Levitating Warlocks Against War

"Today guest Savanna talks to us about a small Chilean island that has ancient tales of Warlocks. Don't mess with these people because they can fly and are cannibals. Cristina brings us an important historic event where the Pentagon was in fact lifted off the ground! It happened and it vibrated and turned orange."

Presented by: Savanna
Category: Cult, Cryptid, Conspiracy, Curse, Seagull

Content warning: Child abuse, Cannibalism

When people think of the Witch Trials, they think of Salem first, Europe second and South America never. However, one of the "last, significant" witch trials centered around Chiloe, Chile.

Chiloe, Chile is the home of the Brujos, a sect of male witches who, by their own testimony, acted like a mob to the people of the island. Their activities including poisoning people and running protection rackets. They saw themselves as deep state government. The operated out of a cave guarded by two monsters. One was a goat and one was a wildman not unlike a Bigfoot created by dismembering a young child. Inside the cave was a book of magic given to them by a wizard from Spain after being defeated in a wizard's duel. A search at the time failed to find the cave.

The were finally arrested after poisoning people. They were convicted and sentenced to just 3 years, which was overturned a year later.

Takeaway: Don't eat people.

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Historical Mystery

In 1967, the war in Vietnam had been going for twelve years. While the first U.S. military casualty in the war had been in 1955, America's involvement really began in 1961. After over half a decade of fighting, public protests against it were on the rise.

That year, at a Be-In protest (which was somehow different from a sit0in) a plan was form. The hippies would unite and march and perform a bit of good, old fashion sorcery.

The idea was the brainchild of Jerry Rubin and almost certainly a year's worth of LSD. First telling his plan to Michael Bowen and Abbie Hoffman, close friend of Timothy Leary, the influence of the three was enough to spread the word and before they were done, 50,000 people would join the movement.

Their initial idea was to levitate the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., Hoffman talked them out of it. Way to confident that the magic would work, he believed that it would seen as an attack on the country itself. To be fair, he wasn't wrong. If they only levitated the Pentagon, they would on'y be attacking the war effort. So on October 21, they marched to Virginia to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet in the air.

An altar was set up and an exorcism was preformed. However, they failed to make the Pentagon rise.

Takeaway: Always do a dress rehearsal.

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 * Patreon Skit: Showboating D&D wizard (aborted)