“KRAMPUS, THE CHRISTMAS MONSTER” And More Christmastime Terrors! #WeirdDarkness #HolidayHorrors

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Find Weird Darkness wherever you listen to podcasts https weirddarkness com listen PLEASE SHARE Weird Darkness with someone who loves paranormal stories true crime monsters or unsolved mysteries like you do Recommending Weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show IN THIS EPISODE We re all familiar with the poem A Visit From St Nicholas better known as Twas The Night Before Christmas But while we know the poem we can t be quite as sure about who wrote it The Christmas Poem That Started a Feud One of the great and now sadly lapsed Christmas traditions is the telling of ghost stories On one particular year a British teenager took this pastime to a whole other level He didn t read about a Christmas Eve haunting He experienced one The Phantom Choir of St Albans The past few years have made Krampus the Christmas devil a star of the big screen But have you noticed that every version of him is different than the others This may of course be in part to creative license but it might have just as much if not more to do with the fact that none of the filmmakers had any idea of just what Krampus truly is what he is all about and how terrifying he can be Krampus The Christmas Monster Disaster strikes a small Illinois town on Christmas Eve stripping away all that was merry and bright for the families who lived there The Christmas Eve Mine Disaster SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS The Christmas Eve Mine Disaster by Troy Taylor https weirddarkness tiny us 2p97f84v The Christmas Poem That Started a Feud by Henry Litchfield West for Victoriana Magazine https weirddarkness tiny us 52y4uaan Krampus the Christmas Monster by Garth Haslam for Monsters Here There https weirddarkness tiny us 2p8r6ev4 The Phantom Choir of St Albans from Strange Company https weirddarkness tiny us ycxyzk7p Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library Background music provided by Alibi Music EpidemicSound and or AudioBlocks 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 or Nicolas Gasparini Myuu https tinyurl com lnqpfs8 is used with permission 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 WANT TO ADVERTISE ON WEIRD DARKNESS Weird Darkness has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising sponsorship requests They re great to work with and will help you advertise on the show Email sales advertisecast com or start the process now at https weirddarkness com advertise I have come into the world as a light so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness John 12 46Find out how to escape eternal darkness at https weirddarkness com eternaldarkness WeirdDarkness – is a production and trademark of Marlar House Productions Copyright 2022 Click here to visit this podcast episode