TRX | S5E17 | EERIE

It’s that time of year again, when summer fades away and the nights get longer. We are now well into the spooky season with Halloween right around the corner. Join us today as we begin our Fractured Fall Festival of Fun. This is Season 5, Episode 17: EERIE

This is my favorite time of year where the unbearably hot and humid summer here in the greater Cut-N-Shoot area starts to die off and we get a break in the high temperatures. It’s the time of year I miss my home state of Kentucky most of all. Where I’m from there is an actual autumn with the leaves turning such beautiful colors and a crisp bite to the air in October. We don’t quite get that here in the south and I miss it terribly. We don’t get chilly weather until late November or early December but we do get a break from 90 to 100 degree weather and still I love it.

My favorite month used to be October until moving here and now I think it’s November. I just love the time you can enjoy being outside without risking heatstroke or hypothermia. But October is the official spooky season month so it’s still one of my top favorites. So, in the spirit of October and upcoming Halloween we are bringing you stories today that are eerie and spooky. We’ll be talking about some crazy Halloween laws, wild deathbed confessions, and other eerie stories. 

This is a topic that we have touched on before. As we are nearing the end of October, you might want to go back and listen to these previous episodes to help you get into that eerie mood.

S1E07 | SPOOKY  An Ancient Castle built to keep things in, a Death Whistle, Lost Children and a Prophetic Dream; these are just some of the spooky things we explored in this episode.

S2E02 | SUPERSTITION From talismans, amulets, and salt thrown over the shoulder, Superstitions will have you knocking on wood.

S2E23 | CURIOUSLY INTERRED Weird burial customs, odd gravestones and those who are Curiously Interred.

S3E23 | CREEPY  These stories included strange deaths, broomsticks, and Halloween in Japan.

HALLOWEEN LAWS

Well, Halloween is coming up. (Banter about our memories of Halloween) Does your neighborhood or community have any rules about trick or treating? Some places do. From a British website called the University of Law we find an interesting article about Halloween Laws. 

In the state of Alabama, it is illegal to dress up like a priest or nun for Halloween. In an impressively long run-on sentence the state code states, ‘Whoever, being in a public place, fraudulently pretends by garb or outward array to be a minister of any religion, or nun, priest, rabbi or another member of the clergy, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or confinement in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”

Back in 2017 several communities were complaining of rogue clown attacks. These were not actually professional clowns, mind you, but ordinary trouble makers in clown garb. Well, the people in the French village of Vendragues (Vroon droggy) made it illegal for anyone to dress as a clown for Halloween or for the entire month of November. 

In the town of Bellville, Missouri, you can’t ask for candy on Halloween if you have passed the eighth grade or the age of an eighth grader (usually between 13-14 years old), enforcing the opinion that trick-or-treating is for children only. In Chesapeake, Virginia you must be 12 or younger. 

In Rehoboth,(rah-ho-buth)  Delaware it’s illegal to celebrate Halloween on Halloween day if October 31 falls on Sunday. The coastal town has prohibited celebrating the occasion on Sundays, meaning all festivities must take place on October 30. Further restrictions limit any trick-or-treating to be carried out between the hours of 6-8 PM. Break the law and you could be fined up to $150.

Now we always hear that in Hollywood anything goes. Well, not quite. The use, sale, possession or even distribution of silly string is prohibited in Hollywood, California from 12:00 AM on October 31 until 12:00 PM on November 1. You could be fined up to $1000 for just holding the can.

In Forsyth, Illinois visitors can only approach houses with exterior lights on, or they face an up to $750 fine. Many towns have stated hours that Trick or Treating can occur. In Newport News, Virginia or Bathurst, New Brunswick in Canada the hours are set between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. Fines can be levied for those caught out after 8:00 p.m.

The country of Jordan has made Halloween and its celebrations illegal. You can’t celebrate or attend Halloween celebrations. In 2015 the U.S Embassy in Jordan warned: “The U.S. Embassy advises that U.S. citizens traveling from their home to a Halloween party, or vice versa, cover up their costumes while in public or in a car.”

MADAME TUSSAUD

Have you ever heard of a woman named Marie Grosholtz? Probably not, but you may have heard of her much more famous professional name. Oh, let’s just hold off on that for a minute and see if you can figure it out. 

Marie came from an interesting family. She grew up in France in the late 1700s. Several of her relatives were professional executioners which was a good occupation to have during the French Revolution. Her widowed mother worked for a gentleman named Phillip Curtius who was a well-known artist and wax maker. He used wax as his artistic medium.  This was an era when the forming of wax facial masks was a popular way of replicating a person’s likeness. Death masks were common, but living persons also had facial recreations done for themselves. Wax heads mounted on costumed mannequin bodies became a sort of real-time political commentary for Parisians in salons like those Curtius operated. As Marie grew, she would assist Mr. Curtius in his work, and she became very skilled at it herself.

When the French Revolution began in 1789 the wax mask business was brisk. Marie was not exactly the sort of girl who dreamed of white lace and piano lessons: instead, she honed her skills making death masks from guillotined heads during the French Revolution. Her skill brought her in contact with people in high positions as well as brutal criminals. The work required equal comfort in palaces and in prisons, and a certain ease with the grotesque: She later wrote that she sat, “on the steps of the Exhibition, with the bloody heads on her knees, taking the impressions of their features.” Among the most famous of her impressions is that of Marie Antoinette immediately following her beheading. 

Success in waxworks involved not only artistic skill and patience, but an ear to the ground and fast feet. When Charlotte Corday murdered the radical Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub, Marie got to the scene so fast, the killer was still being processed by law enforcement. She started work on Marat’s death mask as his body still lay in the tub.

By 1802 at age 40 Marie was married with two children. Her no-good husband appeared to only be skilled at spending her money, so she packed up her two sons and slipped out of France and went to England. She carried along with her a couple of trunks filled with her collection of death masks and wax moldings. With these in tow Marie developed a traveling exhibition showcasing her images of the famous and infamous alike. Her traveling show became wildly popular in England. Her popularity enabled her to enlarge her collection as anybody who was anybody was getting their likeness recreated with Marie’s mask molds. Lords, Ladies, Noblemen, and even Royalty came to Marie to get waxed. 

In 1835 at the age of 74 Marie stopped the traveling show and set up a permanent location in Baker Street in London. The Baker Street gallery featured a 5,000-square-foot grand salon, covered in ornate drapery and offering comfortable seating where visitors could take in the sculptures which were helpfully flattered by large mirrors on the walls, reflecting the figures from every angle. 

OK, have you guessed who Marie is? Well, she is none other than that incredibly successful artist and famous business woman, Madame Tussaud. Madame Tussaud’s Wax Gallery became one of the most popular locations in London. Visitors to the city would always arrange time for a tour. 

Madame Tussaud knew that the public, then as now, would go nuts for two things—royal fever and horror shows—and she gladly provided immersion in both. In February of 1840 Queen Victoria married her beloved Prince Albert. The marriage inspired Madame Tussaud to put together a Royal Display recreating Prince Albert sliding the ring onto the Queen’s finger. Tussaud’s royal connections garnered her an exact duplicate of Queen Victoria’s wedding dress to enliven the wax figures. This display was part of the Grand Gallery where the tasteful exhibits were displayed. 

But there was another room. The official name of this room was the Chamber of Horrors, but polite society simply referred to it as the “Adjoining” or “Other Room”. The Chamber of Horrors paid tribute to the French Revolution with a working scale-model guillotine, and the heads of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Robespierre—the latter grimly squashed in to reflect his botched suicide attempt. Other displays in this room included an array of British murderers cast from life at their trials, among them James Rush, executed for the triple murder of his landlord and family. Also featured were William Burke and William Hare who were known for committing murders and then selling the bodies to medical schools. Marie cast Burke’s head three hours after his execution in 1829. Hare turned King’s evidence and escaped the gallows, but was modeled from life by Tussaud’s sons, who had by that time joined her in business.

Some were critical of Tussaud’s exhibits claiming that they were vile and vulgar. Tussaud disagreed. Claiming that she was providing a great public service she wrote, “Madame Tussaud, in offering this little Work to the Public, has endeavored to blend utility and amusement. The exhibits contain a general outline of the history of each character which will not only increase the pleasure to be derived from a mere view of the figures, but will also convey to the minds of young persons much biographical knowledge—a branch of education universally allowed to be of the highest importance.” 

Madame Marie Tussaud died in 1850 at the age of 89 with the distinction of creating England’s most popular tourist attraction. Her sons continued the operation after her death. Today Madame Tussauds Wax Museums is still going strong with more than twenty locations worldwide. Quite a legacy for an amazing woman. 

This information came from Atlas Obscura as well as madametusauds.com

OUIJA BOARD

In our aforementioned episode called Creepy (S3E23) we talked about the Fox Sisters. Back in 1848 these sisters claimed that they could summon the dead to talk to them via a series of pops and crackling sounds. They became a sensation in New York and New England as large crowds of paying guests came to watch them interpret the spirits. After a few years, the sisters were renounced by an older sister as being phonies. It turns out that the pops and cracks that accompanied their performances were actually being created by their toe knuckles. Nevertheless, the Fox Sisters set off a wave of interest in spiritualism in the U.S. The Spiritualism Craze gave rise to mediums and spiritualists throughout the country as well as charlatans who saw an opportunity to make a quick buck. The onset of the Civil War fueled further interest in making contact with the dead as thousands of citizens lost family members in the conflict. Even First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln held a séance in the White House after the death of their eleven-year-old son. The interest was so great that people began to complain that it took too long to get an appointment with a medium. What was needed was a short cut way to contact the dead without going through a spiritualist. Enter the Kenard Novelty Company.

In 1886, the Associated Press reported on a new phenomenon taking over the spiritualists’ camps in Ohio, the talking board. Charles Kennard of Baltimore, Maryland decided to jump on the opportunity. He pulled together a group of four other investors to start the Kennard Novelty Company to exclusively make and market these new talking boards. OK, the boards didn’t actually talk, but they displayed the letters of the alphabet and numbers from 0 – 9, and a planchette which was a hand-held device which pointed out the answers. None of the men were spiritualists, really, but they were all keen businessmen, and they’d identified a niche. However, they didn’t know what to call it. 

The Kennard Talking Board was tried at first, but it lacked flair. According to the notes from the first meeting, the investors decided to ask the board itself what it should be called. The planchette spelled out Ouiji which it said meant Good Luck. (Contrary to popular belief, “Ouija” is not a combination of the French for “yes,” oui, and the German ja.) Maybe this story is true and maybe not. It is also known that the sister of one of the major investors was a great admirer of a women’s activist named Ouida. Perhaps Ouija came from a misunderstanding of that name. 

One more hurdle remained, the U.S. Patent Office. There, the chief patent officer demanded a demonstration. If the board could accurately spell out his name, which was supposed to be unknown, he’d allow the patent application to proceed. The board performed well and spelled out the name of the patent officer. It just so happened that one of the Kenard’s Co. executives knew the man’s first name and possibly helped spell it out. Nevertheless, that demonstration was sufficient though to convince the Patent Officer. The patent was issued and Kenard and Co. began raking in the dough. 

By 1892, the Kennard Novelty Company grew from one factory in Baltimore to two in Baltimore, two in New York, two in Chicago and one in London. Sales were booming as the idea of “Skip the Medium” took hold. Mediums and Spiritualists were not in favor of the new shortcut because it cut deeply into their bottom line. 

Ouija stayed on the fringe of American culture, perennially popular, mysterious, interesting and usually non-threatening. That is, until 1973. In that year a movie called The Exorcist scared the pants off people in theaters. In the story a 12-year-old girl named Regan was possessed by a demon after she was playing with a Ouija board by herself. This changed how people saw the board. Before The Exorcist, film and TV depictions of the Ouija board were usually jokey, hokey, and silly. I Love Lucy, for example, featured a 1951 episode in which Lucy and Ethel host a séance using the Ouija board. But after The Exorcist Ouija became a tool of the devil and, for that reason, a tool of horror writers and moviemakers. 

The following years saw the Ouija board denounced by religious groups as Satan’s preferred method of communication. Christian religious groups still remain wary of the board, citing scripture denouncing communication with spirits through mediums. Catholic.com calls the Ouija board “far from harmless”. 

But the real question, the one everyone wants to know, is how do Ouija boards work? According to researchers, Ouija boards are not powered by spirits or even demons. They are powered by us, even when we protest that we’re not doing it. Ouija boards work on a principle known as the ideometer effect. In short, these are automatic muscular movements that take place without the conscious will. So, in other words, as you move the planchette around the board your subconscious brain triggers a slight tremor that your conscious brain detects as coming from somewhere outside of your own being. You might believe that it is coming to you from a different realm, but it actually came from within yourself. Dr. Chris French, a professor of psychology at Goldsmiths University in London states, “It can generate a very strong impression that the movement is being caused by some outside agency, but it’s not.” Some researchers are using the Ouija Board in tests in attempts to learn more about the ideometer effect, and how it may be used in medical research. 

In spite of this scientific explanation, Ouiji boards remain big sellers and continue to show up in popular movies and television series. The Kennard Novelty Company was purchased by Parker Brothers which was later purchased by Hasbro. They continue to manufacture a variety of Ouija Boards. They say that sales often tick up in times of uncertainty such as the recent Pandemic. Evidently people are looking for something to believe in.

This information came from Smithsonian.com

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RADIO NUMBERS

When I was a kid one of my favorite possessions was a Sony a.m. transistor radio. I spent many a happy night sitting in my backyard under a starry Texas sky listening to music, baseball games, and other interesting content on that radio. Earlier this year in our S5E8 titled Edison and Tesla we talked about the Tesla Coil which enables radio communications. That Sony must have had a very good Tesla Coil because it could pick up signals from stations as far away as Chicago. However, the quality of the a.m. signal can appear to be a bit eerie as it fades in and out from time to time. A clear signal could fade out and be replaced by static or by a strange tone which increased and then decreased in pitch. 

Well at the same time I was listening to my radio some people in England were listening to theirs also, but they were picking up something entirely different. From allthatsinteresting.com we learn that at the height of the Cold War many radio listeners accidentally stumbled into some rather unnerving programming. These creepy broadcasts would typically begin with a strange melody or several beeps and were followed by the voice of a woman or child reciting seemingly random numbers.

These transmissions played routinely and lasted for several minutes on frequencies that listeners dubbed “numbers stations.” The phenomenon spawned a fringe group of radio listeners dedicated to solving the mystery of who was sending these broadcasts and why. The most prevalent theory among the amateur sleuths tracking these numbers stations is that the mysterious broadcasts were actually coded messages used in espionage operations across the globe. This explanation appears to make sense according to a writer named Nigel West who specializes in espionage. Quoting Nigel, “Nobody has found a more convenient and expedient way of communicating with an agent in denied areas — a territory where it is difficult to use a consensual form of communications.” He maintains that the broadcasts are coded messages to spies. 

One station known as The Buzzer has been sending out mysterious broadcasts since the Cold War. It features two buzzes at the top of every hour followed by a monotonous drone between every 21st and 34th minute during daylight hours. A voice follows, reading a string of numbers, words, or names in Russian like “Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman.” It was initially believed that the broadcast was set up by Soviet authorities. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the strange radio broadcast only became more active. And they are still going on today. Still there has been no official explanation about the numbers stations. 

Again, this information came from allthatsintetesting.com

DEATHBED CONFESSIONS

The Ancient Romans had a saying “memento mori” which translated means, “Remember, you must die.” While most of us try to prolong life and postpone death as long as we can, we all must face that final certainty. For some people, reaching the point of death is a good time to unburden themselves of dark secrets they have been carrying around for years. Known as deathbed confessions, these final statements may be made to clear their conscience or perhaps to benefit those left behind. From listverse.com we find some interesting deathbed confessions. 

Let’s begin with the case of Naaman Diller. In 1983, the costliest theft in Israel’s history saw 106 timepieces worth millions of dollars disappear from a Jerusalem museum. Included in the timepieces was a pocket watch made for Marie Antoinette which is valued at more than $30 million. The case remained unsolved for more than 20 years. Then in 2006 a Tel Aviv jeweler informed local police that he had purchased a collection of forty watches from an anonymous individual through a lawyer intermediary. Many of the watches in the collection were from that 1983 heist. The investigation led police to a woman in Los Angeles named Nili Shamrat. Upon further investigation it was discovered that Nili Shamrat was the widow of a recently deceased man named Naaman Diller. Israeli police recognized that name as a prominent burglar from the1960s. A search of Shamrat’s home turned up more missing watches including the Marie Antoinette watch. Evidently on his deathbed, Naaman Diller had confessed to his wife that he stole the watches in the 1983 heist. He gave her directions as to how to locate the watches and that she should try to sell them if she needed money. The wife was not arrested, but the watches were returned to the Jerusalem Museum. 

We’re going way back in time for this one, and in fact we are not certain that this person actually existed. Bjorn Ironside was supposedly a Viking king who ruled what is now Sweden sometime in the 9th Century AD. He also doubled as a raider and frequently organized surprise attacks into cities in Europe and North Africa. 

One of his most infamous raids occurred when he partnered with another Viking called Hastein to attack the Italian city of Luni, which they mistook for Rome. The raid started with a siege. However, the duo quickly realized that the city was well defended against assault. So they decided to trick their way in. 

Hastein sent a message to the priest of Luni claiming that Bjorn was near death and had requested a Christian funeral. The priest agreed and allowed some Viking pallbearers to carry Bjorn’s body into Luni. Once there, Bjorn leapt out of his coffin and fought his way to the city gates alongside the Viking soldiers disguised as pallbearers. However, they soon realized that they had attacked the wrong city. “Ooops! Sorry, my bad,” said Bjorn.

Now I’m guessing that most everyone has at one time or another seen the famous 1934 black and white photograph that is purported to be the Loch Ness Monster. This photo came about because a number of sightings had been reported of the so-called monster. A London newspaper called the Daily Mail hired a local hunter named Marmaduke Wetherell to investigate the claims. Wetherell found some huge tracks leading to the lake that he proudly displayed to the press. When the Natural History Museum investigated, they quickly discovered that the footprints were a hoax. Wetherell was humiliated when the newspaper reported this and for being fooled by the prank. What happened next remained a secret for the next sixty years. 

Wetherell convinced his stepson Christian Spurling to help him create a model that would fool the public. Spurling was a professional model builder. He started with a toy submarine and then added a long neck and small head. The submarine would putter along below the surface with the neck part sticking out about a foot above. Wetherell then went down to the lake and took some pictures of the “monster”. To add respectability to the hoax he convinced an acquaintance named Dr. Wilson to develop the photo and sell it to the Daily Mail. For decades this photo was considered to be the best evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. In 1994 at the age of 93 and near death Christian Spurling confessed that the photo taken 60 years ago was indeed a hoax conjured up by his stepfather. 

Now here is an interesting deathbed confession with a twist. In 1977 James Brewer was arrested in Tennessee on suspicion of killing his neighbor in a fit of jealous rage. Brewer jumped bail and fled to Oklahoma where he and his wife began a new life together under the names Michael and Dorothy Anderson. They joined a church and had children. She even taught a Bible class at the church. Three decades went by. Then in 2009, Brewer had a serious stroke and before dying he felt compelled to confess to the crime that had weighed on his conscience for over 3 decades. His wife then called the Police Department to the hospital saying her husband wanted to confess to a murder. Brewer confessed to his crime with the help of his wife who had to translate due to the effects of the stroke. The police took down the information and contacted authorities in Tennessee. It was assumed that the case would be closed upon Brewer’s death. Only one problem, he didn’t die. He experienced a miraculous recovery. Seeing that his wife was an accomplice to his escape, both Brewer and his wife were arrested and returned to Tennessee. He is still serving time there today.

Another strange case comes to us from New Zealand. In 2018 a cancer patient told his doctor that he had some confessions to make. He added that he would only disclose the information on the condition that the doctor promise never to tell anyone else. The doctor agreed. The man—identified only with the pseudonym “Shaun”—claimed that he had been a gun for hire who was responsible for several murders across New Zealand in the 1960s. The doctor kept his secret. However, several medical and law researchers figured out who Shaun was. This generated a controversy that split medical practitioners into two groups. One supported the doctor who kept the secret, while the other wanted the doctor to reveal it. The situation became more complicated when Shaun recovered unexpectedly and was actually released from the hospital to a nursing home. 

This final deathbed confession has a Hollywood connection. William Desmond Taylor was an actor and a top US film director of silent films in the early days of Hollywood. When Taylor was shot to death in 1922 it became one of Hollywood’s most famous scandals and mysteries. 

Forty-two years later in 1964 an obscure old woman who was living in the Hollywood Hills began having chest pains and summoned her friend who lived next door. The friend was away but her son came to help. The chest pains began to increase, and it was looking like the end was near. She had asked for a priest to come, but he hadn’t arrived yet, so she began confessing to her neighbor’s son. As she was dying on her kitchen floor, she said she was a silent film actress by the name of Margaret Gibson and that she shot and killed a man named William Desmond Taylor. She is alleged to have been involved romantically with Taylor but a motive as to why she killed him was never mentioned. Taylor’s murder remains officially unsolved however the one thing that stands out is that Gibson had absolutely nothing to gain by her confession. You can see Gibson and Taylor perform in a short silent movie called The Kiss. 

In an interesting side note, the terrific 1950 classic film noir pic Sunset Boulevard pays homage to Taylor in that the leading character’s name Nora Desmond is taken from Taylor’s middle name (Desmond) and one of his actress friends Mabel Normand.

Again this info came from listverse.com

27 CLUB

In our final story we are going to talk about a coincidence that has gained traction to have its own meaning. In two short years spanning July 3, 1969 and July 3, 1971 the music world lost four of its most popular performers. Brian Jones, one of the founders and the lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones drowned mysteriously on July 3, 1969. Then on September 18, 1970 the great guitarist Jimi Hendrix died from complications of a drug overdose. Just two weeks later Janis Joplin also died of a drug overdose. Then the following July 3rd Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors died of heart failure also likely related to drug use. Though these deaths occurred in different locations there is one thing that they have in common. All four performers were 27 years old at the time of their deaths. 

The fact that all these performers died at age 27 came to be, and remains, a perennial subject of popular culture lore. Dubbed the 27 Club, these deaths gave rise to an urban myth that celebrity passings are more common at age 27. Is there any truth in this myth? Wikipedia includes a list of more than sixty young performers that died at age 27 since those original four. Not all of these were musicians as some were actors, athletes, and other personalities including Pat Tilman who was a football player who joined the Army and died from a friendly fire incident in Iraq. Most of those named on the list were minor celebrities, but nevertheless it is an impressive list which lends to the belief that young entertainers are more likely to die at the age of 27. So, is there any truth to this?

Well, a British study examined the death ages of over a thousand musicians and performers in order to determine if there was any truth to the myth. They found a slight uptick in the number of deaths at the ages of 27, but an equal uptick at ages 25 and 32. Moreover they found a higher spike in the number of deaths of musicians at the age of 56. They concluded that there was no evidence to suggest that young entertainers are more likely to die at age 27. Still the urban myth of the 27 Club prevails. 

According to Wikipedia the myth really took off after the 1994 death of Kurt Kobain who took his life just a month after turning 27. In his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington Kobain’s mother told a local reporter, "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club. I told him not to join that stupid club." 

It has been suggested that there may be an element of self-fulfilling prophecy about the 27 Club. Some have even suggested that Kobain timed his death in order to join the 27 Club. However, his biographer Charles Cross dismissed that idea noting that Kobain had numerous drug overdoses and suicide attempts in the years prior to his death. Then in 2011 attention to the 27 Club was rekindled when singer / song writer Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning. Two years prior she had told her assistant that she was afraid that she would “join the club.” 

A statement from the British study mentioned earlier makes an appropriate summation of this topic. "Fame may increase the risk of death among musicians, but this risk is not limited to age 27.”

This information came from the National Library of Medicine and also from Wikipedia.

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