“PATRICK CROSS AND HIS DEVIL GUITAR” and More Terrifying True Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness

“PATRICK CROSS AND HIS DEVIL GUITAR” and More Terrifying True Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness

Stories and content in weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only parental discretion is strongly Advised welcome weirdos I’m Darren Marler and this is weird Darkness here you’ll find stories of the Paranormal Supernatural legends lore crime conspiracy mysterious maob unsolved and unexplained if you’re new here welcome to the show and if you’re already a member of this weirdo family please take a moment and invite someone else to

Listen recommending weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show coming up in this episode Air Force veteran Charles Moody drove out into the desert to watch a meteor shower but he found a lot more than he bargained for when he was abducted by

Extraterrestrials we’ll fire up the flux capacitor and take a look at the past present and possible future of time machines nearly every place has its Legends stories that have passed from person to person generation to generation down to the present day some are based on facts and are further

Embroidered in the telling While others seem to have come from next to nothing at all such is the mysterious case of the witch of scrap [ __ ] green some say the story itself is true others say it is pure science fiction either way just the circumstances behind the story of the shaver mystery are

Enough to scare the Goosebumps out of you but first just because a guitar is the only thing to survive a building fire doesn’t mean that guitar is lucky in fact it might be the exact opposite as Patrick cross found out when he bought the guitar in 1995 we begin with that

Story now bolt your doors lock your windows turn off your lights and come with me into the weird Darkness In 1995 5 Patrick cross who is also an accomplished musician bought a white electric guitar in the shape of a v a copy of the more famous guitar made by Gibson called a Gibson Flying V the guitar purchased by cross was made of heavy maple wood and looked like it had

Been passed down by various musicians he said it was made in 1989 and it was in very good shape considering it was used other than a slight crack on the top of the neck of the guitar as if it had been dropped it played well the mysterious

Part is the guitar had survived from a fire in a Michigan bar where a band was playing and all of a sudden a fire broke out everything in the bar was burned to a crisp all except the guitar which survived without any burn marks and fully intact apparently someone in the

Band had died in the fire and the guitar was sold ending up in in Oakville Ontario cross recalled that he was strangely drawn to the guitar it was as if it called him saying play me as soon as he picked it up to play he felt a tingling electric sensation like it knew

He wanted it and it was right for him he didn’t even check out the other guitars since he couldn’t put this one down it was an odd feeling but most musicians will understand he said the guitar played fine in the store jamming to some bluesy Rock Rifts and some classic cords

But when he got it home it seemed to go out of tune when he picked it up to play it he thought this was odd since it played fine before and now it started detuning itself when he started playing something like Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple and Purple Haze by Jimmy

Hendrick the guitar played back in tune it felt like it really liked a dark heavy sound and it played better than ever after 2 days cross began to hear weird sounds in his apartment the noises seemed to be coming from the closet in the second bedroom where the guitar was

Stored he opened the closet door heard nothing looked at the guitar looked around didn’t see anything but he heard what sounded like men’s voices arguing with each other it was as if an argument was going on in the closet between two men one sounded Spanish the other Mexican and they were talking about

Money he heard this from the front room then went into the bedroom to the closet to look again suddenly everything stopped as the days passed weird things started happening around the inside of cross’s apartment his car keys would disappear then reappear sometime later he saw Shadows move on the wall heard

Footsteps and bangs or knocks cupboard doors open and closed on their own lights turned back on after he shut them off the television set was on when he would come home even though he remembered turning it off before he went out his cat would look in the air as if

She saw something move in the air and then look in the other bedroom as if she could see someone walking around if the guitar was left out he could feel a chill around it like cold air or cold wind as cross be to use the guitar in his rock band sci-fi Prodigy strange

Things would also happen at music rehearsals and band performances they experienced power failures on their equipment and heard weird voices coming through the music amplifiers lights would go off and on and blow out on several occasions actual fires started from the flood lights in the room for no reason the drummer experienced his

Symbols falling off and his drums going out of tune every time he started started to play the band members also heard other people talking in the room around the guitar when they were out of the room the guitar could not be played and would dtune itself when anyone would

Try to play it except for songs of bad or loud negative music such as heavy metal or aggressive rock songs with death and destruction meanings the guitar particularly liked one song Dave wrote and played entitled something is out there we is about ghosts and evil entities and fear of the unknown with a

Heavy xfiles type Edge this was one of the very few songs the guitar would stay in tune for the guitar had a presence of evil a bad aura around it it seemed to be 3 feet of cold presence other people including Rob McConnell from the xzone radio show and Janet russle from Beyond

The Unexplained also felt this said cross more things of a paranormal nature occurred to cross as time went on he said he had a series of bad luck which he believed was related to the guitar being his apartment he lost his job his health started to suffer rashes and

Sores appeared on his legs for no apparent reason his car would shoot out Flames from the top of the engine every time he started it even though there was no mechanical reason to account for this one day there was a horrible stench that seemed to come from the guitar like

A burnt dead smell then the terrible odor would go away as quickly as it appeared cross began to take pictures of the guitar and investigate why all these bizarre happenings and bad luck occurrences should be taking place he captured some ghost orbs around the guitar many times and on occasion he

Could see a misty presence it always felt cold when he would pick up the guitar and he would get get small electrical shocks even when it wasn’t plugged in he said everywhere he went with the guitar it seemed to cause things to happen on one occasion in Ontario where his band was

Performing a fire broke out in the bar area glasses filled with water would shatter as they passed near the table where the guitar lay on May 16th 1999 cross was a guest speaker at a UFO ghost conference the xzone Symposium in St Catherine’s Ontario he brought his devil guitar also

Known as haunted guitar along to see if he could find some individuals who could psychically Channel anything that might explain the phenomena surrounding it psychics said they felt weird around the guitar and expressed their opinion that it contained an evil presence cross recalled two people who said they could

Help were psychic sensitives Janet Russell and Eugenia meser story Eugenia proceeded to channel the guitar and found out it had a living entity attached to it the entity was inside the wood of the guitar she found it had a controlling effect on cross and anyone who touched or felt it it seemed

To have intelligence and was clearly talking to Eugenia saying it did not wish to be put on display but wanted to cause evil and destruction it wanted to fly like a condor with large wings and it called itself eye of the Condor they later found out this was a popular

Song in Mexico and South America where Condors do live the guitar wanted to start fires it wanted cross to kill with it actually use it to kill swinging it like an axe cross felt sickened when he heard these words being channeled by Eugenia for many times he had

Frightening images enter his mind of wanting to kill when he was around the guitar he’ also experienced exped very vivid dreams of going out to commit murder using the instrument as if it were an axe The Entity that possessed the guitar went on saying that it had started many

Fires and survived while all else burned it said it had been spawned by the devil and it was here to rise up to do its father’s bidding in the world it wanted to fly free like a condor spreading evil throughout the world Eugenia found the guitar car had

The most powerful of voodoo hex’s etu placed on it by previous musicians who had owned it the hex was supposed to bring wealth to anyone who owned it and did its bidding the exu hex backfired on the owners who were involved with drug money and they were killed the spirit

Inside the guitar wanted to be released into human form in order to kill and destroy it liked cross to play only dark evil music and said it detuned itself if the music was good happy or uptempo the entity said that it never wished to become good it only wanted to

Commit evil acts it used profanity swearing and vulgar language as it spoke to Eugenia trying to latch onto her the spirit said that it wanted to come into her body and kick out her soul Eugenia felt the presence coming into her and she let go and moved away from the

Guitar as it tried to possess her after a 2hour psychic talk with the spirit Eugenia suggested the guitar be destroyed or reblessed to change the evil inside when she asked the guitar if it wanted to be blessed The Entity responded by saying no and speaking in Spanish began blaspheming Christ and God

On the advice of Eugenia cross did destroy the guitar by taking it to a remote Park putting it in a steel garbage can and dousing it with gasoline and lighter fluid before lighting the guitar of flame cross put a circle of salt around the container to stop the evil entity from

Escaping or attaching itself somewhere else he recited the Lord’s Prayer three times and told the evil entity to go back to its source after that he saw a misty cloud of air rise up inside the garbage can there was wind all around him minutes before it had been calm he attempted to

Light the guitar on fire but the fire kept going out he poured more gasoline all over it he also found some wood to put around it it took a while to light the fire and a while to get the guitar to burn obviously the entity did not want to be

Destroyed as the Flames went higher cross heard a high-pitched shriek coming from the burning guitar it sounded like a sick wounded animal he was standing there watching it burn adding more gasoline to the the fire when some of the Flames jumped onto his arm now he

Was on fire as he tried to put it out he dropped the full can of gasoline he was horrified because now the whole can of gas could explode and engulf him in Flames cross said at that time he was panicked but somehow he managed to put

Out the Flames that had begun to burn his clothes he breathed to sigh of relief as he watched the guitar burn away into a charred chunk of wood after an hour he made sure the Flames had burned out he poured more salt over the burned up guitar just to make sure it

Would contain whatever Spirit energy was still left he left the guitar in the garbage can and took the case closed it up with salt inside it and wrapped the blue cloth back around the case he was shaking but he felt good that he had destroyed the evil entity hoping that it

Wouldn’t haunt or possess anything else again he left the park around 10:30 p.m. immediately after returning home cross felt a sense of relief he didn’t hear any voices or see or feel any more ghostly activity around him the next day Monday everything immediately changed

For the better he had a phone call for a new job his health was coming back his sores and rashes had all disappeared and his plants came back to life he said also he won 15 $ on a bingo scratch ticket there were no more power failures

On his TV and his car started normally miraculously everything that had been going bad changed overnight since getting rid of the Haunted guitar since 1999 cross has investigated all sorts of hauntings and ghost activity but he has never had anything happen as bad or bizarre as when he owned the haunted guitar

Coming up Air Force veteran Charles Moody drove out into the desert to watch a meteor shower but he found a lot more than he bargained for when he was abducted by extraterrestrials we’ll fire up the flux capacitor and take a look at the past present and possible future of time

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Shooting stars a glowing 50ft long with 18 to 20 ft wide metallic saucer-shaped craft landed about 70 ft away from him Moody could hear a high-pitched humming sound he also noticed a rectangular window in the craft through which he could see Shadows resembling human forms frightened Sergeant Moody jumped

Into his car and attempted to drive away but for unknown reasons his car would not start then his entire body became numb just just when his sphere increased the object suddenly took off Moody raced home to tell his wife he was shocked to find it was already 3:00 a.m. and that 2

Hours had passed had he been taken on board within a few days a rash broke out over his lower body upon the recommendation of a physician he began to practice self-hypnosis in an effort to recall what had occurred during the lost time period at first he didn’t

Remember but over the next few days and weeks he eventually recalled everything that had happened he remembered that he was in fact taken on board he was sitting in his car when the numbness came over his body next he had observed several beings exit the craft and

Approach his car says Moody the beings were about 5et tall and very much like us except their heads were larger and hairless their ears were very very small eyes a little larger than ours nose small in the mouth had very thin lips I would say their weight was maybe between

110 and 130 lb they have speech but their lips did not move their type of clothing was skin tight I could not see any zippers or buttons at all the color of their clothes was black except for one of them who had a silver white looking suit on the alien leader asked Moody

Telepathically if he was prepared to behave peacefully when Moody agreed to do so the leader applied a rodlike device to his back which relieved the paralysis later Moody was taken into a very clean room with white rounded walls and indirect lighting one of the beings examined him and told him I will not

Hurt you we are not meant to hurt you moody asked if he could see the engine room they agreed and took him to a lower level he saw a complex machine involving long metallic rods and large crystal-like spheres the ETS explained that the ship operated using the principle of positive

And negative magnetic poles they told him that they had a much larger mother ship and that there were many other races of ETS who were also observing and studying the planet they warned him against the use of nuclear weapons he was promised a future meeting with the

ETS but warned that closer contact with earthmen would not be attempted for another 20 years they also said they would one day reveal their existence publicly to the world finally he was told that it was time for him to go and that he wouldn’t remember what happened until a few days

Afterwards Moody was then placed back in his car where he watched the UFO takeoff after remembering the onboard part of his experience Moody realized how important his story was and he contacted local UFO investigators however a thorough investigation by an investigator named Jim Lorenzen revealed a couple of contradictions in Moody’s account about

The incident today Moody’s case remains Undisputed The dream of time traveling to the past or future is probably as old as the human imagination when HG Wells published The Time Machine in 1895 he called it a scientific romance because no one knew whether time travel was possible a mere 10 years later Albert Einstein would put

Forth his theory of special relativity and part of the question would be answered to the astonishment of many in the affirmative one of Einstein’s predictions now verified by countless experiments is best illustrated by the parable of the twins one twin stays home while the other makes a roundtrip Voyage into

Outer space traveling at nearly the speed of light for 10 years as measured by the stay-at-home twin When the traveled twin returns she finds her sister is aged 10 years while she has hardly aged at all the traveled twin has jumped 10 years into the future this is

The time dilation effect of special relativity and although it is most noticeable when extreme velocities are involved it is happening around us all the time as we move relative to each other we are all of us traveling into the future at different rates the differences in these rates are very

Small sure but they are real time travel into the future is inescapable consequence of the structure of the universe time traveling to the past or returning back from a trip to the future is a somewhat more challenging proposition until a few decades ago the subject was consigned to science fiction

In fact a query from a firsttime science fiction author provoked the beginnings of the first serious and sustained study in 1985 astronomer Carl San was working on the manuscript for his novel contact the book’s heroine required some means of Rapid Interstellar Transit and since Sean wanted to get the physics right he

Solicited advice from his friend Kip Thorne a Caltech theoretical physicist Thorne recommended the use of a wormhole a tunnel-like shortcut through space in time predicted by Einstein and well known among science fiction afficionados Sean dutifully Incorporated the suggestion that same year Thorne realized that if you treated the two

Mouths of a wormhole as you treat twins keeping one mouth fixed moving the other at a velocity near the speed of light and then returning it to the vicinity of the fixed mouth you could create a time machine if the traveling mouth had been moving for 10 years as measured by the

Fixed mouth then Thorne could jump into the traveling mouth and emerge from the fixed mouth 10 years into the past physicists had been skittish on the subject of time travel considering it science fiction but Thorne’s work was licensed to take it seriously and suddenly there appeared a torrent of

Papers many of which were published in the most prestigious journals by the mid 1990s there were at least half a dozen ideas for other ways to twist and fold SpaceTime like origami all this thinking was decidedly theoretical no one was building a time machine in his basement one reason was

That in most cases the plans required a kind of anti-gravity called negative energy to sustain the warping of space and time negative energy is difficult if not impossible to produce in the quantities necessary still the idea of time travel was getting serious attention naturally not all that attention was enthusiastic Steven

Hawking for one suspected that by some as yet undiscovered mechanism nature prohibited traveling back in time once sticking point was the grandfather Paradox if I traveled back in time and killed my grandfather I could not have been born but if I have not been born I

Cannot live to travel back and kill my grandfather the Russian born physicist eigor novakov an enthusiastic investigator into the subject of time travel has suggested that the Paradox doesn’t apply because SpaceTime is probably self-consistent that is I may be able to travel back in time and somehow become

Interwoven into a past of which I was already a part but I will not be able to kill my grandfather quite simply because I have not killed him already novakov has also thought a good deal about the other time travel conundrum the bootstrap Paradox suppose I travel to 2009 find a

Design for a zero emission automobile engine and return with it to 2008 and patent it suppose further that the patent is developed into the design that I find in 2009 the obvious question who would have invented the zero emission engine the answer is no one would have invented it

The design would have been generated quite literally from nothing courtesy of a time machine and perhaps a skirting of some yet to be written intellectual property laws British physicist David Deutch invoking the many Universe interpretation of quantum mechanics believes that pastword time travel would require travel to another parallel

Universe one in which I could kill my grandfather and in which I therefore would never be born via a time machine I would have removed myself from this universe to take up resonance in that one the idea has some interesting implications deuts has suggested that one reason we have detected no

Extraterrestrial civilizations may be that using time machines they have left this universe preferring to live in another metaphys IAL and philosophical questions aside exactly how realistic is the physics of pastword time travel each of the several schemes for making a time machine creates a region in which pastword time travel is possible and

Separates it from a region in which time travel is impossible the boundary between these regions the chronology Horizon has remained a mystery in part because its nature depends upon the characteristics of space time on the smallest possible scales we have at best a dim understanding of these scales and we

Will not have a real understanding until we have developed a full theory of quantum gravity this is the Holy Grail of theoretical physics the so-called Theory of Everything that would eliminate disparities between relativity which explains nature on very large scales where gravity becomes important and quantum mechanics which explains

Nature on very small scales where Quantum effects become important some physicists think The Theory of Everything is 10 years away others suspect it is a good deal further off for the moment then the question of whether time travel is possible has been put on hold the recent and no doubt

Temporary decline of interest in traveling to the past is welcomed by physicists who argue that work in less fpal areas might yield a greater intellectual profit New Zealand physicist Matt Visser himself the architect of a number of theoretical time machines calls that attitude overtly cautious and boring more than two decades after

Thorn’s seminal work we still don’t know whether time travel is possible but one thing is certain even as an idea it’s anything but Boring A couple of hundred years ago in the Essex Village of great Lee a witch named Anne Hughes was burned at the stake for the crime of bewitching her husband to death denied a Christian burial her charred remains were buried at a place known as scrap [ __ ] green and a large

Stone was placed on top to Mark the site still greatly feared and ‘s resting place remained undisturbed for the next 2 or three centuries during World War II however the road that passed by the green needed to be widened in order to accommodate the new boram

Airfield the work was not as careful as it should have been and bulldozers displaced the stone something that would have serious repercussions strange events began to be reported soon afterwards the bells of the local church rang at midnight with no one there to ring them sheep were

Found out in their fields with no sign of how they had got there strange noises were heard in the Night painting supplies were moved from one room to another by unseen hands hay stacks were blown around without wind scaffolding poles were scattered about a yard in an impossible

Fashion reputable folk who were known for their level-headedness and taking No Nonsense were reporting these and other Fantastical things and the Stream stress at Great Le’s showed no sign of abating in desperation Harry price the distinguished paranormal expert was called in the cause of the disturbances was glaringly apparent to this seasoned

Investigator and he diagnosed a poltergeist angered by the moving of the stone the solution was thankfully simple following Price’s advice the stone was replaced in its original position and the remains of the wi buried with due ceremony in the local churchyard from that point on the inhabitants of great

Leaves and nearby Villages were disturbed no more the witch once again at rest as she remains to this day although this is the basic legend of the witch’s Stone of great lease there are many variations and facts that both help and hinder when trying to unpick the fascinating Tale the most obvious

Place to start is to attempt to ascertain the identity of the witch in question there was indeed an Anne Hughes accused of Witchcraft on March 12th 1621 an was before the clemsford lent session of the Essex aises on the following indictments Anne Hughes of great Le’s Widow on 24 June 1615 at

Great Le’s Bewitched John Archer who languished until 24 June following when he died she was also guilty of bewitching Thomas me and Margaret brgh both of whom were wasted and consumed and who continued in that sorry State at the time an came to court on top of that and

Had also Bewitched to death a cow belonging to Richard Edwards that was valued at 3 lb it would seem a clear-cut case that our witch had been found apart from two rather important details firstly despite the hugely popular misconception English witches were very very seldom burned in

Fact there are only one or two verifiable cases throughout the entire period of the witch trials where a witch went to the flames and then it was for the crime of petty treason killing her husband rather than for witchcraft itself and perhaps the most pertinent to this case Anne Hughes was acquitted as

With the case of Anne wag of ilon in Darbyshire in 1650 modern sources Delight in repeating how Hughes was hanged for her crimes however a perusal of the parish registers for great Le reveal that in December 1669 Anne Hughes Widow was buried although an is therefore ruled

Out as the witch behind the disturbances there is however another potential candidate Elizabeth Brooke of great Le was accused of Witchcraft several decades previous brought before the kelsford dezes on the 2nd of March 1584 her crimes had taken place in 1587 and in that year she was said to have

Been guilty of murdering Margaret Cleveland wife of John Cleveland by witchcraft Elizabeth was also indicted for bewitching six cows and six horses belonging to James homestad a cow five heers and four Hogs that were worth 10 lb belonging to James Spielman two cows and two Mars worth 5 lb of Thomas corch

And some SS of George FES that were worth 40 Shillings all of the animals died not as fortunate as Anne Hughes Elizabeth Brook who confessed to the second of the charges against her was found guilty under the 1563 Witchcraft Act which stated categorically that Murder By witchcraft was a capital

Offense and she was condemned to die by The Noose it is highly probable that these two witches became conflated over time in local telling and that the ever popular witch trial tropes of fire and husband murder were added for good measure as the legend developed over the years that followed witches were known

To be vengeful spiteful creatures and that one would return from the grave to wreak havoc on the descendants of her neighbors would have been easily believable both to their contemporaries and down to the present day what of the stone itself sources such as they are are decidedly vague on

Not only the location of the stone but also what happened to it stones have been mentioned in relation to St Anne’s Castle a local pub that is also said to be haunted by the ghost of Anne Hughes boram Airfield itself and the aformentioned scrap [ __ ] green over the years it’s become increasingly

Difficult to determine which Stone was the original and where it had originally been located intriguingly and perhaps most pertinent to the known fact there is mention of a stone marking the place where an unlucky gamekeeper was murdered in in Duke’s wood resting to the south of great Le and boram the wood was

Cleared to make way for the building of the Airfield in 1943 and it’s possible that the Airfield the story of a moved Stone and the local witch were further merged together over time although the story has been much repeated sources from the time these events were supposed

To have occurred are scanted indeed none of the local papers seem to have reported the strange events or the reent of the supposed remains a curious State of Affairs for something so newsworthy the only known contemporary report was an article run by the Sunday pictorial in October 1944 relating the strange

Events at Great Le and attributing the phenomena to the scrap [ __ ] green witch there was also potentially a cartoon in an American Magazine from around the same time that gave a humorous account of what was said to have taken place another source close to the time

Was Harry price the ghost expert who had aided with the diagnosis of the problem and replacement of the stone price was in fact the founder of the National Laboratory of psychical research the great Nemesis of medium Helen Duncan and most famed for his investigations into the hauntings at borley rectory in his

Own account of what took place price was less forthcoming than he has often attributed to be and in his 1945 publication altergeist over England he states that quote the villagers declar that their misfortunes dated from the day when American bulldozers widened the road at scrap [ __ ] green the center of

The village thus displacing a two-ton stone that marked the remains of a 7th Century witch who’d been buried with a stake through her chest at the crossroads there they asked me what they’d better do about it I told them that if they believed the witch to be responsible for their troubles the

Logical thing to do was to restore her tombstone to its original site this they did ceremonially at midnight on October 11th and 12th placing the Stone East and West in the traditional manner the phenomena ceased unquote that real events were cobbled together in the public imagination both

At the time and in the years that followed seems the most likely background of this compelling story with witches and Stones woven inextricably into the fabric of the history and folklore of Essex and right for the picking as for the strange events reported in great Lees themselves however things are less

Clearcut did things really happen as reported with Hy Stacks demolished and bells ringing unbidden or is there a simpler explanation for along with the Believers there are those who maintain that the strange happenings were nothing more than villagers having a joke at the expense of a two trusting reporter from

The Sunday victorial in this telling the supposedly incredulous locals and The Witch of scrap [ __ ] green have the last laugh at after All some say it’s a true story others say it is purely science fiction either way the story of the shaver mystery is incredibly freaky as you’ll find out when weird Darkness Returns do you keep a journal or diary if not maybe you should consider it it’s been shown that journaling can help you

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Hollow Earth why are these delusions so contagious come here weirdos you want to hear a real freaky story your uncle Darren has one for you some say the story itself is true that is neither here nor there but I do know that even the circumstances behind the story are

Enough to scare the cupcakes out of you the year is 1932 the peak of the Great Depression the place a Ford auto Factory somewhere in the Rust Belt region of the United States a factory worker named Richard Sharp shaver has an undefined accident and soon after begins to report

Strange phenomena by his account a welding gun somehow allows him to hear the thoughts of his co-workers he then claims to have received a telepathic record of a torture session conducted by evil beings who live deep within Caverns under the Earth Richard Sharp shaver quit his job

At that factory not long after this event and became a Drifter for a while his subsequent Misadventures are unknown until 1943 in the thick of World War II when he wrote a letter to a then obscure sci-fi pulp magazine called amazing Stories she ‘s letter claimed that he

Had discovered a hidden language called manong which was a system of sounds with hidden meanings embedded in them and supposedly the origin of all human language shaver claimed that man tongue could be mapped over any other language to reveal hidden meanings that letter arrived at the desk of Ray Palmer editor

Of the magazine who applied a few examples of manong in Shaver’s letter and thought the theory sounded pretty airtight Palmer wrote back to shaver asking for more detail about this language and in response shaver sent back a longer letter narrating his experience in uncovering the secret underground Society of inhuman monsters

Who lived in caves under the Earth’s surface these monsters called deros made periodic TRS to the surface to abduct humans and take them back to their Lair to conduct torturous experiments editor Palmer liked this story enough that he edited it into a fictional account and published it in the

Magazine already it seems unlikely that a person clearly suffering from some form of mental distress could Pawn off this rant to any magazine at the time without being dismissed as a c but we’re just getting started what happened next defies all explanation thus was launched the shaver mystery franchise beginning with the

First story I remember lamuria this story sold out the magazine and became so hugely popular that a series of stories produced by shaver continued to run in Amazing Stories until it almost crowded out every kind of other content shaver continued building this universe of the Subterranean Darrow a race of

Protohumans whom had gone underground because they found direct exposure to sunlight too harsh later most of them would build spaceships and flee to other stars leaving their most derelict members behind the universe of the Darrow grew to incl include rare Noble teros good aligned reformed daros who

Tried to help humans Escape there were also increasingly fanciful elements of underground hangers spaceships robots bands of human mercenaries leading a resistance and whatnot all the elements of a good Sci-Fi Adventure series the series sold the magazine Amazing Stories subscriptions Rose from 135,000 to 185,000 over the course of the series

Running from 1945 to 1948 thanks to Shaver’s stories be they fact or fiction Amazing Stories was now outselling every other sci-fi publication and there could be no doubt that the extra subscribers came from fans of Shavers stories because they wrote in to say so first dozens then hundreds of letters poured in from

Readers who one after another confided that They too had encountered tele AIC violence From The Underground daros a few even claimed to be some of the surviving humans the daros kidnapped several readers in their letters winked slightly at Amazing Stories for telling the truth and disguising it as fiction

What a clever ruse they would write admiringly to throw the darrows off furthermore shaver and his fan base shared enthusiasm over the montang language extending to Shaver’s new discovery of teros and and darl’s hieroglyphics which were written in the very rocks of the earth clubs of shaver

Fans began to form dubbed shaver mystery clubs one woman claimed to have gone down a secret elevator in a sub basement of a building in Paris France and found a daros englave which kidnapped her raping and torturing her for a month until a heroic tarot rescued her the

Magazine staff then eventually most of the science fiction Community became first fascinated and then horrified by this phenomenon as fans became more and more insistent that the shaver stories were true the science fiction Community around Amazing Stories began to pressure editor Palmer to discontinue the series and denounce it as a

Hoax by 1948 Palmer caved to the outraged Mass’s demands and stopped publishing the stories while he also quit working for Amazing Stories and started his own shoe box publishing title The Hidden World where he continued to run Shaver’s ramblings Palmer the definition of a number one fan stayed loyal to his Muse shaver

Until The Bitter End the shaver cult followed them so what was going on it’s difficult to say even today shaver mystery Club chapters continue to thrive as historians reexamine the phenomenon shaver had not only started a fiction Universe based on funny noises he heard in his head but had inadvertently found

It a cult dubbed shaveology contained within this story is an intangible common hook to a well-documented instance of contagious craziness clinically dubbed the influencing machine it seems that within the subjective symptoms of those suffering from paranoid schizophrenia a specific kind of hallucination recurs from one individual to another whereby a

Machine is used to insert torturous and bizarre thoughts into the victim’s mind the machine is always operated by a gang of unsavory villains who persecute the victims for their own Twisted ends the gang is inevitably an organized party of a group such as the CIA the mafia or the

Freemasons recall Shaver’s version of the machine was a malfunctioning welding gun this is a very well documented phenomenon by now it is included for example in the psychological record of James Tilly Matthews considered to be the first recorded case of paranoid schizophrenia Matthew’s version of the influencing machine was called an

Heirloom and it was operated From a Distance by a group of spies named the middleman the glove woman sir Archie and Bill also known as The King The Machine’s torments included reading Minds inserting unwanted thoughts and doing inconceivable things to the body such as blocking blood flow with magnetism paranoid schizophrenics report

An almost identical pattern of delusions as if multiple Minds had the exact same nightmare there’s always a shadowy group with psychic weapons who are blamed for nearly all of society’s ills both the tormentors of Mr Matthews and the Darrow of Shaver’s stories were supposed to be bent on taking over the world and

Destroying Humanity using their thought- bending powers to cause assassinations Wars and huge tragic disasters yet another version of an influencing machine setup appears in the later works of legendary sci-fi author Philip K dick starting around the time of the novel Valas dick asserted that an alien Consciousness was communicating

Telepathically with him through a vast active living intelligence system valis the fact that PK dick wrote so many revered works of classic Sci-fi including the novels that became the basis for the Blockbuster films Blade Runner and Total Recall it indicates that many maybe he had a tinge of schizophrenia enhancing his imagination

The whole time and certainly that his Lucid awareness of sci-fi genre tropes allowed him to recognize the fabric of this delusion and yet Cru was not enough to prevent his succumbing to it if you’re beginning to suspect that at least as far as the hollow Earth conspiracy goes we finally now know how

One popular delusion got started ding you’re correct in fact we have ready evidence of more colle Ive shared delusions taking form right now the internet Infamous Mandela effect which manifests itself in huge Collective false memories of Nelson Mandela dying in jail he didn’t mlinga burn stain Bears it wasn’t and

The existence of a 9s comedy movie called Shazam where the comedian Sinbad played a genie nope the thing is even when confronted with hard evidence that a memory is false people will d doubled down and insists nope Time Travelers must have changed it after Palmer had quit his editor job in solidarity with

Shaver he went on to take up interest in daros encoded hieroglyphs on rocks which in Shaver terms form a rock book collecting these Rock books he formed a lending library for True Believers as for schizophrenics and their influencing machines well they’re still out there as are the shaver True Believers doubtless

We’re all familiar with some of the more modern-day interpretations of the same base ideas spread more easily through the internet now than ever before some even go so far as to mobilize together in groups to insist that they’re the San ones and the rest of us live in

Delusion the shaver story and the prevalence of influencing machines suggests only two possibilities either the human mind can be affected by a disease whose symptoms are so precise that identical delusions occur in multiple patients or else there really are lizard people and what’s not assaulting us with psychic weapons and

We treat our few woke individuals like the crazy people both of those possibilities are Eerie by one account shaver during his wandering years was arrested for vagrancy but the hallucination of a beautiful woman that he’d been experiencing also appeared to a jail guard who was persuaded to release shaver

Are shared delusions that powerful somewhere between psychedelic drug effects hypnosis and very good storytelling could lie a kind of magic power to conjure hallucinations in another person’s mind yet make them so indelible that they stay there us creative people worry about this sort of thing it’s a power that’s fun to play

With for about 5 minutes until Sorcerer’s Apprentice it gets out of control maybe it was never under our control to begin with it’s things like this that can make the rest of us begin to doubt our grip on reality shaver wasn’t the only one with a cult let’s not forget

Two other sci-fi authors who had an unusual effect on their fans in the mid 20th century one was Robert a heinan who came this close to founding a cult in his book Stranger in a Strange Land and the other science fiction author who influenced a wide audience to adopt his

Unique vision of reality you might have heard of him he was elron hubard founder of the Church of Scientology thanks for listening if you like the show please share share it with somebody you know who loves the Paranormal or strange stories true crime monsters or Unsolved Mysteries like you do you can email me anytime with your questions or comments at Daren weird

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IN THIS EPISODE: Just because a guitar is the only thing to survive a building fire doesn’t mean that guitar is lucky. In fact, it might be the exact opposite, as Patrick Cross found out when he bought the guitar in 1995. (Patrick Cross and His Devil Guitar) *** Air Force veteran Charles Moody drove out into the desert to watch a meteor shower – but he found a lot more than he bargained for when he was abducted by extraterrestrials. (The Alien Abduction of Sergeant Moody) *** We’ll fire up the flux capacitor and take a look at the past, present, and possible future of time machines. (A Brief History of Time Machines) *** Nearly every place has its legends; stories that have passed from person to person, generation to generation, down to the present day. Some are based on facts and are further embroidered in the telling, while others seem to have come from next to nothing at all. Such is the mysterious case of the Witch of Scrapf*gg*t Green. (The Witch of Scrapf*gg*t Green) *** Some say the story itself is true. Others say it is pure science fiction. Either way, just the circumstances behind the story of “The Shaver Mystery” are enough to scare the goosebumps out of you! (The Shaver Mystery) *** (Originally aired March 03, 2021)

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