“MUMMIFIED ALIVE” And More Terrifying True Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness

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Find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app at https weirddarkness com listen PLEASE SHARE Weird Darkness with someone who loves paranormal stories true crime monsters or unsolved mysteries like you do RecommendingWeird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show IN THIS EPISODE In the days that followed the rescue of 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault from the wreckage of the yacht called the Bluebelle it would became clear that a storm hadn t destroyed the ship as the previously-rescued captain Julian A Harvey had said earlier A storm hadn t killed everyone aboard Harvey himself had The Final Voyage of the Bluebelle When a loved one passes away we sometimes wish we could speak to them one last time Some people report they received phone calls or voicemails they believe are from their deceased loved ones Sometimes they come through as eerie otherworldly static while other times the ghostly caller is able to communicate one last message We ll share a few true stories from people who have received phone calls from the beyond Phone Calls From Beyond The Grave If you buy a furnished home and move the furniture to clean the floor and the furniture moves back on its own you can be pretty sure you ve just moved into a haunted house That s exactly what one family in Rockford Illinois found out A Haunting on School Street One of the greatest monsters ever to be brought to the screen was The Mummy portrayed by Boris Karloff We have of course seen numerous recreations of the creature since the original Universal film but still the image is grotesque and frightening no matter the incarnation To see a mummy in real-life is that much more shocking But real fear real terror would be if you yourself were to be mummified while still alive To Be Mummified Alive And I ll end the episode with the story that I began it with a short story by Louisa May Alcott called Lost in a Pyramid or The Mummy s Curse A story that went pretty much unnoticed when it was originally published in 1869 but has had somewhat become undead since 1998 when it was rediscovered and is now considered an influential example of early mummy s curse narratives SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS The Final Voyage of the Bluebelle by Lucia for The Ghost In My Machine https weirddarkness tiny us 23utyhja Phone Calls From Beyond the Grave by Amanda Ashley for Graveyard Shift https weirddarkness tiny us 7bw36uh4 A Haunting on School Street by Kathi Kresol for Haunted Rockford https weirddarkness tiny us s3c76yeb To Be Mummified Alive by Bipin Dimri for Historic Mysteries https weirddarkness tiny us j89cukfe The Mummy s Curse Lost In a Pyramid by Louisa May Alcott https weirddarkness tiny us pwd9h3cb Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library Background music provided by Alibi Music Library EpidemicSound and or StoryBlocks with paid license Music from Shadows Symphony https tinyurl com yyrv987t Midnight Syndicate http amzn to 2BYCoXZ Kevin MacLeod https tinyurl com y2v7fgbu Tony Longworth https tinyurl com y2nhnbt7 and Nicolas Gasparini https tinyurl com lnqpfs8 is used with permission of the artists Over time links seen above may become invalid disappear or have different content I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story or if a credit is incorrect please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately Some links included above 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 46Weird Darkness Weird Darkness 2022Click here to visit this podcast episode