“THE GHOST OF GRACIE WATSON” #WeirdDarknessRadio WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10-15, 2024

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HOUR ONE An eerie tombstone stands watch over one of Portland Oregon s oldest cemeteries And the story behind that tombstone is a strange one The Guardians of Lone Fir Cemetery Don t take a gift from Little Gracie s grave or her life-like statue might cry tears of blood The Ghost of Gracie Watson When it came to her daughter s Elsa doll one mom was eager and ready to Let It Go But the doll supernaturally refused to be let go Haunted Elsa Doll An ancient stone cross is said by locals to be cursed and the curse infects anyone who dares to disrespect it Curse of the Saxon Stone Cross Christopher Slaughterford was seemingly a completely ordinary young Englishman but he has earned an unenviable place in the legal books T he Trials of Christopher Slaughterford Two authors reported a very strange encounter with a mysterious entity they believed was not of this world What did they see and why were they under the impression this being was not of this world An Author s Encounter With A Not-Of-This-World Entity HOUR TWO A 178-year-old mystery comes to the surface in a Philadelphia suburb Grandfather s Ghost Story Leads to Mass Grave Recently a wrecking crew began tearing down and old building in Rhode Island But the big burly men on the crew got so frightened they refused to continue the work Does reconstruction of a home or building anger the souls who once lived there Does Remodeling Your Home Disturb The Spirits Who Died There The way life has grown on our planet requires that all living things feed off each other and must kill others in order to survive That s the way of the world if you want to live for any more than a few days But some people are now claiming they can live without food at all indefinitely Life Without Food Three men were in a shed selling gardening supplies when some strange powder suddenly hit the ceiling Before they had time to react a small jug on a shelf abruptly flew across the room One man picked up the jug and placed it a covered box Instantly the jug was somehow back on the floor And that was just the beginning of the strange haunting of a community s garden shed The Poltergeist In The Allotment Shed In the movie Salt Angelina Jolie plays a double-agent who is mind-controlled by scary remnants of the USSR secret service And in real life the 1940s bombshell Candy Jones was apparently brainwashed with drugs and used as a CIA covert operative The Supermodel Who Was Brainwashed Into Becoming a Spy No one knows exactly when she was born Some think maybe she was a gypsy Others say she was the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter The life of Elizabeth Barnes is a mysterious one filled with many loves losses and prognostications The Witch of Plum Hollow Some travelers arriving late at night to board Oliver s Ferry the next day stayed at Oliver s house But they were never seen making the ferry crossing the next morning Is it possible that the rumors are true that they never left the house alive The Frights of Oliver s Ferry SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME For Allen Taylor January 15 1919 was just another day on his farm near Prescott Iowa That is until his 15-year-old neighbor Irene Hoskins came stumbling down the lane with a gash in the side of her head The Hoskins Family Murders How did someone get the job of an executioner in medieval times We ll find out To Become An Executioner SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT S SHOW Schoolhouse Demon Attack from Paranormality MagazineGrandfather s Ghost Story Leads to Mass Grave by Meghan Rafferty for CNN https tinyurl com ravfcehDoes Remodeling Your Home Disturb The Spirits Who Died There by Kelly Roncace for NJ com https tinyurl com sn7vpsgLife Without Food by Michael Grosso for Consciousness Abound https tinyurl com r38yxh6The Poltergeist In The Allotment Shed from Strange Company https tinyurl com vzlgcj9The Supermodel Who Was Brainwashed Into Becoming a Spy by Annalee Newitz for Gizmodo https tinyurl com sgh73daThe Witch of Plum Hollow by James Morgan for North Country Public Radio https tinyurl com u3x3sxuThe Frights of Oliver s Ferry by Ken Watson for Rideau-Info https tinyurl com vj96awj Over time links seen above may become invalid disappear or have different content I always make sure to give authors credit for material I use whenever possible If I have overlooked doing so for a story or if a credit is incorrect please let me know and I will rectify it immediately Some links may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases I have come into the world as a light so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness John 12 46 WeirdDarkness WeirdDarkness 2024 To become a Weird Darkness Radio Show affiliate contact Radio America at affiliates radioamerica com or call 800-807-4703 press 2 or dial ext 250 Click here to visit this podcast episode