Hypothetical planets are those theorized to exist, whether by observation or prediction by means of examining gravitational fields. Several hypotheticals are discussed, with the story of the planet Vulcan, at one time thought to exist between Mercury and the Sun, discussed in-depth. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma.
In 1910, Dr. B.C. Hyde was put on trial for the murder of Colonel Thomas Swope, a wealthy Kansas City landowner the year before. Also included in the charges were manslaughter and several counts of attempted murder. This is a case I've gone back and forth on several times. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Col. T.H. Swope Goes to Rest.” Louisville Courier-Journal, October 4, 1909. “Col. Thomas Swope Dead.” Cherryvale Republican (Kansas), October 4, 1909. “Coroner's Jury Finds Dr. Hyde's Medicine Killed Swope.” St. Louis Star and Times, February 9, 1910. “Dr. Twyman Very Ill.” Kansas City Star, April 18, 1910. “For Third Time Dr. Hyde Will Face Trial Next...
An unidentified, mostly noncommunicative man in a Minnesota mental hospital, known as J.C.R., was the plaintiff in a case to prove his identity as a North Dakota rancher's son. Who was J.C.R.? Will we ever know? Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Accused of Writing Bogus Checks.” Washington Post, January 7, 1905. “Aphasia Victim May Be Naval Officer.” New York Tribune, May 26, 1913. “Are Positive of Identity.” Long Beach Telegram (California), May 23, 1913. “Bullets Write New Chapter in 'J.C.R.' Mystery.” Leavenworth Times (Kansas), May 4, 1917. “Caldwell Will Case Postponed.” Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota), August 27, 1917. “Dorothy Harris Claims to...
The “woman in black” stalked the streets of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and other towns and villages in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties in the winter of 1886-1887 and into the 1930s. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 1886. Scranton Republican, December 15, 1886. Wilkes-Barre Record, January 5, 1887. “Attacked For the Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, December 27, 1886. “Caught At His Tricks.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, February 6, 1887. “Caught the Woman in Black.” Scranton Republican, November 6, 1886. “He Wasn't Afraid.” Carbondale Daily News, December 9, 1886. “Lackawanna's Mystery.” Wilkes-Bar...
In the winter of 1891-1892, a series of slashing attacks - and one murder - took place in the rough streets of the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, barely a stone's throw from the seedy hotel where “Old Shakespeare” was slain only a few months before. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Arraignment of the Slasher.” New York Sun, January 20, 1892. “Carson's Slayer.” New York Evening World, January 18, 1892. “Caught Cutting a Throat.” New York Tribune, January 18, 1892. “Dowd Was Mad, the Jury Say.” New York Sun, January 30, 1892. “Jack the Slasher Again.” Passaic (NJ) Daily News, January 16, 1892. “Jack the Slasher in Court.” New York Evening World, January ...
In the early 1700s, the Lincolnshire rectory of Reverend Samuel Wesley, whose son John went on to found the Methodist Church, was haunted by a poltergeist, one which the Wesley children named Old Jeffrey. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Bruce, H. Addington. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908. Yates, Kelly Diehl. “Jeffrey the Jacobite Poltergeist: the Politics of the Ghost That Haunted the Epworth Rectory in 1716-7.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 50:2 (Fall 2015). The Epworth Poltergeist: 1 - The Wesley Home - Ghosts, Ghouls and God (ghostsghoulsandgod.co.uk) The History of Epworth Old Rectory - Epworth Old Rectory At the R...
In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Amazing Attempt of the Great Eleven Cult to Raise the Dead.” Shreveport (Louisiana) Times, April 6, 1930. “Angel Gabriel Girls Quizzed.” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1925. “Apostles of Doom to Wait Whole Week.” Pomona Bulletin, February 7, 1925. “Believe Body May Be That of H. Balcom...
In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES Oregon Daily Journal, August 5, 1917. “Body of Cult Priestess Discovered Under House.” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1929. “Police Probing Weird Burial by Cult.” Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, October 7, 1929. “Priestess Snubs Ex-Swain.” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 1929. “Rhoads is ...
The White Star Line lost many ships over the years, most famously the Titanic in 1912. But over its century of existence, it had only one ship vanish without a trace. Did it sink in a storm? Explode due to its volatile cargo? This is the story of the Naronic. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another Naronic Hoax.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 3, 1893. “Fears for Ocean Steamers.” Delaware Gazette and State Journal, March 9, 1893. “Is She Still Afloat?” Wilkes-Barre Record,March 8, 1893. “Nine Sailors Saved.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893. “No News of the Naronic.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 8, 1893. “No Tidings of the Naronic.” Wilmington Mor...
In 1894, an injured young girl arrives on the doorstep of a Missouri farmhouse. She was Nellie Meeks, and she was the sole survivor of the murder of her entire family. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/ Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Burnt Clothing of Gus Meeks.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 27, 1895. “Crime of Fiends.” St. Joseph Herald, May 12, 1894. “Final Pleas Being Made.” Kansas City Star, August 1, 1895. “Jerry South Gets His Reward.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 1, 1896. “Jury Receives Instructions.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 2, 1895. “Looks Black for the Taylors.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 26, 1895. “Story of the Taylors.” Larned (KS) Eagle-Optic, September 1...