous

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unsolved homicide in Scandinavian criminal history, occurring in nineteen sixty
and claiming three victims with one injured survivor. It is
a Finnish zeitgeist that, at one time or another had
the whole of Finland enraptured. It is now a buzzword
for murder and mystery in this small country. But first,

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the tale of the Bellwitch has gone on to become
one of the most well known hauntings in American history
and an iconic historical horror story. But of course it
has left us to debate and speculate on whether any
of it is true, and if so, just what was
the Bell Witch. We begin there now, vulture doors, lock

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your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me
into the weird darkness. The story of the Bell Witch

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begins in eighteen oh four, with the scenes set by
a humble farmer by the name of John William Bell
and his wife Lucy, who moved into a swathe of
rural land out in Robertson County in northern Tennessee in
what was then called Red River and would go on
to become the area of the town of Adams and
where they worked the land as their family grew to

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include eight children. It was a simple but peaceful life,
and for years this family lived out on their isolated
farm with no intrusions or incidents. However, in eighteen seventeen,
the first signs of what would become one of the
most well known and frightening hauntings, ever, would begin to

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emerge from some dark, unknown place to creep out from
the fringe into the solitude of this happy family and
change their lives forever more. Perhaps the first sign that
something was not quite right on the farm began with
a strange creature sighted stalking about by John as he

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was out walking about the property one evening and saw
what he would describe as a large dog like creature
with a rabbit's head skulking the vout in the shadows.
The startled John apparently fired at this strange intruder, but
rather than killing it, the thing just vanished into nothing.
In the coming days, one of the Bell's slaves would

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also claim to see a massive black hound on the land,
even following him about, and other apparitions began to be
sighted as well, such as a creepy giant bird sighted
by John's son Drew, and the spectral form of a
girl dressed in green seen swinging from a tree branch
by their daughter Elizabeth, often nicknamed Betsy. This would have

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already been quite unsettling enough, but things would intensify as
their farmhouse began to be besieged by unexplained phenomena from
realms unknown. As with many hauntings, the occurrences started out
rather innocuous, such as anomalous noises, strange thuds and bangs

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in the night, but there were also decidedly more menacing
things heard in the late night hours, such as the
sounds as something gnawing or scratching at the walls and door,
and also what sounded like shifting rattling chains. There would
also be the sound of a disembodied woman's voice, singing

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or even laughing. This would all gradually escalate, with the
disturbances gaining volume and intensity, snowballing into something truly unusual
and often keeping the family awake through the night, before
graduating it into something even more terrifying. The appearent haunting

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began to manifest itself in more concrete physical ways, with
blankets pulled off beds, objects moved or knocked over, sometimes
with violent and irresistible force, utensils slapped out of hands,
food pulled from mouths, food spilled on a kitchen floor,
and most disturbing of all, physical assaults on the family members.

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It began mostly as pushes, prods, and pinches, but quickly
got out of hand. When the unseen entity began slapping, punching,
pulling hair, and scratching, often with such force that it
would leave welts, bruises, and scratches. Although most of the
family members were targeted, it seemed like Little Betsy received

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the worst of the entity's wrath, routinely suffering injuries, and
on one occasion she was even stuck with pins by
the malevolent force. The only one the spirit seemed to
leave alone was Lucy Bell, who it remained indifferent or
even seemingly friendly towards at times. While at first john

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Bell tried to keep this all within the family and
shunned the idea of telling anyone else about their ordeal,
the attacks and ghostly phenomena got so relentless and threatening
that he eventually reached out to others for help. One
of the first people he approached with his dilemma was
a neighbor by the name of James Johnston, who allegedly

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witnessed many of the phenomena firsthand. It was Johnston who
surmised that the entity was actually intelligent and could speak
if prompted to do so. Indeed, the ghost would become
known for talking to both the family and visitors alike,
and it was soon after this that the mysterious wraith
would properly introduce itself. Once the entity got started speaking,

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she was allegedly quite the talkative one, often giving sermons
or quoting scripture from the Bible, as well as gossiping
on what the neighbors were up to. The entity also
liked to mimic other people's voices, which she was allegedly
very good at, getting accents and voice pitch down perfectly.

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In addition to all of this, the spirit finally properly
introduced herself, and by the spirit's own admission, she was
the witch of a woman named Kate Batts, who had
been a neighbor of the Bells and had sworn to
haunt the family in death due to perceived slights against
her as well as apparently a bad business dealing over

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a slave. The vengeful and spiteful entity had firmly latched
onto this poor family like some parasite, and seemed to
show no signs of going anywhere, indeed becoming ever bolder
and more violent. Rumors soon spread the haunting and this
malignant spirit, and curiosity seekers from all over the region

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began making trips to the Bell property in the hopes
of seeing what was coming to be called the Bell Witch.
Such was the notoriety of the case at the time that,
according to many versions of the tale, it drew the
attention of none other than future President of the United
States General Andrew Jackson himself. By most accounts, Jackson was

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skilled septacle at first, and actually arrived at the farm
with the intention of proving this all to be a hoax.
For Jackson and his team, this was all a bit
of good fun, and not a single one of them
thought they would really see anything supernatural. However, as they
approached the Bell property, something very strange, indeed purportedly happened,

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and according to a version of the account in M. V.
Ingram's eighteen ninety four book, An Authenticated History of the
Famous Bell Witch, the events would unfold as follows. Just then,
traveling over a smooth, level piece of road, the wagon
halted and stuck fast. The driver popped his whip, hooped

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and shouted to the team, and the horses pulled with
all of their might, but could not move the wagon
an inch. It was dead, stuck as if welded to
the earth. General Jackson commanded all men to dismount and
put their shoulders to the wheels and give the wagon
a push, but all in vain it was no go.
The wheels were then taken off one at a time

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and examined, and found to be all right, revolving easily
on the axles. General Jackson, after a few moments of thought,
realizing that they were in a fix, threw up his hands, exclaiming,
by the eternal boys, it is a witch. Then came
the sound of a sharp, metallic voice from the bushes, saying,
all right, General, let the wagon move on. I will

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see you again tonight. The men, in bewildered astonishment, looked
in every direction to see if they could discover from
whence came the strange voice, but could find no explanation
to the mystery. The horses then started unexpectedly of their
own accord, and the wagon rolled along as light and

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smoothly as ever. The perhaps understandably upset Jackson was still
not swayed by these spooky events. After all, he was
a seasoned general and wasn't going to let a mere
ghost scare him. He ended up staying the night at
the creepy Bell Farm, where the Witch purportedly kept her

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promise that she would see you again tonight. According to
most versions of the story, Jackson and his men were
positively accosted by the Witch, pinched, slapped, screamed at, and
having their blankets relentlessly torn away. So savage was this
spectral assault that Jackson was reportedly officially freaked out by

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now and is said to have proclaimed as he left,
I'd rather fight the British in New Orleans than to
have to fight the bell Witch. The bell Witch was
indeed known for making such quick believers out of staunch skeptics.
Another initially very skeptical visitor was allegedly an unnamed Englishman
who came to the farm with every intention of debunking

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it all. He arrived for his investigation, and that evening
the bell Witch supposedly began to perfectly mimic his British
accent and speech cadence. Later on that very same evening,
the Witch is said to have woken the man with
the voices of his own parents, which terrified him because
the spirit should not have known what they sounded like.

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He apparently left first thing in the morning and apologized
to the Bells for doubting them as he high tailed
it out of there. The Bell Witch would haunt the
family for years, with the increasingly threatening phenomena culminating with
John Bell suddenly falling into a coma and dying after
falling mysteriously ill in December of eighteen twenty. According to

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the tale, a bottle of poison was found near his
limp body by some accounts, in his medicine cabinet, and
the Witch would gleefully gloat that she had force fed
it to him as he slept. The eternally evil and
unrepentant bell which is even said to have continued to
torment the dead man at his own funeral, where she cackled,

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sang joyful, and giggled maniacally in full view of shocked guests.
After this, she also claimed to have ruined Betsy's marriage
plans by attacking her then fiance, a man named Joshua Gardner,
by cursing him with never ending choking attacks said to
feel like a sharp stick in the mouth. Not long

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after Betsy's engagement disintegrated, it appears that the sinister Bell
Witch considered her dark grim work done, appearing before the
family to tell them that she was going away for
a while, but would return in seven years time. After that,
the paranormal activity stopped completely, but true to the cruel

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Witch's word, it would begin again in nineteen twenty eight,
during which time she briefly terrorized the family and make
ominous predictions about the future, before finally vanishing again, saying
that she would appear again in eighteen thirty five, although
it is unknown if she kept this promise as well.

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Although the Bell Witch stopped haunting the Bell farm, it
is by no means the last anyone saw of her,
and the legend continues from there. The most popular and
spookiest story is that the witch did not ever really
go away, but rather took up residence in a gloomy,
abandoned cave not far away by the Red River, which

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lies on a Native American burial ground no less never
a good sign, and where she apparently resides to this day.
Among the many bizarre phenomena reported from here are the
sounds of laughing, moaning, rasping, wheezing, and the voice of
an old woman whispering or beckoning from the inky darkness.

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There are also other sinister tales of being choked, pushed, slapped,
or having hair pulled in and around the cave, and
others have told of being in place or having what
feels like in immense weight placed upon them, as well
as being embraced with a vice like grip. Of course,

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apparitions of an old woman are often seen prowling about,
and animals apparently steer well clear of the area. One
of the most notorious legends about the Bell Witch Cave
is that if one is to take even a small
stone from the cave, it will bring them hauntings, great misfortune,

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and even death. Although this entity is almost always described
as malevolent and violent, there is at least one account
of a child being saved from being stuck in a
hole by the Witch, who pulled the kid out and
reportedly even gave safety tips for exploring the cave before vanishing,

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a rare show of kindness in this villainy. The cave
continues to attract seekers of the macabre and paranormal investigas,
and anyone who is feeling brave enough can take a
tour of either the cave itself or a replica of
the original Bell Cabin, which is furnished with some of
the items originally owned by the Bells. The tale of

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the Bell Witch has gone on to become one of
the most well known hauntings in American history and an
iconic historical horror story. But of course it has left
us to debate and speculate on was any of it true,
and if so, just what was the Bell Witch. There's

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been a lot of skepticism aimed at the case in
recent years, and some of the elements swiftly debunked. For instance,
it has been fairly conclusively shown that Andrew Jackson was
never in that area at the time, and that there's
absolutely no evidence at all that he was ever at
the Bell Farm or even anywhere near it. However, many

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stories that originate in a grain of truth often picked
flourishes and exaggerated elements over the years. So what of
the rest of the tale? Is there any truth to
it at all? This depends largely on who you ask.
One of the main criticisms as to the veracity of
the case is that although there are countless books and

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articles written on the Bell which account, they all invariably
lead back to one main source, Martin van Buren Ingram's
eighteen ninety four book Authenticated History of the Bell which
which is the first real tom written on the case,
and which was released a full seventy five years after
the fact. Ingram, who was the owner of a local newspaper,

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based his book on interviews with alleged living witnesses, and
leaned heavily on the notes of one of John Bell's sons,
Richard Bell, who was only six years old when the
hauntings began, and who apparently did not put his experiences
to paper until thirty years later, which leads one to
wonder just how much that was there is true and

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how much had been warped by time. By the time
Ingram received this diary from John's grandson, Alan Bell, every
single first hand witness to the hauntings themselves was long dead,
and the actual notes themselves have disappeared, leaving us to
wonder if they ever even existed at all, or that

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if they did, whether they may have been a clever
fake or forgery. Adding to this is that Ingram is
known to have falsified some of his newspaper article sources,
and much of the information he includes in his book
is completely untraceable and unable to be corroborated in any way.
In the end, we simply don't know how true any

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of Ingram's book is, and since most other works about
the Bell which rely heavily on it, this potentially taints
them as well. There are very few other reliable sources
about these events, and only the scattered newspaper articles prior
to Ingram's work on the matter, although there are a few,
such as good Speed's History of Tennessee, written in eighteen

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eighty six, which described the case. Thus. A remarkable occurrence
which attracted widespread interest, was connected with the family of
John Bell, who settled near what is now Adam's Station
about eighteen oh four. So great was the excitement that
people came from hundreds of miles around to witness the

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manifestations of what was popularly known as the Bell Witch.
This witch was supposed to be some spiritual being, having
the voice and attributes of a woman. It was invisible
to the eye, yet it would hold conversation and even
shake hands with certain individuals. The feats it performed were
wonderful and seemingly designed to annoy the family. It would

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take the sugar from the bulls, spill the milk, take
the quilts from the beds, slap and pinch the children,
and then laugh at the discomfiture of its victims. At
first it was supposed to be a good spirit, but
its subsequent acts, together with the curses with which it
supplemented its remarks, proved the contrary. A volume might be

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written concerning the performances of this wonderful being as they
are now described by contemporaries and their descendants. That all
this actually occurred will not be disputed, nor will a
rational explanation be attempted. It is merely introduced as an
example of superstition, strong in the minds of all but
a few in those times, and not yet wholly extinct. However,

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this account does not cover a lot of the events
and incidents that have become intertwined with the Greater Bell
Witch legend, and it is a bit worrying because it
seems as though Ingram could have made up a fair
bit of it, or used a hoaxed source. The owner
of a newspaper. Ingram would have certainly had a lot
to gain from such a sensationes to count in this

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view the tale of the Bell which is merely a
bit of an urban legend and folklore started by an
opportunistic Charlatan and Another skeptical theory is that Betsy Bell
or even her family could have hoaxed the whole thing,
or that it was all based on local superstitions. But
what if any of it is true? Although there are

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certainly parts that could have been embellished or exaggerated, is
there any chance that some of the account really did
happen the way it's described. If we assume for a
moment that any of it happened, then obviously the witch
could not have been Kate Batts, as this woman was
actually alive and well during John Bell's lifetime, As skeptics

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love to point out. Yet, evil entities and demons are
very well known for trickery and deception, and it absolutely
does not matter who the entity says it is. If
it was real, then this could very well have been
some dark spirit merely claiming to be Cape Bats to
give itself an identity people could understand. Could this have

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been some sinister, evil spirit, even a demon, that had
decided to target this family for reasons we may never fathom.
Others have variously said that it could have been witchcraft
aimed at the family, a vengeful native spirit angry that
its burial grounds had been disturbed, a trickster entity from
the spirit world, an evil entity conjured up by bats,

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or even a psychokinetic outburst from one of the family,
which would fit into some modern theories on the poltergeist
phenomenon originating in living people rather than the dead. For
his part, Richard Bell is said to have written on
his ideas on the origin of the phenomenon in his
supposed diary. Whether it was witchery, such as afflicted people

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in past centuries in the darker ages, whether some gifted
fiend of Hellish nature practicing sorcery or selfish enjoyment, or
some more modern science akin to that of Mesmerism, or
some hobgoblin native to the wilds of the country, or
disembodied soul shut out from heaven, or an evil spirit
like those Paul drove out of the man into the swine,

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setting them mad, or a demon let loose from Hell.
I am unable to decide, nor has anyone yet divined
its nature or cause for appearing. And I trust this
description of the monster, in all forms and shapes, and
of many tongues, will lead experts who may come with
a wiser generation, to a correct conclusion and satisfactory explanation,

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Whatever truth any of the case of the Bell which
holds it is become legendary, sparking innumerable articles and books,
countless discussions and debate, and serving as the inspiration of
the nineteen ninety nine movie The Blair Witch Project, and
the basis of the two thousand and five movie An
American Haunting, among others. What happened to this family out

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on that secluded farm all those years ago? What sort
of dark force invaded their lives? If anny did it
ever even happen at all? Regardless of the answers to
these questions, the Bell Witch is a classic, very spooky
case from another time, an account deeply buried in mysteries

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and myth and which we may never really know the
full extent of when we're darkness returns. I have told
innumerable stories involving the death of someone, be it brutal, mysterious,
or even darkly humorous. But it is high time I

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share a few stories of people who died but then
returned to the living, not ghosts, but as regular flesh
and blood human beings who just happen to survive their
own death. Up next, the line between life and death

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is a fine one, and it is sometimes difficult to identify.
Although one government has found it necessary to warn its
citizens to refrain from playing doctor by trying to determine
whether a family member has died. Even physicians, nurses, paramedics,
and other professionals sometimes have trouble pinpointing the cause of death,

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or indeed even whether death has actually occurred. The thought
that medical experts could pronounce living people dead may seem astounding,
but this declaration truly happens much more often than we
might think. It's not only Mark Twain who had the
occasion to protest the report of my death was an exaggeration. Unfortunately,

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Twain's quip aside, such incidents are even for those who
managed to survive their own reported deaths rarely, if ever amusing.
In August of twenty twenty, after being declared dead, twenty
year old Tamisha Beauchamp was dispatched to a Michigan funeral home.
An employee preparing to embalm her unzipped the body bag

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in which she'd been placed, only to see her corpse
staring back at him. Jeffrey Figer, the family's attorney, said
they were about to embalm her. Had she not had
her eyes open, they would have begun draining her blood.
Paramedics responding to the family's call for assistance, upon finding
Beauchamp unresponsive, pronounced her dead when they could not revive

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her after she stopped breathing. Hospitalized in critical condition on
a ventilator, The responders insisted that they followed proper protocols,
and officials said that Beauchamp's undisclosed medical history was the
reason her body had been released without additional forensics examination.
The City of Southfield, Michigan, has been sued for fifty

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million dollars for Beauchamp's wrongful death declaration, and the four
paramedics who were on the scene are also being sued.
Boauchamp's shortage of oxygen inside the body bag, the lawsuit contends,
caused her to suffer brain damage. A supposedly still born
baby lay in an Argentine morgue for twelve hours. A victim,

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the infant's mother, Annaliah Bowder, says of hospital negligence. Fifteen
minutes after the child's birth on April third, twenty twelve,
she was closed inside a coffin and left for dead.
In the hospital's refrigerated morgue. During a prayer by their
daughter's side, Annelie and her husband Fabian Verone opened the

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coffin inside their child was breathing, and the premature baby
was subsequently pronounced to be in critical but stable condition.
The couple named their daughter Luz Melagrus or Miracles. As
a result of a near fatal mistake, five of the
hospital's employees were suspended. The hospital's administrator is at a

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loss for an explanation. The baby was attended by the obstetricians, gynecologists,
and a neonatologist. He said they all reached the same
conclusion that this girl was still born. The January twenty first,
nineteen oh one issue of The New York Times reported
the strange occurrence of a live man taken to the morgue.

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According to the item, Charles Crawford, who had shot his
wife Sarah before shooting himself, was taken to the morgue
After being pronounced dead. There, Joseph Murphy, an assistant, discovered
that Crawford was still among the living. After an ambulance
first transported Crawford to Saint Michael's Hospital, sister Soherta visited

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the vehicle. Her quick examination of him confirmed the suspicion
of the police officer in charge. Crawford had died. His
body was then transported to Mullin's morgue. There, the assistant
saw at once that Crawford was alive. Indeed, the dead
man spoke to Murphy as Crawford was transferred from the
ambulance to a truck used to convey corpses into the morgue.

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Left inside the cold morgue of the unheated building during
the dead of winter, Crawford was sure to have died,
the newspaper article pointed out, had he not been rescued,
and he was lucky. Indeed that Murphy was in attendance
the night he was brought to the morgue, because ambulances
are not attended by physicians, and no doctor was on
duty at the hospital the night that Crawford arrived by ambulance,

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since the hospital used the services of doctors on call.
At age seventy eight, Walter Snowball Williams woke inside a
body bag after being declared dead at his home in Lexington, Kentucky,
in February twenty fourteen. He tried to kick himself free
and the next morning, a funeral home's employees were astonished

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to see that the dead man was alive. At the
nearby hospital to which he was taken, he was declared
to be in stable condition. Despite his harrowing ordeal. According
to the coroner, Williams's faulty pacemaker caused the false reading
with his family. Williams's nephew, Eddie Hester, who had watched
his uncle being zipped inside the body bag, celebrated his

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uncle's return from the dead. Williams, who had been scheduled
to be embalmed the day after his arrival at the
funeral home, was also thrilled to be alive two hours
after being declared dead of respiratory failure and multiple organ failure.
In August of twenty fourteen, fifty four year old Walde
Lucio de Olaveria gon Coalvez, who has been diagnosed with

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terminal cancer, was spotted moving inside a body bag. His brother,
who came to the morgue with other family members to
dress Gunkalves, discovered that the supposedly dead man was breathing.
His feet were tied, and his nose and ears were
plugged with cotton. The Binandro Defarius hospital in Bahaih state
capital Salvador, initiated an inquiry into the incident. Hospital directors

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would meet the team who saw the patient to clarify
the course of action taken, a spokesperson for Bahai's Health
department set Initially, neither paramedics nor the medical examiner were
able to detect that Larry Donald Green was alive. It
wasn't until after he had been declared dead, placed inside
a bodybag, transported to the morgue and deposited in a

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freezer that he was found to be alive. Green, who
at the age of twenty nine, had been struck by
a car on a highway in Franklin County, North Carolina
in January two thousand and five, is said by his
parents to have suffered irreversible brain damage in the accident,
resulting in thousands of dollars of medical bills. His family
has sued the county medical examiner and the former emergency

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workers for twenty thousand dollars in compensatory and punitive damages
for negligence and emotional distress, and they want to ensure
that no other families are subjected to the pain and
suffering their family is experienced. Paramedics Randy Carney, Paul Kilmer,
Catherine Lamel, and Pam Hayes, and volunteer emergency medical technician

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Ronnie Wood were suspended with pay. Green was transferred to
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, where he was placed
on life support and listed as being in critical condition.
He was discovered to be alive when medical examiner JB.
Purdue examined his body. While certifying the cause of Greene's death,
Purdue ordered the same paramedics who had brought Green to

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the morgue to take him to the hospital. There has
been a terrible error made, and we are on a
fast track to getting these problems correct so we don't
face such a situation in the future, Franklin County Manager
Chris Cordwright admitted, adding it's an unfortunate happening, no doubt
about it. Thirty six year old Tamuel Jackson, who struck
Green based charges Apparently one particular premature baby didn't like

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being an a morgue refrigerator. The infant began crying and
moving when undertakers removed him from cold storage at a
hospital in La Margarita in the Mexican city of Puebla
on October twenty second, twenty twenty, to hand him over
to his parents for the funeral. The child's father urged
the baby, who was born only twenty three weeks into

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the mother's pregnancy, to carry on fighting. The little survivor
was assigned to stay in an intensive care neonatal unit
to be kept under observation. Miguel Angel Flores, the owner
of Funeraria Flores and one of the undertakers who had
come to pick up the baby's body, said, we called
the father over and he also saw it was crying,

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and so we got the doctor who had signed the
death certificate to come urgently. Flores was amazed that after
six hours in the refrigerator, the baby was yet alive.
I can't understand how he didn't die while he was there,
he said. The refrigeration unit he observed was normally used
to keep the limbs of amputees. An investigation of the

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incident is still underway. After suffering from an asthma attack
in July of twenty eleven, a sixty year old South
African man's family assumed he had died. Instead of calling paramedics,
they summoned workers from a local mortuary company, awakening more
than two hours later inside a refrigerated compartment. The dead

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man began screaming, but his shrieks didn't summon assistance. Instead,
the mortuary workers fled, terrified that they were hearing a ghost.
They returned, however, after gathering reinforcements and the group decided
to open the refrigerated compartment. Inside the ghosts was confused
and shivering, and the workers called an ambulance. Six hours later,

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after being held at the hospital under observation, the man
was declared stable and sent home Seizway Capello, the spokesman
for the Eastern Cape Health Department, said the temperature in
the refrigerator is designed to keep corpses from decomposing, so
you can imagine it's definitely not appropriate for a live person,
and the sixty year old man suffering isn't likely to

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have ended even now. Capello suggested that the village, I
bet the rumor is going around that a ghost is
among the villagers. There'll probably be family members that will
refuse to stay the night with him now. In publicizing
the incident, the government reminded its citizens that only qualified
medical authorities should pronounce anyone debt it's a message that

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needs to be heard. Apparently, the family's suspicion that their
relative had died was verified by the morgue's employees. Iyanda mccallo,
who owns the morgue, sat his driver, who had gone
to the family's home to pick up the supposed remains.
Examined the body, checked his pulse and looked for a heartbeat,
but there was nothing. Maccallo himself had thought the sixty

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year old asthmatic was about eighty. Sixty year old Rosa
Celestrino diasis of Rio di Shanio, Brazil, also spent several
hours inside a body bag deposited inside a refrigerated morgue
in hospital estadul adel Piera Nuniez, where she was receiving
treatment for a lung infection. Her daughter, Rosangela Celestrino, was

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called to the scene to identify her mother's body. When
Rosanngela gave her mother a final hug, she could feel
her breathing, she said, and she screamed, my mom is alive.
The looks the others in attendance gave her suggested that
they thought she was crazy, she said. At seven twenty
pm on September twenty third, twenty eleven, during tests related

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to her lung infection, a doctor had pronounced Rosa dead
and she was carted off to the morgue. At ten
pm that night, ros Angela pronounced her alive and the
dead woman was taken to the hospital's intensive care unit.
The nurse who first suspected that Rosa had died was fired.
The doctor who pronounced her dead resigned and unable to

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contact her forty six year old boyfriend, Tom Sandcomb for
two days, his girlfriend asked police to conduct a welfare
check on him. An officer entered Sandcomb's residence with the
apartment manager and found that Sandcombe had collapsed. Fire department
paramedics did not attempt to resuscitate Sandcomb, who was cold
to the touch and in rigor. He was pronounced dead

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at the scene at two ten a m May nineteenth,
twenty fifteen, and forensic investigator Genevieve M. Penn called Sandcombe's
brother John to deliver the bad news. John asked that
an autopsy be conducted to determine the cause of his
brother's death. At three pace, when a team arrived to
transport Sandcomb to the morgue, they noticed that Sandcombe was

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breathing and he was moving an arm and a leg. Later,
this pulse returned and he was transported to Columbia Saint
Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee. What had caused the strange series
of events. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's heavily redacted report
deleted the findings, and the hospital's spokesman, Evan Solichek, refused

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to disclose the information due to federal privacy laws. Sandcomb's condition,
whatever it is, improves daily, his brother said. The pentagram
is most often seen in film and television as a
symbol of Satan or dark witchcraft, but that is not

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the reality of the pentagram. The symbol has a much
wider and richer history than what is portrayed in today's
entertainment mediums. Practices and beliefs of Wicca, Gnostics and Druids
use the pentagram and their practices, as do Satanists. The
pentagram was and sometimes still is used by Christian believers

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as well, which I'm sure comes as quite a shock
to those who don't know the full history behind this
five pointed star, the magical, mystical, and misunderstood pentagram. When
weird darkness returns. The pentagram is recognized all around the

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world and is seriously misunderstood. It is a generalized symbol
associated with Satan, which is incorrect. The pentagrams derived from
the Greek words penta, which means and gram, which means line.
The pentagram is a triple triangle that forms an interior pentagon.

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This five pointed star has been used in ancient China
and Japan to symbolize the five elements of life, fire, earth, metal, water,
and wood, and they believed that to have magical properties.
Early Christians used the pentagram as a representation of the
Star of Bethlehem and represented harmony, heath, and health. Somehow

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it has evolved into a symbol of Satan worship. Exploring
the history of the pentagram, it dates back to thirty
five hundred BC in Mesopotamia, found inscribed on pottery and
various artifacts. The Hebrews use the pentagram to represent truth
and the pentituc, which is the first five books of
the Hebrew Scriptures. The Pythagoreans of ancient Greece focused on

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the mathematical purity of the symbol and held the pentagram
as their symbol of perfection. In ancient Babylonia, the pentagram
was used to represent the various gods and different religious
beliefs of Babylonian culture. During the medieval era, Christians began
to use the pentagram as a symbol of the five

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wounds of Christ, the crown, both hands, and both feet,
and it was used to ward off evil spirits. For
several hundred years. After Christ's death, the pentagram was adopted
as a symbol of the Catholic Church. During the Inquisition period,
there was much violence and upheaval of the Christian Church,
and if people did not conform to the Church's laws,

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they were executed. This is the time when the pentagram
and paganism were associated with Satan worship and believed were
tools of the devil. Goats were at times sacrificed by
devil worshippers, and the pentagram was associated with the goat's
head when the horns were placed upright on the pentagram. However,
paganism was not actually devil worship. It was simply labeled

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anyone that did not conform exactly to the Catholic Church.
Pagans went into hiding and secluded themselves from the religious
persecution and widge burning trials that haunted their every day
secret groups met and expanded their ideas. They developed the
science of alchemy, which was based on geometric symbolism. The

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pentagram and the pentagle with a circle around. The pentagram
is a geometric symbol which consists of five lines connecting
end to end and formed the five pointed star. This
was a mathematical ratio that was first documented by Greek
mathematician Pythagoras, and according to him, the five points of
the pentagram each represent the five elements that make up man.

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These elements are fire, water, air, earth, and psyche. The
Celtic Druids believed that the pentagram represented the sacred nature
of five air, fire, water, earth, and spirit. They also
believed it was a symbol for the underground goddess Morrigan.
Today's neopagan movement is based on remnants of the old

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Celtic traditions. Gnosticism believes the pentagram also referred to the
blazing star had symbolism of the crescent moon. This belief
was based on early Pagan, Jewish and early Christian views,
and the blazing star symbolized the magic and mysteries of
the night sky. The pentagram is turned in modern times

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into a symbol of harmony and spirituality. Some temples of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints are
decorated with the pentagram. Wickans have adopted the pentagram and
used it in symbolism of the four elements air, water, earth,
and fire, and believe balance the fifth point to balance
and create the fifth element of spirit. The pentagram ring

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is a popular talisman worn by Wickans and Pagans alike.
Benny Wickens utilized the pentagram frequently on altars, clothing, ritual tools,
and other decorative symbolism. They also view it as the
star of life and often represents the feminine energy. The
inverted pentagram was adopted by the Church of Satan as

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its logo, as mentioned previously, usually depicted inside the circle
with a goat's head inside the star, and is said
to represent rejection of heaven and all things spiritual. Latter
Day Saints and Wickans use both upright and inverted pentagrams
and rituals and ceremonies. No matter your beliefs, the pentagram

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has a long history and has always been a strong
spiritual symbol. Even though there are negative statements attributed to it.
It will always remain a strong symbol for those seeking
spiritual clarity and knowledge of the divine. The pentagram has
been known to protect from negative energy and to restore
peace and harmony into life. This sacred symbol and powerful

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tool will continue to maintain its ancient mystical attributes forever
and always. What is magic today will be science tomorrow,
said Wants. TC Lethbridge an English archaeologist, parapsychologist and explorer,

(46:23):
but also a controversial figure in British archaeology. His significant
research is related to a certain magical pentagram, a five
pointed star, and its secret use. When he died in
a nursing home in nineteen seventy one, his name was
generally unknown. Yet even more strange is that the last

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thing he was thinking about before he died was again
a mysterious pentagram, known and used by cultures throughout the
world for thousands of years as a protective symbol with
the power to banish evil spirits. Today, those who admire
Tom Lethbridge and his tribution to paranormal research know that
he is the most prominent name in the history of

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psychical research covering subjects like life after death, dowsing, poltergeist's ghosts,
second sight, the nature of time, and precognition phenomenon. His
ideas were described in a series of books and published
toward the end of his life. Curiously, but Lethbridge has
never been particularly interested in psychic phenomena until he came

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to the crucial point at a later time in his
life and began to take a serious interest in the subject.
Disappointed with the hostile reception of one of its archaeological
books and his job as the keeper of Anglo Saxon antiquities,
Lethbridge left Cambridge and retired to Hull House, a Tudor
mansion on the south coast of Devon in southern Britain.

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He planned to spend his last years of life reading
and digging some pottery, but suddenly his plans changed, and
so it began the most exciting period of his life.
He came in contact with his neighbor, an old, white
haired witch who lived next door and possessed a few
extraordinary powers. One day, the old witch explained how she

(48:13):
managed to put off unwonted visitors by drawing a pentagram
in her head and then visualize it across the path
of the unwelcome visitor or on the front gate. For example,
her secret use of the magical pentagram introduced psychical researcher
Tom Lethbridge to the world of the paranormal. In the beginning,
Lethbridge was very skeptical until something extraordinary happened that finally

(48:37):
convinced him for the rest of his life. Shortly afterward,
in the middle of the night, Lethbridge was lying in
bed practicing drawing mental pentagrams around his and his wife
Mona's bed. A few nights later, Mona woke up with
a strange feeling that there was someone else in the
room standing at the foot of the bed, but she
could only distinguish a faint glow of light, which slowly

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faded away, leaving the bedroom in the darkness again. The
next day, they both met their neighbor, who asked if
someone had been putting protection on them. She explained that
she came to their bedroom on another night and couldn't
get near the bed because there were triangles of fire
around it. Three years later, the old lady died in

(49:22):
rather peculiar circumstances, and her death resulted indirectly, of course,
in one of Tom Lethbridge's most significant insights in the
realm of the occult. One day, passing the cottage of
the Witch, he experienced a horrid feeling of suffocating depression,
and his scientific curiosity pushed him further to investigate this strange,

(49:44):
nasty feeling. He walked around the cottage, and all of
a sudden he discovered that he could step right into
the depression and then out of it again, just as
it was some kind of invisible wall. This disturbing and
inexplicable incident made Lethbridge convinced that he must look for
other clues. Another strange incident occurred about a year after

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the death of the Old Witch. On a wet January afternoon,
Tom and his wife Mina drove down to the beach
to gather seaweed. Suddenly a blanket of fog descended upon them.
It was Laudrum Bay Devon that Lethbridge experienced the blanket
of fear and gloom. The next day he mentioned what

(50:27):
had happened to Mina's brother, and from him he heard
about a similar incident that took place in a field
near Avebury in Wiltshire. A week later, Lethbridge and his
wife set out for Laudrum Bay once again, they stepped
on to the beach and both walked into the same
bank of depression or ghoul, as Lethbridge called it. The

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feeling was intense, unpleasant and made both of them dizzy.
They found the place frightening and sinister, and not only
for them. Nine years later a man committed suicide there,
and Tom Lethbridge was wondering what could make people feel
so bad in this particular place. What was this intense

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bad feeling that imprinted itself in the area. Have feelings
of despair or perhaps even those evil ones been recorded there?
Tom Lethbridge was convinced that the key to the puzzle
lay in the water. He knew that underground water produces
changes in the Earth's magnetic field. Suppose the magnetic field

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of running water can record strong emotions, which, as we know,
are electrical activities in the human brain and body, and
such fields could well be most energetic in damp areas
and during foggy weather. Lethbridge was a keen and accomplished dowser,
and the pendulum was the key to his interest in

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the unknown. He had known for years that a pendulum
could be used for divining and its accuracy could convey
a lot of extremely complex information. He was confident that
a pendulum responds to the mind, not only to some vibration.
Human beings possess powers were not even aware of, because
there are powers of an unconscious mind which go far

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beyond that what we understand. In his book The Power
of the Pendulum, Tom Lethbridge wrote about the unknown realm
of our mind, the super conscious. It the super conscious
knows far more than we do because it does not
have to use the brain to filter out everything. It
lives in a timeless zone, all of which may be

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true and probably is, but is also incomprehensible to us.
What Lethbridge tries to say to us is that everyone
has experienced moods of unusual vitality, sudden ecstasy of excitement.
Having memories of such moments as well as our power
to recreate them, we are equipped enough to research the
unknown realms of our mind in all of this because

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a neighbor told him about the pentagram. Up next on
Weird Darkness. The Lake Vodham murders may well be the
most famous unsolved thomicide in Scandinavian criminal history, occurring in

(53:23):
nineteen sixty and claiming three victims with one injured survivor.
It is a Finnish zeitgeist that at one time or
another had the whole of Finland enraptured. It is now
a buzzword for murder and mystery in the small country.

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They were all teenagers, just typical Finnish teenagers. The story
plays out like an American slasher movie, set over a
decade before the slasher genre was even invented, unless, of course,
you're including Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as a slasher pick. It
is a story of how a typical night of drinking,
teenage love and teenager adventure turned into a blood ridden massacre,

(54:23):
a homicidal maniac on the rampage, or a jealous tiff
turned into blood soaked carnage. Four young kids go camping
at the nearby Lake Botom, and only one comes back alive,
severely beaten, wounded, but alive. Nonetheless, a little over twenty
kilometers outside of Helsinki, at the beautiful Lake Botom, the

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Finnish teens decided to camp out on the lake for
the night. It was June fourth, nineteen sixty, and the
trip consisted of two girls accompanied by their slightly older
two boyfriends, Sepo Boys mean eighteen, had managed to get
some alcohol for the night ahead. In the serenity of
the Finnish landscape. Their motorcycle was parked beside the tent

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and they were positioned on a slight slope by the shade.
At some time between four am and six am on Sunday,
June fifth, nineteen sixty on Shimaki fifteen, Meelea Bjorklund fifteen
and Sepel boysmen were stabbed and bludgeoned to death. This
had occurred around the single tent, which was pitched by

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the shore of Lake Botom and had all four of
the fins sleeping inside of that night, Meela Bjorklund's body
was found outside the tent. Her boyfriend Nils Gustavsson eighteen
was wounded and lying next to her, while the other
two teens were found dead inside the tent. Gustavson himself
had managed to survive, however, he suffered from a concussion,

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memory loss, fractures to his jaw, and a stab wound
across his forehead. It was Gustafson's girlfriend and Maela Bjorklund
that had the most severe wounds. At the time of
her death, having been stabbed fifteen times that night. When found,
Maela was undressed from the waist down. There were stab
wounds inflicted even after she was dead, and it seemed

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clear that Anya and Seppo were murdered from within the
tent and through the fabric in a less painful and
less frenzied manner. Gustavsen claimed at the time to have
seen a figure dressed in black and red with bright
eyes appear from nowhere and viciously attacked the group. Beyond this,
Gustavsen was a useless and amnesiac witness. The killer had

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appeared to attack the occupants with a knife from the
outside and an unidentified instrument through the sides of the tent.
The murderous weapons were never located. The killer also took
several items from his victims, which included keys to a motorcycle,
Gustafson's shoes, and several articles of clothing. A search of
the area did not locate the victim's clothing or personal

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items that were stolen. In the sixty years since, there
have been a number of suspects identified by finished detectives.
There was a group of bird watchers that stumbled upon
the scene, but did not notice the carnage in front
of them. Instead, they thought the lifeless bodies were merely sunbathing,
and their attention was taken by the motorcycle Before leaving

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the scene many hours before the police arrived. They think
they may have seen a fair haired person walking away
from the tent at the time. There was also a
blonde man seen by a witness who was fishing at
the inlet further down from the scene. This man remains
a mystery to this day. The first obvious suspect to

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speculate on is Gustavson himself, so much in fact, that
he even went on trial for the slayings after the
night in question. Gustavsson was a bus driver and lived
a fairly quiet life thereafter. However, in two thousand and four,
forty four years after the event itself, Gustavsen was arrested
and charged with a triple murder. He was not heavily

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linked as a suspect during the period of nineteen sixty
to two thousand four, at least as far as the
public knew. According to the FBNI, the finished National Bureau
of Investigation, Gustafsen had gotten drunk and after being excluded
from the tent, went into a rage and attacked his
three friends from the outside, and in ensuing fight, his

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jaw was then possibly broken. He then proceeded to bludgeon
and stab his three camping companions to death. In October seventh,
two thousand and five, Gustavsen was acquitted of murder and
paid out a handsome compensation for the mental anguish suffered
by the Finnish government. The defense laid out the reasons
as to why Gustafson could not be guilty, as the

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injuries suffered by Gustafsen were too vast to have been
involved in the killing and he would have been incapable
of doing so. Gustavsen was also found barefoot, while the
killer's footprint was found five hundred yards from the scene. However,
the FBNI linked DNA bloodstain analysis of the three victims
to Gustafson. It was further contended that the more severe

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injuries to Mela Bjorklund showed that this was as a
result of an argument with Gustafson, and that Gustafson's girlfriend
suffered the more savage killing, while Gustafson himself suffered the
least brutality, suggesting that the murders were due to a
domestic fight a crime of passion. It was always going
to be difficult getting a conviction against Gustafson given the

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length of time that had passed, even if he was guilty.
Interestingly enough, it was the family of the victims that
pushed on in the hope that Gustafsen would be found guilty.
It suggests that the victims families all held Gustufson accountable
since nineteen sixty a local Kiosk keeper known as the
Kiosk Man, was heavily linked this murder. Carl Valdemore Gilstrom

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was known to have a severely hostile approach to campers. Allegedly,
the Kiosk Man would throw rocks at campers, cut down tents,
and yell verbal abuse to anybody visiting Lake Bodom. It
was suggested at the time that Gilstrom was spotted by
a witness coming back from the scene. Tragedy occurred in
nineteen sixty nine when Karl Valdemar Gilstrom drowned himself, and

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now the potential of gaining DNA evidence was gone. It
was the cursed Lake Bodom, where Gilstrom chose to kill
himself an ominous message. Perhaps, it seems apparent that Finnish
investigators dropped the ball by not following up on a
lot of evidence to suggest that kiosk Man was the
campsite killer. Another suspect was Penti Soynanan. Seynanan had committed

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a ton of petty crimes throughout his life and was
later convicted in the late nineteen sixties. Allegedly, while in jail,
confessed to the killings a history of drugs, alcohol, mental illness,
and psychotic personality. The police did not pay dividend to
the confession and highlight that Suynanen is mentally unstable and

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therefore unreliable. Synanan would later hang himself in a prison
transport station in nineteen sixty nine, another suicide linked to Botom,
two suspects killing themselves after being heavily linked to the murders.
This is Finland, nevertheless, and suicide is unfortunately not a

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rarity there. With a long history of antipathy between Finland
and Russia the Soviet Union, it was inevitable that a
theory of Russian spies would emerge. Allegedly Hans Osman entered
the Helsinki Surgical Hospital on the sixth of June nineteen
sixty in a strange and disheveled state, with black fingernails

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and his clothing cut in red marks very possibly blood.
Osman was both nervous and aggressive. The clothing worn by
Osman matched the red and black description by Gustavsen, and
Osman's once longer blonde hair was suddenly cut. Living within
five kilometers of Bodem, Osman's clothes were said to be

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stained at arrival to the hospital. Osman was a German
immigrant living in Finland with links to serving in the
Nazis SS and post war joining the Russian KGB. Osman
was also linked to two other unsolved murder cases, and
it could be a case of simply linking the German
slash Russian slash Finish spy to every unsolved homicide in Finland,

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or maybe the finished detectives just like saying Osman. Finally,
there is the strange figure that appeared in photographs at
the funeral and matched the descriptions given by Gustavsen and
the police sketches, a seemingly brash of mockery to appear
at the victim's funeral after engaging in such a brutal

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and pointless act of murder within the eyes of the
person in the photo could lie the truth of the case,
but as the man was never identified, nothing came of it.
The case remains unsolved, but is a very popular case
for amateur sleuths attempting to solve the case and throw
around theories. Many people scour the bottom of the lakes

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with metal detectors in the hopes of finding clues and
the murder weapons, but thus far nothing has been found.
The case has entered the popular consciousness of Finnish culture,
and there's even a rock band named Children of Botom
after the infamous case. We know how those Finns love
their heavy metal. Thanks for listening. If you like the show,

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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 in Weird Darkness are purported
to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find
source links or links to the authors in the show.
Notes They Survived their Own Debts was by Gary Pullman

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for list Verse. The Paranormal Pentagram was written by A.
Sutherland for Message to Eagle, and Alice Cook Nelson for
Midnight Blue. The Disturbing Case of the Bell, which is
by Brent Swansor for Mysterious Universe and Murders at Lake
Bodom was posted at Mystery Confidential. Weird Darkness is a

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production of Barlor House Productions. And now that we're coming
out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little
light Matthew twenty two, Verse thirty seven, Jesus replied, love
the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your mind. And a
final thought, it doesn't matter who hurt you or broke

(01:05:11):
you down. What matters is who made you smile again.
I'm Darren Marler. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.

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Welcome to Marshport, Maine, a quaint little coastal town preparing
for their annual Winter Wonderland Festival. But beneath the lights
and holiday cheer, something evil is stirring and it's not
a mouse. When a mysterious package arrives on the doorstep
of veteran police officer Matthew Kleine and his family's home,

(01:05:55):
it seems at first like a harmless holiday gift. However,
there's no tag and no sender. Inside lies an antique
wooden advent calendar with strange engravings and twenty four doors
that each shelter something dark and unspeakable. The line between
reality and nightmare quickly becomes blurred as Matthew races to

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figure out the calendar's origin and who sent it. But
as each door is opened and Marshport is thrust into
a sinister nightmare, Matthew realizes the terrifying truth and is
forced to relive the horrors from his past that refuse
to stay buried. The countdown has begun, and once that

(01:06:39):
first door is opened, there is no turning back. We're
Darkness resents Advent of Evil, a twenty four episode audio saga.
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