The Thin Place: Netta Fornario & The Occult

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Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Widely mischaracterized in popular understanding, the early 20th century world of the occult has never failed to serve up a plethora of intriguing tales. From stories of new age magic, otherworldly realms, alchemy and psychic abilities, all practised in shady back rooms of the temples belonging to secretive societies, our imaginations have often run wild, crossing victorian gothic aesthetic with the lure of a shadowy underworld. This common theme has been a driving factor in the continuing propagation of one of the 1920’s most famous mysteries, when a young woman, seeking the entrance into another realm, was found dead on an isolated Scottish island and a series of links were uncovered, tying her to some of the ages most infamous occult societies. But how much of the story is grounded in reality, and how much is the work of overactive imaginations, is perhaps as much of a mystery as the case itself. SOURCES Adamnan. (1874) Life of Saint Columba, Founder of Hy. edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, UK. McNeill, F. Marion (1920) Iona: A HIstory of the Island. Lochar Publishing Ltd, Scotland. Owen, Alex (2004) The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA. Tyler, Mac (1928) The Use of Imagination in Art, Science and Business. The Occult Review v48 n1 Jul 1928. Fortune, Dion. (1930) Psychic Self Defence. The Classic Instruction Manual for ProtectingYourself Against Paranormal Attack. Weiser Books, UK. Aberdeen Press & Journal (1929) The Iona Tragedy. Aberdeen Press & Journal, Mon 25 Nov, 1929, P.4. Scotland, UK. The Scotsman (1929) Iona Mystery. The Scotsman. Wed, 27 Nov, 1929, P.10. Scotland, UK. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at 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 The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 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	Wildly mischaracterized in popular understanding, the early 20th century world of the occult
0:04.8	has never failed to serve up a plethora of intriguing tales. From stories of new age magic,
0:10.0	otherworldly realms, alchemy and psychic abilities, all practised in shady back rooms of the
0:15.2	temples, belonging to secretive societies, our imaginations of often run wild, crossing Victorian
0:21.1	Gothic aesthetic, with the lure of a shadowy underworld. This common theme has been a driving
0:26.8	factor in the continuing propagation and one of the 1920's most famous mysteries,
0:31.9	when a young woman seeking the entrance into another realm was found dead on an isolated
0:37.0	Scottish island and a series of links were uncovered tying her to some of the age's most
0:41.5	infamous occult societies. But how much of the story is grounded in reality and how much is the
0:46.7	work of overactive imaginations is perhaps as much of a mystery as a case itself. This is dark
0:53.4	histories where the facts are worse than fiction. Hello and welcome to Dark History, season six,
1:02.0	episode 14. I'm Ben as always and before we start I just want to look at a quick apology just in case
1:09.5	my voices are a little bit croaky this week. I don't want to trigger anyone's misfonia. I do
1:14.4	actually sort of put quite a bit of effort into trying not to do that actually by sort of editing out
1:19.5	weird voice mouth noises rather and stuff like that, but I had a bit of a cold this weekend and
1:24.4	I've been putting off recording the episode until my voice was mostly better. But if it's a bit
1:30.4	croaky or a little bit namesily, I'll do my best not to, but if it is apologies and it would be
1:36.0	better next week. Anyway with that said, let's get on. This episode is called The Thin Place,
1:42.7	Netafonario and the Occult.
1:49.2	Three miles long and one mile wide, the tiny island of Iona sits off the southwest coast of the
1:54.4	Isle of Mal in the Scotch Highland. Like a small moss covered rock poking out of the water,
1:59.2	it's largely flat surface, it's covered in green grass with few trees and a single one hundred
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