Montague Summers – The Priest Who Hunted Vampires, Witches, and Werewolves” #WeirdDarkness

Dressed like a 17th-century priest and armed with a library of ancient texts, Montague Summers devoted his life to proving that witches, vampires, and werewolves weren’t just folklore — they were terrifyingly real.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Can a priest believe in witches, werewolves, and vampires? The answer is yes – and his name was Montague Summers. Was he a kook, or was he seeing the truth that others ignored? (Montague Summers Believed in Monsters) *** He smiled without speaking, appeared alongside UFOs, and promised to return – who, or what, was the mysterious Indrid Cold? (The Grinning Man – The Legend of Indrid Cold) *** Somewhere out there, another version of you made a different choice – that’s the multiverse theory. And the key to proving it could lie in changing someone else’s history. (Visiting Our Neighbors in a Parallel Universe) *** Anatoli Bugorski accidentally stuck his head in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator in 1978; he saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns, and somehow lived to tell about it. (The Man Who Survived An Atomic Blast Through His Skull) *** In 1971, a massive glowing sphere hovered silently over a U.S. Navy carrier — and for twenty minutes, the entire ship went dark. (Code Black: The USS Kennedy UFO Incident) *** She was a Houston socialite raised like royalty, but Joan Robinson Hill’s glittering life came to a mysterious end – followed by affairs, secret autopsies, a sensational trial, and a murder that still raises more questions than answers. (Murder in Texas: The Strange Death of Joan Robinson Hill) *** Imagine calling 911 because a perfectly healthy and alive loved one insists they’re dead – and wants to be taken to the morgue to join the other corpses! (Walking Dead: The Syndrome That Makes You Think You Are Deceased) *** Locals whisper about witches and shadows at Blood’s Point Cemetery, but the real horror lies in a forgotten tragedy no ghost story could match. (The Witch, The Shadow, and the Secrets of Bloods Point)

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:19.350 = Show Open
00:04:01.662 = Montague Summers Believed In Monsters
00:12:33.941 = Visiting Our Next Door Neighbors in a Parallel Universe ***
00:16:55.866 = Code Black: The USS Kennedy UFO Incident
00:27:48.566 = Murder in Texas: The Strange Death of Joan Robinson Hill ***
00:36:51.664 = The Man Who Survived An Atomic Blast Through His Skull
00:40:06.356 = Walking Dead: The Syndrome That Makes You Think You Are Deceased
00:46:04.042 = The Witch, The Shadow, and the Secrets of Bloods Point ***
00:51:53.221 = The Grinning Man: The Legend of Indrid Cold
01:05:38.345 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“Code Black: The USS Kennedy UFO Incident”: https://rense.com/ufo/kennedy.htm,