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Conjuring Magic and Murder: A Mystery in Motor City | Ep 15

Conjuring Magic and Murder: A Mystery in Motor City | Ep 15

FromThe Strange and Unusual Podcast


Conjuring Magic and Murder: A Mystery in Motor City | Ep 15

FromThe Strange and Unusual Podcast

ratings:
Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On July 3, 1929, Italian immigrant and occult mystic healer, Benny Evangelist, was beheaded with an ax in his home office. The killer than murdered Benny's sleeping wife, Santina, and their four children upstairs. The murders remain a mystery, but what kind of motivation could inspire such a frenzied and brutal attack? In this episode, we delve into occult practices, magic, folk Catholicism, magical healers, a suicide inspired by fear of the ax killer, Italian folklore, as well as a look at the misconceptions about immigrants at the time, and how that may have affected the case, leaving it a perplexing, eternal mystery.
Released:
Sep 22, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (91)

The unknown. It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, hysteria, and even murder throughout history. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, pop culture, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark. Welcome to The Strange and Unusual Podcast.