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S2 Ep38: Hello, James.

October 13, 2026 · 51 min

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In tonight's dead letter, our listener TM was the office manager at a Catholic parish in the upper Mississippi river area, and part of her job was digitizing the cemetery's paper records, so she'd walk the rows with a camera, say hello to everyone, and tell them what she was there to do. One marker sat outside the cemetery’s plot map entirely: a boy who drowned in the river in 1936, with fresh flowers by his stone and no file in the office. One July afternoon, someone or something unseen let her know it was there.
Relevant Prior Episodes
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Links and Further Reading
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1032 (Vatican.va)
St. John Chrysostom (Britannica)
All Souls' Day (Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent)
Columbarium (Merriam-Webster)
Duffy's Cut (Wikipedia)
Historic Bell Witch Cave, Adams, Tennessee
Electronic Voice Phenomena: An Overview (Astonishing Legends blog)
Stahl House, Case Study House #22 (LA Conservancy)
Scared All The Time (podcast)

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