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I only met him once, but it was a good day.
Pastor Jimmy Morrow of the Edwina Church of God in Jesus Christ’s Name, in Tennessee, invited our group of outsiders to sit in on his church services - without judgment - for a day of songs, sermons, and serpents.
Rest in peace.
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Only known photograph of The Poe Toaster - a mysterious stranger who, from the 1930s through 2010, would leave three roses and a bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave every year on the anniversary of author's birthday (January 19, 1809). This photo appeared in a 1990 issue of Life Magazine. The spectral visitor has since abandoned its haunt and the tradition has been replaced by a less spooky and more family friendly tourism event.
Fifty-five years ago today - at 4:58pm on December 15, 1967, while full of rush-hour traffic - the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsed. Forty-six people died in what remains the deadliest bridge disaster in American history.
Read more about the disaster, it’s surprising musical history, and it’s link to a dark moth-monster entity:
A half-century ago, a disc jockey turned ordained minister, best known for his upbeat ditties about deceased dictators and Soviet spacecrafts, penned a touching musical memorial to the victims of a tragic accident, which may or may not have been foretold (or even caused by) the presence of a demonic winged entity with glowing red eyes. This is the story of the Silver Bridge Disaster Memorial Album. GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH The Silver Bridge was a gleaming suspension bridge over the Ohio River, conne
Ninety-four years ago tonight, on the night of November 27, 1928, a troubled trio - who believed they had been hexed by local powwow/folk magic doctor Nelson Rehmeyer - bound, beat, and murdered the man in his home in an attempt to remove the witch curse.
https://www.haint.blue/post/a-long-lost-friend-murder-and-magic-at-southern-pennsylvania-s-hex-house
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Somewhere in south-central Pennsylvania, a family is worried. A child has fallen ill and shows no signs of improving. After a fair amount of hand-wringing and soul-searching, a man enters the house to fetch the remedy – not medicine, not a doctor, but a short passage from a small book. Its pages contain neither the telephone number of a trusted physician nor the recipe for a therapeutic elixir, but nonetheless hold a tried and true method of healing. Quite simply, it’s faith. Without a word, the
Marlin Perkins of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” fame describes his search for the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, in the Himalayas with Sir Edmund Hillary…as they got sidetracked while working on a new feline distemper vaccine.
Read and listen on Haint.Blue at https://www.haint.blue/post/we-got-the-beast-marlin-perkins-cures-cats-and-searches-for-snowmen
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Norden Laboratories - Vinyl 7” - 33 1/3 rpm - 1961 Tracklist A – Does The Abominable Snowman Exist?* B – The Facts About Felocine Essentially a commercial for Norden Laboratories’ new “one-CC, one-dose tissue culture feline distemper vaccine,” starring Marlin Perkins of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” fame. Why are we even discussing this? The vaccine was developed, so we’re told, by isolating the virus in a Himalayan snow leopard, which naturally leads into discussion of Perkins’ infamous trip
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