SOULS FOR SALE: Frightening True Stories of Real People Who Made Deals With the Devil
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
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IN THIS EPISODE: Five stories of real people who supposedly made deals with the Devil himself. *** In the summer of 1988, a terrifying creature began haunting the woods and little towns of Lee County, South Carolina – it quickly became known as Lizard Man. *** Governor Daniel G. Fowle ordered the construction of an oversized bed - but a later inhabitant of the governor’s mansion found the bed that gave Fowle such comfort to be the source of a strange series of encounters.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00.00.000 = Lead-In
00:01:06.770 = Show Open
00:02:29.568 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Pope Sylvester II
00:07:31.713 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Dr. John Fian
00:14:19.832 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Bernard Fokke
00:18:04.907 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Christoph Haizmann
00:22:16.770 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Tommy Johnson
00:28:08.745 = Lizard Man, 30 Years Later
00:36:46.451 = The Ghost In The Governor’s Mansion
00:41:09.417 = Show Close, Verse, and Final Thought
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster” by Lyle Blackburn: https://amzn.to/2Exqoga
BOOK: “North Carolina Legends” by Richard Walser: https://amzn.to/2H2MlFw
“They Made Deals With The Devil” by Erik: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/38fkm5us
“Lizard Man, 30 Years Later” by Nick Redfern: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/x4yy4m5w
“The Ghost in The Governor’s Mansion”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/57hwb5tp
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Originally aired: June 07, 2022
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SoulsForSale
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| 0:00.0 | Strange creatures, gruesome murders, oozing organisms, unfathomable abductions, enigmatic expeditions, |
| 0:11.5 | an age-old malevolence, and much more. Author J. C. Moore delivers a collection of dark |
| 0:17.5 | horror tales that are both chilling and poignant. Dark Intrigues, Book |
| 0:22.4 | 1 is filled with horror fiction for fans of short story anthologies, horror collections, |
| 0:28.5 | ghost fiction, suspense, possession, and more. Dark Intrigues Book 1 by J.C. Moore, |
| 0:36.0 | available on Kind of an audiobook narrated by Darren Marler. Find Dark Intrigues Book 1 by J.C. Moore, available on Kindle or as an audiobook narrated by |
| 0:39.1 | Darren Marler. Find Dark Intrigues Book 1 on the audiobooks page at Weirddarkness.com. |
| 0:45.5 | That's Weirddarkness.com slash audiobooks. |
| 1:00.8 | Step into the shadows with tainted, a bone-chilling collection designed to haunt your darkest nights, tales filled with a spectrum of horrors, from evil spirits to bleeding caves, haunted |
| 1:08.0 | sewers, and sinister childhood games. |
| 1:11.8 | In this installment of the Dark Intrigues book series, J.C. Moore delves deep into the |
| 1:17.6 | darkest recesses of the human psyche. |
| 1:20.4 | Brace yourself for a modern journey through the twisted corridors of terror. |
| 1:25.7 | Listen, if you dare. |
| 1:30.1 | In this book, The Ordinary Become Ominous, |
| 1:36.4 | the mundane turns malefic, and they reveal the tainted secrets of the human heart in all their gruesome glory. Dark Intrigues, Tainted, a collection of short horror stories by J.C. Moore. Purchase the audiobook or |
| 1:46.8 | hear a sample on the audiobook's page at weirddarkness.com. |
| 1:55.0 | The devil has always been a source of fascination in Judeo-Christian belief. He is seen as an |
| 2:02.6 | all-powerful entity, second only to God. Even Jesus in the Gospels refers to him as |
| 2:09.5 | Prince of this world. In fact, according to Scripture, Jesus himself was offered the greatest |
| 2:16.0 | bargain by the devil when he fasted in |
| 2:18.2 | the desert. |
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