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The North Korean Abduction Project
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01/13/24 • 45 min
In late 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese citizens are vanishing without a trace. These are ordinary folks - a high school girl walking home from badminton practice, a couple on a romantic beach stroll, just regular people living their lives.
For years, these disappearances are shrouded in mystery. Families are left wondering, the public is baffled, and there are all sorts of theories floating around but without substantiation.
Fast forward to 2002. In a stunning revelation, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il admits, yes, North Korean agents had abducted these Japanese citizens. Why? This is where it gets chilling. North Korea was using these abductees to train their spies in Japanese language and culture. You're taken from your homeland to become a living textbook for foreign spies.
The number of abductees is a bit murky. North Korea initially admits to 13, but Japan says it could be much higher. Five of these abductees were eventually allowed to return to Japan, but the fate of the others remains a matter of dispute and heartache. North Korea insists some have died or never entered the country, but Japan has long doubted these claims.
This whole saga creates a massive diplomatic storm. It strains North Korea's relations with Japan big time, not to mention the pain and uncertainty for the families involved. Even today, it's a sensitive and unresolved issue, with Japan still seeking answers and North Korea often brushing it off.
Listen to learn about the entire history of the North Korean Abduction Project.
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07/06/21 • 42 min
So where did the idea of using an artificial electrical impulse to control the heartbeat begin? Well, as with most scientific progress, there’s a long chain of contributors, but I want to talk today about a transformational role played by an inquisitive man from Minneapolis, Minnesota named Earl Bakken; and the inspiration he got from a movie he saw when he was just a little boy.
Listen To find out more about:
- How Mary Shelly's Frankenstein influenced the invention of the pacemaker.
- The Life of Mary Shelly, and the circumstances that lead to her writing Frankenstein
- How Earl Bakken and other scientists invented the pacemaker
- Earl Bakken (credited inventor of the pacemaker) and his life
- The first battery and how it was invented
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Sources
REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING:
Tufts Now: Think you know your Frankenstein?
Thought Co: Frankenstein Themes, Symbols, and Literary Devices
New York Times: Earl E Bakken Obituary
Eetimes: Pacemaker was born of a blackout
Csoonline: What are the security implications of Elon Musk’s neuralink?
NBC News: Elon Musk’s Neuralink puts Chips in Pigs Brains
Edu News: Remembering Earl Bakken
Sickness in Time by MF Thomas Podcast
Killafornia Dreaming Podcast by Roseanne Sinclair
MUSIC:
Chemical Chains by Empyreal Glow
Parliament’s Crisis by Cody Martin
Pins and Needles by Tide Electric
Weeping Toothcrust by Isaac Joel
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Brontosaurs in the Congo
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10/20/24 • 52 min
Could Dinosaurs Still Roam the Congo's Jungle? Venture deep into the heart of the Congo where whispers of the prehistoric refuse to fade.
Brontosaurs in the Congo takes you on a riveting journey alongside intrepid explorers who come face-to-face with the impossible: a living legend surfacing from the depths of Lake Tele. Witness the astonishing encounter that challenges our understanding of time and nature.
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The Rise & Fall of the Airship Italia
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11/22/22 • 57 min
In 1925, Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole failed and his two planes were force to land on the ice without reaching their destination. His team of six barely to civilization aboard a single, stripped down plane. Amundsen, already a seasoned explorer, decided that he’d never again allow himself to be stuck on the ice. A year later, he successfully reached the North Pole aboard the Airship Norge, alongside American Lincoln Ellsworth and Italian airship designer, Umberto Nobile. Conflict among these men finally broke into the open as the Norge struggled back to civilization, barely surviving a terrible storm over Alaska. Then, in 1928 Nobile set out to reach the North Pole again, this time for the sole honor of his country, aboard an Italian named airship of his design with an Italian crew. But this trip would be beset with trials and horrific events that make the disaster of the Airship Italia one that haunts arctic explorers to this day.
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The Russian Chessboard Killer
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03/11/23 • 71 min
I visited Moscow a few years ago for a My Dark Path research trip so I could finish the mini-series about the Secrets of the Soviets. Those episodes, like Stalin’s Bunker 42 and Soviet Psychic Spies, are available for My Dark Path Plus subscribers on Patreon. In addition to these stories, I also found other stories that were more contemporary, not only from the dark Soviet era. Those stories include that of the Chessboard Killer, a serial murderer who killed scores of people around the Bitsevsky Park between 1992 and 2006.
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Haunted Dolls
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04/27/21 • 47 min
In Singapore, there’s a park known as the Haw Par Villa, an expansive theme park filled with over 1,000 statues, and hundreds of detailed three-dimensional dioramas. Of course, lots of parks have statues and memorials of people from history. But these dioramas set Haw Par Villa apart; and make it a much wilder, much stranger place. At the epicenter of the park is the Ten Courts of Hell. It’s a self-guided tour through the experiences one would expect from hell. Or at least, the Hell imagined by the multicultural mythology that makes Singapore so unique. While the purpose of the park was to show children the consequences of their bad behavior, the implementation created something rather dark and foreboding. And now, the park has gained a reputation as haunted.
So, perhaps it’s not a surprise that some of these spooky statues and dioramas are thought to be haunted. But what about haunted dolls? How does something created for a sweet and innocent purpose, something that provides comfort and safety to so many, come to get such an evil reputation? In a world with so many dolls, how does one single doll become infamous?
Learn more about the history of three famous haunted dolls; Peggy (who inspired the story of Annebelle), Robert & the girl-doll of the Yesterdays’ Museum.
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References
Peggy & Annabelle:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160522230945/http://www.warrens.net/annabelle.html
- https://www.nhregister.com/lifestyle/article/Real-Annabelle-story-shared-by-Lorraine-11382545.php
- https://www.glamour.com/story/real-story-behind-annabelle
Robert:
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-doll
- https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/key-west/robert-the-doll
Pediophobia & the Yesterdays’ Museum:
- Antoinette May, Haunted Houses of California
- Eva Marie Simms, “Uncanny Dolls” New Literary History 27.4 (1996): 663-677.
Music:
- Sportscenter, Ghost Beatz
- Brenner, Falls
- Falling, Alice in Winter
- Stranger Danger, Alternate Endings
- Onward, Chelsea McGough
- Perfect Spades, Third Age, Nu Alkemi$t
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Wright House Murders
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08/17/21 • 39 min
If you trace the dark path back through Wright’s life and work, there is a very good reason why he changed his design philosophy so radically. When Frank Lloyd Wright built the home he thought represented his ultimate dream, it became the site of a nightmare he could never escape.
Listen to Learn More about:
- The Murderer that killed a family and entire staff in Frank Lloyd Wright's home.
- The personal life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright
- Architecture like The Guggenheim, Ennis House, and Taliesin
- Frank Lloyd Wright's early career and rise to fame
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MUSIC:
Falls by Brenner
Epic by Louis Lion
Lights Out by The Europa Protoharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Shadow Passage by Cody Martin
Crest and Mantle by Wicked Cinema
What You Do Not Know by Joshua Spacht
Perfect Spades by Third Age
REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING/MEDIA:
Architect Magazine
History: The Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright’s love Cottage
Mental Floss: Gifts for True Crime Fans
Washington Post: He Burned Frank Lloyd Wright’s House and Killed his Mistress
Wisn: Motive for Murders at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home Still a Mystery
NY Daily News: Wright Mare Massacre Frank Lloyd Home
Messy Nessy Chic: Murder in the Blueprints of Frank Lloyd Wright
Washington Post: Outlook he Burned Frank Lloyd Wright’s House and Killed his Mistress— But Why?
NY Post: Frank Lloyd Wright was a House Builder and Homewrecker
Architecture Digest: Frank Lloyd Wright Facts
Sfgate: The Secret Curse of Owning a Frank Lloyd WrightHarpers: Plagued by Fire- The dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Site: John Storer House
LA Times: Best House Photogallery
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The False Messiah and the Years of Lead
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06/22/21 • 45 min
It’s one of the darkest stories we’ve told here – the story of a man who became famous for saying he saw a UFO, and who became a terrorist because his own government invited him to. The UFO wasn’t real, but the bombings, terror, and death that followed – they’re as real as it gets.
Listen to learn more about:
1. Cult psychology
2. Aladino Felix's UFO Sighting
3. The former Brazilian government leaders that secretly supported a cult
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REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING (more found on website):
Publica: Atentados de direita fomentaram AI-5
The Guardian: Brazil cult leader who 'contacted aliens' backed dictatorship with terror attacks
Kraspedon Contact Claims
Mysterious Universe: Investigation Finds Brazilian UFO Cult Leader Was a Terrorist
The Guardian: Brazil President Weeps
Encyclopedia: Krasperdon, Dino
Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s
Penn Today: Cult or Religious Movement
Eccentric Lives and Particular Notions by John Michell
USC NEWS: Powerful Years for Religion
Archive of Freeservers
Aladino Félix: From Contactee to Terrorist
Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s
Religion in Brazils Free Market Faith
Dino Kraspedon: MY CONTACT WITH FLYING SAUCERS
MUSIC:
Golden by Midnight Daydream
Brenner by Falls
The Grid by Cody Martin
Miles Away by Michael Briguglio
Departure by Alice in Winter
Lucid Dreaming by Elision
Perfect Spades by Third Age
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Genuine Fakes
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04/13/21 • 35 min
Once upon a time, I was in Shanghai, and I needed a birthday present for a friend.
Shanghai is a captivating city; one I love to visit. I always enjoy my time there. It’s vibrantly alive with culture, history, and commerce. For many years it was called “The Paris of the East,” due to its cosmopolitanism, and its sophistication. I love it so much that my next novel, Like Clockwork, is based in this incredible city. On this particular day on this particular trip, I went to the shopping district around Nanjing Road. There are so many little shops and stalls mixed with western brands crowding the marketplace that you can easily lose your bearings if you’re not careful.
...I picked up a so-called “Rolex” that I thought my friend would love, and examined it while the shopkeeper promised to make me a good price.
“Is it real?” I asked, jokingly.
“If you cannot tell the difference,” she asked, “does it matter?”
Listen to learn more about
- Four Treasuries Project – an entire library of books, meant to gather a comprehensive record of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature.
- The creation of the Beijing Opera, a complex art from that combines song, dance, acrobatics, mime, acting, elaborate makeup and costumes, telling stories of romance, war, heroism and villainy.
- How the performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Tokyo by Chinese students brought western theater styles to China.
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The Forgotten Games of the Modern Olympics
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07/20/21 • 48 min
At the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, anyone who showed up on the day of competition would have an opportunity to compete.
And as for what events they would compete in? The classical Olympics were more than sporting events: they included poetry readings, debates, art, theatre, diplomatic meetings between sworn enemies. And Pierre de Coubertin wanted all of this in the modern Games.
This created an argument which, in some respects, carries on today: What constitutes an official Olympic Event? And that’s what we’re exploring in this first of two Olympic episodes on My Dark Path. These are the unusual, the forgotten and the absurd events run at the modern Games. Let’s see how deep we can dive – by the way, seeing how deep you could dive was one of the events...
Listen to Learn More About:
- Forgotten Sporting events like rope climbing, tug of war, croquet, and angling
- Forgotten Olympic art competitions like architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture
- Father of the modern Olympics Pierre de Coubertin
- Successful amateur Olympic competitor Spyridon Louis
READINGS AND ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
“9 Really Strange Sports That Are No Longer In The Olympics” (TIME)
“Going For The Gold” When Town Planning Was An Olympic Competition”
“Live Pigeon Shooting and Other Odd Olympic Games” (NPR)
“Live Pigeon Shootng” (Top End Sports)
“Pigeon Racing in 1900” (Top End Sports)
“Plunge for Distance” (Wikipedia)
“Rope Climbing At the Olympic Game” (Top End Sports)
“The 10 Strangest Olympic Sports” (CNN)
“Thirteen Ridiculous Sports that Used To Be Part of the Olympic Games”
(24/7 Wallstreet; reblogged by Business Insider)
“Weird and Forgotten Olympic Sports” (How They Play)
MUSIC:
Stuck in Reverse by Bryant Lowry
I Will Deliver by Strength to Last
Derming of Unity by Cody Martin
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FAQ
How many episodes does My Dark Path have?
My Dark Path currently has 67 episodes available.
What topics does My Dark Path cover?
The podcast is about Hauntings, Society & Culture, Biography, True Crime, Paranormal, Documentary, Podcasts, Ghosts, Science, Espionage, Military History and Ufo.
What is the most popular episode on My Dark Path?
The episode title 'The North Korean Abduction Project' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on My Dark Path?
The average episode length on My Dark Path is 44 minutes.
How often are episodes of My Dark Path released?
Episodes of My Dark Path are typically released every 14 days, 17 hours.
When was the first episode of My Dark Path?
The first episode of My Dark Path was released on Nov 25, 2020.
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