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Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode, Winnie had two trunks when she arrived at the train station, trunks that contained the severed body parts of her two best friends. She had murdered them, it seems, all in the name of love. Was British Government Weapons Inspector Dr. David Kelly murdered? Madame Delphine LaLaurie, made popular by Kathy Bates in American Horror Story Coven, was a first-class monster, a figure of high society she was well known for her mistreatment of slaves, but no one knew just how sick she truly was. If you're new here, welcome to the show, and if you're already a member of this Weirdo family, please take a moment and invite someone else to listen. Recommending Weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show. And while you're listening, be sure to check out WeirdDarkness.com where you can find the show on Facebook and Twitter, and you can also join the Weird Darkness Weirdos Facebook group.  Delphine LaLaurie was born Marie Delphine McCarty on March 19, 1787, in New Orleans, Louisiana, as one of five children in Louisiana's Spanish-occupied territory. Her father, Louis Bartholome McCarthy, was an Irish immigrant, and her mother, Marie Jean, was a French woman. Louise shortened the family's surname to McCarty, and together they all immigrated to the United States in 1730. They lived in the White Creole community and engaged in many profitable ventures. What of Delphine's uncles, Esteban Rodriguez Miro was a governor, and her cousin, Auguste and McCarty, became mayor of New Orleans from 1815 to 1820. Remaining family members were wealthy merchants, army officials, and slavers. Delphine was beautiful, and men were quite interested in her. When she hit the tender age of 13, it wasn't hard for her family to find her a suitable groom. She was married in June 1800 to a high-ranking Spanish official by the name of Don Ramón de López Iangelo. A major part of New Orleans was under Spanish occupation, so when Don was appointed Consul General of Spain, Delphine became one of the most powerful women in the state. In 1804, Don Ramón received a letter with a royal command stating that the young Spanish officer was to take his place at court as befitting his new position. Don Ramón and a very pregnant Delphine departed the United States and paused in Havana, Cuba. While there, Don Ramón became very ill and died just days before his daughter was born. She was named Marie Delphine Borja López Iangela de Candelaria, but became best known in her later years as Borquita, meaning Little Borgia, from the fact that she was named after her father's grandmother. With a widowed and with a newborn baby, Delphine returned to New Orleans where she lived comfortably in her mansion. In 1808, she married a second time to one of the richest men in the region, who was also a well-settled merchant, banker, and lawyer. Jean Blanc bought them a house on Royal Street, which became known as Villa Blanc. He and Delphine had four children, Marie-Louise Pauline, Louise-Marie-Lore, Marie-Louise Jean, and Jean-Pierre Pauline Blanc. Delphine remained a figure of high society, spending time with the other socialites. Her marriage to Jean Blanc did not last long, albeit longer than her marriage to Don Ramón. In 1816, Jean Blanc died after just eight years of marriage. She remained a widow for the next nine years, and that was when she met Dr. Leonard-Louise Nicole Lallori. He had come to New Orleans from Villeneuve-sur-Lotte, France, and was ready to set up a practice. Although he was much younger than Delphine, by twenty years, the couple were married on June 12, 1825. As a busy doctor, Leonard was not at Delphine's side often. In 1831, Delphine purchased a three-story mansion at 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter, complete with attached slave quarters. She lived there with Leonard and two of her daughters, as her other children had moved on and married, while maintaining her central position in New Orleans society. The Lalloris maintained several slaves in their attached quarters. While out in public, Delphine was often observed being generally polite to Black people and even concerned for her slaves' health. She had even memuted two of her slaves, Jean-Louise in 1819 and Divine's in 1832. However, other accounts of her treatment of slaves was not so kind. For example, British social theorist and Whig writer Harriet Martinow wrote in 1838 that she had witnessed Delphine's slaves to be singularly haggard and wretched. She also wrote that public rumors about Delphine's mistreatment of her slaves were so widespread that a local lawyer had to visit her home to remind her of the laws for the upkeep of slaves. However, during his visit he found no evidence of wrongdoing or mistreatment of slaves. Beyond the treatment of her slaves, Delphine was having marital problems. Neighbors reported hearing loud arguments and noises coming from the home. In 1834, the couple officially called it quits and Leonard moved out of the house. It is said that after three tragic, failed marriages, Delphine went mad. Rumors spread about Delphine's slaves living in constant fear as she mistreated them a lot. One rumor claimed that she kept her 70-year-old cook chained to the stove, starving. Another claimed she kept secret slaves for her husband to practice Haitian voodoo medicine on. Two reports of mistreatment are on record as being true. One slave, terrified of punishment from Delphine, threw himself out of a third-story window, preferring death over torture. The third-story window was then cemented shut and remained so to this day. The other report was regarding a 12-year-old slave girl named Leah. Leah was brushing Delphine's hair and pulled just a little too hard. Delphine flew into a rage and whipped the girl. To escape for their punishment, the girl climbed out and onto the roof where she leapt to her death. Delphine was witnessed burying Leah's corpse and police were forced to find her $300 and made her sell nine of her slaves. However, mistreatment of slaves by the wealthy and socially connected was not a matter for the police at the time, so they didn't flinch when she bought her nine slaves back. Then, on the afternoon of April 10, 1834, the LaLaurie mansion went up in flames. When police and marshals barged into the house to get the fire under control, they found a 70-year-old slave woman chained to the stove while Delphine frantically tried to save her valuables. The police set the woman loose and she led them up to the attic, where it was believed that slaves would go and never return. There they found seven slaves, tied with spiked iron collars. As the authorities were releasing the slaves, they discovered that their bodies were badly mutilated with their limbs deformed and in some cases their intestines had been pulled out of their bodies and tied to them. They also discovered discarded corpses and mutilated body parts. Other slaves were found chained in their quarters. Once the fire had been extinguished, the 70-year-old woman confessed to setting the fire because she was afraid of the punishment Delphine was going to give her. Those that had helped free the chained-up slaves were indignant and on April 15th a mob charged the LaLaurie mansion and began to wreck it. They were only dispersed when a company of the United States Regulars or the Regular Army were called out by the helpless sheriff. During the chaos, Delphine and Leonard took off to their carriage and escaped the city with their Creole black coachman, Bastion, driving. It was written in 1838 by Harriet Martinault that they fled to a waterfront and boarded a schooner. They traveled to Mobile, Alabama, and then to Paris. While the LaLaurie's made their escape, a mob of nearly 4,000 townspeople ransacked their mansion, smashing windows and tearing down doors. The slaves were taken to a local police station where they detailed the atrocities carried out on them. They told tales of Delphine performing medical experiments on them, including removing their skin, breaking bones and setting them into peculiar positions, amputating limbs.  The slaves were then presented for public viewing, which fueled the rage already burning within the townspeople. By the time it was over, the LaLaurie mansion was in ruins. Neither Delphine nor Leonard ever returned to New Orleans. She was respected and lived a good life in Paris until the day she died. Her death is somewhat of a mystery, however, with some claiming that she died during a boar hunting accident and others claiming she recently returned to New Orleans to live a secret life of anonymity. Looking through official documents, you'll find that Paris has recorded her death as December 7, 1849. Unsettling, however, is the old cracked copper plate found in the late 1930s in the New Orleans St. Louis Cemetery bearing the name LaLaurie Madame Delphine McCarty. The inscription in French claims that Madame LaLaurie died in Paris on December 7, 1842. To this day, the remains of Madame Delphine LaLaurie have never been found. Up next, Winnie had two trunks when she arrived at the train station, trunks that contained the severed body parts of her two best friends. She had murdered them, it seems, all in the name of love. That story and more when Weird Darkness returns. In 2019, six teenagers tried to rob a Chicago home and it ended with one dead shot by the homeowner. A Minnesota man is confronted by burglars at his home in 2012 and ends up being charged with murder for killing the intruders. In 2023, a man was killed after he broke into a home and the homeowner is charged with murder. As a listener to Weird Darkness, you know how bad things can go in a crime and even when defending yourself against the criminals. Sometimes, you are the one facing legal problems. That's why you never let the criminals get access to your home to begin with. Home security is no longer recommended, it is essential, and with ADT, it's no longer for the elite. It's for everyone. 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She had murdered them supposedly in the name of love. The bizarre tale began in Arizona. Winnie, along with her two friends, Agnes and LaRoy, 32, and Sarah Hedwig, Sammy Samuelson, 24, were all in love with the same man. His name was Jack Halloran, and he was a good-looking playboy who never let the fact he was married stand in the way of a good time. The whole affair was a mess. Not only were Anne and Sammy occasional lovers, but both of them were also seeing Jack. Winnie met Jack when she was working as a nanny for his next-door neighbor. Like Jack, Winnie was married, but her doctor husband was often away on business, so the pair began secretly seeing each other. Their affair began on Christmas Eve, 1930, and continued until that dark day in October, 1931, when Winnie ended the lurid activities with murder. A lot of the case remains shrouded in mystery, which is largely due to Winnie's varying accounts and the baffling details of the murders. What is known is that Anne and Sammy were shot to death in Phoenix and that their bodies were discovered a few days later at the Los Angeles train station. They had been stuffed into steamer trunks. Sammy's body had been cut into pieces of various sizes and placed in different cases. It was the blood that was oozing out of the seams that alerted station agents that something was seriously amiss. Winnie immediately became the prime suspect, but police wondered how the petite woman had managed to kill, cut up, and pack up the bodies of two other women. Why would she do it? Did she have help? And why did she catch a train to LA and bring the grisly luggage with her? The commonly accepted version of events starts on Friday, October 17. Winnie was at home, fuming over her friend's affairs with Jack. She snapped that night, grabbed a knife and gun, and went over to Sammy in Anne's bungalow. When she arrived, she left her shoes and the knife outside the back door. She mustered up the courage and broke in. She first went to Anne's room and pulled the trigger from the doorway. When Sammy heard the shots, she rushed to the room. She jumped on Winnie and managed to take the gun from her. Winnie fled to the back door and retrieved the knife. She lunged at Sammy and stabbed her in the shoulder. The women struggled. Sammy shot Winnie in the left hand as Winnie fought her for the gun. She finally got it away from Sammy and shot her in the head. When the struggle ended, Winnie questioned what to do with the bodies. Anne's corpse fit into a large traveling trunk, but Sammy required a lot of work. Winnie had to cut her into pieces and she stuffed her into a series of traveling bags. She managed to load all of it into her car and returned home. Then, on Sunday, October 18, she, along with the case that contained Anne and the three cases of Sammy, boarded the Golden State Limited train that was bound for Los Angeles. When the train arrived in LA, the punchin' stench and bloody trail left by Winnie's luggage got the attention of the station agent. He confiscated the bags and demanded that they be opened. Winnie claimed that she had no keys for the trunks and then fled the station. The agent called the police and detectives arrived to crack open the luggage and discovered the gruesome contents. A search immediately began for Winnie Ruth Judd. On October 23, she finally surrendered at a funeral home. The news of the ghastly murders spread quickly and the story was splashed across the front pages of newspapers. The Phoenix bungalow became a morbid tourist attraction and Winnie's case became a media sensation. Winnie's trial began on January 19, 1932. Winnie's unofficial version of events was that the murders were committed in self-defense and the other women had attacked her. Her lawyers meanwhile claimed she was insane. The prosecution maintained that it had all been premeditated, the work of a jealous woman. What Winnie actually thought during the trial remains unknown. She never took the stand in her own defense. On February 8, 1932, she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging February 17, 1933. By this time, Winnie had managed to drum up a lot of sympathy and a lot of support. There were accusations of shoddy police work, belief that she was defending herself and, of course, her lawyers continued assertions that she was mentally ill. Supporters, including Eleanor Roosevelt, petitioned the state of Arizona to reconsider the death penalty in her case. And then the story took another turn. In January 1933, a grand jury indicted Jack Halloran as an accomplice to the murders. Winnie became the star witness in the preliminary hearing that followed the indictment. She was still claiming self-defense, but added that Jack had helped her with the disposal of the bodies, including Sammy's dismemberment. It had been Jack's idea, she said, that she would board a train with the bodies and travel to LA, where another accomplice would get rid of them for good. Halloran never took the stand.  Apparently the judge agreed. The case was dismissed against Halloran that month. Meanwhile, Winnie was still set to hang. Then, just days before the execution, a panel declared her to be insane. She was spared the noose and sent to the Arizona State Insane Asylum. But with a story this bizarre, that's still not the end. Not long after Winnie arrived at the asylum, she escaped. And she escaped again. And again. A total of seven times. Her last escape was in 1962, and she stayed on the loose for seven years, living in Northern California under an assumed name, Marion Lane. The police finally caught up with her in 1969. But in 1971, Arizona Governor Jack Williams granted her a pardon. She returned to a quiet life as Marion Lane and passed away in her sleep in 1998, at the age of 93. And no, that's still not the end. In 2014, a confession letter that was written by Winnie to her lawyer in 1933 was found in a security box in the Arizona State Archives. The startling account, 19 pages in Winnie's cursive handwriting, reveals every sorted detail of the crime. Is the letter the rambling of a mentally ill woman or a cold-blooded killer? You can decide for yourself, if you would like. I have a link to those handwritten pages of the letter in the show notes. When Weird Darkness Returns, was British government weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly murdered? You can decide when I bring you the evidence for and against the theory. Up next. Are you a loyal listener to Weird Darkness? Want even more Weird Darkness content? 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Waving a dossier of intelligence, Blair said Iraq was capable of striking British forces with weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. The intelligence later would be shown to be false, but on the basis of the dossier the UK Parliament approved the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. In May 2003, journalist Andrew Gilligan reported on BBC Radio that he had learned from his sources that the Blair government had sexed up the dossier in order to exaggerate the threat Iraq posed. This caused a storm of controversy and Blair's government fiercely attacked the BBC over the report. Gilligan's source was quickly revealed by the media as Ministry of Defence weapons expert Dr. David Kelly. Kelly was an expert in biological warfare and a former UN weapons inspector. He was sure the Blair government had exaggerated the intelligence about Iraq and told Gilligan in an off-the-record discussion. On June 15, Kelly was summoned to appear in front of a parliamentary committee where he was intensely questioned about his actions. 48 hours later, he was dead. Kelly, it seemed, had committed suicide. He had gone for a walk in the woodlands near his home, slit his wrists and overdosed on painkillers. Kelly's death plunged the Blair government into a major crisis and the next day they launched an official investigation, chaired by Lord Hutton. It is remit to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Kelly. There was speculation that perhaps Kelly had been hounded to his death, even murdered by some element of the government or intelligence services. Kelly's exposure of the government's lies over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had cost him his life. Did the strain of being barraged in public by politicians and revealed as the source of Gilligan's story put an unbearable strain on him? Or had he been assassinated by some sinister forces within the government seeking to silence him for exposing the lies that led to an illegal invasion of Iraq? Was Dr. Kelly murdered? On the morning of 17 July, Kelly sent his friend, American author Judith Miller an email. In it, he complained ominously that there were many dark actors playing games. In other emails he sent at the same time, Kelly does not sound like a man about to end it all. He says how much he's looking forward to getting back to work and mentions his plans to travel to Iraq the next week. Kelly took a phone call mid-afternoon, then left the house at about 3.20 pm. Just before midnight, after not returning, his family reported him missing. Dozens of police, neighbors and volunteers soon formed search parties and set out to find Kelly. There is, however, reason to believe he was already under surveillance before he went missing. The scientists had become the focus of a huge political and media storm, one with international repercussions. The day before, he was even interrogated by MI5 in a safe house. Kelly had already told friends he feared his body would be found in the woods and was reportedly working on a tell-all book about WMD. He was both a target and a potential security threat. He must surely have been subject to some as yet undisclosed surveillance operation. The police seemed to think so. That night, whilst the search parties looked for Kelly, they stripped the wallpaper in the house, presumably looking for bugs. It already seemed evident the police knew more than they had admitted. The official investigation into Kelly's death, Operation Mason, was opened before he was even reported missing. Meanwhile, the search continued. At 3 am, a police helicopter fitted with heat-seeking cameras flew over the very spot Kelly would be found just six hours later and didn't find him. How could Kelly not be there? The pathologist estimated he died somewhere around this time. How could the helicopter not pick up the warmth of his body? The heat-seeking cameras either failed to do their job or Kelly had died somewhere else and his body was moved. A further mystery surrounded reports of another helicopter landing at the Kelly's property then leaving soon after. Freedom of Information requests revealed only a heavily redacted set of names. Who was on board? Kelly's body was finally found around 9 am in Woodland clearing at Harrow Down Hill, a local beauty spot close to his home. His head and shoulders were slumped against a tree. Many doctors, paramedics, politicians and journalists were troubled by the circumstances of Kelly's death and odd details at the crime scene. Louise Holmes, a search and rescue volunteer, discovered Kelly's body and along with her colleague Paul Chapman gave clear testimony about the crime scene. He was at the base of the tree with almost his head and his shoulders just slumped back against the tree, Holmes told the Hutton inquiry. This was consistent with her police statement. I saw that this person was slumped against the base of the tree with his head and shoulders resting against the trunk. On their way to alert police, Holmes and Chapman met Detective Constable Graham Coe. At Hutton, Coe was asked who he was with when he met the pair. For reasons never adequately explained, he lied. Coe told Hutton he was with one other man, Detective Constable Shields. In fact, the two were with an unidentified third man, a lie later admitted by Coe. Coe now claims the third man was a police trainee who he didn't want to name. Why would Coe risk being exposed as a liar at an official inquiry over something so innocuous? Coe's odd lie was particularly telling in light of what had happened during the next hour. Somebody had moved Dr. Kelly's body. Coe claimed he stood and guarded the body until the arrival of police alerted by Holmes and Chapman. But by the time the other officers arrived, Kelly's body had changed position. PC Sawyer arrived first, accompanied by two paramedics. One of the paramedics, Dave Bartlett, described the scene. He was lying flat out some distance from the tree. He definitely wasn't leaning against it. Kelly was now so far away from the tree that Bartlett was even able to get in behind Kelly as he checked for signs of life. Who had moved Kelly's body and why? The obvious implication is DCI Coe, or the men he was with, had altered the crime scene. Although caught out in one lie, Coe's suspicious behavior has never been explained. The medical evidence surrounding Kelly's death proved to be highly controversial. The official verdict was that he had died due to a self-inflicted injury to the ulnar artery and an overdose of his wife's propraximal tablets. Many medical professionals disagreed. In a series of letters to the National Press, a number of concerned doctors disputed the official verdict. They felt the injuries to Kelly could not cause his death.  The arteries immediately began to close up and constrict the blood loss. Dr. Bill McQuillen, who had dealt with hundreds of wrist accidents, said, I have never seen one death of somebody from cutting an ulnar artery. The choice of the ulnar artery was particularly odd. The ulnar artery is deeper in the wrist and covered by nerves and tendons, which would require considerable force to cut. Why would Kelly choose that rather than the easy access radial artery? Nor could the painkillers have caused his death. The levels of the drug found in his stomach and bloodstream were much too low to have killed Kelly. Three empty blister packs were found on Kelly's body, but this was no proof of ingestion. The paramedics agreed with the doctors. David Bartlett and Vanessa Hunt, the first medical professionals to tend Kelly, were so baffled as to the lack of blood at the scene, they went to the press. I've seen more blood at a nosebleed than I saw there, Bartlett said in an interview. The arterial spray should have covered Kelly and the whole area with blood, but very little was found. There just wasn't a lot of blood. When somebody cuts an artery, whether accidentally or intentionally, the blood pumps everywhere, Hunt said. Dr. Bill McQuillen concurred. If Kelly has slit his ulnar artery, his closed face and any surrounding structures would show evidence of that with the blood scattered as from a watering can. Some blood was found at the scene, but it takes around three to four pints of blood loss for an adult male to die, a huge amount that should have been apparent to all present. According to police reports, various items were found at the scene.  No fingerprints were found on any of the objects. Whilst it is common to find no identifiable fingerprints on such evidence, to find no prints at all is unusual. No mention of this was made at Hutton. The water bottle found near Kelly's body was still half full. It is difficult to see how Kelly could have swallowed 29 copraximal tablets, as alleged, with such little water. Worse still, Hutton failed to mention reports that Kelly suffered from unexplained dysphagia, a syndrome that makes it difficult for the subject to swallow pills. Hutton failed to cover another medical issue. Kelly had fractured his left elbow earlier that year and, according to friends, was unable to cut a steak with his right hand. Why then would Kelly choose to cut his wrists with his right hand? Kelly, an expert in the science of death, had chosen an unlikely suicide method. Kelly would have been well aware that wrist slitting was unlikely to kill him. It is normally associated with young people and a cry for help. Hutton also glossed over some disturbing details from the autopsy. Various scuffs, abrasions and cuts were found, but they were blithely dismissed as being caused by Kelly stumbling. Could they have been evidence of a struggle with a third party? Acetone was found in Kelly's blood in urine, which may have indicated he died much later than thought, later than 1 am.  These problems, with the suicide scenario along with the improbability of it proving fatal, led to a campaign by a group of doctors to have an official inquest opened into Kelly's death. The Hutton inquiry was set up the day after Kelly's death and it immediately shut down and superseded the coroner's inquest. Inquests are routinely opened in the case of violent, sudden or suspicious deaths. They are legal bodies that have the power of subpoena and evidence is given under oath. In contrast, the Hutton inquiry had no legal authority, failed to call many key witnesses and no evidence was given under oath. Amazingly, even the head of the police investigation into Kelly's death was not called to testify. This caused disquiet and concern even amongst those who believed Kelly did kill himself. Replacing an inquest with a political inquiry was unique in all British legal history. Hutton's subsequent report was widely regarded as a whitewash that was designed from the outset to declare Kelly's death nothing more than a tragic suicide. The suicide scenario was further reinforced in the media by several individuals claiming to have an insight into Kelly's mental state. The most prominent of these was Tom Mangold, a veteran journalist with links to the intelligence services. As soon as lunchtime on the day of Kelly's death, Mangold began an exhaustive series of TV and newspaper interviews. Always described as a close or long-time friend of Kelly's, the journalist repeatedly told the media how certain he was Kelly had committed suicide. As a personal friend, Mangold seemed to have an insight into Kelly's troubled mind.  Mangold, a reputable mainstream journalist, had perhaps, more than anyone, helped to fix the idea that Kelly was in a suicidal state of mind. However, it soon became clear that Mangold was, at the very least, exaggerating his relationship with Kelly. At Hutton, it was revealed Mangold had actually known Kelly just five years and met him only a few times. Kelly was strictly a contact who he had talked to occasionally regarding stories he was working on. Why then did Mangold bombard the media with interviews claiming to be a close personal friend of Kelly? Why had he told us with such certainty Kelly was suicidal when he hardly knew him? Many of Kelly's own communications at this time, including one where he rebuffs supposed friend Mangold, actually show him to be optimistic and looking forward to getting back to work. He was also a hardened UN weapons inspector, used to dealing with intense pressure and confrontation, the idea he was so troubled by the media attention that he killed himself seems very unlikely. Mangold's tireless attempts to portray Kelly as suicidal appeared to be a part of a larger media campaign to rubbish the idea that his death could have been murder. Numerous debunking articles and documentaries appeared which tried to shut down debate using misleading evidence and attributing false claims to the skeptics. MP Norman Baker, who wrote a book alleging Kelly was murdered, provoked some positive news coverage but was largely singled out for ridicule. In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Greve refused the campaigning doctor's request for an inquest. Despite all the contrary evidence, Greve told Parliament the evidence Kelly had committed suicide was overwhelmingly strong. Several commentators have cast doubt on the motive for killing Kelly. Most alternative accounts of Kelly murdered for his role in exposing the U.S. and UK's government lies over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. However, with the story already out, what could be gained from murdering him? His death only deepened a global controversy, attracting even more coverage and scrutiny to the false WMD claims. This is a compelling argument. Sanctioning the murder of Kelly would have been an insane act that could have only made the situation for the perpetrators worse. However, Bob Coe in his film Anthrax Wars proposes a more credible alternative motive. Kelly was heavily involved in classified bio warfare research at a top secret facility at Porton Down. Coen suggests Porton Down may have been involved with South Africa's Project Coast, a project designed to create a race weapon. Could worries that Kelly had been talking to journalists and may have been working on a tell all book about bio warfare have led to his murder? If it became public that the U.S. and UK had been involved with illegal and unethical research into bio weapons that would target only black people, the consequences would be dire. Thanks for listening. If you like the show, please share it with someone you know who loves the paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters or unsolved mysteries like you do. You can email me anytime with your questions or comments at Darren at WeirdDarkness.com, Darren's D-A-R-R-E-N. And you can find the show on Facebook and Twitter, including the show's Weirdo's Facebook group, on the Contact Social page at WeirdDarkness.com. Also on the website, if you have a true paranormal or creepy tale to tell, click on Tell Your Story or call the dark line toll free at 1-877-277-5944. That's 1-877-277-5944. The following stories in this Weird Darkness episode are purported to be true. The monster of Royal Street, Delphine LaLaurie, is from the scare chamber. Many dark actors, Dr. David Kelly, is from the unredacted. And Winnie Ruth Judd, Trunk Murderous, is from Troy Taylor. You can find links to all of these stories in the show notes. Weird Darkness is a production and trademark of Marlar House Productions. And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Titus 2 verse 11, For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. And a final thought from Vassil Montaneu, doubt is the enemy of the soul and the biggest threat to the humane. It should be taken with the greatest type of seriousness and eradicated without mercy. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. Hey Weirdos, be sure to click the like button and subscribe to this channel, and click the notification bell so you don't miss future videos. I post videos seven days a week, and while you're at it, spread the darkness by sharing this video with someone you know who loves all things strange and macabre. 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Hi everybody. Can you hear me all right? All right, let me put it here and see if we can get that to work. Oh, all right. So actually I don't know what I'm going to talk about tonight. I got to think of that. I was at the London School of Economics and I spoke about the proliferation of cryptocurrencies in the developing world and I gave this lovely thing on third generation blockchains. I haven't talked about regulation a bit. Is that a fun topic? You guys want to talk about regulation? That's kind of vogue, right? You know, there's a lot of stuff going on. All right, let's do that. So we'll talk for 15 minutes and then of course you'll ask me questions and I'll ramble on and on and on until I kill the clock out. I should be a senator or an MP or something like that. Okay, so what's the state of regulation in the cryptocurrency space as of 2018? Ah, well, since I started talking in Coinscrum way back in the day before Coinscrum even existed, some of like the proto-Coinscrums that we did somewhere in Limehouse, you know, ICOs were kind of a new thing. In fact, we didn't even call them ICOs. We're just going to go sell some tokens and at the time only, I'd say 20, 30 million had been raised in the entire space using an ICO as a vehicle, which meant no one really cared about it. It was a curious novelty, but it wasn't an interesting event. Now we live in an age that about $5 billion have been raised in ICOs, which means people are starting to care. We live in an age of one coin and BitConnect, and we live in an age that regulators are now empowered with the mandate of aggrieved retail investors to begin a systematic, long-term effort to start getting control over the situation. And it's quite pervasive.  And I believe very firmly that in the next few months we're going to start seeing this happen, step by step, brick by brick. And it's nothing new. I mean, when you have industries go up and down, when you get irrational exuberance and mom and pop get hurt, there's a very strong incentive for retail investors to come in, excuse me, for the regulatory bodies to come in and protect these retail investors or their version of protection, whatever the heck that means. Okay, so instead of complaining about the excesses of the space and how all my colleagues seem to be riding unicorns and enjoying the experience, I'd rather proactively talk about some of the things that have been done that I think are incredible stories that may not actually be known by the general public. One of the advantages of being one of the old guys is you actually collect some of these stories. So for example, the Ethereum story about regulation in Switzerland, this is a great one. And it's one that isn't often told. So when I walked into Switzerland back in 2014, we had to choose between Switzerland and Singapore for founding Ethereum. And Switzerland won by hair because ironically of all people, Johann Gevers convinced us to come there. Yeah, at the time he wasn't a very controversial figure. And actually he and Herbert Sturgey introduced us to this great law firm, MME Partners. And we walked in and we talked to all these Swiss bureaucrats and they're all basically the same. They're incredibly punctual. They show up on time. I guess they make watches there or something. They show up on time and they ask you all these questions and you ask them, like, have you ever heard of Bitcoin? And they say, well, we've read the papers, which translates to, we think this thing is used to buy drugs, but we're not so sure. So we'll be polite about it. And they knew actually nothing. So the first thing that Luca did, the lawyer we worked with at MME Partners, is he was a very diligent guy. He'd just come in every day, two, three hours, ask all these questions. And he was very, very thorough. Anything in any lawyer anywhere in the world written about cryptocurrency, he said, send it to me. I want to read about it. We said, okay. Then about a month into the process, I got deeply concerned because I realized that the senior partner of the law firm, the M and MME, was showing up every day for several hours working out my case. I had this horror story like, oh my God, what are the billable hours? I'm broke. And then I asked him about it. And he said, oh, don't worry. I'm not going to charge you, which was exceptional to me. I'd never had a lawyer in my entire life do that. But he legitimately wanted to learn. He legitimately actually wanted to understand what is this all about? What's real? What's not real? What should these laws look like? And how should they look? Okay. So based on that work, he went on and worked with other people to create a self-regulatory organization. He went on with other people to help found crypto valley. And all these foundations came to Switzerland. And now we actually have a very good piece of empirical evidence of the good, the bad, and the ugly of what happens when you have a market that's allowed in a very low regulation environment to flourish and grow. So yes, we have the Thaisosis, which are incredibly questionable, but there's some that actually aren't so bad. And then what happened is that Switzerland said, you know, let's ask these guys, the good people, what their opinion should be on ICOs.  And guess what? FINMA listened, and they actually published some guidelines. So if you go to CoinDesk, they actually wrote an article about it, I think, last week. And it's the first country around to actually start talking about what is a utility token. So it's a really amazing thing how you can walk into a very conservative country that knows absolutely nothing about your industry and has absolutely no reason to care about you. I don't even speak German. I don't even like Schnitzel. And yet somehow, some way, we were able in just a four-year period to take this very conservative country that has a way of doing business that hasn't changed too much in 500 years, barring technological changes, and then convince them to become a world leader in a very controversial industry. So that's a pretty magical win for us as an industry, and it's a pretty magical roadmap for how people ought to engage with regulators. You walk in and you talk about what are the benefits to Switzerland. I remember we were negotiating tax-ruling in Switzerland in the canton of Zug. They said, what isn't it for the country? What isn't it for Switzerland? Every meeting, that was the specter, the elephant. It wasn't how do I comply with some arbitrary regulation. It was more how many Swiss people are you going to be hiring? What Swiss universities are you going to be working with? Are you going to rent some substance in our jurisdiction? Where are the people going to benefit from this technology? I have never talked to a government my entire life that I've seen to be that people-friendly. That was pretty impressive. The other thing was impressive, we negotiated a lot of this stuff in a bar. We went there at 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night, and these guys are big drinkers, man. And then we'd have to go in for a morning meeting or something like that, and we would show up and we would be like... And they would show up in a tie, really pressed, looking proper. I'd say, damn, how do they do this? I didn't drink some of this water. This is pretty special stuff.  So that, I think, is one of the great wins in the space. And I think that's the way to engage with governments. But guess what? There's two other things that we have to do as we embrace this digital world. Second, we have to, as corporate actors, understand that our industry gives us new capabilities. When we look at things like smart contracts, these aren't novelties. These are actually things that can disintermediate central firms and automate enforcement. So when you say, you have a right to a refund. So that means I am taking this money, for example, an ICO, and I'm putting it into some sort of pool. You have a right to a refund. Well, if I'm an organization, that's my word. And then you say, well, if Charles is dishonest, what recourse do I have? I say, what about the courts? Okay, so you have to look into the jurisdiction and say, can I sue them there? Worst case scenario, maybe the criminal action. But that's a very complex series of questions. And what if they're in a strange jurisdiction that you've never heard of or never been to and you don't know much about? Or what if you don't know me? So what does it mean? Well, we're committing the same sins of the old system when we do ICOs. You have to live in one of the stable countries. You have to be a known commodity who's already identified with an existing reputation. And there has to be a strong rule of law for you to even have a chance of getting your money back. Well, guess what? When you put a smart contract in, you can program all those terms and conditions in. And if they're violated, there's a strong possibility if the engineering's good, the specification's good, that you can get your refund if that's something that happens. The same for a litany of other things, like use of funds. Why do we give children? They're basically kids, myself included, not too old. Why do we give children a billion dollars to go do something that costs 10 million dollars to do something? This is a sin. Not just for the people raising it, but for the people giving it.  There's a reason why venture capital exists. There's a reason why we have a seed round and an A round and a B round and a C round and a D round.   The inevitable divorce where you have to negotiate equity with the ex-partner. There's a lot of stuff that comes up and there's a lot of people you pick up along the way. You pick up a CFO, a board of directors. You pick up commercial partnerships and relationships. By the time you get the right to ask somebody for 100 million dollars, 200 million dollars, a billion dollars, you're a big company.  And we've given children a billion dollars. It's an insane prospect and it's something that the field has done. So say what you will about it. We need to be a bit more clever. So I believe very firmly that first we need to get clever about our own tech and what our tech can do for the custodianship of capital and the use of capital. I also believe very firmly that we need to collapse. We need people to suffer and have some pain and to lose some money because you don't deserve to get a 10x when you put some money into something and a month passes you've done no work. You don't deserve that. You don't deserve that again and again and again and again. You just don't. If you make 1000x on something, you are lucky. You're not smart. You bet right. Congratulations. You could have won the lottery as well.  It doesn't justify you. If you can do it 10 times in a row over a 20 year period, okay, great. Congratulations. There's a very small group of people on the Forbes list who have done that. You got lucky and no one in our space seems to know the difference between being smart and being lucky, especially as investors. So we need to collapse. We need some pain. We need rational expectations to seep their way back in and on the back of it is a tremendous opportunity to have a very foundational discussion about how can we restructure things in a way so that prudence and rationality can return. And guess what? If you do it in the right way, everyone in the world will have equal access to capital. I travel everywhere. I go to the Caribbean. I go to Africa. I'm going there soon. Ethiopia. I go to South America. To Asia. In fact, I'm going to Japan tomorrow. And from Japan, I go to Vietnam. And from Vietnam, I go to South Korea. I've got a long itinerary, guys. And everywhere I go, every person I meet has access to same tools, technology, and markets. I do. There's never been a period in human history where we've had this ever. It's a gift. So in closing, I think that we have some challenges ahead. And I think we have great opportunities ahead. And what really excites me is to see how this space has evolved and how people have come together. I love coinsgrung and I love what Gordon has put together. I really do because when we first started this, it was really, really small. There's like few people here and there. It was mostly an excuse to drink. Come on. The first question was, where is the alcohol and how much of it will be? Is it an open bar or a cash bar? And then the speaker came up, right? And it's grown to actually a more professional event. It's grown to larger groups. When I was at LSC just two days ago, I think we had a full house. And it was really exciting to see how many people are there from all wakes of life, from all countries. Some people came from Singapore and they're all excited and they're very passionate and they want to build real things. So to me, that's what makes cryptocurrencies really special. And to me, that's what makes this movement really special. And I think we definitely can overcome the challenges that are ahead. And I do think that we need to accept that with great power does come great responsibility, as Spider-Man's uncle reminded us. So thank you so much for coming.


So for the last few weeks, I've been doing this long life experiment where I've been testing out what happens to my life if all I do every day is exactly what I want to be doing, what intuitively you draws me, what feels the most energizing, and what is the least goal oriented. And I promised myself for an entire year that I would track this daily in a little notebook, a tiny little journal, and at the end of the year, better or worse, I would just report what ended up happening. Now, in this video, I want to share my week two findings on my one year of surrender. What's up, you guys? Alex Hein. Now, before we jump in, there's a free journaling worksheet. If you guys like journaling, like the way I am journaling the surrender experiment, right below this video, the first link is for a free journaling worksheet that plan out how to get your life together and how to reinvent yourself. So you can check it out right below this video before we jump in. Now, I wanted to share three realizations I've had in the last week or two, doing this experiment. The first realization is that whereas we think that the more productive we get, the happier we will feel because we feel that sense of accomplishment or that we've done something, in reality, often the happier people are more productive. So let me give you an example. Have you ever been broken up with, lost your job, or had an illness? If you've answered yes to any of those, tell me how motivated have you been to go and do anything in your life after one of those events?  For years, they are not the same person. Some people for decades. Some people, even throughout history, you hear Johnny lost Cindy Lou who in the war and he was never the same and never remarried and he never recovered. So it's tricky because we think that a lot of these things we want to have happen in our lives, the body, the business, the person we want to meet, we can just strong arm. And yet what I often see so much in my own life, looking back, is that the years where I am the happiest, I'm often the most productive. Like one thing that I found personally is that, you know, there may be this one project you've been procrastinating on pretty hard for six months, right? And every time you sit down to do it, you feel that pit in your stomach, you feel the resistance, you just don't really want to be doing it.   I find that very often the surrender experiment is just a redirection temporarily, forgetting the same result, just a tiny bit later on, and you will feel better in the short one. The second thing I learned in this week two of my one year of surrender is that we often are not good judges of what makes us happy. We often cannot really predict what we think will make us happy. What makes us happy is not often on the same ground. You know, when I moved to China in my early 20s, I bought this one way ticket. And in my head right in my head, what I thought was going to happen was that I would stay there for 10 years, I would become a monk, become a martial artist. I was a martial artist, but I would really dedicate my whole life to that to go deep into being a monk and a martial artist. And then from there, I could always come back to the US and live whatever mundane or normal life I wanted to live. But I remember talking to my mom about six months after living in China. And I was putting so much pressure on myself to study seven hours a day to learn Chinese, to go train in the park with this Chen Tai Chi master I've been studying with to really be disciplined about squeezing every drop out of life. And I was telling my mom, I was like, I don't know, should I stay? Should I not stay? I don't really feel that happy here. You know, I don't really know, just generally lost. So she said, you know, maybe why don't you just try the next six months to do something different to try to have as much fun as possible.  Now the next six months, my only goal was, I'm going to try to meet all my classmates, just kind of try to get dumplings with them during the day, get drinks and go to karaoke at night.  Nothing related to goals. I even stopped going to the martial arts teacher, the sure food that I was seeing in the park. The reason I moved to China, I forgot any idea of becoming a monk. I was like, I'm just going to travel to the holy mountains just for fun. I'm just going to go see them. And I just in general decided that not having any goals became my new goal. Low and behold, that next six months or nine months I ended up staying after my initial six months were the most fun, the most happy years really of almost a decade for me. I mean, I came home and I got so depressed that next year, because just the contrast of having this absolutely incredible year compared to that last one was so stark that it affected me deeply. And so this idea of sometimes we don't really know what makes us happy. But you don't have to.  Now the third thing I realized is that there is really a snowball effect in life. And you don't have to plan every step out.  Very often if you're working hard and excitedly towards something that you're interested in, these new doors will be opening and closing all the time. I mean, it's like hundreds of doors always in motion moving opening closing. And a year from now, new doors will open or close that you could have predicted. And so trying to plan all of this ahead of time is futile. But one thing that I see is that you take someone and they start getting fitter. And after a while, a few months or six months, they start to gain an increase in confidence, because now they look good. And they feel good, because they're healthier, they're more energized, they like who they see in the mirror. But it doesn't end there. It goes on where now guess what, that person who was single for two years, now ends up getting into a relationship, because they excite themselves. And now they can excite another person because their self worth has bumped up a bit. Now they're in a relationship. They're even happier because they're having fun. They have a good social life. They have all this stuff going on. And then that leads to getting a promotion in their job. Because again, more energy, more confidence, those little tiny disciplines they've built are now spilling over into. All right, what if I just stay a little bit later at work and I'm more strategic about this project, or I take the initiative on this project. And so the problem is at the beginning, we so often logically try to say, you know, I want to get the dream person, then the promotion, then I'll get fit, then I'll have my 401k, so you know, this very artificial, linear logical setup. But sometimes the great things will happen nonlinearly in a way you could not predict, but they will happen nonetheless. And so sometimes that five year plan happens without you trying to line it up and orchestrate all of it. So that is my week two revelations of my one year of surrender, my year surrender experiment. If you guys want to follow along, download the free journaling worksheet below this video, because that is kind of one of the exercises I'm using to track and reinvent myself and really strategize my life going forward. All right, you guys, so download that below. And before you go, check out these two related videos here.


Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. House of Virgo. I hope you guys had a great refreshing weekend. We're going to take a look and see what your messages are going forward for this week. Okay, if you are new, please smash that like button and do subscribe if you enjoy my readings. Oh, you can also become a member of my channel. And yeah, welcome to, let's see, do we have some new people here over the weekend? Michael Childers, Yola Plains, Donita. Yes, welcome you guys. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for being a part of the Virgo Gang. Personal reading, link is in the description box below. All right, let's get started. So we're kind of looking at March 18th through the 24th. Okay, you've got Twin Flames, you have the butterfly, you've got the snake. Oh, it's interesting because this butterfly here, my son and I were having a conversation over the weekend and he said to me, if there's a butterfly, what did he say? If there's a butterfly in your garden and it leaves, don't chase the butterfly. Just build your garden very beautiful so that when the butterflies will come back. But if they don't come back, then you still have a beautiful garden, right? So I kind of feel like there's a relationship that's possibly evolving to the next phase, healing the inner child, growth. This is a Twin Flame. I know Twin Flame is getting such a bad rap.  There's balance, there's union, can you compliment each other? And we'll get more into see this week who that could be. But there's this snake energy. And this feels like more so an energy. Okay, there is something malicious that is trying to interfere in this connection in this relationship. Okay, so look, there's a night of cups.  They are like, actually, like, like, they're actually, but no, they are possessed by some kind of malicious energy in them. Okay, so this can be fear. This can be gluttony. This could be everything the snake wants is for you to basically devour yourself and no longer exist. Okay, and the and there's a snake energy that is here that is trying to devour a relationship or trick you or an another person to make you think that like, not good, you know, the snake bites and then there's poison. If the magician shows up, because I just saw that in my mind's eye, I feel like there's something here that needs to be looked at. There's an energy perhaps of like, either a snake is in somebody else's head, like a tapeworm in the intestines, or there's that snake evil thoughts, evil energy, negative thinking, fearful thinking. Okay, I feel like somebody's being plagued by like, there's these negative voices that are like kind of whispering saying, there's another person that's your competition. Look, you know, like in Mowgli, when the snake, his eyes were like kind of spinning around and around, and he was trying to put someone in a spell or a trance, like the snake says, look over your shoulder, Virgo. Somebody's an enemy. Watch out. Watch out, Virgo. This snake is very clever. Yeah, very clever. So it's like, I kind of feel like I see there's love, a love offer of some sort coming in this week for you from someone, and this is going to be like, this person shows up with this Zen energy, this balance, this, this good opening their heart, giving love, there's, there's an opportunity here for something to evolve and to grow. However, I feel like you need to understand that that this snake is sinful, you know, the snake tells you, you can't trust the snake says, don't believe it. This, you know, the snake says that person's cheating. And, you know, a snake can be very symbolic for like an energy like in your thoughts, but also the snake can be like a shape shifter cause shakes, snakes, shakes. Oh, shamrock shake. Oh, do they have shamrock shakes? I have ADD. So this snake, snakes shed their skin, right? And then they show up to someone new. I just, I don't know, Virgo, maybe you need to sage or you need to pray or, you know, I don't do something with some rosaries or some holy water. You need to do something to get some protection from this snake energy or kind of like shoo it away, you know, because I feel like there's a manipulation that might be trying to happen to stop something from growing. And these could be negative thoughts, old tapes playing in your head, or it could be in the form of another person this week or just the devil itself trying to show up. So there's definitely going to be a love offer from someone that you might even feel because of this twin flame energy that this is like too good to be true. This is really happening. I don't trust it, but that's not, that's not you that's saying that that's that snake energy. Oh my God. Yeah, right. Okay.  This almost kind of looks like, you know, butterflies like flapping their wings. Butterflies don't flap their wings at the same time. They kind of like take turns flapping, but it goes so fast that you can't see it. But that's how they get momentum to move forward. If they flap their wings exactly the same, they're just going to stay in place. So this is kind of like the butterfly taking turns to get somewhere forward, go somewhere forward. It's in the cards. There's someone you could be connecting or you will be connecting with this week where there's this beautiful opportunity for love and growth, exploring each other, complimenting each other. Okay. So let me say, I just want to yeah, see, look at that. Oh my gosh. So this snake energy, snakes like it could be for some of you, like a fantasy in your mind comes in like this. No, you can't commit. You can't trust someone's all up in their head like enters into your, your dreams. Maybe you're having bad dreams or maybe you have a dream of snake. Oh, you need to, I feel like this is something you got to pay attention to. Okay. Maybe there's somebody's born in the year of the snake, right?   You can have a hunch and sure circumstantial evidence can convict someone, but I kind of like, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know, but I feel like if you don't have absolute evidence of somebody who is actually doing and it's going to be a little hard because the snake is very clever and that snake energy will find a way to cause distress and conflict and sleepless nights. You might be waking up from these nightmarish dreams, you know, and a lot of that is releasing for some of you, like trying to get rid of this snake energy, shedding this evil energy through your dreams. Okay. This message is pretty profound. Okay. So this is a new start that's happening in your life Virgo this week. I feel like there's something new happening.  And for others, this is you could be meeting somebody new. There's a love offer. Either way, I don't even want to go down either road. Okay. There is a love offer coming and this is going to change everything. It's something here where there's a new chapter starting in your life this week and I was just going to say wing. And even though we're in going into the season change here, I feel like, you know, spring is all about the new. Okay. Okay. This is a surprise. So some of you might actually like be sitting by your garden. You see a butterfly and it's not just any butterfly. It's I don't know if it's monarch or it's just got very interesting detail on its wings and I feel like you need to pay attention to that. It's a sign that love is coming in.  It might not mean anything. But if you see butterflies all the time this week, like it, like if you always see them, but you see one that's very peculiar or a little bit like, huh, I haven't seen that in my garden before. Or yeah, you'll know when you know, okay, because that's a sign is coming in as a surprise. And I keep, I feel like butterflies showing up has been a sign for you this whole time that your person is coming.  I'm just going to build beautiful, grow beautiful new flowers and nurture my garden and take care of my garden and make you will attract those butterflies to you. Okay. And that's all about like focusing on the self and self care you being the garden. So yeah, major shift coming for Virgo this week. I like it. I like it. Let's see. Yeah, there's the devil. Okay, snake, snake, snake, snake, snake. Ask yourself, what's your mindset? Right? Are you thinking positively? I feel like this is just an evil kind of sabotage her as an energy. You know, the devil does not want you to be happy ever, ever, ever, ever. Now could this come in the form of like someone who's trying to sabotage your relationship or something new happening for you this week? Yeah. However, even just, you know, that's specific to some of you that have that going on. But even as an energy, the devil is a malicious and malaligned. Okay, has evil intent, snake like energy, Slytherin, it's just a Slytherin around, sheds its skin, comes in in a new form, pay very close attention. Okay, because the devil brings confusion, right? Spirit does not. God does not bring confusion. The devil does. And his whole intention is to confuse you, have you lost, not seek divine spirit, not seek to trust in divine spirit, you know, that devil energy is just a nasty mofo. And it's showing up this week, okay?  So you've got some type of text message or phone call or communication coming in from someone. It's interesting because they're not showing me who this person, I haven't received a court card yet, but that's fine because I'll pull some, I'll pull some cards. Yeah. So I kind of feel like, hmm, you've got the, I'm sorry, the Eight of Swords. So there is an energy here of Virgo, you got some, something going on within, oh my gosh, hold on a second. Yeah, you've got something going on deep within you. I do feel that. Okay. And you have some devil energy that's kind of trying to say you can't do this.  You might, look, it's coming from the snake energy. It's something that you need to cast out or heal. Okay. Because there may be offers of love or love that comes in, but you're just blind to them because you have some stuff going on within you and that's fine. Maybe you just need to like, I don't know, bathe in some kind of special water or do, you've got to do something to get something. You need the evil eye, the hamsa. I don't know what it is. You have so much good stuff happening here, Virgo. Okay. I don't know what it is.  And these could be voices from the past. This devil energy wants to like, keep you separate from spirit and keep you separate from your divine partner, your divine one, your true love. Even if right now there, there's nobody, the devil wants you to, wants to keep you down. And this is a very spiritual message, you guys. The devil wants to keep you, doesn't want you to be happy, doesn't want you to heal. Okay. Because the three of swords in the reverse is about recovery. That's about healing. That's about these swords, the heaviness of those handles dropping out so that it can heal. No, the devil wants to keep poking at your heart and telling you, you're not worthy of love. You're not good enough. Devil's very possessive energy, very obsessed with you, wants to keep you chained in hell and not let you be free and wants to keep your relationship in a very like demonic kind of state with someone. And that's that snake. The snake represents the actions of the devil. Okay.  You know, it's very malicious, will keep you in doubt, will keep you focused on others that may be a threat.  This week is very profound, truly, truly profound. Some of you need to go in and get an exorcism performed. I don't know what the hell's going on here or do something. Yeah, you got to do something because I feel like you keep letting this, if you're open, you're not guarded and protected from this and this keeps coming in. You're not going to have all this gloriousness, this beautiful happily ever after love and this whole like amazing thing here with someone. Twin flames, soulmate into your yang couple, like your other half. The devil represents fear too. Okay.  So which is it? Because love heals all. Love is the antidote to pain. Love is the antidote to fear. Indifference is the result, the end result of fear in my mind. So I just kind of feel like, look, here's the grief card. That's the devil's like, yeah, let me get, let me get Virgo in this place of grief. Let me make Virgo constantly sad and in this state of melancholy. Let me tell Virgo they need to focus on all their losses constantly and stay in the dark and stay dressed in black all the time, which, you know, I'm not knocking that because I love the color. I love, I always wear black, but only because it kind of slims me down a little. You know what I'm saying? But listen, the devil's like, no, focus on your losses. That's what the devil does. That's what that sneak energy is. Focus on what you don't have, right? But, but spirits like, no, no, no. This is, you do look, this is what I brought to you. This is what you do have here. This, I'm going to need you to turn around Virgo. Virgo, I'm going to need you to turn around and take a look. Okay, don't, if you're confused, if you have confusion at this time in your life about love, it's because that MF for us is taking, playing a huge role in your life at this time.  Yeah, because I think the devil can get into your mind. I don't think the devil can get into your soul, but he will try to steal it. He's a soul stealer. We'll try to steal it. We'll try. Okay, what other message is here? This is maybe the most profound message. I think that that has come about in quite some time and we're only 20 minutes into this reading, but I feel like that, and that, let me, and just one last thing, that devil energy, the devil is a shapeshifter and it could come in many forms. You're just going to have to recognize it. Okay, it's going to be anything that is not healthy for you, that is anything that is anti good, anything that is anti healthy. Okay, so you have weight, timing is not quite right. Okay, why? Why? Because you got to get rid of this, this, this sneaky energy. You got to get, you got to fight back, call on Archangel Michael to help you battle that, right? You got to call on the divine and ask for help to battle it because you won't have success if this little MFR who's probably about this small is having like this small but has like so much power. You got to step on that. It's like a little, like a little roach is a roach and get rid of it. Oh look, so I saw this past life love and I put it back in the deck and it popped out again. So this is, for some of you, a past life connection showing up here. So that's going to mean either one of two things. This is either someone from your past or this is someone in your past life where you guys are connecting now in this life. So could that be somebody new? It could be. Yeah, it could be a past lover or a past life lover. Children, maybe you knew this person when you were children, this, this beautiful energy, not this snake. This snake is kind of like, they're giving me a song by George Michael. There's something about a monkey on my back. Do you guys remember that? I can't remember how that goes and I have no idea why George Michael is showing up right now.  G E O R G E Michael monkey. I remember it from like what, the 80s? I don't know.  Always giving into it? Do you love the monkey or do you love me? Oh, I can't, I count to 10 but I don't know how I don't, blah, blah, blah. Well, I'd write your heart a letter but I think you know me better. If I keep on asking baby, maybe I get, whatever. I guess that's the song. I've had this, the rest now it's time I had the best. I don't know, you got to like listen to it. I can't even remember how the actual melody goes. It's from like the 80s, I guess. I just, I don't know, they just gave me that song. Listen to it when we're finished here. But yeah, that's the snake, that monkey on your back. Oh shoot, it's showing up here. Okay, for some of you, yeah, that's what I was saying. This just confirms that new love or recommitment to love is developing. Everything happens for a reason. It's time to heal old wounds and childhood issues. Why have hair all over me? Old wounds and childhood issues are resurfacing. I want to tell you guys something. So I bought this book off Amazon. Do I have the book with me? I don't think I have it. I think it's, yeah, it's outside. So anyway, it's, I can't remember what it's called, but it's a book about manifesting what you want and what you decide. It's basically like the law of attraction. It's the book is written by a woman in 1925. And I just love really old text and things like that. That was quite some time ago, 100 years, right? The level of thinking back 100 years. I'll leave a link in the description box below, but she talks about if you want to be rich, like wealthy, if you want to have the greatest love of your life, if you want to have like happiness, joy, freedom, she lays it all out like how you can do it all through the power of positive thinking. And I know a lot of you understand what that is, but it's kind of like her thing is like act as if you already have all these things that you desire and then you will have them, right? I'll leave a link. It's a very short book. It's very small. It's very few chapters. It's very easy to read. And there's some affirmations in the back. You know, I just feel like, I don't know, I felt the need to bring that up for you. So I'll just leave it there for you guys. It's just all about, it's all about that, right? Okay, so let me say one more message for the week, for Virgo. Okay, somebody's going to come in to apologize to you, whether you expect it or not. And part of that apology is going to have something to do with they feel like they were giving way too much, maybe not giving space or being obsessive or controlling in some way. Now, that kind of feels like that has to do with someone who also has that devil energy, because I always like to say that the devil energy is a bit like a virus. You know how they say children are not born to hate. They learn hate, right? Okay, so when we're around people who are very hateful and very negative, that kind of finds its way to infect other people who are around them for a very long time, right? So somebody might be having a little bit of a wake-up call here in regards to their devil energy as well, or they've had, they were doing or acting out of character or out of pocket. I guess that's the word they're giving me about a, you know, maybe it infected a relationship. Okay, so they're saying change of subject. So you're getting a loan. There's a loan coming in for you, financial loan. There's also a mature dynamic fiery male who's going to be significant in your life this week. You also have the past is returning, so that mature dynamic fiery male can be Mars ruled or Aries the Osage. Okay, so yeah, you've got the past is returning this week. And you also have a wish coming true for you. There's also a bossy male who's going to be significant in your life this week. Okay, or a boss. And you also have to focus too. They're saying ask yourself what are your spiritual beliefs? Will you conform? What path are you on to lead you into where you'd like to go check yourself? I feel like that might have something like go in the description box below. I'll leave the link for that book. I feel like some of you might, I don't know, they're taking me down some kind of path. I don't know the outcome of that. But I feel like maybe check that out, they're saying. Okay, let's try and see if we can figure out the zodiac sign of this new love or recommitment to love with someone showing up here. All right, we've got Taurus, Scorpio, Cancer and Capricorn. And one more for the road, Leo, Aries, Virgo, Aquarius. Okay, let's get the Chinese signs and see. I'm so hungry. I need to eat. What shall I eat? Well, I'm making this video it's dinner time. You're listening to this and it's like even the next day or whatever. So never mind, I'll figure it out. You've got year of the ox, year of the dog. There's a dog again. This could be you or your person, year of the goat, year of the snake. And don't get me wrong, not all snakes are evil.  Okay, got year of the rat, year of the horse, year of the goat again, year of the rooster. And there's a snake again. And there's a rat again. Really? And the year of the pig. Okay. And it's funny because I was watching a crime documentary about the woman that tortured her autistic son. Or something, her name was Shawna. Something, I don't know. It was really sad. And whenever I watch those documentaries, you guys, I always look up to see what their zodiac sign is and what their Chinese sign is. Always. Every single one. Like I knew Ted Bundy was a sage. Well, he was a cusp. You know, and I know like Jeffrey Dahmer was like a Taurus. Like anyway, it's my own personal thing. But I was looking up her and I don't remember her name fully, but she is a Pisces goat.  And then I thought, you know, the truth of the matter is that it doesn't, when it comes to that kind of energy, that's a severe devil demon possession. It doesn't matter what your sign is. It doesn't matter what sign because that kind of energy is going to show up when there's like a serious, like those people, there's no hope for them. If they do those types of things to children, no, they need to be like discarded from the earth. No mercy. Sorry. Okay. So showing up here, let's get rid of my batteries about to die.  Look at this. The swans coming together. Oh, there's definitely a love thing happening this week for you guys. Very beautiful. Don't let it be destroyed by that sneaky devil energy, that evil energy. Okay. Two beautiful swans. Look for the butterfly. Virgo, look for the butterfly. You also have how cute. Okay. Oh, shoot. There's a butterfly. Just like I was saying. And also there's, sorry, a turtle here. Okay. So maybe your garden has like a little rock turtle, rock turtles or butterflies, something here specific. The turtle is very slow but keeps moving forward. Some of you might have a relationship where it's just taking such a long time and so you're getting frustrated and the devil is telling you, don't be patient. Demand, demand, demand gets into your ego.  I just feel like pay attention to that sneaky energy, that evil energy so that you'll know what's real and what's not. Okay. You also have love. Love is in the air, a great time for commitment and taking relationships to the next level. And here comes that jealousy. Watch out for that. Watch who you trust with your personal secrets and plans. Spend time outdoors with nature to reconnect and replenish. All right. So that devil does represent jealousy. Jealousy energy is associated with the devil. And one more for Virgo. You have signs. Your future positive direction will reveal itself. Any doubts and confusions will soon disappear. So look for signs of positive energy. Don't seek messages that you're not worthy or things aren't going to work out for you. That's all the devil talking in your ear, right? And he's very clever. So he whispers very, very quietly. Devil whispers very quietly telling you, you're not worthy. You can't have what you want. You won't be successful. You're not lovable. You're going to fail all that if you let that keep happening, then you will manifest what that energy is telling you because the devil's representing the snake represents something symbolic. So change it all around positive affirmations. I am successful. I am worthy. I am lovable. I do have my dream person. I do have my dream home. I do have my dream career. I do have all the money in the bank and watch it manifest for you. I'll leave the link in the description box for that book I was talking about. And I'm going to leave that right here. I hope that gave you some positive energy right there. And yeah, I will see you guys this week's been a little freaky-deaky for me. So I'm going to do my best to make sure I'm here on the days that I'm usually here. But if I've not come back and listen to this, let this be your go-to reading for the week. If I just like, if I'm not here tomorrow night or something, okay? I'm not guaranteeing that it won't be, but just some stuff, you know, life has its way. So yeah, but if you want to get a personal reading, the link is in the description box below. And yeah, that's it for now. Love you guys. Have a great week and I'll talk to you later. Hey, you guys, thank you so much for watching my readings. If you'd like to get a personal reading, please feel free to click the link in the description box below to go ahead and follow that link of book you're reading. Please remember to book, subscribe, like, do all the great things. And I hope that you guys have a fantastic, blessed, loving, and light filled life. Thank you. Bye.


Your spirit desires get up and pray get up and pray the flesh just a few more minutes of sleep the spirit desires the word the flesh desires entertainment and distraction and so we are left to make the decision the desire to do that which is spiritual is placed in you by the holy spirit but the decision to act on that desire is entirely on you


Do you believe in love at first sight? How about love at first bite? Check out how I made this. Get you about one cup of sea salt and that indie blender and about one cup of sugar.  About a third of a cup of sliced beets. Get you a fresh bottle of Dano's original, that's the green top from your local grocery store. Now the beautiful thing about Dano's is it's got a great rosemary flavor and lemon and orange in there also, which is great for this recipe. And one more thing we almost forgot, you need you some fresh dill and we blend. Let's give it a taste. Very potent but flavorful, perfect for our salt brand. Take your salmon, lay it skin side down.  Now we're going to lay us out a bunch of plastic wrap. Lay out about half of our salt cure, black pepper right on top of our paste. A few pieces of dill, take our salmon, lay it right on top. Black pepper, a little bit of Dano's, more dill. Finish off by topping with our paste. Covered on all sides. Now we wrap and we fold. Press down, tuck over the top, fold and fold. Now just poke a few holes for it to breathe. We set in the fridge and we'll see you in about 48 hours. It's been 48 hours. There's really not much leakage so I just picked it up. I can actually feel the salmon is like tight, like the muscle, like it's cooked. Look at this. Give it a little rinse. Now we slice super thin. It's pretty. Now it's time to make a bagel. First we're going to give it a little spicy, a little bit of crunchy Dano's and a few capers on top. Seriously y'all, this was amazing. Let me know in the comments how you think I did. Yum, yum, get some.