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HOUR ONE: In June of 2009 a man calling himself Peter Bergmann checked in to a hotel in Sligo Town. Five days later his body was found on Rosses Point Beach. But Peter Bergmann was not Peter Bergmann \u2013 so who was he? (The Peter Bergmann Mystery) *** Sharing stories from people who are frightened by a bump in the night or a strange shadow on the wall in their bedroom is one thing, but when you get professional ghost hunters telling of the scariest experiences they\u2019ve had, you know it has to be some freaky stuff. (Scariest Experiences of Ghost Hunters)
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HOUR TWO: Jeannie Saffin already had a tough life, being born with a birth defect that stunted her mental growth, leaving her with the mind of a child, never getting married and having kids, never dating\u2026 but that all pales in comparison to how she died: bursting into flames for no apparent reason. Was Jeannie Saffin the victim of spontaneous human combustion? (The Spontaneous Combustion of Jeannie Saffin) *** Sometimes it\u2019s easy to get a girl to go out with you \u2013 just be polite and ask. Some men resort to cheesy pickup lines thinking it will help their chances. But one man chose to call upon a woman in a very unusual way\u2026 by purchasing a gravestone. (Pitching Woo With a Tombstone) *** If a man demands his girlfriend give up the baby they conceived, otherwise he would no longer be with the woman \u2013 what is that newborn\u2019s mother to do? Sadly, Emily Dunn made the wrong decision \u2013 with tragic results. (The Durbin Baby Murder) *** The transplanting of an organ is almost a routine procedure now in the 21st century \u2013 even doing a transplant of an arm or a leg isn\u2019t uncommon. But when you talk about transplanting a living head onto a dead body \u2013 that\u2019s when things get tricky. But Robert White thought it could be done \u2013 and even tried doing it. (The Man Who Wanted To Do a Head Transplant) *** Imagine getting onto a plane and once in the air finding out that the pilot wasn\u2019t qualified to fly that kind of plane \u2013 and that he was only there because the original pilot wasn\u2019t available due to being dead. That\u2019s what happened in 1934 on the boat, the SS Morro Castle. And it was the beginning of tragedy after tragedy. (Mystery, Mismanagement, and Mayhem on the SS Morro Castle)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: More of the scariest experiences of ghost hunters! *** I\u2019ll tell you about that time when a dam failed \u2013 and because of it, people were legally allowed to marry the dead. And still do to this day. (That Time A Failed Dam Led to Marrying Corpses) *** Personal experiences of those who have stayed at the Wolf Creek Inn, plus some hard evidence, seems to indicate that spirits who haunt the place are not only benign in nature, but even protect the guests and owners from other malevolent spirits which roam there as well. (Haunts at Wolf Creek Inn)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT\u2019S SHOW:
\u201cMystery, Mismanagement, and Mayhem on the SS Morro Castle\u201d by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/56jb9c7j
\u201cThe Man Who Wanted To Do a Head Transplant\u201d by Gary Krist for the Washington Post: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39d2k9pw
\u201cThe Durbin Baby Murder\u201d posted at Murders In History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/c96z9kst
\u201cPitching Woo With a Tombstone\u201d from the New York Journal, posted at The Victorian Book of the Dead website:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utw6vh45
\u201cThe Spontaneous Combustion of Jeannie Saffin\u201d by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/e6as67fn
\u201cThat Time A Failed Dam Led to Marrying Corpses\u201d by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/zyrxx43k
\u201cScariest Experiences of Ghost Hunters\u201d by Amanda Ashley for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7tx3a2t
\u201cHaunts at Wolf Creek Inn\u201d posted at HauntedHouses.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yadzm4ae
\u201cThe Peter Bergmann Mystery\u201d by Rosita Boland for Irish Times: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9b44kfs
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