“DID THE CIA ORCHESTRATE THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE?” and More Terrifying True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 118 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Was the Unidentified Cape Cod Murder Victim an Extra in Jaws? Horror author Joe Hill thinks so. (Murder On The Set of Jaws) *** Of the many mysterious and ominous places on earth, many bodies of water are said to be cursed, haunted, or both. For whatever reason these lakes have drawn about them tales of misfortune, terror, and death, and they continue to elude rational answers. I’ll share some of the strangest. (Cursed Lakes) *** At the dawn of the 20th Century Ambrose Bierce was one of the most famous writers in America. And then he mysteriously vanished. (The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce) *** Charles Willey experienced hundreds of fires on his property in the summer of 1948 – but how did they start? (The Macomb Firestarter) *** Two men interested in the same woman – all three spending a day together. Not a good plan from the start. Add a bit of alcohol and you just may have a powder keg ready to explode. (Rum, Jealously, and Murder) *** Over the course of just two years, Christopher Duntsch operated on 38 patients in the Dallas area, leaving 31 paralyzed or seriously injured and two of them dead. It’s no wonder he was given the morbid nickname of “Dr. Death”. (Doctor Death) *** A child’s game of hide-and-seek turns to terror. (The House At The Front) *** In the Outback of Queensland, Australia, ghostly orbs of light have been frightening people for centuries. What do we know about the mystery of the orbs and what are some of the theories about what they could be? (The Min Min Orbs) *** Are extraterrestrials secretly watching over us and saving us from our own destruction? (Our Alien Protectors) *** Was the mass suicide at Jim Jones' commune in Guyana in 1978 a CIA mind control experiment? (Welcome to Jonestown)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases” by Deborah Halber:https://amzn.to/3Zv30b4
“Welcome to Jonestown” from The Unredacted: https://tinyurl.com/urb3ka9
“Cursed Lakes” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/vx9d5kx
“Murder On The Set Of Jaws” by Orrin Grey for The Line Up: https://tinyurl.com/yx4mjry4
“The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce” by John Davis for Mysterious Writings: https://tinyurl.com/u5m8229
“The Macomb Firestarter” by Troy Taylor: https://tinyurl.com/ug42z53
“The House At The Front” by AakanKSha from YourGhostStories.com: https://tinyurl.com/qvsm6ch
“Our Alien Protectors” from the Alien-UFO-Sightings website: https://tinyurl.com/solj3fx *** CNN Press Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAvqaVQNEk4 *** CNN Interview from “Larry King LIVE”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=273jcsMQu3M
“The Min Min Orbs” by Kimberly Lin for Historic Mysteries: https://tinyurl.com/tk8x73b
“Doctor Death” by Caroline Redmond for All That’s Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/ycg9q264
“Rum, Jealousy, and Murder” by Robert Wilhelm from Murder By Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/y8gbgwow
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Stories and is content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:43.0 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:46.0 | Everyone was welcome at the People's Temple. Young and old, black and white. Over 900 of them lived together at an idealistic socialist commune in the jungles of Guyana called |
| 1:06.0 | Jonestown. By November 1978 they were all dead. |
| 1:13.0 | Captured in one of the most chilling audio tapes ever recorded, |
| 1:17.0 | Jonestown's eponymous leader, |
| 1:20.0 | Charismatic preacher Jim Jones, could be heard urging his followers to commit an act of what he called revolutionary suicide. |
| 1:28.0 | Each member was to drink a cyanide concoction out of paper cups full of soft drink |
| 1:34.0 | coolade. |
| 1:35.4 | Jonestown residents largely consisting of blacks, women, and children seemingly |
| 1:40.2 | obeyed their leader. |
| 1:42.2 | Within five minutes their bodies fell to the earth dead. |
| 1:47.0 | Jones would die too, apparently from a self-inflicted bullet to the head. |
| 1:52.0 | 913 Americans perished in all, thousands of miles |
| 1:56.6 | from home, their socialist paradise in the jungle, turned into the blackest |
| 2:01.2 | nightmare imaginable. |
| 2:03.8 | It remains the worst mass death of its kind in modern history, but what Jim Jones labeled |
| 2:09.7 | revolutionary suicide, others regard as mass murder. |
| 2:15.2 | Over 200 young children were injected or forced to drink the poison, effectively murdered by their |
| 2:21.3 | own parents and caregivers. |
| 2:24.0 | Other residents had been held against their will or had become brainwashed |
| 2:28.0 | by Jones' constant night and day preaching. |
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