adds her to during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. 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. The red-faced ghost of Rolesby comes with an identity crisis.  A woman is scared senseless when someone visits her home during a rainstorm, but it's not just any passerby. One thing people just cannot seem to resist is a challenge, doubly so if you happen to be of the criminal persuasion. If they're told a place is impregnable, it makes it an almost irresistible challenge. Joaquin Krull terrorized West Germany for over 20 years, eating the flesh of his victims because meat was expensive. One of the most intriguing Hopi legends involves the ant people who were crucial to the Hopi's survival, not just once but twice. We know this from the cave drawings they left behind, but who or what exactly were the ant people? It is said that the Vatican is holding manuscripts that hold details about ancient races of man that used to populate the Americas. Powerful rulers from the south described as having white beards and red eyes. Who could these people have been and where have they gone? And we all know the Nazis inflicted terror and death upon innocent people during World War II, but many don't know just how horrifying the treatment was, particularly the experiments they conducted on living prisoners. 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 somebody else to listen with you. 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 me on Facebook, Twitter, and more, along with the Weird Darkness Weirdos Facebook group.  A ghost with a blood-soaked face is said to haunt Rollsby Hall, but is the blood the ghosts own or that of the victim that the spirit murdered? Two ghosts are said to have haunted the since-demolished Rollsby Hall, a building which dated back to the mid-16th century and which finally fell to the wrecking ball in the 1950s, leaving only a garden wall and some outbuildings. Old redface, and his wife are, or were, seen was said on the second Monday of each month at midnight, a day believed to have been linked with a tragedy at the Hall. The wonderful Walter Rye, who lived from 1843 to 1929, wrote about old redface of Rollsby and the recreations of a Norfolk antiquary. His story was in turn taken from fellow antiquary Anthony Norris, who lived from 1711 to 1786, who lived in Barton Turf in Norfolk and was educated at a Norwick grammar school. Rye writes that the ghosts, quote, are variously said to be those of the Danish invaders, usually called Red Danes, who slew the Saxon Lord of the Manor in one of numerous descents on our Norfolk coast, and of the victim's wife who is said to follow him about, wringing her hands. By others, they are said to be of a cavalier who, being justifiably irritated by his wife having habitually exceeded the allowance he made her, with which to buy clothing and googas, killed her by cutting off her head with a handsaw, her blood so spurting as to redden his face, and so give him the title of old redface. We, of course, take issue with Rye's assertion that this motive for murder was justified, and for those wondering what a googah might be, it is apparently a showy thing, especially one that is useless or worthless. Rye adds that the hall was once lived in by a family with the name of Ensor, which locals believe to be a corruption of handsaw from the implement used in the murder. But this seems to me idle talk, he continues, for albeit the punishment for such wanton-repeated expenditure might not by some be deemed excessive, it appears to be almost impossible to sever a human head from the body with so small an implement, added Rye, ever the practical reporter, he includes the following ballad, which he said was still repeated in the village in the early 20th century.  As an aside, the late Bernard Davies of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London suggested in the 1980s that it was Rollsby Hall that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write about Donothorpe Hall in the Gloria Scott. Davies worked out the location by examining the Victorian Norfolk Railway Network and clues that were left in the book, such as the alignment of the sunset and the speed of a horse and trap. The Gloria Scott was Holmes' first investigation, where he caught the bug for sleuthing. He did not, however, solve the mystery of old red face and his wife. This will be a quick and bizarre one. For better imagination of the situation, think of a rectangle. The living room is located at the west end, while the extended outside kitchen is located on the east end of the house. One night last year my family and I decided to karaoke after dinner. I remember it was a rainy night, and at around ten my grandma suddenly rushed into the house from the outside kitchen while yelling my youngest sister's name. We were all puzzled and concerned as her face was pale. My dad started to ask her what was wrong in Dussin, grandma's indigenous language. Apparently when she was washing the dishes at the back end of the kitchen, she felt something was off. She described it as if someone was watching her, which led her to turn around to investigate.  At first glance, my grandma knew it was an apparition because of its shape and figure and the sudden level of discomfort that she felt. But what made her scream was the moment when she saw where the face was supposed to be. It was a distorted and unclear blur. She was faceless. My sister and I quickly went to the back to investigate. The outside was still raining and because it is an outside kitchen, the pitter-patter sound or the raindrops hitting the roof were so loud that we needed to speak a little louder to each other. We walked around, but did not see anything, so we went back in. I saw my grandma start to collect dry onions and garlic skin and wrap them in a piece of newspaper and burn it outside the door. This is an old traditional Dussin way of cleansing or to scare away the bad spirits with the smell. My grandma was pretty freaked out, so we helped her finish up with the dishes. After my grandma calmed down, she told us what she thinks she saw. She said the apparition could be a passer-by from outside who just happened to stop and took shelter from the heavy rain outside. My grandma also said it is normal to have passers-by, but she has never seen one like this before. Her face or whatever I saw was really abnormal. It was distorted. It wasn't clear, just not normal, she said. We assured her that the smell of the garlic scared it away. And I guess we were right, because it did not appear again. When Weird Darkness returns, one thing people just cannot seem to resist is a challenge, doubly so if you happen to be of the criminal persuasion.  Plus, Joaquin Kroll terrorized West Germany for over 20 years, eating the flesh of his victims because he said meat was too expensive. These stories are coming up. Do you keep a journal or diary? If not, maybe you should consider it. It's been shown that journaling can help you reduce stress, help relieve depression, build self-confidence, it boosts your emotional intelligence, helps with achieving goals, inspires creativity and more. In fact, my friend, S. N. Lenees has created a Weird Darkness-themed journal just for you. Full of blank pages for you to use as a diary, make notes for class or office meetings, jot down ideas for that novel you want to write. Use it for keeping a mileage long if you travel for business, whatever you want. In fact, she has numerous styles of journals to choose from. Along with the Weird Darkness journal, there's one for dealing with grief or teachers' notes, for medical residencies, keeping track of your meds or health routine and several others. Journals make a great gift for others, but it's also a great gift for yourself and your own mental health. No matter what you might want a journal for, my friend Anne has it, and you can see all of our journals including the one for Weird Darkness on the sponsors and friends page at WeirdDarkness.com. Throughout history, quite a few bandits have tiptoed past guards, scaled high walls and made their way into seemingly inaccessible places. These famous break-ins and heavily fortified locals lead to an important question. Are these venues as safe and secure as they claim? Tricksters and heisters manage to sneak into impenetrable spaces for many reasons, whether it's to abscond in the night with valuable pieces of art, to intrude upon Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace after a night of heavy drinking, or to give NASA scientists a run for their money. That being said, some of these cases are much more clever than others. Keep listening for some of the most artful and intelligent examples of someone actually breaching unassailable buildings, networks or even military planes. Like something out of the movies, a group of thieves spent three months planning and executing the biggest bank raid in Brazil's history. The group, composed of a few dozen heisters, set up a fake gardening business in a small home a block away from Brazil's central bank in Fortaleza after purchasing a white van with a bogus company logo on the side. From there, the perps constructed an underground tunnel that stretched from one of the bedrooms in their rental to the central bank's secured vault. The crooks reinforced their tunnel with plastic and wood, installed electric lights and created a ventilation system. On Saturday, August 6, 2005, they snatched over $160 million out of the vault. The theft wasn't discovered until the following Monday morning, by which point the crooks were long gone. Since then, only eight people have been taken into custody and 20 million of the missing cash retrieved. In 1836, high-ranking officials at the flagship Bank of England branch on London's Threadneedle Street received a bizarre note from an anonymous source. The unnamed person wrote that they knew of a way to gain direct access to the bank's gold vault without alarming security. Scoffing at the notion that anybody could get into the vault, the staff just laughed it off. When they received a second note from the same source offering to meet them inside the vault in order to prove their case, they reluctantly agreed. More out of curiosity than fear. In the vault, the Bank of England officials were shocked when a man popped up from beneath the floorboards. Turns out he was a sewage worker who discovered an old pipe that led right into the vault. The Good Samaritan was supposedly rewarded with £800 for pointing out the security breach and the Bank of England quickly repaired that problem. The largest property theft in the world remains unsolved 30 years later. Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum houses some of the world's most prized and treasured works of art. On the evening of March 18, 1990, two men swiped $500 million worth of art from the museum, including works from Vermeer, Rembrandt and Degas. Dressed as police officers, the crooks made their way into the museum by telling security guards that they were responding to a disturbance call. Breaking protocol, the museum guards allowed the officers in through the employee entrance, where they were then handcuffed, bound and gagged. 81 minutes later, the police perps left with 13 works of art, none of which have resurfaced since. To this day, the museum offers a $10 million reward for anybody who can provide information that will lead to the art's retrieval. Miami teen Jonathan James found backdoor into NASA's server in 1999 after using a hacking tool called a Sniffer to unlock hundreds of messages, usernames and passwords. From there, the 15-year-old accessed staff computers at the Marshall Space Flight Center and downloaded $1.7 million worth of NASA proprietary software. The breach caused NASA to shut down its system for 21 days. James, who became the first juvenile to receive a federal sentence for computer hacking, also compromised Department of Defense networks. His reason for doing this? Just to see how far he could get. The government didn't take too many measures for security on most of their computers. They lacked some serious computer security, James said at the time. No word on whether the computer system was named Joshua and asked the boy if he wanted to play a game. God Save the Queen Buckingham Palace's security forces were dealt a major blow when an intoxicated man named Michael Fagan got into the Queen's residence through an unlocked window early on the morning of July 9, 1982. Fagan, who had spent all night at the pub, wandered around the palace for quite some time, even checking out King George V's stamp collection and drinking a bottle of Prince Charles wine before eventually finding the Queen's bedroom. According to Fagan, the Queen did not appreciate the unexpected visitor. She said, just one minute, I'll get someone. Then swept past me and ran out of the room, her little bare feet running across the floor. Fagan was eventually detained, but during this interrogation, he confessed to breaking into Buckingham Palace several weeks earlier without being caught. This empowered him to go back on July 9. I knew I could break in the security system because it was so weak, he later said in an interview. Fagan's infamous break-in is featured in Season 4 of The Crown. Russia's Buryov-Taginrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex houses the Ilyushin-80, a plane designed to carry top government officials to safety in the event of a nuclear strike. Dubbed the Doomsday plane, the aircraft became the unlikely target of theft in 2020 when inspectors realized 39 pieces of radio equipment were missing from a cargo hatch. The plane and its contents are considered a state secret. The windowless vessel, configured to remain in the air for days, allegedly contains all machinery needed to control the Russian armed forces from on high. The Kremlin remains mum about how the theft occurred under its watch, who was involved, or what the investigation into the breach turned up. In 1911, three hired Italian handymen spent the night in an art supply closet at the Louvre, skulking out in the wee hours to snatch what is now the museum's most gazed-upon painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. It took over a day for museum staff to realize the painting was gone because at the time there was a project going on at the museum. This project required the art at the Louvre be moved from display, taken to the roof and photographed. It wasn't until an artist who had come to paint the gallery demanded all art be returned to their proper places that they noticed the historic piece was not on site. The international effort to retrieve the Mona Lisa made the artwork a household name. Two years later, authorities eventually retrieved the Mona Lisa when a man named Vincenzo Perugia tried to sell it to an art dealer in Florence. In minutes, police surrounded Perugia's home where he told authorities he wanted to return a piece of Italian art pilfered by Napoleon Bonaparte to its home country. Obviously, we made a mistake. Presidential spokesperson Larry Speaks told reporters in 1985 after a man named Robert Ladda slipped into President Reagan's state dining room a few hours before he was set to take his second oath of office. Ladda, even though he lacked a uniform or musical instrument, made his way into the White House by following the Marine Corps Orchestra Band. Secret Service said they thought that he was with the band. The band leader said that he thought Ladda was White House staff. Ladda, a Denver man in town for the inauguration, spent about 15 minutes hanging out in the White House before he was detained. I just wanted to see the ceremony. I'm kind of patriotic, he told the Associated Press. When the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals met in 2013 to select the new pope, there was an imposter among them. A German man named Ralph Napierski, donning a black fedora ill-fitting cassock and purple scarf in lieu of a sash, managed to make it past the Swiss guard outside the Vatican. Once inside, he posed as a real bishop and made it as far as the Vatican's main square. Even taking photos with real bishops before someone finally realized Napierski's attire wasn't quite right. Napierski told authorities he belonged to the non-existent Italian Orthodox Church and he still maintains that he is a bishop on his website. Why did Napierski infiltrate the College of Cardinals meeting? He purportedly wanted to protest the Catholic Church's handling of its child abuse scandal with priests. The 17th century was a tumultuous time in British history. The English Civil War created a combative culture between those who supported Oliver Cromwell and those who supported the proverbial crown. In the middle of all the insanity was an Irishman named Colonel Thomas Blood. Blood, an opportunist, pledged allegiance to whichever side seemed to be winning, eventually settling upon being loyal to Cromwell. Colonel Blood hatched a peculiar plot to swipe the crown jewels from the barricaded basement within the Tower of London. In 1671, after posing as Parson Blood and becoming friendly with the keeper of the jewels, Talbot Edwards, Blood managed to gain entry into the basement, where he crushed St. Edward's crown with a mallet, stuffed the sovereign's orb down his trousers, and saw the scepter of the cross in two for easier transport. Colonel Blood and his accomplices were swiftly apprehended by guards. King Charles, amused by Blood's audacious plot, ultimately pardoned him. The Real Housewives of DC stars Tarik and Mikayla Salahi flexed their privilege when they sauntered into a high-security state dinner hosted by President Obama back in 2009. The couple, who were not invited, made it through multiple security checkpoints without having their names checked by Secret Service before they were allowed into the White House East Room, where a ritzy reception was in full swing. From there, the Salais made it to the Blue Room, where they shook hands with President Obama and the former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. They proceeded to rub elbows all the way to the South Lawn, snapping selfies with then-Vice President Joe Biden before sneaking out ahead of the 9 p.m. scheduled dinner. The Salais faced no consequences for this publicity stunt. And most people who serve jail time never want to set foot in prison again. This was not the case, however, for Marvin Lane Usari, a former inmate at Folsom Prison in California who was discovered hiding in the tall grass behind the facility in 2011. When guards tracked Usari down after thermal imaging equipment indicated someone had scaled the fencing around Folsom, he told security officers he returned because he felt nostalgic. In reality, authorities suspect Usari wanted to smuggle contraband items into the California State Prison. Instead, Usari ended up with a felony charge for breaking into Folsom, which is known for its harsh conditions. This next story is very brutal and graphic. You'll want to usher the little ones out of the room if they happen to be around. While not nearly as well-known as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, Joaquin Kroll's crimes are equally, if not more, disturbing. Known as the Ruer Cannibal, the Ruer Hunter or the Duisburg Man-eater, Kroll's macabre killing spree took the lives of 14 known victims and authorities believe he killed even more. This cannibalistic German serial killer claimed that he ate parts of his victims to save money because meat was expensive. He evaded capture for two decades and over the years six other men were arrested for crimes that he committed. But Joaquin Kroll's gruesome killing spree finally came to an end after he clogged a shared toilet with a victim's entrails leading to his capture. Kroll was born in 1933 during the beginning of the Nazi Party's rise in Germany. The youngest of eight children, Kroll, was considered weak. His constant degradation from his family and community, coupled with an unstable upbringing during World War II, likely contributed to his crimes as an adult. Kroll was a frequent bedwetter as a child, which caused him much humiliation.  Both bedwetting and animal cruelty are components of the McDonald Triad, a set of childhood behaviors that can point to violent tendencies later in life. Like many other families in Germany during World War II, Kroll's family suffered from extreme poverty and hunger. His father, a soldier in the German army, was taken as a POW by the Russian army and is believed to have died during the war, leaving Kroll and his seven siblings with their mother. Kroll quit school in 1948 after having to repeat several grades more than once. At 15 years old, with a fourth grade education, his struggles in school were compounded by the disruptions of World War II. Later in life, testing revealed yet an IQ of 78, and some reports claim Kroll didn't know how to read. After leaving school, Kroll started working as a farmhand and soon developed his appetite for murder. While working as a farmhand, Kroll said that helping kill farm animals inspired his murderous fantasies.  As a young man, Kroll did attempt to have a romantic relationship with an unknown woman.  Kroll's twisted mind concluded that he should have sexual encounters with someone who could not complain about his performance.  The Kroll siblings went their separate ways and lost touch. Later that year, Joaquin Kroll murdered his first victim. On January 8, 1955, Kroll traveled to the village of Wallstead. There he captured and murdered 19-year-old Irmugard Strel. He strangled her to death, then raped her and slashed open her abdomen. Along with raping victims after their death, Kroll also reportedly masturbated over their bodies. Finally, when he got home from the kill, he would pleasure himself again with a rubber sex doll, often while choking a small child's doll. Kroll would later claim that, after his first killing, his murderous tendencies subsided until four years later. However, authorities believe that Kroll was responsible for several more murders between 1955 and 1959, which is when Kroll started to kill again. His next known murder took place on June 16, 1959, when 24-year-old Clara Frida Tezmer was killed in Rhine. Tezmer's murder was identical to Irmugard Strel's. Only this time, Kroll began to engage in what would become his trademark cannibalism. Kroll removed pieces of Tezmer's flesh from her buttocks and thighs, wrapped them up, and took them home to cook for dinner. A local man in Rhine named Heinrich Ott was arrested for Tezmer's murder and hanged himself while awaiting trial. Meanwhile, Joaquin Kroll remained large. Those who have studied Joaquin Kroll's psychology note that his self-awareness and methodical ways of selecting victims point to Kroll having a higher IQ than his reported score of 78. Like other serial killers, Kroll traveled to different towns to look for his victims. Kroll mainly murdered women and girls, but he didn't stick to one age group or type like other killers often do. He even murdered one man, Herman Schmitz in 1965. That night, Kroll had traveled to Großenbaum where he spied Schmitz and his fiancé, Mary and Veen, in a secluded area having sex in the front seat of a car and got an idea. Kroll lured Schmitz out of the car by waving his arms as if needing help.  Instead, Veen leaped into the driver's seat of the car and drove directly at Kroll, who dodged the vehicle and ran away. Although she got a good look at Kroll, Veen's account of a nondescript killer didn't turn up any leads. Kroll remained free to carry out his horrifying crimes. Further confusing police Kroll did not always strip victims of flesh to engage in cannibalism, making each murder different. He preferred to take these cuts only from the victims that he viewed as particularly young and tender. Plus, other killers operating in West Germany had the police distracted. In the years before Joachim Kroll began killing, Warner Boost had been murdering couples in the area starting in the early 1950s. Boost and several other suspected killers are believed to have thrown police off of Kroll's track. Even worse, while Kroll was actively killing, five other men along with Heinrich Ott were arrested and charged for his murders. Like Ott, one of these men committed suicide. Another disturbing element of Kroll's murders was the motivation behind the cannibalism. Many cannibalistic serial killers such as Albert Fish are sexually motivated to consume their victim's flesh or see it as a trophy. Kroll had a more practical view of the act. He later said that he took pieces of flesh from his victims simply because meat was expensive. Joachim Kroll's cannibalistic crime spree came to an end on July 3, 1976. That day, Kroll kidnapped four-year-old Marion Kettner from a park. A little later, a neighbor asked Kroll if he knew what was blocking the pipes in the building's shared lavatory. When he replied, guts, the neighbor chuckled. When he looked in the toilet, saw tiny human organs and immediately contacted the police. Once inside Kroll's apartment, police found Marion Kettner's dismembered body. Parts of the body were in the refrigerator, a hand was cooking on the stove, and entrails clogged the plumbing. Police removed the shared toilet and found Kettner's liver, lungs, kidneys and heart. Kroll was immediately arrested, admitted to murdering Kettner, and gave police details of 13 other murders, including the killings of Ermgard Strell and Clara Frieda-Tesmer. He also confessed to engaging in cannibalism. While in prison, Kroll eagerly cooperated with police, convinced he would be given an operation that would cure his homicidal urges and released. After several years of incarceration, he was charged with eight murders and one attempted murder in a trial that went on for a grueling 151 days. In the end, instead of receiving the cure he wanted, Kroll was sentenced to life in prison in April 1982. He died in prison in 1991 of a heart attack at 58 years old. Coming up, it is said that the Vatican is holding manuscripts that hold details about ancient races of man that used to populate the Americas. Powerful rulers from the South described as having white beards and red eyes. Who could these people have been and where have they gone? But first, one of the most intriguing Hopi legends involves the Ant people, who were crucial to the Hopi's survival, not just once but twice. We know this from the cave drawings they left behind. But who or what exactly were the Ant people? That story is up next on Weird Darkness. There is a knock at the door late at night. You answer it to find two small children standing there. You're suddenly filled with an inexplicable fear. Let us in, they say. We need to use the phone. It's at that point the fear turns to utter dread as you see that these kids have completely black eyes. The black-eyed kids is an exploration of this terrifying phenomenon, using true stories of encounters with black-eyed kids submitted to the My Haunted Life 2 website. G. Michael Vasey examines the evidence and investigates the terrifying black-eyed kids phenomenon, coming to some startling and shocking conclusions. Are they demonic soul-eaters responsible for the disappearance of some of the 90,000 Americans missing at any point in time? Or is this just another urban legend, another boogeyman, designed to keep you awake at night? Listen to the book and find out. The Black-Eyed Kids by G. Michael Vasey, narrated by Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar. Here are free sample on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. The Hopi people are one of the Native American tribes descended from the ancient peoples who lived in the southwestern area of the United States, which today is called the Four Corners. One of the groups of the ancient people of the Pueblo was the mysterious Anasazi, the ancients who mysteriously flourished and disappeared between 550 and 1300 A.D. The history of the Hopi goes back thousands of years, making it one of the oldest living cultures in the world. The original name of the Hopi people is Hopi-tu-shinumu, which means peaceful people. The concepts of morality and ethics are deeply rooted in Hopi traditions, and this implied a respect for all living things. Traditionally, they lived according to the laws of the creator, Massa. The Hopi believed that the gods arose from the ground in contrast to other mythologies in which the gods came from the sky. Their mythology suggests that the ants populated the heart of the earth. An independent researcher and author of some amazing books on alien visitation, Gary David spent 30 years of his life immersed in the culture and history of the Hopi in South Dakota. According to him, they found philosophy in the essence that belongs to the constellations in the sky, which reflects the geography of the earth. This is something that could be a theory about the three pyramids of Giza in their relationship with the stars in the Orion Belt, and there are scientific studies that support this theory. It is interesting to note that Gary David's news has a similar correlation between the Hopi-Mesa in the Southwest and the same constellation Orion. The three stars that make up Orion's belt look brightest early in the year, as they line up with each of the pyramids. Many other different cultures gave meanings to this particular group of stars, and it is evident that the heavens have fascinated them for centuries. David thought about that too and began to study the sky and the locations of the Hopi people and their ruins. Noting that these villages were aligned with all the major stars in the constellation of Orion and the belt of Orion, he studied the art that was on the cave walls and it led him to some interesting conclusions. At the Hopi people, extraterrestrial life and the importance of the other planets in the solar system had taken so seriously. In the rocks and caves of Mesa villages, he found many hieroglyphs that match modern graphics of star and constellation patterns. Throughout the Southwest United States, we find petroglyphs, that is rock carvings or pictographs, cave paintings representing entities with thin bodies, large eyes and bulbous heads, sometimes projecting antennae. These mysterious figures are frequently displayed in a posture of prayer, his elbows and knees placed at right angles similar to the bent legs of an ant. Many claims that the ants being depicted resemble modern ideas of extraterrestrial life and some believe that the Hopi tribe have seen and interacted with extraterrestrial beings. One of the most intriguing Hopi legends involves the ant people who were crucial to the Hopi's survival, not just once but twice. In Hopi traditions, there are time cycles similar to Aztec mythology and like many other mythologies and they believe that at the end of each cycle the gods would return. We're currently going through the fourth world as they call it or the next cycle. However, what's interesting in those cycles is the third during which the Hopi talk about flying shields. The world of the fourth cycle achieved an advanced civilization that was finally destroyed by the god Satugnang, the nephew of the creator, with great floods similar to how many other traditions describe it. By describing how advanced the third world was advanced flying shields were developed with the ability to attack cities that were far away and to travel rapidly between different locations in the world, the similarity to what we think of today as flying discs or even advanced aircraft is astonishing. The so-called first world was apparently destroyed by fire, possibly some kind of volcanism, asteroid attack or coronal mass ejection from the sun. The second world was destroyed by ice, ice age glaciers or a change of poles. During these two global cataclysms, the virtuous members of the Hopi tribe were guided by a strangely shaped cloud during the day and a moving star at night, which led them to the god of the sky named Satugnang, who finally led them to the god Ant in Hopi, Anusanom. The Ant people then escorted the Hopi to underground caves where they found shelter and sustenance. In this legend, the Ant people are portrayed as generous and hard-working, giving food to the Hopi when supplies are scarce and teaching them the merits of food storage. According to the wisdom of the Native Americans, the Hopi follow the path of peace. These words were spoken by Satugnang at the beginning of the fourth world. Look, I have washed even the footprints of your apparition, the steps that I left you. At the bottom of the seas are all the proud cities, the flying shields, the worldly treasures corrupted by evil and the people who did not find time to sing the praises of the Creator from the top of their hills. But the day will come if you keep the memory and the meaning of your appearance when these steps emerge, again to demonstrate the truth that you speak. In addition, according to the traditions of the Hopi, the survivors of the flood from the previous world spread to different places under the guidance of Massa following his sign in the sky. When Massa landed, he drew a petroglyph showing a lady riding a wingless, dome-shaped ship. This petroglyph symbolizes the day of purification when the true Hopi will fly to other planets in those wingless ships. Many have said that these flying shields or wingless ships clearly refer to what we know today as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, flying saucers. In another part of the world, other drawings and engravings would give us the spark of theories about another race of extraterrestrial beings that were here interacting and possibly genetically modifying humanity in the ancient land Sumeria. These beings were the Anunnaki. The ancient Sumerian tablets dating back 20,000 years old tell that the Anunnaki were a race of beings from the planet Nibiru, who created humans by taking indigenous beings from the earth and modifying their DNA without aliens. The Anunnaki race is believed to be the superior race originating from the heavens, and if you thought that by originating from the heavens, it was thought that through your teachings, the Sumerians learned to live in the world and take care of it until the gods of creation returned. Just like the ant people of the Hopi, they were there to teach humanity about their planet and how to use its resources. It is interesting to note that there is a linguistic link. The sky god of Babylon was called Anu. The Hopi word for ant is also Anu, and the Hopi root word for Naki which means friends. Therefore, the Hopi Anunnaki, or Friends of Ants, may have been the same as the Sumerian Anunnaki, the beings who once came to earth from heaven. There is also a similar pronunciation of the Hopi ancestors, the Anasazi. Again, we see this phrase in another belief in another part of the world. This is not to say that it proves anything, just an interesting note. Is it a coincidence, or is it evidence? Is it possible to suggest that the ant people and the Anunnaki were similar beings who visited earth in the remote past to give a helping hand to our ancestors? Is it possible that these stories interact in any other way? Or in any way? Whether or not there is a real connection between the Hopi of the Southwest and the ancient Sumerians, it certainly pauses and that the creation stories were very similar. He also points out that celestial communication has been a curiosity of humanity for much longer than UFO sightings in the 20th century. As we continue to search the heavens for answers in our age, it is humbling to think that the same questions may have been asked in ancient times. It would be easier to have a better understanding of ancient history if we add access to certain valuable documents. Unfortunately, some precious manuscripts are hidden in places where historical researchers cannot be granted access. Manuscripts in the Vatican Library in Rome contain information about mysterious ancient races in America. The enigmatic ancient civilizations have never been described in our history books. For obvious reasons of policy, only excerpts of these ancient documents have been revealed to the public. Legends of strange, ancient white rulers who came to America from unknown lands may hold a greater truth than we previously assumed. Do these legends tell stories of an advanced lost civilization that lived in America long before the emergence of the Inca, Maya, Aztecs and other civilizations that we are today familiar with? If this is true, then who were these enigmatic beings? Where did they come from? Where did they go? What was the strange light that used a form of energy unknown to modern physicists? Who were the ancient bearded white men dwelling near ruined sites? Some very old historical documents and accounts may shed light on this ancient mystery. In December 1846, a very interesting story appeared in The New York Sun. Readers learned about an elusive race of white Indians who had their home in the Mexican state of Sonora. They are called the Moonshees and a work has recently been published in which there is a full account of the race of these white Indians. They exist today in a valley among the Sierra de los Membros upon one of the effluents of the Rio Guila in the province of Sonora, Mexico. They number about 800, are of Circassian complexion and have graceful forms. They are peaceable in their habits, honest and virtuous. They live surrounded by inaccessible mountains where are located their caves and homes. There seems no doubt that the colony exists and what gives form to the opinion are manuscripts of early travelers to America which are deposited in the Vatican in Rome. Describing the large numbers who have for centuries inhabited the valleys of the Coyeras. It is yet to be ascertained whether these people are descendants of the Spaniards who landed with Columbus or descendants of those extraordinary people who built the ancient cities of Mexico and Yucatá, the ruins of which are spread all over Central America. There are several stories of encounters with these mysterious white Indians. One intriguing story dealing with a secret underground world can be traced to the times of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1942, President Roosevelt invited an interesting couple to the White House in Washington. Their names were David and Patricia Lamb and they had returned home to the States after spending a year exploring the dense jungle of Chiapas in Mexico. The Lamb's told President Roosevelt that during their journey they had encountered a tribe of very dangerous white-skinned Indians who were guardians of a vast subterranean network. These enigmatic Indians were short, almost dwarfish, and their skin had a pinkish hue. The Lamb's were frightened, but the Indians showed no signs that they wanted to kill the foreign couple. However, they clearly demonstrated they wanted the intruders to leave and return back the same way they had come. David and Patricia asked their guide who would accompany them if he could ask the white-skinned Indians who they were. The guide did so, but he had to try using several different dialects before the Indian tribe understood him. What the Lamb's learned after the guide translated the answer was that these people were members of the Lankadone tribe, a generated group of Indians who had been living in the jungle for generations. The Indians said that they were guardians of a great temple where the Old Ones dwelt. They worshipped the Old Ones and no outsider was ever allowed to approach this sacred place. They would kill any intruder who disturbed the Old Ones. David Lamb remembered that he had heard about the mysterious Lankadone tribe before. Apparently these people were survivors of an ancient civilization that had once flourished in Central America. French scholar and geographer Abbey Charles Etienne de Bourg, who lived from 1814 to 1874, mentioned the tribe in one of his writings. According to de Bourg, these short white-skinned Indians appeared sometimes in pueblos and small towns of Chiapas and western Guatemala. However, all attempts to follow them back to the great stone city where they said they lived failed. The Lankadone Indians killed their pursuers. The Lamb couple and their guide had to retreat and leave the white-skinned Indians in peace. On their journey back to civilization, the Lamb's learned a little more from other natives. They were told that there were many precious ancient treasures hidden beneath the city which the Lankadone guarded. Among these treasures were several valuable sheets made of solid gold. Written in hieroglyphs, they contained the history of the ancient world. The gold sheets revealed the story about the great flood and were said to have accurately predicted the Second World War. The Lamb's never found the mysterious ancient city of the great underground temple. Neither did anyone else, but this doesn't mean these remarkable places are fiction. They can exist and be hidden somewhere deep in the dense jungle. Maybe undiscovered artifacts hidden beneath our feet hold the keys to our mysterious ancient past and could shed light on historical questions we haven't been able to answer so far, or answer questions we haven't even asked yet. Encounters with white-skinned Indians have been reported from many countries located in the Amazon rainforest. According to witnesses reports, the strange white men encountered in the Amazon rainforest have glowing red eyes. In his book, Secret Cities of Old South America, Harold T. Wilkins relates what one Colombian man told of his experience with these strange white humanoids with reddish eyes. Otherwise he was nearly nude, the Colombian said. We met others of these pygmy men and all had a most sickly sort of white skin. Yes, senior, white is yours and not like an Indian's or a greaser's. It was the white of old yellowed ivory. We found they had women with beautiful faces, long hair and either red or bluish eyes. They too were nude, and their hair reached almost to their feet. The Germans said they were Greek in type, ancient Greek. They wore gold bracelets on their arms and gold necklets, but their strange red eyes shone like jaguars in the firelight. What scared them were the reports of our guns. They'd never seen such things before. Adventurers who met these enigmatic people say that they also saw incredible ancient structures hidden in the jungle. It seems that these ancient buildings did not belong in this corner of the world. Explorers tell they have seen amazing ancient ruins in the jungle and their construction is unlike anything they've seen before. It's said that strange stone altars, mysterious pyramid temples, unusual hieroglyphs and other puzzling artifacts are hidden in the jungle. The article in The New York Sun suggests these unknown people might be descendants of the Spaniards, but this is unlikely. We learned from old Spanish chronicles the white Indians were already there when the Spaniards arrived, and their meeting was not pleasant. Wilkins writes that the old Crinista, Ciesa de Leon, was told about AD 1540 of two Cara chiefs, Sopana and Kari, who entered one of the largest islands in Lago de Titicaca where they came across white bearded people whom they fought and exterminated. Antonio de Herrera, Crinista major or camp master of the Kings of Spain in the Indias 1594-1625 tells the same story by a Caracarian captain, Cora, who came to Lago de Titicaca from the veil of Coquimbo Peru. These same mysterious white bearded people, Atlantean refugees or colonists flying from a great catastrophe, left ruins and buildings at Guamanaga on the great Cordillera, well east of Lima. When he asked the Indians who were the builders, the reply was, a bearded white people like you Spanish. As Ciesa de Leon comments, these ancient men came to these parts many ages before the Incas. The buildings do not seem to me Inca, for they are square, not long and narrow. The ancient mystery of the white bearded people has never been solved, but everything we come across indicates these people did exist and they came from far abroad. Stories of their advanced ancient technology have been preserved in myths and legends of our ancestors. Wilkins was told the expedition found a great pyramid temple whose interior fairly blazed with gold. It sheathed the pillars, the roofs and the walls. Strange letters were engraved on the gold plates. Some parts of the dead city were inaccessible. The man of Madeleine also said that those who lived in this ancient lost city had more gold than the Incas. In some of the pyramid temples we entered, we saw deep, blue veined marble altars stained with ancient blood or rust, perhaps of ancient sacrifices or maybe of some horrible cult of the decayed remnants of this very ancient civilization. But the gold, senior, not even the Incas had so much to hide when Don Francisco Pizarro killed the Emperor Atualpa. High overhead there were alcoves or galleries actually stuffed with splendid gold objects, vessels, chains, chalices, insignia and shields and plates engraved with strange hieroglyphicos. Some of these plates were three or four inches thick, all solid gold, tons, kilograms of it, senior. I took one of the gold knives in one of the temples. Eight or ten of them had been attached to one of the pillars. The hilts in the blades were marvelously chased and engraved, as by the finest goldsmiths ever known. Looking up in another splendid, ruined stone building which cut into the side of a hill, I staggered with amazement to see eight glorious sons of pure, shining, blazing gold from which rays were made to shine out like stars. Groups of handsome men, beautiful women, naked youths and maidens were carved on the walls of this mausoleum, and over their heads and shoulders like the halos or nimbus round the head of the Virgin and the saints or God, shown stars of moons of pure, shining gold. Chains hung down from the alcoves and pillars, and freezes were inscribed with the strange signs and rows. Did I tell you, senior, that each of the dwarves in the outskirt of this dead city living either in tunnels or rooms in the rock or the little stone houses we saw carried a long curved knife of pure gold? It was not valued here.  Apparently, you turned it to form a combination to open or lock the fetters. What happened next is unknown. Wilkins was told the German explorers took as much gold as they could and left the place. The location of the lost ancient city has not been revealed. Based on the description provided by the man of Medellin and myths and legends from Venezuela, Wilkins believed the white-skinned Indians could have been survivors of a great flood that destroyed many great ancient civilizations thousands of years ago. Some have suggested they could be descendants of an Atlantean race still hiding in the jungle. Strangely enough, both theories might be right. Wilkins reminds us of the preserved flood legends that are still alive among locals. A little-known race of white Indians styled Los Paraya live in a village significantly called Atlan, somewhere in the virgin forests between the Rio Apoor and the Ornoco. They have traditions about a cataclysm which destroyed their ancient fatherland in Brazil and also of a large island in the eastern ocean where dwelt a rich and civilized race. Sounds like Atlantis. They have never mingled with the Venezuelan Indians, but their women being white and beautiful were often seized by surrounding peoples and taken into harems, Wilkins explains. Memories of the great flood have been preserved worldwide. An ancient Brazilian legend tells us about falling debris from the skies. The lightning flashed and the thunders roared terrible and all were afraid.  Heaven and earth changed places, nothing that had life was left upon the earth. Wilkins' suggestion that the white-skinned Indians are somehow related to a lost Atlantean race is not all that far-fetched, but there are certain problems with the idea. There are legends in Mesoamerica and South America that speak about the arrival of beings from Atlantis. The Bacobes, for example, were important mythical figures in Mayan beliefs. They were believed to be the four Atlantean gods, the giants. According to the Maya, their great god, Itzama, was the ninth king of Atlantis, teacher of the Maya people and founder of Chichen Itza. Goddess Ayas, Itzama, the ninth king of Atlantis is listed in Plato's Proteus. Plato tells that one of the Atlantean twins was Azeus, known to the Maya as Itzama. All the sons were given ten kingdoms and lived in peace with fabulous reaches of Atlantis. These Atlanteans built temples, palaces, harbors, canals and bridges, and had access to rich forests, trees and minerals. Later, their descendants lived there for many generations as sovereigns of the sea in many islands as has been spoken of vast territories and large people from within, covering his kingdom as the land that extends to Egypt and Terania. According to the Mayan book of Shalom Balaam of Shemail, in one great sudden rush of water, great serpent, Kanhel, was ravished from the heavens. The sky fell down and the dry land sank when the four gods before Bacobes arose who had brought about the annihilation of the world. This account could support the theory that an ancient race survived a cosmic catastrophe and came to America. However, most ancient myths and legends describe members of the Atlantean race as very tall, if not giants, and from what we've just learned the white-skinned Indians were small in stature, described as pygmies. The white-skinned Indians David and Patricia Lamb encountered in the dense jungle of Chapayas in Mexico were also described as short, almost dwarfish, and their skin had a pinkish hue. Unless we can find more evidence, it seems unlikely the white-skinned Indians were somehow related to an Atlantean race, but that doesn't exclude the possibility the mysterious, short white people were survivors of a great catastrophe that occurred thousands of years ago. Could this be the reason why they are still hiding in the dense Amazon jungle? The quest for a lost ancient city in the rainforest goes far back. In 1925, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, one of Britain's greatest explorers, vanished in Brazil. Colonel Fawcett, who was searching for the mysterious ancient lost city of Z that he believed was hidden somewhere in the Amazon jungle. Colonel Fawcett and his two companions, his son Jack Fawcett and Raleigh Ramell, vanished without a trace and their disappearance remains an unsolved mystery. It appears that after reading an old documentary he found in the Library Archives at Rio de Janeiro in 1920, Colonel Fawcett became convinced that there was a lost city in the Amazon jungle. If these stories are true, we can perhaps assume that they did originate from the lost continent of Atlantis after a worldwide flood, or not, and their civilization was much more advanced than we can possibly imagine. When Weird Darkness returns, we all know the Nazis inflicted terror and death upon innocent people during World War II, but many don't know just how horrifying the treatment was, particularly the experiments they conducted on living prisoners. That story is up next. Did I mention pizza? Anyway, now that I'm trying to lose weight and cut back on the carbs, I've had to make changes for breakfast. Now, instead of a big heavy breakfast, I just grabbed one of my built bars, the best-tasting protein bar on the planet. 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What I'm about to share is a full rundown of regime experiments, one terrible procedure after another. It probably goes without saying that this is going to trigger a few people, so it's not for the faint of heart. From seemingly innocuous experiments on eye pigmentation to truly disgusting procedures involving the creation of conjoined twins and the examining of internal organs, all of the worst stuff is about to be laid out before you. Despite their monstrous methods, the scientists did provide helpful research in the field of hypothermia, and years after, researchers still debate whether or not there is a moral quandary in our using the findings of Third Reich scientists in today's modern medicine. This list of experiments is just a glimpse into a world of true horror. Heinrich Himmler, a leading SS member, ordered Dr. Karl Klauberg to artificially inseminate concentration camp prisoners through various experimental methods. Klauberg artificially inseminated about 300 women at Auschwitz who were strapped down and verbally tormented throughout the traumatic process. Reportedly Klauberg told his victims that he had used sperm from animals, not humans, to create monsters. However, the aim was to access information on treating sterility. The women selected for the experimentation were between the ages of 20 and 40 and still experiencing menses. These tests were conducted in conjunction with the sterilization experiments. In the autobiography, remember us, survivor Martin Small recounted an experiment conducted in 1942. Small witnessed an SS security officer named Dr. Wickman execute an inhumane experiment on a boy of approximately 11 or 12 years old. The incident took place inside a building behind the officer's residence in occupied Poland. According to Small, inside the structure, in a little room sat a young boy, strapped to a chair so we could not move.  The boy had been driven insane by the torture. Over and over and over, this hammer came down upon his head. The savage bone grafting experiments were an attempt to speed up the body's regenerative process. Sections of a healthy patient's bone would be removed from their shoulders, arms, or hips, then transferred to a mutilated victim. Occasionally, entire limbs would be harvested from victims before they perished from an evapan injection. Called the Dekau hypothermia experiments, the tests were conducted on men in order to simulate the conditions the armies suffered on the Eastern Front. The experiments were divided into two parts. First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to one's demise, and second, how to best resuscitate a frozen victim. The test subjects were either placed in an ice bath or stripped naked and strapped to a stretcher before being left outside in the Auschwitz winter. Approximately 200 prisoners were used throughout the experimentation process. During World War II, over 1,000 prisoners were either bitten by malaria-infected mosquitoes or had malaria-infected blood injected directly into their veins. Father Leonia Kalowski, who was subjected to the malaria experiments, wrote of this traumatic event, all of a sudden my heart felt like it was going to be torn out. Of massive interest was how to make seawater potable. If they could leave soldiers away at sea for long periods of time without having to provide food and water, it would be one less thing to worry about. At Dekau, a group of 44 subjects, mostly made up of Romani, were forced to drink seawater while having their liver or spinal cord punctured for information gathering purposes. In 1942, victims at the Dekau concentration camp were subjected to experiments designed to test the absolute limits of human endurance in order to benefit the German Air Force. A special low-pressure chamber was built in which high-altitude conditions could be simulated. The conditions inside the chamber were similar to those experienced by a pilot falling from 68,000 feet, and the experiment was highly dangerous for the subjects. Almost every victim of the high-altitude chamber perished as a result of injuries related to extreme atmospheric exposure. Between 1943 and 1945, scientists experimented on Polish prisoners at the Sachsenhausen and Nautzweiler concentration camps in order to investigate causes of hepatitis. Victims were injected with the disease and studied through their prolonged suffering. In an attempt to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged inferiority of the Jewish race, Heinrich Himmler sanctioned the torture and mutilation of more than 100 people. After gassing their victims, each body was sent to the Strasbourg University Hospital where he would remove the flesh for the skeleton collection. French soldiers later discovered the collection which contained many unprocessed corpses that had their faces completely burnt off to avoid identification. Nightmare scientists Dr. Joseph Mengele had a strange fascination with twins. When a pair of Hungarian brothers arrived at Auschwitz in 1943, they were forced into vats of hot water until they passed out and then had all of their body hair removed. Then each twin was given a two-liter enema before receiving intestinal examination with no anesthesia. They endured further suffering until they were sent to a dissection laboratory and given a lethal injection with their organs to be sent to a research institute in Berlin. In an attempt to find an attitude to phosgene, a toxic gas used in battle during World War I, doctors exposed more than 50 prisoners to the gas at Fort Ney near Strasbourg, France. Phosgene gas causes irritation to the lungs. Many of the prisoners who were already weak and malnourished suffered pulmonary edema after exposure, and four of them perished from the experiments. In the early 40s, at the Ravensbrook Female Concentration Camp, wounds infected with gangrene and tetanus were inflicted on subjects. Circulation of blood was interrupted by tying off blood vessels at both ends of the wound to create a condition similar to that of a battlefield wound. Infection was aggravated by forcing wood shavings and ground glass into the wounds. The infection was treated with sulfonamide and other drugs to determine their effectiveness. Experiments were also conducted at the annoying Gamma Concentration Camp in 1944 to see if there was the possibility of developing an immunity to tuberculosis. Dr. Kurt Heismeyer injected patients with tuberculosis bacteria directly into their lungs and named the lives of at least 200 people. He even conducted the experiment on children such as Edward and Alexander Horniman from the Netherlands. The boys passed from tuberculosis, while their sister Elizabeth passed at Auschwitz from typhus. The Ravensbrook Concentration Camp was the largest camp for women. Starting in 1942, SS medical doctors subjected prisoners to experiments by treating wounds with various chemical substances. The survivors often suffered permanent physical damage. Doctors also attempted bone transplants, grafting parts of the left tibia to the right leg and vice versa, leaving victims deformed, just to see what would happen. For some reason, Dr. Joseph Mengele was obsessed with eye color, specifically heterochromia, a condition in which an individual's two irises differ in color. Throughout his day in Auschwitz, Mengele collected the eyes of his deceased victims to provide research material, and famously conducted a series of experiments where he injected dye into the eye of a patient to see if he could change the color of the iris. To investigate the effects of various poisons upon human beings, chemicals were added to subjects' meals and either the subject would perish as a result of the poison, or they would be killed immediately in order to perform autopsies. Around September 1944, SS doctors gave up on putting poison in the food of the victims and were shot with poison bullets to hasten the effects. Dr. Karl Klauberg conducted thousands of sterilization experiments on concentration camp prisoners in the 1940s. These experiments involved the use of surgery, pharmaceuticals, and radiation to discover an inexpensive method to sterilize hundreds of thousands of people. One of Dr. Mengele's pet projects was documenting the progression of NOMA, a rapidly progressive gangrenous infection of the mouth or face in his inmates. Rather than treat the patients with antibiotics, he took note as the disease spread and eventually took the lives of the infected. Mengele's desire to understand twins was in part intended to prove the supremacy of heredity over environment. One such experiment involved sowing two Romani twins together back to back in an attempt to create conjoined twins. It didn't work. The children succumbed to gangrene after several days of suffering. At various times between September 1939 and April 1945, many experiments were conducted to investigate the most effective treatment of wounds caused by mustard gas. Test subjects were deliberately exposed to mustard gas which inflicted chemical burns. The victim's wounds were then tested to find the most effective treatment for the mustard gas burns. Dr. Hertha Oberhauser was a physician at Ravensbrook where she experimented on children with simulated combat wounds. In her tests, Oberhauser rubbed foreign objects such as wood, rusty nails, slivers of glass, dirt, or sawdust in their cuts. To investigate the effectiveness of vaccines on spotted fever, typhus, numerous victims were deliberately infected with the spotted fever virus in order to keep it alive in their bodies. Over 90% of the victims perished as a result. In 1943, Ruth Elias gave birth in Auschwitz and afterward an SS doctor ordered her breasts be tied off with string as part of a medical experiment to see how long her baby daughter could live without food. Some may wonder why I would even include a story like this in Weird Darkness. I do so because there are those who say none of these events ever took place when we know they did. They want to sweep these actions under the carpet and forget they ever happened. But we must not forget that these are instances of humans inflicting horror upon humans by looking upon their fellow man and labeling them as lesser beings, as subhuman. We must never forget that this kind of thing is possible, that it has happened and that it must never happen again. And if we do see it happening, then we must come to the defense of the innocent and stop the true monsters of this world from doing it any longer. 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 is D-A-R-R-E-N, and you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, and more, 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. All stories in Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find source links or links to the authors in the show notes. The red-faced ghost of Rollsby Hall was written by Stacia Briggs and Sophia Connor for Weird Dorfolk. A faceless girl in a striped dress was posted at yourghoststories.com. Purifying Nazi experiments was written by Jacob Shelton for Ranker. Never Say Your Place Is Impregnable was written by Megan Summers for Weird History. The Dewsburg Man Eater is by Emily Stringer for all that's interesting. The Ant People and the Onanaki was posted at Alien UFO sightings. The mystery of the ancient white-bearded red-eyed rulers is by Ellen Lloyd for ancient pages. Again, 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. Proverbs 18, verse 21, The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. And a final thought.  I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. 1. Colonists Flying From Great Catastrophe 2. Or Colonists Flying From Great Catastrophe 3. Atlantean Refugees or Colonists Flying From Great Catastrophe 4. Left Ruins and Buildings at Guamanauga 5. Left Ruins and Buildings at Guamanauga on the Great Corderaire. Hey Weirdos, you've got a murder shift. Our next Weirdo Watch Party is Saturday, March 2nd. Who killed her? She was a wild dog. Boy, this couldn't be done by a human first. We'll be spending two hours with Hexen Arcane, sisters Morgan and Celeste Parker. These sexy sirens, these gorgeous ghouls, we'll be presenting 1972's Moon of the Wolf, starring David Janssen, Barbara Rush and Bradford Dillman. What did you find when you examined Ellie? Just that she was murdered. Dogs didn't do it. After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he might be dealing with a werewolf. He's saying Lou Gauru. Come on, how can you go wrong with a werewolf flick, am I right? Werewolf. He's saying werewolf. Our Weirdo Watch Party is always free to watch online, so grab your popcorn, candy and soda and jump into the fun, and even get involved in a live chat as we watch the movie. It's Moon of the Wolf on Saturday, March 2nd, hosted by Hexen Arcane. The show begins at 10 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. Central, 8 p.m. Mountain and 7 p.m. Pacific. You can watch a trailer for the film and watch horror hosts and schlocky B movies anytime, day or night on the Weirdo Watch Party page at WeirdDarkness.com. He says that I'm his next victim. Hope to see you March 2nd. Our brain is a wonderful thing, allowing us to make decisions, work on problems, plan for the future, live for today, and remember our past. But that last item, remembering our past, can sometimes be painful if we're stuck going back to those memories again and again, feeling shame for something we did or didn't do. How can we deal with our yesterdays? That's the topic of this week's message over at the Church of the Undead podcast, which you can get to by going to WeirdDarkness.com slash church.


Do you often feel a strong longing for physical affection? If so, you might be experiencing touch starvation. Touch starvation, also known as skin hunger, is a real phenomenon that can affect anyone as described by psychologists like Matthew Hertenstein. In this video, we want to help you to spot the symptoms of touch starvation so you can understand that you're not just being needy. By becoming more aware of these signs, you can take the necessary steps to address your need for touch, improve your overall well-being, and nurture healthier relationships. Increased feelings of loneliness and isolation. Are you constantly feeling lonely and disconnected from others? Even when you're surrounded by friends and family? When you're surrounded by friends and family enjoying their company, do you still feel a sense of loneliness and disconnection? It can be a puzzling and unsettling feeling, leaving you questioning why you feel this way despite being in the presence of people who genuinely care about you. This could be an indication that you're experiencing touch starvation. Human touch, a psychologist Tiffany Field from the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami has discovered, is an incredibly powerful way to create connections and build a sense of belonging. The absence of physical affection, such as hugs or gentle touches, can intensify feelings of isolation and make it difficult to feel emotionally connected to those around you. Heightened sensitivity to touch. Do you react intensely to casual physical contact, such as a hug or a pat on the back? Pick to yourself that is social gathering, observing friends and acquaintances, casually engaging in friendly touches, like hugs and gentle pats. Do you find yourself experiencing a sudden surge of emotions or an overwhelming desire to be included in these interactions? When you're touch-starved, it's not uncommon for your body to become more sensitive to even the slightest physical contact. Dr. Corey Floyd, a communication professor at the University of Arizona, who researches affection, explains that this heightened sensitivity can manifest as a longing for touch or an intense reaction to casual physical contact, like when someone holds your hand or when they wrap their arms around your shoulder, to make you feel you're not alone. Emotional imbalance and mood swings. Did you know that physical touch releases oxytocin, a hormone that promotes bonding and reduces stress? When you're going through a rough day, feeling stressed and longing for comfort, but not having the physical connection you need to soothe your emotions, it can be just heartening and overwhelming. It's important to remember that it's perfectly normal to experience these feelings, and that addressing your touch-starvation can significantly improve your emotional well-being. Touch-starvation can take a toll on your emotional well-being, sometimes leading to mood swings, irritability, and even increased anxiety or depression. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist and expert on love and relationships, explains that when we lack touch, our oxytocin levels might decrease, which can throw our emotional balance off. Craving non-intimate touch. Have you been yearning for non-intimate forms of touch lately? When you notice a group of friends laughing and playing and nudging each other, do you find yourself craving to be a part of this interaction? Not just for the camaraderie, but also for the comforting non-intimate touch that comes with it. This longing for connection is completely natural and understandable. Perhaps you noticed that you've been hugging your friends more often, or have a sudden urge to schedule a massage. This might be a sign that you're touch-starved and craving physical connection, and defection in your life. Dr. Daniel Goldman, a psychologist and author of Social Intelligence, explains that humans are wired to seek touch, as it is a fundamental way of communicating empathy and creating connections. So when you're touch-starved, your body might try to compensate by seeking non-sexual touch experiences. Remember, you're not alone in craving touch. It's a natural human need. You can reach out to your loved ones for more physical connection, and consider activities like dance classes or massages to experience touch in a supportive environment. By taking these steps, you'll improve your well-being, strengthen bonds, and create new connections. Rest assured, addressing touch-starvation can bring positive change to your life. Can you relate to any of these signs? Feel free to share your experiences below. Also, if you find this helpful, please share it with your family and friends who can benefit from it. Thank you for being here, and see you next-