96 - The Cult of the Great Eleven, Part One

In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/
Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/
Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Closing music by Soma.
SOURCES
Oregon Daily Journal, August 5, 1917.
“Body of Cult Priestess Discovered Under House.” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1929.
“Police Probing Weird Burial by Cult.” Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, October 7, 1929.
“Priestess Snubs Ex-Swain.” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 1929.
“Rhoads is Known at Klamath Falls.” Salem Statesman Journal, October 10, 1929.
“Vancouver Marriage Licenses.” Oregon Daily Journal, May 28, 1915.
Fort, Samuel. Cult of the Great Eleven. Omaha: Nisirtu Publishing, 2019.
Fremont Everett - Facts (ancestry.com)
Ruth Angeline Wieland - Facts (ancestry.com)

95 - The Disappearance of the Naronic

The White Star Line lost many ships over the years, most famously the Titanic in 1912.  But over its century of existence, it had only one ship vanish without a trace.  Did it sink in a storm?  Explode due to its volatile cargo?  This is the story of the Naronic.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDarkness
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agable_fd/
Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/
Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Closing music by Soma.
SOURCES
“Another Naronic Hoax.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 3, 1893.
“Fears for Ocean Steamers.” Delaware Gazette and State Journal, March 9, 1893.
“Is She Still Afloat?” Wilkes-Barre Record,March 8, 1893.
“Nine Sailors Saved.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893.
“No News of the Naronic.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 8, 1893.
“No Tidings of the Naronic.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893.
“Put Into Halifax.” Boston Globe, February 26, 1893.
“Regarded as a Hoax.” Norfolk Virginian, March 31, 1893.
“Rosseau Admits He Sent Dynamite to Liner.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 1905.
“Rosseau, Dynamiter, Guilty, the Jury Says.” New York Times, March 28, 1905.
“She is Lost.” Boston Globe, March 20, 1893.
“The Naronic.” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (Aus.), August 30, 1893.
“The Naronic's Boat Picked Up.” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (Aus.), January 18, 1894.
”The Naronic Mystery.” The Australian Star, March 27, 1893.
“Thinks They Blew Up Maine.” New York Times, March 29, 1905.
“To Dynamite British Ships.” Kendrick (ID) Gazette, January 20, 1905.
“Toilers of the Sea.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 25, 1893.
“What To Do With Cranks.” New York Times, January 17, 1905.
“With an Infernal Machine Man Called at Kelly Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 1905.
What Happened to the Naronic? (titanic-whitestarships.com)
NARONIC MYSTERY UPDATED. | Waratah Revisited
Ever wonder what Frederick the Great is doing in Carlisle? - pennlive.com