Clarita Villanueva & The Thing

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In 1953, a strange story crept out of the Philippines, when newspapers began reporting on the Dracula Girl, a young, Filipino vagrant, who had been arrested for prostitution and who now appeared to be facing even darker powers, as she battled with a pair of tormentors, collectively known as The Thing. For over two weeks, doctors, reporters, prison guards and inmates watched over the strange behaviour of the young girl, completely at a loss for what to do, until eventually, in stepped a Protestant Pastor with a penchant for evangelism and a conviction that he knew exactly what to do in the situation. SOURCES Sumrall, Lester (1987) Bitten By Devils: The Supernatural Account of a Young Girl Bitten by Unseen Demons, Documented by Medical Doctors & Her Miraculous Deliverance That Would Bring Revival to a Nation. Sumrall Publishing, USA. Sumrall, Lester (1987) The Deliverance of Clarita Villanueva: Bitten by Demons. Sumrall Publishing, USA. The Yuma Daily Sun (1953) Evil Spirits Attack Girl Even When Mayor Near. The Yuma Daily Sun, Tuesday 19 May, 1953. P.1. Yuma, USA. Guzman, Leonoro S. de (1964) The Philippines' social welfare administration: A historical account of its formation, 1946-1956. University of Southern California, USA. The Barrier Miner (1953) Dracula Girl. Thursday 28 May, 1953, p.1. NSW, Australia. Singleton Argus (1953) Playful Ghost Has A Familiar Face. Friday 22 May, 1953, p.1. Sydney, Australia. The Argus (1953) Dracula Victim Can Be Cured. Thursday 21 May, 1953, p.5. Melbourne, Australia. The Argus (1953) Prelate May Fight Dracula. Wednesday 20 May, 1953, p.7. Melbourne, Australia. The Truth (1953) Vampire! Sunday 24 May, 1953, p.13. Sydney, Australia. Beaver Valley Times (1953) Wednesday 20 May, 1953, p.8. PA, USA. The Sydney Morning Herald (1953) Wednesday 20 May, 1953, p.3, Sydney, Australia. ---------- For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In 1953, a strange story crept out of the Philippines when newspapers began reporting
0:07.3	on the Dracula girl, a young Filipino vagrant who had been arrested for prostitution and
0:13.0	who had now appeared to be facing even darker powers as she battled with a pair of tormentors
0:18.4	collectively known as the Thing.
0:21.7	For over two weeks, doctors, reporters, prison guards and inmates watched over the strange
0:27.1	behavior of the young girl, completely at a lot sport to do, until eventually, in
0:32.7	step to Protestant pastor, the penchant for evangelism, and a conviction that he knew
0:37.8	exactly what to do in a situation.
0:41.3	This is Dark Histories, where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:45.2	Hello and welcome to season 5, episode 8 of Dark Histories, I'm Venaz Always.
0:53.9	This week, we don't have a lot to talk about from the start, so we can jump right into
0:57.1	it.
0:58.1	Do you want to apologize?
0:59.1	I'm really hoping the microphone's not going to pick this up, but I've got a nesting
1:05.3	pair of doves or pigeons or something right above my window.
1:11.1	They keep doing that.
1:12.1	I'm really hoping you're not going to hear that.
1:18.0	We'll see.
1:19.0	If you hear that in the middle of it, it's not anything spooky going on.
1:23.0	It's just a pair of nesting pigeons in my garden.
1:26.1	Anyway, with that said, let's move straight into the episode.
1:29.6	This is Clarita Villanova and the Thing.
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