PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who love strange and macabre stories can listen too https weirddarkness com listen HOUR ONE In June of 2009 a man calling himself Peter Bergmann checked in to a hotel in Sligo Town Five days later his body was found on Rosses Point Beach But Peter Bergmann was not Peter Bergmann so who was he The Peter Bergmann Mystery Sharing stories from people who are frightened by a bump in the night or a strange shadow on the wall in their bedroom is one thing but when you get professional ghost hunters telling of the scariest experiences they ve had you know it has to be some freaky stuff Scariest Experiences of Ghost Hunters HOUR TWO Jeannie Saffin already had a tough life being born with a birth defect that stunted her mental growth leaving her with the mind of a child never getting married and having kids never dating but that all pales in comparison to how she died bursting into flames for no apparent reason Was Jeannie Saffin the victim of spontaneous human combustion The Spontaneous Combustion of Jeannie Saffin Sometimes it s easy to get a girl to go out with you just be polite and ask Some men resort to cheesy pickup lines thinking it will help their chances But one man chose to call upon a woman in a very unusual way by purchasing a gravestone Pitching Woo With a Tombstone If a man demands his girlfriend give up the baby they conceived otherwise he would no longer be with the woman what is that newborn s mother to do Sadly Emily Dunn made the wrong decision with tragic results The Durbin Baby Murder The transplanting of an organ is almost a routine procedure now in the 21st century even doing a transplant of an arm or a leg isn t uncommon But when you talk about transplanting a living head onto a dead body that s when things get tricky But Robert White thought it could be done and even tried doing it The Man Who Wanted To Do a Head Transplant Imagine getting onto a plane and once in the air finding out that the pilot wasn t qualified to fly that kind of plane and that he was only there because the original pilot wasn t available due to being dead That s what happened in 1934 on the boat the SS Morro Castle And it was the beginning of tragedy after tragedy Mystery Mismanagement and Mayhem on the SS Morro Castle SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME More of the scariest experiences of ghost hunters I ll tell you about that time when a dam failed and because of it people were legally allowed to marry the dead And still do to this day That Time A Failed Dam Led to Marrying Corpses Personal experiences of those who have stayed at the Wolf Creek Inn plus some hard evidence seems to indicate that spirits who haunt the place are not only benign in nature but even protect the guests and owners from other malevolent spirits which roam there as well Haunts at Wolf Creek Inn SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT S SHOW Mystery Mismanagement and Mayhem on the SS Morro Castle by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe https weirddarkness tiny us 56jb9c7jThe Man Who Wanted To Do a Head Transplant by Gary Krist for the Washington Post https weirddarkness tiny us 39d2k9pwThe Durbin Baby Murder posted at Murders In History https weirddarkness tiny us c96z9kstPitching Woo With a Tombstone from the New York Journal posted at The Victorian Book of the Dead website https weirddarkness tiny us utw6vh45The Spontaneous Combustion of Jeannie Saffin by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe https weirddarkness tiny us e6as67fnThat Time A Failed Dam Led to Marrying Corpses by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet https weirddarkness tiny us zyrxx43kScariest Experiences of Ghost Hunters by Amanda Ashley for Graveyard Shift https weirddarkness tiny us y7tx3a2tHaunts at Wolf Creek Inn posted at HauntedHouses com https weirddarkness tiny us yadzm4aeThe Peter Bergmann Mystery by Rosita Boland for Irish Times https weirddarkness tiny us 9b44kfs 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
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