My Dark Path

Learn about the  unsettling details of one of the most famous unsolved cases.   Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

Learn about the intriguing history of Ed & Lorraine Warren and their connection to Amityville. Distance - Louis Lion Brenner - Falls Bloodline - Stephen Keech Quiet Strength - Moments Aquaducts - Falls Spooked - jshirts Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

In this continuation of the Amityville Horror, learn more about the details the remained out of the public eye and the fabricated story of the Lutz's claims that the house was haunted. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

Learn how the story of one of the most infamous mass murders in American history  has been distorted over time.  Join us to explore the crime that started the legend of the Amityville Horror. Song credits: Stroke of Midnight - Falls Brenner - Falls At the Stroke of Midnight - Moments Isolation Kevin - Graham Taped - Acreage Hallowed Halls - Moments Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https:...

In this episode we illuminate this dark path to learn more about the mysteries behind alien greys and what really happened to the Hills all those years ago. Listen to learn more about:  How the Hills were allegedly hypnotized and tested by otherworldly beings. How people use the trauma of others to gain fame and profit. How fact and fiction merge when our minds want to make sense of the universe. ...

Travel this dark path to learn how love, crime, and fire became a story that continues to resonate in Japan today. Listen to learn more about:  How the Japanese fear and respect flames. The crimes of Yaoya Oshichi, and how they changed the history of Japan forever. How the writer, Ihara Saikaku, single handedly rewrote history.  Songs in the episode: When Tomorrow Comes - Moments Brenner - Falls S...

One of the deadliest plants is parsley - but not for the reasons you might think. Travel this dark path to learn more about how parsley played a role in a horrible tragedy in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Read MF Thomas' novels Like Clockwork https://amzn.to/417lOzy Arcade https://amzn.to/4aTpisx A Sickness in Time https://amzn.to/41apSPK Seeing by Moonlight ...

Travel this dark path to learn more about the dangers of the discovery of the Northwest Passage.  Listen to Learn More About: Sir John Franklin, a captain who searched for the Northwest Passage Erebus McClure and the discovery of the Northwest Passage Kensal Green, the oldest of the Magnificent 7 Cemeteries See full show notes at mydarkpath.com Music Loyalty by Tru Genesis Brenner by Falls Heart C...

Come walk this  dark path of mistrust and persecution to learn more about the history of Christianity In Japan and Christian traditions unique to their culture.  Listen To learn More about: The Japanese tomb for Jesus Christ  The largest rebelion in Japanese history, Shimabara Rebellion, and why it happened   Early Christian Missionaries in Japan  Japanese leaders like Toyotomi Hideyoshi and  Toku...

Join us on this week's dark path into the lives of people in witness security, and learn more about the Italian Mafia on the way. Listen to Learn More About: —Notable Mafia members like Salvatore Maranzano, who established the five dominant Mafia families, and Joseph Barbra, a powerful mafia leader that established  a famous soda company still around today —Mafia terms like Costra Nostra and...

Come walk this dark path with us and plunge into the history of spies. Learn from MF Thomas'  first hand experiences  about the uncrackable codes used to transmit information at ‘number stations.’ Listen To Learn More about: 1. Number Stations and how they allow spies to transfer information 2. Real life spies, Kendall and Gwen Myers 3. The North Korean Broadcast that stirred up alarm 4. “The...

You probably know a lot about the Salem witch trials, but did you know that it was not the site of the first witchcraft trial in the colonial United States? Accused witches had been appearing in New England courtrooms for half a century. In many ways, Salem was the last gasp, the most notorious, nightmarish outcome of a process that, maybe, made it inevitable. Come with us further back in time, do...

On October 26th of this year, government agencies have a deadline to finish a review of all remaining documentation related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The last of four American Presidents to be murdered in our history.  We wanted to mark the occasion by taking a different approach. There are so many more stories to tell than the story of murder itself; moving, fascinating s...

The nightmare these two women found themselves in was far from over. Throughout their lives, they had been exploited, by poverty, by sexism; and now the exploitation was coming from international politics. They were set up to take the fall for the people who actually planned this crime; and what followed as multiple nations got pulled into the ugly diplomatic aftermath had nothing to do with justi...

Get ready for a saga about a murder where the murderers, themselves, were victims, and a chillingly contemporary story of how innocent individuals can fall through the cracks when nations clash. Nobody leaves this story with their hands clean. Listen to Learn More about:  The mysterious assassination of Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Un's ( the current dictator of North Korea) older brother Kim Jong...

These men fought for Britain, France, Poland, and other nations. They were the most daring, imaginative, and brave Allied prisoners plunked into one facility, and for years against all odds and every setback, they relentlessly put the supposedly “escape proof” castle to the test. This is their story – not a single, dramatic mass escape, but a tale of soldiers who wouldn’t let themselves be just pr...

If you trace the dark path back through Wright’s life and work, there is a very good reason why he changed his design philosophy so radically. When Frank Lloyd Wright built the home he thought represented his ultimate dream, it became the site of a nightmare he could never escape . Listen to Learn More about: The Murderer that killed a family and entire staff in Frank Lloyd Wright's home.  Th...

How could an entire international competition involving dozens of nations and hundreds of elite athletes be stricken from the official history of the Olympic Games? Listen To Learn More About:  The founding of the IOC and Pierre de Coubertin The “unofficial” Olympic games of 1906 The  gold medalist who was borne with Polio and other amateur Olympians  Athens’ fight to permanently host the Olympics...

At the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, anyone who showed up on the day of competition would have an opportunity to compete . And as for what events they would compete in? The classical Olympics were more than sporting events: they included poetry readings, debates, art, theatre, diplomatic meetings between sworn enemies. And Pierre de Coubertin wanted all of this in the modern Games. This...

So where did the idea of using an artificial electrical impulse to control the heartbeat begin? Well, as with most scientific progress, there’s a long chain of contributors, but I want to talk today about a transformational role played by an inquisitive man from Minneapolis, Minnesota named Earl Bakken; and the inspiration he got from a movie he saw when he was just a little boy. Listen To find ou...

It’s one of the darkest stories we’ve told here – the story of a man who became famous for saying he saw a UFO, and who became a terrorist because his own government invited him to. The UFO wasn’t real, but the bombings, terror, and death that followed – they’re as real as it gets. Listen to learn  more about:  1. Cult psychology  2. Aladino Felix's UFO Sighting  3. The  former Brazilian gove...

As well-documented as things are, there’s so much left that’s unknown. And the speculation about just what the Nazis could be capable of didn’t start in the aftermath as historians and scientists worked to put together a record of it all. It had an impact on the battlefield at the peak of the fighting. Maybe the best way to capture this dark path of imagination where I found myself on this dark an...

The Museum of Automatons is packed with automatons... mechanical figures that move and speak.  Imagine what Walt Disney would have designed in the 18th century - automatons were attempts to mimic human figures in remarkable ways.  Really, just the first glimpse at the future of robotics...or at least robots that would mimic humans and other animals.  But automatons weren’t just gifts wealthy Europ...

Air travel to Hawaii is actually an amazing story of innovation, imagination, and tremendous courage as well as a great deal of tragedy.  Like most opportunities we have in our lives, it’s easy to take for granted the sacrifices that made them possible.  So, it’s a dark path that eventually opens up into the sunny skies to the land of Aloha, and involves an event you may never have heard of, but w...

In Singapore, there’s a park known as the Haw Par Villa, an expansive theme park filled with over 1,000 statues, and hundreds of detailed three-dimensional dioramas. Of course, lots of parks have statues and memorials of people from history. But these dioramas set Haw Par Villa apart; and make it a much wilder, much stranger place.  At the epicenter of the park is the Ten Courts of Hell. It’s a se...