 Okay guys, we're gonna start here in just a couple of minutes. I want to make sure that the microphone is working So I'm gonna step back away from this step back step back step back Can you hear me just want to make sure yeah, it's working awesome guys. Thank you All right, I'm gonna give people just a couple of minutes Before we get started. I'm also gonna take a breath as I was preparing for today My cane or not my back that is it went out just a couple minutes ago So you'll see me with my cane here And that happens. I have to accept it runs in the family bad backs. So Okay, I'll put this out now for the trick-or-treaters. They probably won't see it though until they're already approached to me We thought about it earlier that you know what's gonna happen is The trick-or-treaters are gonna see me first and they're gonna think that they get the candy from me, which they won't They'll be going up the stairs to see my wife Unless she gives up and just hands me the bowl of candy at which point I guess we could do it that way But that'll be a lot more interruptions, right? So I forgot to bring a watch out for me So I'll just give it a couple more minutes. Let everybody catch up and get in By the way Before we get started. Thank you so much to everybody who gave to the battle of the darkness fundraiser Wow We originally had a thousand dollars for our goal, which we met in just the first couple of weeks so I went ahead and did a push goal for two thousand and We made that yesterday and I even had a couple more donations come in today Midnight tonight is the cut is the cut off. So if you still want to give it's all going towards suicide and depression Prevention so that'll help you out Hey Come here Come here Come here. This is my beautiful bride. You might have to lean down on the All of the decorations back here She's the one so if you love it she gives the credit if you hate it. It's her fault Could you do me a favor I forgot my watch because I don't have my phone to keep track of time I Should be in my it's either on the dresser or in my office There's always something you forget but We started up at five o'clock the trick or treaters don't actually get started until 5 30 here in loves Park, Illinois So and they're only supposed to go till 7 30 now I don't know if I'll be done before that At that time or may go longer. It just depends on how I'm feeling and you know if I have any script left I I tripled the amount of script that I would normally have So just to make sure that I would have plenty for the night. Yes, there it is. 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I'm sure we have enough people here to get started and we'll be here for a while Hi weirdos I'm Darren Marlar and welcome to Weird Darkness live scream our very first one here You'll find stories of the paranormal supernatural mysterious macabre Unsolved and unexplained If you have a dark tale for me to tell you can share it with me at weirddarkness.com And be sure to subscribe to the podcast if you've not already done so so you don't miss a single episode And if you're new to this YouTube channel Well, be sure to subscribe to this as well click the notification bell And then every time I upload a new video plus my daily podcast which goes out into a video form as well You'll be notified of those so you won't miss a single podcast if you're also subscribed to my YouTube channel well as I mentioned earlier today Halloween it is the last day that I will be asking for donations to For battle the darkness So midnight is the cutoff tonight and I'll mention this a few times But it's not too late if you want to give we've made our goal of $2,000 But we of course we could use all you can all you can spare So please make a donation if you can at weirddarkness.com click on battle the darkness or like I said all the super chats in This video today this live stream will also be going towards battle the darkness now Bolt your doors Lock your windows Turn off your lights and come with me into the weirddarkness Before we get into the darker stories of the evening and I did share this the other day by the way So this will sound familiar to those of you who were monitoring my nighttime test for this Let's begin with something a bit light-hearted, but still appropriate for It's hard to imagine today that Halloween and trick-or-treating were not always a huge part of American culture For all my life. This has been a time of costumes door-knocking and candy If you're my age, you might even remember the plastic costumes that you bought from Woolworths They tied behind you and came with a mask that you slipped over your face and secured with an nylon cord You remember those it was hard to see out of those things and almost impossible to breathe as well I remember wearing wearing bind bind was a Mickey Mouse one back when I was like six or seven years old It's one of my earliest Halloween memories and I remember that mask I was just drenched in in in moisture after I took it off either from sweat or just from from the moisture from Breathing in and out of it. It was pretty awful But you know the cord would usually snap at some point in the middle of the night So you're having to hold up the mask to walk around So You know for one evening though, you know back in the early 1970s You were Batman the creature from the black lagoon Maybe a character from Planet of the Apes like me the Mickey Mouse Well during my childhood it seemed that trick-or-treating had been around forever But actually it hadn't it didn't make its way to America until the late 1920s and Within less than two decades the tradition almost and did for good it would take candy companies and a gang of cartoon kids to resurrect trick-or-treating after World War two and Make it what it is today World War two not only brought devastation to the entire globe But it also affected the goods and services available on the home front In an effort to alleviate price hikes and hoarding the office of price administration Printed war ration books with stamps that were used in exchange for goods And thanks to the fact that as much as one third of the sugar imported to the United States came from Japanese occupied Philippines Sugar was the first consumer commodity to be rationed War ration book number one nicknamed the sugar book was distributed starring starting that is May 4th 1942 Children's Halloween celebrations had to be drastically altered Sugar rationing though came to an end in June 1947 and by fall the commercialization of Halloween Started kicking off in ways that it never had in the 1920s Candy companies like Curtis and Brock they wasted no time in launching Halloween advertising campaigns But they weren't the only ones children's magazines like Jack and Jill and children's activities They both featured editions that began that revenue that revved up the fun for for their own children October issues costume parties became all the rage along with hay rides bobbing for apples midnight spook shows and spooky attractions But it was the iconic comic strip peanuts that really captured the imagination of American children in October 1951 creator Charles Schultz ran the first of his Halloween themed strips The characters made their first appearance in ghost costumes prepared for Halloween ghosting as they used to call it Patty even used Charlie Brown as the model for her jack-o-lantern carving These comic strips helped spread the popularity of Halloween In 1966 a TV special. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown began its long run as a Halloween tradition The short was nominated for three Emmy Awards and made such an impression on America's kids that After it aired after it aired that is children from all over the country sent candy to Charlie Brown out of sympathy With the trick-or-treating tradition now firmly established it began growing in size In addition to televisions and magazines schools began reinforcing the tradition when the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund or UNICEF Launched a national campaign to raise money for children They handed out cardboard boxes for kids to take with them while trick-or-treating And it turned out to be a very effective campaign raising more than 175 million dollars in the u.s. Alone and they continue to do that every Halloween even today So when you take the kids out to collect candy tonight Just remember how close we came to losing this tradition And take a few minutes to sit down with Charlie Brown again this year. You won't be sorry that you did Now if you're a parent What is your greatest fear? Just about every person that I know with a child will answer the question almost the same way immediately It's that some sort of tragedy might befall their children accidents calamities automobile crashes natural disasters fires the list goes on all of these things terrify parents These are the things that keep them awake at night Staring at the ceiling of their bedrooms and wondering how they would handle the nightmare if something terrible happened to their child Of course accidents and calamities are cruel twists of fate Bad luck if you believe in luck or perhaps providence if you don't it plays no favorites The idea that a terrible accident might occur that claims the life of your child may keep you from sleeping at night But in the end There's nothing you can do about it after all accidents happen right But what about that terrible thing? That's not an accident at all What about when the horrible death of a child? Comes at the hands of another There are without a doubt killers who walk among us Is there a more loathsome killer lurking in the darkest corners of america than one that would pray on children? Such monsters have been with us since the first settlers arrived on american shores We often fool ourselves into believing that the good old days were actually good But this is far from the truth Monsters have always been with us They stopped the innocent in the days when children stayed close to the rugged settlements of the colonies Afraid to wander into the dark forest They were among us before the civil war claimed the lives of thousands of men and boys These monsters claimed the lives of the young and naive during the gilded age at the dawn of the 20th century Through the depression and beyond These monsters are not the stuff of fiction They are bloodcurdlingly real They have been among us since the nation began and they are with us still Always looking for their next victim We know this as did our parents and their parents before them The fear of strangers and their terrible deeds Has been rooted in the minds of multiple generations of americans We created myths and legends of monstrous shapes Hoping to scare children so that they never strayed too far from the welcoming light of home And yet blood spilled Children vanished never to be seen again They became faces on milk cartons and cautionary tales of what happened when children were left alone We must keep our children safe parents told themselves But even the most watchful eyes weren't always enough Our cautionary tales Created one of the most popular and most terrifying urban legends of all time It involved just two things A babysitter and a telephone It tells the story of a babysitter who has been left in charge of young children for the night The parents hoping for a much needed night of dinner in a movie left this trusted neighbor girl with their children She was experienced. She was reliable and the parents had nothing to fear The night is quiet and after finishing some homework the babysitter turns on the television And then the telephone rings When the girl answers she hears a man's harsh voice. Have you checked the children? Startled but assuming it to be a prank call. She hangs up the phone The telephone rings again and once more the same man's voice repeats the question The babysitter slams down the receiver, but it keeps ringing and the same man keeps asking her about the children Now who's been harassing her Well a few minutes later the police operator calls back with horrifying news The calls are coming from inside of the house When officers arrive on the scene They find a distraught babysitter and two murdered children in the upstairs nursery The killer had somehow gotten into the house He had made the calls in to terrorize the babysitter and lure her upstairs to her death Of course this morality play ends in tragedy for the young woman who did not watch the children closely enough She loses her mind. It has to be locked away in a mental institution for the rest of her life Of course, this is only a story, right? We all know it's just an urban myth that illustrates the perils of being a babysitter And the fact that children are never really safe even in the most innocent circumstances Stories like this and a lot of others like it have been told and retold thousands of times over the years It's only a story Or is it When you were growing up, how many times did you hear stories like that one? Or were told never to talk to a sketchy looking man that your mother pointed out on the street Or to never accept a ride in a car with someone you didn't know Or to never accept candy from strangers, especially at Halloween It was a Halloween one when every horror story that your mother could ever imagine came to life Never knock on a door of a house without a porch light on Never accept treats that were not professionally packaged Never bite into an apple that your parents hadn't carefully checked first They were filled with needles and razor blades. Don't you know? It all boiled down to never take candy from strangers But that was crazy, wasn't it? It was Halloween for Pete's sake Who's evil enough to stick razor blades into apples or put poison into candy bars? Those are just stories, aren't they? Those kinds of things never really happen Well, as it turns out stories like this often get started for a reason And sometimes the monster is not a stranger at all On Halloween night 1974 Timothy O'Brien and his sister Elizabeth had anxiously waited for their father Ronald to get home from work so that they could go trick-or-treating The family which included their mother, Dayneen, lived in the suburb of Deer Park, Texas Ronald was an optician at Texas State Optical in Houston was a deacon at the Second Baptist Church where he also sang in the choir and was in charge of the local bus program and was, as far as everyone knew him, was concerned a wonderful, loving father When he finally walked through the door of the family home, the children rushed to him hurrying him back out to the street Still wearing his white optician's lab coat, Ronald took Timothy and Elizabeth out to celebrate Halloween They met some friends and went to the first house of the night Timothy rang the doorbell There was no answer If anyone was home, they were taking far too long to answer the door The children impatiently ran to the next house on the block, leaving Ronald to catch up When he did, he had five giant pixie sticks in his hand Tubes of pure sugary goodness that the kids couldn't wait to consume But Ronald promised he would distribute the candy among the children when they got back home It was late when they returned home Ronald got the children ready for bed But before he fell asleep, Timothy asked for just one treat from the night's bounty of sweets He chose a 22-inch giant pixie sticks The sugar had hardened in the tube, so his father Helpfully rolled the candy between his hands to loosen the contents Timothy poured the confection into his mouth But his face wrinkled and disgust. It tasted terrible Ronald quickly ran to get some Kool-Aid for his son to wash the bad taste away Timothy never had a chance to drink it Within moments, he began to choke, vomit, and then convulse Something was terribly wrong When paramedics arrived, they found Ronald cradling Timothy in his arms as the little boy gagged and foamed at the mouth He was pronounced dead at the hospital less than an hour later It autopsy later revealed that the eight-year-old had died from a fatal dose of cyanide Where had it come from? The top two inches of the giant pixie sticks that Timothy had been so excited about Contained enough poison to kill two grown adults The little boy never had a chance Words spread about Timothy's death naturally starting a panic in the community Numerous parents in Deer Park and the surrounding area took the candy their children had collected From trick-or-treating to the police Terrified that it was all laced with poison But none of it was The authorities could understand the fear that Timothy's death caused though They'd already started their investigation into the boy's murder Thankfully, the other four laced pixie sticks, which Ronald O'Brien claimed he received from the first house on the trick-or-treating route after the kids had run ahead Fortunately, they had not been eaten When questioned by detectives, Ronald sobbed as he suggested that an unidentified monster must have handed out poisoned candy to trick-or-treaters He told police that he vaguely remembered where the candy had come from But he never got a good look at the owner All he saw was a shadowy hand clutching the pixie sticks from behind a door I couldn't hear him out here anyway We have a Halloween decoration of a I need to make sure where I left off A movie Scarecrow that goes like this But it's been going Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! It's really loud inside But I didn't hear it on this side of the window because I've been so busy But you fixed it Olive oil Olive oil Olive oil Olive oil and I olive oil too Olive oil and I olive oil too Okay, well thank you I love that woman Okay, that kind of took us away from the mood I'm sorry about that Let's see When questioned by detectives I'll just go back a couple sentences here When questioned by detectives, Ronald sobbed as he suggested that an unidentified monster must have handed out poisoned candy to trick-or-treaters He told police that he vaguely remembered where the candy had come from But he never got a good look at the owner All he saw was a shadowy hand clutching the pixie sticks from behind a door The police went to the address and questioned the owner of the house, Courtney Melvin, who worked as an air traffic controller at Hobby Airport But the police were confounded when they learned that He'd not left for work until 10.30 p.m. on Halloween night His wife had stopped answering the door when she ran out of candy around 6.45 That was before Ronald O'Brien claimed that he was there In addition, Mrs. Melvin had not given out pixie sticks that night And detectives interrogated the entire neighborhood And still couldn't find the source of the deadly candy Ronald O'Brien was grief-stricken by his son's death He was already having a terrible year And Timothy's death seemed to have pushed him over the edge With grief Ronald was eight months behind in car payments And was being threatened with repossession He had defaulted on several bank loans And was suspected of theft at Texas State Optical And was close to being fired He had held 21 different jobs over the last decade And was more than $100,000 in debt He further strained his family's finances By taking out a $10,000 life insurance policy On his children earlier in the year To which his wife protested as an unnecessary expense She also probably would have objected To the additional pair of $20,000 life insurance policies Ronald took out on Timothy and Elizabeth on October 3rd If she had known about them And she definitely would have been horrified To find out that mere hours after Timothy's death Her husband called to collect on the policies The police didn't know about the life insurance policies Not yet anyway But they did discover That Ronald had visited a chemical supply store in Houston To buy cyanide just a week before Halloween He left without purchasing anything else The smallest amount available to purchase was five pounds When they found out about the life insurance policies They were convinced they had their man Detectives theorized that he had laced the candy with poison So that he could kill his own children for the life insurance money Poisoning their friends with the extra pixie sticks Would help cover up his crime Luckily though, none of the other candy was ever eaten Investigators repeatedly questioned Ronald But he maintained his innocence He blamed the whole thing on some mad poisoner Just like in the stories Who handed out Halloween candy laced with poison Or needles and candy apples with razor blades inside Surely the police had heard those stories, hadn't they? O'Brien was arrested and brought to trial On June 3rd, 1975 A jury took only 46 minutes To find the dedicated father and devout member Of the Second Baptist Church guilty of capital murder And four counts of attempted murder Ronald was sent to Death Row in Huntsville, Texas He was so hated by the other inmates That they reportedly petitioned To hold an organized demonstration on his execution date They had to wait a while for that though His first execution date was set for August 8th, 1980 But his attorneys managed to drag things out Until March 31st, 1984 Shortly before midnight He was executed by lethal injection Outside the prison, a crowd of about 300 demonstrators Cheered while others yelled trick-or-treat Ronald O'Brien didn't just kill his son And tried to kill four other children On October 31st, 1974 He also killed the idea of Halloween For several generations of kids That hadn't even been born yet Ronald, who was known as the Candy Man By his fellow Death Row inmates Successfully perpetrated, perpetuated, that is, The legend of... We'll start that again For several generations of kids Ronald, who was known as the Candy Man By his fellow Death Row inmates Successfully perpetuated the legend That there are strangers out there Intent on killing children With poisoned Halloween candy The truth was The truth... The truth was... There, we thought the trick-or-treaters Would be the problem Turns out it's my baby Look out for me Okay Two sentences away from the end of the story Yeah, thank you She does the same thing When I'm actually recording in the other room too The truth was, there had never been A case of a stranger handing out poisoned candy To kids on Halloween That really had been just an urban legend In 1974, there finally was such a case But he was no stranger Ronald O'Brien was a monster in human form And the nightmare brought to life Up next, I'll share the story called The Lady in White One of our weirdo family members By the name of Ree Volk, send it in Real quick reminder though Battle the Darkness We did reach our $2,000 goal Thank you to everybody that's given It's not too late if you want to give though Midnight tonight is your last opportunity to give To Battle the Darkness Just go to WeirdDarkness.com Click on Battle the Darkness Or if you're watching this on YouTube And you'd rather do a super chat During the live stream, you can do that It will also be applied to Battle the Darkness So either way, you do that It's up to you Just giving you the options I'm going to step away for just two seconds I want to check the other side of the camera Where I can see your texts I want to make sure you can still hear me, all right And that you're hearing me okay Not that I don't like, I don't sound far away So I just want to check that real quick I'm starting to get a little bit paranoid about it So I'll be back in about 60 seconds All right guys Am I, are you hearing me all right? Loud and clear Hear you perfectly I'm not, what do you mean I'm not dressed for Halloween? Yes, I am dressed for Halloween I don't know, can you see this? There, I'm dressed for Halloween If you can't see that It says This is my scary voice actor costume So there, I am dressed for Halloween If it gets a little too chilly for me out here though I also have a weird darkness sweatshirt But I'm going to wait on that So this is fun so far And we're at Should start showing up here any moment So, you know, we've already a couple of A couple of interruptions from my bride It'll be interesting to see how many we get with trick-or-treaters All right, here we go Lady in white One of our weirdo family members set this to me And he called himself a revoke Let me get a sip or something real quick before we get started Robin just got a text saying that That I couldn't be heard Did something change after I checked? Tell me guys in the comments and let me know I'm going to step up Actually, can you just go around the other side of the phone? And just look at what they're commenting So I went through all of that and nobody can hear me All right, all right All right, since Yes, well, not not a it's not a government holiday Where everybody gets the day off Although how cool would it be if that was the case? But no Sorry mom, was that my mom? All right, thanks mom Everything looks fine I mean this dude this is on I don't know what it is Okay, well since all of you people Did not hear what I was just saying I was just doing my imitation of Marcel Marceau I was just panemiming Just just just for your benefit So, okay We will start again then With the lady in white From Weird, Darkest, Weirdo revoke Is it going doing stuff live? You never know what's going to happen Okay, so here we go again Which is fine actually Because I messed up a couple of times on it Maybe I won't this time Hello My online name is revoke And wanted to send you one of my many experiences With the paranormal for your Halloween special episode I saw an apparition of a female wearing an old style white dress I learned recently that the most common apparition Is that of a woman in a white dress But I did not know this when it happened to me So many years ago This experience was the spark that ignited my obsession With the strange and unexplainable It was the summer of 1991 I was 11 years old And lived in the town of Melrose Park, Illinois The house was pretty old And it had two floors and a basement with stairs in the back Which were not covered and anyone could see people going up or down the stairs This will be relevant later in the story It was a normal hot and humid mid-summer night like any other Yet something strange and unforgettable would happen Around two or three in the morning I woke up for no apparent reason And opened my eyes to a very strange sighting It was the profile of a lady in a white dress But she was not completely solid I could see through her somewhat It seemed that she wasn't aware that I was looking at her either And passed inches away from my face I wasn't completely awakened And I was more confused and intrigued of what was happening than being scared It seemed to disintegrate right before going out the door of the room that I was sleeping in After a few minutes of trying to figure out what had just happened I just brushed it off and continued sleeping Since I didn't hear or see anything else A few days passed by and I sort of forgot about it Until I heard my father tell some of my uncles That he saw a ghost lady in a white dress a few days back And actually it actually went through his arm Leaving his arm with a cold sensation for a few seconds That shocked me and made me remember that day immediately Sending a chill through my body But for some reason I didn't tell anyone about my experience Maybe because I wasn't completely convinced that it really happened A mother too passed by and I didn't see the lady in white Sort of forgot about her once again Then I saw one of my neighbors ask my mother completely out of the blue At what time she woke up to go to work Because he would often see a lady in white go up and down our stairs Around three in the morning almost every night from the window of his house My mom told him that he was mistaken Because no one in the house left the house at that time That was all I needed to erase any doubt that the ghost lady in white was real And that I really saw her that night Months passed by and I didn't see or hear anyone talk about the lady in white At least not until Pablo the youngest of my uncles Moved to the house with his newly wed wife Rose They moved to the second floor of the house But didn't last very long I never saw my uncle's wife tell her experience But I know that they had to move out of the house only a few short months later Because she was experiencing something extremely scary A ghost lady in a white dress appear outside her bedroom window almost every night And the lady actually spoke to her Supposedly yelling at her to get the hell out of my house you don't belong here She also described the lady as having big red eyes and teeth that look rotten She was terrified and moved with one of her sisters before my uncle Pablo Could find another place for them to live My family moved out of that house not too long after as well About 10 years passed by and everything seemed to be more or less normal in our new home But once again the story repeated itself Now in the town of Northlake where my family and I bought our first house A few months after we moved one of our neighbors asked my mother if she usually Left for work around three in the morning because he noticed a woman in a white dress And very dirty aspect walk around the house at that time My mother was confused once again remembering that the same question was asked about 10 years prior And told the neighbor the same response that she didn't leave her work for a couple of hours past three in the morning She had no idea who could be the person going around the house at that time I never saw the lady in white after my first experience And neither my mother or my three sisters saw her at all I don't know if she was a good spirit that followed a member of my family Or she was perhaps attached to somebody in a bad way All I know Is that follow that follow a member of my family as you all I know Is that this experience made me a believer in the paranormal from a very young age And still excites me and puzzles me to this day Thank you revoke for that story. That's really awesome. I appreciate it. I'm gonna adjust this just a little bit more so I can see better All right This next piece is the origin of halloween Which I'm sure a lot of people have seen on television read about on their own But I thought it was interesting and it kind of fits what we're doing obviously, so I will share it with you Are we all right? You're good. She's gonna show me something You know for somebody who doesn't like the spotlight you sure seem to be coming in quite a bit My great niece and nephew very cute very cute Did they with those texts into your emailed see if you can forward them to me or I'll forward them later Okay, I'll try to grab them and maybe I can share with share them with you guys later on They are adorable, but then again, there are no unattractive people in my wife's family So, uh, if you saw pictures you would know I could have I could have married any of the sisters I would have been perfectly fine on the you know one on a scale of one to ten I would have gotten a 12 no matter who which one I picked so Uh, okay, so the origin of the jack-o-lantern actually Before it was halloween October 31st was the pagan holiday of sowing The official end of summer and the harvest season Ancient Celts believed that at Sauen the veil between worlds of the living and the dead was extremely thin Allowing the dead to cross over into the world of the living Sometimes they appear as apparitions and sometimes in the form of animals most particularly black cats The living lit bonfires and dressed in costumes to confuse the spirits and keep them from destroying the world When Christianity came to Ireland and Scotland It simply co-opted the three-day festival of Sauen and folded it into All Hallows Eve October 31st All Saints Day November 1st and All Souls Day November 2nd It was a perfect fit and the original pagan Sauen blended seamlessly into the new Christian celebration In most of Christian Europe the emphasis was and still is on All Saints Day But in Ireland and Scotland because of the Celtic past and the legacy of Sauen All Hallows Eve or halloween became the big deal and various local traditions developed In Ireland children carved out potatoes or turnips as jack-o-lanterns and lighted them from the inside with candles The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed Stingy Jack who invited the devil to have a drink with him and didn't want to pay for his drink As the story goes several centuries ago among myriad towns and villages in Ireland there lived a drunkard known as Stingy Jack Jack was known throughout the land as a deceiver manipulator and otherwise drag of society On a fateful night the devil overheard the tale of Jack's evil deeds and silver tongue Unconvinced and envious of the rumors the devil went to find out for himself whether or not Jack lived up to his vile reputation Typical of Jack he was drunk and wandering through the countryside at night when he came upon a body on his cobblestone path The body with an eerie grimace on its face turned out to be Satan Jack realized somberly this was his end Satan had finally come to collect his malevolent soul Jack made a last request he asked Satan to let him drink ale before he departed to Hades Finding no reason not to acquiesce the request Satan took Jack to the local pub and supplied him with many alcoholic beverages upon quenching his thirst Jack asked Satan to pay the tab on the ale to Satan's surprise Jack convinced Satan to metamorphose into a silver coin with which to pay the bartender impressed upon by Jack's unyielding nefarious tactics shrewdly Jack stuck the now transmogrified Satan coin into his pocket which also contained a crucifix the crucifix's presence kept Satan from escaping his coin form and this coerced Satan to agree to Jack's demand in exchange for Satan's freedom he had to spare Jack's soul for 10 years 10 years later to the date when Jack originally struck his deal he found himself once again in Satan's presence Jack happened upon Satan in the same setting as before and seemingly and seemingly accepted it was his time to go to Hades Hades for good Jack happened upon Satan in the same setting as before and seemingly accepted it was his time to go to Hades for good as the as Satan prepared to take him to hell Jack asked if he could have one apple to feed his starving belly foolishly Satan once again agreed to this request as Satan climbed up the branches of a nearby apple tree Jack surrounded its base with crucifixes Satan frustrated at the fact that he had been entrapped again demanded his release as Jack did before he made a demand that his soul never be taken by Satan into Hades Satan agreed and was set free eventually the drinking and unstable lifestyle took its toll on Jack he died the way he lived as was told by God that because of his sinful lifestyle of deceitfulness and drinking he was not allowed into heaven the dreary Jack went before the gates of Hades and begged for commission into the underworld Satan fulfilling his obligation to Jack could not take his soul to warn others he gave Jack an ember making him a denizen of the netherworld from that day on until eternity's end Jack is doomed to roam the world between the planes of good and evil with only an ember inside a hollowed turnip turnip actually referring to a large rutabaga to light his way we have a trick or treater so i'll pause for a moment hi there okay i'm actually seeing kids up in the street now we're gonna start getting busy bye happy halloween references to pumpkins date back many centuries the name pumpkin originated from the greek word for large melon which is pepon pepon was changed by the french into the greek word for large was changed to the french into pompon the english changed pompon to pumpion shakespeare referred to the pumpion in his merry wives of windsor american colonists changed pumpion into pumpkin the pumpkin is referred to in the legend of sleepy hollow peter uh peter uh peter peter pumpkin eater that is and also cinderella need of americans dried strips of pumpkin and wove them into mats they also roasted long strips of pumpkin on the open fire and eat them the origin of pumpkin pie occurred when the colonists sliced off the pumpkin top removed the seeds and filled the inside with milk spices and honey the pumpkin was then baked in hot ashes it's a story that came to america with hundreds of thousands of irish immigrants in the mid 19th century in america pumpkins were cheaper and more readily available than turnips but carving them and making them into jack-o-lanterns lit by a candle inside became an american tradition as halloween was enthusiastically adopted in the new world by people from every possible ethnic background by the 1880s it had really caught on and had become part of the tapestry of american holiday traditions today most think of halloween as an american holiday and are unaware of the ancient old world roots of the carved pumpkins that are a traditional part of the celebration so now you know why we carve pumpkins at halloween it's all because of the ancient kelts pagans and irish descendants who came to america pagans today still celebrate sowing up next i'll share a story called death follows by another weirdo family member uh anna sent it to us real quick reminder though that today is your last day if you want to make a donation towards uh battle the darkness to fight depression and suicide uh up until midnight you can make that donation there we've already released met our goal of 2000 but we'd love to be able to get that higher and also if you do any super chats during this live stream those will also be no donated to depression and suicide prevention and we got we got freddy uh okay we've got uh we've got jason and and apparently i'm too old i don't know what he's doing that is black panther black panther okay i haven't seen the movie yet okay that's why you can see you can say hi to youtube over there if you want to we're live on youtube you're on youtube ladies and gentlemen i had freddy kruger stopped by on my channel you're welcome happy halloween guys uh just go to weirddarkness.com and you can find it actually there's a report so you guys like you here you go that's what's live now and it'll be uploaded immediately here take these cards and you can find it later well it's called it's marlar house but if you go to weirddarkness.com you can find it i need another darin just take the whole thing i've got one another one in my pocket you know what you're making it hard for me i got this in my hand oh i see what you're saying thank you thank you that's what i was handing him okay i see all right okay marlar house that's me yeah and he does he does trouble he also does like murders and things like that and assault crimes and all that kind of thing i'm gonna get in the car and see myself on the phone oh my gosh okay next year we're doing this on october 30th so that way i'm not interrupted by by better horror people than me that's what that's awesome see i knew this i knew this was what would happen and that's one of the reasons i wanted to do it today because it actually would be fun to interact with the trick or treaters something you don't normally get on weirddarkness so we're having fun and telling scary stories at the same time i'm going to take a sip last time i took a sip i lost the i lost the audio so i'm going to do this real quick and hopefully it'll work so i'll have my my bride take a look at the other side just to make sure okay still hearing me are you still hearing me still hearing me is there anybody listening okay all righty good thank you thumbs up okay i hate i hate that i can't see you guys doing the the texts i hate that's the one thing i don't like about this i think next year what i might do is find like maybe a uh like an ipad or something and i'll and i'll record with the ipad or maybe have the ipad here so i can follow your comments as i live stream one thing i didn't think of this year okay so are they coming up here maybe should we wait okay well the little trick or treaters a small guy it's hard for him to carry it's all that candy that he has it must be really heavy hi guys happy halloween oh sorry we're good i'm broadcasting live but i'm telling ghost stories in between the trick or treaters it was just sort of a fun thing to do so hi did you get enough candy can i have some oh no no you know what i'm i'm too fat as it is i probably shouldn't take any i don't need any candy she's sweet enough for me anyway have have fun oh okay all right you better watch out i did not do it i shot the sheriff but i did not shoot the deputy thank you all right thank you for your service okay okay all right weirdo family member sent uh ana sent us this is called death follows my grandparents lived in a rural community in northern Ohio their backyard bordered that of my grandfather's brother and sister-in-law all the houses in that little cluster had large yards to walk away from my grandparents house to my great uncle and aunt's house you would have to cross an open area about as long as a football field bordered on one side by a fenced horse pasture and on the other side by a line of tall pine trees after my great uncle passed away my grandparents would often walk over in the evening to look in on my great aunt who was very heartbroken at the loss of her husband and was now left living alone on one such fall evening my grandparents were over visiting great aunt grace and stayed past dark they set out with a flashlight to walk home across the big field where they lived it was pitch black at night time no street lights around just the wide open darkness of the field and horse pasture as they were walking home my grandmother started looking behind her my grandfather asked what's the matter an to which she replied hurry up lee walk faster my grandfather always paid attention to my grandmother's gut instincts so he walked faster faster she said hurry up a couple more times she said that along the way until they were practically jogging but when they were almost at their own back door my grandfather asked what the hell is going on and she replied hurry up and get in the house I feel death behind us it's following us my grandmother or my grandfather that is open the door as fast as he could they ran in and once inside bolted the door my grandmother my grandfather quizzed her what was she talking about had she seen something someone all she could say was that she felt death behind them and it was following on their heels she closed the curtains and said there would be no answering the door if a knock came my grandfather was spooked and confused the next morning my great aunt grace called on the phone to say that she had just heard that the neighbor across the street had been murdered the night before he was found by his sister that morning and the killer was on the loose was it actually the angel of death the grim reaper who was in the neighborhood for the murder victim that was following my grandparents home or wasn't the killer himself the bringer of death out on foot watching my grandparents walking home across the field either answer is terrifying the killer was eventually caught and served justice I'm not sure what it is we got it we got a kid with a really cool light display around his head I'll eventually come over here I'll have to make sure you guys see him he doesn't need a flashlight he's got his own bulb head all right so uh this next one is the disappearance of Cindy Song she was a beautiful girl who decided to celebrate Halloween as a bunny rabbit young Jong Cindy Song was a 21-year-old Pennsylvania State University student originally from Seoul South Korea during the very early morning hours of November 1st 2001 Cindy was last seen at a Halloween party hosted by players night club a popular bar in state college she left the party at 2 a.m eyewitnesses said that she was wearing pink shirt sleeves rabbit ears a white skirt and a fluffy white tail above above knee high brown suede boots two hours later one of Cindy's friends dropped her off at the state college apartments located on the 300 block of west clinton avenue all agreed that Cindy was likely drunk by that time three days later after Cindy did not contact any of her friends they reported her missing police investigators discovered that Cindy was not at home and that very few of her items had been stolen or taken detectives noticed that only Cindy's keys and purse were missing from the apartment a search of Cindy's cell phone did not uncover any outgoing or incoming calls during the three days after Halloween police also claimed that Cindy's apartment showed no signs of a struggle or a forced entry two years later a separate police investigation shed light on the possibility that Cindy may have been the victim of a serial killer just north of wilkes bar pennsylvania police began excavating the property of hugo salinsky a man who authorities believed was responsible for the deaths of two drug dealers police did find the charred remains of these victims on salinsky's property but they also found more bodies in total 12 bodies many of which had been burned in a fire pit were found on salinsky's property many believe Cindy's song was one of those bodies but police have not yet been able to prove this for sure in 2003 salinsky was arrested for the for the original double homicide but three years later a jury refused to convict him of homicide but they did convict him of abusing the corpses that same year salinsky was charged with two other murders these victims were michael kirkowski and tami facett both of whom had been robbed and beaten before they were murdered an accomplice paul weakley later admitted to helping salinsky and uh later admitted to helping salinsky in this double homicide that year while salinsky was rotting behind bars after being convicted of other crimes he managed to escape from prison thanks to a rope fashioned out of bed sheets he spent three days on the run before turning himself in over a decade later salinsky was finally convicted of the murders of kirkowski and facett he received the life sentence the disappearance of cindy song remains unsolved our next one is another story from a weirdo i'm getting a lot of stories from you guys i love that too keep them coming i really appreciate it it really helps to make the show more special when you when you're giving me stories as well as me finding them starting to lose my voice a little bit i had to do a lot of voice work earlier this morning oh new zealand did it yesterday yeah well yeah you've got another side of the world i think i think halloween should be a national holiday um and i also think the day after halloween should be a national holiday so that way you can stamp as ladies you want to trick or treat tell your stories and then not have to go in go into work tomorrow tomorrow this is my birthday yeah i'll be i'll be the big five oh tomorrow yay okay just just like okay thank you okay here we go uh ken uh ken murrell uh or ken morrell i think that's probably how i pronounce it sorry ken if you're listening uh ken morrell one of our weirdo family members sent in a story he called it the creepiest halloween night ever my wife and i live in a small central oklahoma oil town it's nearly crime-free but not quite mayberry the nest has been empty for years and i just dropped my drink hold on thank god for libs all right okay the nest has been empty for years the past few years someone has rung our doorbell late at night 9 30 to 10 30 the first couple of times has happened i opened the door finding no one on the front porch i walked around the outside of our house looking for a prankster didn't see anything but half expecting to hear a giggle from our shrubs nothing those doorbell events never prepared my wife and me for our creepiest halloween night ever but we're gonna pause there as we have some trick or treaters coming by hey guys welcome to youtube happy halloween guys on halloween night it has become inconvenient for us to buy expensive candy and then get up and down for trick or treaters every time the doorbell rings typically we go into our bedroom in the back of our house close the blinds keep all the lights turned off but we can still watch a movie too old too uh too old for much else last halloween night we changed that pattern and sat in our front room all the lights were off and the shutters were closed tight as my wife sat in her recliner getting her classroom lesson ready for the next day and i sat in my recliner buried under my laptop papers and books my 10 o'clock all the kids would be home so we expected nobody at the door from where i sat it was possible to see the front door suddenly there was a very loud bang on the door and the entire wall seemed to shake violently it was as though somebody gave the center of the heavy wooden entry door a tremendous power kick we both looked at each other as if to say who would kick our door like that i couldn't jump up and run outside to investigate this mischievous person or persons not be able to catch up anybody uh not be able to catch anybody if they could make it outside quickly i told my wife in the morning i'll look at the footprint left behind to see if it could have been uh maybe a neighbor kid well the strange thing about it there were no sounds or footsteps or laughing before or after the knock the next morning my wife and i both looked at the door not so much as a smudge was on it who or what could have been quietly approached uh approached our front door making no noises of footsteps no talking then after kicking said door with all their might leaving no mark and just silently gone away no laughs no sounds of running no talking this event still creeps me out whenever i think of it our next story is the werewolf trials which is pretty interesting wherewolves are like probably my favorite cryptid of all we're all familiar with the witch trials of Salem but there were some werewolf trials as well before i jump into that though quick reminder what time is it now a little past six o'clock uh we still have about an hour and a half left for trick or treating here and i'll just i'll go on however long i want to but the cutoff time if you want to give to the battle the darkness campaign is midnight tonight and i believe that applies to your specific area so even though it might heat might might be midnight here in central time and kick off and cut off for me those in pacific time and mountain time might still have another hour or two hours even though it cuts off for me but i think it's midnight your area that cuts off regardless just to be safe if you're planning on giving please give now and if you'd rather you can just do a super chat and give while you're watching this youtube video you can give right there on youtube and all of that will also go to battle the darkness so either way it works for you today's the last day of the campaign though so and again thank you so much to everybody that's been doing it we met our two thousand dollar goal and we're we're over it now so thank you so much you guys are awesome so um looks like we have a couple more trick or treaters coming up so i'll wait to get started on this one it looks like we have uh looks like we have the mario brothers coming up oh my gosh they're coming they're coming from both directions maybe he's just eating them as he goes hey guys hey take a look at the camera right over there you guys can say hi to youtube everybody on youtube okay you give it away quite a bit because are you gonna have enough though for it to last okay okay all right here we go guys um the werewolf trials horrifying tales of torture decapitation and murder and those are just the acts committed by the accusers the Salem witch trials of 1692 remain among the most infamous episodes uh in an all in all of american history but across the sea in europe hundreds of years prior similar events took place this time involving persons accused of lycanthropy or shape-shifting into werewolves these guys stuck up on me i didn't see them coming telling ghost stories on youtube no you just there's a camera right there if you want to say hi say hi to the world it's tv i'm pretty sure that they'll all the cute comments worked for me though i'm pretty sure uh thank you okay according to mental floss the first recorded instance of anyone being accused and convicted of lycanthropy occurred in polini france in 1521 now as the story goes a supposed wolf attack led authorities to the home of michael verdun who after being arrested and tortured confessed to being aware of along with two other men pierre bourgo and filiburt montau bourgo also confessed and told authorities of a deal made with three men dressed in black who agreed to protect his sheep in exchange for the rejection of his belief in god and i'll pause there for a moment and use what happened we're gonna end up getting more trick-or-treaters and stories in well hi there how you doing hey now the mom and dad stuff is for me you're getting away the wrong stuff i don't think they can see that low that's okay it doesn't matter okay you got her okay okay you were talking about talking about the light bulb head or whatever he is he's coming over here we'll find out what exactly he is are you feeling a little lightheaded feel a little lightheaded right now just a little lightheaded okay never mind never mind you had to be there what had happened thank you so cool thank you all right here we go as i mentioned uh bourgo also confessed and told authorities of a deal he made with three men dressed in black who agreed to protect his sheep in exchange for the rejection of his belief in god he was given an ointment that allowed him to shape shift into a wolf during which time they would stulk the land killing and eating children all three men were found guilty and were executed shortly thereafter the accounts of lycanthropy that followed that first one are eerily similar in detail many of them involving ointments and deals struck with other worldly characters in 1598 a case of Frenchman Jacques roulette also known as the werewolf of cod involved the use of a transformational sav which roulette used a murder and then eat several young children although he was sentenced to death for his crimes a conviction of feeble mindedness instead sent him to an asylum where he received a religious education before being released just two years later the fate of peter stub a german man was not so fortunate after flat out confessing to having made a deal with the devil in which stub was gifted a belt allowing him to shape shift for the sake of killing and consuming countless victims over 25 years he was publicly executed in 1589 in a most gruesome way having his skin ripped away arms and legs broken and head removed before being burned following that a man named folkert dirks claimed that during amsford uh amersfoort och utredekt trials in the netherlands that he and his family were able to shape shift into wolves and cats under satan's command as did kanthi hans and his spouse who admitted to possessing the ability to turn into bears under satan's command though only after being tortured along with supposed deals with the devil cannibalism and another recur is another recurring theme among all of these lycanthropy cases including the 1573 execution of frenchman gills gardener who was accused of killing and cannibalizing children who ventured into his neck of the woods and later confessed to being a werewolf as many of these confessions of lycanthropy from gardener and only and others only came later long after the alleged incidents took place most believe them to be either coerced through the use of torture or attributable to the suspect's mental illness or low IQ prohibiting them from understanding exactly what they were confessing to whatever the case the christian people of europe at the time were opposed to peasantries practicing a paganism thus many believe these werewolf trials to have been nothing more than a scapegoat for widespread fear concerning occult and non-christian practices an example of the witch hunt mentality much like the witch trials that would occur in america a century later this brings us to the case of a teenage boy named hans who was tried during the werewolf trials in estonia with 18 trials accusing 18 men and 13 women of being werewolves over the years the case of young hans was perhaps the most famous only 18 years old when he was arrested in 1651 on charges of lycanthropy hans quickly confessed to the charges that were brought against him and we'll stop there for a moment as we have more hi youtube happy halloween okay hans admitted to having hunted as a werewolf for two years he told the court of a man in black who bit him shortly before the physical changes occurred many believe this man this man in black that is to be the devil and this mention of satanic forces qualified the werewolf to be tried as a witch and thus sentenced to death when asked by a judge whether he felt more like a man or an animal hans replied that he probably not unlike most 18 year olds felt like a wild beast and that the changes within him could be measured both physically and metaphysically we'll pause again all right batman oh no you could have gone right in front everybody everybody's going to your front how old is batman two like that's what a cute guy batman batman we're protected here at marlar manor because we got batman on the k on the case so we don't have to worry about anything we had the joker show up earlier now we know who's going to take care of him all right despite there being no physical evidence of any murders committed by he was sentenced to death simply on the grounds that satanic magic had been performed upon him while most of the accused never lived to see another day not all werewolves were guaranteed a death sentence such as 80 year old theus of colton brune claiming to be a hound of god these stated that he used his werewolf cloak to enter hell three nights a year where he battled devils and witches in order to ensure a good harvest for the next season as he never admitted to having made a pact with a demon in exchange for lycanthropy vice a feast that is was only convicted of practicing folk magic believed to encourage the rejection of god and was sentenced merely to a flogging a much lighter punishment that so many of history's supposed werewolves once had to endure okay good timing i just finished that story so uh we got some trick or treaters coming up i'll remind you real quick that uh you can still make a donation to battle the darkness if you want to help out with with depression and suicide prevention so it's pretty dark out here but i think the camera makes a lot makes a lot lighter so you get to see everybody you're welcome happy halloween to you happy halloween all right this next one we got another story from uh from a weird weirdo family member and they did not leave their name they gave this to us anonymously but it's called haunted psychosis i was born and raised in louisiana the state is well known for its colorful culture divine cuisine and of course spooky history as long as i can remember pretty much everywhere we lived was either haunted or several homes throughout the neighborhood were abandoned schools old factories crumbling houses practically everything was said to harbor one kind of spirit demon or other such boogins we moved around a lot as my parents looked for work but the place i call my hometown is st francisville louisiana this may sound familiar to those who follow the haunted house scene as this is the town where the legendary myrtles plantation resides it's been featured on unsolved mysteries national geographic and various other haunt hunter shows the national geographic explorer filming crew famously determined that in a photograph they took there is captured what appears to be an apparition you can actually see the image of a slave girl the exterior boards of the mansion are clearly visible through the body of the apparition pretty spooky and worth a google search the myrtles plantation was built in 1796 and it's touted as one of america's most haunted homes the main plantation house is rumored to be built on top of a tunica india tunica indian burial ground throughout the plantation that resides some 12 ghosts and is often reported that 10 murders occurred in the house itself for us over 200 years old i'm sure that part is no surprise one of these ghosts is said to be that of william drew winter who was alleged to have been shot by a stranger in 1871 mortally wounded he staggered back inside the house and died trying to climb the stairs he died on the 17th step and to this day both visitors and tour guides report hearing his dying footsteps struggling up the stairs several of my friends in town would tell me about their ghostly experiences one that stands out the most to me was from a friend whose house was built on land where some of the myrtles plantation slave quarters once stood as he went to his room one night to go to sleep he opened his bedroom door and as soon as he did he saw a pair of feet quickly shuffle underneath his bed as if the ghost were trying to quickly hide that story still freaks me out while there are many other stories from different friends i could share second hand i'd like to instead share with you the one scary thing that i personally have experienced having graduated high school and not possessing any clue as to what next to do with my life i took a job delivering pizzas my mom worked at a mental hospital the east louisiana state hospital next town over in jackson louisiana after several months of slinging pie and chauffeur in hot dough to non-tipping small town folk my mom let me know that they were hiring orderlies at the mental hospital and i suggest and she suggested that i apply heck yeah i was more than happy to do anything other than escort cheesy sticks to meth heads and poedunks i applied for the orderly position and was promptly hired i was told to show up for two weeks of training make sense this was a mental hospital i needed to know how to conduct myself how to properly treat the residents what to look out for and so on during the training we were taught how to check blood pressure how to properly apply restraints what to do in case of emergencies how to communicate with residents oh and that east louisiana state hospital was haunted i thought of course it is what isn't haunted in this wackadoo state what was originally known as the state insane asylum was established in 1847 honestly the main building is beautiful and it's considered to be a particularly fine example of greek revival architecture imagine an 1800s take on a white pillard ancient greek temple and you get the idea it was set on a pleasant 250 acre tract known as flower hill which stones throw away from downtown jackson separated from the town by a small stream how appropriate it's the live scream and we've got the scream ghost it's right there on youtube you're welcome happy halloween i hope you hope you know there's a car following you there that's got a creepy on halloween gotta watch out for those cars following you that's a good parent right there all right so uh okay so it was all right uh it was set on a pleasant 250 acre tract known as flowery hill which is which is a stones throw away from downtown jackson separated from the town by a small stream the location of its building was chosen because jackson is in a hilly well-drained location compared to the rest of the state it's relatively free of disease bearing mosquitoes which plagued asylums in new orleans originally it housed some 90 or so patients and employed 12 staff with a typical foresight of louisiana politicians the hospital was woefully under funded so the already suffering residents went without proper nutrition beds clothes other necessities right off the bat these already poor miserable souls were made to suffer even more patients who were deemed fit enough were made to work farmland to help feed the hospital as time went on a brick factory was built where the patients worked eventually after selling over three million bricks the state took notice of the facility and gave them funding enough to build on four more buildings the capacity of the hospital was increased from 100 patients to more than 600 in just one day the hospital received 130 inmates that were bused in from new orleans asylums as time passed and unclaimed patents would die they would be buried in a graveyard on the asylum grounds patent patients die i should have said i'm sorry as time passed and unclaimed patients would die they would be buried in a graveyard on the asylum grounds rows of nameless crosses denote the graves of past residents on the side of a hill at the rugged cross sanctuary in its 170 year history this graveyard has grown to hold over 4000 dead until very recently the burial grounds weren't even properly maintained they would make for restless spirits if i had to guess madness suffering displacement brutality and death the perfect recipe for the buildup of negative energies during my time working there i saw and heard many horrifying things on a daily basis i saw my first cadaver during a training tour of the morgue i witnessed patients scream and swat at the nothings attacking them some would laugh endlessly and jokes only they heard or point and babble at you with a rage i never knew existed in human capacity many were gentle many were gentle and calm even though they could move 800 pound concrete tables as that they were made of particle board because they didn't know what heavy means my co-workers would often share experiences that chilled my soul one of the places i was told about was called the dungeon it was built under the original hospital the dungeon was supposedly where the most violent or criminally insane were kept in the past in addition to the dungeon the hospital has steam tunnels too the ghostly plumes of evaporation lent an eerie air to the already uncomfortable aged asylum i worked the night shift during my breaks i would often walk around the grounds through and through the buildings the dungeon was no longer used and sat empty there was talk about turning it into a wine cellar but once a closer look was given to the structure it was deemed unsafe bolstering up the arches underneath the hospital was seen as too expensive the decision was made to just fill the whole thing in with dirt since i hadn't yet seen the dungeon i decided i should take a look before it was too late on the night i decided to go the door to the stairs leading down was blocked by by a caution tape it was quiet throughout the entire unused portion of this part of the building the only thing i could hear was my own heartbeat and breathing i don't know how long i stood in that dimly lit white hallway when i finally decided heck with it i want to check it out i pulled out the plastic ribbon blocking my way just high enough to get past and then started down the stairs were made of stone and as i descended had to hunch down some so i wouldn't smack my noggin on the ceiling as i continued down it began to feel very cold and clammy the human cold went straight to my bones and i began to shiver from the temperature change the corridor was musty and dank my mind began to reflect on all the people who must have come and gone through this very passage over the decades either willingly or in restraints frothing at the mouth singing loudly laughing and jibbering all of these sounds once echoed through this short tunnel all right at the bottom of the stairs the room opened up into a large brick chamber lined with arches the brick looked as if it had been suffering from decades of frequent water damage and i started to see why they wanted to fill it in the ceiling had cables running along the tops of them with dim yellow light bulbs dangling down every six feet it was so very quiet down here it's hard to believe what once took place in these walls i took a few steps forward and realized the floor was mostly dirt and small gravel the sound each crunchy step i took was unnerving i just knew someone would hear me and i'd get in trouble but i padded along walking heel to toe as softly as i could as i got closer to one of the walls i saw a wrought iron o-ring fastened at about head height for a moment i wondered what it was for and as i looked along the wall i saw more of them spaced evenly along the face of the wall and then it dawned on me these were to chain people up my god it really was a dungeon i could still see a bit of rust and wear on the bricks where the chains were once hung how many people have been forced to stay in this spot and dangle like so much unwanted meat imagine a row of people along each wall just hanging there and being put there by medical professionals of the era what hopeless times those must have been for the patients and the doctors there was no circulation down in the dungeon just cold dustier that smelled of decaying wood and brick dust bricks made by the hands of the mad those bricks then used to build this dark arched cavern whose only purpose was to house the most dangerous among them there was no medicine to help them no counseling to silence their affliction there was no hope for the dwellers in the dungeon they were sent to another level of the hell their minds were born into how many had perished in this cold darkness among the bellowing yelps of the insane these unfortunate souls were forced to stay there chained to frigid brick walls alongside other raving babbling confused and tormented minds until they fell silent and were deemed fit enough to ascend those stairs again and join the others above the more I thought about the suffering endured down there the more sad I became it was time for me to leave this antiquated pit my curiosity had been fulfilled I turned to walk towards the exit and she stood face to face with me eyes bulging mouth a gape she fell towards me in the twinkling of an eye I felt what she felt and thought what she thought nonsense droned incessantly between my ears and hundreds of voices barked out all manner of vile things I saw horrible visions then it was over I ran I'll stop it just a moment hi zebra I'm not a zebra you know a zebra oh no you're a white she's a white tiger yeah because zebras don't have whiskers bye guys what do you say you never get she never gives me extra candy when I get her name wrong oh she's a star now then it was over I ran I took strides in a rapid uncoordinated manner I didn't know I was capable of this wasn't me running this was my body on autopilot my subconscious flight reaction put its foot to the floor and while my mind was still shaking off the delusions and hallucinations my body fled I don't remember going back through that hall I don't think I touched a single stair back to the top the next thing I can remember is unlocking the ward that I was stationed to I was lucky that my co-worker wasn't at the front desk I had a moment to compose myself I finished my shift in silence I went through my duties robotically and trying to forget what I'd experienced but in doing so I was actually dwelling on it in the rosary first lights of the morning as I drove home she was on my heart in mind I cried all the way home I cried for her from that day to this I believe because she shared with me her malady I have gained a deep empathy for those who suffer all levels of mental illness my heart breaks for those who struggle with a life filled with what I experienced for those brief moments I soon decided to go to college and become a psychologist it didn't work out for me and maybe that's a good thing I don't know if I could ever harden my heart enough to properly shield myself from what others go through on that level East Louisiana State Hospital is still there today it houses some 500 patients and over a thousand doctors cooks and other staff the graveyard adds nameless crosses for more residents each year and the dungeon I don't know if they ever filled it in or not but if they didn't I truly hope they've locked it off all access for good hi hi I got it this bench is hurting my butt it's just hard so I'm going to use my stubbornly all that cold to me I know you're I'm gonna use my weird darkness shirt as a seat cushion that's okay I don't need it and uh that's okay I'll wash it later oh okay now there's a selling point right there weird darkness feels good on your butt there's a reason right there to shop the weird darkness store folks butt warmers okay hopefully guys are still hearing me this thing was knocked down all the way I want to put this in my pocket but I'm afraid Lamo means laughing my ass off Robin is not a techie she doesn't she doesn't spend a lot of time with cellophones and stuff like that so okay I'm sitting back down now after putting that in my pocket I know I actually at my pillow.com does have uh seat cushions or seat pillow things hey now um but they do they do actually have I've been meaning to to talk to them I think Dawn is the person that we that we work with over at my pillow and uh she said if I need anything just to let them know and send it to me because you know as the sponsor I could tell you guys about it and I just haven't done it really wishing yeah I could use one right about now okay um let's see the next one's the origin of Halloween but that seems kind of boring to me right now how about we go with Ouija boards I know you guys like that kind of stuff if I need to I can go if I run out of material I'll go back to the origin of Halloween but all right um oh again real quick reminder uh super chats if you're doing a super chat and you're deciding to give money to make a comment uh to have it show up longer um all all the super chats even though I can't I can't I can't reply to your super chats because of where we are how we're doing this right now um but still they're welcome and all okay cool all right um I figured maybe you guys are what the Ouija board more than just the history of Halloween so but anyway all the super chats are going towards the uh uh battle of the darkness campaign it's uh they're they're separate accounts but I'm going to put them all together and send them so uh you can do that and you can still give at weirddarkness.com click on battle the darkness so thank you very much guys okay so Ouija boards the novelty toy of the spirit world since the beginning of recorded time man has claimed to be able to communicate with the spirit world however it would not be until the heyday of the spiritualist movement that he would be trick or treaters again werewolf yes let me I'm gonna I'm gonna see it I'm gonna see it favorite monster of all time is a werewolf okay look at the camera right over there I show everybody too I'm on youtube right now so I love werewolves it looks like he's already gotten to you because you because all the meats ripped off your bones so did you already attack him oh you attacked him so so you're going to be a zombie werewolf yeah I'm telling ghost stories on on youtube for Halloween so but we're saying hi to all of our trick or treaters as they come by too yeah you can walk in front of the camera that's the whole point so people can see you I am why wouldn't lie to you yeah something I forgot to do to you do for you guys is to show you all the decorations before we got started I'll have to do that at the end of the broadcast I'll try to do that before I shut everything down so hey who's show is this anyway is it your show or mine that you have yours yours well it's uh it's called Bartler House but anyway here's here's a card the show that I'm doing it's called Weird Darkness and I tell tell ghost stories and stuff like that and you can get to my youtube channel if you just go to my website on this calling these cards there you do it that way so she we found a trick or treater who likes to play with Edgar Allen bones I told you Edgar Allen bones would make a make a an appearance tonight and we had to move in because he wouldn't stand he wouldn't sit up on this bench so he's he's greeting all the trick or treaters over on another another step oh yeah you can come on over happy Halloween guys thank you don't let the fame go to your heads now okay um it would not be until the heyday of spiritualism movement that the uh that I would begin claiming to do so as an everyday occurrence I'll take that as a compliment John candy is awesome I may just have to start this whole story over again is that Buzz Lightyear just right I'll just uh you're a real astronaut not a toy one I understand that makes sense bye guys nice to be escorted by a police officer everywhere you go yeah okay okay there's a typo in this that doesn't make much sense okay I'll start here the spiritualism movement that particular movement was founded by two young girls Kate and Maggie Fox who established a way to communicate with a ghost they used a series of knocks and wraps that answered yes and no and eventually assigned a code for letters of the alphabet in this way they were able to spell out longer and more detailed messages as spiritualism grew in popularity those with an interest began to establish what were called home circles small groups of friends and family members who would gather around an attempt to communicate with spirits they experimented with the knocking and rapping sounds uh uh and table tilting as a method of receiving yes or no answers from the spirit world soon the tiresome and time-consuming method of knocking and tipping tables began to fall out of fashion and so mediums began a new form of contact called automatic writing which uh provided a direct line of contact with spirits it was believed these ghosts would guide the medium's hands and spell out messages for the sitters who were present it soon replaced the slower method of communication and soon mediums claimed to receive more complex messages from the beyond I had to get to an end of a sentence hi he obviously has had way too much candy already I thought I was fat holy cow he's the big green give it to the kiddies oh funny I've got so much I've got to get rid of the extra that's all I'm trying to do because that's all my husband's everything that's left over goes to church thank you happy halloween thank you so much it's not bothering me so yeah thanks a lot while automatic writing was being embraced by mediums those who satisfied those who satisfied their curiosity about the spirit world and the home circles were also searching for a more efficient way to reach the other side than by wrapping on tables in 1853 a spend a french spiritualist named m planchette according to the stories anyway it should be noted that planchette in french translates to little plank making the story a little dubious invented a device that could do much more than tap on a table the planchette was a small heart-shaped table with pencils attached to its legs those who used it claimed that it operated by spirit force and ghosts wrote out messages from beyond the invention was often used by the mediums as a more elaborate form of automatic writing but it really didn't hold wide appeal for the general public however a short time later another invention would come along that could be used by everyone no experience was required no real psychic skills were needed this new device would revolutionize the spiritual movement and have an impact that still resounds today the talking board was born at the height of the spiritual movement a cabinet and coffin maker from maryland named ec rike created a new method of communicating with the dead he devised a wooden lap tray with the letters of the alphabet arranged in two lines across the center of the board below these letters he placed the numbers one through 10 and the words yes and no in each lower corner of the board he used the planchette with his board but removed the pencil tips and placed wooden pegs on the bottom of it making it free to move around the board it was always believed that rike named his board the weeja because the name represented the french and german words for yes wee and ja but that's probably not the case he believed the word weeja was the egyptian word for luck needless to say it's not but since he claimed to receive the word from a spirit on the board the name stuck but rike was more interested in spirits than making money and he sold the invention to his friend charles canard who soon founded the canard novelty company with borrowed money with borrowed excuse me he founded the canard novelty company with borrowed money and began producing the first commercial weeja boards around 1886 the first patent for a talking board was filed on may 28 1890 and listed charles canard and william h a maupin both of all of baltimore as the assignees the patent did not claim to know how the board worked it simply stated that it worked no effort was able uh it was able to be made to describe how the board worked if any of its advertising materials um making it seem even more mysterious and and mystical the less sad about the how and the more about the supposed results ensured that the board was imbued with spiritual powers shortly after the company started the shop manager william fold decided to go into business for himself he forced canard out of the business and changed the name to the weeja novelty company he began producing the folds talking board in record numbers and became a successful businessman he was a member of the baltimore general assembly in later life and remained in control of the company for the next 35 years fold died in a freak accident in 1927 it will stop there for the moment hi guys yeah it is a new stickers you're right it's a brand new stickers kind of good eye fold died in a freak accident in 1927 he was on the roof of a new factory supervising the erection of a flagpole when the metal support that he was holding on to failed and he fell from the roof breaking several ribs an ambulance was called to rush him to the hospital but on the way the ambulance lurched over a bump in the road which caused one of the broken ribs to pierce fold's heart killing him instantly opponents to the we should board have long used fold's death to give the board an eerie taint oh man that's the best way to travel right there carted around in a you know wagon that is the way to travel right there i'm reading ghost stories on youtube see right there there's a there's the camera right there i'm gonna i'll be a big star i have a podcast called weird darkness where i tell ghost stories and stuff like that well i decided to do it live on youtube for halloween just for fun so she's available for hiring out for all your modeling needs bye almost seven o'clock just come out still got about half an hour left okay is that all of it just the rest of it okay i think once we once we run out of candy that will probably shut this down because because if we leave the lights on people are going to continue coming up thinking we have candy and i won't so that would actually be foolish of me because then we'd get the trick side of the trick or treat so yes uh okay so the Ouija board was anything but a curse to fault's company it became the most successful talking board manufacturer of all time selling millions of boards as well as other toys and games falded created a new industry with the Ouija board which he claimed to have invented himself he started the apocryphal tales of the naming of the board using we and ja and claimed many of his successful sales plans came from the board itself his heirs maintained the company until 1966 when they sold out to parker brothers this company also known for their success with toys and especially board games produced not only reproductions of the fold board but also made a deluxe wooden edition of the board for a time today they hold all the patents and trademarks to the board and they still produce it in large numbers it's sold in novelty and toy stores today but remains a near duplicate of the board embraced by spiritualists in the 19th century a talking board or Ouija board if you prefer is perhaps the most controversial method of spirit communication imaginable mostly because it can be used by anyone and requires no special powers to navigate the board has been both condemned and praised in equal amounts as either a direct link to the dark side or a way to communicate with the other side but how does it work most scientists will tell you that the messages spelled out on a Ouija board is nothing more than the unconscious movements made by the people touching the pointer if this is true then the board is operated by nothing more than the power of suggestion others maintain there is a psychic element to it the board is powered by energy from the human mind spelling out accurate answers using a precognition telepathy or unknowing communication with actual spirits it's either a channel for psychic manipulation or a telephone link to the spirit world you choose jack skellington we're thinking we ought to leave him out until until christmas after all it is nine minutes before christmas i'll think the neighbors will like that though but that's cute yeah who cares happy halloween guys you look cute princess oh we got more coming up here too you got a you got a little spot right there on your costume okay i want to take care of that actually feel free to dub some right here for me and i'll i'll be more than happy to take those from you i'm reading ghost stories online uh on youtube oh you on my podcast oh that's that's that's fine that's what we're doing yeah that's why we set it up this way so people can see the trick of treaters oh okay well then we don't have him here he's not here oh i'm going to get him yeah what did you do with the cards right here oh really oh yeah well yeah you got to check out the channel okay sure i love you too i spent a lot spent a little too much time on youtube yeah like it's mad on youtube they make a lot of money how many followers you got uh well i've got uh a little over 13 000 nice right now but it's mostly the podcast that i do and youtube is sort of a side thing but uh but we decided just just for halloween night i'd do it live on youtube just for fun but this is actually a podcast that i normally do so because the guy following he's got a million subscribers oh yeah 100 000 yeah yeah he probably makes about 200 000 a year i have no idea there's there are a couple other guys that have like over 30 million it's it's insane the building house in Idaho yeah that had nothing to do with youtube with youtube though so it's either a channel for psychic manipulation or a telephone link to the spirit world you choose but then there are those who say with conviction that it's a lot simpler than that a Ouija board is a direct line to the spirits planchettes they say are moved by the direct force of of the spirits guiding the hands of the sitters the spiritualists believe to this as do some ghost hunters today feeling that the Ouija is an important tool in spirit contact both good and bad and this brings us to the reputation of the Ouija which has become pretty bad over the years especially among religious groups and the gullible they often cite the over wrought and usually unsubstantiated cases of so-called spirit possession that occur when after people use the Ouija they say that malevolent forces posing as friendly spirits possess board users i'm glad you guys are liking it it is just kind of fun um they say that malevolent forces posing as friendly spirits possess board users causing emotional damage and sanity and even suicide cue the spooky music if all that sounds like the plot of a cheap horror movie well it is such tales are urban legends friend of a friend stories that are told because they happen to a friend of mine's cousin's next door neighbor most of the stories about the dire effects of Ouija boards of Ouija board use that is have their roots in old newspaper stories printed around halloween or in religious propaganda tracks of the 1960s can using Ouija board be dangerous sure it can it's possible for someone to become dependent or obsessed with anything like religion for example i like to think the readers of this are smart so i'll let you decide for yourself if you want to put a Ouija board to use whether you choose to believe the board is a means of communicating with the dead or as scientists will tell you the planchette is moved by involuntary movements of the fingers of the people holding it up well that's up to you to decide the Ouija board will continue to be produced and will continue to fascinate and also terrify some people for many years to come me personally you can't pay me enough to play with a Ouija board no way no how uh-uh i gotta do it nope no thank you i'm not opening myself up to even the possibility i'm drinking more and more as uh 149 charlie charlie and creepy creepy pasta now the creepy pasta yeah that's something that i've not done i haven't done a lot of creepy pastas i used to do them uh early on and i don't do them a lot now so if you guys want to leave a note there let me know if you want if you like the creepy pastas if you want that let me know uh of course creepy pastas they're just fiction stories so they're not real so i've tried to keep it down to just real stories but if you like creepy pastas maybe i'll do like one a week or something maybe creepy pasta thursday or something um as walbert stopped and i'm talking about you you're chatting again quit real quick reminder today is the last day for the battle of the darkness fundraiser campaign uh so if you do want to make a donation if you've been thinking about it praying about it now would be the time to do it if you're a procrastinator and you're waiting till the last minute it's the last minute so yeah come on in come on in wait everybody so um yeah so if you guys have been been wanting to donate um that'd be a great way to do it and the camera adds 10 pounds too it's still and he's still skinning bones um yeah also the super chats those are going towards depression and uh suicide prevention uh tonight as well so either way you want to do that i i know it sounds like i'm repeating myself over and over but it is the last day so i just want to make sure everybody has an opportunity um i had another weirdo family member rory rory cavanaugh sent me a story called the old mill and then i have we'll see if i have another one by a a weirdo i don't think i have any more weirdos after that i do have one about the movie the changeling which is based on the true story by troy taylor one of my favorite authors so i might do that next so okay anyway but well let's go with a weirdo family member story rory cavanaugh sent in the old mill ten years ago my wife and i bought an old mill that was built in 1876 it's situated right on the the river gate in herford shire and while this building is indeed old there has been a mill of some sort on this site as evidence in the domesday book in in 1086 the mill has been abandoned for some time but it's a sturdy building with brick walls that are two feet thick and it only required work to the roof in order to protect it from the elements before we could begin making it into a home once the roof repair was completed i set about the extensive internal remodeling myself the open space of the interior was cleared of junk but during their structural work on the interior i found plenty of old artifacts under the floorboards relating to the days when this was a working victorian mill including enormous light bulbs which i left where i found them so as not to disturb the vibe of the building too much other large pieces of cast iron including hogs chains hooks and flywheels have been painted and mounted on the outbuildings and in the gardens as decorative items hi guys happy halloween i wanted to go away say i did don't you do it oh you're too generous i don't want this in the like we had candy for three months because you please just place it in the voiceover studio when we're done i'll eat the rest of it no no no no okay while i was preparing the old ceilings and i found hessian sacks filled with old herbs and seeds that had been hidden under the ceilings and nailed to the joyses in each corner of the building i figured that they were possibly an old remedy to keep vermin or bugs in bay but i also wondered if they weren't an old talisman to ward off something else those i did dispose of as the contents were black with age i did google what they might have been for but couldn't find anything that related to my search queries during the interior building work when the flood when the flood boards have been pulled up so that i could access the void to fit new pipes and electrical cabling i keep my tools together in one place as i'd fashioned a central platform so that i didn't drop anything into the sub floor below i put down a screwdriver drill bit chisel etc and when i went back for it again it'd be gone more trick-or-treaters yay well hello there oh that's a great joker that looks really good hi there oh the flash the flash nice dc universe family there and we got another one coming up see these are rebels they don't even care about sidewalks and driveways they're just going to go right through the grass doesn't bother us at all yeah i got jacks kellington you say thank you let's say hi to youtube say hi youtube broadcasting live telling ghost stories online okay then don't wave they're all waving at you they're gonna they're gonna be offended that you didn't wave back you look great that's a great costume happy halloween good night okay i put down a screw driver drill bit chisel etc and when i went back for it again it'd be gone i get down off my ladder and search the immediate area that it maybe could have fallen onto but whatever was gone was never visible after going to my toolbox and getting a replacement i'd carry on with the work but when things were put down they kept disappearing the missing tool would always then reappear either by the end of the day or the next day and always where i had previously looked after a while it is happening i decided to just use whatever tool that was still there and if need be move on to another job instead this carried on for the duration of the building work but when we moved in and the place was fully decorated and furnished things still kept going missing and continue to do so for example last october just after halloween my wife lost an alice band that had five life-size fake red roses around the top it's a pretty distinctive item and she worn it as part of her day of the dead halloween costume we just sat out loud to the house okay we know it'll turn up but don't keep it for too long please several months later in early spring of this year my wife took a saucepan off the kitchen shelf and the band was inside this is a saucepan we have used two or three times a week so we just laughed and thanked the house for returning it even if it did take a long time most recently i lost a pair of sky blue swimming shorts that i thought i'd left on holiday i turned all the clothes drawers out and even took the suitcases out of the garage to see if they'd been left inside but eventually gave them up as having been left behind in spain after a month or so i opened my underwear drawer one morning and the shorts were lying there right on top they hadn't been there the night before and i used that drawer every day when we had first moved in we started to hear what sounded like murmured voices in the back rooms and what sounded like footsteps in the corridor in the back rooms there's a large weir directly outside the back room window with an open mill race that used to drive the large mill wheel the wheel is no longer there but we wondered if the constant sound of the rushing water might be mistaken for the voices we could also hear footsteps from upstairs when we were both downstairs knowing the amount of new wooden flooring that i had replaced we dismissed the sounds as the wood just expanding due to temperature changes but it's still happening now 10 years afterwards it's pretty clear to us now that these are in fact footsteps we'll often be sitting watching tv and hear footsteps walk from the back of the house down the corridor past the kitchen and stop as if somebody has joined us in the living room where we just used to ask each other did you hear that too my wife and i now just look at each other as it's such a regular thing last summer i was lying on our bed on a sunny sunny on a sunny saturday morning reading while my wife was out of yoga and i was home alone i heard three loud knocks on the bedroom door and i thought that perhaps my wife had come home without me hearing and had come upstairs and knocked on the door i jumped out of bed and walked to the door but when i opened it there was nobody there the weird occurrences aren't just limited to noises either when my son and daughter were around eight or nine they'd stay over at the weekends and would often ask me in the morning why i'd been standing in the doorway of their bedroom looking in on them in the night i hadn't another time my wife went to the bathroom in the night and passed my son's room we have a uh ceiling sensor that turns on a dim light at night when you walk down the corridor and in the low light she saw a figure standing in his bedroom doorway and assumed it was him he's six foot two also needing the bathroom at the same time she said i'll only be a minute and when she walked back past his room the doorway was empty so she poked her head in to tell him the bathroom was now free but my son was lying in bed fast asleep and clearly had been for quite some time a couple years back i woke in the early morning hours to the sound of somebody trying to put a plug into the electrical socket in the adjoining bedroom where my son was sleeping we'll stop there for just a moment here we go there you go no more monkey business tonight okay uh oh uh oh we got if you want to grab the peanuts from from my uh office you can those those individual planter peanuts things that you bought um on uh on my uh office office desk far right hand drawers the middle one or yeah the middle one i think okay since we're out of candy this will have to be the last story otherwise we're gonna have kids continually coming up so i'll finish this up here a couple years back i woke in the early hours to the sound of somebody trying to put a plug into the electrical socket in the adjoining bedroom where my son was sleeping it's an unmistakable sound but it was going on for ages as if someone was having difficulty actually getting the plug to go in as it was around two or three a.m and a school night i jumped out of bed and stormed into his room ready to berate him for still being up and for waking me up okay okay this will be my last story i'm gonna wrap it up here so last one yeah that's what i was telling everybody so he was lying in bed fast asleep and there was no way he could have made it from the plug socket and run to his bed without me hearing plus he was 17 at the time so he wouldn't have felt the need to pretend he wasn't him we also experienced doors opening and closing around the property i reused the original mill doors for the internal rooms and they are farm style doors made from solid oak beams two inches thick and each door so we can keep so we can keep going i don't have any more candy left hey it's it's a lot better than giving away raisins raisins were one of the worst things people could give out that's not candy i'm sorry raisins are not what and we were out you're right we don't want to give out peanuts either i mean that would be like the great pumpkin version of coal in the stocking i guess give me rocks um okay we keep i keep getting off track here on this last story because i know it's the last one we keep getting i reused the original mill doors for the internal rooms and they are farm style doors made from solid oak beams two inches thick and each door weighs around 50 kilograms or 110 pounds due to their weight they are impossible to move just from typical airflow or drafts plus the fact that they still have the original latch openers which you have to depress with your thumb in order to lift the bar out of a one inch recess but still they unlatch and open wide and often close behind you these experiences are pretty regular but we've become used to them and really only comment on something that's really out of the norm honestly none of this has ever made us feel uncomfortable or threatened hearing one of the doors unlatch does give me a bit of a jutter but i suppose that given the amount of activity that this location has seen over a thousand years it's inevitable that traces are left behind i'd like to think that whatever shares the place with us is just intrigued by our modern life and makes itself known every now and then i do wonder exactly where the missing items go when we can't find them but as long as they come back i can't really complain our home has a bright and positive essence aside from the odd guest or two from time to time the end all right guys well yeah since we are out of candy um and it is almost 730 it's actually like 720 here central time and the trick of treating hours around here is supposed to end at 730 anyway so the kids are going to stop coming by and my voices are going it's uh and also i think i've been quiet about it for a little while but my butt is killing me so we're going to call it quits now i get a big thanks by the way to uh nuga leatherworks for bring for uh making this three ring binder for me they just they he did it just because he was a nice guy and he's a fan of the show and uh i just think that's awesome i really appreciate stanley doing that and you can find nuga uh whether whether looks leatherworks uh on my website on the sponsors page so again last chance for me to tell you uh the battle the darkness is still going on until midnight tonight so if you want to make a donation please do i'll be thanking people in tomorrow's podcast um so uh if you if you want to make a donation that way you can and also uh thank you for everybody if you did any super chats thank you for those i really appreciate that um this is our third year now here at weird darkness and i can't tell you how much this is meant to me this really is just been incredible so uh i love you all you're definitely part of the weirdo family um thank you good night and god bless you know what it's weird darkness i have to i have to leave you with a with a with a light no don't i i'm sorry i almost forgot now that we're coming out of the darkness um i'll leave you with a little light Psalm 23 verse 4 even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me i'm your creator and host darren marlar thanks for joining me for the weird darkness live scream 2018 good night everybody