Episode 4100: Dark Enigma - The True Terrible Tale of Sweeney Todd - The Barbershop Butcher

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, frighteningly imagined creatures, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries and all sorts of weirdness.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... 

And on today’s Dark enigma well, today’s episode is going to be a fun one, at least I thought it would be!  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always my darlings, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Barber that will be a single shot and every time I say Sweeney or Todd, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so don your best Dark Ages Renaissance fair costume and grab your sharpest razor for today’s Tale:  The True Terrible Tale of Sweeney Todd - The Barbershop Butcher

On a late March afternoon, the London drizzle and fog made it seem as if night had already fallen. A lone figure paused outside a church in Fleet Street, pulling a gold-braided hat over his eyes and wrapping his expensive cloak around him. Something caught his attention - the flash of metal in the candlelight of a filthy shop. Its window was dirt-encrusted, but through the grime a notice could be made out: "Easy Shaving For A Penny".