“PUNISHMENTS WORSE THAN DEATH” And More Dark True Stories! #WeirdDarkness

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PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too Find all of podcasts I host at https weirddarkness com links IN THIS EPISODE If you are concerned about a family member s excessive drinking what do you do Hold an intervention Call Alcoholics Anonymous for advice Perhaps confide in a close friend who might know what to do In the case of teenaged sisters Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen they were so frustrated with their mother s drunken ways they decided to kill her Murderous Sisters One reason people don t like going to dentists is pain even if there is no pain just the idea of pain is enough to keep people away But in the early 1900s there was a dentist so confident he could give you a painless tooth-extraction that he even changed his name to Painless Parker But did his name live up to his claim A Dentist Named Painless Parker Cliff Taylor reported seeing not just one but two UFOs and even more interesting one of his sightings sounds like an extraterrestrial mothership which appeared right next to his own house And his was only a fraction of the hundreds of sightings that took place in 2008 just north of Philadelphia The Bucks County UFO Encounter Of all the sites that are unexplained the Bermuda Triangle is usually the first one that comes to mind Located in the Caribbean it is renowned for the ships and radio signals that have disappeared without explanation in recent years Yet there is another perhaps lesser known region in which the inexplicable occurs This location is often referred to quite simply as Mexico s Zone of Silence The Mexican Zone of Death The definition of punishment is the infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed In most cases we look to serve punishment in proper proportion to the crime being committed reserving the most severe punishments for the worst of the worst But that has not always been the case and there have been a lot of punishments doled out that we would consider worse than death and for crimes we might not even consider crimes today Punishments Worse Than Death SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE BOOK The Jesuit Relations by Allan Greer https amzn to 441pgd9 BOOK Torture And Democracy by Darius Rejali https amzn to 3OseYgr BOOK The History of Torture by George Ryley Scott https amzn to 44XZA2l BOOK Execution by Geoffrey Abbott https amzn to 3KtWUS3 ARTICLE Bermuda Triangle Explained https weirddarkness tiny us 3n4u8knf Murderous Sisters by Trilby Beresford for Ranker https weirddarkness tiny us 2p8wvcj8 and A W Naves for Medium https weirddarkness tiny us 59bek3w6 The Bucks County UFO Encounter by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight https weirddarkness tiny us 46jx9md6 Punishments Worse Than Death by Christopher Myers for Weird History https weirddarkness tiny us yc3kbzp8 and Marco Margaritoff for All That s Interesting https weirddarkness tiny us cfh4a9jc The Mexican Zone of Silence by Riley Winters for at Ancient Origins Unleashed https weirddarkness tiny us yht827h6 A Dentist Named Painless Parker by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet https weirddarkness tiny us ycknn9ar Visit our Sponsors amp Friends https weirddarkness com sponsors Join the Weird Darkness Syndicate https weirddarkness com syndicate Advertise in the Weird Darkness podcast or syndicated radio show https weirddarkness com advertise 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 OTHER PODCASTS I HOST Paranormality Magazine COMING SEPT 30 2023 https weirddarkness tiny us paranormalitymagMicro Terrors Scary Stories for Kids https weirddarkness tiny us microterrorsRetro Radio Old Time Radio In The Dark https weirddarkness tiny us retroradioChurch of the Undead https weirddarkness tiny us churchoftheundead 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 46 WeirdDarkness is a registered trademark Copyright 2023 Weird Darkness TRANSCRIPT https weirddarkness com archives 16554This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network if you are interested in advertising on this podcast contact us at https www spreaker com show 3655291 advertisementClick here to visit this podcast episode