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HOME SWEET HAUNTED HOME: True Stories of Haunted Houses People Have Owned or Sold
The Amityville house and the Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring have both been sold, and so has a Los Angeles home that a retired LAPD detective ties to his own father and the Black Dahlia murder. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HomeSweetHauntedHome READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7zyfsmy FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Are you brave enough to live in a haunted house? If so, and you’re ready to make a move, you might find a good deal in one of the homes I’m about to tell you about. (They Sold Their Haunted Houses) *** The Nazca Lines of Peru span for miles and are visible only from the sky. These mysterious designs have sparked theories ranging from astronomical markers to extraterrestrial landing strips, challenging our understanding of ancient civilizations. We’ll look at the mystery behind them – and consider a few theories for their existence. (Mystery of the Nazca Lines) *** Armin Meiwes placed a personal ad for a volunteer. He was looking for someone to give themselves over to him… to eat. It’s one of the most infamous cases of modern cannibalism. (The Cannibal Who Placed a Personal Ad) *** On May 28, 1903, Dr. Francis J. Tumblety, a man with a deep-seated hatred for women and surgical skills, died in St. Louis. Intriguingly, Tumblety was in London during the gruesome Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, sparking speculation that he might be the infamous slasher. (Was Jack The Ripper From St. Louis?) *** Imagine a duel between two women. One a princess, the other a countess. Now picture them dueling topless. It really happened… and the reason for the duel? A disagreement over flower arrangements. (The Topless Duel Between Two Ladies) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:28.929 = Show Open 00:3:48.289 = They Sold Their Haunted Houses 00:24:13.718 = The Mystery of the Nazca Lines *** 00:34:32.503 = Was Jack The Ripper From St. Louis? 00:47:50.258 = The Topless Duel Between Ladies *** 01:02:14.046 = The Cannibal Who Placed a Personal Ad *** 01:07:54.857 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “They Sold Their Haunted Houses” source: Sonja Ska, Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2ezeefr9 “The Mystery of the Nazca Lines” source: Marcus Lowth, UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9dumsu “The Cannibal Who Placed a Personal Ad” source: The Scare Chamber, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3vy977m8 “Was Jack The Ripper From St. Louis?” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yyj892ws “The Topless Duel Between Ladies” source: Genevieve Carlton, Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdcs6zuk (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 12, 2024 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen . • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL Weird Darkness tours haunted houses that have gone up for sale, then visits Peru's Nazca Lines, a Jack the Ripper suspect who died in St. Louis, a topless sword duel between two noblewomen, and the German cannibal Armin Meiwes. It opens with haunted houses on the market, including the Amityville house where Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in 1974, a Nyack, New York, Victorian that a state appeals court ruled haunted in 1991, and the Rhode Island farmhouse behind The Conjuring, which sold for $1.5 million in 2021. From there, the episode heads to Peru, where figures like the Nazca Lines' hummingbird and so-called Astronaut were scraped into the desert floor sometime between 500 BC and AD 500, and the explanations run from astronomical markers and rain rituals to Erich von Däniken's landing strips for ancient astronauts. Next is Dr. Francis J. Tumblety, a patent-medicine seller with no medical degree who, by a Washington lawyer's account, kept women's uteruses in jars; he jumped bail after a London arrest during the 1888 Whitechapel murders and died in St. Louis on May 28th, 1903. After that, newspapers in 1892 reported a rapier duel in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, between Princess Pauline von Metternich and Countess Anastasia Kielmannsegg over the flowers for a Vienna exhibition, both women stripped to the waist on a doctor's advice that cloth driven into a wound could cause infection. The episode closes in Rotenburg, Germany, where Armin Meiwes advertised on the Cannibal Cafe forum for a man to kill and eat and found Berlin engineer Bernd Brandes, whose death in March 2001 he filmed. Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.
