Imagine you're deep in the woods of northern Maine. It's the 1870s. The air smells like pine and cold mud, and you're living in a bunkhouse with thirty other lumberjacks, miles from the nearest town. You've been swinging an ax since before sunrise, and the only entertainment you've got is each other.

Now imagine one of the men in your bunk, a quiet French-Canadian guy, a little jumpy, a little shy, suddenly gets a sharp shout in his ear. And he loses it. He leaps off the ground, screams, throws whatever's in his hands, and then here's the wild part if someone shouts a command at him mid-jump, he just... obeys it. Without thinking. Even if that command is to hit someone, punch himself, jump into a rozen lake, or spill his food. He does it. Then all of a sudden everyone in the camp seemed to get this ... affliction.

This wasn't a prank. This wasn't a bit. This was documented medicine. And it's one of the strangest medical mysteries in American history.

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It was a quiet September night in 1961 when Betty and Barney Hill made the fateful decision to abandon their honeymoon and drive home from Montreal to Portsmouth, NH. What should have been a smooth 6-hour drive turned into America's first abduction stories.

Join us as we dive into 3 hours of missing time, a strange craft in the sky, creatures that poke and prod, strange markings on their car, and all the REAL EVIDENCE that suggests this could have happened. We'll walk through it all as we try to get to the bottom of what really happened that night. Don't turn off the lights, gang.... cause this one will get under your skin and have you thinking for a while!

References:

Friedman, Stanton T., and Kathleen Marden. Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction. New Page Books, 2007.

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More than twenty years before Salem, the quiet Puritan town of Groton, Massachusetts, became the center of a terrifying mystery. Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Knapp began suffering violent fits, screaming strange guttural voices, lashing out at caregivers, actions she claimed came from the Devil himself.

Living in the home of minister Samuel Willard, her condition was carefully documented in real time, creating one of the earliest and most detailed accounts of alleged demonic possession in New England history.

Was Elizabeth truly under supernatural attack… or was something far more human unfolding inside the rigid pressures of Puritan society?

In this episode of Weirder After Dark, we explore the chilling case known as the Possession of Elizabeth Knapp. A story of fear, faith, and psychological torment that may have foreshadowed the witch hysteria still to come.

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