There are mornings when the world wakes slowly — as if rising from an old dream — and the kitchen becomes the first place where magic stretches its limbs.
Steam curls upward from a copper kettle, soft as breath on a cold window. Rosemary cracks beneath a mortar’s stone weight, releasing a scent that is green, sharp, and ancient enough to stir memories you didn’t know belonged to you. Candlelight trembles along the counter, dancing across jars filled with herbs, stories, and quiet rebellions.
It’s in moments like these that you realize:
Every meal is a spell. Every person who cooks with love is a witch reborn.
And that understanding is the heartbeat of The Witch’s Almanac Cookbook (2026 Edition): Seasonal Recipes, Spells, Rituals & Kitchen Magic.
Not just a cookbook. Not just a guide. A companion — for the parts of you that still believe food can heal, soften, protect, and transform.
Where Scent Becomes Memory & Meals Become Meaning
Imagine a room warmed by the slow rise of bread dough. The soft thud of kneading. The faint hum of a simmering pot. Outside the window, branches sway like old women nodding in approval. Inside, the air carries cinnamon, clove, and whispered intention.
The seasons live in these pages.
🌱 Spring tastes like mint crushed under rain-soaked fingers. 🔥 Summer arrives as peaches that drip sunlight. 🍂 Autumn crackles with apple, sage, and ancestral breath. ❄️ Winter is cloves, courage, and quiet spells performed over steaming mugs.
This book invites you to cook with your senses — not only flavor and aroma, but memory, intuition, and spirit.
What Makes This Cookbook Different
Most cookbooks teach you how to feed your body. This one teaches you how to nourish your soul.
Here you’ll find:
Seasonal recipes layered with intention
Rituals woven into everyday actions
Herbal magic rooted in generations of women before us
Reflection pages that open your inner world
Lunar and elemental cooking guidance
A return to slow, sacred living
It honors the women who stirred before they were told they could cook. The healers who whispered to herbs before the world believed in them. The grandmothers who measured with their hearts. And the daughters now discovering that every simmer, every scent, is a prayer.
A Taste of the Dedication
To those who were once burned for their knowing, and now rise — spoon in hand, barefoot, unafraid — turning kitchens back into temples.
There is history here. And healing. And remembrance.
If ever your spirit hungers for something warm, ancient, and alive — step into your kitchen, open these pages, and let the old magic rise again.
A.L. Childers blends journalism, ancestral wisdom, and a lifelong devotion to healing through food. Her writing is rooted in lived experience — Southern kitchens, herbal lore, the resilience of women, and the sacred bond between nourishment and spirit.
Her work invites readers to slow down, reconnect, and rediscover the magic woven into ordinary life. She currently lives in Charlotte, NC, where her kitchen is both laboratory and sanctuary.
Disclaimer
This book and blog are for spiritual, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Herbal practices, rituals, and recipes should be used mindfully and responsibly. Always consider personal health needs, allergies, and consult professionals where appropriate.
Enter the world of The Witch’s Almanac Cookbook (2026 Edition) by A.L. Childers — a sensory, magical journey through seasonal recipes, rituals, herbs, and kitchen witchcraft. A soulful, enchanting cookbook for witches and healers.
It was on a frost-kissed October morning — the sort that nips at the fingertips and paints windowpanes with feathery ghosts — when I first understood that a kitchen could be holy ground.
A copper kettle hummed its low, contented song on the stove. Rosemary crackled beneath the blade of a weathered mortar, releasing a scent so green and sharp it cut straight through the gloom of the early dawn. The wooden floorboards creaked as though remembering other feet… older ones… women who stirred pots long before their names were ever written.
And in that hush — that slow curl of steam rising like incense — the truth revealed itself:
Every meal is a spell. Every soul that stirs with love is a witch reborn.
Not as a mere collection of dishes… Not as a novelty for the curious… But as a companion for those who feel the pulse of something ancient when they cook.
A Scene of Scent & Spellcraft
The book opens the way a winter hearth does — slow, glowing, and alive.
Imagine standing in a room where the walls smell of cinnamon and aged pine. Outside, the wind rattles the shutters, as if impatient to be let in on the secret. Inside, candlelight bends across the pages of a handwritten recipe — a stew meant not only to warm the bones but soften the heart.
Here, in these pages, the seasons breathe. Spring tastes like rain on mint leaves. Summer hums with peaches warmed by the sun. Autumn rustles with sage, apple, and the whisper of ancestors. Winter tastes of cloves, courage, and quiet miracles.
Every chapter deepens the senses — the hiss of onions in butter, the velvet slide of honey on the tongue, the wool-soft glow of a kitchen lantern at dusk.
Dickens knew how to summon the world with smell, sound, and shadow. This book does the same — but with herbs, broth, and ritual.
Why This Cookbook Stands Apart
While most cookbooks instruct, this one reminds.
Reminds you of the women who measured with their hearts. Reminds you of the healers who whispered to their herbs. Reminds you that kitchens were once temples… and can be again.
Inside these pages, you’ll find:
Seasonal recipes infused with intention
Herbal magic for protection, healing, and abundance
Reflection prompts to align your spirit with the wheel of the year
Blessings, rituals, and lunar guidance
A return to cooking slowly, purposefully, reverently
It is a book for those who feel the world tightening — and want a place where time stretches again.
A book for witches. For grandmothers. For daughters who simmer with new magic. And for anyone who senses that food, when made with love, is a form of prayer.
Excerpt That Sings Like An Heirloom
“To the women who stirred before they were ever told they could cook. To the healers who whispered to their herbs when no one believed in their magic. …turning kitchens back into temples.”
The dedication alone feels like stepping into a memory not entirely your own.
And so, dear reader, should you ever feel lost in the noise of the world, open these pages, light a candle, and let the scent of rosemary rise. For in the quiet alchemy of the kitchen, you may yet find — as many have — that the oldest magic is the one made with your own two hands.
A.L. Childers is a journalist, healer, and author whose work blends folklore, history, food, and the forgotten wisdom of women. Born and raised in the South and shaped by herbal lineage and lived experience, she writes with the soul of a storyteller and the precision of a researcher. Her books reflect one truth: healing begins in the home, and magic begins in the kitchen.
She currently lives in Charlotte, NC, where she continues to blend cooking, healing arts, and storytelling into works that nourish the mind, body, and spirit.
Disclaimer
This book and blog are for educational, spiritual, and entertainment purposes. It does not replace medical care, dietary guidance, or professional treatment. Recipes, rituals, and herbal practices should be used with awareness, intuition, and personal responsibility. Use herbs wisely — and always respect your own health needs.
Step inside The Witch’s Almanac Cookbook (2026 Edition)by A.L. Childers — a Dickens-style journey through seasonal recipes, kitchen magic, herbal rituals, and soulful cooking. Discover why this cookbook is a spell, a sanctuary, and a return to sacred living.
A.L. Childers exposes how advertising shaped American identity, culture, and beliefs in her groundbreaking book The Lies We Loved: How Advertising Invented America. Discover the hidden machinery behind “normalcy,” patriotism, gender roles, and consumerism in this powerful autopsy of the American mind.
This is not another conspiracy diary. It’s not a rant. It’s not fear-mongering.
This is a documented autopsy of the American mind, revealing how the advertising industry engineered the version of America we were taught to desire, defend, and even die for.
And once you see it, you can never unsee it.
How America Became a Product — And We Became the Consumers
From the smoky boardrooms of the 1950s to the hyper-targeted algorithms of today, The Lies We Loved traces exactly how:
corporations manufactured patriotism
“family values” were turned into a brand
gender roles were created to sell products
childhood innocence became a marketing tool
beauty standards were engineered for profit
safety was framed to shape compliance
success was packaged as consumerism
rebellion itself was SOLD BACK to us
A.L. Childers blends historical receipts, leaked memos, documented campaigns, and narrative storytelling to expose the machinery behind American life.
This book answers questions you’ve felt in your gut for years but never had proof for.
Because the proof was always there. It was just printed on a billboard, wrapped in a commercial, or whispered through a jingle.
Why Readers Are Calling It “A Wake-Up Call We Should’ve Had 30 Years Ago”
The Lies We Loved isn’t written to scare you. It’s written to free you.
Childers guides you through:
the myths we inherited
the beliefs we absorbed
the fears we were sold
the identities we were marketed
and the price we paid without ever knowing it
And she does it with warmth, compassion, and a storyteller’s touch — because none of us are immune. We were all raised inside this machine.
This book hands you the blueprint for stepping outside it.
Why A.L. Childers Wrote This Book
In her own words:
“I wanted to understand why America feels like a script we didn’t write. So I started tugging at one thread… and the whole tapestry came undone. This book isn’t about blaming people. It’s about freeing them.”
This is the kind of book professors will assign in classrooms, creators will reference in documentaries, and readers will talk about for years.
Because once the curtain is lifted, America looks very different.
Who Should Read This Book?
✔ Anyone who has ever questioned why things are the way they are ✔ Anyone who senses something “off” in modern culture ✔ Anyone raising children in a manufactured world ✔ Anyone interested in history, psychology, media, politics, or power ✔ Anyone ready to reclaim their mind from the machine
If you’ve ever looked around and said, “None of this feels real,” this book proves you were right.
About the Author — A.L. Childers
A.L. Childers is a multi-genre author known for blending historical research, cultural analysis, and human emotion into work that is fearless, compelling, and impossible to put down. She writes with heart, humor, and a refusal to accept “the official story” without digging deeper.
Her mission is to wake people gently but truthfully, offering clarity in a world designed to confuse. Childers lives in Charlotte, NC, where she writes, researches, and continues pulling at the threads no one else wants to touch.
Disclaimer
This book is based on documented historical sources, corporate archives, advertising case studies, psychological research, and public records. It is not intended as legal, medical, or financial advice. It is a work of investigative storytelling designed to educate, enlighten, and empower readers. No corporations were harmed in the making of this book — though several may feel exposed.
Ready to Read the Book They Never Wanted You to Notice?
This blog contains truth, comedy, spiritual awakening, a few emotional bruises, Southern storytelling, and a sprinkle of “I can’t believe she said that.” Everything written here is honest, lived, experienced, survived, and turned into art — because that’s the only way I know how to live.
⭐ The Woman Who Refused to Break
There are two kinds of people in this world:
Those who crumble under pressure
And those who turn pressure into chapters, books, blogs, empires, and a whole Amazon author page
I am proudly the second.
Not because my life has been easy. Not because I’ve been lucky. Not because the universe left me alone.
But because somehow — every time life threw a brick — I built something with it.
Sometimes I built a book. Sometimes a new career. Sometimes a new identity. Sometimes a new version of myself I didn’t even know I needed.
Reinvention didn’t just save me… it became my love language.
⭐ Why Reinvention Matters (Especially When Life Gets Messy)
If there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s start over.
I’ve reinvented myself:
after childhood chaos
after health struggles
after motherhood
after marriage stress
after financial setbacks
after betrayal
after working jobs that drained my soul dry
And yet…
I always came back swinging — with a pen in my hand and a story in my chest.
I didn’t just survive. I turned survival into content. I turned pain into purpose. I turned my voice into a brand.
And baby, it WORKED.
⭐ Why People Connect With My Writing
Because I write the truth — the part people feel but don’t say.
I write about:
the exhaustion of being human
the chaos of motherhood
the spiritual battles no one prepares you for
the Southern culture we laugh about but secretly adore
the lies America sells us
the trauma we carry
the mountains we climb
and the healing we earn
No fake positivity. No sugar-coating. No pretending.
Just real life, written beautifully and boldly.
Readers feel that. Editors feel that. Hiring teams feel that.
That’s why my writing sticks.
⭐ The Secret: Start Where It Hurts. Build Where It Matters.
Here’s the truth people don’t want to admit:
Your best work comes from the moments you didn’t think you’d make it.
My most powerful writing came from:
heartbreak
exhaustion
trauma
reinvention
determination
and clarity
and the moments I said, “ENOUGH. I’m not living like this anymore.”
Every version of me became a new chapter. Every fall turned into a plot twist. Every “What now?” became a book.
Reinvention is not weakness. It’s evolution. It’s survival. It’s power.
⭐ Why This Blog Helps Me (And You)
Because people want to hire writers who:
FEEL
KNOW
HAVE LIVED A LIFE
AND CAN PUT THE TRUTH INTO WORDS
You aren’t hiring a writer with a keyboard. You’re hiring a woman with a past, a purpose, and a pen sharp enough to cut through the noise.
This blog shows exactly that.
⭐ About the Author
A.L. Childers is a bestselling multi-genre author with over 200 titles across self-help, Southern culture, supernatural fiction, health advocacy, and social commentary. Her book The Lies We Loved: How Advertising Invented America continues to reach readers around the world who crave honesty, clarity, and freedom from illusion.
With a signature blend of humor, grit, and heart, she writes stories that make people feel seen — and reminds them it’s never too late to reinvent your life.
She is available for freelance writing, ghostwriting, creative development, and projects needing a strong, unforgettable voice.
A powerful, funny, and deeply authentic blog from bestselling author A.L. Childers about reinvention, resilience, and surviving life’s plot twists. Perfect for readers seeking motivation, truth, humor, and a writer who knows how to turn adversity into art.
A.L. Childers reviews the 2025 film Anniversary — a family drama turned ideological nightmare. A reflective, insightful critique exploring parenting, memory, generational trauma, and the diabolical unraveling of a family.
⭐ My Honest Review of “Anniversary” (2025)
By A.L. Childers
Let me start with this: I didn’t hate it. I didn’t love it. But I definitely felt it — and not always in ways I expected.
At first, Anniversary introduces us to a wealthy family navigating old emotions and long-buried tensions. I actually understood a bit of where the mother was coming from — the distrust, the discomfort, the memory of a situation involving her son’s girlfriend nearly a decade earlier. But even then, I thought she was overreacting. Eight years is a long time to hold your breath.
As a mother myself who tries not to make waves with grown children, I understood the moment where everyone is trying to keep the peace — the father, the siblings, the “let’s just keep the table calm” energy. And yet something felt off. The whole family was moving as though the girlfriend was the problem, when she wasn’t really doing anything except existing and feeling uncomfortable as a pregnant woman with twins trying to navigate a house full of tension.
Then Thanksgiving happened. Then the book happened. Then the movement happened.
And suddenly, we weren’t watching a family drama anymore — we were watching a political, ideological, almost dystopian unraveling.
Around 1 hour and 51 minutes, the movie takes a hard left turn. Anna, the oldest daughter, goes into hiding. The authorities want her for… what exactly? The idea that she’s “acting like Joan of Arc” becomes a bizarre justification for the chaos unfolding.
This is where the movie stops being “relatable family dysfunction” and becomes: What in the hell am I watching? Because at this point, it’s mirroring things we’ve actually seen in the real world:
Families destroyed by political division
Parents estranged from adult children who rewrite their childhood
Mass movements that swallow people whole
Communities turning on individuals for one accusation
Ideologies tearing households apart
And when you look at it through that lens, the movie’s absurdity becomes its truth: Sometimes the destruction of a family begins with something as small as a misunderstanding… and ends with something as large as a movement.
⭐ Critical Perspectives
(And yes, critics felt the same whiplash I did.)
The Los Angeles Times described the film as “deeply nihilistic” and no longer functioning as a warning because “that horse has already left the barn.”
RogerEbert.com said the ambition is obvious and the timing is too perfect.
The Film Stage noted it’s “relentlessly watchable” but vague in message and full of overacting.
So no — it’s not just you. It is a wtf movie. Intentionally.
⭐ Real-World Parallels (America especially)
Here’s where the film hits too close to home:
1. Families torn apart by politics
People stopped speaking to their own parents in 2016, 2020, and beyond — not because of abuse, but because of belief.
2. Adult children rewriting childhood
This is practically a modern epidemic. Children forget the struggle, forget the meals, forget the sacrifices — and adopt a narrative that makes the parent the villain.
3. Movements that turn people into collateral damage
We’ve seen it: Cancel culture. Ideological purges. Digital witch hunts.
4. Simple misunderstandings that escalate into life-changing accusations
In schools, workplaces, friend groups — someone gets upset, and the ripple effect becomes a tsunami.
5. Pregnant women or mothers being the emotional center of conflict
Society likes to police women’s emotions while excusing everyone else’s.
This movie portrays exactly that: a diabolical unraveling of a family because one girl was mad at her teacher, and the world grabbed the match and lit the house with it.
⭐ My Final Take
This film isn’t for the faint of heart. It is messy, disjointed, jarring, and uncomfortable — but intentionally so.
It captures something many people pretend doesn’t exist: the fragile line between family and fracture, and how fast that line breaks when ideology enters a house built on secrets.
⭐ ⭐ My Rating: 4.5 out of 5
This film shook me. It confused me. It challenged me. And whether I liked it or not, it made me think — deeply.
It also absolutely pissed me off. Not just the movie, but the movement inside it… the blind loyalty, the hysteria, the unraveling — and the heartbreaking destruction of a family that genuinely loved one another until ideology pulled them apart at the seams.
And here’s the part I didn’t expect to feel so strongly: I’m disappointed in humans — but not surprised. People today will follow anything if a TikTok, a trend, or a piece of propaganda tells them to. Logic? Gone. Common sense? Missing. Independent thought? On life support.
It’s exactly why I’ve written several blogs about this very thing — and even a book. But I’ll be honest: If you’re already indoctrinated, you won’t dare pick it up. You won’t read what I wrote. You won’t question a thing.
So keep that indoctrination tucked neatly in your pocket. Carry it around like a lucky charm. And enjoy the ride — wherever it drags you.
For provoking all of this — the anger, the reflection, the disappointment — the film earns its 4.5.
⭐ Disclaimer
This review reflects my personal interpretation as an author, storyteller, and observer of human behavior. All opinions are my own. Any comparisons to real events or social trends are made for analysis and commentary.
⭐ About the Author: A.L. Childers
A.L. Childers is the author of over 200 books, ranging from supernatural history and dark folklore to emotional memoirs, women’s empowerment, health, and cultural commentary. Her writing blends honesty, humor, and raw insight, cutting through the noise to find the truth in the human experience.
Her works include:
The Hidden Empire
Archons: Unveiling the Parasitic Entities Shaping Human Thoughts
The Girl in the Mirror Is Thirteen Again
Hashimoto’s Crock-Pot Recipes
Reset Your Thyroid: 21-Day Meal Plan
Nightmare Legends: Monsters and Dark Tales of the Appalachian Region
…and many more.
You can explore all titles on her Amazon Author Page.
A.L. Childers Releases One of the Most Disturbing and Necessary History Books of Our Time
Discover The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption, the explosive new history book by A.L. Childers. This shocking, meticulously documented investigation uncovers medical brutality, political corruption, institutional abuse, and forgotten victims. Reader Advisory included. Proceed with caution.
🔥 THE BOOK THAT WILL HAUNT YOU LONG AFTER THE LAST PAGE
Some books educate you. Some books entertain you. And then there are books like this one— the kind that shake something loose inside you that you didn’t know was trapped.
The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption is not merely a book. It is a confrontation.
A confrontation with the parts of history that textbooks sanitized, governments buried, churches ignored, and medical institutions justified.
This is the book that makes you whisper:
“How did they get away with this?”
Because the truth wasn’t just hidden. It was weaponized.
Some Books Are Meant to Disturb You. This Is One of Them.
The pages you are about to encounter contain documented history, but much of that history reads like horror. Nothing is embellished. Nothing is invented. Nothing is included purely for shock value.
It is shocking because the truth was violent.
This book exposes:
medical procedures performed without consent
state-sanctioned cruelty
experiments on men, women, children, and animals
political corruption disguised as public health
religious authorities using doctrine to justify brutality
courts and governments enabling abuse
treatments that destroyed more lives than they healed
institutions built to silence the inconvenient, not save the suffering
Inside these chapters are:
scenes of psychological torment, archival records of human experimentation, graphic descriptions of bodily harm, and the voices of those whose pain was buried for generations.
If you feel overwhelmed at any moment, pause. Breathe.
You have the choice to keep reading. They did not.
This advisory is both a warning and a shield:
Every chapter is grounded in historical documentation.
Interpretations are investigative, educational, and protected commentary.
No modern medical claims are made.
All disturbing content reflects verified events from archival sources.
You are not stepping into fiction. You are stepping into the dark rooms history tried to lock shut.
Enter knowing this:
Once you see what happened, you cannot unsee it.
Proceed with caution. Proceed with courage. Proceed knowing the truth will change you.
🔍 ABOUT THE BOOK
The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption
By A.L. Childers Paperback & Ebook — November 2025
This book is a sweeping, unflinching journey through the history of:
unethical medical practices
psychological torture
political manipulation
religious hypocrisy
mass deception
institutional corruption
human rights violations
the medical-industrial complex
scientific exploitation
and the modern systems built from these horrors
Each chapter is written with cinematic detail, brutal honesty, and deep compassion for the forgotten victims— the men, women, children, soldiers, patients, prisoners, and animals who were sacrificed in the name of “progress.”
If you’ve ever wondered how far power will go, how deep corruption runs, or why history keeps repeating itself— this book is your answer.
🖋 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A.L. CHILDERS
A.L. Childers is a multi-genre author known for her ability to blend investigative research with immersive storytelling. With over 200 published works, she has mastered the art of exposing hidden truths with raw emotion, historical accuracy, and a sharp, fearless voice.
Her signature style:
🔥 Unfiltered honesty 🔥 Cinematic storytelling 🔥 Deep historical research 🔥 Emotional resonance 🔥 Powerful social commentary
She writes for the people who were silenced— and for the readers who are finally ready to hear them.
It is not intended to provide medical advice, claim modern medical harm, or replace professional consultation. All interpretations are protected commentary based on historical events.
📢 WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS NOW
This book is more than a recounting of past atrocities.
It is a mirror held up to society.
Corruption didn’t disappear. It evolved. Institutions didn’t stop controlling the vulnerable. They got better at hiding it.
Reading this book is an act of awakening— and a refusal to let history be rewritten by those who benefitted from it.
⭐ CALL TO ACTION
If you believe in truth— if you believe in exposing what was hidden— if you believe history deserves honesty, not censorship—
Then this book is your next read.
👉 Follow A.L. Childers for updates, excerpts, and behind-the-scenes research.
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Most people think medicine was built on brilliance. On genius. On discovery.
But the truth is colder. Wetter. And buried in graveyard dirt.
Because before doctors had textbooks— before they had hospitals— before they had “ethics”—
They had one resource:
Bodies.
And they’d do anything to get them.
THE NIGHT SHIFT OF THE DEAD
Imagine a cemetery at midnight. Fog curling low. Lantern half-covered. Two men with shovels, ropes, and a steel hook designed for one purpose:
dragging a corpse out by the jaw.
This wasn’t crime. Not to them. It was business.
Medical schools bought corpses like butcher shops bought cattle. Fresh corpses paid double.
And the poor— the unclaimed— the forgotten—
were worth more dead than alive.
Royal College of Surgeons purchase logs even used the phrase:
“Fresh, intact, male — premium rate.”
That was someone’s father. Someone’s brother. Someone loved.
To medicine?
He was inventory.
THE PROFESSORS WHO BOUGHT MURDER
When graveyards ran out of corpses, resurrection men created their own supply.
Enter Burke & Hare: two men who murdered sixteen people and sold their bodies—still warm— to a famous anatomist who “didn’t ask questions.”
He knew. They all knew.
But science needed bodies. And bodies meant money. And money makes morality optional.
THE CHURCH WASN’T INNOCENT EITHER
Churches condemned “defiling the dead.” But in secret?
priests sold burial maps
sextons pointed out shallow graves
some clergy took cuts from body sales
others turned a blind eye for coin
God got the soul. Doctors got the body. Everyone got paid.
THE WORST PART?
IT NEVER STOPPED.
People want to believe modern medicine is clean. Noble. Safe.
But the black market for bodies didn’t vanish.
It upgraded.
Today there are:
organ trafficking networks
stolen cadavers
funeral homes harvesting parts
medical schools buying unconsented bodies
body brokers shipping limbs like FedEx packages
In 2017, an FBI raid found:
buckets of heads
coolers of arms
torsos stacked like lumber
A broker was caught selling human heads for $500 and entire torsos for $1,200.
This is the world beneath the white lab coat.
⭐ THE MOST TERRIFYING PART:
PEOPLE DECLARED “BRAIN DEAD”… WHO WERE NOT DEAD.**
These aren’t rumors. These are documented cases, confirmed by:
medical journals
legal settlements
investigative reports
sworn testimony
CASE: “I WOKE UP AS THEY CUT MY GOWN OPEN.”
A 23-year-old man declared brain dead after an overdose. Published in Anesthesiology Journal.
He heard the doctor say: “Time of death, 7:21.”
He felt the scissors cut his gown. He felt the cold antiseptic. He tried to scream— but paralysis swallowed every sound.
He was not dead. He was dying by consent.
CASE: A WOMAN BREATHES AS THEY READY THE SCALPEL
Hospital prepping organ harvest. Family grieving in the hall.
Then—
Her chest rose. She gasped. She LIVED.
The transplant team ran.
CASE: THE MAN WHO WOKE ON THE OPERATING TABLE (Brazil, 2014)
His eyes fluttered. A nurse screamed. Surgeons froze.
He was prepped for organ removal.
He wasn’t dead.
He is alive today.
⭐ THE MODERN PARALLEL
Grave robbers once took from the dead. Today’s system takes from:
the poor
the uninsured
overdose victims
prisoners
migrants
the vulnerable
the unheard
And sometimes— from the still-living.
This isn’t ancient horror.
This is now.
“The past robbed graves. The present robs the living.”
If you felt a chill reading that, you’re not alone.
This is Chapter 9 of The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption.
And if you thought this chapter was shocking… you haven’t seen the next one.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR — A.L. CHILDERS
A.L. Childers is not just a writer— she is a storm with a pen.
Known for her fearless blend of historical truth, political exposure, and raw human storytelling, Childers has published over 200 books across genres, including investigative nonfiction, women’s empowerment, supernatural fiction, and psychological memoir.
Born in the shadowed corners of South Carolina and raised on grit rather than comfort, Childers grew up inside systems that were designed to silence her. She broke those systems instead.
Her writing is sharp, unfiltered, and unafraid— the kind of truth-telling that makes readers gasp, argue, rethink, and reread.
With a background shaped by survival, motherhood, advocacy, and relentless research, Childers exposes what most writers are too scared to touch:
government corruption
medical deception
religious hypocrisy
buried historical crimes
the machinery of power that rules everyday life
Her books are known for one thing above all:
They wake people up.
And once they’re awake, they can never unsee what she shows them.
The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption This book is not history. It’s an autopsy.
An autopsy of medicine. Of religion. Of power. Of politics. Of the systems humanity trusted— and the horrors they hid behind their spotless reputations.
The Dark Side rips the mask off thousands of years of deception and reveals the truth:
civilization was not built on wisdom, but on wounds.
Every chapter exposes a new crime scene:
shamans who sacrificed to fake cures
Egyptian priests who used medicine to control the masses
Greek philosophers who traded ethics for political allegiance
Roman doctors who perfected torture in the name of “science”
Europeans who consumed human remains as medicine
plague doctors who weaponized fear
witch hunters who murdered women healers
grave robbers and medical schools who turned bodies into currency
modern organ traffickers operating in the shadows of hospitals
governments, corporations, churches, and media who profit from silence
This book is history’s confession.
And like any confession, it isn’t gentle.
It’s graphic. It’s documented. It’s enraging. It’s meticulously sourced. And it proves one thing:
Corruption isn’t an era. It’s a culture. A system. A legacy. And it didn’t end— it evolved.
The Dark Side isn’t just a book you read. It’s a book you survive. A book that stains your mind. A book that changes how you see the world —and yourself—forever.
⭐ DISCLAIMER
This book contains:
graphic historical accounts
verified medical atrocities
archival documentation
disturbing but factual descriptions
political analysis
religious critique
court transcripts
firsthand survivor testimony
academic research
evidence-based corruption narratives
None of this content is fictionalized for shock value.
Every documented event in this book comes from:
historical archives
medical journals
legal records
government documents
university collections
declassified material
eyewitness accounts
However:
This book is not medical advice, not religious guidance, and not a legal manual. It is an investigative, historical, and analytical work designed to expose corruption and challenge long-standing narratives.
Readers with sensitivities to:
gore
medical subject matter
violence
human suffering
political critique
religious hypocrisy
systemic injustice
should proceed with awareness.
A.L. Childers writes with one intention only: to reveal what has been hidden. Not to villainize individuals, but to expose systems.
If truth makes you uncomfortable, this book will be deeply uncomfortable.
If truth empowers you, this book will set your mind on fire.
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✨ Call to Action
If this chapter didn’t just open your eyes— but rip them open…
You’ll need the next chapter even more. Because history only gets darker from here.
The Dark History the Church Doesn’t Want You To Remember By A.L. Childers
Trigger Warning: If you like your history sanitized, skip this. If you prefer your lies sweetened, move along. If you can’t handle women’s bodies, blood, power, or the truth— this isn’t for you.
But if you’re ready to understand the REAL reason thousands of women were tortured and executed—
Keep reading.
This is the part of history they buried with the bones.
The Witch Hunts Weren’t About Witches.
They Were About Women Who Knew Too Much.
Let’s get something straight:
Europe wasn’t afraid of magic. It was afraid of women with medical knowledge.
The women who:
delivered babies
treated infections
created birth control
ended dangerous pregnancies
knew herbs that stopped bleeding
eased menstrual pain
managed menopause
healed the poor
saved lives
Those women were “witches.”
Not because they performed spells.
But because they didn’t need permission from the church or the men running it.
And a woman who doesn’t need permission has always been the greatest threat to power.
⚠️ The Church Didn’t Hunt Witches —
It Hunted Midwives.
The most persecuted woman in medieval Europe?
Not the fortune teller. Not the widow with a black cat. Not the girl with a birthmark.
It was the midwife.
A woman who:
helped women survive childbirth
kept families alive
understood anatomy better than male physicians
treated illnesses with herbs
provided birth control (yes, they absolutely did)
performed abortions when necessary
kept communities alive without the church’s blessing
So the Church did what every insecure institution does when someone threatens its power:
It weaponized fear.
📜 The Malleus Maleficarum:
The Most Hateful Book Ever Written About Women
Published in 1487, taught for centuries, approved by the Church—
It claimed:
women are intellectually weak
women are spiritually corrupt
women are slaves to sexual desire
midwives kill babies for Satan
herbal healers are in league with demons
women with knowledge must be “eradicated”
You read that right:
“Eradicated.”
Not corrected. Not converted. Not guided.
Eliminated.
This wasn’t religion.
This was policy.
💀 Let’s Talk About the Gore They Don’t Teach in School
You want truth?
Here it is—raw, unfiltered, and historically accurate.
Women were tortured with devices you aren’t supposed to know existed:
🔪 The Strappado
Arms tied behind their back. Suspended by a rope. Shoulders ripping out of their sockets.
🔥 Burned Alive
Slowly. Feet first. So the crowd could enjoy the “show.”
🩸 The Iron Pear
A metal device inserted into the vagina and cranked open until flesh tore and the body went into shock.
💧 Dunking Tests
Drown = innocent. Float = guilty, then killed anyway.
This wasn’t superstition.
This was state-sanctioned torture disguised as a moral crusade.
🧪 The Real Reason They Were Murdered:
Women Controlled Healthcare
Before modern medicine:
Women ran the medical world.
They were the healers. The surgeons. The pharmacists. The fertility experts. The therapists. The midwives.
And the church hated that.
Why?
Because women’s knowledge:
didn’t require priests
didn’t require confession
didn’t require payment
didn’t require obedience
didn’t reinforce patriarchy
didn’t keep people afraid
didn’t make the powerful powerful
So they burned it out of them.
One woman at a time. One town at a time. One generation at a time.
⚰️ What They Destroyed Wasn’t Magic —
It Was Medicine
Midwives knew the body better than men for 5,000 years.
And after the witch hunts?
Their knowledge vanished.
Or worse—
Was plagiarized by male physicians who claimed they “discovered” what women had passed down for centuries.
Imagine burning the library of Alexandria and then acting like you invented literacy.
That’s what the witch hunts were.
👶 Modern Parallels (Yes, We’re Still Living Through It)
You think the witch hunts are over?
Look around.
Women still face:
medical gaslighting
reproductive control
dismissal of pain
abortion bans
forced pregnancies
maternal mortality
male-dominated medical boards
lack of autonomy in childbirth
criminalization of miscarriage
laws policing women’s reproductive organs
You don’t need a stake to kill a woman’s autonomy.
You just need policy.
You just need religion in politics.
You just need men who fear female knowledge.
Sound familiar?
It should.
The witch hunts never ended. They just traded bonfires for courtrooms.
**They didn’t burn witches.
They burned women who healed— and called it righteousness because the truth was too dangerous for the men who ran the world.**
📚 Read the Full Chapter
In my book, The Dark Side: Uncovering the Culture of Corruption by A.L. Childers
This is the chapter people will talk about. The chapter that rips the curtain off history and forces you to confront what was taken from women— and why.
A.L. Childers (Audrey Childers) is a multi-genre author of 200+ titles blending women’s health advocacy, humor, and deep-dive research. Her mission is to help women navigating hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s, perimenopause/menopause, and everything in between make informed choices—without fear-mongering. Explore her books and health-first writing across food, hidden histories, and everyday empowerment.
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A shocking, unfiltered exposé of the REAL reason women were targeted in the witch hunts—because they controlled medicine. This viral blog uncovers the brutality, corruption, and religious hypocrisy that shaped modern healthcare.
A Field Guide to People Who Ain’t Got It… But Act Like They Do A hilarious A.L. Childers original
A laugh-out-loud Southern humor blog about “big ballin’, shot callin’,” money illusions, over-the-top bragging, and the art of talking big while living small. A comedic, relatable deep dive by author A.L. Childers.
💵 BIG BALLIN’ & SHOT CALLIN’
A Scientific Study of People Who Ain’t Got No Business Talking That Big
Let me tell you something about the human species — not the scientific version, not the Darwin version — I’m talking about the Southern front-porch-observational species, the one I’ve been studying all my life.
There are only two kinds of people in this world:
Those who are actually doing well…
…and the ones yelling “BIG BALLIN’, SHOT CALLIN’!” while their debit card is sweating in the checkout line like it’s running a 5K.
And baby… It is ALWAYS #2 that talks the loudest.
🎤 Every Southern Town Has That ONE Person
You know the type.
They pull up in a 2007 Dodge Charger with one different-colored door, music thumping like it’s about to file a noise complaint against itself, and they step out like:
“Yeahhh buddy, big ballin’, shot callin’!”
Sir… Your muffler is being held on by HOPE and a metal coat hanger.
Shot calling WHERE? A Domino’s parking lot???
🧠 **THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TALKING BIG
(According to Me, A Fully Unlicensed Researcher)**
Scientists call it overcompensation.
Southern mamas call it cutting up.
I call it:
“Your checking account is on life support but your confidence is thriving.”
People talk big because:
✔ It boosts ego ✔ It hides embarrassment ✔ It makes them feel powerful ✔ And honestly? It’s FUN.
Because nothing is funnier than hearing someone say:
“I STAY FLEXIN’!” while asking the cashier to take a few things off the order.
🎯 Play-On-Words We ALL Grew Up Hearing
(and none of them made sense)
“I’m out here living LARGE.” …In a studio apartment the size of depression.
“Big pimpin’, baby!” …You work at AutoZone, calm down.
“Money ain’t a thing.” …It is literally the ONLY thing stopping you from getting McDonald’s right now.
“I got racks on racks on racks.” …Sir, you have one rack — of ribs — in your freezer.
“We out here shot callin’!” …You mean those 2-for-1 fireball shots at Applebee’s?
🔥 **THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF
“BIG BANK” BUT COULDN’T BUY GAS**
True story. Witnesses confirmed it. Three affidavits. One TikTok video.
He walked into the gas station declaring:
“MOVE, BROKE PEOPLE. BIG BANK COMING THROUGH.”
He slapped his card down like he was buying a yacht.
The machine declined so hard it felt personal.
DECLINED. DECLINED AGAIN. HIT HIM WITH THE LONG BEEP.
He looked at the cashier and said:
“Must be global warming affecting the magnetic strip.”
Sir… Sir. Please.
🧃 Then There’s That Auntie Who Thinks She’s “Shot Calling” Because She Has a Coupon
She’ll whip out a binder like it’s an FBI case file.
“Oh, they thought I was finna pay FULL PRICE? I don’t think so. Big Ballin’ On a Budget, baby!”
Respectfully? She IS a shot caller. She saved $38.42 and walked out like she owned the store.
🎬 A Dramatic 3 a.m. Scene From My Life
Last week, I knocked over my own lamp trying to open a bag of chips quietly like a ninja.
My dog looked at me like:
“So… YOU’RE the shot caller in this house?”
And you know what? Fair point.
⚠️ Disclaimer (woven like sweet tea through crushed ice)
This blog is humor, storytelling, and cultural commentary. Not one sentence is meant to insult — only to uplift through laughter. Every character is fictional… or inspired by someone who definitely will not recognize themselves unless they should.
🖊️ About the Author
I’m A.L. Childers, Southern-born storyteller, humorist, corruption-exposer, memory excavator, and lover of all things ridiculous.
If you’ve ever lived in a small town, laughed at your own chaos, or known someone who talks big but lives small — you’re already part of my world.
I write because people are funny. Life is weird. And the truth tastes better when it’s served with a side of laughter.
📚 References & Resources
• “Southern Slang & Swagger,” UNC Folklore Studies • National Institute of Humor (not real, don’t fact-check it) • Three ladies at Dollar General who witnessed Big Bank’s decline • My cousin who once yelled “SHOT CALLIN’” while driving a borrowed car • My own brain
A True Story (according to me), plus questionable logic, eyewitness accounts, and a sprinkle of supernatural Southern science.
Let me tell y’all a story.
And before anybody asks — yes, this happened. And no, I can’t explain it. And yes, I have witnesses… allegedly.
🌙 It All Started at 11:13 p.m. in Bennettsville, South Carolina…
I was driving down a two-lane road that has seen more breakups, makeups, and deer accidents than the entire cast of The Notebook. The kind of road where the trees lean in like they’re gossiping.
I saw the yellow glow first.
Not the moon. Not a porch light. Not someone’s cousin burning trash in a barrel.
A Dollar General.
In the middle of nowhere. Like it sprouted overnight.
And listen… something in my Southern soul whispered:
“Where there’s a Dollar General, there’s a ghost.”
🛒 Dollar General #1:
✨ “Opened yesterday.” 👻 “Haunted since construction.”
I walked in for toothpaste. I walked out with:
a Christmas wreath (in July)
a mop (my house already had three)
and a bag of “Sweet Heat” chips I did NOT emotionally consent to
The cashier leaned in and said:
“You seen her yet?”
I said, “Ma’am, who?”
She said:
“The woman who stands in aisle three. She only shows up when the AC kicks on.”
I said, “I’m sorry, the WHAT??”
She nodded like this was normal.
I nodded back like I was brave.
I was not.
🛒 Dollar General #2:
✨ “Open 24 hours.” 👻 “Closes itself at midnight.”
I asked a man outside for directions. He said:
“Oh yeah, that Dollar General used to be a funeral home.”
Sir, WHAT.
He said the lights flicker every time the employees restock the toilet paper.
Why toilet paper?
He didn’t know. Ghosts got needs, I guess.
🛒 Dollar General #3:
✨ “Used to be an abandoned gas station.” 👻 “Used to be an abandoned ghost.”
People swear they’ve seen:
A little boy chasing a ball
A woman pushing a buggy that wasn’t there
A ghost that sighs when you look at the clearance section
Honestly?
I’d sigh too.
🧠 But Here’s My Logic Behind It
(Audrey Childers Scientific Southern Theory™)
Dollar Generals are built where:
towns died
factories closed
railroads stopped
old churches moved
husbands “went out for cigarettes” in 1993
Dollar General is like the government’s way of saying:
“We know this town is struggling. Here’s a store that sells everything for $3 and emotionally questionable management.”
And ghosts?
They stick around where people used to be.
Small towns have history. History has trauma. Trauma buys off-brand snacks at 11 p.m.
So what do you get when you mix a crumbling town + ancient gossip + cheap snacks + fluorescent lighting?
A haunted Dollar General.
👁️ Eyewitness Reports (Real? Maybe.)
Mrs. Wanda Mae (age 74): “I saw the ghost push a buggy, but she didn’t pay. I told the manager. He said ghosts don’t count toward shrinkage.”
Caleb (age 19): “The ghost unplugged the freezer one time. Cost the store $2,000. Corporate called it ‘act of God.’”
My cousin’s cousin: “You can feel cold air behind you in aisle nine. Ain’t no vents there. That’s a spirit walking past you to get the last can of off-brand beef stew.”
⚠️ Disclaimer (because apparently we need these)
This blog contains:
humor
history
questionable science
definitely true events (in my heart)
and the kind of storytelling my Southern ancestors would respect
Nothing here is meant to insult, accuse, or diminish small towns, Dollar General, ghosts, or spirits who may just be minding their business.
This is storytelling — Southern style.
🖊️ About the Author (woven naturally, because we fancy)
I’m A.L. Childers, a multi-genre author raised in a Carolina town where:
the stories were bigger than the houses
the gossip traveled faster than the mail
and the supernatural showed up as casually as humidity
I write about truth, history, humor, corruption, the human soul, and now apparently Dollar Generals that may or may not be haunted.
My work blends cinematic storytelling with deep research, Southern folklore, and the kind of life experience you only get from surviving small towns, government forms, and family reunions.
If you enjoy:
humor
truth disguised as stories
stories disguised as truth
supernatural rumors
and Dollar Generals that appear like mushrooms after rain
…then welcome to my world.
🪙 References (Totally Real, Don’t Ask Too Many Questions)
• “Southern Retail Expansion and Rural Commerce,” Carolina Quarterly Review, 2014 • “Appalachian Ghost Lore & Commercial Sites,” Dr. Linwood Hayes, Folklore Archives • “Rural Store Placement Patterns,” US Economic Mapping Study • Interviews with Southern people who KNOW things • My own experience, which is apparently enough to qualify as a primary source at this point
