Episode Description
This week on Another Fucking Horror Podcast, Monique and Amy are coming in hot off their Paranormal Activity live obsession, which means this is now a theater ghost podcast.
First, Monique tells the story of Jason Manford and the ghost of William Terriss at London’s Adelphi Theatre. In 2012, Jason was performing as Signor Pirelli in the West End revival of Sweeney Todd, which meant that every night he got his throat slashed onstage, went back to his tiny dressing room, cleaned off the fake blood, and FaceTimed his family before bed.
Then his three-year-old daughter asked, “Daddy, who’s that man behind you?” Tall. Dark hair. Mustache. Dressed like a soldier. Crying.
And then Jason found out about William Terriss, the beloved Victorian actor murdered at the Adelphi Theatre stage door in 1897. The same stage door that sat directly beneath Jason’s dressing room.
GIRL.
Then Amy covers the mysterious death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, and no one is okay. In 1977, Chuck disappeared, came home three days later missing a shoe, bound in plastic handcuffs, unable to speak and writing that he had been kidnapped and tortured. He claimed his throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic drug and warned his wife that calling the police would be a death warrant for the whole family.
Two months later, he disappeared again. His wife got a call from a woman called “Green Eyes”, who said Chuck was alright and gave her Ecclesiastes 12:1-8, which is a flowery-as-fuck way to say something terrible has happened. Then Chuck was found dead in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest, shot in the back of the head, with a $2 bill pinned to his underwear, cryptic names, Bible references, a map toward Mexico, guns, ammo, handcuffs, CB radios, a briefcase and no fingerprints.
And somehow, police ruled it suicide.
That three year old said “I see dead people” but the episode reminds us that all around us are just dumb people (peep the police).
First, Monique tells the story of Jason Manford and the ghost of William Terriss at London’s Adelphi Theatre. In 2012, Jason was performing as Signor Pirelli in the West End revival of Sweeney Todd, which meant that every night he got his throat slashed onstage, went back to his tiny dressing room, cleaned off the fake blood, and FaceTimed his family before bed.
Then his three-year-old daughter asked, “Daddy, who’s that man behind you?” Tall. Dark hair. Mustache. Dressed like a soldier. Crying.
And then Jason found out about William Terriss, the beloved Victorian actor murdered at the Adelphi Theatre stage door in 1897. The same stage door that sat directly beneath Jason’s dressing room.
GIRL.
Then Amy covers the mysterious death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, and no one is okay. In 1977, Chuck disappeared, came home three days later missing a shoe, bound in plastic handcuffs, unable to speak and writing that he had been kidnapped and tortured. He claimed his throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic drug and warned his wife that calling the police would be a death warrant for the whole family.
Two months later, he disappeared again. His wife got a call from a woman called “Green Eyes”, who said Chuck was alright and gave her Ecclesiastes 12:1-8, which is a flowery-as-fuck way to say something terrible has happened. Then Chuck was found dead in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest, shot in the back of the head, with a $2 bill pinned to his underwear, cryptic names, Bible references, a map toward Mexico, guns, ammo, handcuffs, CB radios, a briefcase and no fingerprints.
And somehow, police ruled it suicide.
That three year old said “I see dead people” but the episode reminds us that all around us are just dumb people (peep the police).