022: Hell Broke Loose

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Austin, Texas in 1884 a female servant was killed in a gruesome ax murder. Feeble attempts were made to find the murderer, but to no avail. Soon a series of gruesome ax murders and attacks followed. Each one more horrific than the other, and the murders spread beyond the black servant population to the white community.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What originally was considered a black problem in the South twenty years after the Civil War became society's problem. This was a birth. The birth of legions of Demons cast out by Jesus. The birth referred to in the occult addicted mind of William Butler Yeats in his poem</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Second Coming</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. The birth of something much more sinister.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Episode Highlights:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Second Coming</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">by William Butler Yeats</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yeats obsession with the occult and marriage to medium Georgie Hyde-Lees</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The murder of Molly Smith</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many believed a demon had come to Austin</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Gospel of Mark and Jesus casting out demons in the Gerasenes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The legend of the boogeyman can be found in all cultures</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The attack of Susan Hancock and murder of Jimmy and Eula Phillips</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Christmas Day, 1885 the day "Hell Broke Loose"</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43290"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Second Coming</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by William Butler Yeats</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enjoyed this episode? Please support the show by rating, reviewing, and subscribing on</span> <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pleasing-terrors/id1141063625?mt=2"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">iTunes</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please visit</span> <a href= "http://www.pleasingterrors.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pleasing Terrors</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, the podcast behind Old Charleston's best ghost tour, on</span> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/pleasingterrors/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/pleasingterrors"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!</span></p> <p> </p>